2. WTCS College Career Pathways Coordinators
Oregon’s Career Pathways Coordinator role
Oregon Pathways Alliance peer learning network
Oregon’s Career Pathways Institutional Self-Assessment (nine dimensions)
Pathways Statewide Initiative Overview & history
Career Pathways Roadmaps
Career Pathways Certificates of Completion
In service of
CTE
Cert completion & continued ed

3. PART ONE Career Pathway Coordinator role Leadership & Connectivity
Oregon Pathways Alliance: statewide peer learning network
Career Pathway Systemic Approach: Institutional Self-Assessment (9 dimensions)
In service of
CTE
Cert completion & continued ed

4. Career Pathway Coordinator Role
The Heart of the Matter
Boundary-spanner
Work across “silos” & organizations
Horizontal and vertical access & power
Focus on students and employers need not administration/bureaucracy
Oversight dean: permission to be innovative
In service of
CTE
Cert completion & continued ed

5. Career Pathway Coordinator Role
Learning from peers; Oregon Pathways Alliance
Ability to be both a generalist and a specialist
Ability to translate across “silos”
Strong listening, problem-solving skills, project - grant management skills
Work at both programmatic & systems level
OK with working on the edge; high tolerance for ambiguity; make things happen
Committed to systems change; an implementer; “both/and”; “thinker & doer”
In service of
CTE
Cert completion & continued ed

6. Leadership & Connectivity
Oregon Presidents’ Council Career Pathways Resolution: 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014
State Board of Education
Oregon Workforce Investment Board
Oregon Pathways Alliance
CCWD statewide coordination role
Liaisons with other groups: instructional administrators, student services administrators, CTE deans, president’s council, etc.
Acknowledge everyone for staying the course mention presidents, SBE, OWIB, and Alliance

7. Oregon Pathways Alliance
Collaboration of 17 community college leaders of Career Pathways at their college
Peer Learning Network meeting quarterly since 2004
Co-Chairs: urban/large college & rural/small college
Co-Creation of agenda
CCWD (state agency) convenes, leadership support, provides technical assistance
Migrating promising practices (structured presentation)
Sharing successes, failures, lessons learned
Professional development component each meeting
Other Career Pathway efforts

8. Agenda & Professional Development Strategies & Ideas
Career Pathways & WIOA
Leveraging with Perkins
Promising Practices (structured presentation)
Labor Market Information: COWS, OED occupational economist
“regular” agenda items
“meaty” agendas
wrap-up: take-aways & what went well (5-10 min.)
Video conference option for participation
Annual “retreat”
Grant requirements & report prep strategies
Other Career Pathway efforts

9. Guiding Question
It’s the end of the meeting and everyone agrees its been a worthwhile and invigorating time, there’s a buzz, a sense of momentum in the room: what happened to create this result?
Other Career Pathway efforts

10. Resource
Center for Law & Social Policy (CLASP) “Funding Career Pathways & Career Pathway Bridges”
There are nine dimensions and goal areas colleges are making progress on…

11. Career Pathways Systemic Approach: Institutional Self-Assessment Dimensions
Leadership
Leveraged Resources
Certificates & Roadmaps
Articulation with high schools & universities
Pathways for Adult Basic Skills students
Student Services and supports
Connection with Workforce partners
Employer Engagement
Using data for continuous improvement
There are nine dimensions and goal areas colleges are making progress on…

12. Career Pathways Systemic Approach:
Stages on the Journey:
stage 1: building critical mass & shared understanding
stage 2: building capacity & infrastructure
stage 3: institutionalizing and sustaining
Stage 3 aligns with the Achieving the Dream Initiative’s definition of “scale”:
Practice has an impact on the majority of defined populations and there are measureable improvements or expected outcomes that can be documented;
Practice has become “business as usual” or has been “institutionalized”;
College processes are modified to support the program or service
Institutional resources and policies are aligned in support of the practice.
There are nine dimensions and goal areas colleges are making progress on…

13. PART TWO Guiding Vision & Goals Overview of Initiative
Career Pathways WebTool
Roadmaps & Program of Study Templates (POSTs)
Marketing material; case studies & newsletters
Short-term, stackable certificates (12-44 credits)
With dwindling resources for student support we invested in online, web-based technology providing visual online roadmaps for students and job seekers as well as advisors, counselors. Open source tool.

14. Guiding Vision
In service of meeting Oregon’s goal for the “middle 40”
Certificate completion & continued education
Address the changing needs of employers, job seekers, workers, and students
Focus on Career & Technical Education (CTE) short-term certificates tied to occupations
Provide web-based, just-in-time roadmaps for students, advisors/counselors, job seekers
In service of
CTE
Cert completion & continued ed

15. Goals
To increase the number of Oregonians with certificates, credentials, and degrees
To ease transitions across the education continuum—high school to community college; pre-college (ABE/GED/ESL) to postsecondary credit ; community college to university; and to employment
Bottomline: more Oregonians with certificates

16. What’s a Career Pathway?
Career Pathways are linked education and training services that enable students, often while they are working, to advance over time to successfully high education and employment in a given industry or occupational sector. Each step of a Career is designed to prepare students to prepare student stop progress to the next level of employment and education.

17. What’s a Career Pathway? (continued)
Career Pathways focus on easing and facilitating student transition---
- from high school to community college;
from pre-college courses (ABE/GED/ESL) to credit postsecondary;
from community college to university or employment.

19. Higher Learning & Higher Earning in Oregon
Post Secondary
Open enrollment
Dislocated & unemployed worker
Career changers
Skills upgrading incumbent workers
Pre-College to
Post-secondary
(ABE/GED/ESL/DE)
Community college
Postsecondary to
University/OUS
Secondary
to postsecondary
Easing student transitions along the education continuum
Focus on demand occupations in local labor market to meet employer needs
Career & Technical
Education (CTE)
Dual Credit classes
Programs of Study
OPABS Initiative
Oregon Pathways
For Basic Skills
Oregon Pathways Alliance
Career Pathways Grants
Statewide Certificates
Articulation
Agreements

20. Launch
National Governors Association (NGA) Pathways to Advancement Initiative 2004
Three colleges with career pathways achieving early successes (MHCC, PCC, SOCC)
Spearheaded by CCWD & Governor’s office
Statewide Steering Committee
Bottoms-up & Top-down
Both top-down and bottom up: successes at colleges and NGA iniative; Cam’s and Gov. office leadership

21. Scaling for Impact
Launched with five colleges in 2004 with initial funding from the Governor’s Workforce Investment Fund through the OWIB
Expanded to 11 colleges in 2006
Scaled to all 17 colleges in 2007
Took approximately 3 years to scale and learned a lot along the way

22. Leveraged/Braided Funding
Governor’s Employer Workforce Fund
WIA Incentive (awarded 4 consecutive years)
WIA Title I-B
Perkins
Community College Strategic Fund (CCSF)
Leveraging and braiding existing funding streams along the way

23. Career Pathway Grants
Career Pathway Grants provided to colleges each biennium to build capacity and increase number of completions
Grants awarded on competitive basis
For past three bienniums grants awarded to all 17 colleges ( , , ; )
Grants focus on goals & strategies to build capacity & increase completion outcomes
Funding: WIA Title I-B, WIA Incentive Grants, Governor’s EWTF, Perkins, CC Strategic Fund
Continue to fund colleges to “incent” continued statewide implementation of career pathways approach.

24. Career Pathway Marketing & Communications
Communications Plan 2007
Colleges develop roadmap concept and develop Webtool (open source)
Roadmaps linked to MyPathCareers & OLMIS Occupational Report accessible to job seekers
Glossary developed
Each college develops specific Career Pathways materials
Each college has a Career Pathways webpage
accessible through
With dwindling resources for student support we invested in online, web-based technology providing visual online roadmaps for students and job seekers as well as advisors, counselors. Open source tool.

25. Career Pathway Roadmap Webtool
Alliance collaborated to design Career Pathways Roadmap Webtool
More than 350 roadmaps and high school to community college plans of study online
Lane CC hosts server and training/technical assistance funded by CCWD; Effie Siverts
(guest login)
Open Source
Adopted by state of Washington
With dwindling resources for student support we invested in online, web-based technology providing visual online roadmaps for students and job seekers as well as advisors, counselors. Open source tool.

28. Career Pathway Marketing & Communications
30 second TV/radio spot statewide -6 months
Here’s link:
90 second video by Lane Community College:
MyPathCareers brochure & Roadmaps “card”
With dwindling resources for student support we invested in online, web-based technology providing visual online roadmaps for students and job seekers as well as advisors, counselors. Open source tool.

30. Green Career Pathways Partnership with Oregon Employment Department
Statewide Career Pathways roadmaps: all courses, certificates, degrees at 17 community colleges & apprenticeship programs
Includes industry resources and occupational competencies
Occupations include: Wind Technician, Solar manufacturing/installation, HVAC, Energy Efficiency, Construction/Carpentry, Manufacturing, Utility Line Workers, Water/Waste Water Operator
With dwindling resources for student support we invested in online, web-based technology providing visual online roadmaps for students and job seekers as well as advisors, counselors. Open source tool.

31. Program of Study Templates (POSTs)
Visual chart/roadmap of high school to community college articulations identify courses 9th-12th grade through CC CTE program certificates and degrees.
More than 400 POSTs developed by community colleges & high schools
Currently developing a POST statewide access website (in development): ready March 2015

32. POSTs continued POST development varies by college/region
Focused capacity building and leadership: Rogue, Lane, SOCC, MHCC
MHCC currently developing 75 POSTs with area high schools and training high school counselors

35. CCWD Website
(Click on Student Success; then click on Career Pathways) OR
List/reports of Career Pathway & Less Than One Year Certificates by college & by career area
Pathways Descriptive Study 2013

36. Policy Direction Drives Increased Completions
State Board of Education approved Career Pathway Certificate (CPCC) effective July 1, 2007.
CTE program Certificates tied to competencies for jobs in local labor market & approved by employers
More than 350 Career Pathway Certificates offered statewide (12-44 credits)
More than 100 Less Than One Year (LTOY) Certificates offered already offered statewide (12-44 credits)
Average number of credits for certificates: 22
More than 7,600 certificates have been awarded since 2008
Pathways Descriptive Study of initial cohort of completers released March 2013; second study underway

37. Stackable Credentials
Career & Technical Education (CTE)
Occupations in six career focus areas
Short-term certificates (12-44 credits):
Career Pathway Certificates (CPCC)
Less Than One Year Certificate (LTOY)
With dwindling resources for student support we invested in online, web-based technology providing visual online roadmaps for students and job seekers as well as advisors, counselors. Open source tool.

38. Dual Credit
Dual credit is defined as awarding secondary and postsecondary credit for a course offered in high school during regular schools hours, as determined by local school board and community college policy. Courses can be academic or CTE (Career & Technical Education).

39. CLASP Alliance for Quality Career Pathways
Ten states and Center for Law and Social Policy including Oregon & Wisconsin
National framework for Career Pathways definitions, criteria, and metrics

40. Q&A World Café & Conversation Cafe

41. For More Information…
Mimi Maduro Pathways Initiative Statewide Director Oregon Department of Community Colleges & Workforce Development (CCWD)