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Wednesday, July
18 |
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Registration, Continental Breakfast
and Exhibits |
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Welcome
Laurie Clary,
President, The ASSOCIATION Executive Board
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Carrying the Story
Aggie Pratt, Suquamish
Tribal Elder
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| 9:30
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KEYNOTE: Stories
the Data Tell Us
Kay McClenney,
Director, Community College Survey of Student Engagement, University
of Texas |
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While it's desirable
to strengthen our uses of data to tell our community and technical
college stories, the first order of business is to look and
listen honestly for the stories the data tell us about our students,
about their educational experiences and about institutional
performance in helping them succeed. To do that well, we have
to opt for greater transparency, build data system capacity,
change institutional cultures, and be willing to question some
long-standing assumptions and practices. This session offers
some examples of stories data may tell and some observations
about how colleges are listening, learning and acting to improve
student success.
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Break |
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STUDENT PANEL: Stories
that Students Have to Tell |
| 12:00
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Lunch, Annual Association Business Meeting,
Scholarship Awards |
| 1:15
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Concurrent Sessions |
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A.
When Opportunity Knocks: Stories from Those That Dared to Open
the Door
Melissa Delikat, Opportunity Grant
Coordinator, Peninsula College
Norma Herbold, Faculty, Peninsula College
Matt Houghton, Opportunity Grant Project Director,
Shoreline Community College
Jack Huls, Vice President, Student Services,
Peninsula College
Danette Randolph, Workforce Education Program
Manager, Highline Community College
This session will provide an overview of Opportunity Grant Implementation
at pilot institutions with an emphasis on stories of student
success.
B. Reservation-based
Degree Program
Mark Reisman, Dean of Extended Learning,
Grays Harbor College
Native American students have the poorest high
school, community college and baccalaureate participation and
completion rates among cohorts in Washington State and nationw
ide. The Evergreen State College has had tremendous success
offering a culturally relevant, liberal arts bachelor's degree
to six reservation communities since 1989. This session will
discuss how Grays Harbor College, partnering with Washington
Online, the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges,several
colleague community and technical colleges and Evergreen, is
in the second year of offering the lower division transfer A.A.
to a growing number of rural, isolated reservation communities
utilizing a blended, distance delivered and face to face program. |
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Tour & Reception at Olympic College,
Poulsbo |
| 5:30
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No-Host Reception
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| 6:30
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Awards Banquet |
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Thursday, July 19 |
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| 7:00 - 8:00
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Breakfast Buffet |
| 8:00 - 8:30 |
GENERAL SESSION: Washington
State - In Sync With The Nation In Closing The Achievement Gap
Charlie Earl,
Executive Director, State Board for Community and Technical
Colleges |
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How are the two-year colleges
increasing student achievement that will result in greater access
and affordability?
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| 8:30 - 9:30 |
GENERAL SESSION: Building
from Biodiversity: Foundations’ Search for Evidence
Christine McCabe,
Executive Director, College Spark Washington |
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Foundations are increasingly looking
for evidence-based results. In this session, College Spark,
which is funding the “Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges
Count” initiative in Washington, will provide an overview
of how a foundation evaluates grant requests and uses reported
results. The lessons learned from a broad range of college readiness
and retention projects will be discussed.
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| 9:30 - 10:30 |
Concurrent Sessions
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A . Using
Visual Data to Tell Student Stories
Maureen Pettitt, Director of Institutional
Research, Skagit Valley College
David Prince, Senior Manager, Research
& Analysis, State Board for Community and Technical
Colleges
This session we will describe a State Board for Community
and Technical Colleges project that, using both system and
Census data, resulted in more accurate information about the
socio-economic status of our students. After a brief overview
of the project, participants will see how one college “localized”
the data resulting from this project to address questions
related to the college’s enrollment management and marketing
efforts, including the application of the GIS component of
this project to visualize the geographic distribution of student
characteristics.
B. Truth Versus Truths: The Contemporary
Writer’s Dilemma
Michael Darcher, English
Instructor, Peirce College
The difference between a story and gossip
isn’t what the reader accepts as factual but rather
what the reader suspects is truthful—a truth s/he is
intended to know. As we enter the 21st Century, which is to
say, the Age of Data, storytellers are facing a growing gap
between evolving reader expectations and traditional story
requisites. Hear one writer’s struggle in maintaining
his voice and his audience.
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| 10:30 - 10:45
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Break |
| 10:45 - 12:00
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Concurrent Sessions |
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A. Meeting
Washington State’s Needs for an Educated Citizenry and
Vital Economy: A Proposed Incentive System to Reward Colleges
for Student Achievement and Success
David Prince, Senior Manager, Research
& Analysis, State Board for Community and Technical
Colleges
Loretta Seppanan, State Board for Community
and Technical Colleges
Last year, the State Board directed staff to bring to it a
proposal for rewarding colleges for continuous improvements
in student achievement and success. Working with a system
task force and an advisory group, a proposal was developed
that focuses on measuring incremental gain towards certificates
and degrees. These gains are called momentum points. The presenters
will discuss the proposal, how it works, and next steps for
working with colleges for using the new data measures.
B. Building a Culture
of Evidence to Help Students Succeed
Don Bressler, President, Renton Technical
College
Peggy Moe, Dean, Business Technology &
General Education and Education and Human Services, Renton
Technical College
Chuck Tiernan, Vice President, Institutional
Advancement, Renton Technical College
As a recipient of an Achieving the Dream grant,
Renton Technical College has the opportunity to improve success
by refining how
it uses and reacts to data about its students. Don Bressler
and his staff will share what Renton Technical College is
learning
through this process and how it has approached strategies
to better understand and serve its students. The audience
will also be
asked to share ideas from their campuses for the good of the
entire group.
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| 12:30 - 1:30
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Lunch |
| 1:30 - 3:30
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GENERAL SESSION: Storytelling
for Effective Advocacy
Michael Shadow,
President, Shadow and Associates. |
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Narrative and storytelling play
pivotal roles in advocating policy, changing attitudes, defending
budgets, explaining decisions, and increasing donations. This
seminar focuses on how narrative works in the college setting.
You will learn the qualities of a good narrative, the process
for discovering your story, and how to script a story that unites
ideas with emotions. |
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