Vocational Education Leadership The Silverado Resort Institute 2010

Vocational Education Leadership The Silverado Resort Institute 2010 Napa, CA

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Setting the stage ….

Setting the stage …. ?

The Colleges • 2008/09 Enrollment of 2, 913, 735 But shrinking

Green Is getting bigger

But Green is changing

How Green is changing

How Green is changing

Energy

“Health” – occupational opportunity

TROUBLES

Furloughs & staffing shortages

ARRA Funds not lifeboat we thought

ARRA funds $120 M

ARRA funds $37 M

ARRA funds $35 M

ARRA funds @ LWIB

Perkins Audits – Supplanting

Perkins Audits – Supplanting Modifications to plans

But CTE is looming large Jobs, Jobs

Growing recognition of workforce issues http: //www. ucop. edu/ a-g. Guide/ag/ special_resources/ career_tech. html

High School CTE & college admissions http: //www. schoolsmoving up. net

The California conundrum

New State Legislative Session • • 26 bills + various hearings Board of Governors Sponsored Bills - 3 Job Creation bills: 3 Nursing: 3 Student Transfer: 3 Workforce Training: 3 Financial Aid/Student Fees: 8 Misc. 3

Federal Legislation

Obama Administration CC Initiative • "American Graduation Initiative" Increase number of degree and certificate attainees in community colleges by 5 million over the next ten years • $9 billion in competitive grants to community colleges and states over ten years • $10 billion loan fund to expand community college facilities • $50 million to expand online learning option

Obama Administration CC Initiative • "American Graduation Initiative" Increase number of degree and certificate attainees in community colleges by 5 million over the next ten years • $9 billion in competitive grants to community colleges and states over ten years • $10 billion loan fund to expand community college facilities • $50 million to expand online learning option

To increase number of degree and certificate attainees in community colleges by 5 million over the next ten years Persistence issues will matter

Persistence • What’s going on? Could research untangle the variables? • The greater context – k-12 and other factors • Motivations for enrollment – incumbent workers and reverse transfer students

AB 2682 (Block) Pilot on centralized assessment

Persistence Confounding variables? • Course taking patterns – versus impaction • Choke points – maybe contextual solutions

Obama Administration CC Initiative • "American Graduation Initiative" Increase number of degree and certificate attainees in community colleges by 5 million over the next ten years • $9 billion in competitive grants to community colleges and states over ten years • $10 billion loan fund to expand community college facilities • $50 million to expand online learning option

CCC connections with fed policy and legislation

Dr. Martha Kanter Under Secretary, US Department of Education Dr. Frank Chong Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges in the Office of Vocational and Adult Education and You

CCCCO to visit DC March 2010 • Legislative Priorities • Bills we’ll discuss today • Transfer issues

Perkins • Re-authorization – Themes – The New Vision for CTE – high school reform? – What Does It Mean To Be College and Career Ready? – OVAE's Program of Study Initiatives – CTE and the Common Core Standards Initiative • Tech-Prep

Workforce Investment Act • S. 777 - Strengthening Employment Clusters to Organize Regional Success Act of 2009 – Supply & Demand issues – high level Econ. Dev. , but where’s skill acquisition? • Re-authorization testimony – Focus on need for skill acquisition

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) • CCC system actions to date • Ties to H. R. 2847 "Jobs for Main Street Act, 2010"

On the horizon? ? ? H. R. 2847 "Jobs for Main Street Act, 2010“ $154 billion package, includes $75 B from TARP Indirect & direct benefits to CCCs $23 billion Education Jobs Fund

On the horizon? ? ? H. R. 3221 -- The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 American Graduation Initiative

On the horizon? ? ? Elementary and Secondary Education Act (recent re-authorization - NCLB) • President Obama Proposes College- and Career-Ready Goals for ESEA - February 22

On the horizon? ? ? HR 4196 Community College Emergency Stabilization Fund Act No funding level at the moment; Jobs Bill better shot? - AACC

On the horizon? ? ? H. R. 3731 (Rep. Ben Lujan) - Community College Energy Training Act of 2009 S. 1614 (Sen. Schumur) - Community College Technology Access Act S. 1714 (Sen. Richard Durbin) Open College Textbook Act of 2009

California Community Colleges 2010 Federal Legislative Priorities • H. R. 3221 -- The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 • Help Veterans Succeed in College and Life by Supporting a Systemwide Appropriations Request • H. R. 2847 – Jobs for Main Street

What you can do 1. Recognize coming priorities and themes and prepare for competitive funding 2. Engage in advocacy for California’s priorities

• In any case, California is not imploding, which ought to be heartening to Americans regardless of ideology or geography. • It's progressive more in the literal than in the political sense of the word. • And it's where America is going: a greener, more advanced and more global economy; a browner and more metropolitan population; and, yes, some staggering debts and other governance problems that need to be resolved. It's expensive and crowded — because people still want to be there! — and it's recovering from an economic earthquake. But it continues to have a powerful claim on the future. "In the depths of the breakdown, you can see the next narrative, " says Mark Muro of the Brookings Institution's metropolitan-policy program. "It's California. The next economy is already in place there, and it's amazing. "

What the Brits say: But the state remains a leader in green energy, biotechnology, aerospace and other industries that are expected to fare well in the world economy and create new job markets.

Vocational Education Leadership The Silverado Resort Institute 2010 Napa, CA