1. Update on Carl D. Perkins Grants 2018
Donna Carlin
Assistant Director, Workforce
Academic Quality and Workforce
4/12/2018
Thank you for attending this afternoon’s session which is an update on Carl D. Perkins Grants During this session we’ll be talking about the Perkins grant, provide an overview about the purpose of the grant, discuss Perkins Leadership grants, give an overview of the currently funded grants, and discuss the reauthorization of the Perkins Act. Mindy will be talking about how the core indicators are calculated, and we have Gabriela Borcoman here to answer any questions you may have about Perkins data.
Before we get started I want to introduce our newest Perkins staff member. Dr. Sheri Ranis joined our staff 3 weeks ago. She’ll be working with the Perkins grants and also has been working with review of community college baccalaureate degrees.
We’ll also be joined on Monday by our newest staff member Marissa Garza, who is transferring from within the agency. She currently works in the SPF area and has been working with data collection and reporting.

2. Allocation of Perkins Funds
Perkins Update 2018
Allocation of Perkins Funds
Federal funds comes to Texas to the Texas Education Agency. The THECB is a subrecipient of funds. TEA receives 70% of the Perkins basic funds that are allocated to Texas. The THECB receives 30% of the funds. 85% of the funds are allocated to 54 community, state and technical colleges by a formula that is determined by the number of CTE concentrators at each college that are Pell grant recipients. Up to 10% of the funds for Perkins Basic can be used for Basic Reserve, which are grants that can be used by the state to accomplish special projects or grants that are important to the state. For example, we currently use Reserve funds ($1 million) available for TEA grant funded Innovative Academies, which are CTE early college high schools. Up to 10% of the funds can be awarded to Perkins Leadership grants, and 5% of the $27 million is available to the THECB for administration of the grant.
TOTAL CB Funding FY $27,674,601
Admin - $ 1,383,730 (max)
Leadership - $ 2,767,460 (max)
Basic - $ 23,523,411 (min)
Basic Reserve up to 10% of Basic

3. Perkins Update 2018
Perkins IV
The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 was signed into law in August 2006 for six years.
Funding continued annually since 2013, while awaiting reauthorization.
If you do the math, you’ll figure out that we are long overdue for reauthorization of the Perkins Act, which I’ll be discussing later.

4. Perkins Update 2018
Perkins IV
Purpose: to develop more fully the academic and career and technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students who enroll in career and technical education programs.
Prepare students for high skill, high wage, or high demand occupations in current or emerging professions.

5. Perkins State Leadership Grants
Perkins Update 2018
Perkins State Leadership Grants
Focus on career and technology education
improvement initiatives that have a statewide impact.
Coordinating Board publishes a Request for Applications
each spring.
Up to 10 percent of the Title I Perkins funds may be
awarded.

6. Perkins Leadership Grants
Total amount available for funding for :
$2,767,460 (10% of postsecondary allocation)

7. Preproposals: total number submitted: 14
Perkins Update 2018
Preproposals: total number submitted: 14
Review of preproposals will be from 4/11-4/20. Notification to submit full proposals: 4/23

8. Fast Track to Success: Expanding Competency-Based Education across Texas
Grantee: Austin Community College
Project Director: Amardeep Kahlon
Amount: $187,104
Overview: Funds support a two-day CBE conference in Austin on April 18-19, 2018, five CBE regional training workshops, expansion of CBE Consortium website to disseminate best practices

9. Cyber Security Education Conference
Grantee: St. Philip’s College (SPC)
Project Director: Haydar Sahin
Amount: $39,894
Overview: SPC will host a statewide Cyber Security Education Conference to increase awareness of cyber security, identify educational pathways, promote cyber security careers, and provide networking opportunities. SPC is a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense. Conference held on 3/8/2018.

10. Blended Pathways: From Industry to Degree
Grantee: Dallas County Community College District
Project Director: Tricia Thomas-Anderson
Amount: $59,392
Overview: Development of 3-4 replicable blended pathways of credit for prior learning, combining industry-recognized non-credit certifications with CTE programs (ex. NATE, HVAC, ASE & MOUS) with assistance of advisory council and American Council of Education (ACE). One-day Institute facilitated by ACE held in February 2018.

11. ADA Compliance: Building Accessibility into Online Courses
Grantee: McLennan Community College
Project Director: Richard Leslie
Amount: $75,824
Overview: Development of a model/manual to address ADA compliance in workforce courses to include web enhanced, hybrid/blended, & fully online formats. Update 5 high-use courses: BMGT1327, ACNT1303, HPRS1206, CMSW1323, & SCWK Provide webinar of findings and website with materials for use by other colleges.

12. Open Educational Resources (OER) Technical Certificate Initiative
Grantee: San Jacinto College
Project Director: Mark Johnson
Amount: $129,351
Overview: Development of a state-wide Open Educational Resources (OER) technical certificate. Consortium colleges will partner with Lumen Learning, to develop and curate OER content. Assist technical faculty to find and develop appropriately licensed OER course content to meet their course SLOs. In addition to developing freely available OER course texts, the consortium will develop a process and road map for developing and implementing an OER technical certificate.

13. Apprenticeship Crosswalk Project
Grantee: San Jacinto College
Project Director: Sarah Janes
Amount: $47,500
Overview: The development of crosswalks between non-credit apprenticeship training and college credit. The development of 6 crosswalks in high demand CTE areas, (electrical, millwright, carpentry, pipefitting, plumbing, industrial maintenance/mechatronics) matched to existing or proposed WECM courses. Statewide workshop for crosswalk construction held 11/15-17/2017.

14. Intentional, Intensive, & Involved 2P1, 3P1, & 4P1 Core Indicator Improvement
Grantee: Temple College
Project Director: Lesley Keeling-Olson
Amount: $65,153
Overview: Provide 3 webinars to focus on specific ways or performance improvement plans that can improve core indicators performance on 3 core indicators: Credential, Certificate, or Diploma (2p1), Student Retention or Transfer (3p1), and Student Placement (4p1). Assist in providing information for new Perkins Directors to help them have a better understanding of Perkins data.

15. TEXASgenuine Sustainability Phase 3: Scaling Sustainability Across Texas
Grantee: Victoria College
Project Director: Darin Kazmir
Amount: $52,500
Overview: Emphasis on sustainability through partnerships (TEA, TWC, TACCM), generate increased website traffic, assessment completions, and MPOWER Texas course completions. Disseminate recruitment & contact page of website to institutions to allow establishment of MOUs with TEXASgenuine as participating entities to link to the website from theirs.

16. 5P1 & 5P2 Promising/Best Practices & Performance Improvement Plan Ideas
Grantee: Temple College
Project Director: Lesley Keeling-Olson
Amount: $45,000
Overview: Development of a catalog of performance improvement plan ideas and vetted best practices for 5P1 (Nontraditional Participation) and 5P2 (Nontraditional Participation). Catalog will be based on survey data from colleges meeting 5P1 & 5P2 for past 3 years.

17. Reauthorization of Perkins
Perkins Update 2018
Reauthorization of Perkins
H.R. 2353, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, is the bill that would reauthorize Perkins
Passed by the House on 6/22/2017
Maintains much of current Perkins structure with updating of accountability measures, and aligning more closely with WIOA
Provides greater collaboration between colleges and businesses

18. Purposes of the Act Largely stay the same:
Academic and technical skills acquisition via CTE programs/programs of study
Alignment with high skill, high wage, or high demand occupations in current or emerging professions
Dissemination of best practices
Give states and locals flexibility
Support TA and PD

19. Proposed Core Indicators
Perkins Update 2018
Proposed Core Indicators
Student placement, two quarters after program completion, in further education or training, advanced training, or unsubsidized employment.
Median earning two quarters after program completion.

20. Proposed Core Indicators
Perkins Update 2018
Proposed Core Indicators
Attainment of recognized postsecondary credentials during a program or within one year of program completion.
The percentage of CTE concentrators in CTE programs that lead to nontraditional fields.

21. Perkins funding for 2018-2019 Perkins Update 2018
The President’s Fiscal Year 2018 Budget was released in May. The proposal includes a $168 million cut to the Perkins Basic State Grant, a 15 percent decrease from the current level of funding.
Slight increase in funding expected with state allocations to be announced within the next few weeks.
Projected date of release for Perkins Basic grant RFA: June 6
Projected due date: July 18

22. Questions? Donna Carlin Assistant Director
Perkins Update 2018
Questions?
Donna Carlin
Assistant Director
Division of Workforce, Academic Affairs and Research
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
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