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Specialized Working Groups

Specialized working groups (SWGs) allow learning community members from state entities to engage more deeply on topics of interest.
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Each working group is facilitated by a subject matter expert who leads the interactive training and discussion. If you are with a state entity and are interested in joining a working group, please email Paula Nissen at Paula.Nissen@niacc.edu with a request to be added to the SWG that is of interest to you.

Specialized Working Group topics include:

Workforce Pell Landscape

Amy Cable, Louisiana Community and Technical College System

These sessions will provide participants with national updates, data collection strategies and challenges, state implementation and approval processes in addition to financial aid impacts and policy implications.

 

Noncredit to Credit Alignment

Denise Zieske, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Workforce Development, State University of New York

These sessions will provide information and encourage discussion around noncredit to credit alignment initiatives, policy pertaining to common course numbering, articulation and data sharing agreements, employer validation and its importance and identification of in-demand skills, pathways, apprenticeships, work-based learning and more.

 

Aligning Education Data & Labor Market Information

Paula Nissen, The Institutional Research Collaborative

These sessions will include data collection, incorporation, and relationship building.  State examples of H3 (high demand, high wage, high skill) determinations, the importance of CIP to SOC relationships including resources for determining gap analyses (supply to demand).

 

Building the 4-Year Noncredit Taxonomy

Rachel Boon, Iowa Board of Regents and Justin Vinton, Rutgers University

These sessions will provide input in designing the taxonomy for 4-year institutional taxonomy using the current 2.0 structure.  Participants will have the opportunity to identify modifications and design a taxonomy that is representative of their needs in addition to identifying barriers to data collection and subsequent analyses.
 
 
Telling the Story of Nondegree/Noncredit Training

Details to come

These sessions will work to identify partners across institutions/agencies which may help colleges identify connectivity needed to pursue policy changes and possibilities of funding.  Telling the story of the importance of collecting the data necessary to tell the story and connect to other data sources can assist institutions highlight the connection to students, colleges, employers and other stakeholders pertaining to nondegree/noncredit training

Previous SWG topics:

Data Collection 101
(Where Do I Start)/Techniques

Vladimir Bassis, Iowa Department of Education

Aligning Program Data with Labor Market Information

Paula Nissen, The Institutional Research Collaborative

Policy & Governance (Developing Partnerships)

Amy Cable, Louisiana Community and Technical College System

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