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Recovering from the Great

Recession – Role of Community

CollegesNCSL Legislative SummitJuly 27, 2010

Vickie Choitz

Senior Policy Analyst

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• Why is it important to the recovery for community

colleges to train and retrain workers – especially

those who are lower skilled and lower income?

• Examples of community college innovations from

Shifting Gears

• Policy levers to support community college

innovations and serving lower skilled, lower

income adult students

• Leveraging federal funds

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Source: Carnevale, Anthony P., et al, Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018, June 2010

4Source: Carnevale, Anthony P., et al, Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018, June 2010

5Source: Carnevale, Anthony P., et al, Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018, June 2010

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• Carnevale analysis finds a deficit of 3 million

degrees by 2018. To meet this demand:

Degree production would have to increase by about

10% per year.

OR

Economy will need to slow demand for postsecondary

education.

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Degree Shortfalls in 2025 in States if Adults Are Not Educated

Source: CAEL and NCHEMS, Adult Learning in Focus, 2008

"Reaching a level of international competitiveness by 2025 is not possible for the U.S. and 32 states if the only focus on the traditional pipeline. They must rely on the re-entry pipeline - getting older adults back into the education system and on track to attaining college degrees."

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• Risk factors:

Age

Working full-time

Attending school part-time

Juggling family, work, and school

Low college-ready skills and English

• At community colleges, only 30-40% of adults

complete any credential or degree within 6 years

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Problem Solution Ideas SG State Examples

Too few lower skilled adults completepostsecondarycredentials

Focus: Create new paths tocredentials and careers• “Chunk” diploma and degreeprograms into shorter modules

• Prioritize career pathways in high demand occupations and sectors

• Offer wider variety of places,days, and times for classes

• Deliver instruction moreflexibly, combining distanceand classroom learning

Wisconsin RISECareer Pathways

Indiana College forWorking Adults

Illinois Shifting GearsBridges

In planning or pilot phase:

Minnesota FastTRAC,Ohio Shifting Gears

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Problem Solution Ideas SG State Examples

Too few basic skillsstudents transitionto and completepostsecondaryprograms

Focus: Connect basic skillsinstruction to college andcareer success• Combine adult basiceducation, workforcereadiness, and technicaleducation• Contextualize basic skills andEnglish language content• Coordinate instruction, i.e., team teaching by basic skills and tech education instructors• Adult dual enrollment• Link educational offerings

IL SG Bridges

Bridge Instruction inWI RISE Career Pathways

IN Embedded Skills Pilots

Planning/pilot:MN FastTRAC

MI No WorkerLeft Behind: Everybody In!

OH Shifting Gears

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• Leadership and Agenda Setting

• Funding

Institutions

Students

• Regulations

• Data and Accountability

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• Learn more about community colleges, adult

educational attainment, and adult students

• Raise awareness of the need to educate adults–

especially lower skilled adults–in your state

• Convene key agencies and leaders in your state to

develop a common vision and strategies for

success

• Include adults in any college completion agenda

• Set goals and measure progress, e.g., KY

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• Maintain/Increase funding for community colleges,

e.g., 20 states in FY07 – FY09

• Strengthen community colleges as key players in

the state’s economic development strategy

Differential funding, e.g., PA

Sector strategies, i.e., MI Skill Alliances

• Fund for outcomes not just inputs/enrollment, e.g.,

WA Student Achievement Initiative

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• Create Adult-focused state student financial aid

Include less-than-half-time students

Design aid formulas for working adult budgets

Include indirect expenses

Provide aid for noncredit linked to credit

Design TANF-based aid programs, e.g., KY and ME

• Fund support services, e.g., WA Opportunity

Grants and MN Postsecondary Childcare Grant

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• Incentivize career pathways and bridge

approaches

• Remove barriers to approval of modularized,

accelerated, contextualized, and integrated

courses and programs

• Incentivize linkages between non-credit and credit

• Incentivize employer-responsive and regional

sectoral approaches

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• Analyze progress at key transition points; use data

to improve programs

• Set goals and measure progress, e.g., KY

• Fund institutions based on outcomes, not just

inputs/enrollments, e.g., WA Student Achievement

Initiative

• Include adults and adult education and workforce

data points in State Longitudinal Data Systems

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• Funding Career Pathways and Career Pathway

Bridges: A Federal Policy Toolkit for States

Overview of career pathways and bridges

Summaries of 10 federal programs that can support

states in developing/sustaining the model

Funding options worksheet

o State teams complete worksheet according to their state-

specific regulations and governance

o Includes key tasks associated with designing, implementing,

and sustaining the model

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• Vickie Choitz: vchoitz@clasp.org; 202-906-8048

• CLASP: www.clasp.org

• Carnevale study: http://cew.georgetown.edu/jobs2018/

• CAEL and NCHEMS Adult Learning report: State-by-State: http://www.cael.org/pdf/State_Indicators_Monograph.pdf

• State-by-state education attainment gap data: http://registration.jff.org/Documents/Adding_It_Up.pdf

• Lumina Foundation state reports: http://www.luminafoundation.org/research/state_data/index.html

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• State adult student aid programs: http://www.jff.org/publications/education/pushing-envelope-state-policy-innovation/177

• Maine Parents as Scholars aid program: http://www.mejp.org/pas/index_html

• CLASP federal funding toolkit: http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=0762&list=publications

• Shifting Gears initiative: http://www.shifting-gears.org/