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Vocational Education Program | |
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Mission:
The Vocational Education Program under the Career and Technical
Education Unit administers state and federal resources to all community college
districts to enable individuals to achieve academic, vocational and technical
knowledge and skills necessary to attain employment or further their education.
Ensuring compliance and accountability with federal and state performance standards
for workforce preparation and development, the focus of the Vocational Education
Program provides: | |
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- provides essential information and technical assistance;
- conducts
programmatic and fiscal oversight;
- maintains a comprehensive
statewide statistical database for research and planning;
- supports
expansion of services and programs for underrepresented and special needs students;
and
- encourages each college to establish a continuous
quality improvement system.
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Education programs offer colleges incentives and flexibility to implement projects
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- integrate academic, vocational and technical education;
- improve
programs and curriculum through the innovative use of technology;
- support
staff development;
- foster implementation of effective
educational practices; and
- promote collaboration
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Education programs provide incentives to promote collaborations that help colleges
prepare students for careers in current, emerging and evolving industries. Those
college collaborations include: | |
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- secondary schools,
- local employers,
- related employment associations,
- community-based
organizations,
- government, and
- other
colleges and universities.
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