$14.7 MILLION: NWACC To Oversee Grant
MONEY AIMED AT IMPROVING CAREER EDUCATION IN STATE
Posted: September 27, 2011 at 5:28 a.m.
Becky Paneitz, NWACC president
NorthWest Arkansas Community College will be in charge of a $14.7 million federal grant aimed at improving career education throughout the state, college and state officials announced Monday.
AT A GLANCE
Project Description
Path To Accelerated Completion and Employment Initiative
Using three evidence-based strategies, the project’s goal is to accelerate program completions by 15 percent by restructuring 104 certificate and 42 associate degree programs by the end of the grant period.
Working collaboratively, all of Arkansas’s 22 two-year colleges will: transform developmental education using approaches to accelerate student advancement; streamline certificate and degree pathways; restructure certificate and degree programs to reduce time-to-completion and credit-to-completion; enhance student support technology and systems; and transform student advisement systems as a means for reducing time-to-completion and unnecessary credit accumulation and for improving job placement.
Source: U.S. Department Of Labor
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