Creating Sustainability Through Community Engagement
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Creating Sustainability Through Community EngagementInnovations ConferenceMarch 12, 201312:30-1:30 pm Cortez D
+What do our communities want from us?
“Certainly, they want well-educated graduates who can communicate clearly, think critically, possess a strong work ethic, and have skills that align with local employment needs. But this is not all they want.
They want us to be full partners in helping to strengthen K-12 education, expand economic development, enhance local government effectiveness, contribute to regional planning, nurture the non-profit sector, expand the arts, improve the environment, and much more.
In short, they want us to be fully engaged in helping shape their future.”
James Votruba
President, Northern Kentucky University
+Completion Agenda
Completion initiativesWhat student success and completion
initiatives are you pursuing at your college?
Who is engaged in this work?
Full partners with your communityWhat student success partnerships
are you pursuing at your college?Who is engaged in this work?
+Strengthening K-12 PartnershipsStudent Success Initiatives
Dual Credit Dual Credit College Connection
Bridge Programs
Bridge Programs
Content Area Guest Presentations
High School Career Fairs
Recruiting
Kids 2 College
Technical Education/Articulated Programs
Gulf Coast Partners Achieving Student Success
Education Opportunity Center grant
STEM Grant Student Support Services grant
Early College High School
Parent Nights/PTO
+Questions
Is there coordination of your student success efforts?
Do you have the human capital to sustain your efforts?
+Sense of Urgency
Snapshot of our community conditions:
High poverty
High drop-out rate
Low college-going rates
High unemployment
Skills gap
Low expectations
Lack of continuity in leadership
+ Internal Structures
External Structures
+The New Normal
Leader assigned 100% to align completion and partnership efforts.Familiarity with academics and student
affairsActive in the local communityCollaborative nature with great
communication and teambuilding skillsValues diversityKnows when to lead and when to followRepresents campus practitioner level and
has credibility in the college
+The New Normal
Re-invent Internally
Assess strengths and weaknesses internally.
Identify champions in the college who can sustain the efforts.
Evaluate current internal structure and redesign to promote sustainability.
Create a Student Success Alliance.
+The New NormalRe-engage Externally
Reconnect with Texas P-16 resources and successful models.
Reconnect with minority leaders and understand what they need from our partnership.
Identify champions in the community who can sustain the efforts.
Establish regular meetings to identify community needs and available resources.
Create a Cradle to Career Network.
2012
Local Government, Business & IndustryCommunity At-Large & Non-Profits
P-20P-16 Cradle to Career Network
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Lee Col-lege34%
All Other Institutions24%
Not Trackable/ not
found42%
2010-2011 High School Grads % Enrolled in College
+Leadership RoleBe careful what you wish for…
Facilitate constructive, solution-based conversations.
Engage in strategic planning. Maintain alignment to student success goals. Connect champions to resources addressing
urgent issues. Student Success Alliance and Cradle to Career Network
have same leader initially.
Emphasize inclusion, team building and collective efforts to achieve all goals.
Example: College and Career Night resource allocation
+Moving Forward
Undergird our infrastructure with resources from All Kids Alliance.
Establish sustainability of Student Success Alliance and Cradle to Career network independent of current leadership.
Adopt AKA data driven process for continuous improvement
AtD since 2006Leader College 2011Hispanic Serving (HSI)
Dr. Cathy KemperVice President of [email protected]
DeDe GriffithCoordinator of Student Success InitiativesDirector of [email protected]