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The Future of Employability and Living Wage The Role of the Community College

The Future of Employability and Living Wage The Role of the Community College. Presented to the Minnesota Futurists 22 August 2009 By Lorna Sherman. Introduction. Community colleges important role Provide certificates, diplomas and associate degrees to fill jobs in the middle labor market

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The Future of Employability and Living Wage The Role of the Community College

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  1. The Future of Employability and Living Wage The Role of the Community College Presented to the Minnesota Futurists 22 August 2009 By Lorna Sherman

  2. Introduction • Community colleges important role • Provide certificates, diplomas and associate degrees to fill jobs in the middle labor market • Middle-skill jobs • Require some training or education beyond high school, but less than a 4 year degree • Yet will pay family supporting wages

  3. Introduction • Community colleges • Enroll 45% of college students • Only about 50% of those succeed • Minnesota • 29 community colleges (10 in metro area) • Program examples • Veterinary tech., physical therapy assistant, dental hygienist, environmental science, protection technician, health care services, and replacement for impending retirements of large # of auto repair, welding and electrical power maintenances, construction

  4. Minnesota Department of EducationCareer Fields, Clusters and Pathways http://education.state.mn.us/mdeprod/idcplg?IdcService=GET_FILE&dDocName=034034&RevisionSelectionMethod=latestReleased&Rendition=primary

  5. Strategy, Planning and Accountability • Building evidence about employment opportunities based on career fields, clusters and pathways Distribute data sheets

  6. Cost of Living – Minnesota2006 data

  7. Cost of Living – Minnesota2006 data

  8. Cost of Living – Minnesota2006 data

  9. Community College Represents An • affordable, • accessible route • to those students who have • faced significant barriers to success

  10. Open Enrollment • Serves an essential function • To those who have attained a diploma but not on track for college level courses.

  11. Under Achievement • Is related to both • The individual • The institution

  12. MCTC Vision Minneapolis Community and Technical College has a lofty vision • to be an institution that transforms its community by educating students who are globally aware, engaged citizens, skillful at their work, and lifelong learners - and sets high expectations for student and organizational achievement. http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/home

  13. MCTC Fast Facts vs. 64% 2007-2008 http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile

  14. MCTC Fast Facts http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile

  15. MCTC Fast Facts http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile

  16. MCTC Fast Facts http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile

  17. MCTC Fast Facts http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile

  18. MCTC Fast Facts http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile

  19. MCTC Fast Facts http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile

  20. Question • What factors influenced your college success?

  21. Creating a Future of Learning • Education in a rapidly changing world • Education likely to take place outside traditional institutions

  22. Creating a Future of Learning • Shifting to a culture of creation

  23. Creating a Future of Learning • Learners will need guides who will take a fundamentally different role than the present teacher/educator • Significant cross-cultural intelligence for citizenship and economic leadership

  24. Exploring the ForcesShaping Our World • Knowledge • Technology produces new kinds of data • Advances in neuroscience • Other medical advances like replacement of body parts • Economics • Tools and knowledge of how to produce custom goods

  25. Exploring the ForcesShaping Our World • Society • A sense of community and shared world • Global society • Social networking • Organization • New generation of connected innovative people • Self • Alter your mind and body in ways we never imagined

  26. Future Jobs for Associate Degree http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/documents/HighWageandHighDemandJobsinTwinCitiesRegion2009-2019Scan.pdf?attredirects=0

  27. Conclusion • If the Community College program were more successful, it would help build human capital, narrow disparities by race and income and grow a more robust and diverse American middle class.

  28. Discussion

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