Center for Workforce and Community Education

1
Center for Workforce and Community Education

• 2005 Showcase

2
Our Presentation

• Mission
• Staff
• Goals
• Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
• Accomplishments
• Most Important Issues
• Recommendations for Improvement
• Do You Know?

3
Center Mission

• dedicated to the continuous improvement of the
  community through adult education. The Center
  advances the quality of life in the community by
  providing life-long learning opportunities
  intended to enhance personal, economic, and
  regional development.

4
Center for Workforce Staff
5
FAC Staff
6
LGC Staff
7
Goal 1

• Enhance personal development by providing
  life-long learning opportunities through adult
  education.
• 1.1 Provide relevant personal enrichment courses
  for life-long learning.

8
Goal 2

• Enhance economic development by providing
  life-long learning opportunities through adult
  education.
• 2.1 Provide relevant economic development by
  providing professional enrichment courses for
  life-long learning in a timely manner.

9

• 2.2 Ensure business and industry client
  satisfaction through return on investment,
  contract clients.

10
Goal 3

• Enhance regional development by providing
  life-long learning opportunities through adult
  education.
• 3.1 Provide relevant courses to enhance regional
  development.

11
Strengths

• Clear mission and goals
• Excellent adjunct instructors
• Options now available for financial aid
• Marketing
• Strong support from other departments
• Good frontline customer service
• Variety and depth of classes

12
Weaknesses

• Communication
• Staffing shortage
• LGC office facilities
• LGC lack of classroom facilities
• Cross training
• Difficulty in advance planning

13
Opportunities

• Additional locations for classes
• Population growth
• Ever expanding technology
• Staff and adjunct instructors
• Additional offerings

14
Threats

• Outside competition
• Insufficient state funding
• Expansion of responsibilities
• Staffing
• LGC facilities
• Limited pool of instructors

15
Accomplishments

• Opening of the Workforce and Technology Center at
  the Fredericksburg area Campus
• Germanna Center for Advanced Technology, building
  under construction
• Initial Career Ladder Series complete
• HTI Voice and Data Cabling Lab
• Network Security program in place

16
Accomplishments

• Local Government Academy
• Library of Congress collaboration
• Partnership with Spotsylvania Economic
  Development
• Professional Administrative Professional Retreat
• Event Management

17
Accomplishments

• Visual and Decorative Design Certificate
• Summer Kids programming
• Testing Center for Industry Certifications
• Development of viticulture and enology programs

18
Most Important Issues

• Creation of new offerings that match the needs of
  local business and industry
• Working toward becoming self-supporting
• Increasing client/customer base

19
Recommendations for Improvement

• Concentrate more on marketing activities
• Carry out staffing plan
• Decrease course cancellations
• Solidify plans for Germanna Center for Advanced
  Technology in Culpeper
• Utilize more consultants for the planning and
  implementation of new and expanded programs

20
Recommendations for Improvement

• Enhance events programming and events management
• Build a stronger bridge between noncredit and
  credit

21
Do You Know?

• We had a duplicated headcount of 4013 students in
  2003-4004. 840 students took the motorcycle
  safety training course
• We work with 129 adjunct faculty
• Since the opening of FAC Workforce and Technology
  Center in November, we have hosted 33 events
• We offered 459 open enrollment classes in
  2003-2004

22
Do You Know?

• We offered 44 contract courses
• We participated in 123 community and economic
  development events
• Offered 37 on-line classes
• Revenue is used in support of a wide range of
  college initiatives

23
Do You Know?

• Workforce staff is also responsible for
• Supervising Distance Education
• Coordinating Path to Industry Certification
• Providing an alternative to the Writing SOL for
  public schools
• The Career Readiness Certification
• Work Profiling
• Paraprofessional testing for No Child Left Behind
• Actively participating on a variety of community
  boards and committees

24
Do You Know?

• The Advanced Technology Center is on schedule for
  a 2006 opening