College of the Canyons
Leadership Education in
Action Program
Focus:
A Leadership
Imperative
College of the Canyons
Leadership Education in
Action Program
Focus:
A Leadership
Imperative
“Our life is frittered
away by detail.”
Henry D. Thoreau
Walden
800,000
400 – 20,000
2,261
What is a
“System Chancellor”
anyway?
Allocation of Chancellor’s Office Time
Policies
Accreditation
Governance
Personnel
Advocacy
Media
Finance
Oversight
Education
Access
Allocation of Chancellor’s Office Time
Policies
Accreditation
Governance
Personnel
Advocacy
Media
Finance
Oversight
Student Success
Access
Allocation of Chancellor’s Office Time
Policies
Restore
Access
Accreditation
Governance
Personnel
Advocacy
Media
Finance
Improve
Student
Success
Oversight
Student Success
Access
Focus!
Focus
Focus!
Focus
Focus
Focus!
“Focusing is about saying no.
You’ve got to say no, no, no.
The result of that focus is going
to be some really great products
PReid@email.laccd.edu
where the total is much greater
than the sum of the parts.”
“Focusing is about saying no.
You’ve got to say no, no, no.
The result of that focus is going
to be some really great products
PReid@email.laccd.edu
where the total is much greater
than the sum of the parts.”
Steve Jobs
Access &
Success
Access & Success
Getting bigger and
better at the same time!
Why is it
important?
Now 14th!
Percent of Population That
Has Attained Higher Education
Restoring US
leadership will take
increases in both
Access & Success.
Why do California
community colleges
make a difference?
American Public Higher Education
American Public Higher Education
• 1 in 5 students in US
community colleges.
American Public Higher Education
• 1 in 5 students in US
community colleges.
• 1 in 10 students in US
higher education.
Access
California Community Colleges Enrollment by Academic Year
3,500,000
3,000,000
08-09
2.9 M
02-03
12-13
2.3 M
2,500,000
2,000,000
1,500,000
1,000,000
500,000
0
Projected
2012-13*
Enrollment 2,792,452 2,512,463 2,481,273 2,515,368 2,596,413 2,739,822 2,894,133 2,758,688 2,610,122 2,423,956 2,281,951
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
2010-11
2011-12
More than 600,000
students turned
away?
Classes Offered – Down 4%
440,000
08-09
430,000
420,000
410,000
400,000
390,000
00-01
380,000
370,000
10-11
360,000
350,000
340,000
330,000
00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11
Sections Offered 380,416 398,741 397,098 364,440 379,813 397,112 407,509 421,045 425,625 388,007 365,703
Enrollments – Up 13%
13,000,000
08-09
12,500,000
12,000,000
10-11
11,500,000
11,000,000
10,500,000
10,000,000
00-01
9,500,000
9,000,000
8,500,000
8,000,000
00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11
Enrollments 10,037 10,904 11,349 10,658 10,616 10,743 10,969 11,619 12,450 12,057 11,302
Average Class Size – Up 17%!
32.0
10-11
31
31.0
30.0
29.0
28.0
27.0
00-01
26
26.0
25.0
24.0
00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11
Section Size 26.4 27.4 28.6 29.2 28.0 27.1 26.9 27.6 29.3 31.1 30.9
Success
Six-Year Student Success Rates
College Level
90.0%
80.0%
70.2%
70.0%
70.1%
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
70.0%
60.0%
50.0%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
Six-Year Student Success Rates
Overall
College Level
90.0%
80.0%
70.2%
70.1%
70.0%
70.0%
60.0%
50.3%
50.3%
50.0%
49.6%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
Six-Year Student Success Rates
Overall
College Level
Below College Level
90.0%
80.0%
70.2%
70.1%
70.0%
70.0%
60.0%
50.3%
50.3%
49.6%
50.0%
42.9%
42.7%
41.8%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
Share of Students at College Level
Below College Level
College Level
23%
77%
Six-Year Student Success Rates
Overall
College Level
Below College Level
90.0%
80.0%
70.2%
70.1%
70.0%
70.0%
COC
49%!
60.0%
50.3%
50.3%
49.6%
50.0%
42.9%
42.7%
41.8%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
Six-Year Student Success Rates
Overall
College Level
Below College Level
90.0%
80.0%
70.2%
70.1%
70.0%
70.0%
COC
56%!
60.0%
50.3%
50.3%
COC
49%!
49.6%
50.0%
42.9%
42.7%
41.8%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
Six-Year Student Success Rates
Overall
College Level
Below College Level
90.0%
COC
79%!
80.0%
70.2%
70.1%
70.0%
70.0%
COC
56%!
60.0%
50.3%
50.3%
COC
49%!
49.6%
50.0%
42.9%
42.7%
41.8%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
Is there a plan?
Prop 30 = Access
and Success!
Adding back classes
and
Board of Governors
Student Success
Task Force
Adding back
the right classes!
Adding back
the right classes!
2012-2013 = + 20,000
2013-2014 = + 40,000
Adding back
the right classes!
2012-2013 = + 20,000
2013-2014 = + 40,000
Success
BOG Student Success Task Force
- K-12 core
- Common assessment
- Orientation & Ed plan
- Declare a program
- Enrollment priorities
BOG Student Success Task Force
- BOG fee waivers
- Full-time attendance
- Basic skills
- State & local goals
- Scorecard
Student Success and Access
Success
Access
Student Success and Access
Success
Access
Simple: Conquering
the Crisis of
Complexity
Siegel & Etzkorn
Empathizing
Perceiving others’
expectations.
Distilling
Reducing to its essence
the substance of the
issue.
Clarifying
Making the issue easier
to understand.
Access &
Success
“Seven months does not
an expert make.”
Brice W. Harris
My personal
leadership lessons
•I will not have the luxury of
focusing on only the system
agenda.
My personal
leadership lessons
•I will not have the luxury of
focusing on only the system
agenda…and yet I will try.
My personal
leadership lessons
• Balancing the demands of
being in the field and doing the
work needed in Sacramento
will be impossible.
My personal
leadership lessons
• Balancing the demands of
being in the field and doing the
work needed in Sacramento
will be impossible…so I will
simply do the best I can.
My personal
leadership lessons
• My dual roles of oversight and
leadership will conflict and
people will not always like my
decisions.
My personal
leadership lessons
• My dual roles of oversight and
leadership will conflict and
people will not always like my
decisions…so I will lead with
integrity and shoulder the
words of critics.
My personal
leadership lessons
• I simply will not have the
stamina to do everything that
needs to be done.
My personal
leadership lessons
• I simply will not have the
stamina to do everything that
needs to be done…so I will
focus my energy on the agenda
an not worry about the rest.
My personal
leadership lessons
• This could well end up being
the greatest opportunity of my
professional life.
My personal
leadership lessons
• This could well end up being
the greatest opportunity of my
professional life…so I plan to
enjoy every moment!
Focus!
Focus!
Focus!
“Our life is frittered
away by detail.”
Henry D. Thoreau
Walden
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