The document discusses sustainability strategies for competency-based education (CBE) programs. It describes how three community colleges integrated their CBE programs into existing college structures and processes to help ensure sustainability. This included incorporating CBE course development, student support, course delivery, and employer engagement into departments like online learning, academic affairs, and workforce development. Leveraging existing resources and collaborating across the college were emphasized as keys to building capacity and sustaining the programs after grant funding ends.

1. Sustainability Strategies
Rich
Cummins,
Columbia
Basin
College
Linda
Howdyshell,
Broward
College
Nancy
Thibeault,
Sinclair
Community
College

2. CBE4CC
Ques1ons to address
As
you
implemented
your
CBE
program
what
struck
you
as
the
biggest
challenges
to
sustainability?
What
approach
did
to
take
to
solving
these
challenges?

3. CBE4CC
Rich Cummins

4. Sustainability
Strategies
CBE4CC
Dr. Linda Howdyshell
College Provost & Senior VP for Academic Affairs & Student Success

5.
Accelerated IT Training Programs (ATP)
• Competency-based delivery model (flipping traditional model)
• Independent study for self-directed learners
• Opportunities for acceleration utilizing prior learning assessment
options
Program
Overview

6. Assessing the project success:
1. Sustaining is not just a continuation of the grant
project – use your data to analyze what worked!
2. Conduct an assessment of successful grant implemented
activities that can and should be continued
3. Identify and develop those successful components and
insure they are consistent with the current conditions
in your organization for scalabiltiy
Sustaining
after the
funding…..

7. 1. Identify short and long term strategies
for your organization
2. Determine specific components that can
be sustained and scaled
3. Identify what resources are need to
sustain your project (e.g. additional
faculty, staff, space, etc.)
4. Develop buy-in among your strategic
partners who provide leveraged
resources and will continue in the future
5. Market the idea within your organization
and externally to your board members,
industry associations, and other state or
national organizations in which you
belong
Sustainability
Strategies

8. Keys Steps in the planning process:
1. Clarify your vision
2. Determine what you will sustain
3. Build collaboration
4. Develop action steps
5. Create timeline
6. Document and communicate your sustainability successes
Developing a
Formal Plan

9. • Broward’s
Plan
• Addressed
sustainability in
the first year of the
grant
• Developed the
plan in the second
year
• Collaboration
began in the third
year

10. • Broward’s
Plan

11. 1. Build capacity and scalability
2. Incorporate as much as you can into existing, ongoing
organizational operations rather than continuing to
maintain and manage it as a separate project (Broward
College has a very successful Online Campus)
3. Make collaboration an ongoing process
4. Evaluate outputs and outcomes as marketing tools
5. Actively pursue the resources needed
6. Look at what other successful grantees have done
Sustainability
Plan
Considerations

12. QuesGons?

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by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training
Administration. The solution was created by the grantee and does
not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of
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assurances of any kind, express or implied, with respect to such
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14. Program OverviewFlex-Paced Online IT Programs
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Sustainability Planning
June 4, 2015
Dr. Nancy Thibeault, Dean eLearning Division / Director TAACCCT Grant

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elearning
Division
• Centralized oversight of online learning
• Instructional Design
• Media development
• Faculty training
• Online student support

16. CBE4CC
Overall
Strategy:
• Leverage
exisGng
college
processes
and
services
by
integraGng
into
the
“owning”
departments
• Develop,
pilot
test
and
refine
manual
processes
• Use
technology
and
data
to
target
intervenGons
and
automate
processes
• Partner
with
“compleGon
iniGaGves”
to
transfer
innovaGons
and
lessons
learned
to
a
broader
audience

17. CBE4CC
Course
Development
• Integrated
into
exisGng
Web
Course
Development
Department
• Incorporated
CBE
development
into
exisGng
single
content
source,
master
online
course
development
process.

18. CBE4CC
Student
support
• Integrated
into
exisGng
eLearning
and
Program
Support
Department
• Significantly
enhanced
and
expanded
exisGng
SinclairOnline
Support
model
through
• Data-­‐driven
coach
reports
and
intervenGons
• 5-­‐phase
student
support
model
• Extend
the
Accelerate
IT
student
support
model
to
SinclairOnline
by
automaGng
the
data-­‐driven,
Gered
support
approach
to
include
automated
rouGne
intervenGons
and
targeted
personal
intervenGons
• Package
exisGng
online
Career
Services
tools
into
a
“Virtual
Career
Center”

19. CBE4CC
Course
Delivery
• Course
scheduling
and
staffing
integrated
into
exisGng
academic
department
process
• Incorporated
into
college’s
registraGon
and
scheduling
processes
• Automated
filter
to
populate
instrucGonal
shell
with
students
from
registraGon
secGons
• Automated
intake,
screening,
and
admission
processes
by
integraGng
CBE
OrientaGon
and
approval
processes
into
exisGng
“How
to
Succeed”
online
course
approval
process

20. CBE4CC
Employer
Engagement
• ExisGng
program
advisory
boards
• “Strategic
Partners”
model
adopted
by
academic
departments/divisions
• BPS
Internship
coordinator
• Incorporate
into
C4C
Advisory
teams
Public
Workforce
Engagement
• New
Student
Enrollment
Center
staffs
Job
Center
office
20
hours
/
week

21. CBE4CC
Questions
Contact
Nancy.Thibeault@Sinclair.edu

22. This is the First Session Title
Thursday,
June
4,
2015