Title

LaunchPad

Status
Status:
In Progress
Start Term
Start Term:
Fall 2024
End Term
End Term:
Fall 2025
Project Leads
Project Leads:
Vice President for Strategic Engagement
Pillars of Success
Pillars of Success:
Student Success
Equity and Inclusion
Financial Sustainability
Strategic Plans
Strategic Plans:
Academic Plan
Equity 2030
Project Purpose

Project Purpose

Review and update the concept and goals of M State’s LaunchPad program to leverage credit for prior learning and provide short-term, stackable credentials to equip learners with the competencies needed to thrive in a competitive workforce landscape. 

The program will: 

  • Define and/or refine the concept of essential skills needed to thrive in a competitive workforce landscape.
  • Identify and remove barriers to provide learners with upward economic mobility.
  • Explore clear, flexible and equitable pathways that can build to a degree.
  • Partner with employers, the human service industry, and other funding sources to create a sustainable and cost-effective program.
Deliverables

Deliverables

Outcomes:

  • Increase completion of short-term, flexible and stackable credentials through creating pathways for learners entering or re-entering the workforce.
  • Increase completion for adult and part-time learners.
  • Increase the number of business and industry partners.

Deliverables:

  • Identify criteria/domains for determining the engagement of external partners (see Working Partners materials).
  • Identify which internal and external partners would facilitate the launch of those programs.
  • Determine how LaunchPad curriculum could be structured to achieve stacked credentials, including how non-credit and credit pathways could converge into a stackable credential.
  • List potential programs that will have the greatest opportunity for success upon initial launch.
  • Explore options for promoting LaunchPad and M State stackable credentials, along with promotional tools and marketing collateral.
  • Identify two disciplines or programs that would benefit from symposiums to gather stakeholder input in further refining LaunchPad programming.
Project Scope

Project Scope

In Scope

Credit courses, non-credit courses, credit for prior learning, facility space on the Moorhead campus, ELL and PDEV programming, external/third party partnerships to fund students, training on all campuses, high school programming.

Out of Scope

Funding for space on other campuses.

Constraints

Financial, staying within capacity of the pilot programming