Spring 2015 CESC Meeting Notes
April 30th – May 1st 2015
Spokane Falls Community College – Spokane, WA
[Pre-Session - New member information session was held by President Teresa McDermott with new
members as an orientation to CESC, counsels and commissions and their role with State Board]
Opening Remarks / Welcome from Host College
Participants were welcomed by site host Dani Gray, Director of Workforce Transitions at Spokane Falls,
Teresa McDermott, CESC President, and Janet Gullickson, President of Spokane Falls Community College
 President Gullickson remarked on the importance of Career and Employment Services related to
recent studies indicating that integrating service learning into the curriculum is the way to keep
students engaged and is the connection to relevancy.
Executive Committee Reports
Vice President – Edie Blakley mentioned work being done at Clark College where they are planning
Career Development work at the start of student orientation as part of a retention initiative
Treasurer – noted the fee increase next year to annual dues of $75 – still a real deal.
Secretary - Approval of meeting minutes for CESC Winter meeting 2015 deferred until day 2 of
conference when they were approved by membership
ctcLink Update
Norma Cantu (SCC), Dani Gray (SFCC) shared their perspectives as sites that are in Wave 1 of the ctcLink
implementation.
 3 Pillars of the Oracle PeopleSoft program: Financial Management (FM), Human Capital
Management (HCM), and Campus Solutions.
 Aug. 24, wave 1 of system scheduled to go live / Whole system expected to be implemented by
2017
 The online training has commenced and the system has great features
 The system design has implications for workflows that will need to be reviewed and worked out for
example in the area of approval of WorkStudy timesheets by the Career Center.
 HEUG – Higher Education User Group very useful resource with helpfulness and sharing among
users
 Tacoma Community College has seen a feature where the Education Plan creates itself and guides
the student into taking the right classes
 Wave 1 schools are engaging student ambassadors to increase user acceptance among students
Campus Tour / Break
CESC Work Group Presentations (Applied Learning, Technology, Student Employment, Career Services)
Applied Learning Workgroup (Teresa McDermott, Marybeth McCarthy, Dani Trimble)
Workgroup sponsored an Applied Learning discussion panel by the following guest speakers:
 Mike Helmburger – Career Path Services Mentorship Coordinator
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Molly Ayers – Eastern Washington University
Eastern WA University – Key points:
 Eastern is part of long-term college consortium that has developed standards of practice for student
applied learning
 Applied learning is focused on areas that are of benefit to the community and which support
community development
 Group has developed risk management practices / procedures and employer contracts
 Service Learning not in Career Services department but is supported by Career Services
 Faculty buy-in and participation an important element
 Link experience to a class “Service Learning 101”
Career Path Services – Key Points:
 Applied Learning helps Education keep up with changes in business practices
 Initially built Applied Learning relationships one student, and one employer at a time
 Able to better grow the program when got into classrooms to sell the program
 Focus on 2-4 hour job shadow experiences and plant tours
How to get started with Applied Learning:
 Think about how to scale up the program – explore funding with WDC and other funding options
 Build off support for community engagement – tell the success stories
 Expectation that future funding will be increasingly based on completion rates and these are
supported by student fieldwork experiences.
Technology Group (Brian Davidson, Edie Blakely)
Workgroup gave updates and presentations on a variety of Technology topics:
1) CESC Technology group advocated for 20 minutes a day to expand Social Media connections
2) WorkSource changeover to Monster government solutions product from old
www.go2worksource.com
 Improved case management functions
 Job matching with search recognition based on skills - ability to rank, sort and compare matches
 Uses web crawler technology to compile job listings like Indeed.com
 Resume builder with enhanced features including supports HTML and can load multiple records
 Monster OHIO a case study example of anticipated Washington State system
Unresolved questions about transition:
o What happens to client profiles on Go2WorkSource?
o CESC to develop good questions in anticipation of WorkSource implementation teams Fall visit
to CESC
Student Employment (Kate Conant, Caesar Robinson, Dani Gray)
Workgroup member Kate Conant made presentation training Career Center WorkStudy employees using
CANVAS to communicate office procedures.
Career Services Group (Natalie Wilkerson, Tiffany Windmeyer, Demetra Biros)
Workgroup member Natalie Wilkerson presented preliminary results of survey of Career Services
departments at various colleges. Showed a variety of reporting relationships, organizational structures
and staffing levels.
College Updates
CESC members shared experiences with campus employment/career events, emerging areas of local
economic demand, changes in organizational structure effecting roles of career services staff, innovative
college practices involving career services and innovative career & employment services marketing
approaches
CESC Elections
Reminder that elections for next year’s CESC officers will be held soon, and appeal for nominations for
open positions: President Elect, Treasurer and Secretary.
Conference Day 2
Council Liaison Updates
WEC Workforce Education Council of Workforce Deans and Directors
 Increased awareness of CESC and hope for future collaboration
 Centers of Excellence involved with WEC and a resource for CESC
 Encouraged to join WEC listserv/Student Services Listserv
Advising and Counseling Council-Edie Blakley
 Recent focus on student mental health issues
 Discussion of advising tracking tools and early alert systems: Advisor track, Advisor data,
Starfish, Hobson’s products, Who’s Next, Lobby
Improving Services to Customers with Disabilities
 Recommended video from DO-IT website (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and
Technology)
 Creating disability aware services in Career Centers
 Discussion: Finding career opportunities and internships for people with disabilities
 Changes in 503 – ADA, and introduction of corporate Diversity recruiters
 Educate students about their rights and disclosure do’s and don’ts
 University of WA Access services offers audit services
SBCTC Workforce Development – Nancy Dick, Director of Workforce Education
With emphasis on experiential education, and recognition of the importance of defining career goals
because of the impact on student retention “suddenly we’re cool”
Best appeal to Presidents? “We need to support high demand fields”
SSC Liaison – Robert Cox, Vice President, Centralia College
 Centralia College doesn’t have a career center
 Has been at Centralia for 8 months after sojourn at Mt Hood Community College in Gresham, OR
 CESC members made a case to Robert Cox, asking for his support in representing Career Services to
the Student Services Directors and asking for each Student Service VP to support Career and
Employment services on their campus.
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CESC request for a review of the system of how Counsels are defined, and assistance in breaking
down silos
CTC Link, in creating the “Major Declaration form” offers a opportunity for an early career planning
intervention and assessment
Changes to the funding formula for the CTC’s being considered by Presidents
SBCTC Student Services Report – Edward Esparza, Policy Associate, Student Services
 Discussed status of the state budget and impacts on the SBCTC system
 SB 5638 changed the eligibility requirements of State Need Grant program to make the grant
available to students who enroll in at least 3 credits
 HB 1052 Expanded early registration to spouses of veterans
 Attempts to address campus sexual violence – proposals & recommendations reviewed
 Community colleges have joined Washington MESA (Mathamatics Engineering Science
Achievement) formerly run out of UW, more funding voted for these programs
 Smarter Balance update / College Bound program producing another cohort / Legislative Interns
Tools for Labor Market Analysis by WEC Economic Demand Workgroup: EMSI, Burning Glass and Help
Wanted Online Presentation
 Recognition of different perspectives on/uses for, labor market tools – program development vs.
student career development
 EMSI’s Career Coach/ Analyst are quite (outrageously) expensive.
 Burning Glass - useful for gap analysis, easy to create reports. IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary
Education Data System) pulls from same data (?)
 HelpWanted Online – ESD has purchased and uses product to produce monthly reports re: “help
wanted” – answering the question, what jobs are in demand?
 Other tools: Labor Market and Economic Analysis (LMEA) data
 The purpose of data tools is to start a conversation…
CESC Election
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Nominations for CESC officers were collected for future vote of membership
Wrap-up / Adjourn
Teresa McDermott referred to the CESC goals for the 14-15 year, and summarized the group’s important
role in contributing to of student retention and completion. CESC also focused this year on our role in
the economic development of communities by supporting training of qualified workers.