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Developing 2+2+2 Career Pathways to Meet High
Priority and Emerging Workforce Needs
National Career Pathways Network
October 14, 2011
Carol Adukaitis, EdD
Director, Pathways for Career Success
PA State System of Higher Education
National Need for a Skilled Workforce
Available Jobs, Not Enough Skilled Workers
• Aging workforce facing retirement
• Traditional high school population decreasing
3 percent (2007 through 2020)
• Baby boomers not entering STEM fields
• Rapid technological advances in companies
require employees with post-secondary skills
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/09/22/
National Need for a Skilled Workforce
Since 1973, jobs that require at least some college have exploded while opportunities
for those with just a high school education have shrunk dramatically
By 2018, 60% of jobs will require college education and more than half of
these positions will only require a certificate or A.A. degree.
Source: March CPS data, various years, Center on Education and the Workforce, Harvard Study 2011
PA Strategy: Develop 2+2+2 STEM Pathways
To support regional emerging industries
compete globally, in 2002, PA Department of
Community & Economic Development (DCED)
provided funding to develop integrated and
seamless educational programs across
secondary, two-year and four-year postsecondary programs as a means to create a
pipeline of highly-skilled technical STEM
workers.
www.pathwaysforcareersuccess.org
Strategy: Industry Driven, Articulated Curriculum
Articulate secondary to post-secondary 2-year and 4-year
career paths in emerging technologies that includes a
Guarantee/Warranty*; PSSA proficiency*
2 years high school/ career & technical centers
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2 years of community college
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2 years at baccalaureate level
Also develops agile, flexible and responsive training programs
for incumbent and transitional workers that lead to a
certificate and/or degree
Strategy: Industry Drives High-Tech Needs
The cornerstone of each regional 2+2+2
Project is an active involvement of
economic development agencies:
• Workforce Investment Boards (WIB),
• Industrial Resource Centers (IRC),
• Private industries, manufacturers
associations
Strategy: Save Time and Mon$y
 Minimum 15 credits articulate from
secondary to post-secondary*
 Requires ‘Proficient’ or ‘Advanced’ on PSSA
Math & Reading to reduce post-secondary
remediation coursework
 Program encourages community college
completion as middle ‘2’ to reduce college
costs*
 Career guidance integrated at each level to
provide students with information about
career and technical options and sequencing
Emerging STEM Sectors Funded
• Advanced Manufacturing & Materials
Plastics Technology, Electro-optics, Robotics,
Mechatronics, Nanofabrication Technology,
Applied Engineering Technology
• Biotechnology
Nanobiotechnology, Biotechnology,
• Energy
Natural Gas/ Marcellus Shale Technology
• Information Technology
Computer Security, Computer Forensics
2+2+2 Model= Multiple Entry/ Exit Points
Career & Technology
Center
Community College
Certificate of
Specialization
Job
Livelihood
Community College
AAS Degree
Career
College or University
BS Degree
Profession
Strategy: Recognize Prior Learning
• Recognize articulated credit from secondary CTE
to 2-yr and 4-yr post-secondary institutions
• Recognize dual enrollment
• Review military experience
• National Skills Standards
• Conduct Prior Learning Assessments for work
experience
Strategy: Develop Statewide PA Transfer
In July 2006, PA’s PDE Public School Code of 1949 requires
14 community colleges
and the
14 PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE)
state-owned universities
develop and accept for transfer up to 30 credits of
foundation courses and universities and count toward
graduation.
Pennsylvania Transfer and Articulation Center (PA TRAC), a onestop online portal for transfer students, administrators and
advisors/faculty.
https://patrac.org
Importance of Statewide PA Transfer
PA size, rural
geography and
unfinished
community
college system
leave residents
in rural areas
great distances
from low cost
campuses.
Strategy: Develop AAS & BAS Programs
Lehigh Career Technical Institute partnered with
Lehigh Carbon Community College to open a Center
for Advance Manufacturing Technology to attract
more high achieving academic secondary students
and incumbent workers.
The greater Allentown,
Lehigh Valley PA region’s
manufacturing employs
about 36,000 people at
an average wage of
$58,432 and added 800
jobs in the last year.
Many jobs now require
training in high-tech
fields such as
electromechanical
mechatronics and
precision machining.
Strategy: Industry/ Education Partnership
BOTSIQ & Robobots =
Excitement!
Collaboration and Support
- PA Labor & Industry
- NTMA & AMC2
- 35 Companies: funding & mentors
- >75 Organizations & contributors
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Strategy: Industry/Education Partnership
•Workforce
Investment
Board
•Businesses
•Schools
•~1,800
attendees
•Students/Parents
Hershey Foods needed
high tech industrial
maintenance technicians
for food packaging.
Reading Area Community
College (RACC) and
Lancaster CTC along with
the Lehigh, Berks and
Lancaster WIB developed
the AMIST curriculum.
RACC’s AAS Program
articulates with PA
PASSHE institutions and
Purdue@Calumet.
Strategy: Recruit Underserved Groups
Program offers continuous opportunities that recruit females-only, first generation,
and underrepresented students to learn about STEM careers. Professional SME/
SWE serve as mentors. University students serving as near-peer mentors.
Kelly Reid, DCCC AET, President,
SME Student Chapter, now
enrolled at Drexel
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Strategy: Promote STEM Pathways
PA one of 6 states to receive NGA funding in 2007 to dramatically
increase P-20 students (especially females, minorities, and
underrepresented) for careers in STEM
PA STEM Initiative is
a collaborative public
/private partnership
committed to
improving and
aligning the
Commonwealth
workforce, education
and economic
development systems
to realize the PA STEM
Initiative vision by
2018
www.pasteminitiative.org
Employer Surveys of Program Graduates
Are They Really Ready to Work, The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Employer Surveys of Program Graduates
Are They Really Ready to Work, The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Statewide Career Pathways Impact
Graduated over 7,000 students*
Network Involves
40 CTE, 39 high schools
7 community colleges, 2 two-year colleges
29 four-year colleges / universities
• Salaries reported:
• AAS Degree of $33,500+
• BS Degree Technician of $65,000+
Statewide
Program
Impact
Statewide
Collaboration
= Leveraged
Funds
Project funds Leveraged:
partial listing of supporters
2003 - 2011
$21,636,753
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US DOL Grants, AET, Biotechnology
NSF-ATE, Advanced Manufacturing, Plastics, Biomanufacturing
Community Based Job Training
Department of Defense
Carnegie Mellon University Robo Corridor
National Tool and Machining Foundation
R. K. Mellon Foundation
Heinz Foundation
Westmoreland Foundation
Whitaker Foundation
Society of Photonics Engineers
Society of Manufacturing Engineers-Education
Foundation
US Congressman Paul Kanjorski & US Senator
Robert Casey
US Senator Arlen Specter
Collegiate Consortium for Workforce &
Economic Development
Exelon
Many others……
What We Have Learned
 Rigorous curriculum designed by employers, business,
industry and faculty
 Articulation course to course is successful
 Program to program alignment is in progress (Perkins
Programs of Study)*
 Dual enrollment courses offer portability of credits
for students choosing institutions other than those in
the partnership
 Assessment is on-going
 2+2+2 supports national & state Complete College
America goal of 60% increase of population having
earned a meaningful college credential by 2020
What We Have Learned
 Increase Career guidance & counseling for
recruiting young adults and transfers
 Improved perceptions CTE and CC
 Offer more on-line courses
 STEM awareness must begin K-6 with students
and professional development with faculty
 PASSHE undertaking a comprehensive review of
transfer system-wide task force for policies,
business practices and culture.
For more information contact:
In 2008, DCED transferred management of the 222WLG Program to
PASSHE through completion of the program, June 2013.
Carol Adukaitis, EdD
Director, Pathways for Career Success
PA State System of Higher Education
Dixon University Center
2986 North 2nd Street
Harrisburg, PA 17110
Phone: 717-720-4019
[email protected]
PathwaysForCareerSuccess.org