ACTE PACE Summit 2024

Virginia’s Community Colleges have implemented numerous types of state aid to support low-income students in attaining stackable credentials and career pathways into sustainability. Along with other state funding to support capacity building and the addition of 21st Century Learning Spaces, many colleges, such as Northern Virginia Community College, have modified programs to meet the needs of working adults while addressing labor shortages. One such program is their Stacked Credential Practical Nursing program, which includes hyflex opportunities for online learning and embedded short-term workforce credentials for accelerated pathways into employment and higher wages for working students.
Session participants will learn about pay-for-performance funding models for CTE, outcomes of this funding and stackable credentials, funding and efforts to expand prison education programs and stackable credentials for the justice-impacted population to include our Higher Education for Justice-Impacted Individuals Consortium, and how to model the accelerated Practical Nursing program to better serve working adults, increase credential attainment.