Creative Approaches for Student Recruitment and Job Placement at Kapi'olani Community College MP4 Video Consortium for Healthcare Education Online Career Coach Professional Development Webinar February 23, 2015

Kapiʻolani Community College is Hawaii's largest comprehensive community college with technical, occupational, and professional programs in health sciences, emergency medical services, nursing, business education, food service and hospitality education. It offers the state's most successful university transfer program as well as a well-respected STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) program. Nationally, Kapiʻolani Community College has been recognized for its accredited programs in health sciences and education for emergency medical services. In September 2011, it was announced that Kapiʻolani Community College was a TAACCCT grant recipient. In 2013, Kapiʻolani Community College was awarded a $2,507,462 TAACCCTT grant of for culinary and health programs. O'Hagan facilitated the development of a new career pathway program working with the Hawaii State Departments of Health and Education. In 2014, the College was the recipient of another TAACCCT grant in the amount of over $1 million – one of seven community colleges across Hawaii that received a total of $10 million in TAACCCT funding. O'Hagan spoke about the college's approach to creating a proactive environment to address workforce needs focused both on student needs and employer needs. She discussed alignment with lifelong learning goals for students and creating a partnership with them. For the long term, building career pathways that students can follow through their career that has on and off ramps creates the connection between students and the college. Building relationships with employers and workforce is critical element. And implementing defined connections, career pathways, and processes within a college are key for successful student placement and recruitment. Patricia O'Hagan delivered this professional development webinar on February 23, 2015 to Consortium for Healthcare Education Online (CHEO) career coaches. About the Presenter: Patricia O’Hagan is the Dean of Health Sciences, Emergency Medical Services and Nursing for Kapi`olani Community College University of Hawai‘i. Part of her work is identifying trends in healthcare careers to meet workforce needs. In doing so, she focuses on developing needed credentialed training programs and student pathways into degree and certificate healthcare programs. A goal of the allied health programs is the development of state-wide acute and non-acute care preceptor programs to help meet the needs of Hawai‘i’s workforce. Previously O’Hagan worked for the United Nations, numerous academic institutions and in the Canadian non-profit sector and for government agencies.