California Community Colleges
Economic and Workforce Development Division
FY 2011-12
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
APPLICATION FOR ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Non-Financial Designation as a Regional Center
DISTRICT/COLLEGE:
ADDRESS:
The district/college understands and accepts the following requirements to be
designated a non-financial designation as a Regional Center of the Economic and
Workforce Development Program:

The below Performance Standards established by the Chancellor's Office will be
followed.
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Provide a full-time staff for full designation. (Limited/specific scope designations
may be approved on a case by case basis.)
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Recipients of Economic and Workforce Development Program funds must abide by
requirements contained in Education Code section 88500 et seq.
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Programs and services provided through the Economic and Workforce Development
Program non-financial designation as a Regional Center shall be flexible and
responsive to the needs identified through the initiative statewide and regional
planning process. Services shall be demand-driven, and delivery structures shall be
agile, performance-oriented, cost-effective, and contribute to regional economic
growth and competitiveness in new and emerging growth sectors and be formed,
modified, eliminated, and reformed for short- or longer-term responses customized
to the duration of the need in accordance with the funded initiative regional centers.
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The district shall ensure that activities are for expanded services and shall
implement performance accountability reporting to ensure that training, credit, and
noncredit programs remain relevant to business needs. Programs that do not
demonstrate continued relevance and support by business shall not be eligible for
continued designation.
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Regional Center services shall respond to the statewide strategic priority pursuant to
the mission of the Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development
Program. These services should be consistent with the programmatic priorities,
targeted industries, identified economic development, vocational education, and
continuous workforce training needs of a region as identified by regional business
resource, assistance, and innovation network infrastructure plans.
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All reports required by the Program will be submitted on a quarterly basis. These
include accountability measures that quantify both business and student outcomes
and seek to specifically isolate the impact of the Program on participants (Education
Code §88550(a)).
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The narrative and forms such as the Contact Page, Workplan and Application
Resource Plan Summary, Application Resource Detail sheets, Workplans, and
Contact Page are required.
All projects that receive Economic and Workforce Development Program non-financial
designation must agree to or be prepared to participate in the following activities as a
part of the statewide Economic and Workforce Development activities:
(1)
Work with the appropriate Statewide Initiative Director, other Regional Centers,
and an advisory committee to act as a regional resource and technical support
center to other community colleges and their faculty interested in expanding their
ability to provide services in the strategic priority area/industry cluster area.
Coordinate project activities with other efforts of the Program to create a
statewide network, including funded Regional Centers and Regional Consortia,
other related programs, statewide initiative committees, and short-term projects
that are in the same strategic priority area/industry cluster. This includes
attending the initiative meetings.
(2)
Work collaboratively with appropriate Statewide Initiative Director(s) and
Chancellor's Office staff in determining and carrying out Workplan activities and
objectives, and on technical assistance and compliance issues.
(3)
Work with the Chancellor’s Office on Program marketing efforts using the EWD
brand.
(4)
Have a Cooperative Agreements with the EWD funded Center which delineates
activities.
Project Director
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Chief Executive Officer
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