WTCS College Career Pathways Coordinators

2. WTCS College Career Pathways Coordinators • Oregon’s Career Pathways Coordinator role • Oregon Pathways Alliance peer learning network • Oregon’s Career Pathways Institutional Self-Assessment (nine dimensions) • Pathways Statewide Initiative Overview & history • Career Pathways Roadmaps • Career Pathways Certificates of Completion

3. PART ONE • Career Pathway Coordinator role • Leadership & Connectivity • Oregon Pathways Alliance: statewide peer learning network • Career Pathway Systemic Approach: Institutional Self-Assessment (9 dimensions)

4. Career Pathway Coordinator Role • The Heart of the Matter • Boundary-spanner • Work across “silos” & organizations • Horizontal and vertical access & power • Focus on students and employers need not administration/bureaucracy • Oversight dean: permission to be innovative

5. Career Pathway Coordinator Role • Learning from peers; Oregon Pathways Alliance • Ability to be both a generalist and a specialist • Ability to translate across “silos” • Strong listening, problem-solving skills, project - grant management skills • Work at both programmatic & systems level • OK with working on the edge; high tolerance for ambiguity; make things happen • Committed to systems change; an implementer; “both/and”; “thinker & doer”

6. Leadership & Connectivity • Oregon Presidents’ Council Career Pathways Resolution: 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 • State Board of Education • Oregon Workforce Investment Board • Oregon Pathways Alliance • CCWD statewide coordination role • Liaisons with other groups: instructional administrators, student services administrators, CTE deans, president’s council, etc.

7. Oregon Pathways Alliance • Collaboration of 17 community college leaders of Career Pathways at their college • Peer Learning Network meeting quarterly since 2004 • Co-Chairs: urban/large college & rural/small college • Co-Creation of agenda • CCWD (state agency) convenes, leadership support, provides technical assistance • Migrating promising practices (structured presentation) • Sharing successes, failures, lessons learned • Professional development component each meeting

8. Agenda & Professional Development Strategies & Ideas • Career Pathways & WIOA • Leveraging with Perkins • Promising Practices (structured presentation) • Labor Market Information: COWS, OED occupational economist • “regular” agenda items • “meaty” agendas • wrap-up: take-aways & what went well (5-10 min.) • Video conference option for participation • Annual “retreat” • Grant requirements & report prep strategies

9. Guiding Question It’s the end of the meeting and everyone agrees its been a worthwhile and invigorating time, there’s a buzz, a sense of momentum in the room: what happened to create this result?

10. Resource Center for Law & Social Policy (CLASP) “Funding Career Pathways & Career Pathway Bridges” 2012 http://www.clasp.org/resources-and-publications/files/CPToolkit2012_V1R4.pdf

11. Career Pathways Systemic Approach: Institutional Self-Assessment Dimensions • Leadership • Leveraged Resources • Certificates & Roadmaps • Articulation with high schools & universities • Pathways for Adult Basic Skills students • Student Services and supports • Connection with Workforce partners • Employer Engagement • Using data for continuous improvement

12. Career Pathways Systemic Approach: Stages on the Journey: stage 1: building critical mass & shared understanding stage 2: building capacity & infrastructure stage 3: institutionalizing and sustaining Stage 3 aligns with the Achieving the Dream Initiative’s definition of “scale”: • Practice has an impact on the majority of defined populations and there are measureable improvements or expected outcomes that can be documented; • Practice has become “business as usual” or has been “institutionalized”; • College processes are modified to support the program or service • Institutional resources and policies are aligned in support of the practice.

13. PART TWO • Guiding Vision & Goals • Overview of Initiative • Career Pathways WebTool • Roadmaps & Program of Study Templates (POSTs) • Marketing material; case studies & newsletters • Short-term, stackable certificates (12-44 credits)

14. Guiding Vision • In service of meeting Oregon’s 40-40-20 goal for the “middle 40” • Certificate completion & continued education • Address the changing needs of employers, job seekers, workers, and students • Focus on Career & Technical Education (CTE) short-term certificates tied to occupations • Provide web-based, just-in-time roadmaps for students, advisors/counselors, job seekers

15. Goals • To increase the number of Oregonians with certificates, credentials, and degrees • To ease transitions across the education continuum—high school to community college; pre-college (ABE/GED/ESL) to postsecondary credit ; community college to university; and to employment

16. What’s a Career Pathway? Career Pathways are linked education and training services that enable students, often while they are working, to advance over time to successfully high education and employment in a given industry or occupational sector. Each step of a Career is designed to prepare students to prepare student stop progress to the next level of employment and education.

17. What’s a Career Pathway? (continued) Career Pathways focus on easing and facilitating student transition--- - from high school to community college; • from pre-college courses (ABE/GED/ESL) to credit postsecondary; • from community college to university or employment.

19. Higher Learning & Higher Earning in Oregon • Post Secondary • Open enrollment • Dislocated & unemployed worker • Career changers • Skills upgrading incumbent workers Pre-College to Post-secondary (ABE/GED/ESL/DE) Community college Postsecondary to University/OUS Secondary to postsecondary Easing student transitions along the education continuum Focus on demand occupations in local labor market to meet employer needs Career & Technical Education (CTE) ------------------------- Dual Credit classes ------------------------- Programs of Study OPABS Initiative Oregon Pathways For Basic Skills Oregon Pathways Alliance ------------------------------- Career Pathways Grants Statewide Certificates ---------------------------- Articulation Agreements

20. Launch • National Governors Association (NGA) Pathways to Advancement Initiative 2004 • Three colleges with career pathways achieving early successes (MHCC, PCC, SOCC) • Spearheaded by CCWD & Governor’s office • Statewide Steering Committee 2004-2010 • Bottoms-up & Top-down

21. Scaling for Impact • Launched with five colleges in 2004 with initial funding from the Governor’s Workforce Investment Fund through the OWIB • Expanded to 11 colleges in 2006 • Scaled to all 17 colleges in 2007

22. Leveraged/Braided Funding • Governor’s Employer Workforce Fund • WIA Incentive (awarded 4 consecutive years) • WIA Title I-B • Perkins • Community College Strategic Fund (CCSF)

23. Career Pathway Grants • Career Pathway Grants provided to colleges each biennium to build capacity and increase number of completions • Grants awarded on competitive basis 2004-2006 • For past three bienniums grants awarded to all 17 colleges (2007-09, 2009-11, 2011-13; 2013-2015) • Grants focus on goals & strategies to build capacity & increase completion outcomes • Funding: WIA Title I-B, WIA Incentive Grants, Governor’s EWTF, Perkins, CC Strategic Fund

24. Career Pathway Marketing & Communications • Communications Plan 2007 • Colleges develop roadmap concept and develop Webtool (open source) • Roadmaps linked to MyPathCareers & OLMIS Occupational Report accessible to job seekers • Glossary developed • Each college develops specific Career Pathways materials • Each college has a Career Pathways webpage accessible through www.MyPathCareers.org/cp

25. Career Pathway Roadmap Webtool • Alliance collaborated to design Career Pathways Roadmap Webtool • More than 350 roadmaps and high school to community college plans of study online • Lane CC hosts server and training/technical assistance funded by CCWD; Effie Siverts • http://oregon.ctepathways.org (guest login) • Open Source • Adopted by state of Washington

28. Career Pathway Marketing & Communications • 30 second TV/radio spot statewide -6 months • Here’s link: • http://www2.clackamas.edu/pathways/ • 90 second video by Lane Community College: • Here’s link: • http://lanecc.edu/pathways • MyPathCareers brochure & Roadmaps “card”

30. Green Career Pathways • Partnership with Oregon Employment Department • Statewide Career Pathways roadmaps: all courses, certificates, degrees at 17 community colleges & apprenticeship programs • Includes industry resources and occupational competencies • Occupations include: Wind Technician, Solar manufacturing/installation, HVAC, Energy Efficiency, Construction/Carpentry, Manufacturing, Utility Line Workers, Water/Waste Water Operator • www.oregongreenpathways.org

31. Program of Study Templates (POSTs) • Visual chart/roadmap of high school to community college articulations identify courses 9th-12th grade through CC CTE program certificates and degrees. • More than 400 POSTs developed by community colleges & high schools • Currently developing a POST statewide access website (in development): ready March 2015 • http://post.ctepathways.org

32. POSTs continued • POST development varies by college/region • Focused capacity building and leadership: Rogue, Lane, SOCC, MHCC • MHCC currently developing 75 POSTs with area high schools and training high school counselors • http://www.mhcc.edu/cteconsortium/ • http://www.roguecc.edu/Programs/CareerPathways/HS/ • http://www.socc.edu/collegenow/pgs/high-schools/indix.shtml

35. CCWD Website • www.oregon.gov/CCWD (Click on Student Success; then click on Career Pathways) OR • https://ccwd.oregon.gov/studentsuccess/SSdocs.aspx?p=3&h=19 • List/reports of Career Pathway & Less Than One Year Certificates by college & by career area • Pathways Descriptive Study 2013

36. Policy Direction Drives Increased Completions • State Board of Education approved Career Pathway Certificate (CPCC) effective July 1, 2007. • CTE program Certificates tied to competencies for jobs in local labor market & approved by employers • More than 350 Career Pathway Certificates offered statewide (12-44 credits) • More than 100 Less Than One Year (LTOY) Certificates offered already offered statewide (12-44 credits) • Average number of credits for certificates: 22 • More than 7,600 certificates have been awarded since 2008 • Pathways Descriptive Study of initial cohort of completers released March 2013; second study underway

37. Stackable Credentials • Career & Technical Education (CTE) • Occupations in six career focus areas • Short-term certificates (12-44 credits): • Career Pathway Certificates (CPCC) • Less Than One Year Certificate (LTOY)

38. Dual Credit Dual credit is defined as awarding secondary and postsecondary credit for a course offered in high school during regular schools hours, as determined by local school board and community college policy. Courses can be academic or CTE (Career & Technical Education).

39. CLASP Alliance for Quality Career Pathways • Ten states and Center for Law and Social Policy including Oregon & Wisconsin • National framework for Career Pathways definitions, criteria, and metrics

40. Q&A World Café & Conversation Cafe

41. For More Information… Mimi Maduro Pathways Initiative Statewide Director Oregon Department of Community Colleges & Workforce Development (CCWD) 541-506-6105 mmaduro@cgcc.edu