Creating and Sustaining Your Program for Adult Learners

1. Creating and Sustaining Your Program for Adult Learners American Association of Community Colleges Funded with a grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies

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5. Access to Webinar Materials Today’s session will be recorded and made available on the Plus 50 website: http://plus50.aacc.nche.edu/

6. Presenter • Mabel Edmonds • Dean for Workforce Development • Clover Park Technical College • Lakewood, WA 6

7. Presenter • Kelly Lapetino • Workforce Skills Manager • Joliet Junior College • Joliet, IL 7

8. Presenter • Kim Morey, Ed.D. • Assistant to the President for Institutional Development • Western Dakota Technical Institute Rapid City, SD 8

9. Moderator Mary Sue VickersDirector, Plus 50 Initiative, American Association ofCommunity Colleges 9

10. Learning Objectives • Identify the types of financial resources that are available to sustain a Plus 50 program • Identify challenges that might prevent the Plus 50 learner from returning to the classroom • Identify best practices to makeyour Plus 50 program profitable and broadly accessible

11. 12 Tips for Developing and Deploying Your Plus 50 Program Involve your President and Senior Administrators. Determine your audience. Conduct a needs assessment. Assess your resources. Know your community. Convene a planning or advisory board. Form community partnerships. Set program goals and objectives. Secure Funding. Develop an evaluation plan. Create an infrastructure for your program. Participate in training and networking opportunities. Visit http://plus50.aacc.nche.edu/colleges_practicaltips.html 11

12. The Top 10 Things You Can Do to Become Plus 50 Friendly Conduct a needs assessment. Tailor admission requirements and financial aid programs to Plus 50 students. Provide a point-of-contact faculty member for Plus 50 students. Avoid using words like senior, old, and elder. Prepare counselors to deal with Plus 50 student needs. Offer short-term courses in condensed blocks of time. Coach faculty and adapt classrooms. Develop a targeted marketing plan. Partner with organizations that serve Plus 50 students. Cultivate support from the CEO and across academic divisions. 12

13. The Common Thread Understanding how to create and sustain your program is critical for a successful Plus 50 Program! 13

14. Challenges Facing Sustaining Plus 50 Programs Attracting Plus 50 students to campus could cause a net revenue drain Tuition waivers Increased enrollment Finding faculty 14

15. Challenges Facing Sustaining Plus 50 Programs - Continued • Cultural • Attitudinal 15

16. Methods of Facing Challenges Self-Supporting Supplemental Funding Leveraging Resources 16

17. What barriers are your community colleges facing in sustaining a Plus 50 Program? In the chat room, please enter a brief description of what barriers your community college is facing! 17

18. Panel Discussion How are you addressing some of the challenges? Mabel Edmonds • Developing curriculum that targets a specific market • Utilize learning partners Kim Morey • Learning partnerships Kelly Lapetino • Hosting Plus 50 job fair • Tuition & Scholarships 18

19. Basic Principles of Creating and Sustaining your Plus 50 Program • Course Revenues • Additional grants to pay for staff and program activities 19

20. Basic Principles of Creating and Sustaining your Plus 50 Program • Build an internal constituency at the college that supports the Plus 50 Program • Institutionalize program components as part of a college’s standard operations 20

21. Basic Principles of Creating and Sustaining your Plus 50 Program • Program written into the college budget 21

22. Basic Principles of Creating and Sustaining your Plus 50 Program • Leverage and Grow Partnerships 22

23. Other Sources of funding to consider Funding sources • Private funding • Grants • Partners • Include in college budget • Build working relationship with Grants office 23

24. What successful avenues does your community college use to help sustain your Plus 50 Program? In the chat room, please enter a brief description of what successful avenues your community college uses to help sustain your Plus 50 Program! 24

25. Best Practices • Conduct a needs assessment and focus groups to determine the needs of your Plus 50 population • Form partnerships with key stakeholders internal and external, particularly with the College President • Market effectively to the Plus 50 Learner • Adapt your campus and classrooms to meet the needs of the Plus 50 learner. • Follow Avenues to Sustainability 25

26. Question & Answer Please enter any questions you have about the content covered in today’s session in the chat room. 26

27. Let Us Help You! • Kelly Lapetino Email: klapetin@jjc.edu Phone: (815) 280-1416 • Mabel Edmonds Email: mabel.edmonds@cptc.edu Phone: (253) 589-5510 • Kim Morey Email: kmorey@wdt.edu Phone: (605) 718-3071 • Mary Susan Vickers Email: mvickers@aacc.nche.eduPhone: 202-728-0200 ext. 248 27

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29. To View a Recording of this Webinar Today’s session has been recorded and is available on the Plus 50 website: http://plus50.aacc.nche.edu/ 29

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