Jack Lewis, PresidentNew River Community College

Co-ChairVCCS Reengineering Task Force

Adapted from presentation by Glenn DuBois

Chancellor

A Student-First FocusThe Case for Change at

Virginia’s Community Colleges

Guiding Principles

• Reinvent ourselves:– Significantly greater outcomes

– Reduce costs

• Focus on what we’re going to do for Virginia

• Resources are already in our budgets (live with what you’ve got)

Our Challenges

1. More students

2. More underprepared students

3. The call for more college graduates

4. Stretch Goals: Achieve 2015

In an environment of:

• Less public funding

• More public accountability

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Credit Headcount

281,243credit

enrollment

More students

Historic Headcount Credit AY 1994 to AY 2010

Last four years:Headcount +41,000FTEs +26,000

More students

The average VCCS graduate needs

four years to complete an associate’s.

More than 30% need five or more years.

More students

Nearly one million Virginians 18 years or older

have some college

experience but have not earned

a credential.

More underprepared students

Over the last five years,

nearly 50% of all recent high school graduates required

developmental education.

More underprepared students

25%The percentage of VCCS

developmental education students who graduate or transfer in four

years.

The call for more college graduates

Five million additional American college graduates

over the next decade.

100,000 additional Virginia college graduates over the

next 15 years.

A Student-First Focus

Rethinking Virginia’s Community

Colleges

Guiding Principles:Driving Re-engineering

• Reinvent ourselves:

– Significantly greater outcomes

– Reduce costs

• Focus on what we’re going to do for Virginia

• Resources are already in our budgets (live with what you’ve got)

• Sustainable & Scalable

A Student-First Focus

• Reengineering Taskforce created in Fall 2009.

• Recommendations accepted by the State Board in November 2010.

• Chancellor held 20+ Town Hall Meetings.

• Reengineering Taskforce II now implementing the ideas over the next months and years.

Dashboard

10 Big Ideas

Workgroups

Available in handouts and at

www.rethink.vccs.edu

A Student-First Focus

DevelopmentalEducation: Our Greatest

Challenge

Redesign:• Instructional modules• Mastery of learning• Placement/diagnostic

testing• Modules mapped to

degrees

A Student-First Focus

Implement Shared Services

Financial aid paperworkDistance learningPurchasing

A Student-First Focus

Articulate Learning Outcomes for Courses to Enhance Student

Success

Peer group ledFocus on courses with high

enrollment/low success ratesMultiple assessment methods

Example: mastery of learning

Stay Engaged…

• Town Hall Meetings

• Rethink Website The Case for Change Ten Big Ideas

(Progress Report Dashboard)

Chancellor’s Blog Email (rethink@vccs.edu)

• National Interest

http://www.rethink.vccs.edu

Together, we are on the verge of greatness!