Attendance
23 faculty, staff, and administrators.
Topic
Theme #1 – Develop Flexible, Responsive Educational Models.
Who will our students be in 2035?
How can we ensure we are creating just, equitable futures for our students?
- Engage faculty and staff now to prepare
- Continue to hire diverse faculty and staff
- Not tiptoeing around critical current issues
- Dismantle systems that have historically and disproportionately impacted students
- Hold ourselves accountable by measuring progress towards equitable goals
- Don’t keep information about decision-making at the top. Bring folks in from the beginning.
- And be flexible with decision making. Just because we start something doesn’t mean we have to finish it.
- Make decisions and set priorities from the ground up and push back hierarchical initiatives and ideas imposed by outside professional developers and consultants
- Center the student voice
- Create an equitable future for Associate Faculty
- Build it with our students and not for them
- Changing the future means accepting the need to change established processes
- Keep relevant data available and on agendas
- Responsible access and engagement to a changing world by building human community that created a support network of students, staff, and faculty in person, not just in the cyber world
What Careers and Jobs will Help our Communities Thrive?
Discussion: Key Attendee Recommendations
- Change “Faculty and Staff-Generated Recommendations” to “Faculty and Staff Observations” as some all-staff day attendees felt the conversations were too casual to be considered formal recommendations for the plan
- MCC offers programs that are societally valuable and necessary, but perhaps not especially lucrative (such as child development, construction, etc.). Attendees had two recommendations: 1) Consider making those programs free to students, and 2) consider pairing entrepreneurship and business skills development with these programs to support students who wish to own their own business in such fields
- Consider the role of the college in preparing students for careers in an era of AI. If AI meets the skill/knowledge/training need, does college train the human need?
