Transcript American Association of Community Colleges

Academic Senate for California Community
Colleges:
Vocational Leadership Institute
Keep America Working
General Session – Friday, Jan 28, 2011
CTE Faculty Rock!
Maureen White, EdD.,
CTE, Chancellor’s Office
[email protected]
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“cautiously optimistic”
“Let’s get California working again.”
Governor Jerry Brown
Jobs R Us
Navigate in era of deficits
More budget cuts
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Practitoner professors navigating or making
sense of Perkins and state funding
Those who can, do
Those who can do, teach
CTE Faculty teach what they can do!
You are the CTE leaders
CTE Faculty Rock!
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“Are we going off a cliff, or into greener
pastures?” Wheeler North
Greener pastures = metaphor: green,
emerging, vocational, career technical,
sustainable careers
Learning Objectives: navigate and explore
Be a boundary spanner: go beyond
“perfect storm” for CTE across the nation
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to connect the dots of possibilities
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From Resolutions to Perkinsolutions
Program improvement = compliance
It’s the economy, [stupid]
K.I.S.S. keep it simple, scholar
Mixed messages = opportunities
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Macro view and goals:
7 billion people in 2011
$28 billion deficit in California
8 million graduates by 2020 (Obama)
CTE = higher salaries
“refudiating” Recession? Recovery?
Recuperation? Reflection.
Reinvention. Repercussions. Ramifications?
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We can accurately predict that we do not
know for sure yet what 2011 will bring
“It depends”
Republican legislature in D.C.
Democratic majority in California
Speculations?
Less government; less spending
Taxes?
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OVAE – Office of Vocational & Adult Education
Accountability for 50 states
No one definition of CTE
Educators question methodology, quality &
accuracy of vocational data
Sector disconnects
Cannot access data or too cumbersome
FERPA changes advocated = track students
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without personal identity; limited
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disclosure for longitudinal data
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OVAE – cont’d
Strengthen connections: workforce dev &
education
Jobs. Jobs. Jobs.
Contradictory needs of diverse sectors:
government, education, employers
Agree on need for common, clear, consistent
education data standards (CEDS)
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SB 1440
FDRG – Faculty Discipline Review Groups
No more than 60 transferable units
No more than 18 units in a major
TMC – Transfer Model Curriculum
Go to www.c-id.net
Go to www.cccco.edu for FAQS
Per Academic Affairs Dean Stephanie Low
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EDGAR – Education Dept General
Administration Regulations
Michael Brustein, Perkins guru
Perkins may be cut 5% in 2011-2012
Perkins can hire faculty for new program dev
Perkins funding for equipment is only for
“sequence of courses”
Tech Prep may become part of Perkins I-C
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Micro view: California
“fasten your seat belts…[educators]”
Mid-year cuts; good, bad, ugly
California State Plan for Career Technical
Education 2008-2012
“creative within compliance”
Funding: completion, not access
Perkins: flexibility for POS
Perkins: inter-disciplinary, industry standards
not “teaching to test”
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Per Ron Selge, CTE Dean, CCCCO
Changes in classrooms
Programs transportability across districts
Tech Prep – cuts to secondary
“Undeclared” = recruitment opportunity
Apprenticeships = CTE opportunity for (RSI):
related and supplemental instruction
Reach out to employers - prescriptive
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Governor’s 2005 Initiative on Pathways (SB70)
$48 million for middle schools (Scott & Arnold)
Improving & Strengthening CTE
Partnership: CDE & CCCCO (2+2+2+2)
Seamless, integrated multiple pathways = retention
Employers love SB70
Who Do U Want 2B? Strategic partnerships with
community, employers = 15 career pathways
◦ Ad campaign: careers that pay well & in demand
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SB 70 cont’d
◦ Academic Senate managing campaign, leading
nation
◦ “we have the engines; this money is the gasoline”
◦ Comprehensive career exploration & experiences
◦ Developing innovative program models that
support diverse student needs & learning styles
◦ Since 2005: total students served: 342,957; total
staff served: 16,806; total partnerships: 5,134
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Homework:
Perkinsolutions Leadership Tips for New
Year’s Inspirations
Think like a dean – how to be a better bean
counter (rock the data)
Think like a student – how to get a job
Think like an employer
Think like Governor Brown (“era of limits”)
Get
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Be “creative within compliance”
Contextualize your curriculum
Get conversant with SB 70
Get active in professional associations
Get to know your Student Services colleagues
Grants. Grants. Grants.
Create Advisory Committees with EWD & WIBs
Integrate Career Planning into CTE courses
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Homework: Perkins Leadership Tips cont’d
Partner with career dev professionals
Partner with secondary faculty & counselors
Get your students internships
Partner with employers & chambers
Conduct a SWOT Analysis for each TOP & POS:
strengths, weakness, opportunities, trends
Partner with EWD: Economic & Workforce Dev
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Required Reading List
American Assoc. of Community Colleges
California State Plan for CTE 2008-2012
Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative
www.cccco.edu
http://www.whodouwant2b?.com/student/pa
thways
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Required Reading List
Chancellor’s website: www.cccco.edu
Community College League of California
2010: Year In Review – www.cccco.edu
www.CACareerCafe.com
CTE Resource Guide
http://www.cccco.edu/Portals/4/EWD/CTE/CTE_Re
source_Guide-October_2010.pdf
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California Community Colleges,
Economic and Workforce Development Program
Peter Davis
Statewide Director of the Advanced Transportation and Energy Initiative
619-473-0090 or email: [email protected]
http://www.cccewd.net/
•Offer regular Staff Development on Emerging Technologies?
•Send Emails of IDRC, RTF Grants / Special Events?
•Place Training and Special Events on a Single Calendar?
•Offer PODCASTS or an EWDP newsletter?
•How about linking EWD website to your website?
•Become an active Partner of an Initiative?
•Apply for EWDP short term grants or become an Initiative Center?
•Partner with an Initiative to create and deliver training?
•Call an Initiative Director and state your interest?
•Call EWDP Staff for assistance or suggestions for help?
•Call the EWDP Dean and ask to get involved with a Initiative focus?
Jose Anaya – Statewide CACT
Director Phone: (310) 973-3165 Fax:
(310) 973-3132 Email:
[email protected] Web:
www.makingitincalifornia.com
Peter Davis - Statewide ATTE
Director Phone: (619) 473-0090 Email:
[email protected] ATTE Website:
www.attecolleges.org 4Energy Website:
www.fourenergy.org
Jeffery O' Neal – Statewide Biotech
Director Phone: (916) 484-8052 Email:
[email protected] Web:
www.cccbiotech.org
Elaine Gaertner - Statewide Director COE
Phone: (408) 288-8611 Fax: (408) 2888606 Email: [email protected] Web:
www.coeccc.net
Richard Della Valle - Statewide ETC
Director Phone: (925) 672-2209 Email:
[email protected] Web:
http://www.envtraining.org
Michael Roessler -Statewide Director, Business & Entrepreneurship Center
Program Phone: (916) 361-2964 Fax: (916) 361-3381 Email:
[email protected]
Linda Zorn - Statewide Director Health Workforce
Phone: (530) 879-9069 Email:
[email protected] Web: www.ca-hwi.org
Jeffrey Williamson - Statewide CITD
Director Phone: (951) 571-6458 Email:
[email protected] Web:
www.citd.org
Stephen Wright - Statewide MEI
Director Phone: (805) 496-8583 Email:
[email protected] Web:
www.nmeiewd.net
Bruce Whistler - Statewide WpLRC
Director Phone: (650) 641-0161 Email:
[email protected] Web: www.wplrc.org
Catherine Swenson, Director Training and
Development Email: [email protected]
Phone: (916) 452-5668