NMC Opening Conference powerpoint

1. Fall 2012 Opening Conference
Northwestern Michigan College
August 20, 2012

2. Welcome From Board of Trustees
Bill Myers, Vice Chair
Cheryl Gore Susan Sheldon Ross Childs Doug Bishop Walter Hooper Bob Brick
Follette

3.  Welcomes and Introductions
 Recognition - Accomplishments and Results
 Updates - College, Region, State, National
 What’s Ahead this Year
 Close

6. Accomplishments and Results

7.  What are important
results you know we
accomplished last
year?
 What did we do for
whom at what value?
 Who did it? Where did
they do it? What did
they do?

8.  Learner Success
 Financial Thriveability
 International Competence
 Networked Workforce
 Lifelong Relationships

9.  Aviation students competed in the AUVSI
Student UAS Competition and finished
respectfully.
 Business launched new Entrepreneurship
course. Three student teams started and
operated businesses. $7025/$5000.
 White Pine Press staff earned multiple awards
at Michigan Community College Press
Association annual conference.

10.  Health Occupations and Educational Media
Technologies expanded simulation facilities.
 Caroline Schaefer-Hills and 3 Vis Com
students had learning experience in Sweden.
 Math Department and Tutoring integrated and
coordinated their services.
 Engineering Technology integrating robotics,
UGS and automation technologies into
curriculum. New AAS degree approved.

11.  Kirby Anderson Involved with NAEP skill
standard setting for HVAC. NMC curriculum in
national database.
 19 GLMA cadets graduated with 100%
employment opportunities.
 Regis McCord established biweekly study
support sessions for students.
 Aviation signed MOU’s with China and India
 Resource Development and Aviation started
Alumni Group.

12.  Jeff Cobb and music department established
new Audio-tech degree and program
 Garyn Roberts chaired National Popular
Culture Book Award Committee.
 Multiple Communications Instructors in print
and presenting at conferences.
 Jim Coughlin on sabbatical in Russia.
 NMC Foundation Annual Campaign exceeded
goal - $454,107 vs $400,000!

13.  Three Outstanding Alums recognized –
Kathleen McManus, Timothy Young and Steven
Rawlings.
 Vicki Cook leading Campus Master Planning
process.
 Business Office refinanced bonds saving
$250,000.
 Custodial and Grounds completed tree audit on
NMC’s campus.
 Green cleaning – 98%!

14.  Kay Hall organized outstanding Cherry Festival
entry.
 Apartments and East Hall – 100% occupancy
 Bookstore staff implemented lean processes.
 Hagerty received Michigan Recycling Coalition
Certification.
 Gene Jenneman and Dennos Museum Center
expanded their international reach and
international programming.
 Wellness Committee ran great Wellness Olympics

15.  Dennos Museum
Center: Cultural Venue
(Outside Metro Detroit)
 Hagerty Center:
Meeting/Event Venue
(Outside Detroit Metro,
No Hotel) Winner,
 Hagerty Center:
Meeting/Event Venue –
Runner-up.

16.  Admissions partnered for 10th annual GirlTECH
Career Day – 225 in attendance.
 Advising organized new pre-ADN info sessions
to explain new admissions process.
 Financial aid held 12 financial aid night
presentations.
 Students offered over $50million in aid last
year!
 Health Services identified top 10 student
diagnosis – depression #1..fatigue #10.

17.  Phi Theta Kappa had 600 students sign
Commit to Complete Degree certificates!
 Records and Registration provided Self-
Service Study Transcript to students.
 Student Life coordinated 40 active student
groups.
 Student Life established Muster Project.
 Two Upward Bound seniors received $1000
Rotary Grants

18.  Human Resources implemented RedCarpet for
online orientation of 65 new employees.
 Learning Resources and Technology met
10,818 requests for help. Fewer than 2%
remain unresolved!
 LRT assisted in development of five new on-
line courses.
 Public Relations and Marketing implemented
full-function mobile version of NMC web.
 ORPE completed first integrated college
planning process.

19.  Extended Education offers CNA (Certified
Nurse Assistant) programs to full cohorts.
 Michigan Energy Demonstration Center served
over 550 participants.
 Water Studies Institute signs MOU with Earth
University in Costa Rica.
 ORPE guided NMC to renewed accreditation!
 GLCI achieved 7 year reaccreditation!
 Training Services clients reported $5.3 million
in new sales due to NMC services.

20.  Learner Success
 Financial Thriveability
 International Competence
 Networked Workforce
 Lifelong Relationships

21.  Learn to tell them.
 Can you tell a story each day about something
that you saw, you did, you experienced that
contributed to one or more of these result
areas?
 An example: Orientation – Gone right when it
could have gone wrong.

22. What has changed since we last
talked?

23.  Local
 Employment
 Property values
 State Government
 MPSERS – affects 70% of you
 CCB – affects us all
 School Finance Rewrite & Budget Expectations
 Accelerated Delivery of Credit – Early/Middle College
 Reverse Transfer
 New reporting and accountability requirements

24.  State Policy Makers
 Michigan Business Leaders – MBL
 Michigan Community College Association
 Collaborative efforts – possibilities
 Books
 Services
 Curriculum and numbering
 Programs
 National registration by state
 Virtual Learning Collaborative 2.0

25.  National
 American Association of Community Colleges
 VFA – Voluntary Framework of Accountability
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTJ_hRGw9Jc
 Redesign = completion rates, college readiness, skills gap
decline
 Reinvest = redefine roles in 21st century, form collaborative
support structures
 Reset = public & private investments, promote rigor,
transparency and accountability
 Federal Government
 Financial Aid
 Federal Budget
 Reporting and Linkage to Jobs
 Veterans Issues

26.  National Competitive Forces, Organizations
and Trends
 MOOCs
 https://www.coursera.org/
 New Colleges
 Early and Middle Colleges

35. These environmental factors certainly support
the trends above. If anything , they point to an
acceleration over what we had predicted. So…

36.  Ensure that NMC learners are prepared for
success in a global society and economy.
 Establish national and international
competencies and provide leadership in select
educational areas connected to the regional
economy and assets.
 Deliver learning through a networked
workforce.
 Establish lifelong relationships with learners.
 Transcribe most learning to establish
credentials of value.

37. NMC in the Future
External Subsidies
$$$
Differentiated
Low Price
Products With
Alternative
Higher Pricing
RISK
Earned Subsidies
A B

38. “Fit” of activities since 2001
Maintaining the Low Price Reducing Cost – Increasing
Alternative Productivity – Maintaining Quality
• Early retirements
• FT/PT Mix
External Subsidies
• Bidding services
• Process redesign
• Addressing program costs
Low Price
Alternative
and viability
• Re-aligning jobs

39. “Fit” of activities since 2001
Establishing Competencies Investing in Differentiation
• Established
Differentiated – Water Studies Institute
Product With – Aviation
Higher Pricing – Alternative Energy
– Lean Consortium
• In process
– Community College
Earned Subsidies
Baccalaureate
– Audio-tech
– International programming

40. What specifically is going to
happen this year?

41.  Learner Success
 Portfolio A – completion, persistence, efficiency directed
at the “whole learner”
 Portfolio B – development of product, incubation toward
acceleration, resource allocation
 AQIP projects:
 Designing the 21st Century Learning Experience
 Enhancing Developmental Education
 Financial Thriveability
 Portfolio A – efficiency, productivity improvements
 Portfolio B – market analysis of products suitable to
accelerate, prediction of return on investment
 Possible Headlee reinstatement effort

42.  International Competence
 Completion of NLN Accreditation
 Complete implementation planning for expected CCB
degrees
 Achieve national accreditation/certification in 50% of
available fields
 Increase international enrollment
 Networked Workforce
 Complete AQIP project – Talent
 Employee Classification and Compensation
 Establish new partnerships
 Early College Programs

43.  Lifelong Relationships
 Alumni relationships
 Establish on-going community conversations
 Improve communications

44.  What is that ONE-THING, that if we do not
accomplish it, we will not be here? It will make
us irrelevant or put us out of existence? What
is the “gradually boiling water” for NMC?
Learner Success

45.  “What do you do?”
 The answer I want from each of you is …
 “I’m helping our learners
succeed!”

46.  An awareness of the “radical transformations” that are
occurring
 A sense that you can make a difference – every day
 A belief that “it’s not about you…but it is”
 A commitment to ask “what (what else) can I do to
help?”
 A tolerance that lets us ask and address “hard and
uncomfortable issues”
 A recognition that we are doing good work and
accomplishing important results
 An appreciation for all that your colleagues and our
communities do to help our learners succeed
 A sense of urgency

47. Keep Learning at the Center