Analysis of the Causes of Workforce Shortages: Create Guidelines for Education and Workforce Development in Transportation to Generate Future Careers for the Navajo Nation

This study aims to investigate the sources of workforce scarcities and create guidelines to address those scarcities as it relates to transportation-related careers inside the Navajo Nation. Specifically, this study has four main components: (1) deliver summer internship opportunities to interested Navajo students in the transportation field at Tran-SET-affiliated universities, (2) support interested Navajo students to attend transportation-related seminars and workshops at Tran-SET-affiliated universities, (3) analyze the root cause of workforce deficiencies in the transportation industry inside the Navajo Nation, and (4) design and begin preparing a transportation-related certificate program at the Navajo Technical University.

• Record URL:
  https://transet.lsu.edu/research-in-progress/

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $20000
• Contract Numbers:

  19TTNTU01

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Transportation Consortium of South-Central States

  Louisiana State University
  Baton Rouge, LA  United States  70803
• Project Managers:

  Melson, Christopher

• Performing Organizations:

  Navajo Technical University

  Lowerpoint Rd State Hwy 371
  Crownpoint, NM  United States  87313
• Principal Investigators:

  Ehteshami, Gholam

• Start Date: 20190815
• Expected Completion Date: 20210215
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: College students; Education and training; Guidelines; Labor force; Outreach; Shortages; Transportation careers
• Identifier Terms: Navajo Nation
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01713221
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Consortium of South-Central States
• Contract Numbers: 19TTNTU01
• Files: UTC, RiP
• Created Date: Aug 5 2019 5:14PM