Leveraging the Goals of the AchieveTexas College and Career Planning Initiative to Achieve Your Program’s Recruitment Goals
Cheryl L. Willis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems Technology, University of Houston
Abstract
The AchieveTexas College and Career Initiative (CCI) is designed to improve instruction and academic and career and technical performance in Texas secondary and postsecondary schools. The goals of AchieveTexas are to decrease high school dropout rates, increase high school graduation rates and college enrollment rates in every Texas community. Resources have been dedicated to the AchieveTexas CCI to support redesigned high schools, teacher training and development, and specific programs designed to help students graduate from high school ready for college and career. This presentation will provide participants with career cluster and pathway materials that inform postsecondary faculty on the State’s attempts to upgrade academic and career and technical instruction and to align high school, postsecondary education, and workforce development activities across the 16 career clusters and the broader high school curriculum. Included in the discussion will be model programs of study for careers in the Information Technology and Business, Management and Administration career clusters.