CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES
CHANCELLOR’S OFFICE
$50M CTE Enhancement Fund
Preview of What’s Coming &
Listening Session
Slides as of 8/5/14
California Community Colleges – Chancellor’s Office | 112 Colleges | 72 Districts | 2.3 Million Students
INTENT
To create greater incentive for California
Community Colleges to develop, enhance,
retool, and expand quality career technical
education offerings that build upon
existing community college regional
capacity to respond to regional labor
market needs.
One Time Funds
Not to be used for operational
expenses such as instruction.
Funds may be used for
Equipment
curriculum development
professional development
Other related costs necessary to
develop, enhance, retool, and
expand quality career technical
education offerings.
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CRITERIA
For CTE Programs developed with industry input,
matched* by industry resources, and adopted by faculty upon
certification** by the regional consortia.
* Evidence of industry engagement and support will be required, but no fixed amount
of match has been set.
** RC certify that programs meet the following criteria
(A) Be for occupations and sectors that are demonstrated to be in demand in the
regional labor market.
(B) Be for occupations for which regional production of employees is insufficient
to meet labor market demand.
(C) Demonstrate regional alignment of program and curricula
Demand
Supply
Priority given to
Programs that meet all the criteria and meet
at least one of the following
(A) Are in priority sectors identified by the region.
(B) Are in emerging sectors identified by the
region
(C) Are articulated with K-12 or four year
institutions.
Priority/Emergent Sectors
The Bay Region Consortium
(BACCC) has identified all ten
CCCCOEWD sectors as either
priority or emerging.
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Advanced Transportation &
Renewables
• Ag, Water, Env Technologies
• Energy Efficiency & Utilities
• Health
• Life Science/Biotech
• Info Comm Tech Digital
Media
• Trade, Export, Logistics
• Small Business
• Tourism, Retail, Hospitality
Allocation of funds
60% made available as
college “local shares”
• Calculated on formula
• Uses must conform to
criteria of budget
language
• Distributed directly to
colleges via
apportionment process
40% made available to
multi-college proposals
• multi-college applications
within regions
• multi-college applications
that cross regions
• If over-subscribed, will be
ranked against criteria or
made competitive
• Sub-granted to colleges
by Regional Consortia
Fiscal Agent
How much are we talking about?
60% allocation portion to
Bay region = $6,789,991
• 28 colleges
• Minimum is $242,500
• Based on formula, so
more likely $300,000 to
$350,000
40% proposal portion to
Bay region = $4,311,105
• Competitively
awarded based on
numerous factors
Timeline for 60% allocation share
Late
Sept
College-level allocations announced
Webinars repeated
Early
Oct
Online Pre-Application for 60% share
Mid-Oct
Colleges declare preliminary intentions for program areas, kinds of
investments in online pre-app
Late Oct
- Nov
Intentions submitted via pre-app shared publicly
Critical conversations facilitated by RCs, DSNs, SNs, and self-organized
Begin
Dec
Full application due, Reviewed by Regional Consortia for conformance
with labor market criteria
Jan
2015
Applications approved
Feb
2015
68% of funds to colleges through P1 apportionment
Mar
2016
All funds must be fully spent
Timeline for 40% proposal share
• Early 2015 proposals submitted
• Funding decisions announced shortly
thereafter
• Mar 2016 all funds must be fully spent