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Direct Connection to Policy Area 1 of The Illinois Commitment Center for Professional Development at Westfield Old Orchard Shopping Center Oakton Community College What issue or need is addressed by the effective practice? This project addressed the need for workforce development and training, and the delivery of selected credit courses, to employees/residents near the Westfield Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie. The project also addressed the needs of local employers for training and development of current and potential employees. Description of the effective practice: In collaboration with the Workforce Board of Northern Cook County, Oakton established and offers programs and services at a new Center for Professional Development in the Westfield Old Orchard Shopping Center. Employer focused objectives include: • Develop activities that result in a stronger, more qualified workforce through customized training in identified areas of need; • Provide resource services for identifying career ready job applicants through referrals, job postings/jobbank, and career fairs; • Support employee retention efforts through educational outreach and assistance. Employee focused objectives include: • Provide developmental activities to prepare participants for employment opportunities, i.e. job readiness training, job search strategies; resume writing; and interviewing skills; • Provide participants with counseling, academic advising and skills assessment opportunities to promote career exploration and job readiness; • Provide skill based training in identified areas of need; • Provide resources for future development and growth. Oakton offered its first courses at the Center in Spring, 2006: ESL for Adults (40 participants); Bridges to Academic Reading (10 participants); Food Service Sanitation Supervision (8 participants); and Food Safety Refresher (7 participants). In addition to a continuation of courses already offered, future offerings at the Center will include: Doing Business Around the World, a series of international trade workshops; and Small Business Strategies, a series of entrepreneurship workshops. Still a new initiative, the Center for Professional Development is continuing to identify itself and align services not only with the needs of the retail community in which the Center is housed but businesses in the nearby communities. Ongoing focus groups with mall retailers and community businesses leaders will assist in determining future learning opportunities to be offered through the Center. The project was first implemented in the fall semester 2005. How does this practice achieve sustainability? The College will use institutional and grant funds to support faculty salaries and other services available at the Center. What are the results/measurable outcomes? To date employer feedback about the Center has been highly positive, and Oakton faculty and administrators from the credit and non-credit areas are working together to identify and deliver an array of courses and services. The convenient location, in the mall itself, makes the Center particularly accessible for retail and service sector employees at Old Orchard, and ample parking and the central location of the mall within Oakton’s district make it accessible for other individuals as well. Contact Information Name: Lynn Seinfeld Email: lynns@oakton.edu Phone: (847) 635-2186 6
Direct Connection to Policy Area 1 of The Illinois Commitment Certificate of Graduate Study in Museum Studies Northern Illinois University What issue or need is addressed by the effective practice? The primary objective of the Certificate of Graduate Study in Museum Studies is to prepare students for careers in a variety of institutions including natural history, historical, and art museums, or in the management of collections in public and private sites. The niche identified for students completing the certificate is the hundreds of small regional museums across the State of Illinois, which tend to employ only one or two individuals who must have the ability to fulfill all of the necessary roles associated with museum management - curatorship, education, public relations, collections maintenance, and administration. Description of the effective practice: The certificate in museum studies is jointly administered by the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It was designed to prepare students for careers in public and private museums and related historical societies, archives, or other agencies/institutions that work with artistic, cultural, and/or historical materials. The requirements for the certificate include 15 semester hours of course work: introduction to museum studies, field study or internship, and selected courses in museum methods, museum administration, museum education, museum exhibitions and interpretation, curatorial practice, or principles of public history. Students enrolled in the certificate include traditional graduate students earning degrees in disciplines such as history, anthropology, or art; students-at-large completing certificate requirements only; and museum professionals seeking continuing education. The required field study/internship provides a valuable resource for many types of museums and collections. Interns have been placed at institutions including the Rockford Art Museum, Ellwood House, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Milwaukee Museum of Natural History, the Sycamore History Museum, the Geneva History Collection, Tinker Swiss Cottage, the Nehring Center, the NIU Art Museum, the NIU Anthropology Museum, private collections, and other sites. Not only do graduates fulfill the needs of smaller institutions, but interns also provide short-term assistance to many institutions in NIU’s service region. In one case, an entire class served as consultants to a regional museum. How does this practice achieve sustainability? Costs for providing the certificate course work are shared by the two colleges sponsoring it, with each one providing faculty to teach relevant courses, and responsibility for administrating the certificate is rotated between the colleges. In addition to NIU’s museums, many units within the university are involved in activities that enrich students’ experiences in courses and at practice sites; these units include the School of Art, the Center for Burma Studies, the Women’s Studies program, and the Departments of Anthropology, Philosophy, History, and Counseling, Adult, and Higher Education. Individual courses required for the certificate are also taken by students earning degrees in many other disciplines, which contributes to its cost effectiveness. The practice of placing students in NIU’s museum as interns creates further cost efficiencies for these units. What are the results/measurable outcomes? The Museum Studies Committee provides a venue for faculty teaching museum studies courses to communicate effectively about their curricular offerings, which eliminates overlaps in course content and offers students a coherent and cohesive educational experience. Intern sponsors are unanimously positive about the contributions of students to their institutions, and students speak equally positively of their service learning experiences. Currently 34 students are enrolled in the certificate, and 20 have completed the certificate since its inception in fall 2002. Of the 12 students who completed the program prior to spring 2006, 10 have been tracked; of these 7 were employed in museums within six months of graduation. Contact Information Name: Virginia R. Cassidy Email: vcassidy@niu.edu Phone: (815) 753-0492 7
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