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The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Vocational Faculty Leadership Institute

The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Vocational Faculty Leadership Institute. Cultural Evolution: Accelerating Change Regina Stanback Stroud March 11, 2006. Cultural Evolution – Places – Faces - Cases. The state of our state Implications for Colleges

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The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Vocational Faculty Leadership Institute

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  1. The Academic Senate for California Community CollegesVocational Faculty Leadership Institute Cultural Evolution: Accelerating Change Regina Stanback Stroud March 11, 2006

  2. Cultural Evolution – Places – Faces - Cases • The state of our state • Implications for Colleges • Inequitable achievement patterns • Strategies & Solutions • Faculty & Staff • Students • Programs

  3. The State of the State

  4. The State of the State 67% Demographic Shift 1980 to 2040 48% 8% 15% 31% 19% 6% 5%

  5. CCC Students by Ethnicity

  6. CCC Students in Basic Skills

  7. 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

  8. 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”

  9. 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

  10. 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)

  11. Conditions for Achievement • Institutional commitment/Leadership • Expectations • Support • Assessment and Feedback • Involvement/Engagement • Connected Learning

  12. Faculty Diversity • 70% faculty in community colleges – white

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

  14. Bridge - Gateway • Provide “bridges” to college and career • oIntensive skill development • oOrientation to career and educational options • oCounseling and social support • oCollege credit • oFinancial Aid • oLearning Community

  15. http://www.diversityweb.org/Digest/Sp.Sm00/resources2.html • http://www.diversityweb.org/ • http://www.cgu.edu/pages/938.asp • Regina Stanback-Stroud • Vice President of Instruction • Work Phone:(650) 738-4321 • Skyline College3300 College DriveSan Bruno CA 94066stroudr@smccd.net

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