Minnesota State Colleges

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Minnesota State Colleges UniversitiesProgram
Advisory Committee ProjectA joint project
between Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Office of the Chancellor, Academic and Student
Affairs Division and Minnesota State College
Faculty (MSCF)
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Project Background

• Phase I
• On-line Survey Aggregated Results

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SURVEY FINDINGS
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of Time Spent During Meetings
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• The meeting agenda for most committee meetings is
  planned by the faculty or division/department/prog
  ram chair, with input from committee members and
  sometimes from program students

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• Most advisory committees (83) suggest
  recommendations for major program revisions and
  improvements.
• If a change in the curriculum is recommended, the
  approval and implementation process usually takes
  less than a year.
• If the process is delayed, respondents explain
  that the delay is built in to the academic
  standards curricular review process.

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FY04 Regional Training Workshops

• Background Acknowledgements
• Purpose of handbook
• Intro of Advisory Councils
• Governance, Policy Structure
• Advisory Council Functions
• Communications Meetings
• Sustainability
• Special Considerations/Issues

• 82 participants
• Sites
• Hennepin TC (Eden Prairie)
• St. Paul College
• Central Lakes College (Brainerd)
• South Central TC (Mankato)

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• http//vfc6.project.mnscu.edu/

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Phase II Activities FY05

• Data Analysis of Current Practice
• Establishment of Project Working Group
• Regional Training Workshops

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Establishment of Project Working Group

• Bruce Hemstad
• Scott Norcia
• Mike Lehn
• Vonnie Youngs
• Brenda Koneczny
• Herb ONeil
• Marty Patterson
• Dennis Hampel

• Judi Anderson
• Dave Hellmich
• Steve Alston
• Michael Smoczyk
• Dan Smith
• Lloyd Petri
• Pradeep Kotzmraju
• Deena Allen
• Carol Steimer Bailey

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Data Analysis of Current Practice

• Sort Survey
• College
• Program area

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Regional Training Workshops

• Select one or more
• 1) Education and Economic Development Making
  the Connection
• 2) Re-Engineering Career and Technical Education
  as a Vehicle to Improve Academic Proficiency
• 3) Strengthening the Role of Two-Year Colleges
  Easing Student Transition from Secondary to
  Postsecondary
• 4) Reinventing Your Partnerships A Fresh
  Approach to Building Relationships.

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• NORTH WEST REGION BRUCE HEMSTAD
• Minnesota State Community Technical College
• Detroit Lakes, Fergus Falls, Moorhead, Wadena
• Northwest Technical College Bemidji
• Northland Community Technical College
• NORTH EAST REGION SCOTT NORCIA
• Fond du Lac Tribal Community College
• Lake Superior College
• Northeast Higher Education District
• Hibbing Community Technical College
• Itasca Community College
• Mesabi Range Community Technical College
• Rainy River Community College
• Vermilion Community College
• Pine Technical College

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• CENTRAL REGION JUDI ANDERSON
• Alexandria Technical College
• Central Lakes College
• St. Cloud Technical College
• SOUTH WEST REGION DENNIS HAMPEL
• Minnesota West Community Technical College
• Canby Technical College
• Granite Falls Technical College
• Jackson Technical College
• Pipestone Technical College
• Worthington Community College
• Ridgewater Community Technical College

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• SOUTH CENTRAL REGION DAVE HELLMICH
• Minnesota State College Southeast Technical
• Riverland Community Technical College
• Rochester Community Technical College
• South Central Technical College
• METRO REGION MARTY PATTERSON
• Anoka Technical College
• Anoka-Ramsey Community College
• Century Community Technical College
• Dakota County Technical College
• Hennepin Technical College
• Inver Hills Community College
• Minneapolis Community Technical College
• Normandale Community College
• North Hennepin Community College
• St. Paul College

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• Over 90 of the college program advisory
  committees responding do not advise high school
  programs or university programs also, although
  some individual members serve on similar
  committees for other colleges and universities.

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Begin with the End in Mind
Themes Stressed in ALL workshops

• Programs that match the economic development
  needs of your community and graduates that
  possess the skills to ensure a high quality
  workforce.

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Define Economic Development

• Many definitions
• Creation and Retention of well-paying jobs
• Improve the tax base

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Attracting Businesses

• Quality of Life
• Skilled Professionals
• Proximity to markets
• Skilled labor pool
• Low business costs
• Access to research
• Climate
• Taxes

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• It is not education itself, but its coordination
  with local economic activity that matters.

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Strengthening the Community College (Technical
College) Role
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• Communication Leadership
• Multi-Level Linkages
• Make it a three-way partnership
• Secondary
• Postsecondary
• Business/Industry
• Community Outreach Dispelling the Myths

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Employers Supporting Career Pathways

• Industry Clusters
• Organized groups of local businesses stimulating
  community awareness of and interest in career
  pathway opportunities.
• Facilitate partnerships with the K-16 education
  systems and assist in the immediate and ongoing
  change and development of curriculum to better
  prepare students for these career pathways.

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• 9-14/16 Career Pathways
• 1. Precision Metal Production
• 2. Production Design
• MFG-Tech
• Engineering (Eng Tech)

Mfg Industry Cluster
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• 9-14/16 Career Pathways
• Precision Metal Production
• Production Design
• MFG-Tech
• Engineering

Mfg Industry Cluster
CC Program Advisory Committee
HS Program Advisory Committee
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• 9-16 Career Pathways
• Precision Metal Production
• Production Design
• MFG-Tech
• Engineering

Mfg Industry Cluster
9-14 Program Advisory Committee
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• 9-16 Career Pathways
• 1. Precision Metal Production
• 2. Production Design
• MFG-Tech
• Engineering

Mfg Industry Cluster
Community Outreach
Career Dev WBL
9-14 Staff Dev
9-14 Curriculum
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Role of Advisory Committees

• Provide specifications for your program
• Ensure the quality of your graduates

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.it is NOT to Rubber Stamp your program
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Advisory committees are a quality control
function of your program and are a tool for
administration and faculty to talk to the
customer
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Talk to you customer

• A program of work is a tool for the advisory
  committee to use so that it may guide education
  to level of specifications that it needs.
• Curriculum
• Staff development
• Career Dev wbl
• Marketing Advocacy
• Student recruitment placement
• Program resources
• Evaluation

• What are the specifications?
• How will it change in the future?

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Rules that are universal

• In real estate, its location, location,
  location!

• In advisory committees, its employers,
  employers, employers!

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Help! No one comes to meetings!

• Empowerment Ownership
  EQUALS
• Activities/Attendance Sustainability

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Strategies from across the country

• Cluster (like industries) approach from the EDC
• Pathway Partners (Chamber M adopt instructor)
• Staff Dev delivered by B/I
• Joint Advisory Committees (sec ps)
• Thinking outside the box (13-month Mfg program)
• Digital Communication
• B/I Tours for ALL faculty in a program (including
  gen ed)

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Advice for New Beginnings

• Business must provide leadership
• Relationships need to be built at ALL levels
• Think in SYSTEM terms
• Academic technical skills
• Secondary Postsecondary
• Connect to existing entities (Chamber, EDC)
• Educate your community (gold-collar worker)
• Always focus on your mission (economic dev)

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FY06

• To provide technical assistance to Minnesota
  State Colleges and Universities two-year college
  grantees during FY2006 working closely with
  administrators and faculty responsible for
  facilitating advisory committees and the
  employers who serve on those committees.

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Grantees

• Alexandria Technical College Northland
  Community and Technical College
• Lake Superior College
• Mesabi Range Northeast Higher Education District
• Minneapolis Community and Technical College
• Northland Community Technical College and
  Minnesota State Community Technical College
• Northwest Technical College
• South Central College