North Central State College Transforming Education

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North Central State College Transforming
Education

• Presented by Ronald E. Abrams, Ed.D.
• to Faculty/Staff Caucus on January 26, 2006

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Our Agenda

• Starting the conversation
• Whats the promise that higher education has made
  to the people of Ohio?
• Are we delivering on it?
• What can we do to improve our performance?

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Ohio is losing too many young people along the
education pipeline.

• For every TEN students who start high school
• SEVEN will get a high school diploma (plus ONE
  will obtain a GED),
• FIVE will enroll in a postsecondary institution,
• But fewer than THREE will complete a Bachelors
  degree within ten years.

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The free market is speaking higher learning
higher earning.
PROFESSIONAL DEGREE DOCTORATE MASTERS DEGREE
BACHELORS DEGREE ASSOCIATE DEGREE SOME
COLLEGE NO DEGREE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE LESS
THAN HIGH SCHOOL
MEDIAN EARNINGS IN 2000
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN 2001
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The Future Isnt What It Used To Be
More Ohioans are going to college . . .
Percent of Ohioans with Associate Degree or Higher
Percent of Ohioans with Bachelors Degree or
Higher
The Knowledge Economy and a Flattened World
Presentation by Roderick G.W. Chu, Chancellor
Ohio Board of Regents on October 12, 2005
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Improvement, but Ohio hasnt made up ground!
Percent of population with a bachelors degree
1. Massachusetts 33.2 2. Colorado 32.7 3.
Maryland 31.4 4. Connecticut 31.4 5. New
Jersey 29.8 39. OHIO 21.1 40. South Carolina
20.4 41. Oklahoma 20.3 42. Tennessee 19.6 43.
Indiana 19.4 44. Alabama 19.0 45. Louisiana
18.7 46. Nevada 18.2 47. Kentucky 17.1 48.
Mississippi 16.9 49. Arkansas 16.7 50. West
Virginia 14.8
2000
Source U.S. Census Bureau 1990 Census, 2000
Census
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A highly skilled workforce Income and
Education
Compared to the national average, per capita
income has paralleled the percent of population
with a bachelors degree.
120
110
U.S. Average
Percent of national average
100
90
80
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
Source U.S. Census Bureau, 2000
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Comparison Income - Education.
Source US Census Bureau 2000, U.S. Bureau of
Economic Analysis
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• Ohio ranks 49th in job growth during the last
  decade.
• Ohio ranks 40th in the number of residents
  with a Bachelor Degree 21
• Richland Co. ranks 73rd in Ohio in number of
  residents with a Bachelor Degree12.6

SourcesVirginia Community College Workforce
Development ServicesRichland County Regional
Planning CommissionU.S. Bureau of the Census,
Census 2000
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Structural budget concerns

• Ohioans under-earn the average American.
• Ohios spending propensity (Medicaid, K-12
  education, public safety), is at least average
  and growing uncontrollably.
• The only way to pay for at least average spending
  with an under-earning population is to have
  higher than average taxes.
• In a Knowledge Economy, few businesses or
  individuals are captive. High taxes will drive
  out higher earning taxpayers, leaving the
  remaining population with even lower average
  earnings.
• Result Economic death spiral

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The Reality

• Todays students are no longer the people our
  educational system was designed to teach.
• - Marc Prensky, Digital Natives,
  Digital Immigrants

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The Nontraditional Student

• Almost 90 of all community college students are
  nontraditional
• Financially independent
• Attends part-time
• Works full-time
• Delays enrollment after high school
• Has dependents
• Is a single-parent
• Does not have a high school diploma

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More than 70 of students who first enrolled in
community colleges had at least one risk factor,
and 50 had two or more risk factors
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The Challenge

• We have to figure out how to serve more students,
  who have greater needs, to qualify for ever more
  sophisticated jobs, in a work environment that is
  changing at ever increasing rates. And we have to
  do this in a culture that does not generally
  appreciate the value or the need for education.

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The Problem

• Continuing to rely on the classic academic model
  flies directly in the face of what we know about
  how people learn, the opportunities that
  technology presents to transform the education
  enterprise, and our historic record of failure
  with a rapidly diversifying population.

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We must change to meet student needs, not
vise-versa

• In the past, we have tended to develop new
  student support programs implicitly assuming that
  the challenge is to help students adapt to the
  institution. For nontraditional and diverse
  students, however, the logic needs to be
  reversed Institutions must seek ways in which
  they can change so as to accommodate the
  transitional and learning needs of
  first-generation and other nontraditional
  students. Dr. Patrick Terenzini

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Paradigm shifts for higher education
Sorting/filtering ? Completion
Educating selected/ ? Educating all typeselite
learners of learners
Formative education ? Continuous education
Traditional non- ? Under-prepared
adulttraditional students students
Credentialing ? Credentialingseat
time competencies
The Knowledge Economy and a Flattened World
Presentation by Roderick G.W. Chu, Chancellor
Ohio Board of Regents on October 12, 2005
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Required cultural changes in Ohio
Complacency/denial ? Urgency/action
Slow to change ? Nimble/responsive
Incremental ? Bold
Traditional ? Inventive
Silos/empires/ ? Collaboration/control partners
hip
Expect others to ? Personal/communitydo it for
me responsibility
The Knowledge Economy and a Flattened World
Presentation by Roderick G.W. Chu, Chancellor
Ohio Board of Regents on October 12, 2005
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Timeline of Events

• Budget Cuts (July 2000)
• Five Years in a Row beginning FY01
• Faculty Assembly Disbands (Spring 2002)
• Ad-Hoc Committee (Sept. 2002)
• Gardner-Shaw Assessment (Dec. 2002)
• Focus Groups (Feb. 2003)
• Campus Quality Survey (Mar. 2003)
• Findings/Recommendations (May 2003)
• Board Retreat (Mar. 2003)
• Adopted Policy Governance (May 2003)
• Transition Team Formed (May 2003)
• Constitution Ratified (Oct. 2003)
• Faculty/Staff Congress (Jan. 2004)
• Faculty Caucus Mission/Values (Feb. 2004)
• Staff Caucus Mission/Values (Feb. 2004)
• Administrative Cabinet (Feb. 2004)
• Transition Team Report (Apr. 2004)
• Caucus Response to Transition Team Report (June
  2004)

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Strategic Issues

• Financial Health
• Continued Lack of State Funding
• Projected 25 Enrollment Growth to 4,500 Students
• High Instructional Costs
• Faculty Needs of the Future
• Increased Retirements
• Faculty Expertise and Credentials
• Better Utilize What We Know About Learning
• Use of Technology in the Classroom
• Changing Student Needs
• Continue to Assure Access Success for Students
• Affordability
• Program Mix
• Transferability
• At-Risk Students
• Impact of Changing Student Needs, Enrollment
  Growth Technology on
• Facilities
• Business Operations
• Fiscal Considerations

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Strategic Direction

• Resource Development

• Academic Program Direction

• Student Support Enhancement

• Operations Alignment

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Organizational Restructure

• Responds
• Recommendation
• Gardner-Shaw
• Transition Team
• Reports
• Faculty Caucus
• Staff Caucus
• Administrative Cabinet
• Addresses
• Strategic Direction
• Board of Trustees
• Positions
• College Future
• Needs
• Challenges

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Board of Trustees
President
Chief Executive Officer President
Executive Admin. Assistant
Administrative Specialist
Presidents Cabinet

• Controllers Office
• Human Resources
• Shared Services
• Contract Compliance

Resource Development
Academic Program Direction
Student Support Enhancement
Operations Alignment
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Call to Action

• The projected decline of our region can be halted
  through radically changing how we educate people,
  especially the underserved.
• We must think regionally.
• We must think transformationally.
• We must focus on partnerships and collaborations
  to gain support throughout North Central Ohio.

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NC State Strategies for Success

• Focus on learning.
• Achieve the Dream focus on increasing success
  for underserved students.
• Academic Quality Improvement Project (AQIP) for
  accreditation emphasis on continuous
  improvement and systems thinking.

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