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March 18, 2005 Forum Notes
Professional Development Day
How do we see CCRI in 5 – 10 years?
- Collegial learning environment
- open community/dialogue
- recognize and embrace /respect different roles of College
- Flexibility to adapt to different learning
- Courage
- Responsible
- Pursue excellence
- Change the "reject" image
- Price versus value
- Think, act and be a College
- Pride in College
- Can Do attitude
- Improve physical learning environment
- Productive learning environment
- Have an institutional attitude (do what’s best for the institution not your own turf)
Core Values
- Personal connection
- Personal connection has to become institutional
- Must care
- Give and take philosophy
- Value active learning
- Community aspect – presence in class is important
- Accessible
- Enthusiasm
- Transformative experience
- Do we work with students, customer or product?
- Individuals
- Small classes
- Students take responsibility for learning
- Serve everyone
- Lost students who don’t know why they want to be here
- Allow for exploration
- relying on informal advising – need a formal system
- Need a personal connection
- Student must see an advisor before dropping classes
Vision for CCRI
- Place for second chances
- Transforming their lives
- Educating a person not a worker or student
- Have to deal with under prepared students
- Student-centered
- Personal transformation
- No other choice – only community college
- Treat students as human beings
- Obligation to help students succeed
- Ask students what is their goal
- Assess success with different methods
- Have community value
- Don’t use word feasible – make it happen
- Enhance life skills
- Create a better assessment process
- Learn how to learn
- Role model to students
- Stronger partnering with community and educational agencies
- CCRI a problem solver
