The Corrections Post Secondary Education Initiative at CCV The Corrections Postsecondary Education Initiative (CPSEI) is a 3-year federal grant from the US Department of Justice. The program includes two areas of focus: education for Department of Corrections (DOC) staff, and education for Vermonters who are incarcerated. Surveys have been done and are in progress to …
How exciting, right?!! Actually, it IS exciting and new for a higher education system to have key performance indicators (KPI’s) to guide and inform the work of our system over the next 5 years through 2028. These were developed to better define what success looks like as we seek to elevate workforce development within the …
Updates on Workforce Development Projects (12/19/22) Read More »
Vermont Governor’s Office and VSC Board of Trustees have both identified workforce development as one their top priorities. To meet this aim and to best serve our students while doing so, the Vermont State College System has the following leaders: Vermont State College System: Patricia Moulton, Executive Director of Workforce Development The Community College of …
Spotlight: Complementary Roles & Workforce Development System-wide Read More »
The Workforce Core Team continues to work on defining the terms contained in the metrics the Board of Trustees approved in September. These includes, for example, defining what is meant by experiential learning and professional development will be imbedded in every degree program by 2028. The Team is working on the design of the new …
Updates on Workforce Development Projects (10/24/22) Read More »
At the Board of Trustees retreat last week, an update on Workforce Development for the Vermont State Colleges System was presented. The presentation focused on what has been done, current areas of success and for growth, as well as goals for the future. This was presented by Pat Moulton, the inaugural Executive Director for Workforce …
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The core team continues to focus on gathering and reviewing data on existing workforce development and continuing education activities across the system. Progress has been made on determining what data needs to be collected going forward. The strategy sub-team had its first of two meetings, which President Judy, President Grewal, and Chancellor Zdatny attended. Part …
The Workforce Core Team is working on collecting data needs going forward, as well as looking at historical workforce development data. This will define current activity in this work and assist with setting benchmarks to measure future success. In addition, a smaller Strategy Team is working on a design outline for workforce development at the …
We are in the process of collecting data to inform basic needs around the operations of current workforce development programs across campuses. This includes data on the number of current projects, number of people served, overall revenue (i.e. from credit and non-credit courses), sectors served, credentials offered, and more. This part of the work is …
The team is moving into the design stage. We spent more time with the Chancellor and the two Presidents to better understand their vision for workforce development, given their prior feedback at the Discovery Gate meeting. There is a clear need to develop a workforce “entity” within VTSU bringing together the existing workforce development and …
On July 11, 2022, the Workforce Development team had a day-long facilitated session to plan for the transition from Discovery to Design. On July 14, 2022, the team presented their Discovery stage gate, followed by a strategic working session with Presidents and key stakeholders. More details about the Workforce Development projects will be forthcoming as we move …
