1. Trustees Summer Institute
PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER: LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE IN AN AGE OF TURBULENCE – IMPLICATIONS FOR TRUSTEES

2. Mission: “…maintain access while maintaining quality, improving student success, and increasing completion rates, all while containing costs.”
First in the World: Community Colleges and America’s Future by Noah Brown

3. What are the critical challenges for community colleges?
Disruptive Technology
Changing Nature of Work/Skills Gap
Transfer of Learning to Workplace
Competition for Students
Demographic Shifts
Leadership Deficit
Demand for Results
Funding

4. 1. Disruptive Technology
Mobile Internet
Automation of knowledge work
The Internet of Things
Cloud technology
Advanced robotics
Autonomous and near-autonomous vehicles
Next-generation genomics
Energy storage
3D printing
Advanced materials
Advanced oil and gas exploration and recovery
Renewable energy
SOURCE: McKinsey Global Institute

5. 2. Changing Nature of Work
Five million jobs replaced by technology by 2020 (2016 World Economic Forum)
50% of today’s workforce activities automated by 2055 (2016 World Economic Forum)
47% of American jobs high risk of being usurped by machines in next 20 years (Oxford University)
Demand for advanced technological skills will rise by 55% in 2030 (HBR May 2018)
About half of worker activities today could be replaced by technology (McKinsey Global Institute)
Car companies “hiring more coders than mechanical engineers”

6. Skills Gap
Bellevue University Power Skills

7. 3. Transfer of Learning to Workplace
ALIGNMENT
EXPECTATIONS
MANAGEMENT
APPLICATION
PERSONALIZATION
ACCOUNTABILITY ?
3. Transfer of Learning to Workplace

8. 4. Competition for Students

9. 5. Demographic Shifts Decrease in birth rate
Increasing diversity in population
People living longer
People want to work/contribute longer
People want more meaning in their work
People want more flexibility in their work

10. 6. Leadership Deficit Out of 1,132 community colleges in U.S… Year
No. of Transitions
134
158
262
269
2015-March 2016
203

11. 7. Demand for Results
“credits, semesters, academic years. The foundation of this system is the credit hour…based on the standard of time spent in a chair” (Jeff Selingo)
Other measures:
Degree and certificate completion
Specific course or program outcomes
Transfer to university
Licensure pass rates for program completers
Career transitions of adult education and GED completers
Wage increases and promotions realized by students completing a course of study
Work performance of students who completed training programs
Achievement of each student’s personal goals
Student satisfaction

12. Change From Previous Year
8. Funding
National Annual Percent Changes in State Fiscal Support For Higher Education
Fiscal Year
Change From Previous Year
2014
5.9%
2015 5%
2016
2.4%
2017
4.2%
2018
1.6%

13. What will be your response to these critical challenges?
Disruptive Technology
Changing Nature of Work/Skills Gap
Transfer of Learning to Workplace
Competition for Students
Demographic Shifts
Leadership Deficit
Demand for Results
Funding