Ann Beheler Principal Investigator, National CTC Helen Sullivan Director, National CTC

1. Convergence College Network Update CTC NVC Meeting April 17-18, 2013 Ann Beheler Principal Investigator, National CTC Helen Sullivan Director, National CTC

2. Mentored College Program • Began fall of 2006 • Dissemination for CTC “on steriods” • Business engagement process • Skills identification and mapping • Faculty training • Student recruitment • CTC mentored one-to-one • Ann Beheler • Helen Sullivan • Recognized limitation and began working with Synergy initiative (NSF-funded) on scaling project about the same time

3. Network Evolution • Mentoring augmented with one-to-many • Regular mentored college conference calls • Yearly face-to-face meetings prior to Working Connections • Added advisory board • More “mature” mentored colleges • Assumed some of leadership • More than a name change from a Mentored College program to Convergence College Network • Reflects Community of Practice

4. Network Evolution • CCN Advisory Board • Karl Dietrich – Lansing Community College • Ernie Friend – Florida State College of Jacksonville • Elizabeth Halweg – Fox Valley Technical College • Bill Saichek – Orange Coast College • Board was active • Began working as quasi-partners • Evaluated our CCN program • Established 3 levels of engagement • Levels equate level of involvement to level of benefit

5. Convergence Network Levels

7. What the National CTC provides • Job Skills List that has been regionally validated • Process and help for validating skills in mentored college region • Degree and Certificate Patterns • Curriculum in a box for new courses • Detailed syllabi with learning outcomes • Learning/Lab Activities • Assessments • Case Studies

8. What the National CTC provides • Mentoring by grant staff or partner college staff • Training for faculty through summer/winter Working Connections • Recruitment plans and event details • Possibility of participating in use of virtual labs

9. Convergence College Network (CCN) College Commitment: • Supply equipment and support for a lab (varies by depth and breadth of programs needed in your region) • Provide lead faculty member plus other faculty member committed to receiving training and implementing the program • Faculty and administrative time to work with CCN college representatives • Assemble active and involved Business & Industry Leadership Team (built with CTC help)

10. Convergence College Network (CCN) College Commitment: • Validate job skills with Business & Industry Leadership Team • Develop and implement a degree and/or certificate plan based on validated skills • Develop and implement a student recruitment plan • Submit brief, quarterly reporting to CTC

11. 29 Colleges in Convergence College Network (in 14 states) • Anne Arundel Community College MARYLAND • Brevard Community College FLORIDA • Calhoun Community College ALABAMA • City College of San Francisco CALIFORNIA • Clark State Community College OHIO • Cleveland Community College NORTH CAROLINA • Daytona State College FLORIDA • Diablo Valley College CALIFORNIA • Florida State College at Jacksonville FLORIDA • Fox Valley Technical College WISCONSIN • Guilford Technical Comm. College NC • John A. Logan College ILLINOIS • Lansing Community College MICHIGAN • Louisiana Delta Community College LOUISIANA • Metropolitan Community College NEBRASKA • Northwest Vista College TEXAS • Ohlone College CALIFORNIA • Orange Coast College CALIFORNIA • Ozarks Technical Community College MISSOURI • Polk State College FLORIDA • Porterville College CALIFORNIA • San Jacinto College TEXAS • Santa Ana College CALIFORNIA • Seminole State College OKLAHOMA • Tarrant County College TEXAS • Tallahassee Community College FLORIDA • Waukesha County Technical College WISCONSIN • Wiregrass Georgia Technical College GEORGIA • Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College WI Note: List does not include original partners Collin and El Centro or universities North Texas or Georgia Southern.

13. CCN Enrollment and Graduates Student Enrollments Graduates

14. Degrees and Certificates offered at Partner and CCN Colleges:

15. Over 30 degrees and 80 certificates in our CCN: Some examples. Full list in your handout.

16. In their own words: • Did CCN connections lead you to other connections? • “I think this would be similar to listing all of your connections on LinkedIn. Meeting one person is like meeting 5 or 6 as everybody knows everybody. That is one of the good things of belonging to the CCN. Meeting new people with new ideas is the foundation of the network.” • What benefits have you received? • “We have enhanced our process for working with local businesses and have used the job skills validation process as well as other types of discussions to bring business requirements into our curriculum development.” • “Our department has faced the challenge of maintaining an advisory committee, and traditional methods have yielded indifferent results. Ideas I gathered from Working Connections, such as asynchronous meetings and multiple meeting times, while obvious once in print, had not occurred to us. Hearing of other schools’ successes encouraged my department to re-evaluate, and last fall’s meeting had better attendance than ever before.” • Name one way you’ve improved a practice. • “Quicker turnaround on getting new courses proposed, approved, launched and on the schedule.” "This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0903239 and 1205077. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation."