Committee Description:

The VTEA Committee is an Administrative Governance Council participatory governance committee comprised of representation from Continuing Education faculty, administrators, and classified staff. Perkins IV Section 134(b) (5) requires that a group of individuals be involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of Career Technical Education (CTE) programs, which are assisted with Perkins IV funds. This group of stakeholders has been expanded to include academic and CTE faculty as well as career guidance and academic counselors. The majority of faculty members on the Local Planning Team should be representatives of CTE programs. Administrators of CTE programs should be integral members of the CTE Local Planning Team. The team may be augmented with other representatives and individuals, as needed, for additional planning advice and expertise.

Chair:

  • Dean, Career Technical Education. Appointed by the President of Continuing Education

Committee Membership:

  • Administrators (the Deans overseeing Career Technical Education Programs funded by Perkins)
  • Dean, Business and Information Technology (BIT)
  • Dean, Career Technical Education.
  • Dean, Hospitality Management
  • Dean, Allied Health and Basic Skills
  • Dean, Parenting and Emeritus Programs
  • Dean, DSPS

Faculty (at least one from each of the vocational programs funded with Perkins/VTEA funding; one from counseling; and one from New Horizons):

  • Auto Technology
  • Electronics
  • Graphics (Offset Printing)
  • Metal Fabrication
  • Business and Information Technology
  • Child Development
  • Food/Fashion
  • New Horizons
  • Counseling

Committee Goals:

This committee is to review request for funding for the Career Technical Education programs within Continuing Education, providing recommendations for the allocations of the Perkins IV/VTEA funds.

Committee Procedures:

An initial committee meeting is held each year when revisions to the Perkins fund requirements are released—typically held in February. At this meeting, VTEA District and Continuing Education Coordinators review the Perkins requirements and additional accountability issues. A representative from the local Workforce Partnership explains methods to access and interpret local labor/industry data, wage data, and any MIS data available for Continuing Education. Local industry, business, and labor representatives address the committee regarding significant needs, trends and the employment outlook in their areas. In addition, a CTE student representative provides the student’s perspective regarding class offerings, scheduling, internships, and rigor of the programs.

Each discipline’s Request for Proposal for the following year’s funding will be submitted to the Perkins Committee for review in April 2008, at which time the committee will review and discuss the merits of each RFP in the context of the goals of Perkins, and funds will be awarded accordingly. Funding recommendations are then forwarded to the Administrative Governance Council Budget Committee for recommendation to the Executive Governance Council.

Committee Calendar:

Meeting agendas and minutes will be posted on the Continuing Education web page at http://gov.sdce.edu/.

Initial meeting, February of each year.
Review of proposals, April of each year.

Standing Sub-Committees:

none