TENNAIR 2026

This session highlights how the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) is using integrated education and labor market data to support workforce-aligned decision-making across its community colleges and colleges of applied technology.

Presenters will showcase a coordinated suite of system-level tools that link student outcomes, labor market demand, and near–real?time institutional data to inform action at both the system and campus levels. Together, these tools provide a unified approach to understanding workforce outcomes, career pathways, and program alignment.

The session will demonstrate features of Careers Start Here, an interactive platform developed in partnership with the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development that tracks graduate employment rates, earnings, and industries of employment over the past decade. Participants will also explore a job postings and occupational outlook tool that integrates National Labor Exchange postings data with Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics to assess workforce demand, employment growth, credential requirements, and advertised salary trends across Tennessee and neighboring states. In addition, presenters will discuss the system’s emerging Workforce Student Information System (SIS) initiative, which is creating a centralized, standardized data environment to support operational and strategic dashboards aligned with the TBR Analytics and Reporting Platform (TARP).

This session will emphasize how integrated workforce data can be operationalized to improve career advising, guide program investment and review, strengthen credentials of value alignment, and reduce reporting burden for IR/IE staff. Attendees will leave with practical examples of how workforce data can move beyond reporting to support coordinated, data-informed decision-making within their own institutional contexts.