WTCS Certificates Workgroup Update Northcentral Technical College October 2, 2013.
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Transcript of WTCS Certificates Workgroup Update Northcentral Technical College October 2, 2013.
WTCS CertificatesWorkgroup Update
Northcentral Technical CollegeOctober 2, 2013
WTCS Certificates Workgroup
• Agenda–Review Objective of Workgroup–Review Current Definitions• Certificates• Career Pathways• Embedded Technical Diploma
–Discuss Next Steps–Other
WTCS Strategic Directions
WTCS Strategic Directions
Act 20: Performance-Based Funding
Criteria 2:
“Number of degrees and certificates awardedin high-demand fields.”
Current Certificate Types (ESM 2.70.1)
• Local Certificate • Advanced Technical Certificate (ESM 7.10.1)
• WTCS Pathway Certificate (ESM 4.10.7)
Purposes of Certificates
• Local Certificate:– Fast response to employer needs– Courses are approved – exception codes– 3-year cycle– No reporting
• Advanced Technical Certificate:– Intended to be training beyond the approved degree– New and Emerging content– 3-year cycle– Sometimes courses displace existing program courses– GPR funded curriculum development is possible– No reporting
Multi-purpose
• Career Exploration• Provide “advanced” skills• Used to “test the waters” in new and
emerging program areas• Stackable credential within a Career Pathway
21st Century Career Pathway• American workers experience high
job turnover, holding down an average of 11 different jobs between the ages of 18 and 42.
• Developing stackable credentials that are valued by employers and credible to educators are a key ingredient in developing Career Pathways.
Career Pathways
Career Pathway Core
• A way of organizing college level occupational training as a sequence of certificates that leads adult learners in attainable steps toward better jobs and a degree or technical diploma.
• Each step improves the learner’s career and earning opportunities and provides a skill set wanted by an industry or an industry sector.
Benefits of 21st Century Career Pathway
• Encourage the building of relevant skills for today’s and tomorrow’s markets.
• Institutionalize lifelong learning as an individual and collective imperative.
• Facilitate workers’ capacity to adapt to dislocation and evolving labor markets.
The Goals of the Policy Change
• Preserve the Rigor by wholly embedding the courses
• Preserve the State Board’s role in “Approval”/”Recognition”
• Acknowledges the low financial risk/high potential benefits
• Preserve an “Employment Outcome”• Efficient process built upon the existing
approval process
Embedded Technical Diploma
Next Steps
• WTCS Certificates Work group – Will meet later this month– Review a White Paper which will inform the work
related to PBF– Later in November, early December more
definitive language will be shared
WTCS Certificate Workgroup Members
• Sheila Ruhland, MPTC• Chris Matheny, FVTC• Ann Kamps, NWTC• Patti Balacek, WTC• Amy Charles, WTCS• Annette Severson, WTCS
• Laurie Borowicz, NTC• Tanya Wasmer, LTC• Mike Carney, WTCS• Conor Smyth, WTCS• Kathy Cullen, WTCS