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Collaboration is the only way!. SHEEO HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY CONFERENCE Collaborating Across Boundaries in Challenging Times August 8, 2012. Sonya Christian Executive Vice President, Chief Academic Officer Lane Community College. Technological Revolution. Student Debt.
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Collaboration is the only way! SHEEO HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY CONFERENCE Collaborating Across Boundaries in Challenging Times August 8, 2012 Sonya Christian Executive Vice President, Chief Academic Officer Lane Community College
Technological Revolution Student Debt Information Explosion Funding Collapse Public Accountability
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Total State and Local Appropriations to Higher Ed per FTE FY 2001 to FY 2010 (Adjusted)
The real key to economic opportunity and advancement depends not on whether the student possesses a credential, but rather on whether students actually leave college with that rich portfolio of learning that employers seek and society urgently needs: broad knowledge, strong intellectual and practical skills, grounded commitments to personal and social responsibility, and demonstrated capacity to deal with complex challenges. Quality Carol Geary Schneider, Where Completion Goes Awry: The Metrics for “Success” Mask Mounting Problems with Quality (http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/le-wi12/president.cfm ).
Collaboration through networks http://www.flickr.com/photos/iconolith/1333376879/lightbox/ CC BY NC SA
Famous Collaboration Open Networks http://bookcoverarchive.com/book/the_girl_with_the_dragon_tattoo http://www.mediadecay.com/2010/03/the-girl-who-played-with-fire-review/ http://cplreviews.blogspot.com/2011/04/girl-who-kicked-hornets-nest.html
Norma Rae (1979) Gandhi (1945) Martin Luther King (1963) Arab Springs 2010-2011 http://www.bafta.org/heritage/gallery-gandhi-25-years-on,13,GAL.html http://elev8.com/473285/martin-luther-king-jr-s-nephew-new-president-of-sclc/ http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/164845/20110617/arab-spring-egypt-tunisia-foreign-aid-foreign-assistance.htm
Many simple actions that are locally driven but widely connected can create solutions that are not even imaginable and on a scale far greater than ones we could carefully design: Simple actions, local needs, but the key is that they are widely connected
Features of Collaborative Open Networks Openness Community Creation Emergent Solution Adaptation
IV. Increasing Educational Attainment… Accountability and Transformational Change in Action Means Ends
Applied Learning Masters Degree Profile for Higher Education Bachelors Intellectual Skills Civic Learning Associates Specialized Knowledge Broad Integrative Knowledge
Fiscal sustainability • Improve the financial sustainability • Sustain high quality learning for our students and staff • Maintain the quality of faculty and staff work life
Low Chaos Agreement Self-Organizing Formal High Low High Certainty
Mission Impossible? http://ultimatereviews.co.uk/?p=638 http://entertainment.time.com/2011/12/16/mission-impossible-4-cruise-control/
Collaboration is the only way!Quality, Progression, and Completion in a Fiscally Sustainable Manner SHEEO HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY CONFERENCE Collaborating Across Boundaries in Challenging Times August 8, 2012 Sonya Christian Executive Vice President, Chief Academic Officer Lane Community College