Each community college receiving funding for the pathways for academic career and employment program shall develop a pipeline program in order to better serve the academic, training, and employment needs of the target populations. A pipeline program shall have the following goals:
- 1. To strengthen partnerships with community-based organizations and industry representatives.
- 2. To improve and simplify the identification, recruitment, and assessment of qualified participants.
- 3. To conduct and manage an outreach, recruitment, and intake process, along with accompanying support services, reflecting sensitivity to the time and financial constraints and remediation needs of the target populations.
- 4. To conduct orientations for qualified participants to describe regional labor market opportunities, employer partners, and program requirements and expectations.
- 5. To describe the concepts of the project implemented with funds from the pathways for academic career and employment program and the embedded educational and support resources available through such project.
- 6. To outline the basic skills participants will learn and describe the credentials participants will earn.
- 7. To describe success milestones and ways in which temporal and instructional barriers have been minimized or eliminated.
- 8. To review how individualized and customized service strategies for participants will be developed and provided.
2011 Acts, ch 132, §76, 106