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Application for ITA eligibility: An indication you
make when entering data into the Career Education Consumer Report that you intend
to accept Individual Training Accounts as payment. By so indicating, you trigger
a Michigan Works! review of your program submission. A decision is made within
20 business days.
Audit: A review of your reported data and supplementary documentation by Public Policy Associates (PPA). PPA is under contract to the Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth for the development and administration of CECR. PPA conducts random audits to ensure the veracity of school's claims for their programs' performance.
Batch processing: An alternative to the online method of entering program data. You place your data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet provided by us and send us the completed file. We check your file for any obvious problems then load it to the Career Education Consumer Report.
CIP code: The Classification of Instructional Programs code, a federal six-digit numeric code used to classify education and training programs by the content of the program. When you select a program CIP code, you are determining which occupations it will be associated with for the display of relevant labor-market information and for the occupational search functions that potential students use to locate training.
Demand occupation: An occupation expected to employ increasing numbers of people in the local area. Each of the 25 Michigan Works! regions defines demand occupations according to its own criteria, relying on local labor-market statistics.
Dislocated worker: Someone who has been laid off from his or her job or whose job has been eliminated.
Expiration: What happens when your programs have not been updated in more than 365 days. Programs are not removed from the Career Education Consumer Report database, so you may update them after they expire. However, they are not visible to potential students using the Career Education Consumer Report when they have expired.
Initial eligibility: The first year of a program's eligibility to serve ITA-funded students. The Workforce Investment Act grants eligibility in a two-stage process. Initial eligibility—the first year—is associated with fewer performance-data reporting requirements. Subsequent eligibility—after the first year—is associated with full performance-data reporting requirements, including program-specific completion and employment rates and the wages earned by graduates in employment.
ITA: Individual Training Account. The voucher-based form of financial aid offered by Michigan Works! agencies under the Workforce Investment Act.
ITA-eligible: An occupational training or education program that is approved to serve students granted Individual Training Accounts. Students granted ITAs may choose from the ITA-eligible programs on the Career Education Consumer Report. The local Michigan Works! agency granting the ITA may disallow programs that are on the list but do not train students to enter a locally identified demand occupation.
JTPA: The Job Training Partnership Act, the federal legislation that preceded the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. Michigan has ruled that schools who successfully completed a training contract with a Michigan Works! agency under JTPA shall be granted automatic initial ITA-eligibility.
License (credential): A credential granting the bearer to legally practice a regulated occupation in the state of Michigan. Most schools cannot issue licenses, although they may prepare a student for a licensing exam.
License (school): A status granting a school the legal right to operate in Michigan. All private-for-profit schools and some nonprofits must be licensed to deliver occupational training. Some schools are licensed by the Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth's Proprietary Schools Unit.
Median wage: The wage that was earned by the program graduate who earned more than 50% of his or her graduating class and less than the other 50%. If you were to rank every wage earner in order from lowest hourly wage to highest hourly wage, the median wage earner is at the very middle of the list.
Michigan Works!: There are 25 regional Michigan Works! agencies and more than 100 local service centers (known as "One-Stop Centers") in the state. The Michigan Works! system delivers services and administers programs related to job placement and career development. They deliver WIA and Welfare-to-Work services, to name a few.
Nonoccupational training: Nonoccupational training, or "prevocational training," is generally relevant to the world of work but not specific to any particular career. Examples of nonoccupational training include English as a Second Language, high school completion programs, and courses in workplace preparedness. Nonoccupational training is supported through WIA but cannot be paid for using an ITA.
Occupational training: Occupational training prepares a student to enter the workforce in a specific type of position with a recognized career path. It is to be distinguished from nonoccupational or prevocational training, which is applicable to a wide variety of employment opportunities.
Performance data: Program-specific completion, employment, and wage data.
Performance standards: Minimum achievements in the areas of completion rate, employment rate, and median wages. Programs in the subsequent-eligibility phase must supply data for these measures and must demonstrate success that is at or above the State of Michigan's performance standards in order to retain ITA eligibility. Programs in the initial-eligibility phase are exempt from performance standards.
Program-specific: Associated with a particular program of study. Data entered into CECR must be associated with a particular program of study. Employment rates, completion rates, and wages cannot be expressed for the school as a whole: the success of each program must be reported individually.
Reporting year: The 365-day period you are considering when you report the number of students who participated in and graduated from the program. You may select starting and ending dates that coincide with those used in other annual reports you complete. At the time you enter data into CECR, your report must not be more than one year old. Alternatively stated, the closing date of your reporting year must be less than 365 days prior to the date of data entry.
Review: What happens to your data after you enter it to the Career Education Consumer Report. When you enter a program into CECR, an e-mail is sent to your regional Michigan Works! agency (if you are seeking ITA eligibility) or to Public Policy Associates (if you are not seeking ITA eligibility). The appropriate reviewer checks your information for completeness, and, in the case of an ITA-eligibility application, that it is an occupationally specific program. If you do not meet the automatic-eligibility criteria and are applying for ITA eligibility, the local Michigan Works! reviewer has full discretion to approve or disapprove your application. When a decision is made, you will be contacted by e-mail.
Site-specific: Programs listed on the Career Education Consumer Report are offered at specific locations. When schools offer training or educational programs at more than one location, they are treated as separate entities on CECR and must provide performance information that is specific to the program at the site at which it was offered.
Subsequent eligibility: Eligibility to serve ITA-funded students during the time after the first year of eligibility. After a program's initial-eligibility period has expired, the school must apply for subsequent eligibility for that program and provide completion, employment, and wage data. Program data must be updated annually to retain ITA eligibility.
WIA: The Workforce Investment Act of 1998. WIA is a federal law that reforms national programs to assist adults and youth to enter or re-enter the workforce.
Workforce Development Boards: Also known as Workforce Investment Boards, the 25 boards across the state develop programs and policies for the advancement of the local workforce. Policy-making authority for WIA programs is shared by the boards, the State of Michigan's Department of Labor & Economic Growth, and the United States Department of Labor. Michigan Works! agencies administer the policies created by WDBs.
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