Leadership Development Committee
End of Year Report 2012-13
REGIONAL LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS
The Leadership Development Committee hosted four regional leadership workshops to
help new senate presidents and emerging faculty leaders. The workshops focused on
empowerment during the budget crunch, understanding and responding to external
agendas, and practical leadership strategies. The regional workshops were held at
Grossmont College (11-30-2012), Los Angeles City College (12-01-2012), Solano
College (March 1, 2013), and Reedley College (March 2, 2013). Although the format and
agenda of the workshops evolved as we presented, the following set of topics were
included: Putting the 10+1 to Work, Preparing for Uncertainty: Reducing Course
Sectons and Discontinuing Programs in a Budgetary Emergency, The State of Education
Today, and How to Get Things Done: Effective Leadership Strategies. The regional
workshops also included a number of interactive activities like simulation of a course
prioritization process, case study analysis involving the 10+1, and a standing debate
exercise. The regional workshops were well received and post-workshop evaluations
were very positive about the content and format. Results of the post-workshop survey
were shared with the Executive Committee.
Recommendation:
 Although a regional leadership workshop was held in each of the Academic
Senate’s four areas, it became clear from attendance logs that faculty in the far
north part of the state did not take advantage of the workshops. The Leadership
Development Committee recommends that a workshop or some other type of
activity be made available to that service area.
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Based upon early feedback, the Leadership Development Committee revised
subsequent regional meetings to incorporate more interactive exercises.
Participants ranked such activities very high in terms of usefulness. The
Leadership Development Committee recommends that future regional workshops
in leadership, the Leadership Institute, and the Vocational Leadership Institute
continue to employ interactive exercises and consider expanding their use.
VOCATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
In the conjunction with the California Community College Association for Occupational
Education (CCAOE), the Academic Senate presented its Vocational Leadership Institute
March 20-22, 2013 in Oakland, California. The Leadership Development Committee
developed the VLI program and facilitated or presented 11 breakout sessions on the
following topics: Clusters and Educational Enterprise Zones, Effective Advisory Groups,
The CCC ScoreCard: The Career Technical Education Rate, Think Tank: Regional
Advisory Group Discussion, Being at the Table, More Important Than Ever: The Politics
of Career Technical Education, Getting Savvy About Curriculum Processes, When
Ludicrous Tuition Doesn’t Matter: Competing with For-Profits, Not Just for Transfer: CID and CTE, Responding Effectively to Industry: If Not Us, Who?, and Who Will Our
Students Be? CCC Enrollment Priorities and Implications for CTE. Post-Institute formal
and informal feedback about the institute was very positive.
Recommendation:
 It’s not clear how to best market the Vocational Leadership Institute to vocational
faculty. The Leadership Development Committee recommends that additional
approaches beyond notification to the Senate Presidents’ listserv be tried.
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The Leadership Development Committee received positive feedback about
partnering with CCCAOE and having both CTE administrators and faculty in the
room. If logistically possible, the LDC recommends that we continue to partner
with CCCAOE on future conferences.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
ASSIGNED RESOLUTIONS (2012-3)
Resolution 09.10 Fall 2011 Responding to Industry Needs
Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges support the
identification of ways to appropriately respond to the curricular needs of business and
industry in a timely manner, including the identification of mechanisms to expedite local
curricular processes and the use of not-for-credit contract education as a means of
immediately implementing curriculum delivery; and
Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges explore current
practices, identify barriers, and promote effective practices in responding to the curricular
needs of business and industry and present this information by the Fall 2012 Session.
2012-2013:
The Leadership Development Committee addressed this resolution by developing and
presenting three breakout sessions at the Joint Spring 2013 CCCAOE
Conference/Vocational Leadership Institute. The first, Responding Effectively to
Industry: If not us, who?, addressed how community colleges currently respond to
curricular requests for business and industry and identified barriers and the perception of
barriers in responding effectively to business and industry needs. The second, Getting
Savvy About Curriculum Processes, provided some ways that CTE faculty and deans
can successfully navigate the curriculum process. And lastly, the breakout entitled Not
Just for Transfer: C-ID and CTE described a vision in which businesses and industry
could work with groups of colleges regionally and statewide to develop needed
curriculum via structures now in place through the C-ID project.
Status: Completed.
Recommendations:
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Repeat Responding Effectively to Industry: If not us, who? breakout at Fall 2013
or Spring 2014 Plenary session.
Write a Rostrum article based upon the ideas presented in the Responding
Effectively to Industry: If not us, who? breakout.
Resolution 21.01 Spring 2012 Career Technical Education Advisory Committees
Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges investigate the
possibility of additional options for regional advisory meetings and, if necessary, propose
recommendations for possible changes to Title 5 to ensure that career technical education
programs receive the most effective and timely input from their community and industry
partners.
2012-2013:
The Leadership Development Committee addressed this resolution by developing and
presenting two breakout sessions at the Joint Spring 2013 CCCAOE
Conference/Vocational Leadership Institute. The committee focused on the word
investigate in the resolution and constructed a conference breakout, Think Tank:
Regional Advisory Group Discussion, to solicit ideas, suggestions, and cautions related
to regional advisory groups. Extensive notes from the discussion were taken during the
breakout, which were then compiled and edited into a single document. The purpose of
the discussion and notes were to serve as a resource for more specific proposals related to
regional advisory groups. The second breakout session at the conference related to this
resolution, Effective Advisory Groups, was focused on best practices for conducting
advisory groups.
Status: Completed.
Recommendations:
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Using the notes from the Think Tank: Regional Advisory Group Discussion,
develop a Rostrum article on Regional Advisory Groups.
Develop a Fall 2013 or Spring 2014 Plenary breakout on Regional Advisory
Groups based upon the notes taken from the Think Tank: Regional Advisory
Group Discussion.
Investigate whether Title 5 changes would be needed if faculty across multiple
colleges wanted to develop Regional Advisory Groups. If so, develop specific
resolutions to initiate the process.
2012-13 Leadership Development Committee:
Phil Smith (Chair), Riley Dwyer, John Freitas, Grant Goold, Angie Stuart,
Katie Townsend-Merino.