Henry Ford Community College

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Henry Ford Community College

• The Role of Educational Institutions in the
  Creation of Green Jobs

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Key Questions

• What do we bring or what can we contribute?
• How do we partner effectively?
• What do we need?

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What Do We Bring Or What Can We Contribute?

• History/track record of career and technical
  education
• Construction Technology, Energy Technology,
  Electronics, Engineering Technology, etc.

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What Do We Bring Or What Can We Contribute?

• Academic skill building
• assessment and placement tools, remediation,
  and contextualized learning in reading and math,
  tutoring and other educational supports.

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What Do We Bring Or What Can We Contribute?

• College credits
• Certifications
• Curriculum Development

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What Do We Bring Or What Can We Contribute?

• Established relationships governmental agencies,
  business and industry, community organizations

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What Do We Bring Or What Can We Contribute?

• Infrastructure Access to full- and part-time
  faculty, articulation agreements with other
  colleges, Boards of Trustees, Advisory Boards,
  facilities and equipment

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Why Does This Matter?

• Capacity building
• College credits
• Career pathways
• Industry certifications
• Increasing access for lower-skilled workers

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Why Does This Matter?

• Increased funding opportunities
• Work with governmental rules and regulations
• Increased leverage in partnership with others

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How Do We Partner Effectively?

• Equal partnership among all stakeholders
• Early identification of roles and
  responsibilities who leads at which stage?

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How Do We Partner Effectively?

• How do we hold each other accountable?
• Use your expertise but acknowledge the expertise
  of others

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How Do We Partner Effectively?

• Joint planning on the front end
• Consensus on the goal

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What Do We Need?Change in a Large Institution

• Where are the green jobs? (Chicken and egg
  problem)
• Alternative delivery formats (nights, weekends
  and out of the classroom)

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What Do We Need?Change in a Large Institution

• Credit for prior learning
• Non-credit or Credit It is all education

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What Do We Need?Change in a Large Institution

• Not Being in charge
• Technical expertise from elsewhere Veteran
  faculty may not have the green expertise

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What Do We Need?Change in a Large Institution

• Your rules and our rules red-tape stranglehold
• Finances How do we share a smaller pie? How do
  we afford this?
• Public relations sharing a spotlight

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