Episodes
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh Addresses Community College Leaders
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
This episode of In the Know features United States Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh’s address to community college leaders at the 2022 National Legislative Summit, with an introduction by Pam Eddinger, president of Bunker Hill Community College in Massachusetts. This episode also features an extensive Q&A the secretary did with community college leaders. There is a lot of great information here, so even if you were at the NLS, I think this is worth listening to again.
Please feel free to reach out to me directly at jbray@acct.org if you have ideas for future episodes. What do you want to learn about? We’re always open to suggestions!
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Get to Know Jee Hang Lee, ACCT’s New President and CEO
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Welcome to Season 4 of In the Know with ACCT. In this Episode, David Conner and Jacob Bray talk to Jee Hang Lee about how he fell in love with community colleges and his plans for ACCT as the association's new President and CEO.
Jee Hang's next town hall meeting is on January 14th. Click here for more information on how to participate.
Additionally, click here to register for the 2022 National Legislative Summit.
Thanks for listening, we'll see you next week.
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Trusteeship Fundamentals: The Board’s Governing Functions
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
This is the first in a series of episodes dedicated to the fundamentals of community college governance. In this series, Jaci King, co-editor of the recently released Trusteeship in Community Colleges: A Guide for Effective Governance, Second Edition, interviews chapter authors about how to govern.
In this episode, King interviews former longtime Washtenaw Community College Trustee and former ACCT Board of Directors Member David Rutledge about the board and its governing functions. Among the topics discussed:
· Fiduciary responsibilities: What are they, what do they mean, and how are they carried out on a community college board?
· What elements of the board role do trustees find most challenging? Are there common pitfalls that trustees can avoid? How can a president or board chair best help board members manage these roles and what should they do if a board member is off-track and creating challenges for the board or the CEO?
· What qualities make a trustee effective? How these characteristics play out when a board is dealing with an issue or challenge?
· The size and complexity of community college boards—and the fact that most operate under some type of open meetings requirement—is likely quite different from what trustees may have experienced in the private sector. What advice do you have for new trustees as they become familiar with the way their board functions?
To purchase Trusteeship in Community Colleges: A Guide for Effective Governance, Second Edition, visit the ACCT Bookstore at https://www.acct.org/publications.
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
David Mathis: Evolution of Community College Trusteeship PART 1
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Season 4, Episode 1: ACCT Chair David Mathis has been a member of the Mohawk Valley Community College board of trustees since 1977. In this episode, Mathis reflects on how community college and how public higher education governance have evolved over the past four decades, including challenges, opportunities, and changes that have taken place. As he takes the helm of the association during one of the most tumultuous years of American history, and when ACCT is undergoing its own major changes, Mathis discusses his many goals, including pandemic recovery; making meaningful progress in diversity, equity and inclusion at community colleges; finding the best person to lead ACCT into the future, and more.
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Reaching Generation Z Students: Part 1
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
This episode of In The Know is about how to best reach Generation Z students.
ACCT's David Conner and Jacob Bray spoke with Ted Tedmon and Casey Wilhelm, professors at North Idaho College who have researched how Gen Z students learn, what special considerations colleges should be making to adapt to their needs, and what questions community college trustees should ask to make sure their colleges are making the investments needed to make their youngest students as successful as they can be.
This is the first part of a two-part conversation. Part two will be published on April 7.