Greater Columbus Georgia Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President of Workforce and Education Development, Janeen Tucker, has been selected as an Education Attainment Fellow as part of a promising initiative led by the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE). This fellowship is for chamber executives and senior staff working to improve the birth-to-career education pipeline in their communities.

“We have been overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response to this high-end leadership training initiative and the high caliber of applicants,” said Mick Fleming, president of ACCE. “This latest step in our strategy to engage businesses in education attainment will maximize the linkage between education and economic development goals.”

Janeen will join a cohort of 22 chamber peers for an immersive education and workforce development experience involving best practices in education attainment, case studies of successes and failures, interaction with national experts and building a strong peer-to-peer network. Throughout the fellowship, she will be developing and executing a specific regional action plan to meet our community’s educational attainment objectives.

Janeen was selected based on her passion for strengthening the talent pipeline and improving regional education and workforce development outcomes. Selected fellows represent chambers that are currently engaged in policy, programs, and systems reform efforts across the birth-to-career spectrum that serve to prepare a skilled and globally competitive workforce.

This fellowship program serves to advance chambers’ previously defined education attainment goals with the understanding that they will ultimately help ACCE and their peers around the country build replicable programs and policies.  For more information about ACCE’s Education Attainment Division visit: http://www.acce.org/divisions/education-attainment-division/