Align4NCWorks Strategic Plan Adopted by the NC Community Colleges Board 2015-18
Outcomes Align4NCWorks Strengthen partnerships among community colleges, business and industry, workforce development boards, public schools and economic development.
The ultimate aim of Align4NCWorks Ensure that North Carolina is #1 in workforce
The NC Community College System commends the NC Chamber s words: North Carolina will be a global leader in the number of students leaving its community college [and University] system with a job-ready credential that can lead to becoming a successful employee or employer in a global economy and provide for better skills, better jobs, better pay and continued educational attainment.
Align4NCWorks Overarching Goals Alignment Responsiveness Engagement Accountability
Align4NC Works - 8 goals GOAL #1: Increase and sustain employer engagement as part of an integrated, customercentered workforce system. GOAL #2: Connect students to quality careers and employers to quality employees. GOAL #3: Ensure education and training address and validate skill and competency needs and attainment. GOAL #4: Expand work-based learning opportunities.
Align4NCWorks - 8 Goals GOAL #5: Improve career awareness and mapping. GOAL #6: Increase opportunities for college access while keeping education and training affordable. GOAL #7: Promote demand-driven and datainformed decision making and evaluation to more effectively meet workforce customer needs and enhance system accountability. GOAL #8: Strengthen the foundations of success for workforce development.
3 Alignment Anchors at CPCC 1. Accessibility 2. Demand driven 3. Capacity building
Anchor 1: Accessibility WIOA Competency Based Education
An Overview of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
Signed into law on July 22, 2014 Bipartisan effort to revise and reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act of 1998
Key Principles of WIOA Encourages strategic alignment and coordination among primary federal and state programs! Improves training and employment opportunities for individuals with barriers to employment! Emphasizes accountability and establishes common performance measures! Fosters innovation and supports activities based on evidencebased, rigorous research, and promising practices
System Integration Promotes integration and coordination of the core programs into the workforce development system Single, unified state plan State and local workforce boards Common performance measures across core programs
: ESTABLISHES THE ONE- STOP DELIVERY SYSTEM
COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION CBE Flexible way for students to get credit for what they know Students build on their skills by learning more at their own pace Students earn high quality credentials that help them in their lives and careers A competency is a specific knowledge, skill and/or ability that is both observable and measurable o partners! CPCC (lead)! Forsyth CC! Wake Tech! Stanley CC! NCCCS o benefits! Allows students to move through more quickly! Saves the student money! Documents what graduates can do! Recognizes the skills that students develop outside the classroom o target audience! Adults with some college credits! Adults with industry experience! Students who can and want to move through the program more quickly o pilot! IT Program (Fall 2017)! Provides an assessment of prior learning! Uses common framework for partner colleges
Anchor 2: Demand Driven Career Hub Data Driven
CPCC Career Hub
CPCC Career Hub Find a Job
CPCC Career Hub Careers
Demand Driven Data
Anchor 3: Capacity Building Apprenticeships and Pre- Apprenticeships Transportation and Logistics Advanced Manufacturing
Summary: 3 Alignment Anchors at CPCC 1. Accessibility 2. Demand driven 3. Capacity building