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FINDING YOUR WHY PERSONALIZING THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE MISSION 2019 CONFERENCE PROGRAM Oregon Community College Association Annual Conference November 6-8, 2019 | Salishan Resort
FINDING YOUR WHY PERSONALIZING THE COMMUNITY
COLLEGE MISSION
2019 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Oregon Community College Association
Annual Conference
November 6-8, 2019 | Salishan Resort
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OCCA extends a special thank you to the 2019 OCCA Annual Conference sponsors for their support.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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WELCOME LETTER 3
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 4
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 5
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE 6
SALISHAN MAP 7
KEY NOTE SPEAKERS 8
WELCOME RECEPTION 10
THURSDAY BREAKOUT SESSIONS 11
HOWARD CHERRY BANQUET 14
DEDICATED SERVICE AWARDS 15
FRIDAY BREAKOUT SESSIONS 16
SPONSORS 18
EXHIBITORS 21
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WELCOME LETTER
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Welcome to the 2019 OCCA Annual Conference. I hope
you are looking forward to it as much as I am. This year’s theme
is Finding Your Why: Personalizing the Community College
Mission. Sessions have been designed to be informative,
stimulating, and give you an opportunity to reflect on your own
community college ‘why’.
One of our key OCCA goals this year is to empower board
members to engage and effectively advocate on statewide issues.
I hope you find the conference well-designed to accomplish this
and enable you to take back useful information to your college.
The conference is structured to help each of you learn more about
current issues, and explore the roles we can play in providing
leadership that ensures our colleges remain vibrant institutions
that provide educational opportunities to all who use our services.
We have planned a variety of sessions around the ‘why’ theme,
with a focus on equity, student success, and advocacy.
We are very excited about this year’s general session
speakers. We are pleased to have with us Dr. Michael Baston,
President, Rockland Community College, in New York. You will
also hear from Dr. Michael Benitez, VP for Diversity and Inclusion
at Metropolitan State University, Denver. And last, we will hear
from our very own Dr. Greg Hamann, President, Linn-Benton
Community College, who will share his perspective on finding and
keeping your ‘why’ for community colleges.
Also, please take time to visit with our many sponsors
whose support is critical to this conference.
If you see me wandering around during the event, please
stop me to say hello. I want to hear about your interests,
concerns, and your college. OCCA is here to help each of you
achieve your goals to be better engaged and effective board
members as we continue to grow in our service to our
communities.
Annette Mattson
OCCA President
Mt. Hood
Community College
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OCCA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Blue Mountain Community College
Tony Turner, Board Member
Dennis Bailey-Fougnier, President
Central Oregon Community College
Alan Unger, Board Member
Laurie Chesley, President
Chemeketa Community College
Ed Dodson, Board Member
Jessica Howard, President
Jim Eustrom, Yamhill Campus President
Clackamas Community College
Jane Reid, Board Member
Tim Cook, President
Clatsop Community College
Anne Teaford-Cantor, Board Member
Chris Breitmeyer, President
Columbia Gorge Community College
Kim Morgan, Board Member
Marta Yera-Cronin, President
Klamath Community College
Kate Marquez, Board Member
Roberto Gutierrez, President
Lane Community College
Melanie Muenzer, Board Member
Marge Hamilton, President
Linn-Benton Community College
Linda Modrell, Board Member
Greg Hamann, President
Mt. Hood Community College
Diane McKeel, Board Member
Lisa Skari, President
Oregon Coast Community College
Richard Emery, Board Member
Birgitte Ryslinge, President
Portland Community College
Jim Harper, Board Member
Mark Mitsui, District President
Karin Edwards, Cascade Campus President
Jen Piper, Southeast Campus Interim President
Lisa Avery, Sylvania Campus President
Chris Villa, Rock Creek Campus President
Rogue Community College
Ron Fox, Board Member
Cathy Kemper-Pelle, President
Southwestern Oregon Community
College
Susan Anderson, Board Member
Patty Scott, President
Tillamook Bay Community College
Betsy McMahon, Board Member
Ross Tomlin, President
Treasure Valley Community College
Stephen Crow, Board Member
Dana Young, President
Umpqua Community College
Doris Lathrop, Board Member
Deb Thatcher, President
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OCCA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Annette Mattson President
Mt. Hood
Community College
Ron Fox
Vice President
Rogue
Community College
Chris Breitmeyer
Secretary
Clatsop
Community College
Stephen Crow
Member-at-Large
Treasure Valley
Community College
Jane Reid
Member-at-Large
Clackamas
Community College
Birgitte Ryslinge
OPC Chair
Oregon Coast
Community College
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Greg Hamann
Treasurer
Linn-Benton
Community College
2019 OCCA CONFERENCE
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
2:00—5:30 PM Registration and Exhibitor Area Open Salal Room/Long House A
6:00—8:30 PM Welcome Reception Long House A/B/C
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6
7:30 AM—5:00 PM Registration and Exhibitor Area Open Salal Room/Long House A
7:30—8:30 AM Breakfast: Sponsored by D.A. Davidson & Co. Long House A/B/C
8:30—8:45 AM Welcome Long House A/B/C
8:45—10:00 AM Key Note: Dr. Michael Baston Long House A/B/C
10:00—10:30 AM Break Long House A
10:30—11:30 AM Breakout Sessions Various Locations
11:45 AM—12:45 PM Lunch: Sponsored by PACE Long House A/B/C
12:45—2:00 PM Key Note: Dr. Michael Benitez Long House A/B/C
2:00—2:30 PM Break Long House A
2:30—3:30 PM Breakout Sessions Various Locations
3:30—4:30 PM Legislative Panel: Senator Rob Wagner, Representative Gary Leif, and Representative Jeff Reardon
Lincoln/Pine
5:30—6:30 PM Howard Cherry Reception Long House A/B/C
6:30—8:30 PM Howard Cherry Banquet Long House A/B/C
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7
7:30 AM—12:00 PM Registration and Exhibitor Area Open Salal Room/Long House A
7:30—8:15 AM Breakfast: Sponsored by Quinn Thomas Long House A/B/C
8:15—9:00 AM Special Session: Ben Cannon Long House A/B/C
9:00—10:15 AM Key Note: Dr. Greg Hamann Long House A/B/C
10:15—10:45 AM Break Long House A
10:45—11:45 AM Breakout Sessions Various Locations
11:45 AM—12:00 PM Closing Remarks Long House A/B/C
12:00—12:45 PM Boxed Lunch Long House A/B/C
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8
GISS program to follow conclusion of Conference—beginning at 1:00 PM in Lincoln/Pine.
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SALISHAN MAP
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KEY NOTE SPEAKERS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7
8:45—10:00 AM
All-In: Creating the Conditions for Contagious Commitment to Student Success
Michael A. Baston, J.D., Ed.D.
President
Rockland Community
College
Dr. Michael A. Baston is the 7th President
of Rockland Community College. A national leader
who helps develop comprehensive supports that
foster college completion, Dr. Baston’s work has
been featured on MSNBC, and in The Chronicle of
Higher Education, The Atlantic, The Community
College Times, and Black Enterprise Magazine.
Additionally, he’s a contributing author to Race,
Education, and Reintegrating Formerly
Incarcerated Citizens and The Handbook for
Student Affairs in Community Colleges.
Dr. Baston was a member of the inaugural
class of Aspen Institute Presidential Fellows for
Community College Excellence where he explored
systemic issues affecting the educational access
pipeline and student success. As a national
Guided Pathways coach for American Association
of Community Colleges, he is noted for his work
with college leadership teams around the nation,
helping them integrate student success initiatives
to advance college completion.
Dr. Baston holds a BA from Iona College,
a JD from Brooklyn Law School, and an EdD from
St. John Fisher College.
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12:45—2:00 PM
The Conviction Behind the Work: Equity and Inclusion as Moral Imperatives for Diverse Campus Communities
Michael Benitez, Ph.D.
Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion
Metropolitan State University
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Dr. Michael Benitez is a nationally-
acclaimed activist-scholar, practitioner, and
educator, with extensive experience in diversity
issues in higher education. He is known for his
down-to-earth, insightful commentary and
critical perspectives on social and cultural issues,
addressing areas of social justice education,
leadership, intersectionality and identity
development, race and ethnic relations,
knowledge production, postcolonial thought and
critical race theory, and critical pedagogy and
practice in higher education.
Dr. Benitez is co-editor of the anthology,
Crash Course: Reflections on the Film “Crash” for
Critical Dialogues About Race, Power and
Privilege, and has contributed to online
magazines, scholarly databases, books, and
journals. His most recent work on supporting
faculty of color can be found in AACU’s Liberal
Education (2017), and his work on creating
campus community participatory frameworks for
difficult conversations and institutional action, in
New Directions in Institutional Research (2017).
Dr. Benitez completed both his B.S. and
M.Ed. at the Pennsylvania State University, and
holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and
Policy with a focus on Social Justice in Higher
Education, from Iowa State University School of
Education, and has been recognized with several
leadership and scholarly awards, throughout his
career.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7
9:00—10:15 AM
Is Your ‘Why’ Big Enough?
Greg Hamann, Ph.D.
President
Linn-Benton
Community College
Dr. Greg Hamann is currently serving
Linn-Benton Community College as its sixth
president, a position he has held since
February 2010. At LBCC, Hamann is actively
leading the campus in turning their historically
strong commitment to student access into an
equally strong commitment to student success
and completion, doing so with promising
results by engaging with the LBCC community
as well as with other colleges and state and
national initiatives like Win-Win, Foundations of
Excellence and Achieving the Dream.
At the community level, Dr. Hamann is
an active participant in and contributor to a
variety of regional educational and workforce
projects and initiatives, including Pipeline, a
unique partnership between leading
businesses, county and city leaders, area
school districts and LBCC in order to
simultaneously create new jobs and the well-
trained workforce to fill them.
Hamann has a doctorate in Educational
Leadership from Gonzaga University, a master’s
in Counseling Psychology from Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School, and bachelor's
degrees in both Psychology and Social Studies
Education from the University of Minnesota.
November 18-20, 2019
Legislative Committee Days
January 13-15, 2020
Legislative Committee Days
February 3, 2020
First day of 2020 Session
February 5, 2020
Community College CTE Day
at the Capitol
March 8, 2020
Constitutional Sine Die
Dates to Remember
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6
6:00—8:30 PM
WELCOME RECEPTION Long House A/B/C
Join us for hors d'oeuvres and a no-host bar to kick off the 2019 OCCA Annual Conference.
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2020 OCCA Annual Conference
November 4-6, 2020
Sunriver Resort
Save the Date!
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7
TRACK LEGEND
ADVOCACY DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION 1 3
NUTS & BOLTS STUDENT SUCCESS 2 4
10:30—11:30 AM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
How are Oregon Community College Boards of Directors helping to advance the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals of their respective institutions? What are some of the challenges and rewards involved in board members becoming more committed to DEI learning and practice? How does Oregon House Bill 2864 provide leverage for community colleges and their Boards of Directors in advancing this mission-critical work?
Council House B
Personalizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: the Heart of our Community College Mission 3
1 Campus Advocacy: Implementing a Plan and Engaging the Broader Campus Community to Increase Our State Funding Levels
This workshop will dive deeper into what worked during the last legislative session and tips on how to engage community members, students, faculty, and others to advocate on behalf of the college mission. This summer I solicited feedback from over 25 state legislators. This presentation will review that feedback and make recommendations for how to improve for next session.
Council House A
Emma Kallaway
Government Relations Director
Portland Community College
2 I’m Not Dumb, but I Don’t Get PERS!
Council House C
PERS is in the headlines practically on a daily basis and affects community college budgets, the ability to maintain and recruit a skilled work force, the attitude of the public toward college employees, and the cost of a community college education. This presentation will give board members and college staff a basic understanding of how PERS works in order to make the best policy decisions.
Carol Samuels
Managing Director
Piper Jaffray
Mark Mitsui
President
Portland Community College
Elizabeth Cox Brand
Executive Director
Student Success Center
Traci Fordham
Program Administrator
Portland Community College
Tricia Brand
Chief Diversity Office
Portland Community College
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Lane Community College partners with the Egan Warming Center, a program administered by St. Vincent DePaul Society of Lane County, Oregon. The Egan Warming Center is a coalition of community members representing service providers, religious congregations, nonprofit support agencies, social activist communities and local government who have come together to ensure that homeless people in Lane County have a warm and safe place to sleep when temperatures drop below 30 degrees between November 15th and March 31st. This presentation will illuminate how to bring this issue to a community college board and how to navigate the community partnership from concept to operation.
Sitka Room
Egan Warming Centers: A Community Partnership 4
2:30—3:30 PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Brian Kelly
Vice President of College Services
Lane Community College
Karen Smith
General Counsel
OCCA
Do we need a board policy or administrative procedure for this? This session will support effective board leadership through the development and implementation of updated, legally-compliant board policies and administrative procedures. The presenters will share their expertise including helpful tips, scenarios, and best practices for strengthening the board’s governing role in managing risk and setting clear policies in response to increasing federal and state requirements including recent changes to Title IX and Oregon law regarding sexual harassment.
Council House A
Effective Board Governance: Using Legally-Compliant Board Policies and Administrative Procedures in the Age of Increasing Federal and State Requirements 2
Jane Wright
Policy & Procedure Services
Community College League of California
Rebekah Jacobson
Attorney
Garrett Hemann Roberston, P.C.
1 Applied Baccalaureate Degrees: Lessons Learned from States with Established AB Programs
Council House B
The passage of Senate Bill 3 permits community colleges to offer Applied Baccalaureate (AB) programs. There are many questions to consider as community colleges discuss whether to offer AB degrees. Members of this panel have experience with AB programs from other states and will discuss the relative challenges and merits of these degrees.
Marta Yera-Cronin
President
Columbia Gorge Community College
Tim Cook
President
Clackamas Community College
Marge Hamilton
President
Lane Community College
Lisa Skari
President
Mt. Hood Community College
Joyce Hammer
VP of Instruction
Centralia College
10:30—11:30 AM
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3 So You Are Not in Portland: A Practical Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Work Outside of the Metro
Sitka Room
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are critical concepts and practices in providing relevant education for the students of today and the future. This session will provide practical steps that community colleges in non-metropolitan and rural communities in Oregon can take in developing a framework for institutional DEI.
Vivi Caleffi Prichard
Diversity & Equity Officer
Chemeketa Community College
Alice Sprague
Associate Vice President of Human Resources
Chemeketa Community College
3:30—4:30 PM
LEGISLATIVE PANEL
Lincoln/Pine
Senator Rob Wagner and Representatives Jeff Reardon and Gary Leif will share their observations on 2019 Legislative Session as well as a look ahead to 2020 short session and beyond. All three legislators are also members of the Legislative Community College Caucus and are highly engaged in community college funding and policy issues.
John Wykoff
Deputy Director
OCCA
Senator Rob Wagner
Senate District 19
Representative Gary Leif
House District 2
Representative Jeff Reardon
House District 48
2:30—3:30 PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS CONT.
4 Equity, Meta’s and Pathways – Oh My!
Council House C
Curious about how the Oregon Pathways project is going? Come to this interactive panel presentation with representatives from colleges in different stages of pathways implementation and get all of your questions answered!
Elizabeth Cox Brand
Executive Director
Student Success Center
Ann Buchele
VP of Academic Affairs & Workforce Development
Linn-Benton Community College
David Plotkin
VP of Instruction & Student Services
Clackamas Community College
Teresa Rivenes
Chief Academic Officer
Tillamook Bay Community College
HOWARD CHERRY BANQUET Reception: 5:30 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM Longhouse A/B/C
Celebrate the contributions our honorees have made to Oregon’s community colleges
Music provided by the Oregon Coast Community College Choir
*Cocktail attire strongly encouraged*
Outstanding Community College Advocate
Representative Jeff Reardon
House District 48
Outstanding Community College Board Member
Jim Merryman
Linn-Benton Community College
Outstanding Community College Administrator
Patty Scott
Southwestern Oregon Community College
Chuck Clemans Award
Recognizing the exceptional service of a community college board of education member to OCCA
Denise Frisbee
Portland Community College
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DEDICATED SERVICE AWARDS
In recognition of your many years of dedication to Oregon’s community colleges and students
Tony Turner
Blue Mountain Community College
12 years
Laura Craska Cooper
Central Oregon Community College
8 years
Betsy Earls
Chemeketa Community College
8 years
Diane Watson
Chemeketa Community College
8 years
Greg Chaimov
Clackamas Community College
8 years
Chris Groener
Clackamas Community College
8 years
Cliff Ryer
Oregon Coast Community College
8 years
Marcia Jensen
Southwestern Oregon Community College
20 years
Darlene McConnell
Treasure Valley Community College
8 years
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8
8:15—9:00 AM
SPECIAL SESSION
Higher Education Coordinating Commission Strategic Plan 3.0
Longhouse A/B/C
Learn about the development of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission’s new strategic plan for postsecondary education in Oregon, including how you can help to shape it. What should be the future of state goals and funding strategies? What other approaches should we undertake to improve equity and success?
Ben Cannon
Executive Director
HECC
10:45—11:45 AM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
2 Data for Direction: Accessing and Utilizing Information to Drive Improvement
Council House A
We have data, now what? Sometimes getting data is the easy part. Knowing what and how to ask for data is equally critical in finding and comparing across institutions. In this session, we will examine what we want to know, what we have, and what we should be asking of our campus research offices.
Justin Smith
Director, Office of Data & Decision Support
Linn-Benton Community College
TRACK LEGEND
ADVOCACY DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION 1 3
NUTS & BOLTS STUDENT SUCCESS 2 4
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Council House B
Pathways to Opportunity Across Oregon: How Colleges are Increasing Student Success and Benefit Access
Pathways to Opportunity is closing opportunity gaps and increasing economic mobility across Oregon by connecting low-income students to the federal, state, and local resources they need to attend and complete college. From the statewide Pathways to Opportunity coalition and STEP Consortia that has increased SNAP access and eligibility for students, to the partnerships at Lane, and systemic work at Mt. Hood and Rogue, find out how colleges across the state are creating pathways to opportunity. LBCC will share how their use of Single Stop, emergency grants, student parent surveys, and navigators have been effective strategies for helping students overcome non-academic barriers to complete their education. Discussion of how amplifying Pathways to Opportunity work can increase student support at your college.
Mark Mitsui
President
Portland Community College
Marge Hamilton
President
Lane Community College
Amanda Stanley
Program Coordinator
Linn-Benton Community College
Cheryl French
Program Coordinator
Linn-Benton Community College
Lisa Skari
President
Mt. Hood Community College
Cathy Kemper-Pelle
President
Rogue Community College
Kate Kinder
Career Pathways and Skills Training Director
Portland Community College
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10:45—11:45 AM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS CONT.
1 17 Strong: Working Together to Execute a Statewide Advocacy Campaign
Council House C
In 2019, community colleges mounted an aggressive budget advocacy campaign that ultimately led to one of the largest increases to community college funding in over a decade. Panelists will discuss the elements of that campaign from statewide coordination, media outreach and individual college and board member advocacy. The discussion will also focus on lessons learned for future statewide campaigns.
John Wykoff
Deputy Director
OCCA
Emma Kallaway
Government Relations Director
Portland Community College
Rick Thomas
Founding Partner
Quinn Thomas
Denise Frisbee
Board Member
Portland Community College
3 Using Effective Board Governance to Accelerate Equity
Sitka Room
Equity is key to the community college mission, and achieving equity requires effective and focused governance. This presentation will address key components of effective equity leadership that will allow board members to prioritize equity, take effective action, hold themselves and their institution accountable, and address barriers. Board members will gain tools for working closely with college presidents, other college leaders, and community members in accelerating equity.
Jollee Patterson
Partner
Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP
Be sure to join us back in Long House A/B/C for closing remarks and to pick up your boxed lunch!
We appreciate your participation and support of OCCA
Thank you!
GISS to convene directly after the conference in Lincoln/Pine at 1:00 PM
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