STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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JACK SCOTT, CHANCELLOR

California Community Colleges
Chancellor’s Office
1102 Q street
Sacramento, Ca 95811-6549
(916) 445-8752
http://www.cccco.edu /

March 9, 2012

California Community Colleges

Chancellor’s Office

RFA No. 11-301,11-302, 11-304,11-305, 11-306, 11-307, 11-308, 11-310, 11-311, 11-312, 11-315, 11-317, 11-320 & 11-322

Addendum No. 1

Economic and Workforce Development Program

For the 2012-2013 Fiscal year, RFAs noted will be renewed for the colleges that received a grant in the 2011-12 fiscal year[1]. This renewal is based on the original 2010-11 master grant specifications as well as the 2011-12 renewal RFA. In addition, the following NEW criteria were added for the 2012-2013 year:

Changes to Work Plans

Work plans should include the following changes, if applicable, to align with upcoming EWD Program restructuring[2]:

1.  For curriculum development activities, grantees should adopt a skills panel process when responding to labor market needs that results in the following (unless determined not applicable):

  1. Curriculum model definition and approval.
  2. Definition of how the curriculum articulates into a career pathway(s) or system of stackable credentials, including contextualized basic skills where relevant.
  3. Mapping to career readiness assessment.
  4. Insertion of the associated career guidance module into www.CACareerCafe.com (for community college students) and www.WhoDoUWant2B.com (for high school students).

2.  For 11-317: Statewide Leadership – As sector navigators, include how you will provide the following technical assistance:

  1. Inventory community college assets for expertise/capabilities/capacity to address labor market need.
  2. Identifying partners: employers, unions, regions, state agencies, higher education institutions, and others.
  3. Convening of partners into a skills panel to drive deliverables.
  4. As needed, propose funding framework to the CCCCO on how to build out the blueprint identified by the skills panel. This funding framework can span multiple funding sources.

Changes to Reporting

1.  For courses and/or curriculum developed and entered into the California Community Colleges Curriculum Inventory, grantees are responsible for ensuring that they are coded appropriately under Data Element CB23: Funding Agency Category. This indicates whether the course was fully or partially funded by the EWD Program. As outlined in the Data Element Dictionary:

DED# / DATA ELEMENT NAME / FORMAT
CB23 / FUNDING-AGENCY-CATEGORY / X(01)
This element describes whether or not a Chancellor’s Office Economic Development Grant was used to fully or partially develop a course and/or curriculum.
Coding / Meaning
A / This course was primarily developed using Economic Development funds.
B / This course was partially developed using Economic Development funds. These funds exceed 40% of total development costs.
Y / Not Applicable (funding not used to develop course.)

2.  Additional performance accountability outcome measures reporting may be required along with the following common metrics[3]:

  1. Measures of skills and/or competency attainment by students and workers receiving educational or workforce training services under the program. Integral to this measure is the reporting of student/employee Social Security Number[4].
  2. Measures relevant to program completion, including measures of course, certificate, degree, and program of study rates of completion for students/workers receiving education/workforce training services under the program.
  3. Measures of employment placement and/or measures of educational progression (e.g., transfer readiness) for students/workers receiving education or workforce training services under the program, depending on whether the client is entering the labor market or continuing in education.
  4. For those who have entered the labor market following completion of the education or workforce training services offered under the program, measures of income, including wage measures[5].
  5. A quantitative assessment of impacts on businesses receiving services under the program. These may include data pertaining to profitability, labor productivity, workplace injuries, employer cost savings resulting from improved businesses processes, levels of customer satisfaction, employee retention rates, estimates of new revenue generated, sales, and market penetration, as well as information pertaining to new products or services developed.

Required Documents

The following documents are required for submission:

·  Grant Agreement Face Page: Four copies signed in a color other than black. (Please Note: This will be emailed to the project director.)

·  Contact Page (If changes were made from the previous year.)

·  Work Plan (Including new criteria if applicable.)

·  Application Budget Summary (Signed in a color other than black.)

·  Application Budget Detail

·  Application Match Detail

Significant Dates

Key Dates / Events
Friday, March 9, 2012 / Addendum Announced
Monday, April 9, 2012 / Required Documents are due
July 1, 2012* / Grant Start Date
*Pending the signing of the Governor’s State Budget.

For questions regarding this Addendum please contact Ray York, Dean of Industry Partnerships Practices, (916) 324-5646, .

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Attachment 1

Districts and Colleges Receiving a 2012-13 Grant Renewal

DISTRICT / COLLEGE / RFA /
Allan Hancock CCD / Allan Hancock College / Environmental Training Center
Butte-Glenn CCD / Butte College / Health Workforce Initiative
Training & Development
Statewide Leadership - HWI
Cabrillo CCD / Cabrillo College / Business Entrepreneurship Center
Cerritos CCD / Cerritos College / Advanced Transportation, Technology & Energy
Coast CCD / Golden West College / Health Workforce Initiative
Desert CCD / College of the Desert / Advanced Transportation, Technology & Energy
District / Statewide Leadership - ATTE
El Camino CCD / District / Statewide Hub - CACT
El Camino College / Centers for Applied Competitive Technology
Statewide Leadership - CACT
Workplace Learning Resource Center
Foothill-DeAnza CCD / DeAnza College / Centers for Applied Competitive Technology
Foothill College / Statewide Hub - WLRC
Statewide Leadership - WLRC
Grossmont Cuyamaca CCD / Grossmont College / Health Workforce Initiative
Cuyamaca College / Environmental Training Center
Workplace Learning Resource Center
Hartnell CCD / Hartnell College / New Media and Entertainment
Kern CCD / District / Business Entrepreneurship Center
Long Beach CCD / Long Beach City College / Advanced Transportation, Technology & Energy
Los Angeles CCD / Los Angeles Valley College / New Media and Entertainment
Los Rios CCD / American River College / Advanced Biotechnology Center
Statewide Leadership - BioTech
Statewide Hub - BioTech
District / Centers for International Trade Development
Workplace Learning Resource Center
Statewide Hub - COE
Merced CCD / Merced College / Centers for International Trade Development
Workplace Learning Resource Center
Mira Costa CCD / Mira Costa College / Business Entrepreneurship Center
Mt. San Antonio CCD / Mt. San Antonio College / Centers of Excellence
Napa Valley CCD / Napa Valley College / Business Entrepreneurship Center
Statewide Leadership - ETC
North Orange County CCD / Cypress College / Advanced Transportation, Technology & Energy
SCE / Environmental Training Center
New Media and Entertainment
Statewide Hub - ETC
Ohlone CCD / District / Advanced Biotechnology Center
Pasadena Area CCD / Pasadena City College / Advanced Biotechnology Center
Statewide Hub - BioTech
Rancho Santiago CCD / District / Business Entrepreneurship Center
Centers for International Trade Development
Statewide Hub - BEC
Statewide Leadership - BEC
Riverside CCD / Riverside College / Statewide Leadership - CITD
San Bernardino CCD / San Bernardino Valley College / Centers of Excellence
Statewide Hub - COE
San Diego CCD / San Diego City College / Centers for Applied Competitive Technology
San Diego Miramar College / Advanced Transportation, Technology & Energy
Advanced Biotechnology Center
San Francisco CCD / City College of San Francisco / Advanced Transportation, Technology & Energy
Centers of Excellence
San Jose-Evergreen CCD / San Jose City College / Statewide Leadership - COE
San Luis Obispo County CCD / Cuesta College / Business Entrepreneurship Center
San Mateo County CCD / Skyline College / Centers for International Trade Development
Santa Barbara CCD / Santa Barbara City College / Health Workforce Initiative
Statewide Hub - NME
Statewide Leadership - NME
Santa Clarita CCD / College of the Canyons / Centers for Applied Competitive Technology
EWD Program Coordination
Sequoias CCD / College of the Sequoias / Centers for Applied Competitive Technology
Shasta-Tehama-Trinity CCD / Shasta College / Business Entrepreneurship Center
Sierra Joint CCD / Sierra College / Centers for Applied Competitive Technology
Southwestern CCD / Southwestern College / Centers for International Trade Development
State Center CCD / District / Statewide Hub - CITD
Ventura County CCD / District / Workplace Learning Resource Center
West Valley-Mission CCD / Mission College / Environmental Training Center
Statewide Hub - ETC
Health Workforce Initiative
West Valley College / Advanced Transportation, Technology & Energy
Statewide Hub - ATTE
Workplace Learning Resource Center
Yosemite CCD / Modesto Junior College / Centers of Excellence

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Attachment 2

Community Colleges at the Heart of Workforce Education and Training

Community colleges play a lead role within the State of California’s workforce development system, which comprises a wide range of agencies, departments, programs and funding streams focused on helping students, unemployed adults, incumbent workers, veterans, and underemployed workers obtain the skills and credentials needed to participate successfully in the workforce and move along a career and wage progression.

In that context, the Economic and Workforce Development (EWD) program shall:

·  Be responsive to the needs of employers, workers, and students.

·  Collaborate with other public institutions, aligning resources to foster cooperation across workforce education and service delivery systems, building well-articulated career pathways.

·  Have programmatic decisions that are data-driven and evidenced-based, investing resources and adopting practices on the basis of what works.

·  Develop strong partnerships with the private sector, ensuring industry involvement in needs assessment, planning, and program evaluation.

·  Be outcome oriented and accountable, measuring results for program participants, including employers and workers.

·  Be accessible to employers, workers, and students who may benefit from its operation.

Goals

The Economic and Workforce Development (EWD) program is to do all of the following[6]:

1.  To advance California's economic growth and global competitiveness through education, training, and services that contributes to continuous workforce improvement.

2.  To bolster California's economic and jobs recovery through labor market-aligned education, workforce training services, and sector strategies that include workforce improvement, technology deployment, and business development that meet the needs of California’s competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry clusters.

3.  To use labor market information to advise the Chancellor’s Office and regional community college bodies on the workforce needs of California’s competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry clusters.

a.  To the extent possible, the EWD program shall work with, share information with, and consider the labor market analyses produced by the Employment Development Department’s Labor Market Information Division and the California Workforce Investment Board.

b.  EWD may also use its own resources to bolster and refine these labor market and industry sector and industry cluster analyses to fulfill its mission.

4.  To provide logistical, technical, and communications infrastructure support that engenders alignment between the career technical education programs of the community college system and the needs of California’s competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry clusters.

5.  To collaborate and coordinate investment with other state, regional and/or local agencies involved in education and workforce training in California, including but not limited to the California Workforce Investment Board, the Employment Training Panel, the California Department of Education, and the Employment Development Department

6.  To identify, acquire, and leverage community college and other financial and in-kind public and private resources to support economic and workforce development and the career technical education programs of the state’s community colleges

7.  To work with representatives of business, labor, and professional trade associations to explore and develop alternatives for assisting incumbent workers in the state’s competitive and emerging industry sectors. A key objective is to enable incumbent workers to become more competitive in their region’s labor market, increase competency, and identify career pathways to economic self-sufficiency, a living wage, and lifelong access to good paying jobs.

EWD is an essential program contributing to CCCCO goals of supplying in-demand skills for employers, creating relevant pathways and stackable credentials, getting Californians into open jobs, and ensuring student success.

Economic and Workforce Development Program Objectives[7]

·  To analyze, secure, and disseminate labor market data in a way that informs and supports state, regional and local decision-making regarding college programming, including decisions to increase or decrease investments in programs of study in context of the regional economy

·  To adopt a skills panel process, as a default process, when responding to labor market needs.

·  To moderate the workforce system complexity for industry and partners who interact with the community colleges – in particular, for those competitive and emergent sectors that span multiple geographic regions and a multitude of colleges – through a network of sector navigators.

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Attachment 2

DOING What Matters ™ for Jobs & the Economy

To better address the structural skills mismatch, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, Workforce and Economic Development Division (WED) will embark on a two-year campaign for DOING What Matters™ for Jobs & the Economy. This four-pronged effort will inform local decision making, address regional economies and focus on competitive and emerging industry sectors.

DOING What Matters ™ for Jobs & the Economy

Doing What Matters™ will reinforce student success through skills panels. Once an unmet labor market need is identified:

·  A sector navigator, if needed, will be designated to moderate the complexity of the workforce system.

·  An inventory of community college assets for expertise/capabilities/capacity will be collected to address labor market need.

·  Potential workforce partners: employers, unions, regions, agencies (CDE, CC, CSU, UC, CWIB, local WIBs, ETP, EDD, etc.), other will be identified.

·  Partners will convene into skills panel to drive deliverables:

ü  Curriculum model definition/approval

ü  Define career pathway or systems of stackable credential articulation, including contextualized basic skills

ü  Map to career readiness assessment

ü  Insert career guidance module into CACareerCafé.com and WhoDoUWant2B.com

·  A proposed funding framework to build out blueprint will be developed (RFA should include common metrics)

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[1] See Attachment 1: Districts and Colleges Receiving a 2012-13 Grant Renewal

[2] See Attachment 2: DOING What Matters ™ for Jobs & the Economy

[3] Some measures are not yet collected but are in anticipation of EWD program restructuring.

[4] Currently, 93% of students served by community colleges statewide provided their SSN so that the CCCCO can retrieve wage data from EDD.

[5] As referenced earlier, 93% of students served by community colleges statewide provided their SSN so that the CCCCO can retrieve wage data from EDD.

[6] Goals incorporate upcoming EWD program restructuring.

[7] Objectives reflect upcoming EWD Program restructuring.