Leadership Issues Series 2008:
Are We Still "Democracy's Colleges"?
Complete program details including dates and times (pdf)
July 28-30, 2008
ILR Conference Center
ILR School
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Monday, July 28: Access
Legislative initiatives that will determine how we are permitted or prevented from serving undocumented immigrants are making headlines across the country. How are community colleges responding to the challenges to our mission of open access?
Serving Undocumented Immigrants: The View from the Campus - Robert Templin, President, Northern Virginia Community College
PowerPoint: Serving Undocumented Immigrants
Advocating for the DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act - Jim Hermes, Senior Legislative Associate, AACC
PowerPoint: Advocating for the DREAM Act
PDF: DREAM Act Update
Veterans and Democracy's Colleges - Richard DeChant, Executive Director, Veterans Services and Programs, Cuyahoga Community College
PowerPoint: When Johnny & Jane Come Marching Home
Fiscal Policies that Support Access
PDF: Ready for 21st Century Success (Patrick Administration Education Agenda)
Exercise: Should Tuition Be "Free"?
Tuesday, July 29: Success
Community colleges have increasingly recognized that access is an empty promise if students do not have the support they need to succeed. What does this shift in focus mean on campus?
From Access to Success - Alicia Dowd, Assistant Professor, Center for Urban Education, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, and author of “Community Colleges as Gateways and Gatekeepers: Moving beyond the Access ‘Saga’ toward Outcome Equity”
PDF: Equity Based Assessment
Achieving the Dream - Strategy Panel Discussion
This panel will give participants an opportunity to learn about strategies and programs that work to improve student success. Leaders will address what made them work, what new pedagogies are in place, what cultural changes needed to occur, and what administrative/structural support is necessary.
Building on Students' Strengths
Tompkins Cortland Community College, NY
Khaki Wunderlich, Dean of Organizational Success & Learning, Baker Center for Learning
My Brother's Keeper, Improving the Success of African American Males
Santa Fe Community College, FL
Michael Hutley, Director of Admissions
PDF: MBK Objectives & Activities
PDF: Strategic Plan
Interventions for Specific Populations in Developmental Courses
Northern Essex Community College, MA
Rick Lizotte, ESL Faculty and Achieving the Dream Co-Chair
PowerPoint: Interventions for Specific Popultations in Developmental Courses
Improving Student Achievement in Developmental and Gatekeeper Courses
Montgomery County Community College, PA
John Flynn, Provost
PowerPoint: Achieving the Dream
Learning Communities
Kingsborough Community College, NY
Rachel Singer, Director of Academic Affairs, and
Peter Cohen, Director of Freshmen Services and Advisement
PowerPoint: Learning Communities at Kingsborough CC
Practical Solutions to Balancing Community Colleges' Multiple Missions
Meeting at TC3 Tioga Place, the workforce development arm of Tompkins Cortland Community College, the center’s program director will talk about how TC3 is meeting the diverse needs of students at the postsecondary level and responding to the changing educational and economic needs of their community.
Workforce New York will discuss their mission of enhancing the supply and quality of the region’s talent pipeline and how they are serving: youth, the elderly, military personnel and armed forces veterans, undocumented immigrants, and special need populations.
PDF: TC3 - Practical Solutions for Multiple Missions
Link: TC3.biz
Wednesday, July 30: Educating for Democracy
Implicitly or explicitly, many community college missions include preparing students to participate in a democratic society as active citizens. These two panels, one from a faculty perspective and one from an alumni perspective, will address how we achieve that goal.
Faculty Panel: Translating "Educating for Democracy" into Practice
Ray Petersen, Professor, Political Science, Jefferson community College, NY
Doug Garnar, Broome Community College, NY
Community College Alumni Panel: Translating "Educating for Democracy" into Personal Experience - What in your experience at a community college gave you your chance to achieve the "American dream" and prepared you to become a better citizen?
Paul Erikson, Monroe Community College, currently a student at Cornell
Honorable Gary D. Finch, 123rd Assembly DistrictMark Tryniski, Onondaga Community College, President, Community Bank, N.A.
Conference Wrap-up
PDF: Take-Aways
Who should attend: Presidents, administrators, faculty and trustees.
Each program is highly interactive. Mid and senior-level administrators interested in applying new research, acquiring skills for more effective leadership and sharing best practices with colleagues from around the country should attend. Institutional teams are encouraged to attend.
Lodging: A block of rooms is reserved at the Hilton Garden Inn Ithaca. Guests can either call 607-277-8900 or 877-STAY-HGI (toll-free) and ask for the ICCD Leadership Issues Series group block, OR go online to www.ithaca.stayhgi.com and enter Group/Convention code ICCDLI. Reservations will be based upon availability.
For more information about ICCD’s LeadershipIssues programs contact Lee Riddell, Assistant Director, at 607-254-8260 or by email at iccd@cornell.edu.
Are We Still "Democracy's Colleges"? is an Advocacy program, part of ICCD's Gravitational Leadership program.
