Kapi‘olani CC: A Case Study in

Industry Partnerships

October 3, 2014

Leon Richards, Chancellor,

Kapi‘olani CC, University of Hawai‘i

I. Role of Community Colleges

Our business is to assist people in changing their lives.

What we do best: UH has a 7 campus system located

on and serving all islands of Hawai‘i

Open admission

Any time, Any place, Any where

30,000-32,000 students in credit programs per semester

100,000 student participants in Continuing Education and Workforce Development

Certificates and Degrees in approximately 80 different fields and areas.

Typical Community College Programs

Health Care Industry(Nurses, Medical and Laboratory Technicians)

Protective Services (Firefighters, Police, Paramedics and EMTs, Cybersecurity)

Construction, Trades, Manufacturing Laboratory Science Technicians Engineering Technicians Information Technology Business,

Management/Marketing/Hospitality (Hotel, Travel & Tourism, Culinary Arts)

Arts & Sciences Transfer Agricultural Workers & Technicians Transportation Technicians & Service

• 22 associate degrees (two-year degree)

• 23 certificates in the areas of Health, Hospitality, Culinary, Tourism, Business, IT and Arts and Sciences.

• Spring 2014 approximately 8,100 students from 45 countries and territories.

• 58% of students are women; mean age 25 years

• 51% of students report their ethnicity as Asian, 14% Hawaiian Pacific Islander, 13% Caucasian, 17% mixed, and 3% other.

• .

Kapi`olani CC (KCC)

KCC - 45 Industry-Recognized Programs:

II. Role of Industry and Education

According to Harvard Business School 2013-2014 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness:

Need: reinvigorate this skill base of our workforce.

What: Middle-skills jobs are estimated to account for as much as 48% of all work in America.

How: companies and industries will have to articulate the skills and aptitudes required for jobs they need or will need.

Goal: Businesses work with educational institutions to develop career paths that lead to employment.

GO TO 2040 Plan Improve the quality of our labor force, GO TO

2040, Comprehensive Regional Plan recommends:

What: Coordinate employers’ needs and College role of training and education.

Goal: improve our State’s education system through partnerships

Why: “Human Capital” — having an educated, skilled workforce is more important than any other factor in creating economic prosperity.

GO TO 2040 Plan

How: career pathways” as a workforce development tool.

Career pathways - develop career-laddered program sequences at CC, CA and AS degree exit points that tie to the jobs and careers in industry.

III. KCC-Business/Industry Partnerships

Ingredients for Success:

Program Advisory Committees – Identify Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes and needed Resources

Accreditation - Industry Standards

DACUM (Develop A Curriculum Model) – a system for mapping an industry

Career Pathways (e.g., Nursing)

Dean and faculty in direct contact with the workplace staff.

MOA's outline the skills to be practiced at the industry partner site.

Kapi‘olani CC Integrated, Purposeful Academic/Career Pathways: DACUM

Develop a curriculum model to meet industry needs.

Identify the Job Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes (SKA) to be competent.

Kapi‘olani CC Integrated, Purposeful Academic/Career Pathways: DACUM

Continuing Education & Training and/or Customized Contract Training Modules

Meeting immediate needs of the Workforce

KCC - Nursing Career Pathway

Nursing Program degree and certificates in:

ADN (Associate Degree Nursing/Registered Nurse),

LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse),

Nurse Aide,

Adult Residential Care-Home Operator,

Long Term Care (LTC) Nurse Aide

Surgical Technician

Long Term Care

(LTC) Nurse Aide

Program

Adult Residential Care Home Operator Program

Associate in Science Degree in Nursing (ADN) with a Career Ladder

[NA (CC), LPN (CA), ADN (AS)]

Practical Nurse-Level Training

Registered Nurse-Level

Training

Surgical Tech

Program

RN Preparation

Program

Work as RN in acute care & community health

Transfer to BSN

Program

LPN to ADN

Transition Program

KCC Nursing Pathway: Workforce Career Pathways Ladder

Nurse Aide-Level Training

Work in either Long Term Care facility or acute care as a Nurse Aide.

Work in hospital or community health as a LPN

NCLEX-RN Exam

NCLEX-PN Exam

KCC-DOE-DOH Partnership

NEW: Funding C3T 3 & 4

Skill Level I – recognized for entry into job - 75 hours 6 credits

Skill Level II – work to increase salary 75 hours – 6 credits

The first 25 students will graduate on October 3rd, 2014.  

Training for DOE 255 School Health Aide (SHA) SHA are currently employed with a high school

diploma

Pathways – to be developed:

Medical Assisting Program – Accredited - for those interested in physician office management

Community Health Worker Program – being revised to meet industry requirements for those wanting to work in child and adolescent health.

Leveraging Location and KCC Programs for Long-Term Care

Lē‘ahi Hospital and KCC Strategic Planning

Teaching Hospital

Gerontology skills lab for Health Sciences Programs:

OTA, PTA, Respiratory Care, ESS, ADN, LPN and CAN

Culinary Kitchen to meet the inpatient and community

out-patients needs.

KCC-Food Industry Partnership

Food Safety, Manufacturing, Production & InnovationFor Hawaii’s food industry to flourish, it requires workers

highly trained in both the principles of culinary arts and food safety.

Equally important—in a state that imports over 85% of its food and is the most vulnerable state in the nation in regards to its food security—Hawaii needs to build a food manufacturing industry that utilizes and supports locally-grown ingredients. This requires a workforce that is trained in food entrepreneurship, food innovation, state-of-the-art food production technology, and HACCP food safety procedures.

KCC is working with CTAHR at UH Manoa to articulate its AS degree in Institutional Food Service Management with a BS degree in Culinology.

To ensure that Oahu has the resources to develop and grow a locally-sourced food manufacturing industry, it has plans to expand the food innovation concept first piloted by UH Maui College, and will do this through a cost-effective and integrated shared resource/technology approach.

Needed are both the infrastructure (food innovation centers) and the curriculum for a changing industry.  

BAS in Hospitality Management

KCC-Hospitality Industry Partnership

KCCʻs hospitality industry partners state that operations and management is shifting from a focus on traditional customer service to one of “asset management,” as a result of new types of owners and guests—fractional ownership, timeshares, and second homes.

Thus, a new kind of hospitality management and leadership training is needed, both for incumbent workers and new students.

In response, KCC submitted an Authorization Plan with West Oahu College that would create a 3rd year Advanced Professional Certificate and a 4th year Hospitality Management Bachelor Degree.

What You Can Do! Create industry credentials for newly identified

occupations

Provide salaries that make these positions sustainable as a living wage

Provide more professional development opportunities in industry for college faculty and staff

Standardize preceptor training for industry personnel across programs

Participate on College Advisory Boards

Make a one to three year commitment of resources to support College programs

Value certificates and degrees from Community Colleges via hiring and promotion decisions.

Kapi‘olani CC: A Case Study in Industry Partnerships

Presented by

Leon RichardsUniversity of Hawai‘i,

Kapi‘olani Community Collegelr@hawaii.edu; 808-734-9565

October 3, 2014