1. The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Vocational 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. 8% 67% 31% 48% 19% 5% 15% 6% Demographic Shift 1980 to 2040 Demographic Shift 1980 to 2040

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 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

15. http://www.diversityweb.org/Digest/Sp.Sm00/resources 2.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 College 3300 College Drive San Bruno CA 94066 stroudr@smccd.net stroudr@smccd.net