San Jose City College (SJCC) activities for this quarter included outreach coordinator connecting and promoting adult leaners for non-credit courses for Fall 2022, providing registration assistance by the non-credit counselor, connecting with non-credit ESL faculty for enrollment discussion, and an administrator meeting with Milpitas Adult School partners for upcoming non-credit allied health programs, processing documents to support faculty workgroup meetings, and data collection and review of non-credit courses offered at SJCC.
EVC is partnering with Santa Clara Adult Education (SCAE) to begin a noncredit adult education teacher preparation pathway. Santa Clara Adult Education is applying to the state of California to be an accredited program, which they will manage in terms of reporting and the required mentoring of new teachers. EVC is partnering to create the curriculum, which includes the accreditation standards, and will oversee the teaching schedule and staffing. EVC will partner with SCAE to onboard student teachers, course delivery, and mentoring of student teachers.
During this first quarter, Evergreen Valley College has worked in a number of new directions to support Adult Education students and our partner organizations. After a non-profit partner with San Jose Public Library dropped out, the San Jose Public Library contact EVC to partner with them on offering noncredit ESL courses. EVC offered one noncredit ESL course in the fall at one SJPL location, and will expand the offerings to two noncredit classes in the spring semester. There is interest to potentially expand this across the SJPL system.
EVC is in the early stages of partnering with Milpitas Adult Education on an Advanced Manufacturing pathway. Several meetings have occurred and there is interest to move forward. In order to demystify various technical pathways in Advanced Manufacturing, Business Information Modeling, Computer-Aided Design and Drafting, Automotive, and Water Technology, EVC hosted a Career Exploration Fair in early December. These technician pathways lead to careers that pay family-supporting wages and are known as ‘middle-skilled employment’ because an advanced degree is not required.
This semester, EVC began offering tutoring to adult education students in a GED/HSD program at East Side Adult Education. Tutoring services are available online and include support for student in EVC’s Open Computer Lab. In the spring semester, EVC will begin a pilot to offer advanced career assessment and counseling to students in a pre-GED/HSD or GED/HSD program. ‘Advanced’ is used here to denote 1:1 career counseling with an in-depth review of the students’ career assessments and creating an action plan.
EVC is also working with Elmwood Correctional Center to offer classes in Automotive. This will expand to other pathways, such as CADD and BIM, as more faculty are identified.
Q1 Expenses also covered Consortium administration and other associated consortium wide expenses.