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This two-year project will work with the League for Innovation in the Community College on an employment-related agenda for community colleges, providing information to administrators and instructors about state and federal legislation and examples of good practice. While the project will examine several topics related to workforce development, the first topic will be the nature of community college participation in school-to-work programs. The results will be used not only for publications of NCRVE and the League, but also for conferences and workshops sponsored by a variety of organizations for community college personnel wanting to develop workforce programs.
There is a distinction between two types of results from this project:
deliverables to the NCRVE and materials published by the League. Materials
published by the League need to go through their own editing and review
process, even though they may be based on materials developed with sponsorship
of the NCRVE. Deliverables to NCRVE, on the other hand, will report the
results of synthesis and research performed by NCRVE researchers and--while
they may serve as the basis for League publications--will not have gone through
the League's process of publication. Therefore, this project will generate
more results than simply the deliverables mentioned below.
For the first year of this project, there will be a minimum of one
deliverable, summarizing the results of examining school-to-work programs in
community colleges. There will probably be more deliverables, or one longer
deliverable covering other topics related to the occupational roles of
community colleges (e.g., curriculum integration, contract education, or Tech
Prep). However, the specific nature of these additional topics beyond
school-to-work cannot be determined until the advisory committee for this
project convenes and makes some initial decisions.
The results of this project will be disseminated through the regular
dissemination channels of the NCRVE. However, the real power of this project
will be using the network of the League for Innovation to disseminate the
results to administrators and faculty in community colleges across the country.
Subject to the approval of the League, this project anticipates the publication
of at least one League monograph and a League newsletter; presentations at the
annual meetings of the League; and incorporation of the results in the outreach
efforts being undertaken by NCRVE, the California Institute on Human Services
at Sonoma State University, and the National Council on Occupational
Education.
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