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Institution:
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Colorado Mountain College |
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Submitted:
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2007-03-28 |
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Timeline:
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Planned project kickoff date:
2006-01-01
Target completion date:
2008-09-01
Actual completion date:
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A. Give this Action Project a short title in 10 words or fewer:
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Improve Workforce Training & Professional Development
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B. Describe this Action Project's goal in 100 words or fewer:
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Establish the current baseline of workforce training not including the campus level contributions.
This includes credit and noncredit programs and services designed to meet the workforce development needs of organizations and individuals, including:
ď Customized business and industry training,
ď Continuing education units (CEUís) and
ď Professional education.
Define the process for campus level contribution for: business and industry training, customized contract training, continuing education units (CEUís) and professional education included in the workforce goal by Fall 2007
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C. Identify the single AQIP Category which the Action Project will most affect or impact:
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Primary Category:
Helping Students Learn
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D. Describe briefly your institution's reasons for taking on this Action Project now -- why the project and its goals are high among your current priorities:
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As we survey and build partnerships with local entities, workforce Training & Professional Development seems to be needed by the communities we serve. Our old workforce goal focused on increasing the number of workforce trainings and less on systematically improving how CMC provides these trainings and the processes involved.
ď As we invest in the culture of the learning college and helping students learn all learning will be equally important, whether credit, non-credit or CEUís and is considered a primary goal.
ď Workforce training considers the stakeholders as individuals, businesses and industry within the communities we serve to train a 21st century workforce.
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E. List the organizational areas - -institutional departments, programs, divisions, or units -- most affected by or involved in this Action Project:
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-Technical & Vocational Education
-CMC's 11 campuses & sites
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F. Name and describe briefly the key organizational process(es) that you expect this Action Project to change or improve:
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Define, track/account for all delivery of workforce training & professional development. Create & implement the mechanisms within our database to enable this. Gather feedback on the quality of training from those served.
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G. Explain the rationale for the length of time planned for this Action Project (from kickoff to target completion):
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The mechanisms for data entry began to be implemented in January 2006, but since one of the 2 coordinators left last year, this area has been studied extensively by an external consultant, as well as an internal team to determine and address areas for improvement and any necessary restructuring that may be necessary. This is still in progress.
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H. Describe how you plan to monitor how successfully your efforts on this Action Project are progressing:
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Accurate capturing into the database and reporting of all workforce training & professional development to the Board, leadership, and other internal and external stakeholders for each year beyond the baselines determined at the inception of this project. Satisfaction with the training that is provided. To this end, a policy & procedures manual/guide is being developed and campus staff will be trained to accurately track college wide worforce training.
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I. Describe the overall "outcome" measures or indicators that will tell you whether this Action Project has been a success or failure in achieving its goals:
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Workforce training & professional development trend data (entered into & available from Datatel) and increasing levels of employer/trainee satisfaction with the quality of training over baselines. The development & implementation of the policy & procedures manual/guide.
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J. Other information (e.g., publicity, sponsor or champion, etc.):
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Last Action Project Update:
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Describe the past year's accomplishments and the current status
of this Action Project. |
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| B. Describe how the institution involved
people in work on this Action Project. |
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| C. Describe your planned next steps for
this Action Project. |
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| D. Describe any "effective practice(s)"
that resulted from your work on this Action Project. |
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| E. What challenges, if any, are you still
facing in regards to this Action Project? |
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| F. If you would like to discuss the possibility
of AQIP providing you help to stimulate progress on this action
project, explain your need(s) here and tell us who to contact and
when? |
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