PASSION AND COMPASSION

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PASSION AND COMPASSION
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WORKSHOP FEEDBACK

• Del Mar
• Need to develop learning centers
• Must involve students on committee
• San Antonio College
• Need to develop learning centers
• Awareness that Recruiting STEM is a national
  problem
• Collaborations between Engineering and Department
  of English
• Need to change mentality of
• Florida International
• Is it one or several models?
• Annual Research Day
• Getting parents and HS teachers involved in
  outreach activities

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feedback

• North Dakota
• Money talks Institutions need to lead
• Non-tangibles housing, day care,
• Louisiana State
• Elements already present
• How to coordinate to make system changes?
• Will there be a similar initiative to MIE in the
  future?
• How to get money in the future?
• North Dakota
• Changing the culture not just the students
• Outreach to community
• UC Irvine
• Providing access to resources spread the
  knowledge
• Sell the parents on the dream establish
  connection with them

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feedback

• Paine
• Space for students
• Institutionalization
• Pulling resources together for the common good
• Prairie View
• Involve parents as guides of children and in the
  programs they can learn from
• Need for coordination to maximize resources
• Identify rewards and incentives
• The programs need to drive use of resources
• Texas schools need to talk o each other

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feedback

• Chicago State
• Need new buildings for research to provide
  adequate training
• Have LSAMP, MBRS but more limited
• Prairie View
• Need leadership with accountability to move
  college through strategic planning
• Resources to implement critical activities that
  will change culture
• Change management is a critical human resource
  must be evaluated differently than other faculty
• Support and protect those who are doing great
  things for institution change is a fight
• Recognize similar accomplishments to MIE schools

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feedback

• Northwest Indian College
• Recognized seven points to focus on
• Schools are at different stages in development
• Need to bridge gap between administration and
  faculty
• Synchronicity of activities (such as REU) to
  allow students to succeed
• H. Councill Trenholm State
• Riding the line between faculty and
  administration where change takes place
• Tremendous diversity in group
• Education as a means to a better life
• Change of culture to meet students needs

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feedback

• AIHEC
• Putting students first is key
• Support of HACU, NAFEO, AIHEC organizations to
  procure and secure money resources

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SIMILARITIES

• Seven main activities done in pockets
• Retention pieces in place offered by peers
• Mentoring system
• Teaching students doing resource scouting
• Summer research
• Graduate School preparation
• Vision of open admission school

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MESSAGE TO TAKE HOME

• Need communication among ranks
• Contact decision makers
• Disseminate within (newsletter)
• Develop incentive system for faculty
  participation
• Build flexibility in 2 yr school curricula
• Put resources to develop in house expertise

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NEEDS

• Developing a strategic plan
• Funding with latitude to make a systemic and
  holistic effort
• Centralized, coordinated effort
• Breaking down silos

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SIMILARITIES

• Departmental version of MIE Model
• Saturation - Growing pains
• Managing resources
• Network to place students
• Desire to want to make a difference
• Changing math and gatekeeper courses

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PEOPLE

• PRESENCE OF LEADERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY
• Board
• President, VPAA, Dean, Chairs
• Faculty (including Math Department)
• Staff
• Students
• Families

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PEOPLE

• CHAMPIONS
• With a passion to make a difference

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STRATEGIES

• Make time to plan
• Retreat
• Release
• Develop the plan
• Identify receptive ears
• Identify movers and shakers
• Get buy in
• Cross check with similar institutions
• Reward those in the trenches

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STRATEGIES

• Recognize the effort as a TRUE area of national
  need
• Encourage Alliance to press for more funding (in
  orders of magnitude)
• Contradictory message
• Developing diverse workforce vs. business model
  of imported talent/outsourcing