The Ohio Skills Bank William Russell Associate Vice Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents Thomas Fellrath Former Director, Ohio Skills Bank

“Turnaround Ohio” Develop the Ohio Skills Bank Program Through a competitive grants process, provide significant flexible funding to regional industry sector training consortia to provide skills training and support to industry sectors facing critical skills shortages. This will be funded through WIA discretionary funding.

Key Challenges 1.How to create regional skills collaboratives? 2.How to prioritize which industries demanded more immediate attention? 3.How to determine where skill shortages were most acute? For this presentation, we will disregard #1.

Build on what works o Occupational Supply-Demand System (OSDS) – –Revolutionary way to compare state occupational demand data with state education production data o OSDS wasn’t organized to determine regional talent supply disparities

Data Alignment – 242 unique combinations! Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers Commercial pilots Aircraft Pilot (Private) Airline/ Commercial/ Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Flight Instructor Example: Airplane Piloting USDoL Standard Occupation (SOC) Codes Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) codes

Ohio Skills Bank data tool o Workforce data: US Department of Labor; Ohio Bureau of Labor Market Information o Education data: Ohio Board of Regents o Built on Ohio’s 12 “Economic Development Regions” o –Publicly accessible – Transparent planning

Geography Matters: MSAs v. EDRs Ohio Economic Development Regions

Prioritization, not policy o Ohio BLMI and Board of Regents already shared data o BLMI took the lead in designing the web interface o Management leadership pushed this project ahead of others

Design Barriers o Designing a logical interface –Appropriate data points –Smart logic flow o Encapsulating all of the “small print” points while making the site user-friendly o Adapting Statewide/MSA-centric data to Ohio’s 12 regions o SUPPRESSED DATA

Data Barriers - Education o Site designed in 2008 o OBOR data was on 2007 graduates –Schools had total freedom on CIP code assignments (inconsistent) –CIP code assignments often followed education funding formula –Career centers and some private schools were inconsistent in filing CIP code reports

Data Barriers - Workforce o USDoL/Ohio BLMI data reflected 2004 workforce incl projections –2008 economic crash not accounted for –USDoL published statewide projections for , but BLMI prioritized subdividing by MSA over 12 regions o USDoL data only tracks private sector employment –No government employment other than at the aggregate level –No military employment (BRAC implications) o SUPPRESSED DATA

State’s Message to Regions o The OSB Data Tool presents more – and better – data than they have ever seen before o The data presented is NOT perfect o Regions should verify all data locally – both education production and labor force demand o Regions should incorporate credible third party labor market research as appropriate

Project Leadership o Ohio Bureau of Labor Market Information –Dr. Keith Ewald, Director –Mark Schaff (OSDS liasion) –Dr. Lewis Horner (Project lead) –Brian Baker (Website developer) o Ohio Board of Regents –Bill Wagner (Higher Education Information system liaison) –Tom Fellrath (fmr. Director, Ohio Skills Bank)

Results o Project delays on “human side” led to initial focus on health care delivery in each region o Each region has deeper understanding of education needs (oversupply?) for major health occupational clusters o Serves as platform for meaningful planning –Stemming the glut of students in a given field –Determine need to import grads or start new programs to meet demand –Build communication links between aligned programs and medical providers

Essential Elements o Good data – both education and workforce o Simple yet flexible interface o Regional staff that is comfortable with analysis of sometimes ambiguous data o Practice, practice, practice!

Suggested Revisions o Improved standardization of school reporting of CIP codes o Subdivide most recent USDoL data more quickly o Investigate any state-specific data sets that could replace “older” Federal data o Website improvements –Multiple region reports –State reports

Timeline o Jan – Ohio Skills Bank started at Ohio Board of Regents o Feb – Data Tool need identified, development commenced o May 2008 – Data Tool website launched –Dynamic format (website) allowed fastest possible implementation –Updates ongoing Hot-swapping in the most recent data sets Improved data presentation based on user feedback

Your Presenters Bill Russell Associate Vice Chancellor Ohio Board of Regents 30 E. Broad St., 36 th Fl. Columbus, OH (614) Tom Fellrath Frmr. Director, Ohio Skills Bank 8031 Griswold Dr. New Albany, OH (614)

The Ohio Skills Bank William Russell Associate Vice Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents Thomas Fellrath Former Director, Ohio Skills Bank