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Serving Adults in Transition: Creating Environments that Support Working Learners
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The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.
Serving Adults in Transition: Creating Environments that Support Working Learners
May 6, 2010
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.
Workforce Development
Best Practices Initiative: Serving Dislocated Workers
Office of the ChancellorShari OlsonSystem Director
A collaborative funded by the Department of Employment and Economic Development
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Innovative PracticesASAP and Adults in Transition - Martha Kudak &
Susan Jarosak, Inver Hills Community CollegeCenter for Lifelong Learning - Steve Wagner, Lake
Superior CollegeeFolio Minnesota™ - Roxanne Richards, Mesabi
Range Community and Technical CollegeCertificate Program Development - Sherry
Wickstrom, Anoka Ramsey Community College360 Online Certificate Programs – Jim Retka,
Northland Community and Technical CollegeAACC – Prime Time Plus 50 Initiative - Bridgett
Backman, Century CollegeCollege Learning Center - Peggy Kennedy, St.
Paul College
3,281,066 Minnesota’s Adult Learners – Ages 18-64Currently Without an Associate Degree 1,976,325
Minnesota’s Adult Learners Age 18-64
Without an Associate Degree = 1,976,325
251,210 Less Than
High School Education
892,744 High School
GraduateNo College
832,371 High School
DiplomaSome College
2010 – Research and Thinkers
Hyperlinks:• Peter Smith. Harnessing America’s Wasted Tal
ent: A New Ecology for Learning. (2010).
• Louis Soares. Working Learners. (June, 2009). The Center for American Progress
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation• Lumina Foundation• Joyce Foundation
Minnesota Profile of Adult Learners 2008
Handout: • http://www.cael.org/pdf/state_profiles/MINN
ESOTA.pdf
More Research from CAEL (Adult Learning in Focus, full report)
• http://www.cael.org/adultlearninginfocus.htm
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ASAP (Adult Success through Accelerated Programs)
Inver Hills Community CollegeMartha Kudak, Director/faculty - Adult Success
through Accelerated Programs (ASAP)
ASAP provides adult learners with accelerated options for getting their 2/4 year degree through:
• EDUCATIONAL PLANNING• ACCELERATED COURSES• CREDIT FOR PRIOR LEARNING
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ASAP (Adult Success through Accelerated Programs)
ASAP Profile• Program initiated at IHCC in 1997• Average student age is 41• 69% female• Currently 800+ active student base• 100+ new students per semester• Over 5000 adult learners served• Largest accelerated degree program in MNSCU• Designated an ALFI (Adult Learner Focused Institution)• Recognized as a top community college nationally in
adult student satisfaction (Adult Learner Inventory 2006, 2009)
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ASAP (Adult Success through Accelerated Programs)
EDUCATIONAL/CAREER PLANNING written two and/or four year degree plan
ACCELERATED COURSES 6-8 week classes that meet once per week
CREDIT FOR PRIOR LEARNING CLEP, ACE, DSST, Excelsior Prior Learning Assessments through ASAP
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ADULTS IN TRANSITION
Inver Hills Community CollegeSusan Jarosak, Director of Adult Learning
Designed for adults: who are unemployed considering a new career direction thinking about coming to college.
– Initiated in 2008 as a result of US recession– New IHCC taskforce to address learner needs– Department collaborations to ensure success– Work with external partners
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ADULTS IN TRANSITION
NEW INTIATIVES:– Direct collaboration with workforce centers– Help with personal, career and educational
individualized needs – Seminars focused on career and education
(collaboration of Career Center and ASAP)– Career Center referral for individual advising– Workforce Center Education Fairs– Member Workforce Center Education Board– Collaborate with SHIFT and Academy for
Lifelong Learning
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Center for Lifelong Learning
Lake Superior CollegeSteve Wagner, Vice President
Designed to serve the “working learner” or dislocated worker
• Created in 2008-09• Merged College in the Schools, Upward
Bound and Perkins with Center programs• Collectively provide “Transition” services
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Center for Lifelong Learning
• Dislocated Workers and Transitioning Adults services include:
• Prior Learning Assessment• Credit by Exam• CLEP and DSST Exams• Career and Academic Planning• Re-Careering Services
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Center for Lifelong Learning
Challenges and Opportunities for the Center:
• Continue to collect data to support Center • Align activities with Academic Affairs,
Student Services and Continuing Ed.• Develop programming across age
continuum from H.S. to older adults• Continue marketing to college and
community partners
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eFolio Minnesota™
LegislativeFunding$225,000/yr.
2002-2010Evolution of Efolio Minnesota™
Mesabi Range Community and Technical CollegeRoxanne Richards, Director CTCE
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eFolio Minnesota™
Workforce counselors in NE MN Region are all trained on eFolio
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Shared Curriculum – Online Manufacturing Certificate Programs360 Center of ExcellenceBemidji State University, Central Lakes College,
Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Northland Community and Technical College, Northwest Technical College, Pine Technical College, Riverland Community College, Saint Paul College, and St. Cloud Technical College.
Online certificate programs shared between colleges within the 360 Center of Excellence
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Shared Curriculum – Online Manufacturing Certificate Programs
http://www.360mn.org/
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Certificate Program Development
Anoka-Ramsey Community College Rapid Response Model
Sherry Wickstrom, Executive Director
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Certificate Program Development
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Certificate Program Development • SolidWorks!• Virtual Infrastructure Architecture (VMware)• Product Development and Project Management• Customer Service• Administrative Professional• Acupressure• Print Design• Lean Healthcare• Lean/Green• Work Place Wellness• Essential Oils• Web Development
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Certificate Program Development
After Stephanie Turkowski became unemployed she upgraded her skills by completing three popular certificate programs: Project Management, Web Design and Microsoft Office. She now works as Manager of Education at the Minnesota Medical Association.
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AACC – Prime Time Plus 50 InitiativeCentury CollegeBridgett Backman, Program Manager Chosen by the American Association of
Community Colleges (AACC) to serve as one of 5 colleges in the nation to mentor other community colleges in developing innovative programs for individuals overage 50
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AACC – Prime Time Plus 50 InitiativeThree Main focus areas:
Academic/enrichment: 86%
Training/Re-training: 58%
Service/Volunteering: 30%
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AACC – Prime Time Plus 50 InitiativeKey strategies:
• Create opportunities to interest the Plus50 audience (i.e. community based partnerships)
• Market to how they want to be addressed…Not “senior” but ageless.
• Tell your stories….• Create an advisory or volunteer group.
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AACC – Prime Time Plus 50 InitiativeLessons Learned:• Create a single point of entry or system.• Communicate often with this group – they
are the new “connected” generation.• Partner internally – Use your campus
life…Plant sale, common book, GPS, service learning, theatre, or culinary program events to bring new adult learners on campus.
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College Learning Center
St. Paul CollegePeggy Kennedy, Vice President
Creating a College Learning Center – Academic Support Center, Technology Learning Lab, English Language Learning; location will be in the CTCE building.
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.
The “whole is greater” than the sum of its parts.
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.
Learning is forever.
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.
Learning is for all of us.
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.
There are tremendous opportunities to collaborate during this time of declining resources
– Are we?
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.
We can be part of the change.
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.
3,281,066 Minnesota’s Adult Learners – Ages 18-64Currently Without an Associate Degree 1,976,325
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Moving Forward
• Be an observer,• Be a listener, and• Be an active participant.
BE A COLLABORATOR…
BE A CHANGE AGENT
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For More Information
Please contact:Bridgett - [email protected] Susan - [email protected] Peggy - [email protected] Martha – [email protected] Shari - [email protected] Jim - [email protected] Roxanne - [email protected] Steve - [email protected] Sherry - [email protected]
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“When we change lives through learning, we change the world
forever.” Shari L. Olson