Professional Technical Program Approval

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Professional Technical Program Approval Brent
Jacobsen, Ph.D., Education Specialist Laura
Roach, Education Specialist CCWD-EII February,
2006
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TODAY
YIKES!
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• Program design, pathways, awards and
  credentials
• Guiding principles, approval standards,
  elements and assurances
• Key steps to approval
• Forms content
• Resources
• Q A

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OUTCOMES

• Understand systematic
  relationships
• program design
• pathways
• state initiatives
• program approval standards
• Submit contemporary designs
• focused on student outcomes

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• Locate program approval resources
• Locate and utilize state statutes and OARs
• Coordinate internal and external timelines
• Complete forms appropriately

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Initiative Confluence

• Program
• Approval
• Taskforce
• More
• Better Faster
• Pathways

Program Design
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RESULTS

• Systemic program pathway designs
• emerge

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PTE PROGRAM APPROVAL TASKFORCE
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OUR PARTNERS

• College Staff
• Amy Alday-Murray PCC
• Beth Pitonzo MHCC
• Cheryl Markwell RCC
• Carol Schaafsma LBCC
• Fred Haynes LBCC
• Glen Ferris
  CCC
• Joanna Blount SOCC
• Mary Chalkiopoulos BITS
• Ray Hoyt
  COCC
• Ron Jantzi
  Che.CC
• Scott Giltz
  CCC
• Terri Horn Che.
  CC
• Wes Tucker TVCC

• State Staff
• Brent Jacobsen
• Connie Green
• Elaine Yandle-Roth
• Ilene Spencer
• Laura Roach
• Michael Fridley
• Salam Noor
• Sue Boyanovsky

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RESULTS- Principles

• Effective and Efficient
• Consistent, Adaptable Flexible
• Clear and Easy to Understand
• Responsive

Notebook Section 2
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RESULTS- Standards Elements

• Need
• Collaboration
• Alignment
• Design
• Capacity
• 
  Notebook Section 3

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RESULTS- Assurances

• Access
• Continuous improvement
• Adverse impact detrimental
• duplication
• Records maintenance and congruence
• Notebook Section 3

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• Local
• Program
• design
• components

• State Board
• Language

Application

• Pathways

• Accreditation
• requirements

Abstract
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GATEKEEPERS

• Local College Staff
• Local POCs
• State POCs
• CCWD-EII
• State Board of Education

Notebook Section 2
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General Overview of the Program Design/Approval
Process
Process Complete
COLLEGE DEVELOPS IDEA
Contact CCWD/EII Specialist
Planning Guide pg. 4
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Implementation Date
State
Local
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THE JOURNEY OF DESIGN

• What is a program?
• Thinking big or starting small?
• Integrating Systems Instruction?

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SYSTEMIC PROGRAM DESIGN PLANNING

• Who
• What
• When
• Where
• How
• Why
• How does it relate to the larger
• system?

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PROGRAM DESIGN PLANNING

• Intended Outcomes
• Prerequisites
• Modules/Courses/Certificates/Degrees
• Capstone Tasks

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COLLEGE DESIGN PRINCIPLES
STANDARDS
ALIGNMENT
Teaching Methods
Learning Goals/Outcomes
Contexts for curriculum design and change
Regulation and Quality Assurance
Conceptions
Philosophy and Rationale
Content
Student Learning
Student Assessment
Research and Development and Strategic Change
Adapted from Higher Ed. Academy
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• Lifelong learning and training

Post Secondary Options
BS/BA
AAS Degree Options
Certificate of Completion
Certificate of Completion
Entry KSA
Pre-Community College
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AWARDS CERTIFICATIONS

• Degrees
• Options
• Certificates
• Two year
• Greater than one year
• One year
• Less than one year

Planning Guide pgs. 9-10
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DEGREES/OPTIONS 90-108 CREDITS

• General Education collegiate level
• Team teaching/appropriately qualified staff
• Course sequencing
• Small learning communities
• Technical skills- based on new trends
• Perkins Legislation
• Add value- e.g. national certifications
• Consideration of next steps/alignment and
• articulation

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AAS and AAS Options

• 90-108 Credits
• Recognizable core of general education and/or
  related instruction
• Established standard for academic achievement
• Meeting or exceeding local community college
  board or education program approvals standards
• Meeting or exceeding the State Board of Education
  program approval standards and criteria
• Oregon OARs

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CERTIFICATES 12-108 CREDITS

• Evidence of need/occupational target
• One academic year or more
• Gen Ed and/or
• Related Instruction (one year or more)
• Communication
• Computation
• Human Relations
• Additional topics e.g. safety, industrial safety
  and environmental safety (accreditation language)
• Cleary identified content
• Embedded or taught in blocks
• Appropriately qualified instructors

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• Established standard for academic achievement
• Demonstration of occupational content leading to
  employment
• Meet or exceed local program approval standards
• Meet or exceed State Board standards
• Designation of the particular occupation, career
  or career area

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RELATED OR INDEPENDENTCERTIFICATES?

• Criteria
• Common Courses
• Over one year- General Ed. Required
• Process of Approval
• Attachment 2
• Design Opportunities
• Length of Instructional Time

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AAS Option with Related Certificates of
Completion
AAS Degree- Photography
Option- Digital Photography (70 of total
program credits)
Certificate of Completion -Portrait Photography
(30 credit max.)
Certificate of Completion- Landscape Photography
(30 credit max.)
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Certificate of Completion within a Certificate of
Completion (Related)
Independent Certificate of Completion-Photography

Certificate of Completion-Dark Room
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Independent Certificate of Completion with a
Related Certificate of Completion
Independent Certificate of Completion-Photography

Certificate of Completion- Dark Room
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AAS and Independent Certificates of Completion
Independent Certificate of Completion Brakes
AAS Degree Automotive

Independent Certificate of Completion- Engine
Repair
Certificate of Completion- Fuel Injection
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Non Credit?
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COLLEGE DISCUSSIONS
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FORMS

• http//www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/pe
  rkins/postsecondary/appsandwkshts.aspx

Notebook Section 5
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NOTICE OF INTENT LABOR MARKET WORKSHEET

• Why?
• What information is needed?
• When is it due?
• CC.NOI_at_state.or.us

Notebook Section 5
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• THE FIRST FRIDAY OF THE
• MONTH!
• 4 WEEKS MINIMUM!

http//www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/pe
rkins/postsecondary/programapproval/NoticeofIntent
.doc
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LMI WORKSHEET

• Why?
• What information is needed?
• When is it needed?
• Attached to the NOI.

Notebook Section 5
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LABOR MARKET INFORMATION

• Need
• Programs lead to viable employment
• opportunities or next steps
• Stewardship of public funds
• Sustainable programs that can
• expand and contract
• http//www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/pe
  rkins/postsecondary/programapproval/lmiworksheet.r
  tf

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WORKSHEET APPLICATION

• Standards
• Elements
• Guiding Questions
• Program Highlights
• Evidence
• State Board Abstract

http//www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/pe
rkins/postsecondary/plnguide_and_app_wrksht.pdf
Notebook Section 4
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WORKSHEET/APPLICATION

• If I had more time I could have written less.
• Allow 2 months minimum!

http//www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/pe
rkins/postsecondary/pln_gde_and_app_wrksht_att.doc
Notebook Section 4
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PROGRAM AMENDMENT

• Curriculum Changes

http//www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/pe
rkins/postsecondary/programapproval/amendedccprogr
amform.rtf
Notebook Section 5
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Sources

1. Statewide Opportunities- Pathways to Advancement
2. Driving Change in Community Colleges
3. Southwestern Oregon Community College
4. Oregon Administrative Rules
5. Oregon Revised Statues
6. Higher Education Academy
7. Generic Centre
8. CCTI
9. League of Innovation
10. Commission on Colleges