When leaders don’t lead

1. When leaders don’t lead California community college Chief instructionAL office’s 2011 fall conference OCTOBER 25-26, 2011 Dr. Gregory W. Gray Chancellor Riverside Community College District

2. Education deficit “”The growing education deficit is no less a threat to our nation’s long-term well-being than the current fiscal crisis.” Gaston Caperton President of the College Board

3. RECENT CUTS TO CCC BUDGET • 2009-10 • More than $500 million cut from the community college budget ($190 million general apportionment & $313 million categorical) • Student fees raised from $20 to $26 per unit • 2010-11 • $126 million received for enrollment “growth” • 2011-12 • More than $300 million cut with possibility of mid-year “triggers” • Student fees raised from $26 to $36 per unit with possibility of $46 • No COLA received since 2007-08

4. What’s broken?

6. A NEW REALITY • “Where we were once among the top states in high school graduation rates, access to higher education, and degree completion rates, the state now ranks among the bottom ten in most categories.” • John Aubrey Douglass • Can We Save the College Dream? • The death and life of California’s public universities

7. ANNUAL TUITION/FEES

8. NATIONAL RATES – LOW TO HIGH

9. Financing California’s Community Colleges The discrepancy between CSU, UC and community colleges is not new. However, it is during the last 10 years that the gap has increased substantially. Between 1971 and 2000, per student revenue increased 23% and 24% for UC and CSU, respectively, while community college revenue rose a mere 4%. The report, Financing California’s Community Colleges, concludes that no change in the missions of UC and CSU can account for this disparity; obviously the California legislature simply places a higher priority on funding its 4-year colleges.

11. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? • Not $

12. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? • Not our educational programs

13. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? • Not performance

14. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? • NO LEADERSHIP

15. A LEADER DEFINES REALITY • FOR THE PEOPLE HE OR SHE LEADS

16. Decisions of leaders • Put your contributions “out there” or keep it to yourself to avoid upsetting anyone • To lead is to live dangerously • Risk

17. LUCK ?

18. A person you would follow to a place you would not go yourself

19. JACK WELCH’S 4 e’S • Energy • Energize • Edge • Execute

20. COLLEGE PRESIDENTS • Today’s presidents are not tomorrow’s presidents. • Increasingly diverse campuses have not had increasingly diverse leaders. • The nature of presidential work is changing and many new presidents are unprepared for key aspects. • The traditional presidential pipeline is insufficient – at the top and bottom – to fill expected need.

21. THE BIG FIX “Forget tinkering on the margin. California must completely re-imagine its system of higher education.” John Aubrey Douglass Boom: A Journal of California, Summer 2011

22. How the mighty fallAND WHY SOME COMPANIES NEVER GIVE INJIM COLLINS • “Every institution is vulnerable, no matter how great. No matter how much you’ve achieved, no matter how far you’ve gone, no matter how much power you’ve garnered, you are vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do.”

23. The signature of the truly great versus the merely successful is not the absence of difficulty, but the ability to come back from setbacks, even cataclysmic catastrophes, stronger than before.

24. Great nations can decline and recover. Great companies can fall and recover. Great social institutions can fall and recover. And great individuals can fall and recover. As long as you never get entirely knocked out of the game, there remains always hope.

26. RCCD LEADERSHIP TRAINING ACADEMY

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