$ustaining Clean Technology Workforce Education Webinar: 11/7/12

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Why?

• $1.5B spent on green training through ARRA

• Thousands of new/revised programs

• What will sustain?

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Speakers

Ray Hernandez, Dean, Science, Math & Technology, Skyline College

Aaron Wilcher, Program Coordinator,

Skyline College Celia Canfield, Founder, EcoVertex Ed Thomas, Executive Director,

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UtilityExchange.org

Overview Story of Strategy to Sustain AND GROW! a

program Ray Hernandez, Skyline College

College leadership, culture, and mission

Aaron Wilcher, Skyline College Institutionalization: from grant program to

associate’s degree

Ed Thomas, UtilityExchange.org Engaging energy and construction

industries

Celia Canfield, EcoVertex From industry feedback to curriculum: the

case of energy ESHIP, and the business case for energy

About Skyline San Mateo County Community College District 10,000+ students 42 Associate Degree Programs 52 Certificate Programs

Sustainability as Strategic Priority

Mission, Vision, Goals: To empower and transform a global community of learners

• Workforce development

• Business, community relations

• Quality/accessibility of programs &

services

• Transfer

• Degrees and Certs

• Equity

• Sustainability

Leadership - Institutional Support

• Support – Administrative – Workforce Development – Community (Advisory Board) – District Board

• Institutional Directives/Initiatives – Innovation – Strategic Plan – Certificates/Degrees – Career Advancement Academies

Program Establishment

• Plan – 3-5 Years – Ramp up – Needed Resources

• Needed Resources – Champions – Program Faculty – Coordination Time – Community – Advisory Board

Grants BOOM! From 1 course to . . . . . . Bay Area Clean Energy Careers

(BayCEC, 2008) $1.9 million DOL CBJTG, 260

participants Solar and energy efficiency

Home Energy Retrofit Occupations (HERO, 2009)

$2.5 million DOL CBJTG, 480 participants

Single family EE, business development

Grants: the good, the bad, the . . . . Opportunities

Curriculum Faculty Industry Pathways Partners Equipment/Facilities Students !

Challenges LMI Lead Time One-offs: occupational

focus

Training Design vs. A.S. Program Design • No clean division • Designed as for-credit

• Screening and recruitment: built in

pathways

• Faculty designing multiple courses with industry advisors

• HS/CBO program feeders • Adaptations to the marketplace

– market-driving curriculum in sales, marketing, finance

Energy efficiency pathway diagram for multiple courses from May 2011 faculty retreat. How do they “stack”?

From researching programs, to engagement, to submittal, to LAUNCH!

Working Groups and Curriculum Design

What Industry Can Teach College What do you do and how do you do it? What kinds of people work at your company? Labor market information: what are your hiring

needs? Are there skill gaps? Is curriculum up-to-date and serve HR needs for

skill requirements? What certifications are recognized? What policies and markets are “trending”? Will

that pose a gap in skills? Do you have curriculum or faculty for leverage?

Understand Market Needs Pulled an advisory group together from local industry players and

asked a larger group to give us survey information. Not DACUM, but getting a sense of the landscape at a higher level Idea of “Convergences” and emerging business strategy for delivering

services vis-a-vis who is getting into the household How can you do a DACUM approach when things are changing so

rapidly XFinity and smart grid solutions

Sectors

Job Functions

Leading Activities in Residential

What Industry Taught Us

Soft skills needed badly Complexity is inherent in business, in almost any industry,

and is causing convergence and academia needs to understand the dependencies and evolve as needed

Need for “critical thinkers” was a universal declaration Students need to learn about effective teamwork and

collaboration

Soft Skills As Important As Technical Skills Interdisciplinary, systems thinking Critical thinking Research skills Customer-centric orientation Team problem solving Business knowledge

A modern version of a “Renaissance” worker!!

Rate Skill Importance

Next step: Critical Look Through Industry-Specific and Entrepreneurship Lens

Evolve and determine: Are the marketing classes up to date? Reflective of social media, psychographics,

localized communication and guerilla marketing tactics? Are the business fundamentals classes teaching enough about business processes and

project management? We need to train effective workers, managers and small business owners.

Are we reflecting the strongest segments of our local communities with the right

emphasis on growth industries? Emerging industries? Can we cross pollinate in classes so industry sectors learn good business practices from

each other? Can we make sure technical students get exposed to good business communication,

basic math and business project management curriculum.

Energy

ESHIP/Small Biz Mgmt TRACK New Econ Marketing

ESHIP and Sm Biz Management

Management 100

Accounting

Business Law

Energy Efficiency

TRACK Field Mentoring

Home Performance Assessment

Home Performance Retrofitting

HVAC

Construction basics

Solar TRACK

Intro to Solar Thermal Design and Estimation

Advanced Commercial PV Finance & Sales

PV Solar Design

PV Solar Finance and Estimation

PV Installation

Fundamentals of Electronics

• Management 100 • Principles of Building Science • Intro to Solar PV Systems and Markets

Core 2 (for AS only)

(5 units)

• Business Communications • Math Analysis for Business • Energy Markets, Policies, and Industries in California

Core 1 (for AS and Certs)

(7.5 units)

• Business Plan writing and competition • Capstone project for Energy Technology

Capstone (for AS and certs)

Choice of 1

• Courses in other tracks • Special topics at the energy centers and at Skyline

Electives (for AS and certs)

The program design for associate’s and certificates as it stands

Best Practices… and Lessons Learned “It takes a village . . . .” er, a campus . . . . Advisory council at the 30k foot level and on the ground. Leverage where possible . . . The importance of connecting emerging to staple

Build in pathways to recruitment and job development. Institutionalize early and often across campus . . . . . Leverage!

Make curriculum broad…… adapt for class

Perhaps relationships can enable flexing between not-for-credit and for credit.

Creativity and Innovation Rule for curriculum and management.

Take economics and LMI and traditional “widget” approach with a grain of

salt, build in transferrable skills, connections to industry, multiple pathways.

Don’t be shy about whom you engage to design and teach!!!

Learn more at www.skylinecollege.edu/envs Contact: Aaron Wilcher, MA, MCP, Faculty Program Coordinator, Environmental Technology wilchera@smccd.edu (650) 738-4498

New Report! Green Genome How to integrate green WFD and sustainability into the college’s DNA Including free self-assessment! Release: October 1 at www.theseedcenter.org

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