Wednesday, 2 January 2013

PTC and Health Professions Consortium members nominated for national initiative

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 JoyceFoundations 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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