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June 16th, 2022
Welcome to the June 2022 edition of Transparency, Credential Engine’s monthly newsletter! As always, we thank our 30 state, regional, and regional consortia of state partners for participating in and adding to the rich CTDL data housed in the Credential Registry. CTDL allows credential providers to catalog, organize, and describe a wide range of credential data and creates a common understanding across credentials, skills, competencies, and outcomes. Recently our partners in Illinois and Michigan are utilizing the CTDL to publish rich data to the Registry. To date, Illinois has published approximately 287 Credentialing Organizations, 3,215 Credentials, and 3,536 Learning Opportunities to the Registry. Within the Learning Opportunities published by Illinois, there is Aggregate Outcome data for over 300 Learning Opportunities included in the Credential Registry. Michigan has published 2,435 Credentials from 226 Organizations. We are excited to see what comes next!
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> Spotlight (#Spotlight)
> Updates (#Updates)
> Partnerships (#Partnerships)
> State Connections (#State)
> Technology & Support (#Technology)
> News (#News)
> Events (#Events)


** Spotlight.
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Credential Engine and the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) announced5 mini-grants ([link removed]) within the Midwest Credential Transparency Alliance (MCTA) to support progress toward credential transparency and serve as examples to other states, systems, and providers. This month we are highlighting The Kansas Board of Regents and the work they are doing to use an API to publish program pathways, systemwide transfer information, military transfer credit, and other important details to the Registry which will assist students and parents to make informed choices in Kansas. This work with Kansas is a continuation of the work they started over a year ago to publish courses with Transfer Value to the Registry. The first phase of their work through the mini-grant is to publish Transfer Value Intermediary data and the second phase is to publish Military Transfer Value data. These data in the Registry will
directly assist adults with some postsecondary credentials, active members of the military and veterans, first-generation students, and low-income secondary students. The work will also serve as a proof point to other states as they explore API publishing solutions, like Kansas, and will represent the first state publishing transfer information widely.


** Updates.
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[link removed] Engine is hiring! We are looking for an Operations Coordinator to provide support for Credential Engine, its Staff, Board, and Advisory Groups. Credential Engine is an equal opportunity employer. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the job's essential functions. Priority will be given to applications submitted by June 30th, 2022. Read the full job description here. ([link removed])

Invitation to attend Credential Engine’s second open meeting of its Equity Advisory Council: Credential Engine invites you to join its Equity Advisory Council on Thursday, June 23rd at 1 pm ET to participate in the next open meeting for the Council on Credential Transparency & Equitable Pathways, Transfer, and Recognition of Learning ([link removed]) . The goal of this Council is to identify appropriate definitions of equitable pathways, transfer, and recognition of learning so we may best describe and represent them in open, transparent credential data. The focus of this meeting is to identify what we need to know about pathways, transfer, and recognition of prior learning to understand whether they meet our definition of equity, and where such information is currently housed. The public will be asked to give input on what types of ‘inputs’ and ‘outcomes’ we
need to understand and what is it about those inputs and outcomes, as it relates to equity. Interested in participating? Register today! ([link removed]) If you can not attend this meeting, no worries! We post recordings of the open Council meetings on our YouTube channel ([link removed]) .

Invhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/empowering-equitable-pathways-with-learning-and-employment-records-webinar-tickets-366046814877itation to attend Credential Engine’s Learning and Employment Record Webinar: Credential Engine invites you to join us for our "Empowering Equitable Pathways with Learning and Employment Records" webinar on Wednesday, July 13th at 1 pm ET. Learning and employment records (LERs) are digital records that document an individual’s employment and learning achievements, including in the workplace, through education and training, community activities, and/or through military service. We can empower people with control over their own data by issuing digital, verifiable credentials that enable flexible curation of equitable learning and career pathways. It is important that LERs use CTDL linked open data to make the meaning and context of the credentials clear, transparent, and easy to understand. Please join us and our presenters, Meena Naik from Jobs for the Future, Brian
Tinsley and Kelly Page from Digital Promise, and Deb Everhart from Credential Engine to discuss what’s possible, what’s equitable, and how to make LERs interoperable across data systems so that learners, workers, credential issuers, employers, and our economies and communities can all benefit. Interested in participating? Register today! ([link removed])


** Partnerships.
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New partnerships: Credential Engine has a growing network of partners that are committed to demonstrating their capability to utilize CTDL to its full potential and integrate with the Credential Registry. These product and service providers have recently begun to work with Credential Engine and we look forward to highlighting all of our partners' contributions to credential transparency.
* Coursedog ([link removed])
* C ([link removed]) urrIQūnet ([link removed])
* EBSCO ([link removed])
* iQ4 Corporation ([link removed])
* P ([link removed]) entecom ([link removed])

MCTA Request for Information (RFI): The Midwest Credential Transparency Alliance (MCTA), a collaboration with the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) and Credential Engine, is soliciting information on technology products pertaining to the credentialing life-cycle. This information will be used to guide further discussions on the capabilities and tools that are available now, and that might be available in the future. Responses to this RFI should be received no later than June 30, 2022. To read the full announcement, click here ([link removed]) .
Product and service companies preparing responses to this RFI are encouraged to contact Credential Engine’s Credential Solutions Lead, Jeff Grann ([email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ) for support.


** State Connections.
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Every month, Credential Engine and our state partners meet to discuss updates and share their experiences with fellow states around credential transparency. Most recently, five states, Vermont ([link removed]) , Colorado ([link removed]) , Minnesota ([link removed]) , Alabama ([link removed]) , and Michigan ([link removed]) , presented their learnings, challenges, and approaches to communicating the importance of credential transparency, publishing to the Registry, working with institutions to collect data, and policy development. A main resource for these states to follow and articulate their progress toward credential transparency is the State Roadmap and Action Guide for Transparency ([link removed]) , which
highlights the steps for state policymakers to help take the inefficiencies out of the labor marketplace and provide more efficient and equitable access to actionable information through the prioritization of credential transparency.

This month, we are highlighting Vermont's work on Step 2 of the roadmap, “Communicate clear uses cases to benefit students, workers, employers, educators, programs and key policy goals”, and Colorado’s work on Step 3 of the roadmap, “Commit to using a common language and identify what data about credentials and competencies are necessary to be transparent and publicly available.”
* Vermont presented that sharing messaging for specific stakeholders at a high level prior to an initial meeting was helpful so that stakeholders could grasp the importance of credential transparency. Sharing visuals like the Credential Finder ([link removed]) andMy Future Vermont ([link removed]) provides a valuable demonstration.
* Colorado is aligning fields in their Eligible Training Provider Lists (ETPL) to the CTDL and through new legislation, HB22-1349: Postsecondary Student Success Data System ([link removed]) , it will enhance what is collected and make it a ‘canonical source’ for education and training opportunities. Ensuring that the collection of data is aligned with CTDL, it will funnel the information to different publicly available tools.


** Technology & Support.
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Credential Engine and RIPL Partnership: Credential Engine and RIPL are partnering to work with two states to expand the impact of their DOORS ([link removed]) platform. Powered by a digital “storage locker,” RIPL will use learning and employment record technologies, Credential Registry data, wage records, and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to make verified skill and credential information freely available to both jobseekers and potential employers, connecting jobseekers across the country to in-demand skills and employment opportunities.


** News.
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1. An Overlooked Solution to Workforce & Skills Alignment ([link removed])
2. Bring in the Translators and Decoders: The Language of Credentialing Needs Help – Part One ([link removed])
3. WorkingNation Overheard: Deb Everhart on credentials and transparency ([link removed])


** Events.
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SHRM Annual Conference & Expo ([link removed])
June 12-15 — Deb Everhart, Credential Engine's Chief Strategy Officer, presented in the Maximizing Talent Acquisition and Development with Verifiable Digital Credentials ([link removed]) session at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) annual conference. Along with her fellow presenters, they discussed how interoperable, verifiable digital credentials can be used in hiring and career development processes to empower employees and employers with a more complete and transparent understanding of people’s talents and competencies.

C2ER 62nd Annual Conference ([link removed])
June 13-16th — Rachel Vilsack, Credential Engine’s Strategic and Policy Engagement Manager, attended the C2ER Annual Conference/LMI Institute Annual Forum. This conference brought together researchers in the economic and workforce development space.

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