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The Oregon Community College Association (OCCA) represents the seventeen publicly chartered community colleges and their locally elected board members. Founded in 1962, OCCA is an association whose purpose is to support the colleges before policy-makers and partners whose actions affect the well-being of community colleges across the state.
Leading with racial equity, we advocate, communicate, and collaborate to strengthen community colleges for the benefit of Oregonians, particularly those historically underserved or systemically marginalized in higher education.
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Portland Community College will partner with State of Oregon Vocational Rehabilitation Office to coordinate a statewide Inclusive Career Advancement Program (ICAP) with all 17 community colleges in the state, thanks to an $18.2 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Rehabilitation Services Administration. The Disability Innovation Fund Grant was awarded to Oregon VR and will serve 500 people with disabilities in marginalized communities by braiding together career readiness and workforce development partners across the state and Oregon’s community colleges.
Blue Mountain Community College, Clatsop Community College, Clackamas Community College, Chemeketa Community College, Columbia Gorge Community College, Mt Hood CommunityCollege, Treasure Valley Community College, Rogue Community College, Umpqua Community College, Southwestern Oregon Community College, Oregon Coast Community College, Tillamook Bay Community College, Klamath Community College (KCC), Linn-Benton Community College, Lane Community College, Central Oregon Community College
Corequisite math can help put students on a path toward success! Learn more about them through this great video from the Oregon Student Success Center! #orcommcolleges #ORCommCollegesCare #whycollegematters #corequisites #oregonstudentsuccesscenter
OCCA has hired Morgan Cowling as its next Executive Director! Morgan, who will begin her new role with OCCA in January 2022, will replace Cam Preus when she retires in December. Congratulations and welcome to OCCA, Morgan! Click here for the full press release: occa17.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/10.8.2021_OCCA-hires-new-exec-director.pdf
Congratulations! As a past President of OCCA I know you will be a great leader.
Great hire! Congratulations!
Congratulations Morgan! You will be super in this new jib
Congrats Morgan!!
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Way to go, Morgan!!! 🧡
Oregon is leading the way in developing a policy agenda to increase the number of residents with quality credentials, and improving the data policies to support such efforts! In its participation in the National Skills Coalition’s Quality Post-Secondary Credential Policy Academy, Oregon leveraged an Adult Learner Advisory Committee (ALAC) that was created and charged to look at the policies and programs to support the state’s adult attainment goal and to define credentials valued in the workforce. The ALAC informed the “credentials that work” definition, while also integrating complementary work that was already happing in the state, such as using the state’s self-sufficiency standard as a threshold wage to determine a quality non-degree credential. Oregon has plans to pursue the creation of a grant program with wraparound services and other supports, like transportation and child care, to support adult learners in obtaining credentials that work. #orcommcollegescare #orcommcolleges #whyctematters
How Quality Assurance Criteria Serves the Unique Needs of Six States – National Skills Coalition
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This summer, NSC concluded its first Quality Postsecondary Credential Policy Academy. Six states tailored quality assurance criteria, unique to their state, which helped them develop quality training …