Readings

Reading (CoPs)

• • Embedding Career Learning Across the Curriculum: the Ethnographies of Work Initiative at Bunker Hill Community College, Katie Bayerl, JFF

  • WorkOne Locations (part of Indiana's DOL Workforce initiative) 

  • A Resource Guide to Engaging Employers, JFF

Reading (Workshops)

Workshop 6 (Learning Outside Traditional Course Lines Part II)

1. Partners in a New Learning Model: Competency-Based Education and Credit for Prior Learning C-BEN / CAEL

2. Backward Design in Competency-Based Medical Education by Tara Ernst, SLU 01.03.24

Workshop 5 (Learning Outside Traditional Course Lines Part I)

• Solving the Credit–for–Prior Learning Equity Paradox by Michelle Navarre Cleary Inside Higher Ed 05.04.23

• Recognition of Prior Learning in the 21st Century by Patrick Lane and Sarah Leibrandt  Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education

Workshop 4 (Skills Mapping & Skills-Based Hiring)

• Pre-Reading for Yes We Must Grant Session – February 6, 2025 Dr. Cheri Etling-Paulsen

• AI software: https://quinncia.io/

• Drexel LeBow’s 54th Annual College Hiring Outlook 2025 

• 2025 NACE Job Outlook

Workshop 3 (Work-Based Learning)

• • To Power America’s Workforce and Economy, Trump Should Start with Apprenticeships by Vanessa Bennett and Taylor Maag (JFF), Work Shift 12.10.24

  • JFF’s Work-Based Learning Framework

  • JFF’s About Apprenticeship site

Workshop 2 (Meta-Majors)

• • Norfolk State's approach on Meta-majors and Career Readiness by Robin Marable, Complete College America podcast 04.02.24

  • Sample documents connected to Norfolk State University's Meta-Major and Guided Pathways implementation

  • Sample documents connected to SEU development and implementation of a Meta-Major and Guided Pathways Program facilitated through Block Scheduling

Workshop 1 (Cross-Institutional Collaboration)

• • Course Sharing: Business Models and the Learning Ecosystem in Action Higher Education Today--American Council on Education 08.10.23

  • A "Great Misalignment" Between Credentials and Jobs Inside Higher Ed 05.29.24 

  • How Collaboration Wins: Leadership, Benefits, & Best Practices Harvard Business Review 2017

  • STEM Students & their Sense of Belonging: S-STEM Programs' Practices & Empirically Based Recommendations American Association for the Advancement of Science

  • STEM Scholars in Biology Institute 2022 Event Schedule

Reading (Institutes)

Institute 4 (Student-centered Approaches to Equitable Career Pathways)

Social Capital resources: 

• • Building Professional Social Capital for Black Learners and Workers from JFF

  • Social Capital Is the Fundamental Outcome of Work-Based Learning from Education Systems Center

  • Cultivating Connections: A Framework for Building, Strengthening, and Mobilizing Students’ Social Capital from Education Strategy Group

Population-specific approaches resource:

• • Dual Enrollment for Students from Special Populations from JFF

Student voice resource:

• • Kentucky Student Success Collaborative's Two Strategies to Accelerate Higher Education in Their State from JFF

Employer partnerships resource:

• • What Employers Want from Inside Higher Ed

Institute 5 (Tools, Relationships, and Resources)

• Centering Students in Employer Engagement from JFF

Reading (Other)

• Faculty Atitudes and Behaviour: The Integration of Career Readiness Into the Curriculum NACE 04.2024

• How Clear Is Their Path? Guided Career Pathways and Community College Students CCCSE  2024

• Microcredentials for Humanities Students Nancy Hoffman, JFF

• On the Path to Success: Early Evidence About the Efficacy of Postsecondary Competency-Based Education Programs AIR 10.2016

• Comparing goals to outcomes for graduates of a competency- based education program The Journal of Competency-Based Education 07.21.2020

• A Study of Four New Models and Their Implications for Bending the Higher Education Cost Curve RPK 2016 Note: these programs had a lot of upfront funding

• Where to Start: Backward Design | Teaching + Learning Lab MIT

• National Survey of Postsecondary Competency-Based Education | American Institutes for Research AIR 2020

• Enrollment Management & Competency-Based Education: Registrar and Financial Aid Edition C-BEN and ACCRAO, 2023

• CBE Examples:

  • Story Bank C-BEN

  • CAEL CBE Case Studies:

• Competency-Based Education at Peirce College: Bachelor of Science in Information Technology CAEL 2015

• Competency-Based Master of Business Administration at Davenport University CAEL 2016

• Competency-Based K–5 Science and Mathematics Teaching Endorsements at Valdosta State University CAEL 2016

• Lord Fairfax Community College: Knowledge to Work CAEL 2016

• Texas Affordable Baccalaureate Program CAEL 2016

• Salt Lake City Community College: Competency-Based Education in the School of Applied Technology CAEL 2016

• City of Seattle (CityU): Performance-Based Degree Model CAEL 2016

• Competency-Based Bachelor of Business Administration at Brandman University CAEL 2015

• Customized, Outcome-based, Relevant Evaluation (CORE) at Lipscomb University CAEL 2014

• Competency-Based Degree Programs in the U.S.: Postsecondary Credentials for Measurable Student Learning and Performance CAEL 2013

• Embedding and Aligning Certifications with Academic Programs Credential As You Go 2023

• Standards for Accreditation NECHE 2021

• Postsecondary Competency-Based Education Program Model Map: Research Brief Reports on the choices CBE programs have made, focusing on how these advance key design principles of flexibility, support, competency and learning. AIR & Ascendium 2023

• Accreditor Policies on Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) CAEL 2024

• HBCUs Establish Credit for Prior Learning Models Inside Higher Ed 04.22.2025

• Results from CAEL and WICHE’s 72-Institution Research Study Results include how CPL saves adult students time and money and PLA boosts credential completion rates for adult students

• The National Landscape of CPL: Effective State and System Policies for Success and Equity ACE & CAEL 2024

• Adult College Completion in the 21st Century: What We Know and What We Don't Erisman & Steele 06.18.2015

• Attracting Adult Learners With Credit for Prior Learning CAEL 02.07.2022

• Joint Statement on the Transfer and Award of Credit AACRAO, CHEA, and ACE 12.2021

• Recognizing Prior Learning in the 21st Century: A Synthesis Brief WICHE 2021

• PLA is Your Business: Pricing and Other Considerations for the PLA Business Model  CAEL 11.2015

• Why the Adult Brain Likes PLA DePaul University 12.2014

• Equity Paradoxes in the PLA Boost CAEL and WICHE 10.10.2021

• Composing Knowledge: Writing, Rhetoric and Reflection in Prior Learning Assessment Academia.edu 06.2010

• (PDF) A Bigger Rock, A Steeper Hill: Race, PLA and the Color of Learning Academia.edu 11.17.2015 

• Students Shadow Alumni at Work and at Home: Learners at Grinnell College can experience a week in the life of a career professional through a homestay job shadow offering Inside Higher Ed 03.26.2025

• Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors: The Integration of Career Readiness Into the Curriculum This report highlights data from NACE's survey demonstrating different ways that faculty support career readiness. It also offers recommendations for how higher education faculty and staff can work together to support deeper institutional engagement in career development and, ultimately, student outcomes. 

• Bridging the Gap: How Labor Market Information Can Enhance Institutional Strategy and Student Outcomes: This article explores what educational institutions can do to promote their use of LMI to stay competitive and relevant while navigating changing social and economic conditions, as well as what employers and policymakers can do to ensure institutions have access to quality, relevant LMI to support their work.

• The Rise of the Faculty Career Champion: Colleges are embedding student career development in the classroom. They’re relying on faculty to lead the charge Inside Higher Ed 02.13.2025

• New Data Reveals the Depth of College Crises Forbes 01.28.2025

• Centering Students in Employer Engagement JFF 01.09.2024

• 2023 STP-CABE Joint Working Group: The Market-Ready Psychology Major Society for the Teaching of Psychology 01.11.2024

• How Clear Is Their Path? Guided Career Pathways and Community College Students Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) Spring 2024

• Student Career Desires: 3 Survey Findings to Know and 2 Areas to Act On Inside Higher Ed, 19.01.2024

• Students’ Biggest Career Influences Inside Higher Ed, 12.01.2024

• Labor Market Data Play Growing Role in Higher Ed Inside Higher Ed, 08.01.2023

• How a Coalition of Nonprofit, Private Colleges is Tackling Economic Inequity Ascendium Newsletter, 09.11.2023

• Survey Finds Employer Confidence in College Grads Inside High Ed, 11.30.2023

• Painting a Picture of More Student-Centric Career Services Inside High Ed, 12.13.2023

• Survey: Students Want Career Prep in the Curriculum Inside High Ed, 12.20.2023

• What We Are Learning About Guided Pathways CCRC

• Guided Pathways Resource Center

• What Employers Want Inside Higher Ed 

• Building Professional Social Capital for Black Learners and Workers JFF 

• Social Capital Is the Fundamental Outcome of Work-Based Learning Education Systems Center, 11.30.2023 

• Dual Enrollment for Students from Special Populations JFF  

• Kentucky Student Success Collaborative's Two Strategies to Accelerate Higher Education in Their State JFF

• Using Labor Market Data to Improve Student Success The Aspen Institute 09.08.2016

• New data can help the future of higher ed. How will its leaders use it effectively? Lumina Foundation 06.05.2023

• The Uneven Climb From College to Career The Chronicle 5.5.2022