The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Vocational Faculty Leadership Institute

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The Academic Senate for California Community
CollegesVocational Faculty Leadership Institute

• Cultural Evolution Accelerating Change
• Regina Stanback Stroud
• March 11, 2006

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Cultural Evolution Places Faces - Cases

• The state of our state
• Implications for Colleges
• Inequitable achievement patterns
• Strategies Solutions
• Faculty Staff
• Students
• Programs

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The State of the State
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The State of the State
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Demographic Shift 1980 to 2040
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CCC Students by Ethnicity
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CCC Students in Basic Skills
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Implications for our Colleges

• Master Plan commitment to extend higher ed to
  every adult who can benefit from it.
• Emerging storm tidal wave other
  disastrous metaphors
• Student Equity
• CAHSEE

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Inequitable Achievement

• Invisibility of unequal outcomes
• Institutional Issue
• Attitudes-Beliefs-Values-Actions shapes
  capacity to develop equity as a frame of mind
• Argues against the solution being in a best
  practice

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Strategies and Solutions

• Framework for Diversity Assessment and Planning
• Retention Strategy - Listen to students
• Professional Development
• Link Diversity/Accreditation
• Clarify goals
• All levels of support

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Increasing Retention - Tinto

• Stop tinkering at the margins move beyond
  add-ons
• Establish educational conditions that promote
  retention
• Provide academic, social, personal support
• Treat students as valued members of the
  institution (quality of contact with faculty)

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Conditions for Achievement

• Institutional commitment/Leadership
• Expectations
• Support
• Assessment and Feedback
• Involvement/Engagement
• Connected Learning

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Faculty Diversity

• 70 faculty in community colleges white

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Career Ladder

• Enable students to combine education and work to
  reach successive levels of ongoing career
  advancement and educational achievement.

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Bridge - Gateway

• Provide bridges to college and career
• o       Intensive skill development
• o       Orientation to career and educational
  options
• o       Counseling and social support
• o       College credit
• o       Financial Aid
• o       Learning Community

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• http//www.diversityweb.org/
• http//www.cgu.edu/pages/938.asp
• Regina Stanback-Stroud
• Vice President of Instruction
• Work Phone[phone]
• Skyline College3300 College DriveSan
  Bruno CA 94066stroudr_at_smccd.net