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

PART ONE

• Career Pathway Coordinator role• Leadership & Connectivity• Oregon Pathways Alliance: statewide peer

learning network• Career Pathway Systemic Approach:

Institutional Self-Assessment (9 dimensions)

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

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”

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

Career Pathways Systemic Approach:

Stages on the Journey:stage 1: building critical mass & shared understandingstage 2: building capacity & infrastructurestage 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.

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)

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

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

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.

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.

Higher Learning & Higher Earning in Oregon

Easing student transitions along the education continuum

Focus on demand occupations in local labor market to meet employer needs

Secondary

to postsecondary

Pre-College to

Post-secondary

(ABE/GED/ESL/DE)

Post Secondary•Open enrollment

•Dislocated & unemployed worker

•Career changers

•Skills upgrading incumbent workers

Community college

Postsecondary to

University/OUS

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

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

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

Leveraged/Braided Funding

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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).

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

Q&A

World Café & Conversation Cafe

For More Information…

Mimi Maduro Pathways Initiative Statewide DirectorOregon Department of Community Colleges & Workforce Development (CCWD)541-506-6105mmaduro@cgcc.edu