Coordination with Your Local Community College

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Coordination with Your Local Community College

• A Win, Win, Win Situation
• Alan Joynson Northwest Regional ESD
• Sydney Elliott Tillamook Bay Community College

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Working with your local college is a three way
win
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Win 1 For Your Program

• - For your program it is a validation of its
  value and a help to attract serious students.

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Win 2 For the College

• - For you at the college it can mean increased
  FTEs
• Has the potential to increase enrollment in
  programs
• As well as fulfilling your mission of providing
  educational access and affordability to students.

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Win 3 For the Students

• - For our students it means they will be
  obtaining college level credit before they even
  get there, saving them money and time in the
  process of getting a degree!
• Know any students who would want college credit
  for practically free!

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Perkins Funded?

• Having a Program of Study that leads to a
  post-secondary institution will become a
  requirement by 2012.
• These things take time, start now!

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From Perkins

• A CTE Program of Study is comprised of a
  secondary component and a postsecondary component
  leading to a postsecondary certificate of
  completion (45 quarter hours ), degree or an
  industry-recognized credential.
• CTE Programs of Study must lead to occupations in
  high demand, high wage career areas (as listed at
  Regional High Demand, High Wage Occupations).
• The secondary component and postsecondary
  component may be approved separately or jointly.
  Separate approval must explicitly show the
  alignment of standards across the two educational
  levels.
• Courses within a CTE Program of Study must be
  based on, and aligned with, industry-validated
  technical and academic standards.
• CTE Program of Study content standards and
  assessment strategies must be validated by local
  or regional employers or industry groups.

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Start with the basics

• Is your current program aligned with an industry
  standard?
• Does your program lead to a High Wage, High
  Demand occupation?
• Does a local college have a program that is
  similar to yours?
• Could you tweak your curriculum to
• match up with it?
• Maybe your local college has wanted
• to start a program like yours?

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Garnering support

• You need a local industry to partner with
• Your superintendents will love to hear you are
  working on this.
• Form an Advisory Committee local industry
  partners employers.
• Who is hiring your grads now?
• Ya think the kids would like to get some college
  credit, practically for FREE!

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What the College Needs

• Develop Curriculum to meet college level outcomes
• Teacher qualifications
• Help students navigate higher education
• Registering Admitting students
• Placement testing
• Transcripts / Records

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Whats in it for the College

• FTEs
• Recruitment Retention
• Diversify student population
• Develop more Career Pathways
• Translate transcripts
• into enrollment

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College Credit for High School Students

• Dual Credit
• College Now
• Career Pathways
• Programs of Study
• Chunky Modularizations
• Expanded Options

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Articulations The Best College for Your Program

• Start with your local community college
• Try to articulate the most for your students

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The Transcript

• The culmination of all your hard work and how to
  get it into your students hands

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Getting Transcripts to the Student

• For Dual Credit
• Admit students to college
• Register students
• Instructor to give grades
• Give students a hand-out on how to access their
  grades / unofficial transcripts on-line
• Make sure students get their official transcripts
  sent to the college of their choice