Washington Integrated Sector Employment Consortium Product Catalog

The following document catalogs the curricular resources and supporting documents developed by the Washington Integrated Sector Employment (WISE) Consortium through a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) Round 4 grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor. The project was led by Centralia College and included Bates Technical College, Everett Community College, Green River Community College, Renton Technical College, Shoreline Community College, South Seattle College, Walla Walla Community College. The eight community colleges, located in Washington, focused their attention on the advanced manufacturing, clean energy, and construction sectors. Through Washington’s Centers of Excellence, the WISE Consortium brought together the advanced manufacturing, clean energy, and construction sectors to create employment opportunities for TAA impacted workers and other participants. Using stacked and latticed credentials and pathways, the consortium sought to accelerate the time for workers to return to employment in family wage jobs. Based on previous skills, gaps in education, and career interests, participants were directed to find employment in business related jobs such as customer service representative, or skilled trades entry level, pre-apprenticeship, or apprenticeship jobs in advanced manufacturing, clean energy and construction. Recognizing that the modern workforce requires constant learning, the consortium created a lifelong learning loop for these workers to earn certificate, associate and bachelor degrees as they gained new industry experience. In addition, the consortia leveraged the skills participants brought to the program by implementing competency based learning and prior learning assessments when possible. All products included in this catalog were developed by the partner colleges. These resources were produced with federal grant funds and reviewed for content, overall quality and completeness by each college’s curriculum review board, college program advisory boards, and/or subject matter experts, and by the consortium’s Third-Party Review contractor, PPM Associates. The catalog is organized by member college with their associated products presented below. Each entry includes the product title, a brief description of the contents and a URL link or links to the location of the resource on the Department of Labor’s Skills Commons Web site. Additional information about the WISE Consortium can be found online at http://cleanenergyexcellence.org/projects/wise/.
Date:
2018-06-20
Primary Material Type:
Program Assessment and Evaluation
Institution:
Centralia College
Subjects:
manufacturing, clean energy, construction, catalog, grantee, college

Industry / Occupation

Industry Partner:
PPM Associates worked closely with the consortium to create the content provided in the Catalog.
Industry Sector:
Educational Services -- Educational Services -- Technical and Trade Schools (6115)
Occupation:
Management Occupations -- Education Administrators, Postsecondary (11-9033)

Education / Instructional Information

Instructional Program:
Education (13)
Credit Type:
  • None
Credential Type:
  • None
Program Delivery Format:
Fully online

Copyright / Licensing

Primary License:
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.