Community Colleges 101

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Community Colleges 101
A Guide to Navigating and Accessing the Community
Colleges
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Agenda

• Introductions
• Overview of Session
• Background
• Survey Results
• Foreign Languages
• Funding
• Types of Delivery
• Access Points to the Colleges
• What do we do next?

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Background

• ARRA Funding
• TEGL 14-08
• Chancellor Jack Scott
• Examples that work
• How do we replicate effective practices?
• Efforts to date

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Survey Results
Whats working in your collaboration with
community colleges?

• Good relationships, joint problem solving
• Quality services by the college (curriculum
  development, links to employers)
• Customized training

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Survey Results
What is the most challenging thing about working
with community colleges?

• Mismatched timeframes (semester system, lengthy
  curriculum development)
• Lack of funding
• Bureaucracy (different practices, lack of WIA
  knowledge)
• Universal access, HR issues, regional program
  differences, ETPL issues

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Survey Results
How can we help you with that challenge?

• Open communication about CC and WIB bureaucratic
  processes
• WIB 101 for colleges
• CCC 101 for WIBs

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Foreign Languages

• Career Technical EducationCTE
• Occupational Education
• Vocational Education
• Workforce Development
• Economic Workforce DevelopmentEWD
• Contract Education
• Industry-specific Initiatives
• Delivery to Business

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Foreign Language (continued)

• WIBs say
• Customers/clients/job seekers
• Customized training
• Community
• Placement
• Outcomes
• Successjobs
• Labor market research
• Career ladder

• Colleges say
• Students
• Contract Education
• District boundaries
• Outcomes
• Graduation
• Successdegree/cert/transfer
• Industry scans
• Career ladder

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Foreign Languages (cont.)

• And then theres
• FTES
• Cap
• Credit
• Non-credit
• Not-for-credit
• Curriculum approval process

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Community College Funding

• FTESFull Time Equivalent Student
• Funding based on FTES enrollments and paid
  through apportionment
• Colleges have a cap on the FTES they can generate
• Enrollment above cap is not funded
• Colleges below cap looking for students to fill
  credit classes
• Colleges above cap dont want more students
• Only credit and non-credit generate apportionment
• Contract Education must generate revenue and
  recover all costs (no State support)

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Types of Credit

• Credit
• Degree applicable
• 26 fee per unit (California residents only)
• Standard catalog offerings
• Non-credit
• Non-degree applicable
• No fees for individual student
• Colleges receive less funding per FTES
• Basic Skills, ESL, Study Skills

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Types of Credit (cont.)

• Degrees and Certificates
• AA/AS Include General Education
• Certificates Core courses
• Not-for-credit
• No state support, fee for service
• Funding options client paid, ETP, WIB, grants

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Curriculum Approval

• Credit/Non-credit
• Faculty driven
• Education Code Title 5 requirements
• Curriculum Committee Processes
• Program Approval Handbook (System)
  http//www.cccco.edu/Portals/4/pcah_032009.pdf
• Not-for-credit
• Off-the-shelf
• Customized existing curriculum
• New customized

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Accessing the Colleges

• Individual WIB Clients
• Assessment Centers, Counseling, Financial Aid,
  EOPS, Veterans, Admissions
• Specific Program Areas
• Counseling, Department Deans
• Full class of participants for one subject
• Department Deans, Contract Education
• Responding to Industry Need
• Contract Education, Department Deans

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Types of Delivery

• On-campus regular semester classes
• Open-entry, open-exit
• Short-term, accelerated courses
• Contract Education
• Business supported, on-site
• WIB supported
• Credit/Not-for-Credit

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Client Delivery Options

• Credit
• Open enrollment
• Closed enrollments
• Not-for-credit
• Contracts for training and services
• Fees for service
• Fee-based
• Individual pays Community/Continuing Ed

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More Survey

• anything else helpful for us to know?
• Continue to build trust through good
  communication
• Clarify and align contracting and cost
  requirements
• Hold joint LWIB-CC meetings regularly
• Open communication about CC and WIB bureaucratic
  processes

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College Survey

• What would help you work with WIBs?
• Improved partnerships better understanding of
  each others bureaucracies
• Clear communication
• Streamline processes
• Flexible federal/state/local guidelines
• Have a business or workforce development plan

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Stump the Colleges

• Questions for the Colleges
• Follow-up required
• Where do we go from here?

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Resources

• Local College Websites
• Community College Chancellors Office
  www.ccco.edu
• Economic Workforce Development www.cccewd.net
  
• WIB Toolkit http//wibtoolkit.net
• Trish Caldwell trishcccwib_at_gmail.com
• Catherine Swenson cswenson_at_cccewd.net