AACC, Day Three: Choose Your Own Message

By Matt Reed. The final day of the AACC conference was incongruous in the way that big conferences usually are. It had a high-profile speaker -- in this case, Colin Powell -- and it had panels relegated to Scheduling Siberia, or 7:30 in the morning on the final day.  It followed Vice President Biden’s announcement of the Registered Apprenticeship College Consortium, which is intended to spread the apprenticeship model to health care and IT, with a panel on the RACC that barely mentioned health care and ignored IT altogether.  So it was inclusive, but with some relegated to the margins; it was a followup, but forgetfully.  You could choose your own message. Read more...