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Moving Beyond Degrees: Why Competency is
Currency
Michael BettersworthTexas State Technical College
November 17, 2010TWC
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: CollegeGrad.com. College graduates moving back home in larger number. 22 July 2009!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
U.S. Credit Card Debt$826.5 billion
U.S. Student Loan Debt$829.785 billion
An estimated “$300 billion in federal student loan debts have been incurred in the last four years...”
2007 Sub-Prime MortgageBalance: $1.3 Trillion
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: Cronin, Joseph & Horton, Howard. Will higher education be the next bubble to burst? The Chronicle of Higher Education. May 22, 2009.
“There is a growing sense among the public that higher education might be overpriced and under-delivering.”
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: Business Roundtable, New survey reveals obstacles to training and education are threatening U.S. competitiveness and worker prosperity. October 8, 2009
And yet...
“American workers’ unmet need for further education and training is exacerbating today’s unemployment problem and portending long-term trouble for workers and businesses -- even after the economy recovers.”
-Business Roundtable
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The War on Work
The Education Dichotomy
The Higher Ed Imbalance
Measuring What Counts
Moving Beyond Degrees
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
“...the collective effect [...] has been this marginalization of lots and lots of jobs. And I realized [...] to me the most important thing to know and to really come face to face with is the fact that I got it wrong about a lot of things.”
“We have declared War on
Work”
Mike Rowe, Dirty JobsSource: TED Speech, December 2008.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
There is much talk of “diversity” in education, but not much accommodation of the kind we have in mind when we speak about the quality of a man, or a woman: the diversity of disposition.!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: Dreher, Rod. The soft bigotry of high expectations. The Dallas Morning News. May 29, 2009.
Rod Dreher
“We have come to see labor as something we do in exchange for money and not as an expression of our intrinsic nature. Many a white-collar man works hard but lives in a world of soul-killing abstraction, where what he does, what he feels and who he is have little to do with one another.”
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: The new competition for america’s jobs. Trends Magazine. June 2010.
Up to 3 million highly-skilled technical positions remain unfilled as of June 2010.
This “War on Work” has led to the devaluation of certain career and educational
pursuits.
How did we get here?
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The War on Work
The Education Dichotomy
The Higher Ed Imbalance
Measuring What Counts
Moving Beyond Degrees
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
65%
20% 15%Skilled “Labor”“Professional”Unskilled “Labor”
“Cubicles” “Fries with that?”
“Experts”“Craftsmen”
“Developers”
“Skilled”
“Technicians”“Engineers”
“Paid”“Hired”
New Model - Still Off
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Laser Optics
Laser Electro Optic Devices • Continuous Wave Lasers • Pulsed lasers • Thin Films • Vacuum Technology • Geometrical and Wave Optics
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Instrumentation & Process Control
Proportional, Integral and Derivative Control • Loop Tuning Control Loop Systems • Computerized Control Systems (Allen Bradley & Siemens) • Wonderware Graphics Fronts • Delta V systems • MechatronicsWednesday, November 17, 2010
Mechanical Engineering
Materials Classification • Non-Destructive Testing • Alloying • Plastics • Polymers • Composites • Advanced CNC • Tools & Fixtures • Electrical Theory • Materials Strength • Fluid Mechanics & Applications • Machine Design • • 3D Solid Modeling • CAD/CAM • Physics • Statistics • Welding Processes • GTAW • GMAW • SMAWWednesday, November 17, 2010
Nanotechnology
Nanotech Characteristics • Image characterization • Nanotech Processes • Scanning Electron Microscopy • Atomic Force Microscopy • Transmission Electron Microscopy • Class 100 Clean Room • Continuous Wave • Pulsed Laser • Geometrical Optics • Wave Optics • Semiconductor ManufacturingWednesday, November 17, 2010
Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Research
“CASPER”
Hypervelocity Impacts and Dusty Plasmas Lab & Space Science Lab (SSL) are supplied with full time technical support using TSTC faculty and students with CASPER's technical support staff. National laboratory model with Baylor/TSTC.Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: Hacker, A & Dreifus, C. Are colleges worth the price of admission. The Chronicle of Higher Education. July 11, 2010.
Higher education must serve all of these segments; however, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, “colleges are taking on too many roles and doing none of them well.”
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The War on Work
The Education Dichotomy
The Higher Ed Imbalance
Measuring What Counts
Moving Beyond Degrees
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
“Over the next ten years, 26 of the top 30 fastest growing jobs will require some post-secondary education or training...The demand for skilled workers is outpacing supply, resulting in attractive, high-paying jobs going unfilled.”
Emily Stover DeRoccoPresident, The Manufacturing Institute, National Center for the American WorkforceFormer Assistant Secretary of Labor for Education and Training
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Therefore, it is reasoned, we must increase college
graduation rates. In Texas we call this, “Closing the Gaps.”
What Gaps Are We Closing?
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27500
55000
82500
110000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Texas Public Two-Year Colleges AwardsTexas Public Four-Year Universities Awards
College graduation is increasing in Texas.That’s a good thing.
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Technical awards are flat/declining.Academic awards are now the most common.
This is incongruent with job demand.0
12500
25000
37500
50000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Texas Technical Public Two Year AwardsTexas Academic Public Two-Year Awards
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Launchpad Fund Job Building FundCareer and TechnicalScholarship Fund
$10,000,000 $10,000,000$5,000,000
Equipment for high-demand technical
programs at two-year colleges.
Support nonprofit programs preparing low-income students
for high-demand occupations.
Scholarships for two-year college students enrolled in programs
for high-demand occupations.
The Texas JET Fund
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: McNichol, Oliff, and Johnson. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. States continue to feel recession’s impact. October 7, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: McNichol, Oliff, and Johnson. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. States continue to feel recession’s impact. October 7, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: McNichol, Oliff, and Johnson. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. States continue to feel recession’s impact. October 7, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
State budget cuts will likely lead tofurther reductions in technical training
capacity.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The War on Work
The Education Dichotomy
The Higher Ed Imbalance
Measuring What Counts
Moving Beyond Degrees
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: House Education & Labor Committee (May 12, 2009). “High school dropout crisis threatens U.S. economic growth and competitiveness, witnesses tell house panel”. Press release. Retrieved September 23, 2009.
Nationwide, 7,000 students drop out of high school every day.
- U.S. House Education & Labor Committee
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: Bridgeland, Dilulio and Burke Morison, The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts, A report by Civic Enterprises in association with the Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Washington, DC, March 2006.
I dropped out of school because…
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: Bridgeland, Dilulio and Burke Morison, The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts, A report by Civic Enterprises in association with the Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Washington, DC, March 2006.
I could have graduated...
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One in every four students leaves college before completing sophomore year.
Source: American College Testing
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Only about 60% of Americans who enter a four-year college graduate with a
degree within six years.
Source: American College Testing
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: CollegeGrad.com. College graduates moving back home in larger number. 22 July 2009!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
“Before making any decision, prospective students should contemplate the debt levels they are willing to assume, along with realistic salary expectations after graduating.” Tom Pauken
CommissionerTexas Workforce Commission
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
“Unless we can align career and technology education with what is needed in the workforce, we will simply not be able to realize the vast potential of the Texas Energy Cluster or other high-growth sectors.”
“…I believe that our education system should make a shift to one that is market-driven and takes into account the skills needed by employers.” Tom Pauken
CommissionerTexas Workforce Commission
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
In order to affect change in these established institutions we must measure the right things and
respond accordingly.
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Activity Measurements
Performance Measurements
EnrollmentsDemographicsContact Hours
Course CompletionGraduates
Numbers of AwardsAward Levels
National Benchmarks
Placement RateEarnings
Student SatisfactionEmployer Satisfaction
New CompaniesReturn on Investment
Value to TaxpayerEfficiency
What’s Measured What Counts
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: Kelley, P., The dreaded “P” word: an examination of productivity in public postsecondary education, July 2009.
Median earnings in Alabama employment market, and certificates/degrees weighted by value to the state and individuals:
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Median earnings in Alabama employment market, and certificates/degrees weighted by value to the state and individuals:
Source: Kelley, P., The dreaded “P” word: an examination of productivity in public postsecondary education, July 2009.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
If you earn a bachelor’s degree, you will earn $1,000,000 more over the course of your life.
BUSTED
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It’s not that you study,but what you study
in relation to market demand.
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“Imagination is more important than” a TEK.
Employability is more important than a degree.
Return on investment is more important than a contract hour.
Placement is more important than enrollment.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The War on Work
The Education Dichotomy
The Higher Ed Imbalance
Measuring What Counts
Moving Beyond Degrees
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
"A university degree used to be an entree to a job.”
“Their university degree means they have a good, solid education but not necessarily something that translates easily into a job.”
Ann Buller, PresidentCentennial College
Source: Birchard, K. (2010) Canadian university graduates are going back to the classroom for vocational training. The Chronicle. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/Canadian-University-Graduates/66078/?sid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
"The colleges have become kind of a finishing school for university graduates.”
Enrollment of "postgraduate students" at Seneca College has increased at a steady rate, making up 15 percent of the full-time student body and 50 percent of the part-time population in 2009.
Rick Miner, President EmeritusSeneca College
Source: Birchard, K. (2010) Canadian university graduates are going back to the classroom for vocational training. The Chronicle. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/Canadian-University-Graduates/66078/?sid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: Zernike, K. “Making college relevant.” The New Yokr Times. January 3, 2010.!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The colleges that most students attend "need to streamline their programs, so they emphasize employability.”
Anthony P. CarnevaleDirector, Georgetown CenterGeorgetown University
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
“If educators don't provide people with employability all the other missions, the more grand missions that are talked about at colleges and universities, they are not going to achieve those either.”
Anthony P. CarnevaleDirector, Georgetown CenterGeorgetown University
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
“If you can't make people employable, they are not going to participate fully in the life of their times in this system.”
Anthony P. CarnevaleDirector, Georgetown CenterGeorgetown University
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
We must develop talent pipelines aligned with
market demand, not simply increase college completion...
..and measure performance throughout.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Traditional higher education is a linear progression built on courses, semesters, degree plans and graduation. In order to respond to the nation’s workforce
needs, we must do better.
This is a national competitiveness and national security priority.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Start
Enroll in Program
Intro to Auto
Automotive Electrical
Automotive Hydraulics
Intro to Diesel
Diesel Electrical
Diesel Hydraulics
Intro to Industrial Systems
Industrial Electrical
Industrial Hydraulics
Traditional Curriculum Model
Source: Ron Sanders, Texas State Technical Collge
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Start
Assessment
Automotive Applications Diesel Applications Industrial Applications HVAC Applications
Path
Technology CoreBasic HydraulicsBasic ElectricalBasic Controls
Mechanical PrinciplesThermodynamic Principles
Basic Computing
Core Curriculum Model
Source: Ron Sanders, Texas State Technical Collge
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Modularized curriculum with embedded certificates in
flexible schedules aligned with employer demand where student
success is defined as job placement, not simply completing
a course.
MODEL:
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Employers must develop more sophisticated competency-based talent pipeline integrations to
increase capacity.
Standard Talent Pipeline
College Career
Quality assurance of new hire is limited. Retention can suffer if bad fit. Time to full productivity delayed. Stronger candidates have been cherry picked. Insufficient volume of candidates.
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Interview
Position Full Time
Hire
Enroll
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Improved Talent Pipeline
College Career
InterviewEarly LookAdvisory Position
Quality assurance of new hire is limited. Retention can suffer if bad fit. Time to full productivity delayed. Stronger candidates have been cherry picked. Insufficient volume of candidates.
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Enroll
Full TimeHire
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Extended Talent Pipeline
College Career
InternEarly Look InterviewScholar-
shipPosition
Quality assurance of new hire is limited. Retention can suffer if bad fit. Time to full productivity delayed. Stronger candidates have been cherry picked. Insufficient volume of candidates.
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Enroll
Full TimeHireAdvisory
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Advanced Talent Pipeline
College Career
Quality assurance of new hire is limited. Retention can suffer if bad fit. Time to full productivity delayed. Stronger candidates have been cherry picked. Insufficient volume of candidates.
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Enroll
InternEarly Look Full Time
Hire
Interview
Scholar-ship
Position Co-OpAdvisory
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Sponsorship Elements
College Career
Part Time Employment
Candidate Pays Tuition
EmploymentBenefits, etc.
Reimbursed TuitionPay Remaining Tuition
2 Year Contract
Performance
Visits
Full TimeHireInterviewCo-OpAdvisory
Stronger candidates have been cherry picked. Insufficient volume of candidates.
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Enroll Intern
Scholar-ship
Position Sponsor
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Capacity Building Talent Pipeline
College
Middle School High School
Seco
ndar
yC
olle
ge
Career
Certs
Full TimeHireInterviewCo-OpSponsor
Position Scholar-ship
InternAdvisory
CompeteCampsToursCareer InterviewDual
CreditEnroll
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Workforce education is not aboutkeeping students in seats.
It’s about getting peopleout of seats and on their feet.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The War on Work
The Education Dichotomy
The Higher Ed Imbalance
Defining Student Success
Moving Beyond Degrees
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Source: Gardner, J. "Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?", p. 86 (1961)
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.
John W. GardnerPresident, Carnegie Corporation
Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Moving Beyond Degrees: Why Competency is
Currency
Michael BettersworthTexas State Technical College
November 17, 2010TWC
Wednesday, November 17, 2010