ALABAMA SOUTHERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE High Technology and Economic Development Partnerships Building In

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ALABAMA SOUTHERN COMMUNITY COLLEGEHigh
Technology andEconomic Development
PartnershipsBuilding Institutional
CapacityRural Community College
AllianceMemphis, TennesseeOctober 8, 2002
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Alabama Southern Community College

• Rural Southwest Alabama
• Alabamas Most Rural Region
• Alabama Population Density
• Per Square Mile 79
• Service Area Population Density
• Per Square Mile 19

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Alabama Southern Community College

• Service Area
• 54 white, 45 black, 1 other
• Six rural counties (10,000 Square Miles)
• Largest city 7,500 population
• Two large rivers
• Huge pine forest
• Superb hunting and fishing
• Economically and educationally disadvantaged
• Declining population
• Double digit unemployment

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• Four day/evening campuses
• Monroeville
• Thomasville
• Gilbertown
• Jackson
• Merger in 1991
• Traditional junior college
• Trade/industrial institute
• College enrollment
• 1,400 headcount
• 1,100 FTE

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Initial Status

• Limited, provincial view based upon institutional
  and personal experience
• Low expectations for support in equipment,
  supplies, and professional growth
• Resistance to cooperation and change based upon
  scarce resources and lack of trust
• History of limited involvement with area business
  and industry
• Low credibility as community change agent or
  political influence
• Distinctive programs forestry technology paper
  and chemical technology (both with low
  enrollments)

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College Choice

• Status Quo
• OR
• New Shared Vision!!

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College Internal Questions

• What did community/region need?
• How did college need to change to meet those
  needs?
• Were we capable of meeting those needs?
• Were we committed to change?

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Alabama Southern Goals

• (1) Best rural community college in America
• (2) Catalyst and coordinator of community and
  economic development

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Alabama Southern has achieved the most dramatic
turn around of any college in the history of the
Alabama College System!

• Dr. Fred Gainous, Chancellor,
• The Alabama College System

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Alabama Southern selected one of the ten most
innovative community colleges in America!(out of
over 1200 colleges)

• NILIE, 1998

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All Progress Must Begin With TRUST
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UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS PLEDGE adopted by Alabama
Southern Community College

• I believe that every individual has infinite and
  eternal worth. 
• I believe that recognition of the equal and
  inalienable rights of all members of the human
  family is the foundation of freedom, justice, and
  peace in the world. 
• I believe that every individual is entitled to
  dignity and respect, without prejudice toward
  race, color, gender, disability, language,
  religion, creed, national origin, property, age,
  or other status. 
• I believe that every thought and every act of
  such prejudice is harmful. 
• If it is my thought or act, then it is harmful to
  me as well as to others. 
• THEREFORE, I will strive every day of my life to
  eliminate such prejudice
• from my thoughts and actions. 
• I will discourage such prejudice by others at
  every opportunity. 
• I will treat all people with dignity and respect.
   
• I will strive daily to honor this pledge, knowing
  that the world will be a better place because of
  my effort.
• -- adapted from the Birmingham Pledge and the
  Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Components of Empowerment

• Sense of Significance
• Sense of Competence
• Sense of Community
• Sense of Enjoyment

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

• Commitment to Personal Independence
• Habit 1 Be Proactive
• Habit 2 Begin with the End in Mind
• Habit 3 Put First Things First
• Commitment to Interdependence
• Habit 4 Think Win/Win
• Habit 5 Seek First to Understand,
• Then to be Understood
• Habit 6 Seek Creative Cooperation/Synergy
• Commitment to Renewal/Revision/Refresh
• Habit 7 Seek Continuous Renewal

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7 Habits of Highly Effective People

• Common Language and Values
• Leadership 101
• Customer Satisfaction
• Internal and External Partnering
• 7 Habits Across-the-Curriculum

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Initial Strategies

• Intensive contract training for business/industry
  with over 100 partners developed
• Invest in professional development of faculty
• Build partnerships
• College has role in all good things !!

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Alabama Southern Budget Strategy

• Commitment to reduce relative labor costs (only
  budget category large enough to help meet new
  priorities)
• Reduce staff largely through retirement and
  attrition
• Garner additional revenues (largely through
  contracts and grants) to support existing
  salaries (thereby reducing relative labor costs)
• Eliminate unnecessary or low priority functions
  and activities to optimize labor effectiveness.
• In order to increase budget for
• professional development
• technology infrastructure
• equipment for instruction
• trust-building
• comfort/security with continuous change

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VISION 2020

• Convened 25 movers and shakers, including 8
  Fortune 500 companies located in ASCCs service
  area in 1993
• Survey Priorities for ASCC
• Commitment to a new initiative - catalyst and
  coordinator of community and economic development
  for 6 rural counties
• Convened 300 community leaders in regional rally
  in 1994
• Convened 6 county-by-county community leadership
  sessions in 1995
• Convened regional rally for Vision 2020, March
  2000

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Other Regional Planning/Visioning

• Create collaborations between chambers of
  commerce, industrial recruiting, industrial
  development boards, and tourism boards throughout
  region
• Create strategic partnerships with major land
  holders
• Identify niches - -
• What is distinctive about region?
• About individual community?
• What are advantages?
• How to create or enhance advantages?

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Issues of Accountability

• Guarantees of Quality
• University transfer
• Job placement - technical degrees
• Employer satisfaction - certificate programs
• Results
• Improved advising system
• 30 increase in rigor and standards in technology
  programs

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• Forestry, paper, and
• chemical industries
• are the heart and soul
• of the economy
• of southwest Alabama.
• (Large, high technology industries)

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Special Professional Development Strategies for
High Technology Faculty

• All high technology faculty have conducted
• in-plant training courses
• All high technology faculty have participated in
  one term internships in-plant to study industrial
  processes for curriculum development
• High technology faculty have visited the best
  training centers in eleven states to steal best
  practices

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Center for Excellence for Forestry, Paper and
Chemical Technology

• Partnership of Alabama Southern/Auburn University
  and regional industries
• Established in 1995 by the Alabama legislature as
  Alabama Technology Network Center _at_ Alabama
  Southern-- with 350,000 annual allocation
• NIST Manufacturing Extension Center for seven
  counties
• Ties 5 instructional programs to the Center
• Forestry Technology, Industrial Maintenance,
  Electronics and Instrumentation, Electrical
  Technology, and Paper and Chemical Technology

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CIBA Partnership

• Scholarships/internships/jobs
• 20 scholarships annually to high school seniors
  in two counties
• Complete associate degree curriculum based upon
  Voluntary Standards of American Chemical Society
• Three-month internships on industrial site
• Virtually guaranteed jobs _at_ 30,000 annually
• Recognized by the American Chemical Society as
  workforce development model for the nation
• Great public relations for company
• Improves workforce competency and
• reduces training costs

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Alabama Southerns scholarship-internship-jobs
partners include

• CIBA Specialty Chemicals
• Alabama River Pulp
• Temple-Inland
• Boise-Cascade

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External Resources for High Tech Development

• National Science Foundation (NSF) grant
  (1998-2001) of 870,000 for laboratory and
  curriculum development (partners Auburn
  University and area industries)
• U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) annual grants of
  220,000 for laboratory development (1998-2001)
• CIBA specialty chemicals in-kind support of
  100,000 (1998) for engineering design of
  laboratory pilot plants
• Piping and instrument diagrams contributed by
  Brazosport Community College for adaptation from
  petroleum pilot plants to paper and chemicals
  (resulting from Dow Chemical collaboration)

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High Tech DevelopmentResults--1998-2001

• Completion of 1.1 million process industries
  laboratory including eleven pilot plant trainers
• Curriculum development support of 700,000 in
  concert with industry and Auburn University to
  include paper and chemical technology,
  instrumentation and electronics, electrical
  technology, and industrial maintenance
• Laboratory for programmable logic controllers
  (PLCs) (300,000) ranked by Lab Volt
  Corporation as best in four-state district
• New welding laboratory (150,000) in expanded
  facility (250,000)

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Alabama Southerns PLC Lab is the best in four
southern states!(Better than Mercedes!!)

• Lab Volt Corporation, 2000

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Alabama Southernsprocess industries lab is one
of the three best in the United States!(over 1
million in equipment)

• National Science Foundation
• Visiting Committee, 2001

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Alabama Southern hasone of the six top
industry/education alliances in the United States!

• American Chemical Society,
• Alliances, 1999

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Alabama Southernsscholarship-internship-jobs
model is a workforce development model for the
nation!

• American Chemical Society, 1998

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Alabama Southern and its partners have created a
national model fortechnical training.

• National Science Foundation
• Visiting Committee, 2001

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Alabama Southerns technical training for the
pulp and paper industry is without equal in the
United States!

• Dr. Harry Cullinan, Auburn University,
• Pulp and Paper Research Center

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Two New NSF Grants

• 488,000 two-year grant to complete additional
  curriculum and equipment projects
• 50,000 one-year grant to develop a plan for the
  National Network for Pulp and Paper Technology
• Alabama SouthernNational Center for Pulp and
  Paper Technology
• Partners Auburn University, American Forest and
  Paper Association, Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
  and Washington

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Alabama WorksManufacturing Technology Institute

• Alabama Works MTI coming to Thomasville in 2003.
• Machine Technology (32 weeks)
• Lathes
• Milling machines
• Computer Numerical Control machining
• Estimated investment Over 1,000,000.

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Partnerships for Education

• TRIO . . . .Over 1.5 million annually
  exclusively for K-12 students (Talent Search,
  Upward Bound, other)
• Over 1.2 million for Adult Education and
  Out-of-school Youth.
• Baccalaureate degrees through new University
  Center--partnership with Troy State University
  (pending)

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Tourism

• Monroeville and Monroe County designated
  Literary Capital of Alabama in 1997
• Helped to develop annual community theatre
  production of To Kill a Mockingbird
• Developed an annual writers symposium
• Created Alabama Center for Literary Arts and
  Alabama Writers Hall of Honor(pending)
• Helped to obtain grant funds for restoration of
  Old Monroe County Courthouse

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Demopolis Higher Education Center

• Demopolis City Council to receive 1.245 million
  Delta Regional Authority grant.
• 15,000 square foot building to be built on 30
  acres in Demopolis Sportsplex.
• Alabama Southern to serve as Managing Partner.
  (ASCC Demopolis Campus)
• Other partners University of West Alabama and
  University of Alabama
• To open Fall 2003.

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The Learning Paradigmat Alabama Southern

• Strategies
• Strong commitment to faculty/staff development
• (at least one percent of faculty/staff
• salaries budget)
• Required faculty mentoring
• National network of professionals
• (a) content/evaluation mentor
• (b) instructional methodologies mentor

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100 Full-Time Faculty are Technologically
Competent Perhaps the most technologically
competent faculty in America!!

• Windows
• Microsoft Office
• Word
• Excel
• Access
• Powerpoint

• Internet Proficiency
• Electronic Periodical Research
• Mainframe Ability to Schedule and Advise
• Front Page (40 and growing)

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Alabama SouthernMost Wired College in Alabama

• More Computers per Student
• Fiber-Optic Infrastructure on each campus
• Fast EtherNet to each Computer
• T-1 Lines deliver Voice/Data/Video between all
  four campuses
• Two-way Audio/Video Teleconference Centers on all
  four campuses (Fall 2001)
• Optical Drive Storage for all records
• Hosting WEBCT courses on own server
• 90 of classrooms on 4 campuses--Multi-media

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
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ALABAMA SOUTHERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE CLEARLY ONE
OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE COMMUNITY COLLEGES IN
AMERICA!! Visit our website
http//www.ascc.eduE-mail jajohnson_at_ascc.edu
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Building College Capacity forCommunity and
Economic Development

• Create shared dynamic vision
• Eliminate historical practices, policies,
  attitudes that are barriers to new vision
• High expectations for all faculty and staff
• Reorganize annually (or at least periodically)
• Highest standards for selecting/retaining
  non-tenured personnel
• Zero-based budgeting (eliminate the less than
  necessary)
• Promote internal partnering
• Focus on learning, rather than teaching (The
  Learning Paradigm)

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College and University Contributions to Economic
Development

• Colleges and universities play an integral part
  in the economic development of the communities in
  which they are based.
• Services include
• (1) Leadership in visioning and planning
• (2) Technical Assistance to Existing
  Business/Industry
• (3) Business Incubators
• (4) Workforce Training
• (A) Literacy
• (B) Basic Skills
• (C) Traditional Programs
• (D) High Technology
• (E) Customized Contract Training
• (5) Manufacturing Extension Services
• (6) Partnerships for Education
• (7) Tourism
• (8) Healthcare
• (9 Telecommunications

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Alabama Southern Milestones In Achieving Goals

• 1992 Fred Gainous, Chancellor, Alabama Department
  of Postsecondary Education
• Alabama Southern has achieved the most
  dramatic turnaround of any college in the
  history of the Alabama College System.
• 1993 Debbie Dahl, Director of Finance,
  Alabama Department of Postsecondary
  Education
• Alabama Southern is one of the five most
  efficient community colleges in Alabama.
• 1994 Selected by the Ford Foundation to be a
  charter member of Rural Community College
  Initiative, based exclusively on the colleges
  reputation.

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Milestones (cont.)

• 1997 George Baker, North Carolina State
  University
• Alabama Southern is clearly one of the most
  innovative community colleges in America.
• 1998 Alabama Southern selected to receive 1998
  David Pierce Organizational Leadership Award
  from National Initiative for Leadership and
  Institutional Effectiveness (NILIE) and North
  Carolina State University.
• Alabama Southern selected as one of ten
  community colleges featured in AACC national
  monograph
• Managing Change A Model for Community College
  Leaders.
• 1998 One of only three colleges/universities
  cited for excellence in MDCS The State of the
  South 1998.

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ALABAMA SOUTHERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE CLEARLY ONE
OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE COMMUNITY COLLEGES IN
AMERICA!!
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Alabama Southern Teaching/Learning
InitiativePerhaps the nations most coherent,
comprehensive,state-of-the-art approach to the
Learning Paradigm
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Teaching/Learning Initiative

• Learning Syllabus
• Outcomes-based/Competency-driven Curriculum
• Learning-Styles-Driven Multiple Methodologies
• Every Course Web-Augmented
• External Assessment
• Technology Augmentation

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The Learning Paradigm at Alabama Southern

• Multiple learning styles assessment
• for every entering student
• Myers-Briggs Personality Type
• Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner)
• Auditory/Visual/Tactual
• Left/Right Brain Dominance
• Results printed on class rosters so that faculty
  know how to diversify learning strategies
• Students are taught how to make their own
  learning efficient and effective .