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Success Within Reach.
Erma Johnson Hadley, Chancellor
January 7, 2014
CHANGE
• Change is constant for
us
• Change can be
challenging.
• Over the past 48 years,
TCC has evolved
• We strive to meet the
needs of all students in
our community –
All backgrounds,
All ages,
All educational levels,
All desired career paths
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• To be a vibrant engine
powering the Tarrant
County economy.
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EXPECTATIONS
• Last August, I listed present and
future initiatives
• Will challenge us to adapt how
we work to meet the changing
needs of our students.
• Continuous press coverage about
the crisis in education – at all
levels.
• More and more interest groups,
• Students and parents, are
demanding
• Colleges and universities prepare
students
• to be successful when they
graduate.
• Businesses are demanding
academic and technical
preparedness
• Want students to hit the ground
reading, writing, ciphering, and
working in harmony with others.
• Community colleges expected to
do more to promote workforce
and technical training as an
alternative to the traditional
“academic” path to help ensure
the health of tomorrow’s
workforce.
CHALLENGES
• Higher education has never
before been so challenged.
• Also never been so poised for
such opportunity to excel.
• Community colleges are at the
fore front of this challenge.
• Cannot excel today without
embracing change.
• Many students today have
experienced high levels of
interaction with their teachers
and fellow students through
the use of technology
• Several schools in our area
have equipped their students
with personal digital assistants
• and when they enroll at TCC,
they expect to continue to
have the help of technology as
they study with us. We simply
cannot ignore change.
CHANGE AGENTS
• As comfortable as it
may be, we cannot
teach or administer like
we did 20 years ago, or
even 10 years ago, and
hope that our students
will succeed. They
won’t.
• That’s why we must
change.
Thus:
The QEP
Institutional Plan
Diversity and Inclusion
Plan
• Achieving the Dream
• Common course
materials
• More student coaching.
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CLEAR FOCUS
• Each with a focus on
institutional excellence to
benefits students, faculty and
staff.
• Together, they will amplify our
ability to reach the objectives
of Vision 2015
• But only if we all are moving in
the same direction. Together.
• Quality Enhancement Plan
introduced in support of our
SACSCOC reaccreditation
• The “Power On” logo focuses
on four student learning
objectives:
• Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and
Create - in total comprise
critical thinking. Totally faculty
led
• I am proud of your work that
caused SACSCOC to give us
very positive feedback on our
QEP, with no
recommendations.
INSTITUTIONAL MASTER PLAN
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The Institutional Master plan
combines academic, facilities and
technology criteria to ensure all
College projects support our
academic and administrative strategic
priorities, while delivering the highest
possible return to the community on
the dollars we invest in our students.
This efficient, new process, will help
us evaluate all ideas for new
programs, environmental
enhancements, projects, and
improvements in a faster, more
objective way.
Reportedly, TCC is the first
institution of higher education in the
U. S. with this type institutional
planning tool.
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It should entice many employees to
put forth ideas that will help drive
student success.
Regardless of the sources of the
new ideas….those ideas have a
mechanism through which they will
be evaluated and they will drive
budget decisions.
A major component of the
Institutional Plan is the Innovation
Forum
Will be facilitated at the physical
Innovation Forum locations on each
campus as well as virtually, through
your computer beginning later this
semester
GREAT IDEAS NEEDED
• Innovation Forum will help
determine how best to invest
our human and financial
resources
• Ideas from the Innovation
Forum will be evaluated by a
Dream score, a formula which
rates how the ideas deliver on
our commitments to Diversity,
Relevance, Engagement, Access
and Metrics (DREAM).
• Significant change from the
past…yet positions us for a
stronger and more relevant
future
• The first metric in the
DREAM score is Diversity,
which shows just how
important diversity is to us at
TCC.
• College needs a diverse
workforce, a diverse student
population, and an
environment in which
individual differences are not
just respected, but valued and
embraced,
• This fosters a culture
conducive to the best teaching
and learning opportunities
possible.
OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
• District Steering Committee
• Campus Committees on each
campuses
• Campus Committees hosted
information sessions to introduce
the plan’s content, campus data
and district-wide data gleaned
from a diversity and inclusion
survey (upon which the plan is
based)
• Work is critically important
• You are invited to work on or
with a committee and take
advantage of the great training
modules these committees have
created
• Future phases of this plan call for
a pull-through of diversity and
inclusion concepts in our
curricula
• Many of you, as expert
instructors, already enhance the
science and art of what you do in
the classroom with additional
enrichment that makes a
significant difference for our
diverse student population
• Please join your colleagues in this
great work
ACHIEVING THE DREAM
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“Student Success” is more than a catch
phrase
More than a “feel good”
Bigger than two words can convey.
Not a single destination, but an ongoing
journey for us.
No end state.
Part and parcel of the work we do, with
every student, each and every day.
Have made tremendous progress, as
evidenced by being names one of only 72
Achieving the Dream Leader Colleges in the
nation
Announcement of TCC’s Leader College
status in August received lukewarm reception
Initially everyone did not embrace the
program
Some thought the main purpose of ATD was
to lower our standards
Others thought that we just didn’t have time
for still yet, another program.
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ATD coaches, took note of
The College’s efforts to involve faculty
members in improving the classroom
experience
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Faculty review and refinement of curricula
and syllabi and served on planning councils
and teams focusing on student success
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Implementation of a number of efforts,
including new student orientation, a student
success course, mandatory advising and case
management for FTIC students, a Math
Emporium for the developmental math
sequence, which is a faculty-led, computerassisted learning environment that
accelerates course completion time.
The College is seeing tangible results through
its efforts, most notably:
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AtD RESULTS & EXPECTATIONS
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Hispanic students increased their successful
completion of developmental math from
25.49% in 2008-09 to 30.98% in 2011-12, and
Hispanic students increased their successful
completion of developmental reading from
47% in 2008-09 to 53% in 2011-12
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You deserve enormous credit for helping
TCC achieve this extraordinary honor. What
does it mean for us to be a Leader College?
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Other colleges will look to TCC to share our
valuable experience drive student success on
their campuses.
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Serve as an advocate for the AtD principles
and practices
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Share lessons based from our experiences
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Support efforts to introduce state and
national policies that promote student
success.
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Continue to pursue the Achieving the
Dream’s Student-Centered Model of
Institutional Improvement and strive for even
higher levels of student success.
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Must reapply every three years to retain
Leader College status
Show commitment to putting student
success at the center of everything we do
Make changes necessary to respond to the
current realities of higher education today
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COMMON COURSE MATERIALS
• Philosophically differences
• Some say I am being
arbitrary and capricious
• An infringement on your
academic freedom by
imposing standards that
aren’t really necessary
• Claim that I have
somehow tied your hands
from teaching the way
you know how to teach.
• I’ve said repeatedly
• you are free to teach
your courses as you
choose.
• Course materials that are
chosen by fellow faculty
members should not
interfere with how you
teach.
POINTS TO CONSIDER
• Points to consider
• Accommodation of the very real
needs of our students…
• Create consistency across all our
courses and all of our campuses
• Make course materials more
affordable for our students
• Many opportunities for open
source course materials that are
no cost to students
• When students cannot afford to
buy their course materials, their
chances of being successful are
seriously hampered.
• First phase of the selection
process was clunky, to say the
least
• Certainly didn’t go as smoothly as
I had hoped it would
• Second phase is better, I think,
• Many of you have responded to
the creation of Academic
Curriculum Teams, by discipline
• Faculty across the District meet
and evaluate not just course
materials, but other curricular
issues that will increase student
success.
A SIGN OF HOPE
• Academic Curriculum Teams
have made great
recommendations about the
use of open source materials
• They are guiding the College
to a place of hope…
• All are on the same page, I
think
• All efforts to increase students
through access to learning
materials is a win for them,
and a win for us as educators.
• This change hasn’t
been comfortable for
any of us . . but with
time and teamwork,
good things are
happening.
TIME AND TEAMWORK
• Can’t move mountains in a day
• There will always be challenges
• Together, sharing the same
commitment to STUDENT
success, we can make deliberate
progress…together…one step at
a time.
• There will always be rewards
when you hear the many voices
of your students sing your praises
as they proclaim that they could
not have “done it” without your
help.
• I’m counting on each of you to
continue giving our students the
best of your expertise…your
passion…your wisdom…and
your love of learning and teaching.
• They tell your presidents, deans,
others and me , …that your
work with and support of
them, every day, makes all the
difference in their success. And
their success makes all the
difference to them, their families
and our community.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO
• Tarrant County College is in a very good place
today.
• We have made excellent progress in moving
us to a better place for our students.
• I ask for your help and your leadership in
continuing our forward movement.
• I salute you for all you do for our students and
for Tarrant County College every day!
• I appreciate you!
A Path to Opportunity
A Path to Opportunity
THE STATE
OF TARRANT
COUNTY
COLLEGE IS
EXCELLENT!
Questions?
817-515-8223
www.tccd.edu