The Global Challenge for Higher
Education
Jean Goodnow
William McGinnis
Mary Spangler
Paul Seidel
The World Is Flat!
by Thomas Friedman
Running with Gazelles, Eating with Lions
• Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest
lion or it will be killed.
• Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it
must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will
starve to death.
• It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a
gazelle. When the suns comes up, you
better start running.
Talent Trumps Geography
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“Now I would rather be a genius
born in China than an average
guy born in Poughkeepsie.”
30 years ago a chances of
a prosperous life with just
average talent were far
greater in U.S. than for the
genius in India.
Today people from just
about any country can
compete in the global job
market.
The World vs. the USA
• The Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development recently found:
– The US is 10th in the world in high school
graduation
– The US is 13th in the world for entry rate into a 4
year degree institution
– The US is 10th in the world for entry into a
community college
Major Challenges
• Increase the number of students in
higher education.
• Improve the education of such students.
• Graduate more students.
• Graduate the students faster, and
• Provide the graduates with a global
vision
Graph of student performance
Butte & Glenn Counties Student Data
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3500
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2500
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1500
1000
500
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03-04
02-03
01-02
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9th Graders
3390
3418
3496
3392
3205
12th Graders
3151
3135
3021
2916
2910
Graduates
2585
2683
2581
2392
2431
UC / CSU Qualified
756
803
820
763
745
9th Graders
12th Graders
Graduates
UC / CSU Qualified
Trustee’s Perspective
• Improve Student Learning & Success.
• Infuse Global education into every program.
• Take advantage of Global opportunities –
exchange of students / faculty, etc.
• Understand the Global challenge to our
college and community.
• Continuous education for Trustees to
understand the future.
The Lessons
• The following lessons from the corporate
world involved in global competition are
also appropriate for colleges and
universities as we also compete globally.
• The University of Phoenix and DeVry
Institute may soon be joined by The British
Open University and other foreign
universities delivering courses in the
United States.
Lesson #1
• “When the world goes flat -- and
you are feeling flattened – reach
for a shovel and dig inside
yourself.
Don’t try to build walls.”
Lesson #2
• “The small shall act big…One way
small institutions can flourish in the
flat world is by learning to act really
big. And the key to being small and
acting big is being quick to take
advantage of all the new tools for
collaboration to reach farther, faster,
wider, and deeper.”
Lesson #3
• “The big shall act small…One
way that big institutions can
learn to flourish in the flat world
is by learning how to act really
small by enabling their
customers to act really big.”
Lesson #4
• The best organizations are the best
collaborators. In the flat world, more
business will be done through
collaborations within and between
companies, for a very simple reason: The
next layers of value creation – whether in
technology, marketing, biomedicine, or
manufacturing – are becoming so complex
that no single firm or department is going to
be able to master them alone.”
Lesson # 5
• “In a flat world, the best
companies stay healthy by
getting regular chest x-rays and
then selling the results to their
clients.”
Lesson # 6
• “The best companies outsource to
win, not to shrink. They outsource to
innovate faster and more cheaply in
order to grow larger, gain market
share, and hire more and different
specialists – not to save money by
firing more people.”
Lesson # 7
• “Outsourcing isn’t just for
Benedict Arnolds.
It’s also for idealists.”
Wanted: Knowledge Workers
• America will be able to compete as it
starts to churn out knowledge workers
who are able to produce idea based
goods sold globally and able to fill the
knowledge jobs that will expand as our
economy goes more global.
• Can our colleges and universities
produce the needed knowledge
workers?
Summary of Challenges
Educational Issues:
More Students into Higher Education
More Graduates Out of Higher Education
In Less Time
In Math & Sciences
and with a Global Vision
Closing Thought.
• Once our country loses its ability to offer
those at the bottom of the economic
ladder the ability to climb up and achieve a
higher standard of living, our progress will
cease and our nation will begin to diminish
as a world power!
• Contact:
Bill McGinnis
mcginnisbi@butte.edu
How Will Community Colleges
Respond to the “Flat World”?
Mary Spangler
Oakland
Community
College
National Perspective
• AACC Strategic Action Area #5
–Global Education
• Define globally literate student
• Develop support from key
constituencies for global
perspective
From a Chancellor’s Perspective
• Successful Programs in Globalization of Curriculum
– Strategic Plan Goal 5: Promote a Global
Perspective
To ensure students understand global dynamics by
providing relevant educational experiences that
address the relationships of people, cultures, and
nations in an interconnected world.
– Strategic Objectives
• Expansion
• Infusion
• New approaches
OCC Global Programs
• The Salzburg Seminar Experience
• The Oaxaca Exchange
• Task Force Proposals
OCC Workforce and
Economic Development
• Oakland County Emerging Sectors Initiative
– Concept
– Objectives
– Outcomes
• OCC’s Emerging Sectors Educational
Consortium
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Concept
Objectives
Components
Outcomes to date
Paul SeidelWELCOME!
Delta College
AACC Convention
April 24, 2006
Overview
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Delivery Model
Corporate Services Background
Financial Model
Capabilities
“The World is Flat” = Global Reach
Delta College Delivery Model
Credit
Academic
Services
Open
Enrollment
Academic
Services
Lifelong
Learnin
g
Workforce
Development
Center
Non-Credit
Closed
Enrollment
Corporate
Services
Corporate Services
Background
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Founded in 1984
Self-supporting division of the college
A global, multi-million dollar business
Clients include Fortune 500 companies
Rated “Top 20 Training Outsourcing
Company” in 2005
Financial Model Supports
“The World is Flat”
No Tax Support
• Services can be provided outside the
community
• We support our clients globally
No General Fund Approvals Needed
• Quick response time to business demands
• Complete autonomy in the development of
programs to meet unique learning solutions
Integrated Capabilities
Organizational
Effectiveness
Training
Administration
Technology
Training Delivery
Training
Design
and
Development
Technology = “The World is Flat”
Real World
Simulations
Satellite/Telecast
Web-based
Training
Wireless
Connection
Cell
Phone
Internet
Web
Meetings
Blackberry
Web-cast
Training
On-line
Manuals
Computer-based
Training
E-mail
Clients
Established
Relationship
w/European
Training
House
North America (3)
Established
Israel
Training
Network
for GM
Europe (16)
Middle East (8)
Established
Beijing
Training
Center for
GM
Caribbean (10)
Asia (7)
Central America (4)
South America (6)
Established
& Operated
Puerto Rico
Training
Center for
GM
Africa (11)
65 - Countries
47 - States Served
- Dow Chemical
- GM + Others
- Saturn Training Centers
Delta College
Global Reach
Established
Dubai
Training
Center for
GM
“The World is Flat” = Results
Ranked Top 20 Training Outsourcing Company for 2005
“We are delighted to include Delta College to this year’s list
of prestigious companies. We are amazed at what your
organization has been able to accomplish in a very
competitive marketplace.
Doug Harward Founder
TrainingOutsourcing.com
Delta College is the only community college recognized and
one of only two educational institutions selected to the
list…Delta College has demonstrated that small, and even not
for profit, organizations can make a huge impact on an
international market.”
WELCOME!
Thank You!