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University of Alaska System Plan Crosswalk:Highlighting Workforce Development and Program Priorities Prepared by University of Alaska Anchorage, Institutional Effectiveness, Engagement,

University of Alaska System Plan Crosswalk:

Highlighting Workforce Development and Program Priorities

Prepared by University of Alaska Anchorage, Institutional Effectiveness, Engagement, and Academic Support

Updated: January 07, 2009

AWIB Strategic

Needs and Issues

Challenging WFD in

Alaska – 02/12/08

UAS Strategic Plan: The Next Decade – Priorities Most Closely Connected to WFD

UAF Vision 2017 Priorities Most Closely Connected to

WFD

UAA 2017 Priorities Most Closely Connected to WFD

UA 2009 Priorities Most Closely Connected to WFD

General Areas of Emphasis

Develop alternative schedules—

including compressed semesters, all-day instruction—that accommodate the needs of vocational-technical students and industry requirements

Foster academic education and vocational training for the health care industry through partnerships with appropriate agencies

Develop and utilize relevant university business partnerships at all levels, with an emphasis on meeting Alaska’s needs in high-growth, high-demand occupations

Offer flexible education and training opportunities to meet needs of nontraditional students

Instruction:

Successful & sustainable programs that support student success, general education, workforce development, high-demand careers and high student demand

Quality:

Increase the number of programs, course sections, and scheduling options in the areas of

vocational/technical training, community interest, and professional workforce development

Responsiveness:

Continue to survey employers and work with the cognizant state agencies to assess workforce demand

Build lasting partnerships with Alaskan technology employers through active advisory councils

Form partnerships with appropriate agencies to respond to new industry development by providing start-up training

Identify health management and administration training opportunities

in partnership with industry

In partnerships with industry, develop employee skills through training and continuing education, (both credit and non credit) to ensure an adequate and well-trained workforce

Identify promising opportunities for university-industry collaboration in developing new products and services, especially those directly benefiting Alaskans

Provide two-way exchanges of faculty and industry to ensure relevance of UAF curriculum to work force needs: 1) externships for faculty working in industry settings, and 2) engagement of industry experts as visiting faculty

Seek avenues for expanding industry investment in programs producing high-quality graduates in high-demand fields

Instruction:

Collaborative partnerships for workforce development and high demand careers

Responsiveness:

Build strong partnerships with employers to ensure our graduates possess needed skills and abilities Assess and meet Alaska’s current and projected workforce needs

Provide professional development

opportunities to government, public

organizations, and private industry

Incorporate community engagement into every pathway of the UAF Strategic Plan 2010

Actively participate in economic development in the community

Support faculty to grow in their

discipline through research and

scholarship, and professional

development

Develop faculty and staff capacity

to serve as informed, community

resources for individuals and

industries

Expand professional development opportunities for UAF faculty to maintain cutting-edge knowledge of curriculum areas and currency in field

Spotlight and reward the faculty and staff success in developing

innovative programs, research and student services

Recognize distinctive needs of rural faculty and create opportunities for expanded engagement between them and Fairbanks-based faculty

Instruction:

Instruction driven by current and active professional and craft practice, academic research, or creative expression

Faculty and Staff Strength: Invest in faculty and staff development

Significantly expand internships, externships and practicum opportunities for all students

Provide regular opportunities for Fairbanks students to experience rural Alaska through internships and special projects

Instruction:

Student participation in professional or craft practice, academic research, creative expression, and service learning

Student Success:

Provide additional internship programs

Work closely with the public school

system to develop career pathways

in health occupations to encourage

young people into these careers

Selectively recruit students from

Alaska and elsewhere who indicate

an interest in programs provided by

Expand partnerships with K - 12 institutions to strengthen college preparation

Identify career pathways and clusters appropriate to all UAF programs, consistent with U.S

Department of Labor categories; use

Student Success:

Focus on market share of Alaska’s college-bound students and their transition to higher education

Student Success:

Build, in partnership with our community school districts, a

Student Success:

Enroll Alaskans at the national average rate

Student Success:

Enhance efforts in student recruitment and retention

Increase recruitment and retention

of under-represented student populations

Develop an overall plan for student migration into degree programs

Develop and maintain tech-prep agreements with Alaskan high schools, providing advanced and motivated high school students the opportunity to get a head start on acquiring college credit

Foster academic achievement and career development for secondary students through tech prep initiatives

Develop partnership with secondary schools to strengthen math and science achievement and foster career development in high demand occupations

these pathways and clusters to strengthen collaboration with K-12 education and meet all appropriate state and national standards

coherent, integrated, mutually reinforcing public education program from pre-school through post-graduate continuing

education

Recruitment of highly qualified high school graduates

2 Expand and improve

career counseling in

school, not just

college

Provide career counseling and internship services

Provide academic and personal counseling services

Expand opportunities for new students to engage in exciting and informative university orientation and advising, with special attention

to needs of community campus and nontraditional students

Offer high-quality, personalized department- and program-level advising

Student Success:

Efficiency of educational progress from entry to completion

Quality:

Add to campus-based academic advising resources Build new on-line advising services

Collaborate with the UAS Business department in developing their health management emphasis for the Bachelor in Business

Administration

Cooperate with the other MAUs in developing on-campus and distance-delivered certificate and

Collaboration between appropriate units and stakeholders

Community:

Collaboration between and among programs, schools, colleges, campuses, and universities

Educational Quality:

Improve collaboration among campuses

degree programs in

behavioral health

Continue to prepare

highly-qualified students to

successfully participate in

the UAA Associate Nursing

program now scheduled for

regular offerings to Juneau,

Ketchikan, and Sitka

Advise and prepare transfer

students for entry into the

UAA and other university

Bachelor Degree in Nursing

(BSN) programs

Promote and support

students in Southeast who

are pursuing the

distance-delivered UAA BSN

completion program as part

of a career ladder approach

for the professional

development of our regional

nursing workforce

Collaborate with the UAA School

of Nursing, Recruiting and

Retaining Alaska Natives in

Nursing Program (RRANN) to

provide regional outreach and

academic support programs for the

recruitment and retention of Alaska

Native students into nursing careers

Increase statewide enrollments in

the distance-delivered Health

Information Management

Certificate and Associate of Applied

Sciences degree

Provide students opportunities for community service as part of their Public Square:Community partnerships in Student Success:Increase partnerships with major

programs of study training, education, research, and

Responsiveness:

Integrate community service with research and instructional programs

1 Teach youth about

basic employability

and life skills

3 Educate parents

regarding vocations

education training

opportunities

Increase awareness of programs through increased faculty participation in marketing and recruitment activities

Identify and develop programs and services of interest to young men, who are increasingly under-represented in university settings

Build on Alaska’s extensive experience with innovative online and distance education to meet increasingly diverse student needs

Public Square:

Educational partnerships to encompass pre-school through post-graduate continuing education

Student Success:

Develop recruitment programs that target traditional, non-traditional students, Alaska Native, and former students

Program Areas of Emphasis

UAS Strategic Plan: The Next Decade – Priorities Most Closely Connected to WFD

UAF Academic Development Plan 2007-2012 Priorities Most Closely Connected to WFD

UAA - WFD Program Highlights

Provide certificate and associate degree programs in natural resources (fisheries technology, forestry technology, and mining.) Continue to distance deliver the AAS degree in

Environmental Technology from Sitka

Deliver an AAS in Fisheries Technology from Ketchikan in partnership with regional industry

Develop and deliver a Geographical Information System (GIS)

technician certificate program at Ketchikan

Resource Exploration, Development, and Management:

Enhance programs that enable the State to develop and manage its natural resources effectively

Global Change and Adaptation:

Observe, interpret, predict, and develop plans for adapting to change and its impactson the landscape, ecosystems, resources, economies, and community stability

Environmental Quality: Understand human impacts on the northern environment and environmental impacts on people and cultures

Process Technology, Occupational Safety, Welding, Nondestructive Testing

Provide natural resource education

through the geographical

information system project to

interested parties

Natural Hazards: Improve understanding and prediction and develop strategies for mitigating the impacts of natural hazards,

including earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and severe weather

Engineering and Applied Technologies: Enhance programs aimed at training engineers and technicians to meet the needs of Alaskan industry

Engineering, Construction/Project Management

Provide initial teacher preparation

through a bachelor of arts in

Elementary Education, and a Master

of Arts in Secondary Education

Recruit, enroll, and support

increasing numbers of Alaska

Native students in teacher education

programs

Serve the needs of Alaska’s

practicing educators by offering

quality graduate programs in

educational technology, early

childhood education, reading, and

mathematics

Recruit, enroll, and support

increasing numbers of Alaska

Native students in teacher education

programs

Provide a special education

opportunity for Bachelor of

Arts in elementary education

candidates

Provide an effective and

accessible special education

undergraduate endorsement

program to practicing

teachers

Educator Preparation: Further develop programs that train and provide continuing education for pre-K and K-12 teachers and counselors

Education Leadership: Teacher Prep, Special Ed, ECD, ESL, Administration, Counseling, Specialists, Physical Education, Research

Use research as well as state and local feedback to improve programs (Example from COE draft plan)

Expand distance delivery for national and global marketing (remote internship supervision) (Example from COE draft plan) Implement remote supervision Offer EDL programs to high need districts (RAPPS grant) (Example from COE draft plan)

Develop collaborative cohort model for district-based principal certification (Example from COE draft plan)

Develop an induction/mentoring network with distance aspect

Cooperate in the statewide delivery

of an early childhood education

AAS degree and continue its focus

on special needs students

Provide professional

development and special

topics courses to strengthen

paraprofessionals, teachers,

and administrators

throughout Alaska

Provide current teachers

opportunities to obtain

endorsements and graduate

degrees in high-need areas

Provide teachers opportunities to

achieve Alaska certification and

recertification through in-service

professional development

(Example from COE draft plan)

Develop a recruitment model similar to ANSEP (Example from COE draft plan)

Develop a health

management curriculum for

the Bachelor’s of Business

Administration (BBA)

Expand Certified Nurse Aide

(CNA) training on all three

campuses, including

distance delivery beyond

Juneau, Ketchikan, and Sitka

Provide the UAA Licensed

Practical Nursing (LPN)

program offerings on an “as

needed” offering based on

community needs in Juneau,

Ketchikan, and Sitka

Health Careers and Pre-professional Programs: Enhance and develop programs that prepare students for careers in health care and for post-graduate professional degree programs

Biomedicine and Health Sciences:

Conduct biomedical and health education, research, and outreach that relate to Alaska’s unique environment and lifestyles

Health: Nursing, Allied Health, Psychology, Behavioral

Continue to develop

Associate of Applied Science

(AAS) degrees in Business

Administration, Information

Systems, and in Paralegal

Studies with attention to

course sequence

Expand small business

management offerings as

Business Leadership and Entrepreneurship: Enhance programs that develop knowledge, skills and abilities in business and accounting to increase Alaskan’s success in the global economy

Business, Management, Accounting, Public Administration, Small Business Development

electives for the AAS

degrees

Enrich business and

information systems

program offerings with

e-commerce content

Facilitate certified public manager

program/courses for public and

non-profit agency employees

Continue to strengthen the marine

biology, biology, and environmental

science programs

Develop masters’ degrees in science

areas that take advantage of the

unique environment and experience

at UAS

Further develop an outdoor

leadership program, which

incorporates the liberal arts with

outdoor recreational experiences

Continue to offer one-year

certificates and the two-year

AAS degree in current

computer applications

Computer Office Systems, CISCO, Computer Science

Develop a certificate

program for behavioral

health technicians

Continue the distance

delivered Bachelors of Social

Work Program from UAF

Prepare social science students for

graduate studies in social work and

psychology

Behavioral Health and Cultural Understanding: Contribute to healthy communities through research and education in the social sciences and develop understanding

of cultures in their global context

Behavioral Health and Social Work

Strengthen and expand the

U.S Coast Guard certified

marine deck operations

training program at

Ketchikan, including

curriculum for an Able

Bodied Seaman to Mate

Provide for structural steel

and aluminum welding

programs for marine

applications at Ketchikan

and Sitka

Develop a Shipyard

Production Workers

Apprenticeship Program at

Ketchikan

Provide AAS and related certificates

for marine engine room training and

the U.S Coast Guard documented

Oilers program at Juneau

Provide certificate and associate

degree programs in high demand

job categories including:

transportation and power generation

(automotive technology, diesel

technology and marine operations),

construction technology (building

science, drafting.)

Transportation: Automotive, Heavy Duty, Aviation, Logistics

Sustaining Alaskan Communities:

In collaboration with Alaskan communities and in the context of the global economy, develop more effective approaches to

alternative/renewable energy, food sources and subsistence, and economic development

Alternative Energy research, training, and education

Developmental Education and General Education Requirements: Communication, computation, and human relations skills for all employees

Endorsements, Certificates, AAS offerings in high demand job areas – responsive to industry