Conference Session

Two Year Colleges

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons; Sharlene Katz, California State University-Northridge; Robert Alldredge, Allan Hancock College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

taught at each of the CREATE community colleges. Surveys weredeveloped or adapted from other sources and these surveys and results are posted on theCREATE website at www.create-california.org/skills surveys. One of the surprising Page 12.399.2differences between the results ten years ago and this set of surveys and focus groups arethe much higher priority that industry places on soft skills. Another important result wasthat employers felt that foundational skills such as electronics were being lost whilecolleges specialized curricula too much and focus groups from a wide range of industrysegments advocated a more generalist curricula for their skilled