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"We Must Move from Patchwork to Teamwork"Characterizing Texas education and
training initiatives as a "patchwork" of pro-
grams held hostage to "process," State Job
Training Coordinating Council Chairman Glen
Parkey discussed plans to create an inte-
grated State Human Investment System at
an October 26
meeting of the
Texas Council
on Vocational
Education.
The Leg-
Islature
passed a reso-
lution this paste
June instruct-
Ing the SJTCC
and Texas
Health and Glen Parkey
Human Serv-
ices Coordinating Council "to initiate a hu-
man resource investment system that would
link employment, education, training and
human service resources into a coherent
system with a common focus and strategy
for building a quality work force." Currently,
there are 16 state agencies and roughly 32
boards and commissions involved in provid-
Awards Deadline
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and postsecondary level);
- Outstanding Special Achievement
Student (secondary level and postsecondary
level);
- Exemplary Business/Labor Involve-
ment; and
- Exemplary Vocational Education Ad-
visory Committee.
All nominees will receive recognition for
their achievements. One winner and three fi-
nalists for each award will be honored at a
banquet on March 9 at the Radisson Hotel in
Austin. Also to be honored at the awards
banquet will be outstanding students prepar-
ing for "non-traditional occupations" through
vocational education (e.g., females prepar-
ing for traditionally male dominated occupa-
tions and vice versa).
The third annual awards program drew
115 nominations, with the six winners and 18
finalists receiving "gold seal" recognition at
an awards banquet in Austin that was at-
tended by 181 Individuals.
Additional nominations forms are avail-
able from the T/COVE office.ing a multitude of education, training, and
services to the citizens and businesses of
Texas.
Parkey, a businessman and former
mayor of Amarillo, said "we must move from
patchwork to teamwork, integrating these
programs into one system, from the local to
state level. The objectives of the Texas
Human Investment System are to increase
the accessibility and accountability of pro-
grams, ensure programs are demand driven,
policy responsive, resource efficient, and
based on outcomes rather than process."
Governor William Clements has been
asked by Parkey to establish a "steering
committee" to delineate actions that need to
be taken to create the integrated human in-
vestment system, including steps the Legis-
lature can take when it convenes in 1991.
The Governor is expected to announce the
formation of a steering committee through
executive order at a press conference in
early December.
Parkey said the system will be multi-
tiered-local, regional, and state.The middle
tier, based on 24 planning regions, has been
in the pilot stage for several years and is now
ready for full implementation. He said a "de-
sign model" for local use will be ready within
a few weeks. "Locals know best," he said.
Parkey said the system will need "incentives"
to make things happen. He also said we
may have to ask the federal government to
'call time out' for 2-3 years on regulations."
T/COVE Vice Chairman Marcus Hill, a
State Council Heads
for the Border, Plans
El Paso Meeting
The upcoming meeting of the Texas
Council on Vocational Education will be held
on Thursday and Friday, December 6 and 7
in El Paso. It includes a Thursday afternoon
tour of twin plants across the border in Juarez.
On Friday morning, the Council will meet
from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. at the Westin Paso
del Norte Hotel, followed by a tour of the El
Paso Independent School District Technical
High School. After lunch at the school, the
Council will tour the Rio Grande Campus of
the El Paso Community College District, vis-
iting the Advanced Technology Center, Al-
lied Health Programs, and the Center for
Business Services.Fort Worth businessman, addressed the
SJTCC on October 25, expressing support
for a "call to action."
Hill said that "any success to be realized
hinges on each player visualizing the need
for and benefits to be derived through the es-
tablishment of
suchasystem.
There is no
doubt that we
need much
-improved com-
munications,
cooperation,
and coordina-
tion. We can
benefit from
c o m m o n
Marcus Hill goals, action
plans, defini-
tions, guidelines, data systems, and, to a
large extent, higher expectations."
"There are many icebergs - turfs and
ideological differences-that must be melted
through both sales and diplomacy if any
measure of success Is to be realized," added
Hill. "This call for action can truly make a
difference in closing the gaps between the
haves and have nots, literate and illiterate,
abled and disabled, trained and untrained."
Texas Coordinating Board
Approves Four Degrees
The Texas Higher Education Coordinat-
ing Board, at its October 25-26 meeting in
Austin, approved four associate of applied
science degree programs in technical-voca-
tional education.
The degree programs are Marketing at
Collin County Community College in
McKinney, Addictive Disease Disorders at
Eastfield College in Dallas, International
Business and Trade at Richland College in
Dallas, and Industrial Management
Technology at Texas State Technical Insti-
tute in Sweetwater.
Also adopted at the October meeting
was a Memorandum of Understanding be-
tween the Coordinating Board and the Texas
Education Agency to delineate the responsi-
bilities of each agency for associate degree-
granting proprietary schools.
The Board deferred action allowing tech-
nical-vocational programs in Allied Health to
be retained in four-year institutions until after
the THECB staff completes its review of
these programs.
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