High-wage, high-demand jobs in career and technical education occupational clusters make up 46% of the workforce (3.8 million workers) in New York State. For the five-year period covered by the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council's Strategic Plan, over 13,500 jobs across key Finger Lakes sectors, ranging from healthcare to manufacturing to tourism to technology, will require an associate’s degree or a post-secondary certificate.
With that in mind, MCC's second "100 Days to Innovation" project is being led by the Economic Development and Innovative Workforce Services division. Their project is to develop a new model for recruiting students into career technical education pathways at MCC, and the project consists of:
development of a survey for existing and prospective students that will measure their interests against those most common to career and technical education occupational clusters. The purpose of this exercise is to introduce career technical occupations that best match who they are; and
following the survey, interested students will have an opportunity to enroll in a pilot, 15-hour non-credit, Career Technical Education Professions/Awareness (CTE P/A) curriculum. The CTE P/A curriculum will survey career and technical occupations, lead to an electronic portfolio that incorporates an individualized educational plan, and prepare students to navigate and be successful in career technical education pathways.
The CTE Interest Inventory Survey and the CTE P/A Course will be used together to better identify prospective CTE students at select community-based organizations to create a stronger educational pathway into MCC’s Career Technical Education programming and provide a robust learning track to non-traditional and traditional student populations.
Todd M. Oldham, Vice President
Economic Development and Innovative Workforce Services
07/25/2012 |