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Maine College Transitions Definition

Implementing Maine College Transitions National College Transition Network November 17 and 18, 2008. Maine College Transitions Definition. Funded and supported by Department of Education and State Comprehensive Program of Study Offered through local adult education programs.

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Maine College Transitions Definition

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  1. Implementing Maine College TransitionsNational College Transition NetworkNovember 17 and 18, 2008

  2. Maine College Transitions Definition • Funded and supported by Department of Education and State • Comprehensive Program of Study • Offered through local adult education programs

  3. Why MCT/ Why Adult Education • Just 25% of Maine adults, ages 25 to 64, hold bachelor's degrees, compared with 35% of all New Englanders • Adult Education delivered in over 110 sites, 3,000 +/- High School Completion each year, continuum of services through Adult Education • 80% of the workforce in ten years is in the workforce today

  4. Program Components • Career planning & assessment • College experience • Tracking and follow up • Instruction in college preparation coursework • Accuplacer testing • Technology

  5. Maine Program models There are two emerging schedules: • Students take set classes as a group scheduled in one day, evening, or over a few days. Academic, career counseling, college life skills, and other classes are included in the curriculum (cohort) • Students select the classes, based on assessment scores, that meet their academic and career goals, with college life skills classes and academic and career counseling mandatory supports (partial cohort)

  6. Collaborations • Maine Education Opportunity Center • Post-Secondary Institutions • Maine Centers for Women, Work and Community • Maine Department of Labor CareerCenters • Others

  7. Accuplacer scores determine entrance and exit.

  8. RECRUITMENTSTRATEGIES

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