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WTCS Certificates Workgroup Update. Northcentral Technical College October 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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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WTCS CertificatesWorkgroup Update
Northcentral Technical CollegeOctober 2, 2013
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WTCS Certificates Workgroup
• Agenda–Review Objective of Workgroup–Review Current Definitions• Certificates• Career Pathways• Embedded Technical Diploma
–Discuss Next Steps–Other
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WTCS Strategic Directions
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WTCS Strategic Directions
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Act 20: Performance-Based Funding
Criteria 2:
“Number of degrees and certificates awardedin high-demand fields.”
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Current Certificate Types (ESM 2.70.1)
• Local Certificate • Advanced Technical Certificate (ESM 7.10.1)
• WTCS Pathway Certificate (ESM 4.10.7)
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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
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Multi-purpose
• Career Exploration• Provide “advanced” skills• Used to “test the waters” in new and
emerging program areas• Stackable credential within a Career Pathway
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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.
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Career Pathways
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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.
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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.
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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
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Embedded Technical Diploma
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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
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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