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"Focus on Southeast" is a program connecting listeners and viewers with the people, events and issues at Southeast Missouri State University and the region. It is recorded at the Rust Center for Media in Downtown Cape Girardeau and produced in collaboration with the Department of Mass Media.

Focus on Southeast: Workforce Development in Southeast Missouri

KRCU Public Radio | By Dan Woods
Published April 5, 2023 at 2:17 PM CDT
Dan Presson, Rob Gilligan and Dan Woods
Sarah Walter
Dan Presson, Rob Gilligan and Dan Woods

Workforce development is defined as initiatives that educate and train individuals to meet the needs of current and future business and industry in order to maintain a sustainable competitive economic environment.

What does workforce development look like in southeast Missouri? To find out, we sat down with Dan Presson, Director of Career Services and Interim Vice President for Economic and Workforce Development and Rob Gilligan, President and CEO of the Cape Chamber.
Dan Woods
Dan is a 1994 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University. He majored in radio and minored in political science. He spent three of his four years at Southeast working as a student announcer at KRCU – the beginning of his radio career.
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