Kentucky Graduate Profile addresses a pressing issue: nearly three in four employers say they have a hard time finding recent college graduates with the essential soft skills needed to succeed in the workplace.
As a response to this need, Kentucky public higher education is developing the Kentucky Graduate Profile. The Profile is a set of career-focused learning outcomes each graduate should demonstrate as part of their college curriculum.
Based on the 10 essential skills:
In addition to the specialized content knowledge students acquire from their major, the Graduate Profile focuses on the workforce skills that graduates need to thrive in their careers. The following 10 Essential Skills are identified by higher education organizations and workforce professionals as learning outcomes all graduates need for success in their chosen fields of study.
- Communicate effectively
- Think critically in order to solve problems and create new ideas and solutions
- Apply quantitative reasoning skills to analyze and solve numerical problems
- Interact effectively with people from diverse backgrounds
- Adapt to changing circumstances while leading and supporting others
- Perform professionally within their chosen field of study or occupation
- Engage in civic life to improve society
- Collaborate and work in teams
- Demonstrate evidence of applied and integrated learning
- Use information for decision making
Kentucky Department of Education Dual Credit, a student is enrolled in a course which allows him/her to earn high school credit and college credit simultaneously. This course may be taught on a college campus or on a high school campus, but it will be in conjunction with a college or university. Dual credit courses must comply with KRS 158.007(8) which defined dual credit as "a college-level course of study developed in accordance with KRS 164.098 in which a high school student receives credit from both the high school and postsecondary institution in which the student is enrolled upon completion of a single class or designated program of study."
Launch: Equitable & Accelerated Pathways for All is a national college and career pathways initiative that strives for every learner to have access to and succeed in high-quality and equitable pathways.
Launch will do so by:
- Driving a national agenda for college and career pathways
- Working with state and local partnerships to advance equitable growth and scaling of pathways by tackling entrenched inequities in education and workforce systems
- Advancing pathways policies and strategies that help achieve greater scale and sustainability
- Seeding and growing next-generation models that will transform career pathways systems and dismantle entrenched barriers that perpetuate inequities in economic advancement