Whats Next for the Strong Workforce Task Force

What's Next for the Strong Workforce Task Force? Implementation! Grant Goold, CTE Leadership Committee Chair Julie Bruno, Task Force member, Vice President, ASCCC Craig Justice, Task Force member, CIO, Irvine Valley College Lynn Shaw, Task Force Co-Chair, Long Beach City College

Session Overview • Task Force Background • Recommendations • Implementation Discussion • Questions and Comments

The Board of Governors’ Taskforce on Workforce, Job Creation, and A Strong Economy Report and Recommendations

Task Force Membership The Task Force was comprised of representatives from community college faculty, administration, trustee and students; the employer community; labor; public agencies involved in workforce training and economic development; K-12 education policy; and community based organizations.

The Strong Workforce Task Force Goal: To increase individual and regional economic competitiveness by providing California’s workforce with relevant skills and quality credentials that match employer needs and fuel a strong economy.

Board of Governors The Recommendations were presented to the Board of Governors at their Retreat in September 2015. The Recommendations will be considered for action at the Board of Governors’ meeting in November 2015.

The Strong Workforce Task Force • 25 Recommendations with subrecommendations • Divided into 7 Areas • • Student Success Career Pathways Workforce Data and Outcomes Curriculum CTE Faculty Regional Coordination Funding

What’s Next? Implementation

CTE Regional Meetings • CTE Leadership Committee • 3 Regional Meetings in October • Discussed Implementation of the Recommendations within faculty purview – Academic and Professional Matters (10+1) • Findings

Regional Findings • 17 recommendations that fall within the 10+1 • Student Success • Career Pathways • Curriculum • CTE Faculty • Regional Coordination • Funding

Student Success Broaden and enhance career exploration and planning, work-based learning opportunities, and other supports for students. • Focus on underserved populations (African American, ESL, etc. ) • Identify incentives supporting internships, shadowing, mentoring • Identify available career pathway tools • Modify legislation for flexibility in student placement • Provide resources for CTE specific counseling • Better inform students about CTE opportunities in presentations such as freshman orientation • Designate CTE Counselors

Student Success Improve CTE student progress and outcomes. • Workforce Investment Boards (WIB) – incentivize faculty to join these discussion so to educate industry partners on college program needs • Shared regional advisory board to include 20+ industry

Career Pathways Develop and broadly publicize industry-informed career pathways that prepare students for jobs needed within the regional labor market. • CTE Awards • CTE program success needs to be tied to jobs, not certificates and degrees • Team teach – Issue incentives – stipends, release time • Expand career pathways via AB 288 • Encourage development of contextualized learning

Curriculum Evaluate, strengthen, and revise the curriculum development process to ensure alignment from education to employment. • LMI challenges with collecting data in an efficient manner-Who is going to do this work? Teachers should be teaching! • Regional consortia work well for some high priority sectors but others have challenges • Large regions (desert vs. coast) have different challenges • Regional vs. local needs and programs-how to maintain a healthy balance?

Curriculum Evaluate, strengthen, and revise the curriculum development process to ensure alignment from education to employment. • Coordinate in the development of model Curricula • Provide state leadership, resources, and coordination in developing model curricula for CTE programs • Clear guidelines on shared programs and FTE • Enhance the use of stackable certificates • Challenges: Faculty buy in to collaborate with “competitors” • Provide “release time” and other support for CTE instructors on Curriculum Committees

Curriculum Evaluate, revise and resource the local, regional, and statewide CTE curriculum approval process to ensure timely, responsive, and streamlined curriculum approval. • Separate CTE approval process within the Chancellors Office (Academic Affairs) • Create an accelerated curriculum approval process • Support ASCCC CTE liaison concept to provide linkage for information between faculty and ASCCC Leadership

Curriculum Improve program review, evaluation, and revision processes to ensure program relevance to students, business, and industry as reflected in labor market data. • Create specific portal for CTE program creation • Develop best practices for “resizing” CTE Programs as employment opportunities fluctuate

Curriculum Facilitate curricular portability across institutions. • Ensure faculty maintain purview over curricular processes • Non-credit option for creating pathways and for options for students • Define C-ID models to ease movement between colleges Develop, identify and disseminate effective CTE practices. • Process in improve advisory groups validation of curriculum rigor and validity • Repeatability of CTE courses that provide/support skill development

CTE Faculty Increase the pool of qualified CTE instructors by addressing CTE faculty recruitment and hiring practices. • Team teaching (Faculty internships similar to faculty diversity hiring programs in many districts) • Relook at equivalencies and how they are defined and applied to CTE programs • New work load calculation for CTE faculty to accurately reflect all work completed by CTE faculty

CTE Faculty Consider options for meeting minimum qualifications to better integrate industry professionals who possess significant experience into CTE instructional programs. • Create college funded externships • Fund 12 -week summer externships • Remove barriers for K-12 CTE faculty to teach in CCC • Share qualified faculty within regional teaching consortia (Joint Powers Authority)

CTE Faculty Enhance professional development opportunities for CTE faculty to maintain industry and program relevance. • Contextualized computer literacy • Support CTE counselors in middle school and high school outreach • Create and support paid externships and sabbaticals for CTE faculty

Regional Coordination Strengthen communication, coordination, and decision-making between regional CTE efforts and the colleges to meet regional labor market needs. • A paradigm shift • The current structure does not work with the CCC System • Focus on student needs • Common mission within the regions • Redefine roles of DSNs to focus away from competition • Provide reassigned time or stipend for regional faculty coordinator and local program faculty to participate more effectively in the regional conversations.

Regional Coordination Strengthen communication, coordination, and decision-making between regional CTE efforts and the colleges to meet regional labor market needs. • Increase and improve CTE Marketing college wide and regionally • Focus on emerging markets/industry: Bring back to the college to help impact programs, curriculum and pedagogy

Regional Coordination Develop robust connections between community colleges, business and industry representatives, labor and other regional workforce development partners to align college programs with regional and industry needs and provide support for CTE programs. • Regional outreach mechanism to seize industry opportunities without adding more load to faculty • Strengthen DSN Roles • Increase transparency -- Make this function more accountable because there is little incentives to coordinate or grow programs

Funding Establish a sustained, funding source to increase community colleges’ capacity to create, adapt, and maintain quality CTE courses and programs that are responsive to regional labor market needs. • • Programs more expensive Mandated faculty: student ratios Mandate lecture vs. lab parity! Challenge FTE limits?

CIO Discussions Funding Issues • $FTES-It’s still a growth funding model • Grants-Not effective, sustainable • Categorical-Funds follow planning

CIO Discussions Regional Coordination Issues • Structure of the Regions • Some Regions are too large, diverse • Regional Boundaries Need Some Review and Adjustment • Priority Sectors – Non-priority Sectors

CIO Discussions Doing What Matters Issues • Roles and Responsibilities of DSNs • Alignment with College Processes • • Curriculum Strategic Planning Facilities Planning Accreditation-Assessment • Communication

Roles and Responsibilities • • CTE faculty CIOs Senate Presidents ASCCC Executive Committee

What Happens Next?

Questions and Comments

Resources • • • The Workforce Task Force Report ASCCC CTE Leadership Committee Doing What Matters CCC Chief Instructional Officers Email Addresses • Julie Bruno – jbruno@sierracollege. edu • Grant Goold – Gooldg@arc. losrios. edu • Craig Justice – cjustice@ivc. edu • Lynn Shaw – lshaw@lbcc. edu