Career Advancement Academies

CLP director Naomi Castro was chosen as a fellow in the 2019 cohort of the California Education Policy Fellowship Program.

The fellowship gives participants the opportunity to develop [...]

Lessons from California’s Career Advancement Academies
The Career Advancement Academies at more than 30 California community colleges offered concrete examples of how to ensure equity for all students, and [...]

Overview
The East Bay Career Advancement Academy (EBCAA) was coordinated by the Peralta Community College District and is a partnership that brings together two community college districts, Peralta Community [...]

From 2015 to 2016, the Career Ladders Project provided technical assistants to Skyline College’s Career Advancement Academies. CLP supported with faculty exchange across CAA sites including site visits and peer [...]

CLP conceptualized the CAA framework and worked with the California Community College Chancellor’s Office to launch the statewide initiative, which was designed to provide more structured educational experiences for students [...]

The Career Advancement Academies enabled underserved Californians – including students who were the first in their families to attend college and students from low-income families or communities of color – [...]

Insights into Contextualized Teaching and Learning
Launched in 2007, the Career Advancement Academies are designed to enable underserved Californians – typically first in their families to attend college, low-income, [...]

“Career Advancement Academies (CAAs) have been implemented in colleges across several regions of California and have provided a rich testing ground for more structured and integrated approaches to support student [...]

The colleges engaged in the CAA demonstration made significant progress in developing high-impact strategies and effective program models that kept students moving toward the completion of post-secondary credentials, especially among [...]

David Rivas, 28, leans over rows of rebar at a Habitat for Humanity construction site in Walnut Creek. It’s a hot May day and Rivas is part of a 17-member [...]