PROGRAM DESIGN
This section of the website is continually being developed to cover all the key elements which should be taken into account in designing a Community Change Education program.
- Partnership development
- Labor Market study
- Constructing a study of the market for graduates of CCE programs (CLP is currently refining the methodology for market studies)
- Link to DOL data base (under construction)
- Recruitment
- Sources of students
- High schools
- Community
- Current students
- Recruitment techniques
- Prior learningand academic credit
- Mentoring and counseling
- Remedial education
- Student income and financial aid
- Field experience/experiential education
- Use of government programs to support field work
- Community Change Study and student performance (CLP is currently surveying research on this topic)
- Job placement
- Advanced study and midcareer programs
- Key elements in planning a midcareer program
- An early example of a midcareer program (now being designed to start in early 2010 in New York City)
- Evaluation