Speaking in Maine offers a presentation delivered at the University of Maine's summit to assess Maine’s future workforce needs to help create a public agenda for higher education. The speaker is John Dorrer, Director of the Maine Dept. of Labor’s Center for Workforce Research and Information.
John Dorrer's presentation is titled: Workforce Demographics and the Demand for High Skill Workers: Challenges and Opportunities for Maine Higher Education.
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Advancing Maine: Aligning Academic Programs to Meet Future Workforce Needs is a day-long summit held on April 6, 2010 at the University of Maine in Orono. Also presenting at this conference were Doug Hall, President and CEO of Eureka! Ranch and Laurie Lachance, President of Maine Development Foundation.