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El Camino College’s Welding CAA Featured

HAWTHORNE COMMUNITY TELEVISION CH. 22 featured El Camino College’s Welding Career Advancement Academy. Click the link below to see the video: El Camino College Career Advancement Academy... Read More

CLP to lead California College Pathways

The Stuart and Walter S. Johnson Foundations have asked the Career Ladders Project to step in on an interim basis to provide leadership and technical assistance for California College Pathways. Click here to read the letter from the Foundations. To learn more, visit the California College Pathways w... Read More

LearningWorks’ Policy Brief on Rethinking Basic Skills Education in CA

“California’s future prosperity and competitiveness depends to an important degree on our ability to increase the share of basic skills students who attain a community college degree or certificate and/or transfer to and graduate from a four-year institution. The danger, as we make framing decis... Read More

Laney College’s Machine Technology CAA featured on Fox News

America’s economy was forged by machinists. But today, a quarter of the nation’s welders, engineers and steelworkers are getting ready to retire.  At Laney College, the Machine Technology CAA is training students to think with their hands and work safely around heavy machinery, preparin... Read More

CA Community Colleges Task Force on Student Success Recommendations

California Community Colleges Board of Governors (BOG) convened a task force of system representatives and external partners for the purpose of developing a plan to bring about significant improvements in success rates of community college students. The CCC Task Force on Student Success Recommenda... Read More

Open House at Laney College

“There aren’t many opportunities like this” says Jordan Gutter, a graduate from Rudsdale Continuation School in Oakland. He has always been interested in creating and building things and came to Laney College last semester without any previous welding or machining experience. Today, he is he... Read More

Carpinteria Fina at Laney

“I feel more valued, more happy with myself because I have learned more than what I expected to learn.” says Ricardo Guzman, a student in Carpinteria Fina, a program at Laney College’s wood technology department in Oakland. The program combines fine woodworking technology with English language... Read More

Career Advancement Academies in the Daily Breeze

Welding Prospects are on Fire El Camino College’s welding CAA program is featured in the Daily Breeze... Read More

Student Success Conference October 12 -14 2011

Across California, colleges are experimenting with dozens of approaches to improving career technical education, and their efforts are generating tangible results. The 2011 Strengthening Student Success conference offers a one-stop opportunity for CTE faculty and coordinators to find out what’s wo... Read More

New Reports on Basic Skills

New Reports on Basic Skills by The California Budget Project (CBP) California’s Basic Skills Students: Who Succeeds and Why Gateway to a Better Future: Creating a Basic Skills Sytem for California... Read More