SUNY Update

Denise ZieskeDirector of Workforce

Development

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship• Individualized Education• Sustainability• Partnerships

Chancellor’s Priorities

• $14.6 million TAACCCT grant infrastructure• 30 community colleges & 300+ business partners• Advanced manufacturing • 5,200+ students - 95-100% placement

• Workforce Development Training• 40,000 employees at 300+ employers trained over past

three years

• P-TECH Partnerships• Educational collaborations with business and industry to

prepare the workforce pipeline

Workforce/Continuing Education Initiatives

P-TECH Partnerships: Provide leadership & academic support for 37 P-TECH partnerships statewide

23SUNY

community college

partners

1,570students

statewide

95%of Cohort I students

graduated from h.s. in 4

years

25average

college credits earned in 4

years29 students completed their Associate’s

degrees in STEM fields two years ahead of schedule

P-TECH

• P-TECH Overview Workshop• Monday, December 3, 2018• 1:30 – 3:30 PM• SUNY System Administration• Contact Jill Lansing - jill.lansing@suny.edu

P-TECH

• Preparing the future workforce in NY• Working to close the Middle Skills Gap

• Reinvent terminology to reflect STEM and career opportunities

• Reach out to parents and guidance counselors

• Expand stackable pathways to STEM career opportunities

• Capital Community College Career Coalition (C5)• Initial Summit November 2, 2018

Workforce 2025

• Applied Learning• Clean Energy• Core Student Information Services Framework• High Needs• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion• New Models for Enhancing Enrollment, Retention & Completion• Student Recruitment• SUNY Apprenticeship Program• SUNY Student Success Center Network

Communities of Practice

• Focus Areas• Advanced manufacturing • Healthcare

• Strategies• Marketing/outreach• Related Instruction

• Training• Curriculum Development

• Pre-apprenticeship• Hybrid & competency-based programs and testing

SUNY Apprenticeship Program

• $6 million awarded• Current RFP for $9 million

• Internships• Mentoring• Experiential learning opportunities• Corporate partnerships

Clean Energy

• Redesign of students’ educational experience

• Touches every aspect of college operations

• Goal to improve rate of college completion, transfer and attainment of jobs

Guided Pathways

• Provides students with online learning experience• Expand access to higher education• Raise completion rates• Prepare students for success

• 20 campuses• 80 programs

Open SUNY

• Verified and validated specific skills/ competencies achieved

• Endorsed by issuing institution• Established through faculty

governance processes• Designed to be meaningful &

high quality

Micro-Credentials

• SUNY Schenectady• Craft beer • Front end web development

• SUNY Broome• Soldering lab

• Mohawk Valley Community College• Youth Build

• Hudson Valley Community College• Manufacturing pathways boot camp

Applied Learning in Workforce/Community Ed

Campus Discussions

Denise ZieskeDirector of Workforce

Developmentdenise.zieske@suny.edu