Georgia Board of Technical and Adult Education Presentation

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Georgia Board of Technical and Adult Education
Presentation
Partnerships/Seamlessness Committee
Report February 2, 2006
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The Process

• Committee Membership
• Kathy S. Love, President, Flint River Technical
  College, Chairperson
• Sanford Chandler, President, Appalachian
  Technical College
• Daryl Gilley, President, West Georgia Technical
  College
• Dorothy Lord, President, Coastal Georgia
  Community College
• Thomas Wilkerson, President, Bainbridge College
• Paul Gasparro, V.P. Instruction, Chattahoochee
  Technical College
• E.J. Harris, Acting President, Valdosta Technical
  College
• Mindy McCannon, V.P. Instruction, Northwestern
  Technical College
• Freida Hill, Acting Assistant Commissioner of
  Technical Education
• Fred Kiehle, Director, Instructional Support
  Services
• Patt Stonehouse, Director, Educational
  Initiatives
• Barb Wilburn, Director, Student Support Services
• Frank Bates, Director, Special Workforce Services
• Committee Met October 14, 2005
• Reviewed initiative background
• Determined action plan for the committee

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The Process

• Step 1
• Review Seamless Education Vision Statement of the
  State Boards Liaison Committee
• Identify current partnerships with other
  agencies/entities
• Step 2
• Determine strengths, weaknesses and gaps in
  partnerships
• Identify barriers to seamlessness of services
• Step 3
• Identify recommendations to facilitate
  partnerships and seamlessness of services for our
  customers

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State Boards Liaison Committee

• Seamless Education Vision Statement
• The vision of seamless education of the three
  educational boards of the state of Georgia is a
  system of education in which students can
  effectively move among schools as they advance
  their education from elementary school through
  higher education. The system envisioned will
  ensure that students in each sector are prepared
  for their future educational and career goals,
  have an excellent and uniform education advising
  process, and do not have to repeat work that they
  have mastered.

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Current Partnerships

• Examples of Current Partnerships Identified
• Georgia Department of Education
• Tech Prep Including Annual Tech Prep Conference
• Dual Enrollment
• CTAE Georgia Performance Standards Development
• Collaborative Shared Instructional Sites
• Stay In School Initiative
• Virtual High School
• Regional Education Services Agencies
• Carl Perkins Administration
• High School Redesign Project

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Current Partnerships

• Examples of Current Partnerships Identified
• Georgia Board of Regents
• Education Go Get It
• Mini Core
• P-16
• Library Cooperative Agreements
• Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS)
• Cooperative Associate of Applied Science (AAS)
• Four BOR Colleges with Technical Divisions
• Faculty Development Institute

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Current Partnerships

• Examples of Current Partnerships Identified
• Georgia Student Finance Commission
• GACollege411
• Georgia Department of Labor
• State and Local Workforce Investment Boards
• One Stop Centers
• Job Fairs
• Tools for Life

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Current Partnerships

• Examples of Current Partnerships Identified
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Interagency Transition Council
• Testing of Special Populations
• Georgia Department of Corrections
• GED Classes and Testing in Prisons
• Instructional Programming in Prisons
• Job Fairs

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Current Partnerships

• Examples of Current Partnerships Identified
• Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice
• State Level Memorandum of Agreement to provide
  training opportunities to youth within the DJJ
  system
• Instructional Programming in Youth Development
  Centers
• Georgia Department of Human Resources
• Georgia Fatherhood Program
• New Connections to Work
• DTAE/DHR/DOL
• Memorandum of Understanding for New Connections
  to Work and Georgia Fatherhood Program.

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Current Partnerships

• Examples of Current Partnerships Identified
• Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning
• Early Learning Standards Development
• Technical College Grants for Online Course
  Development
• DTAE/DOE/DHR/VR/BOR
• Touch the Future/Transition conference (PUFF)
• Others
• DeVry University Statewide Articulation Agreement
• Southern Regional Education Board
• Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education

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Current Partnerships

• Examples of Current Partnerships Identified
• Others cont.
• Georgia Hospital Association Workforce Council
  Committee
• The Postsecondary Education Programs Network
  (PEPNet)
• LD Adults of Georgia
• Georgia Offender Re-entry Steering Committee

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Recommendations

• Issue
• High school students are discouraged from taking
  HOPE and ACCEL college courses during high school
  because the college credit is counted in HOPE
  Paid Hours limit
• Recommendation
• College credit earned by high school students
  should not be counted in the HOPE Paid Hours
  limit

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Recommendations

• Issue
• Knowing more about the transitioning of students
  from one educational sector to another is
  hampered by not being able to share student data
• Recommendation
• Update and systematize data sharing procedures
  and agreements with DOE and BOR

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Recommendations

• Issue
• Students are often unable to transfer earned
  technical college credit into colleges and
  universities within the University System of
  Georgia
• Recommendation
• Establish a study committee to identify
  stumbling blocks to transfer and recommend
  internal changes DTAE can make to eliminate
  barriers (possibly the addition of an AS degree
  at technical colleges)

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Recommendations

• Issue
• The Associate of Applied Technology (AAT) degree
  is virtually unknown by other colleges in the
  country, thereby creating some confusion for
  those Georgia Technical College students
  transferring to other states
• Recommendation
• Explore the potential for conferring the
  Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree, the
  standard nomenclature for terminal associate
  degree programs

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• Questions?