Integrating industry-defined skill standards into curriculum and receiving Texas Skill Standards Board (TSSB) Program Recognition could potentially be used to meet the “Technical Skill Attainment” and “Credential, Certificate or Diploma” performance indicators for your workforce program.  (See Request for Applications, or RFA, available to download at the link below, for details on how.)

You can achieve this outcome and earn up to $6,000 at the same time by applying for a Skill Standards-Based Curriculum Development Project administered by Del Mar College under its Perkins state leadership grant.
 
TSSB Program Recognition is a state “seal of approval” that your program is teaching competencies and assessing student outcomes to industry-specified skills and knowledge.  Join the ranks of recognized programs that are being promoted to industry groups at TSSB outreach sessions and on the TSSB website.  The latest programs to earn this designation, listed below, also will be honored with a certificate from the Governor of the State of Texas in a special awards ceremony at the Texas Community College Instructional Leaders fall conference in Fort Worth on October 6, 2011.

• Clarendon College’s Wind Energy Associate of Applied Science (AAS) Degree and Wind Technician Level 2 Certificate

• Houston Community College Northeast’s Biotechnology and Instrumentation and Controls Engineering Technology
  AAS Degrees

• Kilgore College’s Process Technology-Petroleum Specialty AAS Degree

• Lamar State College-Orange’s Process Operating Technology AAS Degree

• The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College’s Medical Office Management AAS Degree

• Victoria College’s Process Technology AAS Degree

Visit the Community & Technical Colleges section of the TSSB web site to learn more about these programs and the program recognition application process.

Apply by Friday, January 20, 2012 to pursue a Skill Standards-Based Curriculum Development Project.  For technical assistance with the application and skill standards integration process, contact Anne Dorsey, TSSB Program Administrator, at 512/936-8106 or adorsey@governor.state.tx.us.  For more information about the RFA, call Dr. Larry Lee, Dean, Business, Professional and Technology Education, at 361/698-1700.

Download a copy of the FY12 RFA and application forms.