The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.

Serving Adults in Transition: Creating Environments that Support Working Learners

May 6, 2010

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.

Workforce Development

Best Practices Initiative: Serving Dislocated Workers

Office of the ChancellorShari OlsonSystem Director

A collaborative funded by the Department of Employment and Economic Development

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Innovative PracticesASAP and Adults in Transition - Martha Kudak &

Susan Jarosak, Inver Hills Community CollegeCenter for Lifelong Learning - Steve Wagner, Lake

Superior CollegeeFolio Minnesota™ - Roxanne Richards, Mesabi

Range Community and Technical CollegeCertificate Program Development - Sherry

Wickstrom, Anoka Ramsey Community College360 Online Certificate Programs – Jim Retka,

Northland Community and Technical CollegeAACC – Prime Time Plus 50 Initiative - Bridgett

Backman, Century CollegeCollege Learning Center - Peggy Kennedy, St.

Paul College

3,281,066 Minnesota’s Adult Learners – Ages 18-64Currently Without an Associate Degree 1,976,325

Minnesota’s Adult Learners Age 18-64

Without an Associate Degree = 1,976,325

251,210 Less Than

High School Education

892,744 High School

GraduateNo College

832,371 High School

DiplomaSome College

2010 – Research and Thinkers

Hyperlinks:• Peter Smith. Harnessing America’s Wasted Tal

ent: A New Ecology for Learning. (2010).

• Louis Soares. Working Learners. (June, 2009). The Center for American Progress

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation• Lumina Foundation• Joyce Foundation

Minnesota Profile of Adult Learners 2008

Handout: • http://www.cael.org/pdf/state_profiles/MINN

ESOTA.pdf

More Research from CAEL (Adult Learning in Focus, full report)

• http://www.cael.org/adultlearninginfocus.htm

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ASAP (Adult Success through Accelerated Programs)

Inver Hills Community CollegeMartha Kudak, Director/faculty - Adult Success

through Accelerated Programs (ASAP)

ASAP provides adult learners with accelerated options for getting their 2/4 year degree through:

• EDUCATIONAL PLANNING• ACCELERATED COURSES• CREDIT FOR PRIOR LEARNING

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ASAP (Adult Success through Accelerated Programs)

ASAP Profile• Program initiated at IHCC in 1997• Average student age is 41• 69% female• Currently 800+ active student base• 100+ new students per semester• Over 5000 adult learners served• Largest accelerated degree program in MNSCU• Designated an ALFI (Adult Learner Focused Institution)• Recognized as a top community college nationally in

adult student satisfaction (Adult Learner Inventory 2006, 2009)

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ASAP (Adult Success through Accelerated Programs)

EDUCATIONAL/CAREER PLANNING written two and/or four year degree plan

ACCELERATED COURSES 6-8 week classes that meet once per week

CREDIT FOR PRIOR LEARNING CLEP, ACE, DSST, Excelsior Prior Learning Assessments through ASAP

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ADULTS IN TRANSITION

Inver Hills Community CollegeSusan Jarosak, Director of Adult Learning

Designed for adults: who are unemployed considering a new career direction thinking about coming to college.

– Initiated in 2008 as a result of US recession– New IHCC taskforce to address learner needs– Department collaborations to ensure success– Work with external partners

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ADULTS IN TRANSITION

NEW INTIATIVES:– Direct collaboration with workforce centers– Help with personal, career and educational

individualized needs – Seminars focused on career and education

(collaboration of Career Center and ASAP)– Career Center referral for individual advising– Workforce Center Education Fairs– Member Workforce Center Education Board– Collaborate with SHIFT and Academy for

Lifelong Learning

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Center for Lifelong Learning

Lake Superior CollegeSteve Wagner, Vice President

Designed to serve the “working learner” or dislocated worker

• Created in 2008-09• Merged College in the Schools, Upward

Bound and Perkins with Center programs• Collectively provide “Transition” services

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Center for Lifelong Learning

• Dislocated Workers and Transitioning Adults services include:

• Prior Learning Assessment• Credit by Exam• CLEP and DSST Exams• Career and Academic Planning• Re-Careering Services

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Center for Lifelong Learning

Challenges and Opportunities for the Center:

• Continue to collect data to support Center • Align activities with Academic Affairs,

Student Services and Continuing Ed.• Develop programming across age

continuum from H.S. to older adults• Continue marketing to college and

community partners

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eFolio Minnesota™

LegislativeFunding$225,000/yr.

2002-2010Evolution of Efolio Minnesota™

Mesabi Range Community and Technical CollegeRoxanne Richards, Director CTCE

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eFolio Minnesota™

Workforce counselors in NE MN Region are all trained on eFolio

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Shared Curriculum – Online Manufacturing Certificate Programs360 Center of ExcellenceBemidji State University, Central Lakes College,

Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Northland Community and Technical College, Northwest Technical College, Pine Technical College, Riverland Community College, Saint Paul College, and St. Cloud Technical College.

Online certificate programs shared between colleges within the 360 Center of Excellence

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Shared Curriculum – Online Manufacturing Certificate Programs

http://www.360mn.org/

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Certificate Program Development

Anoka-Ramsey Community College Rapid Response Model

Sherry Wickstrom, Executive Director

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Certificate Program Development

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Certificate Program Development • SolidWorks!• Virtual Infrastructure Architecture (VMware)• Product Development and Project Management• Customer Service• Administrative Professional• Acupressure• Print Design• Lean Healthcare• Lean/Green• Work Place Wellness• Essential Oils• Web Development

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Certificate Program Development

After Stephanie Turkowski became unemployed she upgraded her skills by completing three popular certificate programs: Project Management, Web Design and Microsoft Office. She now works as Manager of Education at the Minnesota Medical Association.

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AACC – Prime Time Plus 50 InitiativeCentury CollegeBridgett Backman, Program Manager Chosen by the American Association of

Community Colleges (AACC) to serve as one of 5 colleges in the nation to mentor other community colleges in developing innovative programs for individuals overage 50

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AACC – Prime Time Plus 50 InitiativeThree Main focus areas:

Academic/enrichment: 86%

Training/Re-training: 58%

Service/Volunteering: 30%

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AACC – Prime Time Plus 50 InitiativeKey strategies:

• Create opportunities to interest the Plus50 audience (i.e. community based partnerships)

• Market to how they want to be addressed…Not “senior” but ageless.

• Tell your stories….• Create an advisory or volunteer group.

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AACC – Prime Time Plus 50 InitiativeLessons Learned:• Create a single point of entry or system.• Communicate often with this group – they

are the new “connected” generation.• Partner internally – Use your campus

life…Plant sale, common book, GPS, service learning, theatre, or culinary program events to bring new adult learners on campus.

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College Learning Center

St. Paul CollegePeggy Kennedy, Vice President

Creating a College Learning Center – Academic Support Center, Technology Learning Lab, English Language Learning; location will be in the CTCE building.

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.

The “whole is greater” than the sum of its parts.

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.

Learning is forever.

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.

Learning is for all of us.

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.

There are tremendous opportunities to collaborate during this time of declining resources

– Are we?

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.

We can be part of the change.

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.

3,281,066 Minnesota’s Adult Learners – Ages 18-64Currently Without an Associate Degree 1,976,325

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Moving Forward

• Be an observer,• Be a listener, and• Be an active participant.

BE A COLLABORATOR…

BE A CHANGE AGENT

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For More Information

Please contact:Bridgett - bridgett.backman@century.edu Susan - sjarosak@inverhills.edu Peggy - peggy.kennedy@saintpaul.edu Martha – mkudak@inverhills.edu Shari - shari.olson@so.mnscu.edu Jim - james.retka@northlandcollege.edu Roxanne - r.richards@mr.mnscu.edu Steve - wagnerst@lsc.edu Sherry - sherry.wickstrom@anokaramsey.edu

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“When we change lives through learning, we change the world

forever.” Shari L. Olson