Community Colleges: Workforce Incubators for the Next Technology Revolution

Community Colleges: Workforce Incubators for the Next Technology Revolution

Quantum technologies are no longer theoretical. They are beginning to shape the future of computing, manufacturing, communications, sensing, cybersecurity, national defense and economic competitiveness.

That future is exciting. It is also consequential. Quantum technology holds tremendous possibility, but the choices we make now will determine how well our students, workers, employers and communities are prepared to benefit from it.

In a publication by Community College Daily, CSM President Dr. Yolanda Wilson shares how community colleges are the workforce incubators in closing the innovation-deployment gap, preparing skilled workers to operate and maintain advanced technology.

Read the full editorial at www.ccdaily.com/2026/06/community-colleges-workforce-incubators-for-the-next-technology-revolution.