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Carol Adukaitis, EdD Director, Pathways for Career SuccessPA State System of Higher Education
Developing 2+2+2 Career Pathways to Meet High Priority and Emerging Workforce Needs
National Career Pathways NetworkOctober 14, 2011
Carol Adukaitis, EdD Director, Pathways for Career Success
PA State System of Higher Education
National Need for a Skilled Workforce
Available Jobs, Not Enough Skilled Workers• Aging workforce facing retirement• Traditional high school population decreasing 3 percent (2007 through 2020)• Baby boomers not entering STEM fields• Rapid technological advances in companies
require employees with post-secondary skills
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/09/22/
National Need for a Skilled WorkforceSince 1973, jobs that require at least some college have exploded while opportunities
for those with just a high school education have shrunk dramatically
Source: March CPS data, various years, Center on Education and the Workforce, Harvard Study 2011
By 2018, 60% of jobs will require college education and more than half of these positions will only require a certificate or A.A. degree.
To support regional emerging industries compete globally, in 2002, PA Department of Community & Economic Development (DCED) provided funding to develop integrated and seamless educational programs across secondary, two-year and four-year post-secondary programs as a means to create a pipeline of highly-skilled technical STEM workers.
PA Strategy: Develop 2+2+2 STEM Pathways
www.pathwaysforcareersuccess.org
Strategy: Industry Driven, Articulated Curriculum
Articulate secondary to post-secondary 2-year and 4-year career paths in emerging technologies that includes a
Guarantee/Warranty*; PSSA proficiency*
2 years high school/ career & technical centers+
2 years of community college+
2 years at baccalaureate level
Also develops agile, flexible and responsive training programs for incumbent and transitional workers that lead to a certificate
and/or degree
The cornerstone of each regional 2+2+2 Project is an active involvement of economic development agencies:
• Workforce Investment Boards (WIB),• Industrial Resource Centers (IRC),• Private industries, manufacturers
associations
Strategy: Industry Drives High-Tech Needs
Strategy: Save Time and Mon$yMinimum 15 credits articulate from secondary
to post-secondary*Requires ‘Proficient’ or ‘Advanced’ on PSSA
Math & Reading to reduce post-secondary remediation coursework
Program encourages community college completion as middle ‘2’ to reduce college costs*
Career guidance integrated at each level to provide students with information about career and technical options and sequencing
• Advanced Manufacturing & Materials Plastics Technology, Electro-optics, Robotics, Mechatronics, Nanofabrication Technology, Applied Engineering Technology
• Biotechnology Nanobiotechnology, Biotechnology,
• Energy Natural Gas/ Marcellus Shale Technology
• Information Technology Computer Security, Computer Forensics
Emerging STEM Sectors Funded
New
2+2+2 Model= Multiple Entry/ Exit Points
Job
Career
Profession
Livelihood
Career & Technology Center
Community College
AAS Degree
College or UniversityBS Degree
Community College
Certificate of Specialization
Strategy: Recognize Prior Learning
• Recognize articulated credit from secondary CTE to 2-yr and 4-yr post-secondary institutions
• Recognize dual enrollment• Review military experience• National Skills Standards• Conduct Prior Learning Assessments for work
experience
Strategy: Develop Statewide PA Transfer
In July 2006, PA’s PDE Public School Code of 1949 requires 14 community colleges and the 14 PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE)
state-owned universities develop and accept for transfer up to 30 credits of foundation courses and universities and count toward graduation.
Pennsylvania Transfer and Articulation Center (PA TRAC), a one-stop online portal for transfer students, administrators and advisors/faculty.
https://patrac.org
Importance of Statewide PA Transfer
PA size, rural
geography and unfinished community college system leave residents in rural areas great distances from low cost campuses.
Strategy: Develop AAS & BAS Programs
The greater Allentown, Lehigh Valley PA region’s manufacturing employs about 36,000 people at an average wage of $58,432 and added 800 jobs in the last year. Many jobs now require training in high-tech fields such as electromechanical mechatronics and precision machining.
Lehigh Career Technical Institute partnered withLehigh Carbon Community College to open a Centerfor Advance Manufacturing Technology to attract more high achieving academic secondary students and incumbent workers.
BOTSIQ & Robobots = Excitement! Collaboration and Support - PA Labor & Industry - NTMA & AMC2
- 35 Companies: funding & mentors - >75 Organizations & contributors
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Strategy: Industry/ Education Partnership
Strategy: Industry/Education Partnership
•Workforce Investment Board•Businesses•Schools•~1,800 attendees •Students/Parents
Hershey Foods needed high tech industrial maintenance technicians for food packaging. Reading Area Community College (RACC) and Lancaster CTC along with the Lehigh, Berks and Lancaster WIB developed the AMIST curriculum.
RACC’s AAS Program articulates with PA PASSHE institutions and Purdue@Calumet.
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Program offers continuous opportunities that recruit females-only, first generation, and underrepresented students to learn about STEM careers. Professional SME/ SWE serve as mentors. University students serving as near-peer mentors.
Strategy: Recruit Underserved Groups
Kelly Reid, DCCC AET, President, SME Student Chapter, now enrolled at Drexel
Strategy: Promote STEM PathwaysPA one of 6 states to receive NGA funding in 2007 to dramatically
increase P-20 students (especially females, minorities, and underrepresented) for careers in STEM
www.pasteminitiative.org
PA STEM Initiative is a collaborative public /private partnership committed to improving and aligning the Commonwealth workforce, education and economic development systems to realize the PA STEM Initiative vision by 2018
Are They Really Ready to Work, The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Employer Surveys of Program Graduates
Are They Really Ready to Work, The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Employer Surveys of Program Graduates
Statewide Career Pathways ImpactGraduated over 7,000 students*Network Involves
40 CTE, 39 high schools
7 community colleges, 2 two-year colleges
29 four-year colleges / universities
• Salaries reported:• AAS Degree of $33,500+• BS Degree Technician of $65,000+
Project funds Leveraged:
partial listing of supporters 2003 - 2011
$21,636,753
• US DOL Grants, AET, Biotechnology
• NSF-ATE, Advanced Manufacturing, Plastics, Biomanufacturing
• Community Based Job Training• Department of Defense• Carnegie Mellon University Robo Corridor• National Tool and Machining Foundation• R. K. Mellon Foundation• Heinz Foundation• Westmoreland Foundation• Whitaker Foundation• Society of Photonics Engineers• Society of Manufacturing Engineers-Education
Foundation• US Congressman Paul Kanjorski & US Senator Robert
Casey• US Senator Arlen Specter• Collegiate Consortium for Workforce & Economic
Development• Exelon• Many others……
Statewide Program ImpactStatewide Collaboration = Leveraged Funds
Rigorous curriculum designed by employers, business, industry and faculty
Articulation course to course is successful Program to program alignment is in progress (Perkins
Programs of Study)* Dual enrollment courses offer portability of credits for
students choosing institutions other than those in the partnership
Assessment is on-going 2+2+2 supports national & state Complete College
America goal of 60% increase of population having earned a meaningful college credential by 2020
What We Have Learned
Increase Career guidance & counseling for recruiting young adults and transfers
Improved perceptions CTE and CCOffer more on-line coursesSTEM awareness must begin K-6 with students
and professional development with facultyPASSHE undertaking a comprehensive review of
transfer system-wide task force for policies, business practices and culture.
What We Have Learned
For more information contact:
In 2008, DCED transferred management of the 222WLG Program to PASSHE through completion of the program, June 2013.
Carol Adukaitis, EdDDirector, Pathways for Career SuccessPA State System of Higher Education
Dixon University Center2986 North 2nd StreetHarrisburg, PA 17110Phone: 717-720-4019
PathwaysForCareerSuccess.org