Upcoming NGA Events: (Please note that further details and information about other events can be found on the COP calendar)
- AAI Learning Network Call: Tuesday, May 5 from 3-4 pm
- This Learning Network call will provide AAI grantee team leads the opportunity to discuss best practices and common challenges with the cohort. An agenda will be available closer to the event.
- Dial-in Information: 888 475 4499; Meeting ID: 947 9170 0143; Passcode: 221177
- AAI Webinar: AAI Program Integration with Postsecondary Education: May 11 from 3-4 pm
- Community colleges have long been key players in apprenticeship program development and success. As colleges face uncertainty due to the current health and economic crisis, it can be helpful to utilize lessons from the Great Recession to plan for future program needs. NGA will lead a conversation with AAI grantees discussing the role of community colleges in the last recession, highlighting enrollment trends and ways apprenticeship programs can best serve participants and businesses. Please join us for this conversation, featuring NGA higher education experts and community college administrators that ran programs during the Great Recession. Please register for the webinar here. Please note that you will need the registration password (required to prevent hacking): 576837.
- For more information on upcoming AAI events, please see the AAI Community of Practice calendar.
AAI Resources:
- AAI Community of Practice COVID-19 Resource Page : Includes a variety of resources including NGA Technical Assistance Memos on improving access to online learning and adjusting work-based learning structures, U.S. DOL guidance on grant management, and unemployment insurance information for states.
- Lessons Learned from the American Apprenticeship Initiative – What Grantees Wish They Had Known – This webinar targeted to Closing the Skills Gap grantees highlights the experience, success stories and promising practices of three high-performing college-level AAI grantees, who are currently at the end of a five-year grant that implemented strategies to expand the use of apprenticeships.
Apprenticeship in the News:
- Medical Assistant Apprentices Take on New Roles to Help Fight COVID-19 (WKOW): With all the changes happening in the health care system during COVID-19, UW Health medical assistant apprentices are stepping up to help with the response.
- Lorain County Community College Preps the Post-COVID-19 Workforce (Crain’s Cleveland Business): Lorain Community College is working with corporate partners on ongoing apprenticeship and workforce development programs, planning for a time when the pandemic recedes and the economy begins to restart and recovery.
- Pete College Set to Receive $200K Grant to Help Displaced Workers Transition to Medical Careers (Bay News): St. Pete College is set to receive an almost $200,000 grant that could help some of those currently out of work due to the pandemic get on a new career path.
- Northam Signs New Laws to Support Virginia Workers (NBC12): Governor Northam is proposing amendments to prohibit apprenticeship discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
- ISAIC’s Medical Gown Production Jump-Starts Plan to Create Sewn Goods Hub in Detroit (Crain’s Detroit Business): ISAIC launched industrial sewing training and instruction locally through partnerships with Henry Ford College and the Empowerment Plan in Detroit as an apprentice training site.
Additional Points of Interest:
- Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, IL is hiring a Director of Apprenticeship Programming
- QPR Process Renewal Request: The Office of Management and Budget’s current control number that provides the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) authority to collect quarterly performance reports (QPRs) from AAI grantees expires June 30, 2020. The UDOL has requested authority to renew the QPR process beyond this date. In order to comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act, there is a 60-day comment period to allow you to respond to this change. Questions and/or comments regarding the information collection request (ICR) can be sent to gov, or by calling Gabrielle Aponte Henkel at 202-693-2683. For additional information related to this ICR please go here.
