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Recommendation 1: Set a statewide goal for increasing adult credential attainment

Recommendation 1: Set a statewide goal for increasing adult credential attainment Develop a plan to reach that goal Measure (and fund) progress, including “momentum points”. Recommendation 2: Expand the FastTRAC Initiative Statewide. www.mnfasttrac.org. three-quarters

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Recommendation 1: Set a statewide goal for increasing adult credential attainment

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  1. Recommendation 1: Set a statewide goal for increasing adult credential attainment Develop a plan to reach that goal Measure (and fund) progress, including “momentum points”

  2. Recommendation 2: Expand the FastTRAC Initiative Statewide www.mnfasttrac.org

  3. three-quarters of all students are “non-traditional” half of all students seeking associates degrees need remediation 9 percent of these students graduate in 3 years Source: Complete College America. Figures are for U.S.

  4. 34 FastTRAC programs on 20 campuses Healthcare, manufacturing, education, trades, business 88 percent success rate in credit-bearing courses.

  5. Minnesota FastTRAC(Training, Resources and Credentialing) Building Adult Career Pathways for the Non-Traditional Learner**Nontraditional learners are students who have one or more of the following characteristics: has delayed postsecondary enrollment, attends college part-time, works full time while in school, is financially independent, is a single parent, and/or has no high school diploma or GED. Center for American Progress/CAEL, 2010

  6. Adult Career Pathways “A series of connected educational and training programs that allow students to advance over time to successively higher levels of education and employment in a given sector.” Davis Jenkins, Community College Research Center

  7. Adult Career Pathways • Each “chunk” connected to the next • Programs target jobs in industries that are important to local and regional economies • Involve collaborations among local educators, workforce development professionals, employers, and community based organizations to design and implement • Provide support services that address the needs of working learners

  8. Minnesota FastTRACAdult Career Pathway POST-SECONDARY CREDENTIAL INTEGRATED INSTRUCTION BRIDGE PREP BRIDGE I BRIDGE II INTEGRATED SUPPORT SYSTEMS Core Literacy + Employability Skills Career Exploration College Readiness

  9. Leadership • Re-purpose and Braid Existing Resources: • Federal ABE (WIA Title II and WIA title IB) • WIA Incentive Funds • TANF • Perkins • United Way • EL Civics • State ABE funds • Joyce Foundation

  10. Co-location (silo-busting) Program and Policy Reform ABE is a co-location partner with 17 of the 25 Minnesota Public Community and Technical Colleges. Minnesota’s ABE programs are on 26 of their 44 campuses.

  11. Program and Policy Reform • Additional policy and systems change efforts: • EL/Civics Grant Programs • Regional Transition Coordinators • Data – sharing, tracking • Professional Development • WIB involvement • State level FastTRAC staffing

  12. Sustained Collaboration and Funding

  13. Collaboration and Funding • Importance of data around transition measures • FastTRAC committees of stakeholders • Continuing braiding of common client fund sources • ABE funding formula changes • Legislative re-purposing of key state funds • Centralized oversight

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