Dr. JaNice Marshall is a teaching professor and doctoral cohort coordinator for Kansas State University’s John E. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership.
“This initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of our community colleges to serve as hubs for regional Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that convene high school educators, community college faculty, and representatives from local employers and workforce agencies,” Dr. Karen Stout says in the award notification. “These PLCs will work to strengthen college-to-career pathways for their students, contextualized to the unique strengths and needs in each community.”
Tri-C’s aim was to:
• help more scholars from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) finish high school with increased awareness of the healthcare industry through exploration of careers, and high school career-technical education programs,
• create a model for an innovative and competitive talent pipeline that could be replicated for other industry sectors,
• learn together about what was currently happening in this space with a commitment not to duplicate, but to align the work, and
• assure that scholars gained the necessary skills and/or credentials, and an academic and career plan focused on healthcare.
