Powerful Partnerships: Addressing the Middle Skills Workforce Shortage—Community College Panel

I-AM Background

• 2nd Round of Department of Labor Funding for Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCT) Announced (March 2012)

• Iowa Community College Presidents decide to submit one TAACCT application focused on Iowa’s Advance Manufacturing industry (March 2012)

• Iowa Advanced Manufacturing Consortium grant application awarded $12,951,165.00 (Oct 2012)

• Grant Period from October 2012 to September 2016

Priorities & Strategies

• Priority One: Build stacked and latticed curriculum and career pathways in designated programs • Strategy 1: Align curriculum with relevant industry-recognized

certifications

• Strategy 2: Align non-credit offerings with credit courses

• Strategy 3: Strengthen Credit for Prior Learning options

• Strategy 4: Establish AWS Accredited Testing Facilities (ATF) throughout the state

Priorities & Strategies

• Priority Two: Build a steady pipeline of skilled workers for Iowa’s Advanced Manufacturing in demand occupations • Strategy 1: Develop a plan for remediation and contextualized learning

• Strategy 2: Utilize intensive advising at the community colleges to best match individuals to programs of study, and educate them regarding career pathways

• Strategy 3: Launch a statewide marketing effort (e.g. Dream It Do It)

• Strategy 4: Strengthen articulation from AAS to BAS at Univ. of Iowa

• Strategy 5: Enhance Technology-Enabled Learning

Priorities & Strategies

• Priority Three: Strengthen the collaboration and alignment between community college credit and non-credit programs, the workforce system, and targeted industry employers to provide a well-educated workforce and to keep and create new high quality jobs in Iowa • Strategy 1: Engage employers in credit and non-credit programs in a

systematic way

• Strategy 2: Improve partnerships with the Workforce system

• Strategy 3: Work with employers to encourage employee progression through career pathways to fill high-demand occupations and advance within their organizations

What We Hope to Accomplish

• Engage over 2,700 individuals in competency based signature training programs • Welding

• Machining

• Industrial Maintenance

• Robotics

• Align signature credit and non-credit training programs with industry certifications such as AWS, NIMS, and MSSC

• Statewide Coordination in Building Pipeline • Industry driven Marketing Campaign

• Establish 8 AWS Accredited Training Facilities in the State

Agenda Kim Didier

● Welding ● Industrial Maintenance

● Welding

● Welding ● Industrial Maintenance

● Welding ● Industrial Maintenance ● Robotics

● Welding ● Machining/CNC ● Industrial Maintenance

● Industrial Maintenance ● Industrial Automation ● Transportation & Logistics

● Welding ● Industrial Maintenance

● Welding ● Machining/CNC

● Transportation & Logistics ● Manufacturing Tech

● Welding ● Machining/CNC

● Welding ● Industrial Maintenance

I-AM Consortium Signature Programs

● Welding ● Machining/CNC

● Welding ● Machining/CNC

● Welding ● Machining/CNC

● Welding ● Machining/CNC

American Welding Society Proposed Accredited Training Facilities (ATF)

What We Are Learning . . . . Panel Discussion

• Northeast Iowa Community College

• Wendy Mihm-Herald, NICC

• Kirkwood Community College

• Kim Johnson, Kirkwood

• Toby Bral, MSI Model Builders

• Des Moines Area Community College

• Kim Didier, DMACC

• Lin Chape, The Vermeer Corporation

Business and Community Solutions

Purpose of the Certificate Programs

To address the shortage of middle-skilled employees needed for the advanced manufacturing sector and to create non-credit to credit career pathways for workers.

Business and Community Solutions In response to the needs of employers,

the program will train 340 people in the next two years (starting January 2012)

in sectors including Advanced Manufacturing and IT.

Goal Each Year Outcomes as of 1/31/13

CNC Entry Level Certificate 80 Participants 40 Certificates

CNC – College Credit 36 Students Graduates: 13 Spring, 14 Summer

Welding Certificate 96 Participants 64 Certificates

Welding – College Credit 48 Students Graduates: 14 Spring, 15 Summer

Industrial Maintenance Cert. 40 Participants Starts Fall 2013

Indust. Maint/College Credit 40 Students Customized program developed to start training Feb. 2013 (7)

Business and Community Solutions

Steps to the Program Step 1: Orientation Step 2: Pre-Enrollment Step 3: Interviews with Business and Project Team Partners Step 4: Education Option 1: Introduction to Modern Manufacturing Certificate Option 2: CNC Certificate Option 3: Welding Certificate Step 5: National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) Step 6: Employment

Business and Community Solutions

"Opportunity Dubuque is a critical economic incentive for existing businesses looking to expand as well as prospective clients weighing Dubuque against other site locations around the globe. By creating strong public and private partnerships, Dubuque is proactively closing the skills gap one step at a time. Because of Opportunity Dubuque and other robust workforce initiatives already in place, Greater Dubuque Development’s team has been able to minimize risk for key decision makers considering Dubuque for future business needs and potential workforce. Above all, Opportunity Dubuque provide a sense of comfort that Dubuque has a successful mechanism in place for recruiting talent both today and tomorrow, regardless of national shortages.”

-- Sarah Harris, Vice President

Greater Dubuque Development Corporation

Business and Community Solutions

“All partners in this effort have contributed to the successful CNC certification program that NICC offers. We currently employ, on a part-time basis, three students who were enrolled in the certificate program and one student enrolled in the diploma program. NICC has given us and many other manufacturers the opportunity to provide input on many aspects of the program, and NICC has established a great program and faculty.”

-- Rick J. Brindle, Plant Manager

Bodine Electric Company

Business and Community Solutions

“I think the new certification programs at NICC would be very beneficial to us and to all manufacturers, not only AY McDonald. I’ve always been a believer that not everyone is a four-year degree individual. There are so many opportunities for people to pursue a trade, and these types of programs at NICC need more exposure; it takes skilled people to do machining work.”

-- Sarah McDonald Hasken, Co-Vice President

A.Y. McDonald Manufacturing

Employment

Graduates hired by employer(s) Pool of Skilled Workers

Skill Validation

Class room observation (employer class room participation) DMACC Degree and Certification Industry Recognized Credential

Technical and Behavioral Training

Welding CNC Machining Quality & Safety Teamwork Timeliness Communications Conflict Resolution

Assessment of Talent

CASA Hands on Assessment (virtual

welding exercise) NCRC Funding Eligibility Interview

Recruitment of Talent

Unemployed Underemployed

DMACC and Employer Talent Supply Partnerships

Workforce Projections Credit and Non-credit Program Design

Feedback loop—start over

Solutions – Pilot Approach

Solutions – Business Success

Welding Cohort #1 - Recruitment

82 Showed Interest in the Program 16 Were accepted into Ankeny Welding Certificate Programs 2 Enrolled as credit students

45 Were provided a pathway to training

Welding Cohort #1 – Placement

16 Started the program 5 Underemployed (2 employed full-time, 3 employed part-time)

11 Unemployed 15 Completed program and offered employment

50% Passed the AWS D1.1 Qualification test 94% Had perfect attendance

87.5% Currently Employed 15 100% of completers awarded NCRC Certificate

Welding Pilot – Advanced Manufacturing

Closing thought

“This is a process not a project”. . .

Kelly Zelesnik, Dean, Engineering Technologies