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Institute #2

Purpose, Planning and Program Alignment – Keys to Successful Student Outcomes

Louisville, KY
October 29–31, 2025

Agenda

Institute #2 Agenda

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Orientation

Orientation Slides

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Advance Work

Advance Work Webinar

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Tools for Assessing Community College Program Post-Completion Value

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  • John Fink, Senior Research Associate and Program Lead, CCRC
  • Davis Jenkins, Senior Research Scholar, CCRC
  • Hana Lahr, Assistant Director of Research and Director of Applied Learning, CCRC

CCRC Program Enrollment Template

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Rural Pathways Goal Setting Template

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Presentations & Materials

Project Overview

Chris Baldwin, Senior Fellow, NCII

Gretchen Schmidt, Senior Fellow, NCII

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Resilient by Design: A National Community College Landscape Scan

Brian Prescott, President, NCHEMS

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Report

Program Enrollment and Completion Workshop

John Fink, Senior Research Associate and Program Lead, CCRC

Davis Jenkins, Senior Research Scholar, CCRC

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Program Alignment to Regional Labor Market Workshop

Rob Johnstone, Founder and President, NCII

Slides 1
Slides 2
Slides 3

Purpose and Planning Workshop

Hana Lahr, Assistant Director of Research and Director of Applied Learning, CCRC

Ed Bowling, Rural Pathways Implementation Coach, NCII

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Report 1
Report 2

Leveraging Non-Credit/Continuing Ed/ABE Workshop

Randy Tillery, Senior Director, Economic Mobility, Postsecondary and Workforce, WestEd

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Handout
Questions

Strategies for Structuring Implementation and Improvement

Kelley Karandjeff, Director of Project Development and Learning, NCII

Octavia Lawrence, Rural Pathways Implementation Coach

Chris Wikstrom, Rural Pathways Implementation Coach

Moderator: Ed Bowling, Rural Pathways Implementation Coach

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Community Focused versus Community Rooted Approaches to Economic Development

Jim Jacobs, Retired President, Macomb Community College

Michelle Van Noy, Director of the Education and Employment Research Center at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University

Moderator: Chris Baldwin, Senior Fellow, NCII

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Report

Team Time Materials

Program Enrollment and Completion

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Program Alignment to Regional Labor Market

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Purpose and Planning

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Leveraging Non-Credit/Continuing Ed/ABE

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