# Presentation: 859919

## Serving Community Colleges:Our Mission, Vision, Projects, and Activities

- Pat Stanley
- Deputy Assistant Secretary
- for Community Colleges
- Office of Vocational and Adult Education
- U.S. Department of Education

## Action Plan for Higher Education

- Accessibility
- Affordability
- Accountability
*A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future for Higher Education (September 2006)*
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**Notes:**
Accessibility:
Strengthen K-12 preparation to align high school standards with college expectations
Redesign the 12th grade NAEP test to provide state-level estimates of college and workforce readiness
Develop a federal research agenda for adult literacy to identify strategies, models, and programs that work

Affordability:
Simplify the application process by partnering with states to use existing income and tax data.  This could cut the time to fill out the free federal student aid (FAFSA) down to about half.

Work with congress to provide new funds for need-based aid through the federal financial aid system.

Commission an independent management consultant review of the federal financial aid system

2008 Budget request to increase the maximum award for Pell Grants to $4,600 in 2008 (largest proposed increase in over 30 years) and $5,400 over five years

Accountability
   Clear, comprehensive and comparative data about colleges and universities be made available to students, parents, and policy makers-more transparency in the system

## OVAE’s Mission for Community Colleges

*Our mission is to serve as the national source for information and leadership required to improve accessibility, affordability, accountability, and quality in community college education*

## OVAE’s Vision for Community Colleges

- OVAE will assume a leadership position on all matters related to community colleges within the U.S. Department of Education and the education community at large.
- OVAE will be viewed as an authority in national dialogues on high school reform, postsecondary education, adult education, workforce development and related transition strategies.

## OVAE’s Plan for Serving Community Colleges

- 	Goal #1
- 	To establish widespread public support for community colleges as centers of innovation and providers of superior education and training that are affordable and accessible to all Americans.

## OVAE’s Plan for Serving Community Colleges

-     Goal #2
- 	To serve as a portal for timely and actionable guidance on community college education for teachers, administrators, students, parents and employers.

## OVAE’s Plan for Serving Community Colleges

- 	Goal #3
- 	To develop a structure and culture within the U.S. Department of Education that values and promotes the role of community colleges in postsecondary education.

## OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges

- CCTI
*	**	**▪**16 career clusters to 81 pathways*
-  Pathways
*               **▪** **Multiple entry points, postsecondary “chunks” *
-  STEM
-  Community College Curriculum Project

## Secretary’s Higher Education Summits

- Aligning K-12 and Higher Education Expectations, Pre K-16 Councils
- Serving Adults and Nontraditional Students
- Increasing Need-Based Financial Aid
- Enhancing Affordability, Decreasing Costs, and Promoting Productivity
- Using Accreditation to Support Student Learning Outcomes

- 2 to 4 yr transition – *cost of higher education including costs of developmental education*
- Adult and non-traditional Students
- Accountability
- Leadership

**Virtual Summit****June 28, 2007**

**OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges**

## OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges

**Exploratory Meeting**
**Sept. 20, 2007, Washington, D.C.**
- Independent Study of Nursing
- Institute of Medicine
- Support
- “Historic Day for Nursing”

## OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges

**“****Issues That Matter”**
- Fostering Career Pathways in High Growth Industries
-      *Nov. 7, 2007, Washington D.C.*
- Integrating Developmental Education Workforce Development Institute
-      *Jan. 23, 2008, New Orleans, LA*
- Establishing Statewide Articulation Agreements Innovations Conference
-       *March 1, 2008 Denver, CO*
- Serving Low Literacy Adults
-      *April 21, 2008, Austin, TX*
- Presidents
- Articles

## OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges

**2008 Community College Symposium**
- Webcast
- Academics, Practitioners, and Policy Experts
- Student Transitions

## OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges

**Community Colleges Can:  Institutions Sharing Success**
- Identify Promising Practices
- Disseminate Information
- Replicate

## OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges

**MOU Denmark Exchange Project**
- Faculty  and Student Exchange
- Coordinate Danish visit with Symposium
- Expand in Future

## OVAE Projects Underway for Community Colleges

**Adult Education Projects**
- Adult Basic Education to Community Colleges Transition Project (2006)
- Adult Basic Education Career Connections Project—three of five recipients are community colleges
- Ready for College: Adult Education Transitions Program—all four recipients are community colleges

## Federal Legislation

**Perkins**
- Career and Technical Education
- Pathways
- Academic Achievement
- Dual Enrollment
- Accountability
- Community College Communication

## Federal Legislation

**Workforce Investment Act (WIA)**
*Literacy Act* (Title II) Proposal
- Synthesis Project

## Federal Legislation

***NCLB***
- Secretary’s Highest Priority
- Strengthen Math and Science
- College Ready

## Federal Legislation

**Higher Education Act**
- Up for renewal since 2003
- Pell Grant
- “FAFSA4caster”

## Pat StanleyDeputy Assistant Secretary

- _[Pat.stanley@ed.gov](mailto:Pat.stanley@ed.gov)_
- (202) 245-6683
- _[www.ed.gov/ovae](http://www.ed.gov/ovae)_

- Any Questions?