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Inside EMMA: How a Mainframe Apprenticeship Scaled in Its First Year

Inside EMMA: How a Mainframe Apprenticeship Scaled in Its First Year

by Penney Berryman | Jan 30, 2026

Mainframe careers don’t suffer from a lack of interest, but a lack of pathways. EMMA was built to remove barriers to training, scaling, and hiring mainframe apprentices. This update revisits the program one year later, with results that tell a more nuanced workforce...

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From Wine to Workforce Solutions – Influential Mainframer Magie Hall

From Wine to Workforce Solutions – Influential Mainframer Magie Hall

by Penney Berryman | Apr 11, 2025

Magie Hall, Ph.D., is an associate professor of information systems and quantitative analysis at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She’s also one of the very few tenured professors doing scholarly work in mainframe education.  She didn’t plan to build a workforce...

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