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Award Purpose
The CUNY Construction Skills Consortium seeks to create a pathway that streamlines, aligns and connects construction training from high school and community providers to colleges and employers, accelerates certifications and credit and degree attainment, increases entry-level employment at living wages, provides work-based learning, and supports equitable career advancement in the NYC construction industry.

Activities Performed
The Consortium will convene and work through an Advisory Council, a Steering Committee, and Working Committees on curriculum updates and design, prior learning credit, articulation, process mapping, and data analysis. The Consortium will (i). assess available construction skills programs, their strengths, weaknesses, alignment with industry, and articulation to certificates and degrees. (ii). work with employers to create noncredit and credit-bearing construction skills courses along a career pathway, micro-, and stackable credentials, and integrated supports (i.e., contextualized math, soft skills training, and career planning). (iii). develop alignment and articulation with CUNY academic degree programs. (iv). develop a plan to award credit for prior learning. (v). introduce work-based learning. (vi). ensure CUNY instructors and training facilities are NCCER credentialed.

Deliverables
Capacity Building Outcome 1: The Consortium seeks to create a construction career pathway that extends from high school completion (or GED) and community-based construction skills training (e.g. YouthBuild) to certifications to degree attainment to employment and career advancement.
Capacity Building Outcome 2: CUNY colleges will strengthen their capacity to support worker persistence in construction skills training and education and their retention in employment by offering comprehensive supports.
Capacity Building Outcome 3: CUNY colleges will build their capacity to collect, analyze, integrate, and report on data with an equity lens and across campuses to improve student and program performance.

Equity Outcome 1: Workers who are underrepresented in NYC's construction industry will gain skills and credentials needed to enter and advance in the field.
Equity Outcome 2: Workers who are underrepresented in NYC's construction industry will be placed and retained in jobs that earn at least $20 per hour.
Description of Student Cohort to be Used for Participant Tracking: Individuals who have been traditionally underrepresented in the NYC construction industry, including Hispanic, Black, AAPI, and women workers, and including new workers, dislocated workers, and incumbent workers enrolled into construction skills training at a Consortium college.

Intended Beneficiary
Individuals who have been traditionally underrepresented in the NYC construction industry, including Hispanic, Black, AAPI, and women workers, and including new workers, dislocated workers, and incumbent workers.

Subrecipient Activities
LaGuardia and City Tech's roles will be assessing program strengths and weaknesses, developing/enhancing courses, training and placing students.
Research Foundation of the City University of New York on behalf of Bronx Community College_NY_Abstract
Expanding our capacity to retain students by adding comprehensive support, broadening access to training by creating a contextualized math bridge, aligning certificates with college credits/degree programs, developing credit for prior learning opportunities, enhancing data collection, and strengthening the equity focus of our work. Building Skills NY's will source jobs, vet, place, and help retain applicants, work with employer partners and the industry to review training curriculum, provide feedback, and support the creation of soft skills curriculum to prepare workers for employment. Employer-partners including ACE Carpentry (Carpentry), GLO Electric (Electrical), SC Prime (HVAC), DDM Mechanical (Plumbing), King Contracting and Citibrix and Tile (both Masonry) will provide detailed information on needs, trends, and skills in their trades. NCCER will review the curriculum, provide and take input from employers, and work with the colleges to update and design curriculum, and work to foster a pipeline from high schools that teach NCCER to the Consortium training and jobs. Community-based construction skills trainers – Renaissance Technical Institute, Positive Workforce, and Central Brooklyn EDC – will be paid rent to provide training facilities for the program, will refer people to the program, and will sit on the Advisory Council.

Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York

17.277 - WIOA National Dislocated Worker Grants / WIA National Emergency Grants

Employment and Training Administration (ETA) [DOL]

Office of Workforce Investment [DOL - ETA]

New York, New York United States

City-Wide

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