Workforce Fundamentals
Education designed to provide students with the academic, technical, and occupational skills needed to enter or advance in high-skill, high-wage, or in-demand careers.
What is Career Technical Education?
This organization holds apprenticeship standards, ensures compliance, and coordinates partnerships between colleges and employers.
What is an Apprenticeship Intermediary (Program Sponsor)?
This faculty-led body represents faculty on academic and professional matters.
What is the Academic Senate?
What is the Course Outline of Record (COR)?
Name the funding source calculated using student attendance and workload formulas.
What is FTES funding?
Employers and colleges use this Department of Labor database to identify occupational skills and job requirements.
What is O*NET?
In apprenticeship programs, a community college district serving as this entity often delivers RSI.
What is a Local Education Agency (LEA)?
This state-level body establishes policy for the California Community Colleges system.
What is the Board of Governors (BOG)?
This handbook outlines curriculum approval requirements and procedures for California community colleges.
What is the Program and Course Approval Handbook (PCAH)?
This type of funding is earned when apprentice attendance is reported and converted into Full-Time Equivalent Students.
What is apportionment funding?
In addition to a narrative and LMI, all new credit CTE programs must include this documentation clearly identifying the program title and the consortium’s recommendations.
What are Regional Consortia meeting minutes?
Apprentices must complete skills attainment through this employer training according to approved program standards.
What is On-the-Job Training (OJT)?
Colleges submit certain curriculum and program approvals to this statewide office.
What is the Chancellor's Office (CCCCO)?
These freely available teaching materials help reduce textbook costs for students
What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?
Match the funding source to the purpose: instruction, innovation, or attendance.
What are RSI Funding, AIF Funding, and FTES Funding?
Workforce Development Boards and Job Centers utilize this major source of funding.
What is WIOA Funding?
This California agency verifies apprenticeship training quality, wage progression, and compliance standards.
What is the Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS)?
Colleges often spend years preparing self-evaluations and evidence for this review process.
What is Accreditation?
Once local approval is complete, curriculum is often submitted through this system for Chancellor's Office review.
What is COCI?
Colleges must accurately report apprentice course sections through this statewide management information system.
What is MIS (Management Information System) reporting?
ASE, BRN, and VNPT are all examples of this type of quality assurance process for Career Technical Education programs.
What is third-party accreditation?
These two California codes work together to ensure registered apprentices are not charged tuition for qualifying apprenticeship-related courses.
What are the Education Code and Labor Code?
This executive group aligns institutional priorities with statewide initiatives while overseeing daily college operations.
What is the President's Cabinet?
From 2017–2022, California community colleges focused on creating structured student experiences designed to help students clarify the path, enter the path, stay on the path, and ensure learning.
What is Guided Pathways?
This funding source is tied directly to the costs of providing apprenticeship instruction rather than to student workload calculations.
What is RSI funding?