Episodes
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Strengthening Rural Community Colleges: Part 2 (Audience Questions)
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
This is the question-and-answer component of a two-part episode on strengthening rural community colleges.
In this episode, Jee Hang Lee, ACCT’s Senior Vice President, and Casey Sacks, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the Department of Education, talk about ACCT’s Strengthening Rural Community Colleges Initiative, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project will focus on California, Iowa, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Texas, but will take into account information from rural community colleges nationwide. This episode was recorded at our annual Congress in San Francisco.
For more information, please visit rural.acct.org.
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Strengthening Rural Community Colleges: Part 1
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
On this episode, Jee Hang Lee, ACCT’s Senior Vice President, and Casey Sacks, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the Department of Education, talk about ACCT’s Strengthening Rural Community Colleges Initiative, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project will focus on California, Iowa, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Texas, but also will take into account information from rural community colleges nationwide. This episode was recorded at our annual Congress in San Francisco. This is a two part episode with part two being the question and answer section.
For more information, please visit rural.acct.org.
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Students' Perception of Higher Education with Dave Clayton
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
In this episode of In The Know, ACCT’s Senior Policy Analyst Allison Beer talks with Dave Clayton, Strada Education Network’s Senior Vice President for Consumer Insights.
Allison and Dave dive into what students actually think about higher education, guided by a recent Strada consumer insights survey.
Visit StradaEducation.org for more information.
This episode was recorded during the 50th Annual ACCT Leadership Congress in San Francisco, California.
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Part 2: Meet Maria, Amarillo College's Most Promising Student
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
The leadership at Amarillo Colleges in Texas wants nothing more than for its students to succeed. And they knew that in order to empower every student to make the most of their potential, they need to understand every student. But how? The college has operated in its community for 90 years, and the makeup of the community and the needs of students have changed dramatically over time.
In this episode, Amarillo Colleges Regent Jay Barrett and President Russell Lowery-Hart profile the college's most significant student, Maria, and explain how getting to know her has transformed the institution.
Maria is a “the typical student at Amarillo College. She’s...female. She’s first-generation; 71 percent of our students are first generation. She goes to school part time; 60 percent of our students go to class 12 (credit) hours a year. She’s working two part-time jobs. She’s the mother of at least 1.2 kids, and she’s 28 years old," according to Lowery-Hart. She is highly intelligent and tenacious—but she won't reach her potential without higher education. Maria is a composite representative of the typical Amarillo College student, and understanding her needs and motivations has proven to be the key to success for the college.
By empowering Maria as a secret shopper, asking her to write the college values, and redesigning systems around her, completion rates at the college improved from 19 percent to 48 percent over three years.
This episode was recorded live during the 50th Annual ACCT Leadership Congress in San Francisco, California.
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Part 1: Meet Maria, Amarillo College's Most Promising Student
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
The leadership at Amarillo Colleges in Texas wants nothing more than for its students to succeed. And they knew that in order to empower every student to make the most of their potential, they need to understand every student. But how? The college has operated in its community for 90 years, and the makeup of the community and the needs of students have changed dramatically over time.
In this episode, Amarillo Colleges Regent Jay Barrett and President Russell Lowery-Hart profile the college's most significant student, Maria, and explain how getting to know her has transformed the institution.
Maria is a “the typical student at Amarillo College. She’s...female. She’s first-generation; 71 percent of our students are first generation. She goes to school part time; 60 percent of our students go to class 12 (credit) hours a year. She’s working two part-time jobs. She’s the mother of at least 1.2 kids, and she’s 28 years old," according to Lowery-Hart. She is highly intelligent and tenacious—but she won't reach her potential without higher education. Maria is a composite representative of the typical Amarillo College student, and understanding her needs and motivations has proven to be the key to success for the college.
By empowering Maria as a secret shopper, asking her to write the college values, and redesigning systems around her, completion rates at the college improved from 19 percent to 48 percent over three years.
This episode was recorded live during the 50th Annual ACCT Leadership Congress in San Francisco, California.