Rio Grande Valley Community College Apprenticeship Training Alliance

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Rio Grande Valley Community College
Apprenticeship Training Alliance DOL H-1B
Technical Skills Grant
STARR COUNTY
WILLACY COUNTY
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HIDALGO COUNTY
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CAMERON COUNTY
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South Texas Community College
Strengthening and Building Partnerships for
Workforce Development Presentation 3/3/03 Carlos
L. Margo, Training Manager South Texas Community
College The Partnership for Workforce Training
and Continuing Education
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A Brief History of STCC

• Legislatively created - Sept. 1993
• Serve over 600,000 people previously without
  access to a community college
• 28 million campus donated by the City of McAllen
• Taxing District and Bond Election-August 1995-
  8 cent MO Tax Rate- 20 million in
  construction bonds
• Maintenance Tax and Bond Election Sept. 2001- 3
  cent increase to 11 cent MO tax rate- 98.7
  million in construction bonds

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In Nine Years . . .

• ? From 1,000 to 14,467 students
• ? From a 3.9 million to a 61 million budget
• From 267 to 1,407 faculty and staff
• From 1 to 6 campuses/centers

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Student Enrollment HistoryFall 1990 to Fall 2002
TSTC
STCC
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Future Student Enrollment Targets Fall 2002 to
Fall 2010
Source PageSoutherlandPage Campus Development
Master Plan
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General Motors, Ford AND STCCPARTNERS IN
EDUCATION
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Graduate Employment
95 of STCC graduates are employed or continuing
their education
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Employer Satisfaction

• 100 would hire STCC graduates again
• 97 weresatisfied withSTCC graduates

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Unemployment Rate
Since STCCs creation in 1993, unemployment has
been cut in half
?Hidalgo County 24.1 to 12.8 ?Starr County
40.3 to 19.2
Source Texas Workforce Commission - 2002
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Critical Facts to Consider

• One quarter of all Texas counties are distressed
  (either unemployment exceeds the states 4.7
  unemployment rate by 2 and higher or 20 of 18
  years and above have less than a high school
  degree).

Source UT Pan American Data Information
System Center
Texas Border Infrastructure Coalition
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Our Greatest Challenge . . .
? Balance of Access and Excellence
? Balance of Opportunity and Success
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U. S. Department of Labor Approves 3 Million
H-1B Technical Skills Training Grant

• 3 million team effort to be matched by an
  additional 3 million from industry
  corporate sponsors
• STCC was one of only twocommunity colleges
  awardedin the nation

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H-1B Partners



South Texas Manufacturing Association

• Provide high school
• students with
• concurrent enrollment
• opportunities (high
• school/apprenticeship)
• On-line and distant
• learning will be
• incorporated via STCC
• and School districts
• distant learning labs
• Students Receive dual
• credit

• Assists as an
• educational institution
• to provide training for
• Apprenticeship Program
• Correlates programs
• with South Texas
• Community College
• Currently working on
• Plastics Process
• Technician
• Apprenticeship Program

• This Association represents
• local manufacturing companies
  
  
• Sets standards for the
• Apprenticeship Program
• Recruits new companies for the
• Apprenticeship Program

• Serves as lead educational
• institution to provide training for
• Apprenticeship Program
• Serves as lead agency and Liaison
• between the consortium members

• Assists in the leading
• research and development
• efforts with local employers.
• Studies in the Health,
• Automotive, and Building
• Trades industries

• Provide Case Management for
• Pre Apprentices Apprentices
• Give more widespread recognition
• to the Apprenticeship Program

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H-1B Project Components

• APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING PROGRAM
• Sponsored by STMA
• Training available for Industrial Maintenance,
  Tool and Die, and Plastics Process Technician
• 4-year, 8,800 hour training program
• For full-time mfg. employees
• Receive wage increases every 1,000 hours of
  training
• Certified by the US DOL Bureau of Apprenticeship
  and Training

• PRE-APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
• One-year preparatory program.
• Trains and prepares apprenticeship prospects
• Online and distance learning available
• Trainees receive dual creditpre-apprenticeship
  and STCC Associate of Applied Science in PMT.

• YOUTH PRE-APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
• Alliance working with School Districts across
  Rio Grande Valley
• Provides concurrent enrollment opportunities for
  High School students.
• Students receive dual credit--High School and
  STCC.
• Program prepares students for eventual careers in
  mfg and for entrance into STCC Apprenticeship
  Program
• On-line and Distant Learning will be incorporated
  via STCCs and School Districts distant learning
  labs.

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Schedule of Wages (per 1000 hour period)
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Tool and Die Training
    Source 1993 National Survey of College
Graduates, NSF/SRS, NTMA, PMA/TMA.
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Apprenticeship Career Opportunities
IMT- Industrial Maintenance PMT Precision
Machining Technology IE Industrial
Electricity/Electronics  Source Ranken
Technical College, St. Louis, MO.
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Apprenticeship Career Opportunities
Starting Salaries Source U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics        
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Apprenticeship Programs

• Industrial Maintenance
• Began October 2000
• 38 apprentices enrolled to date
• Tool and Die
• Began September 2001
• 38 apprentices enrolled to date
• Plastics Process Technician
• Under Development
• Training to begin
• September 2003.

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STMA Apprenticeship Training Program

• Length of Program 4 Years (8,800 hours)
• Related Instruction 800 hours
• Work Experience (OJT) 8,000
• Certification Journeyman. Certified by the
  U.S. Dept. of Labor Bureau of Apprenticeship and
  Training.
• Average Journeyman Starting Wage in McAllen
  16.00/ hr.
• Average Journeyman Wage with 10-15
• yrs. experience 40,000--50,000 / yr.

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STMA Apprenticeship Related Instruction

• TOOL DIE
• Technical Mathematics
• Blue Print Reading Drafting
• Machining
• Tool Design
• Materials Manufacturing Processes
• EDM Application
• Fluid Power
• Welding (TIG, ARC, Brazing)
• Heat Treating

• INDUSTRIAL
• MAINTENANCE
• Mathematics
• Blueprint Reading Drafting
• Mechanical Theory
• Applications
• Electrical / Electronics Theory Applications

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Apprenticeship Funding History
3,000,000
380,000
124,000
2001 USDOL/ LRG Workforce Development Board
2002 U.S Dept. of Labor H-1B Grant
2000 City of McAllen
YEAR FUNDING SOURCE
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Apprenticeship Enrollment History
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Tool Die Apprenticeship Program

• Oscar Del Angel, Tool Die Apprentice
• Sponsored by Automation Tooling Systems, McAllen,
  Texas
• Began program January 13, 2003
• Douglas Schelbert, Tool and Die Trainer.

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Youth Pre-Apprenticeship Program

• Victor Hernandez, Instructor
• Edeer Mireles, McAllen Memorial High School
  Junior
• Taking Machining I
• Began pilot program August 200

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Apprenticeship Ceremony

• Cesar Acuña, Industrial Maintenance Apprentice
• Sponsored by Automation Tooling Systems since
  August 2000
• Shown here receiving a 50 completion certificate
• From left to right is Cesar Acuña, IM Apprentice,
  Claudio Guerra, Project Training Specialist, Andy
  Martinez, IM Trainer/ Instructor, Cynthia B.
  Muñoz, Training Spec.

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Texas State Legislators Visit STCC Apprenticeship
Program
Carlos Margo, Training Manager at STCC conducts
tour of Apprenticeship training labs to
Legislators.
Glen Roney, STCC Board Chairman and Dr. Shirley
Reed, STCC President, address Legislators prior
to a facilities tour.
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Why Workforce Training?

• Training will make it possible to help close the
  gap that isolates undereducated adults in Texas
  distressed counties from high skilled jobs.
• Training is an investment in Texas most valuable
  resourceHUMAN CAPITAL!

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Why Workforce Training?

• Training can help design a career pathway system
  (K-16) that will prepare undereducated and
  underskilled Texans for the 21st century job
  market
• Training impacts Texas ability to sustain
  economic growth and become a leader in a global
  economy

Texas Border Infrastructure Coalition
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Why Workforce Training?

• Together, we can prepare the workforce to
  enter the job market with necessary skills to
  earn salaries that support a higher standard of
  living.

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Rio Grande Valley Community College
Apprenticeship Training Alliance DOL H-1B
Technical Skills Grant
STARR COUNTY
WILLACY COUNTY
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HIDALGO COUNTY
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CAMERON COUNTY
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