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Tan, Connie; Moore, Colleen – Education Insights Center, 2020
This second brief on learnings from career education (CE) opportunities in the California Community Colleges (CCC) focuses on what college personnel described as barriers to designing and implementing programs with features that students find helpful, as described in the first brief of this series (ED610768) (e.g., cohorts, consistent course…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Career Education, Barriers, Educational Objectives
Moore, Colleen; Tan, Connie – Education Insights Center, 2020
This final brief in the series focuses on policy options that can foster more innovation and address challenges in career education (CE) program development. It is based on earlier research for a series of reports called "Career Opportunities," aimed at identifying ways that state and system policy can best support the CE mission of the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Career Education, Educational Policy, Barriers
Shulock, Nancy; Moore, Colleen; Jez, Su Jin; Chisholm, Eric – Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, 2012
The Obama Administration has helped articulate the important role community colleges play in educating the nation's workforce and boosting the economy. With a large share of projected job openings requiring college education of less than a bachelor's degree and offering family-supporting wages, the nation's community colleges can make a huge…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Colleges, College Role, Labor Force Development
Moore, Colleen; Jez, Su Jin; Chisholm, Eric; Shulock, Nancy – Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, 2012
The Obama Administration has once again demonstrated the important role community colleges play in educating the nation's workforce and boosting the nation's economy with its recently proposed Community College to Career Fund. This $8 billion fund is aimed at forging partnerships between colleges and businesses to train workers for good-paying…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Community Colleges, College Role
Shulock, Nancy; Moore, Colleen – Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, 2013
The California Community Colleges are vital to closing the projected shortfall of Californians with a postsecondary credential and sustaining the state's economic competitiveness. Increasing the number of students who pursue and earn certificates and associate degrees in career technical education (CTE) fields is an important component of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Community Colleges, College Role