Iowa Code § 260H.6 - Pipeline program

Each community college receiving funding for the pathways for academic career and employment program shall develop a pipeline program in order to better serve the academic, training, and employment needs of the target populations. A pipeline program shall have the following goals: 1. To strengthen partnerships with community-based organizations and industry representatives. 2. To improve and simplify the identification, recruitment, and assessment of qualified participants. 3. To conduct and manage an outreach, recruitment, and intake process, along with accompanying support services, reflecting sensitivity to the time and financial constraints and remediation needs of the target populations. 4. To conduct orientations for qualified participants to describe regional labor market opportunities, employer partners, and program requirements and expectations. 5. To describe the concepts of the project implemented with funds from the pathways for academic career and employment program and the embedded educational and support resources available through such project. 6. To outline the basic skills participants will learn and describe the credentials participants will earn. 7. To describe success milestones and ways in which temporal and instructional barriers have been minimized or eliminated. 8. To review how individualized and customized service strategies for participants will be developed and provided. 2011 Acts, ch 132, §76, 106