Presented by Benita Budd, Butch Grove, Rick Smyre, and Larry Darlage
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education gave their report called “A Nation at Risk.” In 2013, little has changed. With this in mind, a network of community colleges has begun to develop a Future Forward College. Based on 47 key ideas including hyper-individualized curriculum, analogous complexity, and a future-forward workforce, new approaches for a Future Forward College are being created to prepare for a constantly changing future.
1. CREATING A FUTURE FORWARD
COLLEGE
Unlearn or Forget It!!
Moderator: Rick Smyre – Communities of the Future
Panelists: Butch Grove – Wake Tech Community College
Benita Budd – Wake Tech Community College
Larry Darlage – Tarrant County College
2. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those
who cannot read and write, but those who cannot
learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
~Alvin Toffler
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3. STRONG BELIEFS WILL KILL YOU
WHAT IF “TRUTH” ISN’T
THREE STAGES OF A
NEW IDEA
SELF-IMPOSED
BARRIERS
ADAPT, ADAPT!!
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4. FROM CONCRETENESS TO COMFORT WITH
UNCERTAINTY
THE WAY WE ARE
TAUGHT TO THINK
LEFT BRAIN-RIGHT
BRAIN
EMERGENCE
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5. There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge
than the ambiguity of words.
Thomas Reid
I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
Keith Richards
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7. THE NEW SCIENCE OF RISK TAKING AND
MISTAKE MAKING
IN TURBULENT TIMES
THE RISK IS NOT
TAKING IT!
BE BOLD…BUT NOT
FOOLISH!
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8. WHAT YOU THOUGHT JUST AIN’T SO
THE CHALLENGE OF
BEING TRULY OPEN
WHAT? THAT CAN’T BE
RIGHT!!
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9. Key Concepts a Future Forward College
Transdisciplinary Learning
Identify Weak Signals
Analogous Complexity
DICE
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10. “When I let go of what I am, I become
what I might be.” ~ Lao Tzu
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11. Evolution of a Future Forward College
at Wake Tech
Butch Grove
“Much of what we teach is looking back, we need to focus
more on the future.”
Steve Scott - President, Wake Tech
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12. Beginnings of the Future Forward College
2009
• How to develop a “futures culture” at Wake
Tech that supports transformational
learning?
• Scott, White, Ryan, and Smyre
• Center for Strategic Futures was created
• Speaker series began
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13. Speaker Series Format
2009
• Breakfast with Faculty
• Campus-wide Student Assemble
• Lunch and Learn
• Afternoon Dialogs
• Seed transformation learning, not directed it.
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14. Prominent Speakers
2009
• Thomas Frey – Da Vinci Institute
• Marv Centron – Forecasting International
• Rick Smyre – COTF
• Stan Litow – IBM
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16. Transformational Topics
2011
• Transformation Leadership, Megatrends and Futures
Context
• Week Signals and Thinking Systemically
• Asking Appropriate Questions and Connecting Disparate
Ideas
• Building Parallel Process, Applying Chaos and Complexity
Theories, Creating Interlocking Networks
• Looking for Access Points and Futures Generative Dialog
• Identifying Risks and Community Transformation
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17. Transformational Leadership Outcomes
2011
• Future Forward College
• 47 Key Ideas
• Concepts embodied in various
organizational areas
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“How are you preparing students for careers that don’t exist yet?”
Steve Scott - President, Wake Tech
18. Building a Future Forward College Network
2012
• Two day retreat at Wake Tech with other connections in
Smyre’s network
• Goal: To develop a network of colleges in different states
interested in collaborating to enhance and spread the
ideas and methods of transformation learning
• Wake Tech – 10
• Tarrant CC – 5
• Blue Grass CC
• Other CC leaders
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19. Seeding FFC Concepts in the Classroom
2013
• Budd recruited and developed a Future
Forward Faculty group at Wake Tech
• Monthly meeting with Smyre to introduce
futures thinking
• Outcomes: Shifts in thinking and classroom
facilitation, and transformational
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20. Expansion of FFC Network and Classroom
Integration
2014
• Now Over 75 FFC faculty at Wake Tech
• Future Forward Fellow
• Two-day Conference April 4-5
• Learn and Apply 6 Principles of Futurist
Thinking
• 84 Participants from 9 states
• 12 colleges/universities and 17
business/organizations
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21. 1.Kitchen/Prep Area
2.Mixing Bowls & Cooking
Utensils
3.Recipe
4.Ingredients
5.Preparation
6.Heat
7.Cooking Time
8.Results (delicious, we hope)
Cooking Up the Future
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Benita Budd
31. Innovation Forum
The Innovation Forum is a process for
developing ideas or initiatives that impact
student success at TCC, and a framework for
building an understanding of how initiatives
measure against TCC’s institutional goals.
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33. Cost Per Student
A calculation of Cost per Student, or the cost to
implement the initiative divided by the number of
students impacted by the initiative.
Cost of Initiative ÷ Total Impacted Students
= Cost Per Student
Threshold $ 3000
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34. Community Impact
Dollars contributed to Tarrant County produced by the
initiative
Primary components of the community impact number:
- Increase in student Enrollment & Related TCC tuition impact
- Student Job Placement Rate and salary contribution
- Student Transfers to 4 Year Universities in Tarrant County
- Incremental TCC staff salaries
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35. Example
The Return on Student
Investment
ROSI is the bubble on
the quadrants which is
the total of DREAM
Cost/Student, and
Community Impact
The size of the bubble reflects
the Community Impact
StudentCost
DREAM
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37. Networking the Future Forward College
1) Contact Wake Tech, COTF, Tarrant County
College or WFS.
2) Creating Individual, Futures Projects, and
Comprehensive College Networks
3) Use the Principles of Complex Adaptive Systems
to Seed and Grow the FFC Network: Connecting
and Emergence
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38. Q&A
Contact Information
Rick Smyre rlsmyre@aol.com
Butch Grove rhgrove@waketech.edu
Benita Budd babudd@waketech.edu
Larry Darlage larry.darlage@tccd.edu
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Editor's Notes
Dr. Scott made a statement at convocation “We spent to much time look at the history or things in our courses and not enough time look at what’s coming”
Dr. Scott made a statement at convocation “We spent to much time look at the history or things in our courses and not enough time look at what’s coming”
Dr. Scott made a statement at convocation “We spent to much time look at the history or things in our courses and not enough time look at what’s coming”
Dr. Scott made a statement at convocation “We spent to much time look at the history or things in our courses and not enough time look at what’s coming”
Dr. Scott made a statement at convocation “We spent to much time look at the history or things in our courses and not enough time look at what’s coming”
Dr. Scott made a statement at convocation “We spent to much time look at the history or things in our courses and not enough time look at what’s coming”
Dr. Scott made a statement at convocation “We spent to much time look at the history or things in our courses and not enough time look at what’s coming”
Dr. Scott made a statement at convocation “We spent to much time look at the history or things in our courses and not enough time look at what’s coming”
Dr. Scott made a statement at convocation “We spent to much time look at the history or things in our courses and not enough time look at what’s coming”