Pine Technical College and its nine
partners within the Health
Professions Consortium, a partnership that came about in late 2011 when the collective
won a $19.6 million federal workforce training grant targeting the health professions, have
been invited to participate in a national initiative organizers say will “bring
the very best talent and latest research together to support and scale real and
lasting change in community college education.”
The Health
Professions Consortium has been selected to join only seven other recipients of
a national grant – the Trade Adjustment
Assistance Community College Career Training (TAACCT) grant – to participate in a groundbreaking partnership
sponsored by several funding organizations including the Bill and Melinda Gates, Lumina, and Joyce
Foundations as well as Achieving the
Dream, The
Collaboratory, LLC, and the Office of
Community College Research and Leadership at the Univ. of Illinois. The purpose of the event, called the
Community College Transformative Change Initiative (CCTCI), is to engage
TAACCCT consortia leaders in conceptualizing, implementing, and scaling a model
of transformative change so community and technical colleges continue to
anticipate, adapt, and innovate to meet workforce needs. Organizers say the
CCTCI, taking place Feb. 2, 3, and 4 in Anaheim, Calif., will be an “…experientially rich learning laboratory…” with
a collaborative network of coaches, peers, affinity groups, and subject matter
experts that will enable participants to develop comprehensive, innovative
strategic plans for the state’s community college and workforce development
systems.
Additionally,
each of the selected eight grantees has been asked to identify “transformative
leaders” to lead the dialogue on transforming
higher education among all participants at the CCTCI. PTC’s Dean of Workforce
and Economic Development, Stefanie Schroeder, has been selected to represent
PTC and the Health Professions Consortium at the CCTCI as
a transformative leader.
“I am very excited for this
worthwhile project, and it is an honor for our
consortium to have been selected to participate in the CCTCI,” Schroeder says.
“To share tools, resources, strategy, and methods with a national network of
such innovative community and technical college leaders, strategic partners,
and experts from workforce, education and research sectors is a tremendous opportunity. We will all learn a
great deal from one another to carry forward
in our work toward making a significant, positive impact on the education and
workforce systems within this country,” Schroeder adds.
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