Do stackable credentials reinforce stratification or promote upward mobility? An analysis of health professions pathways reform in a community college consortium

Giani, Matthew; Fox, Heather L.

doi:10.1080/13636820.2016.1238837

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“…The US government has historically supported community college programs to grow the rural health care workforce; these programs allow students to gradually increase skills via short certificate and degree programs. 24,25 Increasing the educational attainment level of the rural health care workforce may require an increase in access to higher (4 years and graduate) education for rural residents, potentially including expanded access to medical education to reverse the historic decline of rural student representation in US medical schools. 26 By comparison, our results indicated that nondoctoral health professionals with graduate degrees were less likely than doctoral health professionals to be working in a rural area at their most recent job.…”

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Rural Employment of Health Care Workers: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

Walker

Quaile

Tumin

2020

The Journal of Rural Health

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Preserving and increasing the health care workforce in rural areas has become imperative due to the shortage of health care workers serving rural populations. However, limited data are available on long-term patterns of employment in rural settings among health care workers. Methods:We analyzed the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which enrolled a nationally representative sample of adolescents in 1979 and tracked their career outcomes through 2016. Using the US Census Bureau occupation codes, we identified participants who worked in health care occupations, and we classified their employment in rural versus urban areas. Findings:Of the 1,007 respondents (including 109 doctoral health professionals), 70% worked only in urban locations, 13% worked only in rural locations, and 17% worked in both rural and urban locations during their health care career. Rural upbringing, White race, and female gender were associated with rural employment. Among nondoctoral health professionals, lower educational attainment was associated with increased likelihood of working only in rural settings. Conclusion:Our study indicates the rural workforce is split between workers who are only employed in rural settings, and those who are intermittently employed in rural and urban settings. Therefore, retention of health care workers in rural settings and recruitment of workers from urban settings to practice in rural areas are important strategies for addressing the rural health care worker shortage. Rural upbringing, previously described as predictive of physician practice in rural locations, appears the strongest predictor of rural employment for both doctoral health professionals and nondoctoral health professionals.

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Rural Employment of Health Care Workers: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

Walker

Quaile

Tumin

2020

The Journal of Rural Health

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“…Interested in whether stackable credentials reinforce stratification, one study found that there were noticeable racial disparities in the credentials students earned through stackable credentials implemented by a consortium of community colleges in the United States (Giani & Fox, 2017). As Helsper (2021) points out, such unbundled forms of provision have the potential to exacerbate class divisions as they focus on vocational and practical forms of education, leaving elites to benefit from classic (and with higher status) liberal arts education.…”

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Open, Distance, and Digital Education (ODDE) – An Equity View

Czerniewicz

Carvalho

2022

Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education

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Understanding how equity manifests in open, distance, and digital education (ODDE) requires us to grapple with several coexisting trends, including the changing forms of teaching and learning provision, the advent of a post-digital society and education, the datafication of education, inequality in society at large, and digital inequities. Most of these trends are social in nature, yet they shape, and are shaped by, the educational sector. It is at the intersection of these coexisting trends that equity issues in ODDE are raised and become apparent, reinforced by the uneven distribution of technology in society, and with deep roots in economic and social inequities. Current scholarship foregrounds these nested relationships and entanglements, as well as their intersection with power relations and contestations which play out across ODDE at macro, meso, and micro levels.

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“… The EuroTeQ Engineering University is developing micro-credentials and individual study paths for learners that will lead to either a EuroTeQ honours degree, or a "EuroTeQ professional" qualification for learners undertaking professional training and development (EuroTeQ Engineering University, 2021 [4]).…”

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Quality and value of micro-credentials in higher education

2021

OECD Education Policy Perspectives

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This paper is Part B of a two-part Education Policy Perspective series on micro-credentials (See (OECD, 2021[1]) for Part A). It presents evidence on the extent to which higher education policy and practice environments are prepared to provide high-quality micro-credentials that equitably support educational and labour market aims. Key messages include the following:  The number and diversity of micro-credential offerings have expanded substantially in recent years, accelerated by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Institutional leaders see micro-credentials as a potentially valuable complement to existing higher education offerings. They plan to develop micro-credentials mainly by building on their institution's existing offerings or by creating completely new offerings through partnerships.Private providers are viewed both as allies and competitors, and institutions are emphatic that micro-credentials will need to be developed on an economically viable basis. Governments see the value of micro-credentials in upskilling and reskilling the labour force and widening access to higher education. Substantial investments have already been made by some governments across the OECD to increase the offering and uptake of micro-credentials. Micro-credentials can play a role in increasing the flexibility of higher education provision and promote collaboration among educational institutions and businesses. Micro-credential initiatives, property designed and targeted, can also promote greater equity of access to higher education. Some of the key challenges ahead for micro-credential development relate to ensuring that the benefits of micro-credentials are made available to learners across all groups of the population, providing a framework for widespread understanding and recognition of micro-credentials, and ensuring that learners have the information they need to choose microcredentials that support their individual needs and career objectives.

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Do stackable credentials reinforce stratification or promote upward mobility? An analysis of health professions pathways reform in a community college consortium

Cited by 21 publications

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Rural Employment of Health Care Workers: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

Rural Employment of Health Care Workers: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

Open, Distance, and Digital Education (ODDE) – An Equity View

Quality and value of micro-credentials in higher education

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