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California Community Colleges Contribution to Jobs and the Economy. Division Strategy - DRAFT Van Ton-Quinlivan Vice Chancellor, Workforce & Economic Development vtquinlivan@cccco.edu Draft as of 1/15/2012. Our National Crisis: “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” .
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California Community Colleges Contribution to Jobs and the Economy Division Strategy - DRAFT Van Ton-Quinlivan Vice Chancellor, Workforce & Economic Development vtquinlivan@cccco.edu Draft as of 1/15/2012 California Community Colleges – Chancellor’s Office | 112 Colleges | 72 Districts | 2.6 Million Students
Our National Crisis: “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” Clinton Global Initiative – America (June 2011)Do we have a structural skills mismatch? California Community Colleges – Chancellor’s Office | 112 Colleges | 72 Districts | 2.6 Million Students 2
Jobs and the Economy Weigh Heavily on Californian Minds “Thinking about the state as a whole, what do you think is the most important issue facing people in California today?” Source: Public Policy Institute of California , Californians & Their Government, September 2011, page 7. California Community Colleges – Chancellor’s Office | 112 Colleges | 72 Districts | 2.6 Million Students
Are Community Colleges Part of the Solution? Division Goals: • Supply in-demand skills for employers • Create relevant pathways and stackable credentials • Get Californians into open jobs • Ensure student success California Community Colleges – Chancellor’s Office | 112 Colleges | 72 Districts | 2.6 Million Students 4
Are Community Colleges Part of the Solution? LOCAL DECISION MAKING REGIONAL ECONOMIES Division Goals: • Supply in-demand skills for employers • Create relevant pathways and stackable credentials • Get Californians into open jobs • Ensure student success STATE FOCUS ON COMPETITIVE AND EMERGING SECTORS California Community Colleges – Chancellor’s Office | 112 Colleges | 72 Districts | 2.6 Million Students 5
DOING What Matters ™ for Jobs & the Economy Four prongs. Two-year campaign. California Community Colleges – Chancellor’s Office | 112 Colleges | 72 Districts | 2.6 Million Students | Van Ton-Quinlivan vtquinlivan@cccco,edu
Skill panels as a standard process • ROLLOUT • CCCCO designates a sector navigator, if needed, to coordinate complexity • Inventorycommunity college assets where there is expertise/capabilities/capacity to address labor market need • Identify the partners: employers, unions, regions, agencies (CDE, CC, CSU, UC, CWIB, local WIBs, ETP, EDD, etc.), other • Convene partners into skills panel to beget these deliverables: • Model curriculum definition/approval • Define career pathway or systems of stackable credential articulation, including contextualized basic skills • Map to career readiness assessment • Insert career guidance module into CACareerCafé.com and WhoDoUWant2B.com • Propose funding framework to build out blueprint (RFA should include common metrics) SCAN Identify unmet labor market need California Community Colleges – Chancellor’s Office | 112 Colleges | 72 Districts | 2.6 Million Students 7
Discussion Questions California Community Colleges – Chancellor’s Office | 112 Colleges | 72 Districts | 2.6 Million Students Clarifications? Can this 4-part campaign, if done well, achieve the Goals? What must happen to increase the likelihood of success? Which stakeholders need to be involved to increase the likelihood of success? What does this campaign mean for you?