PACE by the Numbers

Strong multi-year growth trends continue for PACE as we work through high-impact partnerships to increase educational access for Oregonians. Highlights from the past two fiscal years:

• 93,309 non-credit enrollments

• $1.7 million in revenue generated for college partners | ~$350,000 average distribution per college in 2021

• 3,279 certificates issued

• 5x enrollment growth vs. preceding two-year period

Expanding Opportunity with Creative Partnerships

• State-of-the-Art Online Learning Platform for Oregon Home Care Commission
  When the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) needed an online learning development and an accessible platform for up to 50,000 essential care workers across the state, the agency turned to Oregon State University. Building on a multi-year partnership led by College of Public Health’s Center for Health Innovation, PACE worked with OHA’s Oregon Home Care Commission division to develop a solution. As a result, we are accelerating OHA's commitment to providing more accessible, flexible training options and advancing career mobility for essential workers.

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-Funded Training on Data Science for the Public Good
  Along with Oregon State colleagues from the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, the PACE team played a central role in interactive online training for the multi-state Data Science for the Public Good coalition. Consistent with OSU Strategic Plan's call to provide transformative educational experiences, this training educates stakeholders nationwide on opportunities to improve social and economic mobility through data-informed collaboration, analysis and policy making.

• Surging Demand for Online Professional Non-Credit Certificates with College of Education
  PACE's fast-growing collaboration with Oregon State's College of Education exemplifies our partnership model: The 2021 fiscal year saw unprecedented demand for a diverse professional certificate portfolio that's a product of this integrated approach. Our world-class instructional design and learning experience design offerings have welcomed participants from a range of industries and organizations, including Nike, 3M, the US Air Force, E&J Gallo, General Mills and VMWare, among others.

• Vaccine Education Module for Higher Ed Students, Staff and Faculty State-wide
  As part of a multi-institution partnership led by Oregon State Student Health Services, PACE provided rapid development of a self-paced vaccine education module now in use across the state. The module is designed to support implementation of vaccination requirements involving students and university employees. This time-sensitive project incorporated content from the Oregon Health Authority and featured vaccine "endorsements" from students matriculating at participating institutions. .

• Innovative Multimedia Development for Iowa State Projects on Public Science and Health
  As an extension of a past collaboration, researchers from Iowa State University sought PACE's specialized support for two important initiatives for its stakeholders - the Public Science Collaborative and Recovery Iowa. This effort taps PACE's diverse capabilities - website and multimedia development/consulting, user experience design, search engine optimization, marketing and more - to support "public good" initiatives far beyond Oregon's borders. Initial products of this partnership include branding for Public Science Collaborative and Recovery Iowa initiatives (including documents and style guide), the (draft) Recovery Iowa web presence and welcome video.
  

• Leadership in University Engagement Efforts Through Extension and Engagement Division
  In the wake of COVID, the PACE team's digital infrastructure and expertise played a vital role in helping University partners maximize high-value, relevant engagement during the most challenging of times. Highlights included production of an award-winning COVID prevention multimedia and marketing campaign; e-mail marketing that resulted in a six-fold increase in sales of a faculty publication. Supporting our faculty partners' post-COVID online pivot also involved supporting massive logistical efforts to transform in-person learning experiences for online delivery. Through this transition, our team led efforts on a number of fronts to ensure learning and engagement experiences remained both accessible and impactful, from adapting K-12 programs such as Farm to School and 4-H Teens as Teachers for effective web-based delivery to engagement/opt-in efforts that saw our division's email engagement lists (and email/SMS outreach efforts) soar to well over 100,000 contacts. In all, we sent over three million engagement messages to opt-in subscribers via our customer relationship management (CRM) platforms in FY2021.
  

Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 

• Facilitating Expansion of Effective DEI Training Across the University - and Across the State
  Diversity, equity and inclusion are more central to our mission as a university than ever before. In the past year, we've had the privilege of working with internal partners, as well as the Oregon Bureau of Labor Industries to deliver high-impact, state-wide training to increase awareness of equity issues among thousands of Oregonians. These efforts included:
  
  
  • A partnership with Extension and Engagement division's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team to develop and deploy inclusion training now in use state-wide by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries' Apprenticeship division. The upshot? Apprenticeship organizations across the state now rely on Oregon State's proprietary High 5 Teams training to help foster a more supportive culture across industries for thousands of Oregonians entering apprenticeship programs each year. 
  • We also partnered with our division's DEI team to develop online diversity training designed for the thousands of volunteers who support Oregon State University programs each year. This effort will fully integrate 
  • Our team was also pleased to support Oregon State's Office of Institutional Diversity (OID) in the design and implementation of a new online program - Creating Inclusive Communities and Confronting Bias - that will serve as a foundation for OID's efforts to support the University community. 

Driving Innovation with Cutting-Edge Service and Platforms

• • Program and project management
  • Instructional design and e-learning development
  • Targeted marketing, advertising and outreach
  • Customer relationship management (CRM) - technology infrastructure and support
  • E-mail marketing and automation
  • Multimedia and website development
  • External partnership development
  • Enrollment services and technology 

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