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This series of briefs revisits findings from a group of community colleges’ efforts to redesign career education (CE) programs to better prepare students for shifting regional workforce needs. Given the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on regional economies today, what opportunities might be leveraged from the community colleges’ earlier efforts to facilitate workforce development? To address this question, this series highlights the perspectives of CCC students, faculty, staff, and administrators, based on several evaluation and research projects by the Education Insights Center (EdInsights) focusing on CE programs in the CCC from 2012 to 2017. The series includes three briefs that cover:  \n• student perspectives about career education programs,  \n• college personnel perspectives about program development, and  \n• opportunities to facilitate career education and workforce development.  \nThis second brief on learnings from CE opportunities in the CCC focuses on what college personnel described as barriers to designing and implementing programs with features that students find helpful, as described in the first brief of this series (e.g. , cohorts, consistent course schedules, work-based learning opportunities) .  \nWe found that faculty, staff, and administrators encountered a common set of challenges when implementing changes to their CE programs, including: difficulty with garnering support from various constituency groups; struggles with setting realistic goals; lack of professional learning opportunities; capacity constraints; bureaucratic approval processes; and difficulty engaging employer partners. Learning from college personnel’s experiences can help colleges prepare for barriers and avoid pitfalls while redesigning their programs to better meet students’ needs. Their perspectives are also relevant in the context of current efforts by the U.S. Department of Education to issue grants meant to expand short-term and work-based learning programs to address workforce needs and to revitalize the economy.1  \nRedesigning Career Education to Support Regional Economic Development  \nEDUCATION INSIGHTS CENTER AT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO  \nEdInsights was an external evaluator for two consortia of California community colleges that received grants from the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor.2 The findings in this series are based on these evaluations, as well as research conducted by EdInsights on the CE mission of the CCC, including focus groups and surveys with over 1,000 CCC students, faculty, staff, and administrators. The views expressed in this brief are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders of the evaluation and research projects.  \n1  \nKey Takeaways  \nCollege Personnel had Difficulty Garnering Support from Various Constituency Groups  \nCollege personnel shared that they had difficulty garnering support from various constituency groups for implementing new strategies within their programs. They said that support for change is always a challenge, especially when it entails changing long-standing policies and practices at a college or modifying people’s roles and responsibilities. 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