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Aligning workforce and education with economic development
Collaboration among regional stakeholders
Leveraging the value of learning and the learning ecosystem to support and spur economic growth
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• Planning: strategies where workforce & economic development meet
• Exploring: Career Mapping• Launching: Prior Learning Assessment• Creating: Veterans Affinity Groups• Facilitating: Postsecondary, Employers
& Government entities
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• Report Released June 15, 2010 by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce:
– U.S. “on a collision course with the future”
– By 2018, our economy will have jobs for 22 million with college degrees, but a shortage of nearly 8 million people with degrees
– By 2018, 63% of jobs will require postsecondary training
The U.S. Skills Gap
Employment and Earnings by Education Level
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Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce “The Undereducated American” http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/HelpWanted.ExecutiveSummary.pdf
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Good Decisions
Emerging Sectors
Employer Needs
Good Wages
Supportive Services
Innovation DriversJobs: Quality or Quantity
Measurable Skills
Appropriate Indicators
Positive Partners
FA C T O R I N G I N
W H Y I S T H I S S O I M P O R TA N T ?
• Students want to know their education will deliver a good/better career outcome
• Employers want to know that what students learn in school is relevant to what goes on in the workplace
• Communities don’t want to export their graduates due to lack of jobs (ROI on public $$ ?)
• Institutions want to know their students graduate to jobs
Industries
Occupations& Skills
Degree Completions
E X A M I N I N G S U P P LY-D E M A N D A L I G N M E N T
Career Maps
www.vividfuture.org
www.bioohioworkforce.org
Career Mapping Reveals:
• The range of jobs, careers in local target industries
• The impact of education/training on job opportunities and earnings potential
• Career trajectories within and between roles in the target industries
• Skills from other industries that are meaningful in the target industries
Industry Pathways Documented by CAEL
• Agriculture• Information
Technology• Healthcare • Health IT• Energy• Telecommunications• Aviation Maintenance• Aviation Production
• Creative Industries• Transportation/ Logistics• Financial Services• Advanced Manufacturing
(and a range of subsectors)• Bio/Life Sciences• Hospitality/Tourism• Green Jobs in
manufacturing, construction, energy
Validating All Learning
What is PLA?
Prior Learning Assessment is a process for evaluating knowledge and skills in order to award college credit for learning from:
On-the-job learning
Corporate training
Independent study
Military service
Volunteer service
Graduation rates are 2
½ times higher for students with PLA credit
Fueling the Race to Postsecondary Success, March 2010
Better Educational Outcomes
Cost Savings
An adult student who
earns 15 credits
from PLA applied
to a degree saves
From $1605 to
$6,000 on tuition costs.
• CAEL’s One Stop Online PLA Portal
• Access to the College Credit Predictor and a College Credit Specialist
• Portfolio Development Courses
• Individualized Expert Assessment
What is LearningCounts?
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• A Navy veteran earned credits for 8 courses towards a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Manufacturing Engineering—24 credits.
• Portfolio based in part on learning gained as Safety Observer aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt
One Veteran in LearningCounts.org
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More Veterans with Some College and No Degree
• Career/education advising
• Prior Learning Assessment
• Behavioral workshop
• Faculty (in development)
• Returning to Learning
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Workshops
CAEL: “think/do tank” We are excited to help you with
both!
Contact Joel [email protected]
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