[Wsssc] It's here! The WEIA Survey!

[Lauren Hibbs]

Dear WSSSC Colleagues,

I hope this finds you well and enjoying the warm weather!

In 2019, the Workforce Education Investment Act (WEIA) passed House Bill 2158 providing a funding mechanism for numerous investments in higher education in the state. It included creating the Washington College Grant as an entitlement program, identified funding for nurse educators and high demand faculty salary increases, and provided funding for fully mobilizing Guided Pathways. The first year of this funding was allocated to the colleges in two ways:  $100,000 for each college for Guided Pathways planning work, and $20 million for nurse educator salaries distributed to individual colleges based on headcount. The second year of this funding, expanded Guided Pathways funding and included high demand salary funding. In the last biennium, funds were expanded to include high demand program funding.  In subsequent years, our system has seen additional college investments drawn from this fund, including funding for DEI efforts and nursing simulation.

As part of the Workforce Education Investment Act legislation, an oversight board was established. Their primary responsibility is to account for the effectiveness of these funds. To do this, an annual report is required to be submitted to the Legislature by December, however, our portion is due October 1.

In order to address this required reporting, we need your help! We need each college to complete the following survey so we can populate our section of the report to the oversight board. Please complete this survey by August  1, 2023.

Here is the link to the survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9ZQBXXS

Also, attached is a document that contains all the questions in the survey in case you find that an easier way to manage.  This is being sent to Presidents, Vice Presidents of Instruction, Vice Presidents of Student Services, and the Research and Planning Commission-so please coordinate your responses and submit one survey per college via the Vice President of Instruction's Office. Thank you!

Thank you for your assistance in gathering this information for our required reporting on WEIA!

Please reach out if you have any questions! Always happy to hear from you!

Fondly,
Carli


Carli Schiffner, PhD
Deputy Executive Director for Education
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
509.683.2963   cschiffner at sbctc.edu<mailto:cschiffner at sbctc.edu>

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