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AKRON, Ohio - Stark State College will open an education and workforce training center in Akron, offering the first two-year degree programs in the county. Stark State College in North Canton . . .

Good help is hard to find — especially when that help is required to write software or run a CNC machine. The struggle to find skilled employees has pushed 12 . . .

Sue Lacy is on cloud nine. She should be. As head of the new Summit County talent initiative ConxusNEO, her efforts to revamp the old Summit Workforce Solutions, along with the help . . .

A lot of attention has been given in recent years to the tech worker shortage and much discussion has been around how to get non-traditional, high aptitude people into tech . . .

Backers of the new ConxusNEO workforce development program in Summit County have not wasted any time starting their outreach efforts with area students. The initiative, which replaces the former Summit Workforce Solutions . . .

More than 50,000 new manufacturing jobs will open up over the next 10 years in Northeast Ohio, but many local job-seekers have historically been unaware of the bounty of opportunities . . .

Look at successful cities, and you increasingly find a community college as part of the achievement. That explains the applause for Stark State College coming to Akron. Once the doors . . .

Summit County businesses starved for talent got a new ally as county, Akron and business leaders announced the unveiling of a new workforce development effort dubbed ConxusNEO. The project -- which . . .

If you are looking for a job but don’t think you have what it takes to work in today’s sophisticated manufacturing or information technology environment, a whole lot of people . . .

Akron has liked the story it has told itself — about an aging industrial city that has been more successful than others in navigating a rugged economic transition. In 2008, . . .