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Academic Senate for California
Community Colleges
The Academic Senate represents the local senates of all California community
colleges and serves as the official voice of the faculty in academic and
professional matters.
Adult Numeracy
Network (ANN)
ANN is a community dedicated to quality mathematics instruction at the
adult level.
American Youth
Policy Forum (AYPF)
A forum committed to broadening the awareness and understanding of policymakers
and to strengthen the youth policymaking process by bridging policy, practice
and research.
Aspen
Institute: Economic Opportunities
This institute advances innovative and promising strategies that connect
the poor and underemployed to the mainstream economy.
The
AT&T Professional Development Academy for Community College Faculty
This project develops and delivers 6 week online, interactive professional
development courses for two-year college faculty.
Basic Skills Initiative
Provides materials and resources to support the CA Community Colleges’
basic skills Initiative.
Breaking Through:
Helping Low-Skilled Adults Enter and Succeed in College and Careers
This project promotes and enhances the efforts of community colleges to
help low-literacy adults to prepare for and succeed in occupational and
technical degree programs.
Building
California Construction Careers
BC3 is designed to educate the public about construction career opportunities
and apprenticeship.
CA
Community College AmeriCorps
Community College AmeriCorps programs are designed to provide intensive
learning experiences that integrate civic engagement, education, and service.
California Apprenticeship Coordinators Association
California
Community College Association of Occupational Education
This is an association of California occupational education and workforce
development professionals.
California Community
College Chancellor’s Office
The Chancellor’s Office is the administrative branch of the California
Community College system and provides leadership at the state level.
California Community
College Curriculum
This website is a resource for those within the California Community College
system writing and approving curriculum.
California
Community Colleges Economic Development and Workforce Preparation Division
The EDWP division of the Chancellor’s office provides leadership
and oversees system investments in the areas of career technical education,
workforce and economic development.
California Community Colleges
Economic and Workforce Development Coordination Network (EWD)
This is the network of industry initiatives of the CCC Economic and Workforce
Development program.
CA Connected
by 25 Initiative (CC25I)
A collaborative effort of five foundations assisting public child welfare
agencies and their communities to build comprehensive transition-aged
foster youth supports and services.
CA
EDGE CAMPAIGN
A broad based, non partisan coalition designed to make workforce development
a priority in California.
California Chafee Grant
This program gives money to foster youth and former foster youth to use
for career and technical training and college courses.
California
Community College Board of Governors
"Ladders
of Opportunity" serves as the official policy paper that outlines
the CCC Board of Governors initiative for developing California's new
workforce.
California's
Eligible Training Provider List (ETPL)
The ETPL provides customer-focused employment training for adults and
dislocated workers.
California Employers Association
California Employment Development
Department (EDD)
This state agency supporters employers and job seekers in California.
California Employment Training
Panel (ETP)
This state agency mission is to retrain workers for good, long-term jobs.
California Intersegmental
Articulation Council (CIAC)
This Council serves as a statewide forum for Articulation Officers to
meet, discuss, and resolve college transfer and articulation issues; and
to facilitate the progress of students between and among the segments
of postsecondary education in California.
California Labor Federation
(AFL-CIO)
The AFL-CIO, with more than 1,300 affiliated local unions, represents
2.1 million union members in diverse communities and sectors of the state's
economy.
California Labor and Workforce
Development Agency
This agency is charged with enhancing the skills of California's workforce
and expanding access to the many training and apprenticeship programs.
California Labor and Workforce
Development Agency's Economic Strategy Panel
The Panel studies the rapidly changing economy by examining economic regions,
industry clusters, and cross-regional economic issues.
California Manufacturing and Technology Association (CMTA)
California Partnership for
Achieving Student Success (Cal-PASS)
A resource to help educators improve student achievement by identifying
and reducing barriers to successful student transition in all levels of
education.
California
Tomorrow
CA Tomorrow is committed to ongoing support to community organizations,
schools and policymakers working toward a more equitable, inclusive, multicultural
society.
California
Transportation and Logistics Institute
California Workforce Association
A non-profit membership organization, CWA represents CA local workforce
investment boards, One-Stop Career Centers and other workforce development
partners.
California Workforce Investment
Board (CalWIB)
This agency was established to plan, coordinate and implement the provisions
of California's workforce development programs and services.
CalWorkplace
Website of the CA CCCO Statewide Advisory Committee for Work-Based Learning
and Employment Services (COSAC)
Career Ladders
Project (CLP)
The CLP for the California Community Colleges works to strengthen the
role of community colleges in providing educational and career advancement
opportunities.
Career Technical Education (CTE) One-Stop
Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching
An independent policy and research center with a primary mission to do
and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the
profession of the teacher.
Center
for Community Research and Solutions, United Way of Greater Los Angeles
CCRS publishes a weekly eNewsletter with the latest research and publications
on public policy issues facing LA County.
Center for Law and Social Policy
(CLASP)
CLASP conducts research, policy analysis, technical assistance, and advocacy
on issues related to economic security for low-income families with children.
The Center for the Continuing Study
of the California Economy (CCSCE)
The recognized source of independent information about long-term economic
trends in California.
Center for Energy Workforce Development
Center for Occupational Research
and Development (CORD)
CORD is a national nonprofit organization providing innovative changes
in education to prepare students for greater success in careers and higher
education.
Center for Workforce Success
National Association of Manufacturers.
CMTA Training
Services
National Association of Manufacturers.
College
Access for the Working Poor: Overcoming Burdens to Succeed in Higher Education
A major report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy, examining
the precarious position of working poor students in our society.
Community College
Central
This Web site houses the research and work behind the Ford Foundation's
Bridges to Opportunity Initiative.
Community College
Research Center (CCRC)
Located at Teachers College, Columbia University, CCRC's mission is to
conduct research on the major issues affecting community colleges and
to contribute to the development of practice and policy.
ConnectED:
The California Center for College and Career
ConnectEd is dedicated to identifying, supporting and expanding pathways
that prepare students for college and career.
Corporation for
a Skilled Workforce
CSW is a national, non-profit policy research and practice organization
The Council for Adult and Experiential
Learning (CAEL)
A national non-profit organization which creates and manages effective
learning strategies for working adults through partnerships with employers,
higher education, government and labor.
The Council for Advancement
of Adult Literacy (CAAL)
CAAL is a national public charity dedicated to developing the unique role and potential of adult education and literacy in America.