Peralta CTE Committee
Priorities and Accomplishments 2014-15
PRIORITY
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Rebuild our capacity to help CTE
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students get jobs. If job placement is
done effectively, it will solve a number of
other issues related to outreach,
enrollment and resources. This is, of
course, closely linked with the Data
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priority in that we need to build systems
for collecting and tracking the placement
and employment outcome data.
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Improve budget transparency and
management. Faculty would like
greater access to their budgets and
better information about cut-offs,
deadlines, and how they can use their
funds.
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STILL NEEDED
Grant funds secured to hire
“Workforce Coordinators” at each
campus who will assist in engaging
more employers and connecting
them with faculty and students.
LaunchBoard and East Bay Business
Engagement Network developed as
tools for tracking employment
outcomes.
Staff hired (Lilian Pires) to assist in
re-loading CTE programs on CalJobs
and working with federal job
training clients (WIOA).
CTE Marketing Strategy
development and adopted by the
District Ed. Committee.
Career Pathways website nearly
done.
State will now fund CTE
Employment Outcomes Survey.
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Information about existing grants
and new grant opportunities now on
the CTE website.
Ed. Services connecting with IT re
implementing a grants management
module
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Peralta CTE Committee Priorities and Accomplishments 2014-15
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Positions need to be filled and well
connected with faculty and programs.
Faculty need support to connect with
and use LaunchBoard, LaunchPath
and related tools.
Career Centers are in different stages
of development and the relationship
to Workforce Coordinators not yet
clear in some cases.
Need to implement Marketing
Strategy, including the development of
revised districtwide collateral pieces.
Colleges hiring PIOs?
System changes are waiting for new
personnel in Finance &
Administration (new CFO is now on
board)
Delays in budget loads and carryovers
still hamper our ability to manage
grant deliverables effectively.
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Improve human resource processes
for CTE. Faculty and Deans would like
to focus on improving contracting and
hiring for CTE grant-funded and related
programs and activities.
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This issue still needs to be addressed
and becoming more pressing due to
retirements and impacted programs.
Improve procurement/purchasing
processes for CTE. These processes are
confusing and cumbersome and Deans
and Faculty are spending too much time
inefficiently to purchase equipment and
other related materials for CTE.
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This issue still needs to be addressed.
Data. Committee would like to work
with Institutional Research to
understand how data tracking and
requests are currently being handled,
discuss what improvements have been
or can be made – especially with respect
to corresponding data collection and
reporting and the necessary reporting
colleges need to do to report SLO’s for
grants and other funding streams.
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IR met with the Committee several
times. Student level data tracking
for Perkins reporting has improved.
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New challenges remain as we embark
on more effective tracking of
employment outcomes and the impact
of other activities (work based
learning, student supports) on student
outcomes.
Access to information. The Committee
would like to see greater access to
information about grants, grant
deadlines, grant reporting requirements.
KE will follow up in putting this
information on the District’s CTE
website.
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Grants information is on the CTE
website.
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Communication needs to be improved
between District/Workforce and the
colleges and faculty.
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