*This agenda is subject to change.
Vice Presidents Track (Invitation Only)
Sunday, March 17, 2024
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8:00 - 8:10 AM
Opening Comments
(Joint Session With Presidents Track)
Rufus Glasper, President and CEO, League for Innovation in the Community College
8:10 - 9:10 AM
Reckoning With Relevance: EAB’s 2024 State of the Sector
(Joint Session With Presidents Track)
Today’s community colleges face a triple threat of disruption: declining public confidence in the value of higher education, rapid advances in AI and automation poised to disrupt work and learning, and dwindling student and worker populations that strain our systems. But what if disruption felt more like opportunity than catastrophe? In this session, we will separate news from trends about the ROI of a college education and how your institution can deliver on that value when students are less academically prepared and staffing is tight. You’ll leave this session with insight about the current state of higher education and the best strategies for cross-functional collaboration designed to regain public confidence in your institution.
Tara Zirkel, Director, Strategic Research, EAB
9:10 - 9:20 AM
Community. Technology. Simulation.
(Joint Session With Presidents Track)
Infectious diseases pose an ongoing threat, disrupting the education sector and society at large as they continue to emerge and evolve. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Operation Outbreak (OO) partnered with Colorado Mesa University (CMU) and CMU Tech––a mid-sized public university and its community college subsidiary––to maintain in-person education while minimizing disease transmission, drawing on the power of community, technology, and simulation. This collaboration saw CMU students, staff, faculty, and administrators uniting to outsmart the virus. The presentation will also describe the OO, a pioneering experiential education initiative in outbreak science, featuring an outbreak simulation of a fictional pathogen that spreads across participating phones via Bluetooth and a multi-disciplinary curriculum. The talk will conclude with the importance of incorporating outbreak science education––namely, these outbreak drills––into curricula to enhance STEM learning and help mitigate the impacts of future campus outbreaks of all kinds.
Kian Sani, Advisor to the Group Leader, Special Projects, Sabeti Group; Program Manager and Co-Head, Operation Outbreak, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
9:20 - 9:35 AM
Break
9:35 - 10:45 AM
Highlighting Community Partnerships
(Joint Session With Presidents Track)
This session focuses on codesigning partnerships that accelerate the growth of Google's Data Center workforce. We recognize the vital role community colleges play in nurturing future generations of tech talent, and we hope to establish collaborative pathways that provide diverse students with the necessary skills and opportunities to thrive in this dynamic field. Through open dialogue and a shared commitment to inclusivity, we believe we can cultivate a data center landscape that reflects the richness and potential of our broader society. We look forward to engaging with leaders to outline the framework for the technical skills needed to participate in the data center workforce.
Stacey Hodoh, Global Director, Cloud Supply Chain Operations and Community Engagement; Nathaniel Tindall, Head, Simulation, Modeling, Automation, Robotics, and Technology; Maria Reyes, Manager, Global Workforce Innovation and Development, Google Cloud
10:45 - 11:00 AM
Move to Garden 4
11:00 - 11:15 AM
Introductions
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Roundtables: Issues and Challenges
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lunch (Provided)
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Increasing Behavioral Health Access: Implementing Stepped Care Models to Decrease Barriers, Use Resources Effectively, and Increase Persistence
With many students dealing with emotional stress, some campuses are offering a plethora of mental health support resources across multiple modalities. However, more often than not, these resources are departmentally siloed and are not integrated into student success workflows on campus. This presentation will analyze the benefits of implementing an integrated stepped-care model to better support student mental health and well-being while decreasing barriers and maximizing limited counseling resources through several campus case studies. Specific emphasis will be placed upon success, lessons learned, and replicable insights in bridging the gap between student affairs and student success programming in light of EAB and Mantra Health’s recently announced partnership.
Nathaan Demers, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Mantra Health
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Resilience and Work-Life Integration
The challenges of leading our complex organizations require grit, resilience, and self-care. This session discusses how to build personal and organizational resilience and suggests strategies for work-life integration.
Mary Spilde, Director, Executive Leadership Institute, League for Innovation in the Community College; President Emerita, Lane Community College
The Sunday General Session begins at 3:30 PM.
