Recent reports have shown a national decline in community college enrollment since the pandemic. But with labor market changes, there are new opportunities for career and technical education (CTE) programs to fill the gaps in worker skills.
Using data from the Florida Department of Education, this project examined changes in CTE enrollment and completion from 2016/17 to 2022/23 rather than 2021/22. These dashboards show the changes by Career Cluster and IPEDS locale. This analysis provides a use case to understand how CTE was impacted by the pandemic and the extent to which certain career clusters have rebounded.
This site offers data results of an analysis of Florida’s statewide longitudinal data among career and technical education (CTE) students in Florida state and district technical colleges.
Analysis Notes:
- Analysis includes learners enrolled in a program aligned with one of Florida’s 17 career clusters with the following award types: Associate of Science degrees, Associate of Applied Science degrees, Career Certificates, College Credit Certificates, Applied Technology Diplomas, Advanced Technical Certificates, and Registered Apprenticeships.
- Analysis does not include dual-enrolled students or adult education learners.
- Analysis reports the change in enrollment and completion as a percentage among CTE students from one academic year to the next.
- Analysis excludes extremely volatile clusters with greater than 100 percent change between one year and the next. These clusters include (1) Energy and (2) Government and Public Administration
- Locale options include City, Suburban, and Rural as collapsed versions of IPEDS categories.
- City includes (1) City: Large, (2) City: Midsize, and (3) City: Small.
- Suburban includes (1) Suburb: Large, (2) Suburb: Midsize, and (3) Suburb: Small.
- Town/Rural includes: (1) Town: Fringe, (2) Town: Distant, (3) Town: Remote, and (4) Rural: Fringe
WestEd and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville are collaborating with the Florida Department of Education to better understand how community and technical colleges align their career and technical education (CTE) programming with the labor market. The project is funded through the Institute of Education Sciences and is part of the Accelerating Recovery Research in Community Colleges (ARCC) Network. The network includes research teams exploring student success at community colleges in the postpandemic economy.
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