A career built around one belief: every student deserves to be counted.

Donna Milgram understands how frustrating it is for Deans and Chairs of Career Education Programs to make important program decisions without a complete picture of their students' workforce journeys.

She created the Workforce Results System™ to provide Career Education Programs with an affordable, sustainable solution that enables them to confidently demonstrate workforce outcomes and continuously improve their programs each semester.

For more than 25 years, Donna Milgram has helped Career Education Programs improve recruitment, retention, completion, and workforce outcomes. She has worked in-depth across more than 30 Career Pathways, giving her a firsthand understanding of the unique workforce questions facing each program.

Donna Milgram

Founder, Workforce Results System™

25+

Years Experience

30+

Career Pathways

5

NSF Grants - PI

100+

Customized Reports

“Career Education Programs make better decisions when they understand the workforce journey of all students, not just their graduates.”

— Donna Milgram

Experience That Built the Workforce Results System™

Highlights of Ms. Milgram’s experience include:

5-Time NSF Principal Investigator

Recognized by NSF for demonstrating significant achievement and program effectiveness following an expert panel review to the Committee for Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA)

Testified Before the U.S. Congress

Three times as an expert on Career Education and Workforce Development.

Former Commissioner

U.S. Department of Labor, Federal Committee on Apprenticeship

Alameda Economic Development Commission, Chair of the Business Attraction Committee

Board Member

National Association of Private Industry Councils (PICs) and the Montgomery County PIC

Developed Nationally Recognized Workforce Assessment Tools & Customized Reports

Under a National Science Foundation grant, Donna developed nationally used assessment tools that helped hundreds of two-year colleges evaluate their readiness to recruit and retain students in STEM and Career Technical Education.

She has also developed hundreds of customized dashboards measuring enrollment, persistence, completion, and workforce outcomes for secondary and community college Career Education Programs.

This experience became the foundation of the Workforce Results System™—helping Career Education Programs answer the workforce questions that matter most and take targeted action to improve student success.

Conference Presentation Highlights

Publication Highlights

Panelist, "Moving STEM Forward", Career, Technical and Adult Education Symposium by Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC

D. Milgram, Cover Article: "How to Recruit to the STEM Classroom,"The Technology and Engineering Teacher Magazine, Winner of Reader's Choice Award at ITEEA's National Conference

Speaker, National Science Foundation's National Advisory Committee of the Education Human Resources (EHR) Division on “Increasing Participation in the Skilled Technical Workforce

D. Milgram, Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) Techniques MagazineFeature Article: "Intention to Action: Recruiting to CTE."

Presenter, National Science Foundation, Advanced Technological Education (NSF ATE) Principal Investigator Conferences (10+)

D. Milgram, "Evaluation Strategies: Improving recruitment and retention in ATE projects" [EvaluATE Blog post]

D. Milgram, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference Proceedings (3)

D. Milgram, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference Proceedings (3 articles)

Presenter, CyberSmart Summit: North America’s Only Cybersecurity Skills & Workforce Development Summit

Selected Press Coverage

C-Span, CNN, Fox Morning News, ATE Central Connection, International Innovation, NSF Highlights, NSF Discoveries, Wall Street Journal

Presenter, League for Innovation in the Community College

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