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State Policy Leadership in Higher Education – Six Case Studies

by Nancy Shulock and Colleen Moore | Jul 2014 | College and Career Readiness and Success, Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs

This report provide six mini-case studies of higher education policy reforms enacted in other states, exploring the important role that state policy leadership played in developing, promoting, and implementing these policies aimed at improving higher education outcomes, and discussing the relevance of each reform effort for California. This report follows two reports: an update of California higher education performance, Average Won’t Do, and A New Vision for California Higher Education, an effort to engage stakeholders around a vision more suited to today’s students and economic conditions than the 1960 Master Plan. Together, the reports underscore the urgency of efforts to improve leadership and policy for higher education in California, and offer ideas for how this might be accomplished.

Workforce Investments: State Strategies to Preserve Higher-Cost Career Education Programs in Community and Technical Colleges

by Nancy Shulock, Jodi Lewis, Connie Tan | Aug 2013 | Career and Technical Education, Reports and Briefs

This report addresses the challenge of financing community college career and technical education programs. It examines finance policies and practices in 20 states and identifies five strategies that may help preserve higher-cost CTE/workforce programs. The report is intended as a resource for education leaders and policymakers in California.

Career Opportunities: Career Technical Education and the College Completion Agenda – Part III: Promising CTE Policies from Across the States

by Nancy Shulock, Eric Chisholm, Colleen Moore and Latonya Harris | Sep 2012 | Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness and Success, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

This report is the third in the four-part series on career technical education in the California Community Colleges. It examines policies in other states that might offer helpful lessons for shaping CTE in California to better meet student and employer needs. It provides examples in the following five policy areas: degree and certificate programs offered; curriculum structure and delivery; high school – community college – workplace pathways; financing CTE – college and student costs; and accountability.

Career Opportunities: Career Technical Education and the College Completion Agenda – Parts I and II (summarized)

by Nancy Shulock, Colleen Moore, Su Jin Jez and Eric Chisholm | Mar 2012 | Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness and Success, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

This policy brief is a summary of the first two reports in a series on career technical education in the California Community Colleges. The first report analyzes the complex organizational structure and funding arrangements for the CTE mission and the closely related economic and workforce development mission, while the second report examines the full set of career-technical certificate and associate degree programs offered by the CCC. The brief identifies key issues discussed in the two reports that will need to be addressed as efforts proceed to increase the effectiveness of CTE.

Career Opportunities: Career Technical Education and the College Completion Agenda – Part II: Inventory and Analysis of CTE Programs in the California Community Colleges

by Colleen More | Feb 2012 | Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness and Success, K-12 Reform, Postsecondary Reform, Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

This report is the second in the four-part series on career technical education in the California Community Colleges. It examines the full set of career-technical certificate and associate degree programs offered across the system as a basis for understanding how well the CTE programs are meeting students’ needs to identify, enroll in, and complete programs with real value in today’s labor market. In the report, researchers evaluate the findings against a set of criteria, based on a literature review, that characterize an effective CTE mission and identify key issues that will need to be addressed to increase the effectiveness of CTE.

Career Opportunities: Career Technical Education and the College Completion Agenda – Part I: Structure and Funding of Career Technical Education in the California Community College

by Nancy Shulock and Jeremy Offenstein | Jan 2012 | Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness and Success, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

This report is the first in a four-part series on career technical education in the California Community Colleges. It describes the complex organizational structure and funding arrangements for the CTE mission and the closely related economic and workforce development mission. It offers a set of criteria, based on a literature review, that characterize an effective CTE mission and identifies five key issues that will need to be addressed as efforts proceed to increase the effectiveness of CTE in the California Community Colleges.

The Road Less Traveled: Realizing the Potential of Career Technical Education in the California Community Colleges

by Nancy Shulock, Colleen Moore and Jeremy Offenstein | Feb 2011 | Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness and Success, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

This report examines four high-wage, high-need career pathways in the California Community Colleges as a basis for exploring the career technical education mission and its role in the college completion agenda. The study found that the potential of CTE to help meet the state’s completion, workforce, and equity goals is not fully realized due to a lack of priority on awarding technical certificates and degrees and an absence of clear pathways for students to follow in pursuing those credentials. The report offers recommendations to strengthen the CTE function.

Technical Difficulties: Meeting California’s Workforce Needs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Fields

by Jeremy Offenstein and Nancy Shulock | Jun 2009 | Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness and Success, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

This report draws attention to California’s looming shortage of educated workers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, as the demand for such workers increases and the state is producing too few graduates to meet the demand. The report offers recommendations to meet workforce needs and maintain the economic benefits that have resulted from the state’s historical strength in STEM employment.

Facing Reality: California Needs a Statewide Agenda to Improve Higher Education Outcomes

by Nancy Shulock and Colleen Moore | Oct 2007 | College and Career Readiness and Success, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy

This report examines seven states that share California’s high rates of growth and demographic change to see what California can learn about how to improve access to and success in postsecondary education.

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