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Moving Beyond Degrees: Why Competency is Currency
Michael BettersworthTexas State Technical College
October 25, 2010PERSH
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: CollegeGrad.com. College graduates moving back home in larger number. 22 July 2009!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
U.S. Credit Card Debt$826.5 billion
U.S. Student Loan Debt$829.785 billion
An estimated “$300 billion in federal student loan debts have been incurred in the last four years...”
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Four times the rate of inflation.Almost twice the rate of healthcare costs.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: Cronin, Joseph & Horton, Howard. Will higher education be the next bubble to burst? The Chronicle of Higher Education. May 22, 2009.
“There is a growing sense among the public that higher education might be overpriced and under-delivering.”
-The Chronicle of Higher Education
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: Business Roundtable, New survey reveals obstacles to training and education are threatening U.S. competitiveness and worker prosperity. October 8, 2009
And yet...
“American workers’ unmet need for further education and training is exacerbating today’s unemployment problem and portending long-term trouble for workers and businesses -- even after the economy recovers.”
-Business Roundtable
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The War on Work
The Education Dichotomy
The Higher Ed Imbalance
Measuring What Counts
Moving Beyond Degrees
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
“...the collective effect [...] has been this marginalization of lots and lots of jobs. And I realized [...] to me the most important thing to know and to really come face to face with is the fact that I got it wrong about a lot of things.”
“We have declared War on Work”
Mike Rowe, Dirty JobsSource: TED Speech, December 2008.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
There is much talk of “diversity” in education, but not much accommodation of the kind we have in mind when we speak about the quality of a man, or a woman: the diversity of disposition.!
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Source: Dreher, Rod. The soft bigotry of high expectations. The Dallas Morning News. May 29, 2009.
Rod DreherDallas Morning News
“We have come to see labor as something we do in exchange for money and not as an expression of our intrinsic nature. Many a white-collar man works hard but lives in a world of soul-killing abstraction, where what he does, what he feels and who he is have little to do with one another.”
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: The new competition for america’s jobs. Trends Magazine. June 2010.
Up to 3 million highly-skilled technical positions remain unfilled as of June 2010.
This “War on Work” has led to a perceived devaluation of certain career and educational pursuits.
How did we get here?
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The War on Work
The Education Dichotomy
The Higher Ed Imbalance
Measuring What Counts
Moving Beyond Degrees
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80%
20%Blue CollarWhite Collar
The Class of Work
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80%
20%Blue CollarWhite Collar
“Mental”
“Manual”
The Class of Work
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This division has been applied to American education.
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Smith-Hughes Act 1917Education Dissected
AcademicVocationalEducation
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Smith-Hughes Act 1917Education Dissected
Academic Vocational
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65%
20% 15%
Skilled “Labor”“Professional”Unskilled “Labor”
New Model - Still Off Target
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65%
20% 15%
Skilled “Labor”“Professional”Unskilled “Labor”
“Cubicles” “Fries with that?”
“Experts” “Craftsmen”“Developers”
“Skilled”
“Technicians”“Engineers”
“Paid”
“Hired”
New Model - Still Off Target
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Laser Optics
Laser Electro Optic Devices • Continuous Wave Lasers • Pulsed lasers • Thin Films • Vacuum Technology • Geometrical and Wave Optics
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Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Research“CASPER”
Hypervelocity Impacts and Dusty Plasmas Lab & Space Science Lab (SSL) are supplied with full time technical support using TSTC faculty and students with CASPER's technical support staff. National laboratory model with Baylor/TSTC.Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Nanotechnology
Nanotech Characteristics • Image characterization • Nanotech Processes • Scanning Electron Microscopy • Atomic Force Microscopy • Transmission Electron Microscopy • Class 100 Clean Room • Continuous Wave • Pulsed Laser • Geometrical Optics • Wave Optics • Semiconductor ManufacturingWednesday, October 27, 2010
Instrumentation & Process Control
Proportional, Integral and Derivative Control • Loop Tuning Control Loop Systems • Computerized Control Systems (Allen Bradley & Siemens) • Wonderware Graphics Fronts • Delta V systems • Mechatronics
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Mechanical Engineering
Materials Classification • Non-Destructive Testing • Alloying • Plastics • Polymers • Composites • Advanced CNC • Tools & Fixtures • Electrical Theory • Materials Strength • Fluid Mechanics & Applications • Machine Design • • 3D Solid Modeling • CAD/CAM • Physics • Statistics • Welding Processes • GTAW • GMAW • SMAWWednesday, October 27, 2010
Engineering schools realized this in 2001
Source: About CDIO, http://www.cdio.org/about_cdio/about_1_cdio.html, Retrieved July 7, 2009.
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Source: About CDIO, http://www.cdio.org/about_cdio/about_1_cdio.html, Retrieved July 7, 2009.
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
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Source: Hacker, A & Dreifus, C. Are colleges worth the price of admission. The Chronicle of Higher Education. July 11, 2010.
Higher education must serve all of these segments; however, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, “colleges are taking on too many roles and doing none of them well.”
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The War on Work
The Education Dichotomy
The Higher Ed Imbalance
Measuring What Counts
Moving Beyond Degrees
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
“Over the next ten years, 26 of the top 30 fastest growing jobs will require some post-secondary education or training...The demand for skilled workers is outpacing supply, resulting in attractive, high-paying jobs going unfilled.”
Emily Stover DeRoccoPresident, The Manufacturing Institute, National Center for the American WorkforceFormer Assistant Secretary of Labor for Education and Training
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
“Essentially, postsecondary education or training has become the threshold requirement for access to middle-class status and earnings in good times and in bad.”
“It is no longer the preferred pathway to middle-class jobs—it is, increasingly, the only pathway.”
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Therefore, it is reasoned, we must increase college graduation rates. In Texas
we call this, “Closing the Gaps.”
What Gaps Are We Closing?
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0
27500
55000
82500
110000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Texas Public Two-Year Colleges Awards Texas Public Four-Year Universities Awards
College graduation is increasing in Texas.That’s a good thing.
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Technical awards are flat/declining.Academic awards are now the most common.
This is incongruent with job demand.
0
12500
25000
37500
50000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Texas Technical Public Two Year Awards Texas Academic Public Two-Year Awards
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Academic Transfer
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Launchpad Fund Job Building FundCareer and Technical
Scholarship Fund$10,000,000 $10,000,000$5,000,000
Equipment for high-demand technical programs at two-
year colleges.
Support nonprofit programs preparing low-income
students for high-demand occupations.
Scholarships for two-year college students enrolled in programs for high-demand
occupations.
The Texas JET Fund
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: McNichol, Oliff, and Johnson. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. States continue to feel recession’s impact. October 7, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: McNichol, Oliff, and Johnson. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. States continue to feel recession’s impact. October 7, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: McNichol, Oliff, and Johnson. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. States continue to feel recession’s impact. October 7, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
State budget cuts will likely lead to a further reduction in technical training capacity.
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The War on Work
The Education Dichotomy
The Higher Ed Imbalance
Measuring What Counts
Moving Beyond Degrees
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: House Education & Labor Committee (May 12, 2009). “High school dropout crisis threatens U.S. economic growth and competitiveness, witnesses tell house panel”. Press release. Retrieved September 23, 2009.
Nationwide, 7,000 students drop out of high school every day.
- U.S. House Education & Labor Committee
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: Bridgeland, Dilulio and Burke Morison, The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts, A report by Civic Enterprises in association with the Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Washington, DC, March 2006.
I dropped out of school because…
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: Bridgeland, Dilulio and Burke Morison, The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts, A report by Civic Enterprises in association with the Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Washington, DC, March 2006.
I could have graduated...
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One in every four students leaves college before completing sophomore year.
Source: American College Testing
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Only about 60% of Americans who enter a four-year college graduate with a degree within six years.
Source: American College Testing
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: CollegeGrad.com. College graduates moving back home in larger number. 22 July 2009!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
"A university degree used to be an entree to a job.”
“Their university degree means they have a good, solid education but not necessarily something that translates easily into a job.”
Ann Buller, PresidentCentennial College
Source: Birchard, K. (2010) Canadian university graduates are going back to the classroom for vocational training. The Chronicle. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/Canadian-University-Graduates/66078/?sid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
"The colleges have become kind of a finishing school for university graduates.”
Enrollment of "postgraduate students" at Seneca College has increased at a steady rate, making up 15 percent of the full-time student body and 50 percent of the part-time population in 2009.
Rick Miner, President EmeritusSeneca College
Source: Birchard, K. (2010) Canadian university graduates are going back to the classroom for vocational training. The Chronicle. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/Canadian-University-Graduates/66078/?sid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: Kelley, P., The dreaded “P” word: an examination of productivity in public postsecondary education, July 2009.
Median earnings in Alabama employment market, and certificates/degrees weighted by value to the state and individuals:
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: Kelley, P., The dreaded “P” word: an examination of productivity in public postsecondary education, July 2009.
Median earnings in Alabama employment market, and certificates/degrees weighted by value to the state and individuals:
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
It’s not that you study,but what you study
in relation to market demand.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
“Unless we can align career and technology education with what is needed in the workforce, we will simply not be able to realize the vast potential of the Texas Energy Cluster or other high-growth sectors.”
“…I believe that our education system should make a shift to one that is market-driven and takes into account the skills needed by employers.”
Tom PaukenCommissionerTexas Workforce Commission
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The colleges that most students attend "need to streamline their programs, so they emphasize employability.”
Anthony P. CarnevaleDirector, Georgetown CenterGeorgetown University
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Common Measurements Fuzzy Measurements
EnrollmentsDemographicsContact Hours
Course CompletionGraduates
Numbers of AwardsAward Levels
National Benchmarks
Placement RateEarnings
Student SatisfactionEmployer Satisfaction
New CompaniesReturn on Investment
Value to TaxpayerEfficiency
What We Measure Counts.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
We must develop talent pipelines aligned with market demand, not simply increase
college completion.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The War on Work
The Education Dichotomy
The Higher Ed Imbalance
Measuring What Counts
Moving Beyond Degrees
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Traditional higher education is a linear progression built on courses, semesters, degree plans and graduation.
In order to respond to the nation’s workforce needs, we must do better.
This is a national security and competitiveness priority.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Start
Enroll
Intro to Auto
Automotive Electrical
Automotive Hydraulics
Intro to Diesel
Diesel Electrical
Diesel Hydraulics
Intro to Industrial Systems
Industrial Electrical
Industrial Hydraulics
Traditional Curriculum Model
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Start
Assessment
Automotive Applications Diesel Applications Industrial Applications HVAC Applications
Path
Technology CoreBasic HydraulicsBasic ElectricalBasic Controls
Mechanical PrinciplesThermodynamic Principles
Basic Computing
Core Curriculum Model
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TSMC
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Modularized curriculum with embedded certificates in flexible schedules aligned with employer demand where student success is
defined as job placement, not simply completing a course.
MODEL:
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Employers must develop more sophisticated talent pipeline integrations to increase
capacity.
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Standard Talent Pipeline
College Career
Quality assurance of new hire is limited. Retention can suffer if bad fit. Time to full productivity delayed. Stronger candidates have been cherry picked. Insufficient volume of candidates.
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Interview
Position Full Time
Hire
Enroll
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Improved Talent Pipeline
College Career
Full Time
Hire
InterviewEarly LookAdvisory Cmt.
Position
Enroll
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Quality assurance of new hire is limited. Retention can suffer if bad fit. Time to full productivity delayed. Stronger candidates have been cherry picked. Insufficient volume of candidates.
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Extended Talent Pipeline
College Career
InternEarly Look Full Time
Hire
InterviewScholar-ship
Enroll
Advisory Cmt.
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Position
Quality assurance of new hire is limited. Retention can suffer if bad fit. Time to full productivity delayed. Stronger candidates have been cherry picked. Insufficient volume of candidates.
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Advanced Talent Pipeline
College Career
Full Time
Hire
InterviewCo-OpPositionInternEarly Look
Scholar-ship
Enroll
Advisory Cmt.
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Quality assurance of new hire is limited. Retention can suffer if bad fit. Time to full productivity delayed. Stronger candidates have been cherry picked. Insufficient volume of candidates.
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Sponsorship Elements
College Career
Part Time Employment
Candidate Pays Tuition
EmploymentBenefits, etc.
Reimbursed TuitionPay Remaining Tuition
2 Year Contract
Performance
Visits
Intern
Full TimeHireInterviewCo-OpSponsorPosition
Scholar-ship
Advisory Cmt.
Enroll
Stronger candidates have been cherry picked. Insufficient volume of candidates.
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Capacity Building Talent Pipeline
College
Middle School High School
Seco
ndar
yC
olle
ge
Career
Certs
Full TimeHireInterviewCo-OpSponsor
Position Scholar-ship
InternAdvisory Cmt.
CompeteCampsToursCareer Explore Interview
Dual CreditEnroll
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Aerospace Capacity Pipeline
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Jr. ROTC High School
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College
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Career
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Technical Education is not aboutkeeping students in seats.
It’s is about getting peopleout to of seats and on their feet.
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The Next Phase:
Skills Validation
(stay tuned)
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The War on Work
The Education Dichotomy
The Higher Ed Imbalance
Defining Student Success
Moving Beyond Degrees
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Source: Gardner, J. "Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?", p. 86 (1961)
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.
Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Moving Beyond Degrees: Why Competency is Currency
Michael BettersworthTexas State Technical College
October 25, 2010PERSH
Wednesday, October 27, 2010