A Presentation to the Campus OCC College Day Friday, September 10, 2004

1. A Presentation to the Campus OCC College Day Friday, September 10, 2004

2. Remember the PowerPoint presentations of previous years? What’s their author doing now?

4. It happened last spring…. • Events and actors converged • Conferences and workshops convened • The Toronto Group conceived

5. The Guiding Principles Two central questions guide the learning campus: • What am I doing to improve and enhance student learning? • How do I know?

6. Academic Senate Goals for 2004-05 • Articulate our mission as a learning campus • Begin to identify opportunities for curriculum enhancement—at all levels • Identify faculty interest in and responsibility for objectives and strategies in Academic Master Plan • Integrate learning-centered framework into design and programming of buildings in Facilities Master Plan • Investigate methods for answering our second guiding question: “How do I know?”

7. What is a Learning College? • A college which places learning first and provides educational experiences for learners anywhere, anyplace, anytime • It denotes an explicit emphasis in the way we talk about ourselves as faculty and staff in terms of learning • The learning in which we engage students • The learning in which we engage ourselves, from the moment we step on campus or click on the college web site

8. Where Does the Idea of a Learning College Come From? • The League for Innovation (www.league.org) • 95% of the nation’s twelve hundred community colleges are committed to a learning-centered approach • Accrediting agencies nation-wide expect a learning focus

9. How Do You Recognize a Learning College? • Every institutional document framed in terms of student learning • College’s web site • Mission statement • Academic Master Plan • Division/Department/Curricular Goals • Ongoing college dialogues about learning • What students learn in general • What students learn in particular

10. How is the Learning College Different from Past Practice? • Shifts focus from teaching to learning • Articulates and documents the core values of each college • Encourages a thoughtful systematic and institution-wide approach to assessing student learning • Provides opportunities for discussion about core skills and values within and across disciplines

11. Are there any models for a Learning College? • Twelve model Learning Colleges sponsored by the League for Innovation

12. Are there any models for a Learning College? • Twelve model Learning Colleges sponsored by the League for Innovation

13. Are there any models for a Learning College? • Twelve model Learning Colleges sponsored by the League for Innovation

14. Learning Colleges Focus On: • Organizational Culture • Staff Recruitment and Development • Technology • Learning Outcomes • Under-prepared Students

15. Learning College Testimonials “Many community colleges… have a long history of commitment to learning, but this commitment is not always explicit in policies, programs, practices, and in the way college personnel participate in the educational enterprise.” “The Learning College concept is viewed by many …as an ideal umbrella under which to collect, unify and focus college initiatives.” Source: The League for Innovation www.league.org

16. A Learning-Centered Campus: If you are a professor ….. What do you profess? If you are a member of the support staff ….. What do you support? If you are an administrator ….. To what purpose do you administrate?

17. Why is it Relevant to OCC? • Student Success and Learning • Accreditation • Academic Master Plan • Learning Centered Approach to Campus Change

18. Student Success and Learning • Approximately 79% of all OCC students are in good standing • This has declined from 82.4% ten years ago • Our student population is changing • Younger, more diverse, increasingly full-time • Title III Grant Source: OCC Atlas 2003-2004

19. Accreditation “The primary purpose of an ACCJC-accredited institution is to foster learning in its students. An effective institution ensures that its resources and processes support student learning, continuously assesses that learning, and pursues institutional excellence and improvement.”

20. Accreditation Standard I: Mission and Effectiveness The institution demonstrates strong commitment to a mission that emphasizes achievement of student learning and to communicating the mission internally and externally. Standard IV: Leadership and Governance Governance roles are designed to facilitate decisions that support student learning. General Education Philosophy “The institutional requires of all academic and vocational degree programs a component of general education based on a carefully considered philosophy that is clearly stated in its catalog.”

21. Learning-Centered Academic Master Plan Recommendations • Establish discipline based learning communities • Develop a science center for high-achieving students • Target under-served student populations • Implement measurable student learning outcomes • Establish a comprehensive cross-disciplinary basic skills program • Initiate a program for department faculty to mentor students • Create peer mentoring programs for students • Expand foreign language acquisition opportunities • Develop an oral history program • Introduce software-based student portfolio use across the curriculum • Increase student support in career areas of the campus and curriculum

22. A Learning-Centered Approach to Campus Change • Staffing needs due to retirements • On-going, significant changes in technology • Planning and constructing a new campus learning environment

23. What’s Next? • Evaluate the college’s mission statement • What can we do?

24. OCC’s Mission Statement Orange Coast College enhances student success by providing exemplary programs leading to associate degrees. Transfer to other institutions of higher education, occupational certificates and continuous workforce improvement, as well as quality instruction in basic skills and English as a Second Language. Additionally, Orange Coast College is a partner in contributing to the economic vitality of the community and serving the community’s diverse needs for lifelong learning. Administrators, faculty, and staff are committed to the development of students as individuals and as citizens of the world. We value close teaching and learning relationships, support services, and strong co-curricular programs that contribute to meaningful personal growth in our students and to the quest for knowledge

25. OCC’s Mission Statement learning Orange Coast College enhances student success by providing exemplary programs leading to associate degrees. Transfer to other institutions of higher education, occupational certificates and continuous workforce improvement, as well as quality instruction in basic skills and English as a Second Language. Additionally, Orange Coast College is a partner in contributing to the economic vitality of the community and serving the community’s diverse needs for lifelong learning. Administrators, faculty, and staff are committed to the development of students as individuals and as citizens of the world. We value close teaching and learning relationships, support services, and strong co-curricular programs that contribute to meaningful personal growth in our students and to the quest for knowledge and staff

26. What Can We Do? Dialogue on a variety of topics • What makes OCC unique? • How do students learn? Collectively read and discuss books that enhance our knowledge about student learning and teaching Discuss beliefs and values created by OCC’s Student Success Committee

27. What Can We Do? Develop programs and materials enhancing student success and linking it to student learning Practice listening Support faculty in creating/revising student learning objectives for their courses

28. What Can We Do? Investigate moving to an outcomes framework • Changing how curriculum and learning experiences are organized Take an active role in designing the new physical learning environment

29. Suggested Books • Brain Based Learning by Eric Jensen • Mind Sculpture by Ian Robertson • The Art of Changing the Brain by James E. Zull • The Next Big Thing is Really Small by Jack Uldrich

30. Books - Continued • Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen • Human Moments by Edward Hallowell • The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida

31. Books - Continued • Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer • The Learning College for the 21st Century by Terry O’Banion • Democracy, Multiculturalism, & the Community College: A Critical Perspective by Robert Rhoads

32. For Department/Division Meeting Discussion Thoughts on the Learning Campus • How learning-centered is Orange Coast College? • How can it become more so? • How will we know? Learning Campus Survey

33. Online Resources Presentation and additional resources available on Staff Development web page in the “Read On” section (www.occ.cccd.edu/staffdevelopment) The League for Innovation’s “Learning College Project” (www.league.org)