Higher Education and the Future U.S. Economy

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Higher Education and the Future U.S. Economy
Presented by Les Janis, Director, Georgia
Career Information Center, Georgia State
University, and Occupational Supply Demand System
(OSDS) at www.occsupplydemand.org and,
Mark Schaff, Contributing Labor Economist, OSDS.
SHEEO Higher Education Policy Conference August
12, 2010
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Higher Education is organized around a
combination of primarily state and national and
institutional organizational units.  Because the
Occupational Supply Demand System (OSDS)
recognized these key organization units in its
design of educational and labor market
information, the OSDS has become an important
tool with which State Higher Education Officers
are planning the alignment of higher education to
the future U.S. economy.
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www.occsupplydemand.org
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• Units of Analysis contain clusters of related
  occupations and training programs.
• A Unit of Analysis is a starting point for
  comparing the relative abundance of trained
  workers related to the demand for those workers.

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• OSDS contains national and state data.
• Supply Indicators
• Programs and Schools
• Program Completers by Degree Level
• Program Completers by School and Gender
• Occupational Licensing Data and Information
• Demand Indicators
• Occupational Characteristics 
• Occupational Projections
• Wage Trends
• Occupational Employment by Industry

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• OSDS also contains
• High-Demand, High-Wage, and High-Skill
  Occupations
• Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education
  Improvement Act of 2006
• State-specific methodology and criteria
• Linked to Supply/Demand Indicators

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Seminal Publications and Resources

• Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
• (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics at
  www.bls.gov/oco/home,htm)
• 2. Occupational Projections and Training Data
  (OPTD)
• (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics at
  www.bls.gov/emp/optd)
• 3. Science and Engineering Indicators 2010
• (National Science Foundation at
  www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind10)
• 4. Occupational Supply Demand System (OSDS)
• (Georgia Career Information Center, GSU,
  at www.occsupplydemand.org)

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www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm

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2008-09 Occupational Projections and Training
Data at http//www.bls.gov/emp/optd/optd_archive.h
tm

• An electronic copy of the previous edition of
  the Occupational Projections and Training Data
  (OPTD) bulletin (2008-09 Edition), which covered
  the 2006-16 set of projections, is available as a
  zipped PDF file (3 MB) on the BLS/FTP server.
  This is the last published version of the OPTD.

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First university degrees in natural sciences and
engineering, selected countries 19982006
NOTE Natural sciences include physical,
biological, earth, atmospheric, ocean,
agricultural, and computer sciences and
mathematics. Source - Science and Engineering
Indicators 2010 at www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind10
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OSDS Related Research Papers

• Caldwell Economic Information Services. "Keywords
  Found on America's Job Bank (AJB) Resumes and Job
  Orders in 2006," October 2008.  
• If your research paper references OSDS and you
  would like to list it on the OSDS website, please
  contact
•    Les Janis (lesjanis_at_gsu.edu) or Bus. Tel. No.
  [phone]

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With any questions or comments, please contact

• Les Janis, Director, Georgia Career Information
  Center,
• Georgia State University (GSU), Occupational
  Supply Demand System (OSDS)
• Desk [phone]
• Email lesjanis_at_gsu.edu
• Websites www.gcic.peachnet.edu
• www.occsupplydemand.org
• Mark Schaff, Contributing Labor Economist, OSDS
• Email schaff.mark_at_yahoo.com
• Website www.occsupplydemand.org