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The Future of Employability and Living Wage
The Role of the Community College
Presented to theMinnesota Futurists
22 August 2009By Lorna Sherman
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Introduction
• Community colleges important role• Provide certificates, diplomas and
associate degrees to fill jobs in the middle labor market
• Middle-skill jobs – Require some training or education beyond
high school, but less than a 4 year degree– Yet will pay family supporting wages
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Introduction• Community colleges
– Enroll 45% of college students – Only about 50% of those succeed
• Minnesota– 29 community colleges (10 in metro area)
• Program examples– Veterinary tech., physical therapy assistant,
dental hygienist, environmental science, protection technician, health care services, and replacement for impending retirements of large # of auto repair, welding and electrical power maintenances, construction
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http://education.state.mn.us/mdeprod/idcplg?IdcService=GET_FILE&dDocName=034034&RevisionSelectionMethod=latestReleased&Rendition=primary
Minnesota Department of EducationCareer Fields, Clusters and Pathways
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Strategy, Planning and Accountability
• Building evidence about employment opportunities based on career fields, clusters and pathways
Distribute data sheets
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Cost of Living – Minnesota2006 data
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Cost of Living – Minnesota2006 data
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Cost of Living – Minnesota2006 data
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Community College Represents
An• affordable, • accessible route • to those students who have • faced significant barriers to success
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Open Enrollment
• Serves an essential function• To those who have attained a diploma but
not on track for college level courses.
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Under Achievement
• Is related to both – The individual– The institution
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MCTC Vision
Minneapolis Community and Technical College has a lofty vision
- to be an institution that transforms its community by educating students who are globally aware, engaged citizens, skillful at their work, and lifelong learners
- and sets high expectations for student and organizational achievement.
http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/home
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MCTC Fast Facts
vs. 64% 2007-2008
http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile
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MCTC Fast Facts
http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile
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MCTC Fast Facts
http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile
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MCTC Fast Facts
http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile
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MCTC Fast Facts
http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile
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MCTC Fast Facts
http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile
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MCTC Fast Facts
http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/mctc-student-profile
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Question
• What factors influenced your college success?
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Creating a Future of Learning
• Education in a rapidly changing world
• Education likely to take place outside traditional institutions
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Creating a Future of Learning
• Shifting to a culture of creation
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Creating a Future of Learning
• Learners will need guides who will take a fundamentally different role than the present teacher/educator
• Significant cross-cultural intelligence for citizenship and economic leadership
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Exploring the ForcesShaping Our World
• Knowledge– Technology produces new kinds of data– Advances in neuroscience– Other medical advances like replacement of
body parts
• Economics– Tools and knowledge of how to produce
custom goods
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Exploring the ForcesShaping Our World
• Society– A sense of community and shared world– Global society– Social networking
• Organization– New generation of connected innovative people
• Self– Alter your mind and body in ways we never imagined
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http://accountability.minneapolis.edu/documents/HighWageandHighDemandJobsinTwinCitiesRegion2009-2019Scan.pdf?attredirects=0
Future Jobs for Associate Degree
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Conclusion
• If the Community College program were more successful, it would help build human capital, narrow disparities by race and income and grow a more robust and diverse American middle class.
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Discussion