Pre & Apprenticeship
2023-2024 Program Review
1 ) In 3-5 sentences, describe your unit to an audience of potential students. Many units take this information from their website. If it has been awhile since your unit has updated its website, take this opportunity to design a brief description of your unit for today’s students.
American River College conducts, in cooperation with industry, a number of apprenticeship programs. An apprenticeship program is a formal system of occupational training from one to five years, that combines paid employment, on-the-job training and job related college instruction in order to develop skilled workers.
Apprenticeship programs are a cooperative effort between employers, the Department of Labor (DOL) and/or the Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS), and the college.
Enrollment in an apprenticeship course is limited to registered apprentices. Information on admission to apprenticeship status can be obtained from the local trade in which you are interested, or from the office of the Dean of Technical Education.
2 ) Who is disproportionately impacted in your unit?
Who is disproportionately impacted in your unit?
- Based on the provided data sets, students in the partnered apprenticeship programs are show no significant disproportionate impact.
- Based on data provided by our apprenticeship partners, there is a significant disparity in the number of females entering our apprenticeship programs.
- Of those that enter, there is no significant disproportionate impact for success.
Use the Disproportionate Impact* reports below to answer question #2. These reports show how student achievement outcomes vary by gender, race/ethnicity, veteran, foster youth, disability, and income/poverty level status to enable users to engage in more advanced student-centered and equity-centered analysis, reflection, and planning. These reports are integrated with ARC's Data on Demand system to provide users with more sophisticated and nuanced ways of exploring their unit's data. To access the reports, you may be prompted to log in to ARC's Data on Demand system. If so, click on "Log in with ARC Portal" and enter your Los Rios single sign-on credentials (same as Canvas or Intranet).
*This link provides the California Community College Chancellor's Office's definition of disproportionate impact.
Disproportionate Impact
The disproportionate impact (DI) links now direct you to your unit’s DI data in ARC Data on Demand. The DI data will show which student groups are experiencing disproportionate impact for course success rates (A, B, C, Cr, P), A-B rates, and course completion rates (students who did not withdraw) at the course level.
In addition, a new report on intersectional DI (e.g., ethnicity/race by gender) is available for assessing intersectional Di for course success rates. The intersection DI report defaults to the subject code level (e.g., all ENGWR courses). Use the org tree in the side bar to filter to individual courses (click on the right arrow next to American River College, right arrow next to your division, right arrow next to your department/discipline, then select the specific course to view).
If prompted to log in, click on “Log in with ARC Portal” and enter your Los Rios single-sign on credentials (same as Canvas or Intranet).
3 ) What equity advancing actions have your programs already taken?
What equity advancing actions have your programs already taken?
- Due to the unique nature of our apprenticeship program, the department’s only role is as an advisor.
- Our partnered apprenticeship programs have done an excellent job mitigating disproportionate impact.
Programs aimed to improve female participation in apprenticeship programs.
- The Northern California Carpenter’s hold a quarterly “Women in Construction” event at their four Northern California training centers to aid in recruitment of female apprentices.
- This year, several apprenticeships received grant funding to reimburse child care costs, which can be a barrier to entry for many new apprentices.
4 ) What will be your unit’s strategies for eliminating disproportionate impact (DI)?
What will be your unit’s strategies for eliminating disproportionate impact (DI)?
- As mentioned previously, our role is solely as an advisor to our programs.
- While there is currently no significant disproportionate impact shown, we continue to support our partners with tools and training needed to support our apprenticeship students.
5 ) What support do you need to eliminate disproportionate impact (DI)?
What support do you need to eliminate DI?
- Currently the apprenticeship program has the tools and training needed to eliminate disproportionate impact, as shown by the data.
- The apprenticeship program currently has no full time faculty coordinator. The current coordinator is working through a reassignment.
- A full-time faculty member assigned to apprenticeship will aid our program as we continue to support our apprenticeship partners.