Strong efforts are made to continue to recruiting potential adult learners from one of the low socio-economic sections of San Jose, the East Side community, provide ESL and Basic Skills and tranistion them into workforce and apprenticeship programs providing them the opportunity to earn sustainable wages. Both colleges are putting efforts to expand ESL, Basic Skills and CTE programs to bridge students to credit programs. Limited number of non-credit summer classes were offered in non-credit area. Efforts are underway to expand partnerships with community organizations for creating cross referral system for education and basic needs services for the students. The Center for Economic mobility of SJECCD continue to provide Consortium leadership to drive the agenda and also complete 2022-23 Annual Plan.
At San Jose City College (SJCC) for Quarter 4 report, the activities included faculty professional development support for allied health and English Second Language faculty to attend training to be aligned to career pathways, the administrative support and non-credit counselor to ensure updates of non-credit courses ($87,649) and staff outreach support (12,917.50), supplies and instructional materials for loaner of textbook materials for non-credit courses (total of $17,579), and benefits associated with the faculty professional development time and staff support expenditures occurred during this reporting period ($46,916.27). With these activities for this quarter, the non-credit courses for the Fall 2022 term are active for the non-credit students. In addition, SJCC leverage $100,000 from Strong Workforce Funds in terms of other support staff’s time and effort and $25,000 in Perkins funds for other faculty instructional supplemental time.
EVC is working with Santa Clara Adult School on a new noncredit pathway for Adult Education Teacher certification, which supports adult education teacher preparation and is itself a workforce pathway. EVC is also designing a number of noncredit pathways to prepare students for college and employment and to enable students to be proficient in English. The college is also working to create an apprenticeship program in custodial services for infectious diseases. The college is working with East Side Adult Education to onboard dual enrollment students and students finishing their diploma programs. The college is in conversation with ESAE about offering career counseling and other supports to help students plan a post-diploma future. Leveraged funds are being used to fund a staff person to be onsite at ESAE 10 hours per week. Leveraged funds have also been used to support faculty development of noncredit curriculum, purchase books for noncredit students, fund staff to work with adults on digital literacy and computer proficiency, provide tutoring for adult diploma students, purchase bus tokens for transportation to campus and other allowable student supports.