20 U.S.C. § 1161p — Grants to create bridges from jobs to careers
submitted 18 years ago by Pub. L. 89-329 to r/title-20-EDUCATION · 688 words · no verdicts yet
This section creates competitive grants for workforce bridge programs connecting developmental education with for-credit occupational certificate or degree programs. The programs must tailor developmental instruction to career goals and help students reach occupational courses and completion faster.
(a) Purpose. The grants improve developmental education so students can move faster into for-credit occupational courses and better jobs that may require a certificate or degree.
(b) Program. From appropriations, the Secretary* must competitively award grants to institutions of higher education as defined in section 1001(a) to create bridge programs between developmental courses and for-credit occupational certificate courses linked to degree programs. Programs must (1) improve developmental education, including English instruction, by tailoring it to career goals, and (2) speed students’ movement into for-credit occupational courses and completion.
(c) Application. An applicant must apply when, how, and with the information the Secretary reasonably requires.
(d) Priorities. The Secretary must favor applications from institutions where at least 50 percent of entering first-year students subject to mandatory assessment are found to need developmental reading, writing, or mathematics courses, and applications proposing proven adult practices or collaboration with adult-education providers.
(e) Required activity. A recipient must create bridge programs whose developmental curricula, including English instruction, reflect the content of the for-credit occupational certificate or degree programs, or groups of programs, in which developmental students are or plan to be enrolled. The programs must combine developmental and college-level curricula and instruction.
(f) Permitted activities. A recipient may (1) improve retention and completion through cohorts, accelerated content, dual enrollment in developmental and college-level courses, tutoring, counseling and other support, and small material attendance or performance incentives; (2) with relevant faculty, redesign on-site courses for modular, compressed, alternative, or distance schedules serving working adults; (3) develop counseling about remedial students’ needs, careers, certificates linked to degrees, and transfer programs; (4) improve remedial teaching through professional development, reclassification of teaching positions, or other suitable means; and (5) carry out other activities the institution and Secretary determine will promote retention and completion.
(g) Grant period. Grants last at least three and no more than five years.
(h) Technical assistance. The Secretary must provide technical assistance to applicants and recipients.
(i) Report and summary. Each recipient must report how effectively its program moves students rapidly into for-credit occupational courses and completion. The Secretary must summarize reports, identify best practices, and make that information public.
(j) Authorization. Congress may appropriate whatever sums are necessary for fiscal year 2009 and each of the next five fiscal years.
The purpose of this section is to provide grants on a competitive basis to institutions of higher education for the purpose of improving developmental education to help students move more rapidly into for-credit occupational courses and into better jobs that may require a certificate or degree.
From amounts appropriated to carry out this section, the Secretary* shall award grants, on a competitive basis, to institutions of higher education, as defined in section 1001(a) of this title, to create workforce bridge programs between developmental courses and for-credit courses in occupational certificate programs that are articulated to degree programs. Such workforce bridge programs shall focus on—
improving developmental education, including English language instruction, by customizing developmental education to student career goals; and
helping students move rapidly from developmental coursework into for-credit occupational courses and through program completion.
An institution of higher education* desiring a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may reasonably require.
The Secretary shall give priority to applications that—
are from institutions of higher education in which not less than 50 percent of the institution’s entering first-year students who are subject to mandatory assessment are assessed as needing developmental courses to bring reading, writing, or mathematics skills up to college level; and
propose to replicate practices that have proven effective with adults, or propose to collaborate with adult education providers.
An institution of higher education that receives a grant under this section shall use the grant funds to create workforce bridge programs to customize developmental education curricula, including English language instruction, to reflect the content of for-credit occupational certificate or degree programs, or clusters of such programs, in which developmental education students are enrolled or plan to enroll. Such workforce bridge programs shall integrate the curricula and the instruction of the developmental and college-level coursework.
An institution of higher education that receives a grant under this section may use the grant funds to carry out one or more of the following activities:
Designing and implementing innovative ways to improve retention in and completion of developmental education courses, including enrolling students in cohorts, accelerating course content, dually enrolling students in developmental and college-level courses, tutoring, providing counseling and other supportive services, and giving small, material incentives for attendance and performance.
In consultation with faculty in the appropriate departments, reconfiguring courses offered on-site during standard academic terms for modular, compressed, or other alternative schedules, or for distance-learning formats, to meet the needs of working adults.
Developing counseling strategies that address the needs of students in remedial education courses, and including counseling students on career options and the range of programs available, such as certificate programs that are articulated to degree programs and programs designed to facilitate transfer to four-year institutions of higher education.
Improving the quality of teaching in remedial courses through professional development, reclassification of such teaching positions, or other means the institution of higher education determines appropriate.
Any other activities the institution of higher education and the Secretary determine will promote retention of, and completion by, students attending institutions of higher education.
Grants made under this section shall be for a period of not less than three years and not more than five years.
The Secretary shall provide technical assistance to recipients of, and applicants for, grants under this section.
Each institution of higher education that receives a grant under this section shall report to the Secretary on the effectiveness of the program in enabling students to move rapidly from developmental coursework into for-credit occupational courses and through program completion. The Secretary shall summarize the reports, identify best practices, and disseminate the information from such summary and identification to the public.
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2009 and each of the five succeeding fiscal years.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–329, title VIII, § 851, as added Pub. L. 110–315, title VIII, § 801, Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3421; amended Pub. L. 111–39, title VIII, § 801(13), July 1, 2009, 123 Stat. 1956.)
- 2008Enacted · Pub. L. 89-329 · 122 Stat. 3421
- 2009Amended · Pub. L. 111-39 · 123 Stat. 1956
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