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"Visioning" Education
The current local workforce is top-notch according to at least one person at the latest City of Galesburg Visioning Session, but she says she's worried about what the future holds.

The latest session at Carl Sandburg College Thursday night dealt with educating and teaching the local workforce. Blanche Shoupe, director of the state's Workforce Area 14, told the session Galesburg has plenty of people that want to work, which is important because employers look for regions like that.

But Shoupe says she's a little concerned about the workforce later, and not the workforce now. "Whether or not youth understand the importance of post-secondary education, whether youth and parents understand that education in a four-year institution or a two-year institution or a technical school, requires not just the skills of that particular trade, but it requires the academic skills as well," Shoupe said.

Panelists during the session suggested that the solution was, in part, to make sure parents can be, and are, involved in their child's education, and one said that when youth tour his facility, it's often an eye-opening experience for them and likely would cause them to think more seriously about college than they otherwise would.

Attendees at the visioning session suggested a number of education-related ideas the city could work on, from providing city-wide broadband internet access, to even sessions on parenting.

To download Thursday's visioning session, CLICK HERE.


(Blanche Shoupe, center, director of Workforce Area 14, talks with WGIL's Terry Cavanaugh, right, and Dave Dunn, Masters Educational Services president, left, during a break at the Galesburg Community Visioning Assembly Thursday night.)


(Galesburg Mayor Gary Smith, left center, is part of a one of eight panel discussions held Thursday night. Standing right center is Galesburg Associate Planner Julie Main. WGIL News Story and Photos by Will Stevenson.)
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