Apprenticeship
Overview
Earn a Living, Earn a Degree, Launch a Career
Registered Apprenticeship offers a proven, earn-and-learn path to a career — not a classroom-only promise, but a paid job from day one, paired with hands-on mentorship and related classroom instruction that builds real, in-demand skills. Through the Bay Area Community College Consortium’s (BACCC) network of 28 community colleges, students train alongside employer partners across healthcare, technology, skilled trades, education, and public service, earning progressive wage increases as their expertise grows and graduating with a portable, nationally recognized credential. Employers help design every program, so apprentices learn exactly what today’s Bay Area workforce needs — and that partnership pays off: nationally, roughly 90% of apprentices remain employed after completing their program, launching debt-free into careers with strong, lasting earning potential. For the colleges and K12 districts in the Bay Region, Registered Apprenticeship is where education, industry, and opportunity meet.
Regional Director
John Dunn
john.dunn@baccc.net
John provides resources and technical assistance to colleges, K–12 LEAs, employers, and community partners looking to expand apprenticeships across the region.
BACCC Apprenticeship Dashboard
This strategic plan provides a set of priorities for the Bay Area Community College Consortium (BACCC) region to plan, enhance, expand, advance, and implement new and innovative Apprenticeship programs. It refl ects the priorities developed through a multi-phase engagement eff ort that included input from community college faculty, administrators, and staff , as well as workforce boards, K-12 partners, intermediaries, state agencies, and statewide stakeholders. The process was designed to identify core needs, surface shared priorities, and align regional resources. These facilitated sessions produced fi ve actionable priorities to provide a foundation for collaborative execution.
A Beta 1.0 version web page that captures many of the resources, contact information, research, and DAS/DOL apprenticeship standards documents that the region finds useful. This page is updated by John Dunn and all errors are his.
BACCC Apprenticeship Strategic Plan
This strategic plan provides a set of priorities for the Bay Area Community College Consortium (BACCC) region to plan, enhance, expand, advance, and implement new and innovative Apprenticeship programs. It refl ects the priorities developed through a multi-phase engagement eff ort that included input from community college faculty, administrators, and staff , as well as workforce boards, K-12 partners, intermediaries, state agencies, and statewide stakeholders. The process was designed to identify core needs, surface shared priorities, and align regional resources. These facilitated sessions produced fi ve actionable priorities to provide a foundation for collaborative execution.
Resources
California Community College Chancellors Office
Foundation for California Community Colleges
US Department of Labor
Success Stories
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