Micron in Central New York: What’s at Stake for Education and the Workforce?

Micron’s historic chip plant complex is expected to generate up to 40,000 direct and indirect jobs in Central New York over the next two decades. This includes high-skill high-paying jobs in engineering and semiconductor manufacturing, blue-collar jobs in construction, and lower-skill lower-paying jobs in services and hospitality. This employment growth has potentially widespread implications for population growth and change and changes to the income composition of households in the area. Micron’s large demand for engineers also raises questions about Central New York’s capacity to deliver STEM education and its ability to meet the demand for necessary talent. Join us to discuss these issues with a multidisciplinary group of faculty from the Center for Policy Research in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at SU.

Moderator:   Shannon Monnat, director of the Center for Policy Research and professor of sociology

Panelists:      Yingyi Ma, professor of sociology

                        Alexander Rothenberg, assistant professor of economics

                        Stuart Rosenthal, Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics