Dr' Joe Sertich

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Joe Sertich

• An American and Canadian Recipe for Rural Growth

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Welcome!
Arrowhead Region
Duluth
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Our Time Together

• Unique Perspectives Shared
• Our Mission is Critical
• We are Committed
• Canada America
• Different Stewpots,
• Similar Ingredients
• Challenges Opportunities

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Coming Up

• Dr. Steve Katsinas
• 20 Year Commitment to National Two Year College
  Movement
• Research has Influenced Congressional Action

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Our Panel

• Joe Sertich
• President Northeast Minnesota Higher Education
  District
• Stephen G. Katsinas
• Director, Education Policy Center, University of
  Alabama
• Kevin Quinlan
• Principal, Truro Campus, Nova Scotia Community
  College
• Cheryl T. Sparks
• President, Howard College
• Terrance E. Suarez
• President, Mountain Empire Community College

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Dr. Stephen G. Katsinas

• Director,
• Education Policy Center,
• University of Alabama

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Economic Development - Challenges

• Workforce Training Assessment
• 10.4 Million Students 5.4 MM Credit / 5 MM Non
  Credit
• Non Credit Workforce Education 40 50 of
  Total Nationally
• Create Policies Enabling Rural Colleges to be
  Major Players
• Long Term Challenge - Retain Talented Young
  People

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Economic Development - Opportunities

• Develop Data Collection Beyond IPEDS
• New Workforce Entrants
• Currently Employed Workers
• Temporarily Displaced Workers
• Long-Term Unemployed
• Commit Ourselves to Build this Database

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Economic Development - Opportunities

• Develop a Clearinghouse of Effective State
  Policies
• Establish Lighthouse Examples
• of Rural Community College
• Effectiveness
• Engage the Rural Community
• Encourage Student Loan Forgiveness
• as Policy to Retain Talented and
• Trained Youth

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Access - Challenges

• Higher Tuition Harder Access / Poor People
• Expand the Base of College-Ready Students from
  High Schools
• Inflation Adjusted Wages for HS Dropouts Dropped
  30 in Last 20 Years
• Longer Time Gap Between
• HS and College Means
• More Developmental
• Education Required

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Access - Opportunities

• Teach Financial Debt Management
• Chart HS Grads by Region Last Year Compare 10
  Years Back
• Develop Feedback Loop to Help HS and Junior HS
  Prepare for College
• Expand Seamlessness Between HS and College

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Resource Development - Challenges

• Expanding the Base Support for Rural Community
  Colleges
• Federal Legislators Must Understand that Pell,
  SEOGG, College Work-Study are Rural Community
  College Programs
• Document Energy Spike Price Impact on Rural
  College Students
• Over Half of Rural Community Colleges have
  On-Campus Housing USED/IPEDS Undercounts this

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Resource Development - Opportunities

• Secure States Participation in Pell Grant Study
  by Frank Mensel
• Use Mensel Instrument at Local Level to Assess
  Student Aid and Energy Price Spike Impact
• Need RCCA Institutions to Pilot Test Sites
• Find Ways to Renovate Rural
• Campus Housing via Federal
• Housing Loan Funds

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Leadership and Policy - Challenges

• Leadership Turnover (CEO)
• Much Greater than Previous Documentation
• Multi-Campus and Single Campus District Figures
  not Desegregated
• 1,800 CEOs exist (not 1,200)
• 45 Turnover Estimated in 5 Years
• Most CEO and CAO Positions Require Doctorates
  (87 / 74 Respective)
• Must Rebuild University-Based
• Infrastructure in Community College
• Education Programs

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Leadership and Policy - Challenges

• Need New Literature of Community College Leaders
• Emphasize Baccalaureate Degree Plus Economic
  Development, Entrepreneurship, Grantsmanship, and
  Public Policy
• 2002 (90 of College CEOs indicated Economic
  Development Learned on the job
• We Must Strengthen Our Voice in State and Federal
  Policy Circles

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Leadership and Policy - Opportunities

• Rebuilding Community College Education Programs
  will Increase Capacity of Research and Service
  Related to Rural Community Colleges
• Every State Should have at least One Good
  Community College Doctoral Program
• More Continuing Education
• Programs are Needed /
• Leadership Academies
• Needed

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Leadership and Policy - Opportunities

• Create a New Generation of Community College
  Literature for New Generation of Leaders
• Book-Length Treatments on Finance, Students,
  Student Aid, Economic Development
• Book-Length Case Studies Community Colleges,
  Rural, Suburban and Urban ala Southwest Texas
  Community College
• RCCA should Create a
• National Voice to Impact
• Federal Policy

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Kevin Quinlan, Ed.D. Principal, Truro Campus
Nova Scotia Community CollegeMember of ACCC
Working Group on Rural and Remote Colleges

• Canadas Colleges Serving
• Rural and Remote CommunitiesSharing
  Co-destinies

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The National Landscape

• Canada has 150 colleges with 900 campuses,
  represented by ACCC
• We are present in over 90 of Canadas landscape,
  encompass nearly all our 1st Nations
  communities
• Many colleges/campuses serve rural areas, and the
  vast majority are in provincial and federal
  ridings

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The Rural Landscape

• We face different challenges and different
  futures from the period in which we were
  created.
• Complexity of national policy making
• Geographic/demographic patterns
• An Urban Pull, Rural Push movement esp. youth
  and young families
• An aging rural population Boomers
• An aging infrastructure

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Our Strengths.

• A key strength we must leverage is that, unlike
  urban institutions, we share co-destinies with
  our rural communities. And we share different
  futures as colleges..

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Institutional strengths.

• Lower student-to-faculty ratios
• Access and responsiveness / retention
• Roles in community development
• Our presence as centres of local multi-cultural
  learning and understanding
• Our political clout through our national
  distribution and networks

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Going forward..

• Going forward, our rural/remote colleges need to
• Re-define the role of Canadas colleges serving
  rural and remote communities
• Strengthen our service in community
• Develop an international presence through
  capacity building with college partners..

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Going forward.. 2

• Focus on access, distance education, flexibility,
  and applied research.
• Ensure programs are broad-based, and create
  partnerships that lead to articulation agreements
• Create learning communities
• Be seen and heard as governments partner and
  lead agent in community and social development

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1000 1100 AM Break-out Sessions J/K/L,Choices
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Tuesday, September 131000 1100 AMBreak-out
J/K/L, choose one

• Session J Leadership
• Grocery Store Politics Leading the Rural
  Community College
• Viking Room
• Pamela Eddy, Presenting

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Tuesday, September 131000 1100 AMBreak-out
J/K/L, choose one

• Session K Leadership
• Rural Community Challenges A Leadership View
  The Role of the Community College
• Missabe Room
• Jim Krile, Presenting

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Tuesday, September 131000 1100 AMBreak-out
J/K/L, choose one

• Session L Policy
• Why Broadband, A Role for Higher Education
• Plaza Suite
• Bernadine Joselyn, Presenting

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Tuesday Events
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Tuesday, September 13Events

• 1100 - 1130 AM Exhibitor Showcase Networking
  The Commons
• 1130 -130 PM Lunch Closing Session Great
  Hall
• Presiding Dr. Bill Scaggs, RCCA Executive
  Director
• George Autry Award
• Presented by Steven Zwerling,
• Closing Session Many Voices, One Word Rural

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