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Community and Technical Colleges & Homeland Security

Community and Technical Colleges & Homeland Security. June 2005. Prepared by: M A Campbell Michael A. Campbell Director, Center of Excellence. Community and Technical Colleges (CTCs) Mission. Offer job training programs to provide employers with skilled workforce

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Community and Technical Colleges & Homeland Security

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  1. Community and Technical Colleges & Homeland Security June 2005 Prepared by: M A Campbell Michael A. Campbell Director, Center of Excellence

  2. Community and Technical Colleges(CTCs) Mission • Offer job training programs to provide employers with skilled workforce • Provide academic transfer programs to four-year institutions • Provide adults with basic literacy skills, GED and English as a second language instruction

  3. How Many? How big? The value! • 34 CTCs in Washington • CTCs are the state’s most accessible form of Higher Education • CTCs serve nearly 500,000students per year • 46% of all CTC students enroll for job training • Over 16,300 dislocated workers enrolled in retraining programs (2003-04) • CTCs adapt curricula/programs quickly to respond market need

  4. Innovations • Online instruction is escalating. Over 61,500 students enrolled in distance learning • Running start served 15,610 high school students in 2003-04 • Two-year college enrollment is expected to increase by 31,200 by year 2012 • Video Conferencing capability state-wide

  5. CTC Locations

  6. Eleven Centers of Excellence • Geographically dispersed across the state • Each Center focuses on a targeted industry that drives economic development in Washington State • Has an established reputation for innovative, flexible, and responsive education and training that supports the targeted industry needs

  7. Infrastructure Partnerships • Information Technology • Agriculture • Allied Health Technologies • Materials Technology in Manufacturing • Power Plant Operations and Generation • Careers in Education • Construction • Marine Manufacturing and Technology • Manufacturing Excellence • Process Manufacturing • Homeland Security

  8. Emergency Responder Training • 80% of all emergency responders come from the CTC system • Registration (tracking) system in place • Courses cross all traditional and non-traditional emergency responder student populations • Currently over there are over 70 emergency responder courses serving 1750 students quarterly and over 5250 each academic year. • There are over 200 courses meeting non-traditional responder needs serving over 7000 students quarterly and 21,000 each academic year.

  9. The CTCs Traditional & Non traditional Emergency Responder Training: Added Value 500,000 Enrolled Now! Capabilities! 101,000 Needing training 400 New Police 8500 to 11000 In-service 4,000 all hazards & ODP In Service State EMD Academies CTCs Video WAOL Un-limited

  10. Related Emergency Responder Support Programs • English as a Second Language • Adult Basic Skills • Non-credit (Industry focused) • Hazmat-Environmental-Health Safety • On-line • In the work place - site specific • In the classroom • Industry safety

  11. For Credit Emergency Responder Programs • Sustainable • Creates educational pathway - Certificate to Bachelors to Masters • Assists with providing living wage workforce regionally and throughout the state

  12. HSCOE On going projects: • Skill panel • Workshops (Focus Groups-12 Disciplines • On-line courses (HAZMAT, WAOL, Kirkland, ETC • AG TERROR training partnership • FAIR employee training program under development • Federal EAR MARK Request submitted • Focus Groups • Certification research • Homeland Security course infusion across the curriculum • Model for Credit Certificate in support of an AAS • Member of Homeland Security’s sub-committee for Training and Exercises. • WAOL courses • State EMD Partnership training

  13. CTCs with DEM “can do” • Infuse Homeland Security courses into the statewide system across all disciplines • Provide self-sustaining professional/technical programs. once initial seed money starts a program, it becomes self funded • Supports displaced worker training • Provide convenient registration for all training • Provide optional delivery modalities (Blended learning): online, video-conference, traditional, mobile training • Provides assessment methods and course outcomes • Provides potential for training 250,000 new students annually • Trains to ODP, FEMA, WA-DEM to standards with outcomes and assessments

  14. Partners in Community Preparedness

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