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COTA CONFERENCE 2012

COTA CONFERENCE 2012. Brian Foster Provost University of Missouri - Columbia. Structure of the talk. Broad perspective on coming together Full disclosure: my background Different kinds of constituent needs Matching constituents needs with HE institutions What do we all need to do?

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COTA CONFERENCE 2012

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  1. COTA CONFERENCE2012 Brian Foster Provost University of Missouri - Columbia

  2. Structure of the talk • Broad perspective on coming together • Full disclosure: my background • Different kinds of constituent needs • Matching constituents needs with HE institutions • What do we all need to do? • Areas for collaboration

  3. Broad perspective on coming together • My perspective is at 40,000 feet • No real operational expertise here • The big, most difficult issues are sector differences • Competition within sectors also a problem • We need a win-win situation: doing together what none of us can do alone

  4. Full Disclosure: my background • Personal interest in access: first generation, clueless • Undergrad at regional school, great experience • Small town background • Worked a great deal with community colleges • As grad dean worked with CC students to get them to see beyond four year degree • At UNM 4 community college branches reported to me

  5. Different kinds of constituent needs • Student needs vary by: • Rural/urban, large school/small school • First generation college • Socioeconomic status • Aspirations, passions, limitations, family, and more • External constituent needs • Preparation for VERY broad range of occupations • Preparation for today’s and hopefully tomorrow’s jobs, not just yesterday’s • Agility to adapt to volatile environments

  6. Matching constituent needswith Higher Education Institutions • Provide access to VERY diverse institutions • Proactively help students to “find themselves” • Accommodate their exploration of options • Avoid expectations of “hard” plans for education • Explore how students see their education • Explore needs of employers, other key constituents

  7. What do we all need to do? • Most important: understand each other • Communicate more: “real” communication across sectors, not just blow smoke • Cross academic “area” boundaries • Respect the wildly diverse competencies of different sectors and different institutions…and their match with needs • Recognize and respect student differences • Highly variable passions, needs • Highly variable goals for higher education (Grigsby book)

  8. To Do List Continued • Engage/inform faculty more broadly in higher education’s needs • Learn what other sectors do and honor it • Train future faculty differently • Proactively inform/engage them with all sectors • Be serious about professional development by engaging faculty at other kinds of institutions in disciplinary conferences, symposia, etc.

  9. Areas for collaboration - 1 • Of course: • Articulation, transfer IN ALL DIRECTIONS • Collaborative programs • Join politically to tell story of higher education broadly • There WILL be competition also—that’s ok • Work together with K-12 schools, recognizing and respecting sector differences

  10. Areas for collaboration - 2 • Work together—in all directions—on faculty professional development • Build on complementarities in supporting economic development • Be responsive for different kinds of workforce preparation • Build on complementarities in attraction/retention • Support entrepreneurial activity

  11. Wrap up • Need to REALLY work together, which requires • Mutual understanding • Mutual respect • Seeing how the pieces fit together • Need constant focus on what we can do together that we can’t do alone • Need to come together to advocate politically for higher education broadly • Need to work together to meet needs of all constituents

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