Workforce Development in California: Placement Association Conference

1. Workforce Development at and around the StateCalifornia Placement Association ConferenceFebruary 28, 2019 Tim Aldinger Foundation for California Community Colleges

2. Foundation for California Community Colleges • 20 years of service to the California Community Colleges • Official foundation of the California Community Colleges’ Board of Governors and Chancellor’s Office • Mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the California Community College system

3. For the next hour… • How is work changing… and what does that mean for our work? • Updates on statewide initiatives: • Community Colleges: • Workforce Development System • What is happening at your college?

4. The currency for labor market credibility is changing. Some of the companies no longer requiring college degrees for job applicants.

5. The pace of technology development is accelerating the atrophy of skills.

8. Is your view of the future of work utopian or dystopian? Have automation, AI or “gig economy” changed your job? How? How do you anticipate changes to the nature of work impacting your job?

9. “The Myth of the Skills Gap” “Instead of fretting about a skills gap, we should be focused on the real challenge of knitting together the supply and demand sides of the labor market. Thinking about the real financial and institutional mechanisms necessary to make, say, apprenticeships work is far more productive than perennially sounding alarms about under-skilled workers.”

10. Why Work-Based Learning? “In the context of career pathways, work-based learning plays a central role in bridging the classroom and the world of work, leading to improved educational and employment outcomes for participants.”1 1Cahill, Charlotte. Making Work-Based Learning Work. Jobs for the Future, 2016. http://www.jff.org/publications/making-work-based-learning-work

11. Work-Based Learning Continuum Activities Career Awareness Learning ABOUT Work Career Exploration Career Preparation Learning ABOUT Work Career Training Learning THROUGH Work Learning FOR Work • Informational Interview • Job Shadow • Guest Speaker • Workplace Tour • Work Experience • Internship • Internship • Apprenticeship

13. Chancellor’s Vision for Success • Increase the % of CTE students employed in field of study from 60% to 69% • Increase the % of degrees, certificates, or specific skills sets by 20% • Decrease the average # of units for degree earners from 87 to 79 • Increase the % of transfers to CSU and UC by 35% • Reduce equity and regional achievement gaps by 40% within 5 years and eliminate them within 10 years

14. “I support the vision for success by__________.”

15. Guided Pathways • Student-centered framework • Key elements • Fully-mapped programs • Basic skills integration • Structured onboarding • Course- and career-aligned instructional support • Proactive academic and career advising • Student tracking systems

17. How are you engaged in Guided Pathways planning at your college?

18. Online Community College • Fully online, independent college • Competency-based model • Career exploration and pathways • Stackable credentials • Employer partnerships • 2.5M working adults, ages 25 - 34 • $100M one-time funding; $20M ongoing • Enrollment starting Q4, 2019 • Tuition options

19. What questions do you have about the Online College?

20. Strong Workforce Program • $200M annually, over 5 years • Increase the quantity and improve the quality of CTE • Labor market demand-driven • Regionally organized • Increased accountability • Results-based funding • New Vice Chancellor: Sheneui Weber

21. How are you working with Strong Workforce Programs?

22. WIOA: California’s Big Goals • Between 2017 – 2027… • 1 million “middle-skill” industry-valued and recognized postsecondary credentials • Double the number of apprentices in the next 10 years • Governor Newsom has talked about 500,000 apprentices in California!

23. WIOA: California’s Implementation Approach • Three Objectives • Fostering “demand-driven skills attainment” • Enabling upward mobility for populations with barriers • Aligning, coordinating, and integrating programs and services • Seven Strategies • Regional partnerships • Sector strategies • Career pathways • Earn and learn • Supportive services • Integrated service deliver • Building cross-system data capacity

24. CWDB Statewide Initiatives • Happening Now… • Increasing regional plan implementation capacity • Regional Organizers • Regional Training Coordinators • AB1111 • Prison to Employment

26. Work-Based Learning Planning & Tools Pilot 4 Core objectives • Establish a common understanding of WBL • Strengthen college and regional WBL systems • Refine technologies and services that support WBL at scale • Build the evidence base for long-term investment in WBL Overview • 18-month initiative, endorsed by the CCCCO • 32 colleges participating: • 6 individual colleges • 1 community college district • 3 consortia • Facilitated by Foundation for California Community Colleges, Jobs for the Future, and others

27. Career Experience Suite: Systematizing Work-Based Learning Facilitation and Management

28. Here to Career is an easy, interactive mobile app created to help users explore careers and discover related community college programs and resources. Four unique features: • Career Quiz • Salary Surfer and EMSI Data • Geolocation • Spanish-language

29. Employer-of-record service, established in 1998 • Reduces burden and risk to employers of providing temporary paid work experience to students and job seekers • Currently supports community colleges, state agencies, private employers, and intermediaries • FY2017 impact at a glance… • Onboarded over 600 students • Participants worked over 120,000 hours • Participants earned $1.5M in wages

30. Replication and scale are possible…

32. Thank You Tim Aldinger taldinger@foundtionccc.org

33. Participating Colleges • Central/Mother Lode Regional Consortium • Bakersfield College • Clovis Community College • Fresno City College • Merced College • Modesto Junior College • Porterville College • Reedley College • San Joaquin Delta Community College • College of the Sequoias • West Hills College, Coalinga • West Hills College, Lemoore • Orange County Work-Based Learning & Job Placement Consortium • Coastline Community College • Cypress College • Fullerton College • Golden West College • Irvine Valley College • North Orange Continuing Education • Saddleback College • Santa Ana College • Santiago Canyon College • Individual Colleges • Chaffey College • College of the Canyons • East Los Angeles College • Pasadena City College • Rio Hondo College • West Valley College • Ventura County Community College District • Moorpark College • Oxnard College • Ventura College • North Far North Regional Consortium • Butte College • Feather River College • Shasta College

34. Work-Based Learning Pilot: Two Phases Phase I Phase II

35. CareerXP is a work-based learning management platform designed to support the management of quality work-based learning experiences: • Broking WBL experiences; job shadows, internships, student jobs, etc. • Guiding students through preparing robust profiles • Engaging employers to provide work-based learning opportunities • Reporting to help track outcomes and efficacy of your program for pilot and Strong Workforce requirements

36. 10 WBL Activities • Guest speaker • Informational interviews • Worksite tour • Job shadow • Internships • Student jobs • Career fair • Mentor • Teacher externship • Project feedback College College District Five user types Intermediary Employer Student

37. Partnership Structures • Career Catalyst is one component of paid work experience* that works in concert with other elements to get students into paid work • 5 different models: • College + CCCCO • College + Philanthropy • Employer-led • Employer-led apprenticeship • Workforce System * Important Note: Career Catalyst supports both for-credit CWE-eligible experiences as well as non-CWE experiences

38. Are there students ready for the paid work experience? • Who is responsible for finding the students? • Who will provide ongoing oversight of student performance, employer satisfaction, hours worked? Elements of a paid work experience program • Are there employer sites to host the experience? • Who is responsible for securing the sites? • Is the host employer paying the wages? • If not, has funding been secured to pay the wages? • Who will be legally responsible for the contract with the employer of record? • Is the host employer serving as the employer of record? • If not, what entity will be the employer of record?

39. Identified by Saddleback College Faculty/Staff College + CCCCOPartner: Saddleback# of Students: 6Average Hours/Student: 164Duration of Project: 5 months Saddleback College Faculty/Staff & JPL Staff NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Identified by Saddleback College Faculty/Staff CTE Incentive Funding (CCCCO) Saddleback College Foundation/ Career Catalyst

40. Identified by CCCMaker College Faculty/Staff College + CCCCOPartner: CCCMaker# of Students: 800Average Hours/Student: 20*Duration of Project: 2 years* Hours being augmented by College Foundations and employer contributions CCCMaker College Faculty/Staff Maker Space; Design Firms; Building Companies; Identified by CCCMaker Faculty/Staff CCCMaker from CCCCO managed by Sierra College CCCMaker Colleges (MOU) Foundation/ Career Catalyst

41. Identified by Chaffey College Faculty/Staff College + PhilanthropyPartner: Chaffey College# of Students: 60Average Hours/Student: 400Duration of Project: 2 years Chaffey College Faculty/Staff US Steel; Intech Center. Identified by Chaffey College Faculty/Staff Irvine Foundation Grant Chaffey College Foundation Foundation/ Career Catalyst

42. Identified by CoC Faculty/Staff College + PhilanthropyPartner: CA Film Commission and College of the Canyons# of Students: 12Average Hours/Student: 75Duration of Project: 2017 – present CoC Faculty/Staff Film Production Companies California Film Commission (managed by Foundation for California Community Colleges). CoC (MOU) Foundation/ Career Catalyst

43. Identified by FRC Faculty/Staff Employer-ledPartner: US Forest Service & Feather River College# of Students: 40Average Hours/Student: 378Duration of Project: 2015- present FRC and Forest Service Faculty/Staff US Forest Service US Forest Service US Forest Service Foundation/ Career Catalyst

44. Identified by Apprenticeship Program Employer-led: ApprenticeshipPartners: IQMS, SLO Partners, SLOCOE# of Apprentices: 3Average Hours/Student: 2,008Duration of Project: 1 Year SLO Partners, SLOCOE IQMS IQMS (wages) California Apprenticeship Initiative (training) IQMS Foundation/ Career Catalyst

45. Identified by AFWD Staff Workforce SystemPartner: Alliance for Workforce Development# of Participants: 172Average Hours/Participant: 331Duration of Project: 2017 - Present AFWD Staff Public Agencies; Identified by AFWD Staff National Dislocated Worker Grant from Federal Department of Labor; WIOA Funds AFWD Foundation/ Career Catalyst

46. Looking to the Future • Ultimately, we want to… • Advance the conversation about WBL within and among colleges • Have better sense of the training and technical support colleges will need to institutionalize WBL • Look toward statewide implementation of a suite of tools to help facilitate and account for work-based learning

47. The Work-Based Learning Continuum Career Awareness Learning ABOUT Work Career Exploration Career Preparation Learning ABOUT Work Career Training Learning THROUGH Work Learning FOR Work Educational strategy that focuses on developing technical and employability skills by connecting students directly with employers

48. Labor Market WBL Marketplace Employer Student Intermediary College