RECORDED Community Conversation: Strategies to Uphold Institutional Missions in a Polarized Environment

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Description:

Legislatures, courtrooms, and media scrutinize institutional autonomy and academic freedom nationwide. Leaders need concrete tactics and strategies to navigate legislation and politics interfering with their institutional missions. This session provides concrete tactics tailored to ensure overreach does not occur and to reduce the chilling effect on institutional culture while aligning internal and external stakeholders toward the college’s mission. Participants will leave with an action plan for their institutions to navigate their context.

Featuring:

  • Mike Gavin - President, Delta College
  • John Hollemon - Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, NACAC

Speaker Bio

Known nationally for his administrative leadership that focuses on academic excellence and equity, Mike Gavin has over 20 years of experience at large community colleges. Under his leadership, Delta College has increased enrollment, retention, and completion rates and numbers each of the three years he has been president. Delta has also eradicated racial and ethnic enrollment equity gaps; completion rates have increased for all students by 10 percent and for African American and Hispanic populations by 19 percent and 20 percent, respectively. Delta College was the winner of the Campus Compact’s Eduardo J. Padrón Award for Institutional Transformation under his leadership. Gavin earned his doctorate in American Studies at University of Maryland and most recently completed the Aspen Rising Presidents Fellowship that develops the next generation of community college presidents.

Whether serving on national or local boards, working on a committee, or through his scholarship, Gavin is committed to the notion that community colleges have the capacity to reshape the inequities in society through open access education and teaching excellence.

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