ERIC Number: ED610774
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Nov
Pages: 6
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A Community Anchor: A Review of Career Education Policy Barriers and Solutions. A Community Anchor: Redesigning Career Education to Support Regional Economic Development
Moore, Colleen; Tan, Connie
Education Insights Center
This final brief in the series focuses on policy options that can foster more innovation and address challenges in career education (CE) program development. It is based on earlier research for a series of reports called "Career Opportunities," aimed at identifying ways that state and system policy can best support the CE mission of the California Community Colleges (CCC). The authors: (1) revisit the primary recommendations from that series about barriers to more effective CE programs; (2) outline related actions the system has taken to address those barriers and improve CE in recent years; and (3) suggest opportunities for further changes to policy to promote the success of CE students. At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic crisis are having particularly devastating effects on California's low-income populations and people of color, ensuring that state and system policies support community colleges to provide robust and relevant CE programs to the state's displaced workers may be critical to the state's economic recovery. [Nancy Shulock was the co-principal investigator for this brief. For the first brief in this series "A Community Anchor: Student Perspectives about Career Education. A Community Anchor: Redesigning Career Education to Support Regional Economic Development," see ED610768. For the second brief in this series "A Community Anchor: College Personnel Perspectives about Developing and Implementing Career Education Programs. A Community Anchor: Redesigning Career Education to Support Regional Economic Development," see ED610773.]
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Career Education, Educational Policy, Barriers, Curriculum Development, Economic Development, Program Effectiveness, Educational Improvement, COVID-19, Pandemics, Dislocated Workers, Educational Change, State Programs, Labor Force Development
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Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: California State University, Sacramento. Education Insights Center
Identifiers - Location: California
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