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Serving Community Colleges: Our Mission, Vision, Projects, and Activities

Serving Community Colleges: Our Mission, Vision, Projects, and Activities. Pat Stanley Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges Office of Vocational and Adult Education U.S. Department of Education. Action Plan for Higher Education. Accessibility Affordability Accountability

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Serving Community Colleges: Our Mission, Vision, Projects, and Activities

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  1. Serving Community Colleges:Our Mission, Vision, Projects, and Activities Pat Stanley Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges Office of Vocational and Adult Education U.S. Department of Education

  2. Action Plan for Higher Education • Accessibility • Affordability • Accountability A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future for Higher Education (September 2006) http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/ list/hiedfuture/reports.html

  3. OVAE’s Mission for Community Colleges Our mission is to serve as the national source for information and leadership required to improve accessibility, affordability, accountability, and quality in community college education

  4. OVAE’s Vision for Community Colleges • OVAE will assume a leadership position on all matters related to community colleges within the U.S. Department of Education and the education community at large. • OVAE will be viewed as an authority in national dialogues on high school reform, postsecondary education, adult education, workforce development and related transition strategies.

  5. OVAE’s Plan for Serving Community Colleges Goal #1 To establish widespread public support for community colleges as centers of innovation and providers of superior education and training that are affordable and accessible to all Americans.

  6. OVAE’s Plan for Serving Community Colleges Goal #2 To serve as a portal for timely and actionable guidance on community college education for teachers, administrators, students, parents and employers.

  7. OVAE’s Plan for Serving Community Colleges Goal #3 To develop a structure and culture within the U.S. Department of Education that values and promotes the role of community colleges in postsecondary education.

  8. OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges • CCTI ▪16 career clusters to 81 pathways • Pathways ▪ Multiple entry points, postsecondary “chunks” • STEM • Community College Curriculum Project

  9. Secretary’s Higher Education Summits • Aligning K-12 and Higher Education Expectations, Pre K-16 Councils • Serving Adults and Nontraditional Students • Increasing Need-Based Financial Aid • Enhancing Affordability, Decreasing Costs, and Promoting Productivity • Using Accreditation to Support Student Learning Outcomes

  10. OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges Virtual SummitJune 28, 2007 • 2 to 4 yr transition – cost of higher education including costs of developmental education • Adult and non-traditional Students • Accountability • Leadership

  11. OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges Exploratory Meeting Sept. 20, 2007, Washington, D.C. • Independent Study of Nursing • Institute of Medicine • Support • “Historic Day for Nursing”

  12. OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges “Issues That Matter” • Fostering Career Pathways in High Growth Industries Nov. 7, 2007, Washington D.C. • Integrating Developmental Education Workforce Development Institute Jan. 23, 2008, New Orleans, LA • Establishing Statewide Articulation Agreements Innovations Conference March 1, 2008 Denver, CO • Serving Low Literacy Adults April 21, 2008, Austin, TX • Presidents • Articles

  13. OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges 2008 Community College Symposium • Webcast • Academics, Practitioners, and Policy Experts • Student Transitions

  14. OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges Community Colleges Can: Institutions Sharing Success • Identify Promising Practices • Disseminate Information • Replicate

  15. OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges MOU Denmark Exchange Project • Faculty and Student Exchange • Coordinate Danish visit with Symposium • Expand in Future

  16. OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges Adult Education Projects • Adult Basic Education to Community Colleges Transition Project (2006) • Adult Basic Education Career Connections Project—three of five recipients are community colleges • Ready for College: Adult Education Transitions Program—all four recipients are community colleges

  17. Federal Legislation Perkins Career and Technical Education • Pathways • Academic Achievement • Dual Enrollment • Accountability • Community College Communication

  18. Federal Legislation Workforce Investment Act (WIA) • Literacy Act (Title II) Proposal • Synthesis Project

  19. Federal Legislation NCLB • Secretary’s Highest Priority • Strengthen Math and Science • College Ready

  20. Federal Legislation Higher Education Act • Up for renewal since 2003 • Pell Grant • “FAFSA4caster”

  21. Any Questions? Pat StanleyDeputy Assistant Secretary Pat.stanley@ed.gov (202) 245-6683 www.ed.gov/ovae

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