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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 Learningckemper@lee.edu

DeDe GriffithCoordinator of Student Success InitiativesDirector of GCPASSdgriffith@lee.edu