Pennsylvanias 21st Century Workforce Initiatives

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Pennsylvanias 21st Century Workforce Initiatives
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Overview

• 21st Century Economic Realities
• PA Workforce Development Goals
• Job Ready PA Investments
• Focus on Targeted Industry Clusters
• Discussion

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The Knowledge Based Economy

• Today, the knowledge required to run the economy
  which is far more complex than in our past, is
  both deeper and broader than ever before. We
  need to ensure that education in the United
  States, formal or otherwise, is supplying skills
  adequate for the effective functioning of our
  economy.
• Alan Greenspan, Former Chairman of the Board
  of Governors of the US Federal Reserve, at the
  Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce 2004 Annual
  Meeting, Omaha, 20 February 2004

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21st Century Economic Realities

• Rapidly changing new technologies
• Globalization
• Shift to a service-dominated economy
• Business restructuring
• Erosion of career ladders
• Increase in career and job changes

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21st Century Economic Realities

• Median Personal Income of Pennsylvania Workers
• by Educational Attainment, 2005

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21st Century Economic Realities

• Unskilled jobs are disappearing and demand for
  higher skills is rising

Source U.S. Bureau of Census and Pennsylvania
Department of Labor and Industry, Center for
Workforce Information and Analysis (Pennsylvania
statewide)
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PA Workforce Development Goals

• Strengthen Pennsylvania Industries and Create
  Industry-Led Training Strategies
• Increase Opportunities for Pennsylvanias
  Residents
• Prepare Our Youth for the Careers of Tomorrow
• Implement Rigorous Accountability Standards
• Job Ready PA 91 million in new investment

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Job Ready PA Keeping Pennsylvania Competitive
Creating Opportunities

• Increased funding for community colleges of
  22.8 million in fiscal year 05/06, the largest
  increase in 15 years, is enhanced with another
  increase of 12.6 million in fiscal year 06/07
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Job Ready PA Industry Partnerships

• Strengthen Pennsylvania Industries and Create
• Industry-Led Training Strategies
• Develop Regional Industry Partnerships
• Align training and education resources to
  industry demand
• Aggregate training needs
• Promote industry-recognized certifications and
  develop career ladders within and between firms

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Pennsylvanias Workforce System Must Be
Industry-Led Nationally Award Winning Cluster
Analysis
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Focus on High Priority Occupations

• Aligns workforce training and education dollars
  with targeted industry clusters
• Defined as
• Job categories in demand by employers
• Have higher skill needs
• Most likely to provide family-sustaining wages

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Focus on High Priority Occupations

• High Priority Occupations Will Govern
• Equipment and curriculum development grants to
  Career and Technical Education centers
• WAGE - financial aid for working adults
• Community College stipends for credit workforce
  development courses and reimbursement for
  non-credit workforce development courses
• Equipment grants for areas of the state that are
  educationally underserved

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Job Ready PA Investments

• Increase Opportunities for Pennsylvanias
• Residents
• Opportunities for those already employed
• Train 7,000 incumbent workers in targeted
  industries
• Provide 10,000 adult students with financial aid
  through Workforce Assistance Grants for Education
  (WAGE)
• Increased funding for community colleges

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Industry led Initiatives Keep Businesses
Competitive and Create Opportunity

• Address Pennsylvanias Critical Health Career
  Needs
• A 40 million PHEAA funded initiative supporting
  PA Center for Health Careers Nurse Education
  Capacity Recommendations
• Nurse Educator Fellowships
• Clinical Education Expansion Programs
• Attraction and Retention Projects

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Make Getting More Education and a Degree More
Affordable for Adults

• Accelerate Degree Attainment
• Core-to-Core Articulation
• Require colleges to accept all credits from one
  community college to another and from community
  colleges to 4-year colleges and universities
• Accelerate degree attainment by making credits
  transferable

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Make Getting More Education and A Degree More
Affordable for Adults

• Accelerate Degree Attainment
• Prior Learning Assessment
• Develop a credit course or a non-credit
  instructional program that assists students in
  evaluating and awards credit for knowledge and
  skills gained from non-traditional education and
  work experience
• Accelerate degree attainment through prior
  learning assessment

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Higher Education in the 2006-07 Budget
Pennsylvania is making significant investments in
higher education funding in the 2006-07 budget,
increasing funding by 3.7 percent. According to
a 2005-06 study by the College Board,
Pennsylvania had the best national ranking for
tuition at four-year public institutions.

• 5.0 increase for the Community Colleges . . . .
  . . . . . . . . . 264.7 M
• 4.5 operating increase for State System of
  Higher Education ... 483.0 M
• 4.0 operating increases for the State-Related
  Universities Penn State University . . . . . .
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  322.4 MUniversity of
  Pittsburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  . . . . . . . . . . 163.1 MTemple
  University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  . . . . . . . . . . . 168.7 MLincoln
  University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.5
  M Total State-Related Universities . . . . . .
  . . . . . . . . . . . .
  667.7 M
• 3.0 for Non-State Related Universities and
  Colleges . . . .
  87.5 M
• 4.9 increase for the Pennsylvania Higher
  EducationAssistance Agencys Grants to Students
  program . . . . . . . . 386.2 M
• 119.4 for SciTech Scholarships . . . . . . . . .
  . . . . . . . . . . . .
  6.8 M
• Expansion of clinical education opportunities and
  student
• retention activities to address a projected
  shortage of nurses
  10.0 M

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Job Ready PA Investments

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• Prepare Our Youth for the Careers of Tomorrow
• Improve the skills of high school graduates
• Project 720
• Dual Enrollment
• Career and Technical Education

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Performance Management Plan

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• Implemented July 1, 2004
• Workforce and economic indicators demonstrating
  how Pennsylvania compares to other states
• Common quantitative measures for all programs
• Strategic measures that determine whether the
  program met overall commonwealth goals
• Publish Annual Reports

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High Performance Local Workforce Investment Boards

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• Prepare Our Youth for the Careers of Tomorrow
• Set new standards based on industry needs, high
  priority occupations
• Demand high performance
• - 22 million in incentives
• Provide technical assistance
• Require corrective action
• Institute interventions

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Discussion Questions

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