SECTIONS 88520 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 88520

88520. The following definitions govern the construction of this
part:
(a) "Business Resource Assistance and Innovation Network" means
the network of projects and programs that comprise the California
Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program.
(b) "California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce
Development Program," "economic and workforce development program,"
and "ED>Net Program" mean the program.
(c) "Center" means a comprehensive program of services offered by
one or more community colleges to an economic region of the state in
accordance with criteria established by the board of governors for
designation as an economic and workforce development program center.
Center services shall be designed to respond to the statewide
strategic priorities pursuant to the mission of the community
colleges' economic and workforce development program, and to be
consistent with programmatic priorities, targeted industries,
identified economic development, vocational education, business
development, and continuous workforce training needs of a region as
identified by regional business resource, assistance, and innovation
network infrastructure plans. Centers shall provide a foundation for
the long-term sustained relationship with businesses, labor, and
colleges in the region. They shall support, develop, and deliver
direct services to businesses, colleges, labor organizations,
employees, and employers. Direct services shall include curriculum
development, faculty training, assessment, one-on-one counseling,
seminars, workshops, conferences, training, technology transfer, and
educational services. Centers shall provide developmental and
delivery support and technical assistance to colleges within their
regions as needed to meet the business and workforce education and
training needs in their districts.
(d) "Industry cluster" means a geographic concentration or
emerging concentration of interdependent industries with direct
service, supplier, and research relationships, or independent
industries that share common resources and sell a significant portion
of their goods or services outside of the region.
(e) "Industry-driven regional collaborative" means a regional
public, private, or other community organizational structure that
jointly defines priorities, delivers services across programs,
sectors, and in response to, or driven by, industry needs. The
industry-driven regional collaborative projects meet the needs and
fill gaps in services that respond to regional business, employee,
and labor needs. These service-delivery structures offer flexibility
to local communities and partners to meet the identified needs in an
economic development region. Industry-driven regional collaboratives
are broadly defined to allow maximum local autonomy in developing
projects responding to the needs of business, industry, and labor.
Industry-driven regional collaborative services respond to the
statewide strategic priority pursuant to the mission of the community
colleges economic and workforce development program, and are
consistent with the programmatic priorities, targeted industries,
identified economic development, vocational education, and continuous
workforce training needs of a region as identified by regional
business resource, assistance, and innovation network infrastructure
plans.
(f) "Initiative" is an identified strategic priority area that is
organized statewide, but is a regionally based effort to develop and
implement innovative solutions designed to facilitate the
development, implementation, and coordination of community college
economic development and related programs and services. Each
initiative shall be workforce and business development driven by a
statewide committee made up of community college faculty and
administrators and practitioners and managers from business, labor,
and industry. Centers, industry-driven regional collaboratives, and
other economic and workforce development programs performing services
as a part of the implementation of an initiative shall coordinate
services statewide and within regions of the state as appropriate.
(g) "Job development incentive training" means programs that
provide incentives to employers to create entry-level positions in
their businesses, or through their suppliers or prime customers, for
welfare recipients and the working poor.
(h) "Living wage" means family or personal incomes at or above 250
percent of the poverty level, based on United States Census Bureau
data for the region. This definition may be amended upon review of
current data and recommendation of the California Community Colleges
Economic and Workforce Development Program Advisory Committee and
approval of the board of governors.
(i) "Matching resources" means any combination of public or
private resources, either cash or in-kind, derived from sources other
than the economic and workforce development program funds
appropriated by the annual Budget Act, that are determined to be
necessary for the success of the project to which they are applied.
The criteria for in-kind resources shall be developed by the board of
governors, with advice from the chancellor and the California
Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program
Advisory Committee, and shall be consistent with generally accepted
accounting practices for state and federal matching requirements. The
ratio of matching resources to economic and workforce development
program funding shall be determined by the board of governors.
(j) "Performance improvement training" means training delivered by
a community college that includes all of the following:
(1) An initial needs assessment process that identifies both
training and nontraining issues that need to be addressed to improve
individual and organizational performance.
(2) Consultation with employers to develop action plans that
address business or nonprofit performance improvements.
(3) Training programs that link individual performance
requirements with quantifiable business measures, resulting in
demonstrable productivity gains, and, as appropriate, job retention,
job creation, or improvement in wages or living wages.
(k) "Region" means a geographic area of the state defined by
economic and labor market factors containing at least one industry
cluster and the cities, counties, or community college districts, or
all of them, in the industry cluster's geographic area. For the
purposes of this chapter, "California Community College economic
development regions" shall be designated by the board of governors
based on factors, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of
the following:
(1) Regional economic development and training needs of business
and industry.
(2) Regional collaboration, as appropriate, among community
colleges and districts, and existing economic development, continuous
workforce improvement, technology deployment, and business
development.
(3) Other state economic development definitions of regions.