Tech Prep

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• Tech Prep
• A leading Dual-Credit program for
• high school students,
• . . . and a best kept SECRET!

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What is Tech Prep?

• A dual credit program
• Students earn college credit while in high school
• Without leaving their high school
• In vocational classes
• Head start on college and career pathway

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What is Tech Prep?

• The definition of Tech Prep
• Leads to an associate degree or certificate
• Provides technical preparation in a career and
  technical education program
• Builds student competence in mathematics,
  science, and communication (including applied
  academics)
• Leads to placement in employment

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22 Tech Prep Consortiums
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Tech Prep Partnerships

• Community and Technical Colleges
• Universities
• School Districts
• Business and Labor
• Community
• Unique!!!!
• Secondary / Post secondary / Workforce

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State Statistics Number of Students earning
College Tech Prep credits
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State Statistics Number of College Tech Prep
credits earned
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Positive Impacts 2004-05 Statistics

• Families saved 5.0 million in tuition - if they
  had paid for these college credits at a CTC
• Taxpayers saved 8.1million in state-supported
  education - if these credits were earned by
  enrolling in the classes at a CTC
• Total savings of 13.1 million
• Federally funded for 1.9 million

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Benefits . . .

• Advantages for all students
• Direct college credit transcript
• Credits may be applied toward professional-technic
  al degree or certificate
• College credit on resume helps students stand out
• Students entering military may be eligible for
  promotion and pay raise
• Students and parents save time and money
• Possible priority registration at college
  awarding credit
• Credits may be used in a variety of ways
• Not exclusive of other dual credit programs

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Articulation Agreements

• Tech Prep Articulation Agreements
• Use a common set of competencies
• Designed to eliminate duplication in high school
  and college courses
• Enable students to earn college credit

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Articulation Agreements

• A combined secondary and post-secondary program
  that provides a seamless educational pathway.

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Articulation Agreements

• A combined secondary and post-secondary program
  that provides a seamless educational pathway.

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Competitive Edge

• Students enrolling in a sequence of courses and
  continuing on in the same program at the college
  level to achieve a certificate or Associate
  degree have a competitive edge in the workforce

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Ford Foundation Project Bridges to
Opportunity Postsecondary Access and Success
for Low-Income Students

• David Prince, Senior Research Manager, SBCTC
• The Bridges project provides ways to identify
  policy goals to increase education attainment and
  workforce success for CTC students.
• The Bridges project is helping us learn how best
  to serve low income students, in particular
  working age adults.
• The results are applicable to all students.

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Economic attainment

• Students who complete short custom training to
  get a job (but attain less than 1 year of college
  credit) earn 3,800 less per year than those who
  have credential 1 year of college credit
  6,800 less per year if they started from basic
  skills.
• 1 year of college level credits plus a credential
  is the tipping point for students needing to find
  career pathways.
• Jobs that need 1 year college level credit
  credential are among those in greatest demand.

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More Options . . . ?

• Dual Goals
• For technical degree graduates
• Employers want both theory and practice
• Resulting in many more technical degree transfers
• http//www.sbctc.ctc.edu/transfer/applied.asp

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What About Transfer?
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AAS-T Degree
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Applied Baccalaureates

• Colleges pilots selected based on
• Analysis of gaps in service delivery
• Capacity
• Student employer demand for programs
• The baccalaureate pilots and university centers
  bring education to people where they need it.
• People are able to come and to finish what they
  started.

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Summary . . .

• Tech Prep is a cooperative effort
• Tech prep offers savings
• Tech Prep provides options for high school
  students
• College credits
• Verified work skills
• Questions???

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• Tech Prep
• is the AP
• of CTE!