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A few respondents express concern about the inability to transfer credits between institutions.

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"Employer 1: I think the universities and the colleges have to be more collaborative with each other. Not every location will be able to develop a course that meets all of our needs. But if a student can take classes at different places, and those credits can seamlessly apply to their home institution, then that'd be helpful. No longer should there be any kind of barriers or walls. And there still are. It's very frustrating to some of our folks, to current employees, that want to take courses that are not offered at the institution. It's, 'Well, I'll take some courses at this place and then some courses at that place.' So, they have to find an institution that will take all of their credits and put them together.

Question: So, when you have a system and schools working together, it's give them a certain degree of choice that they probably don't currently have?

Employer 1: Yes. It's frustrating especially to the person that's been in the workforce for a while and they want to refine their skills, and they have to learn an entirely new bureaucracy. They get frustrated.

Employer 2: Stop competing against each other. And stop competing against other colleges within that university system. There's way too much competition today. And it's within colleges, too. It's not just across colleges."		 Metro
"For the incumbent worker—we're kind of scattered around the state in small offices—so they need access to advanced network training, broadband mobility, whatever the case might be. It's very difficult for them to get that training. We can't just let them go for two years if they go to some technical college. We can't let them go for one semester. But they need access. Maybe they had some training at one college and now they want a certificate or something from another college. I've said this before: We want MNSCU organizations to work better together. There are some things you don't control, but how well credits transfer back and forth between institutions, MNSCU controls that. So, it's time to get that in order." Metro