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Employer Engagement and CHAMP

Employer Engagement and CHAMP . January 2014. January 27, 2014. CAEL Quick Facts . Meaningful learning, credentials, and work for every adult. Employer Engagement: What does it mean? . The Goal Employers and colleges view EACH OTHER as strategic partners It’s organization-wide

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Employer Engagement and CHAMP

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  1. Employer Engagement and CHAMP January 2014 January 27, 2014

  2. CAEL Quick Facts Meaningful learning, credentials, and work for every adult

  3. Employer Engagement: What does it mean? • The Goal • Employers and colleges view EACH OTHER as strategic partners • It’s organization-wide • It’s mutual • It’s ongoing

  4. Employer Engagement: Why? • External reasons • With an eye to jobs, employment, workforce boards, and economic development, funders require this collaborative approach. • Increasing pressure on all fronts for college-prepared students to be ready to work • Internal reason • It’s the mission of the community college AND it doesn’t make sense to work in a vacuum.

  5. Let’s Check Perceptions 72% ofeducational leaders think newly educated workers are ready for work BUT 42% ofemployersthink these same workers are ready for work Source: A Bersin study reported in CLO Magazine 3.22.13

  6. The Employer Engagement Pie What does it look like at your school?

  7. Continuum of Curriculum Engagement • No single “right’ way • Many models = lots of opportunity and • flexibility

  8. Employer Advisors – Employer Partners

  9. Employer Advisors – Employer Partners

  10. Success Factors • Remember • It’s organization-wide, for both employers and schools • And • It’s ongoing

  11. Let’s Take a Moment • This isn’t easy! • College side • We bring employers to our campus and they’re polite, but that’s about it. • We don’t have time, dedicated personnel, • and • What colleges don’t say • Employer side • Colleges take too long to decide • It’s all “academic speak” • and • What employers don’t say

  12. 1. Is your school a strategic source in your employers’ pipeline? Here’s what the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce reported:

  13. More Success Factors • 2.Is your partnership employer driven? • How can you find out? • Is there diverse and regular college-employer contact? • Where is it happening? • At what levels of both organizations? • How often? • What are the outcomes? • Are college curriculum goals set by the industry? • Measure! • Form a framework of co-defined metrics

  14. Wrap Up • Examples of CAEL’s work with other colleges • Comments? • What’s next?

  15. Contact Information Susan Kannel Associate VP for Employer Services Council for Adult and Experiential Learning skannel@cael.org

  16. Creative Commons Attribution Workforce Solutions by Colorado Helps Advanced Manufacturing Program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.cccs.edu.

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