[Factc] Guided Pathways Meta Majors

[Bill Moore]

Thanks for the Google doc, Anne--that's a helpful summary!


I think it makes a lot of sense to consider how we connect our meta-majors approaches to the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) work on career clusters (https://www.acteonline.org/general.aspx?id=8644#.WW-eQPkrLb0)

 and what OSPI has been doing in Washington with that work (http://www.k12.wa.us/CareerTechEd/clusters/ ) and the related, and more detailed, programs of study (http://www.k12.wa.us/CareerTechEd/ProgramsofStudy.aspx)

(As a side note, it seems to me that in addition to the trademark business you mention, another challenge is that the terminology doesn't line up: the ACTE "16 career clusters" are essentially our "pathways" and their 79 "career pathways" are our specific programs of study within those pathways 😞)

That said, we're beginning to explore more broadly with OSPI ways in which we can connect our guided pathways efforts with what they're doing in high school, in part to consider how we help juniors and seniors get on some kind of pathway while in high school and smooth the transition into our colleges. Do you think there's any value in us having a specific discussion about the nomenclature and the alignment/clustering of the specific pathways, or is it a bit too late for that at this point...?

Bill

Bill Moore, Ph.D.
Director, K-12 Partnerships & Core to College Alignment
State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
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Subject: Re: [Factc] Guided Pathways Meta Majors

Hi LaVerta,

Here's a link to a google document <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zxUfNf6r7Q4AEUcVy_NyAFLxoGGVBlDoNHeTxUU6nQs/edit?usp=sharing> containing info. from a few colleges.  EvCC is currently using Pathways to describe our meta majors but would be very interested in trying to get consistent language with other colleges so that students are familiar with the language when they move between colleges.  Right now, there's a couple of different options out there.

One thing that we recently discovered is that the K-12 system uses the labels of Career Clusters and Pathways to denote meta majors and program maps respectively.  We were really excited about the possibility of using consistent language with the K-12 system to avoid creating additional barriers for students...but...it turns out that the term "Career Clusters" is a registered trademark for the 16 Career clusters.  Since our pathway groupings did not match these, and because the term is trademarked, we had to abandon that option.

Hope this helps,
Anne

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Schmeling, LaVerta <LaVerta.Schmeling at cptc.edu<mailto:LaVerta.Schmeling at cptc.edu>> wrote:

I know this is summer but we are working on our Guided Pathways.


I would like to know: If you college has Guided Pathways, what do you call meta majors?



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