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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: [email protected]; 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/