BACCC Regional Meeting Follow-Up

Time / Agenda Items / Discussion Leader(s)
1:30 – 1:35 p.m. / Welcome and Introductions
· Review agenda and meeting outcomes
· Co-chairs (review) / Co-Chairs:
Leslie Blackie
Karen Engel
1:35 – 2:00 p.m. / Strong Task Force Trailer Bill (recently released)
· Discussion of the BACCC regional meeting on 2 5 16
Review of the Trailer Bill language and implications for Peralta
(See Karen’s note from today’s BACCC meeting below)
BACCC Governance model feedback::
Let’s make sure all of the CTE sectors are represented (9) – (so 5 regions each plus 4 more)
How about Ohlone Biotech faculty to match with Louis Quindlen as our BACCC CTE faculty reps for the East Bay
Faculty are more stable (administrators turn over frequently)
And let’s make sure the representatives are DIVERSE….
What about students?
Mary – the goal is curriculum approval time down to 3 months….
Also, there is proposal to allow all existing curriculum of approved courses, that other colleges could just use it without additional process.
LQ: let’s remember the need for equipment! If we don’t have the equipment, we may not be able to use that course outline….there has to be a mechanism to check on that… / All
2:00 – 2:10 p.m. / CTE Minimum Qualifications proposed change to align with State Chancellor’s Office
· Discussion
· Min Quals is a District policy. But individual departments do the hiring and can make final decisions.
· CIS – if the courses are transfer vs. CTE the Mins Quals differ. But that’s problematic if the course (CIS 5) is both.
Hoi Ko – his program has a problem people coming with Master’s and no industry experience..this is an HR Dept issue
Industry pays a lot more than we do. A journeyman person may not even have an AA degree
We need to stay with the same as the STATE policy
COA is looking more at contract ed….we can use a lower level of qualification….we need that for our regular hires
What we need to do – is reflect on what skills we really need to effectively recruit people from industry (not necessarily degrees) and leave it up to the Department….We really want to have discretion to hire even if the folks we need don’t have the required degrees.
No one on the Committee or any of the CTE heads Leslie reached out have any problem with reverting to the CTE Min Quals at the state level.
LQ: let’s talk about equivalency. There are people teaching at other Bay Area CC’s but they can’t teach here because we have ridiculous equivalencies…
Equivalency really needs to be looked at much more closely. In the sciences, computer sciences, it’s crazy that we limit the search to the pure discipline. We know a PHD in Physics has plenty of math to teach math classes, certainly lower level math. And an engineer may have plenty of computer science to teach a CS. So we are missing a lot of good people!
We also have a big issue with HR not knowing what they’re looking at. They are turning down good people because they don’t understand our field and what’s what. So CTE faculty need to be involved in the initial screening process.
NEXT STEP: Leslie will get back to DAS, and we will look at other colleges that have active CTE and what their equivalency policy is and see if we can proposed (Chabot and DeAnza)
Barbara – it’s also a challenge when individuals on a hiring committee lack any expertise in the technical program we are hiring. When not enough members of the hiring committee know what we are looking for, we (as a committee, district) may again be missing good candidates because the hiring committee doesn’t understand what we’re looking for.
Rochelle: HR needs to improve their advertising and make sure we’re getting out to the right places for our industries.
RE Equivalency:
Min quals is coming up at each campus. All CTE faculty should start with their department chairs who brings it to their Academic Senate who brings it to the DAS. (RO)
Let’s look at other colleges and see what they’re doing…and get some ideas for new language
NEXT STEP: Leslie (on behalf of the committee) and Cleavon (DAS) will send out an email blast with the issue and asking dept chairs to provide feedback and possible language changes to their Academic Senate presidents who will bring it to DAS….
Equivalency language proposals will come back to this committee next month / Leslie Blackie
2:10 – 2:40 p.m. / New Grant opportunities (all posted on CTE Committee website)
· Tech Hire (DOL)
· IDRC (CCCCO)
· Basic Skills
LQ: Laney looking at adopting degree applicable Math 220 across all CTE courses ( and moving away from the CTE program specific math courses that takes up load of CTE faculty)
· OWIB RFPs / All
2:40 – 2:45 p.m. / Work-based Learning Survey / Karen on behalf of Dean Antrobus
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. / Noncredit to Credit Pathway Development / Karen Engel
3:00 p.m. / Closure
Next time: Let’s talk more about how we track job placements and how we stay in touch with alumni going forward. Let’s get students filling out the CTE Outcomes Survey when they leave too so we get a higher response rate.
Especially how we might wage a campaign, inform the students as to what it is and why they should take the time to fill It out.
FERPA
And the internal Peralta platform WE WANT TO BUILD for tracking employment outcomes….Let’s get specific about that tool and how we do that going forward…..
We also need to inform students about how to connect their peralta email with their real email address….
You can’t send an attachment to students through the Peralta email system?
Students are connected with their faculty, other students, not necessarily with the district…or college

BACCC Regional Meeting Follow-up

February 5, 2016

- Expand ICC for Richard Grotegut to help provide PD to all CIS faculty on NetLab and how they could be using it.

- We have until October 31, 2016 to completely spend CTE Enhancement Funds

- As of today we’ve spent $2.38M of $10.35M

- The state spends $2B in CTE apportionment, the average CTE student is in class 2,700 hours

- Each campus participating in April Data meeting can earn $50K plus 10 hours of TA to support CTE data usage to implement…? Bay Region Training on Friday, April 29

- In the Fall, regional workforce plans will be needed…alignment with WIOA

- Alignment of effort between K-12CTE, Adult Ed Block Grant, WIOA

o Streamline curriculum approval including potential eliminiation of state approval of CTE courses, programs, certificates

o Eliminate barriers to hiring qualified CTE instructors including evaluation of MQs

- Funds – First Year

o 5% for statewide coordination, alignment, interagency collaboration

o Balance of funds allocated to Regional Consortia

§ CCCCO recommends allocation by 8 30 16

§ Allocation based on

· Local unemployment rates

· Proportion of CTE FTES

· Proportion of projected job opennings

§ Funds may be used for regional prioritized programs and programs and locally prioritized projects and programs that meet regional needs for CTE/WFD

o To revceive funs a district must

§ Participate in regional planning efforts

§ Work with collaborative to submit plan by 1/13/17 to CO for includion in WIOA plan

§ Provide LMI and performance data

§ Increase CTE offerings or build new programs

§ Address recommendation of Strong Workforce Task Force

§ Supplement, not supplant

o Allocation to colleges is determining

- WIBs moving to regional planning units (RPUs) this fall

- Van “finessing of how things crosswalk” the systems together.

Subsequent Year Funding

Four-year plan cycles – updated each year

Funds allocated to regions on basis of

- Local unemployment rates

- Proportion of CTE FTES

- Proportion of projected job openings

- Proportion of successful workforce outcomes (WIOA measures)

CTE Leadership Group

A CEO, A CIO, A CTE Dean/Admin, A CTE faculty from each college – decision making body for the region

BACCC Consultation Council

Reduce representatives from 20 to 15 (3 from each sub-region)

Quarterly meetings, face to face

Provides oversight/direction, approves grant applications/budgets

Makes recommendations for region to consider via the CTE Leadership Group (resource allocation/other)

Deerper Engagement of CIO’s – BACCC to participate in CIOsub-regional meetings as requested by BACCC or desired by CIOs

Continue to rely on monthly BACCC calls to ensure we are serving the region

Form short-term ad hoc initiative teams as needed

Evaluate structure in two years (sooner if needed)

- Next week BACCC will prep job description, details

- Mid Feb – they’d call for nomincations/volunteers in each subregion

- Mid-March BACCC issues e ballot

- BACCC college reps consult internally before e-voting on behalf of their college

- Mid-April Council in place - -1st meeting April 15?

- First charge – recommend re-allocation of unspent CTE Enhancement funds

Alternatively – BACCC College Reps (one per college) vote

Bay Area Council

- Water & Energy

- Tech/IT

- Healthcare

- Financial Services

They are proposing to get about 10 companies together….work on AN occupation as a pilot….

And they want to work on business soft skills – this is their big issue.

They are also going to work on the data side. The Demand Side. What do the employers need, what job skills and why. They are thinking of a heat map. What are the growing occupations, what isn’t getting filled. Dive in to those…they could tap resources from employers, potentially.

JVS

On-line – Udacity

Private colleges

What’s in our favor…we’ve got the numbers 517,000 students…

BAC member Fears:

1. If we develop/improve a curriculum that it won’t be approved for 3 years (ATT went to Udacity and developed their own soft skills curriculum)

2. They work with us but the one-off approach is hard. To staff out and meet with all of the colleges and WIBs, they like a regional approach - they could try to consolidate industry work groups

Berkeley City College College of Alameda Laney College Merritt College