Yeah, welcome everyone.
Hello.
Hi there. George tonight hello everyone.
Thank you all for being here and thank
you once again to our working groups
and our facilitators are all here and
most of our notetakers and many of
the Members of the groups themselves
and in just a minute will have.
Such a Johnson introduce sort of what we're
doing next and say hi and thank you as well,
but just wanted to say I'm going into it.
George and I really want to emphasize
that this is a chance for input.
It's the first chance of many coming up.
This is a working document and it's
very much in draft form, George.
Nope. Thanks Marcie that.
I think it's a good point to remember the
way you're seeing is work in progress.
And actually this is all work that's come
together really within the last 48 hours.
So we're sharing it with you very early
and I will say for myself and for Marcie,
we're really excited about the work
that the theme groups have done so far.
Really fabulous, very thoughtful and just.
Frankly, really exciting,
so looking forward to that,
so I'll toss back to Marcie.
I think most of you know her,
but we would like to have Doctor Johnson.
See if he works for us and welcome
you to this to this town Hall today.
Well thanks thanks Marcie Ann.
Thanks George and the.
The work today has nothing to do with me.
I just want to express.
I want to say a few things and get off Mike.
I just want to express how
grateful I am for all of you and
the work you've done thus far.
Some of you on this town Hall today have been
involved with this from the very beginning.
Your members of the strategic
Planning Steering Committee.
We have members of in my deep who
is our Consulting Group that is
facilitating this process through
for us and the process that has been
underway since really last spring has.
Has been remarkable and the
inclusiveness and the participation
is something to be very proud of.
I've said countless times of strategic
plan isn't a president of document.
It's not a board of Trustees documented this.
The college is documented as a
living document that reflects
goals and intentions for our most
short-term immediate future,
and in this case, the next five years.
So I'm really excited to see the progress.
That's that's a curd so far.
I'm eager to see the information today,
just like all of you.
When when we started these conversations
about what colleges future would
look like and what it would be,
I remember saying to,
you know,
there's no reason that Green River
should not be the first choice and in
post secondary education and an in
our service area in South King County,
there's no reason we shouldn't be.
A college that seen as first choice
in partnership with business and
industry for our amazing CTE programs.
And you know,
going back to the first choice
in terms of postsecondary Ed,
when you look at our tremendous faculty,
the depth and breadth of their expertise
in the programs we offer here,
there's no reason that any student
that's college committed shouldn't
start their first two years with
us and then transfer onto wherever
they'd like to go from there.
And there's absolutely no reason
that every student that comes to us.
We shouldn't feel that they belong
here and are cared for and those
are concepts that we've been working
on for the past several years.
Things that, of course,
you've always been talking about
before I even joined you,
but now we're really trying to
make good on these promises and
the intention of our mission.
With equity.
I believe every student,
every student who comes to our college,
has the ability to learn anything
given the right conditions.
Every student has the capacity
to learn anything.
Given the right conditions and what we have
been working on with an equity mindset,
is how to break those barriers down and
how to improve our students success,
no matter who they are,
no matter what their background is,
when they come through our doors to succeed.
Through excellence in teaching and learning.
And so with that one thing I
will say in the context of the
writing phase of a strategic plan,
many of you have been involved with strategic
planning processes before I have two,
I shared this with the strategic
Planning Steering Committee.
So we expect when we get to a riding phase,
that's when we have to
double down on our courage.
We have to double down on our boldness.
We have to double down in terms of being
innovative and different and thinking.
Holistic, niggling at edges and trying
things a different way for the forty
40th time will not be sufficient.
We need to make bold decisions now to see
a different college five years from now.
So. With love and courage and integrity,
let's take this next phase of
our planning forward today.
And thanks everybody for being here.
I'm so excited for this work
that's happening.
Thank you.
Thank you Doctor Johnson and
so the disk more quickly.
The way the agenda works and
perhaps I'm stealing some of
Kate's Thunder here, so apologies,
but will do a project overview and
kind of the status of the project and
our friends from IG will do that.
Then each of the facilitators are the same.
Groups will spend just a couple of
minutes over viewing their work,
and then we will break you out into
discussion groups and you'll be.
By randomly you'll be placed in one
of the seven groups an we would ask,
the facilitators will go into more
detail on what their work is to
this to this point and then will
ask you for input on how we doing.
Are we on the right track?
Are we missing something?
Do you see some improvements that
could be made at this point?
And again,
all with the idea being is that these
are all works in progress and that.
Folks are the whole point of this is
to gather some information from you
and get a sense of how we're doing,
and then we'll do a quick report back
and then we'll talk about next steps.
So we're going to be rolling pretty
quick if we get through the 90
minutes and get folks out on time,
but that's the game plan.
And at this point I'd like to
introduce Kate Joncas who is with MIG.
Good afternoon everyone.
I have to say it really is a joy
and a privilege to work with you.
I always have to take a deep
breath after hearing tons.
Doctor Johnson talks so we can work
really hard to get up to that standard.
And I know you will.
We fully expect this is going to
be a national groundbreaking plan
and set an example for others.
So let's get to work.
I do want to emphasize before we get there.
This is a as George will say.
Unfinished business appointment time.
We're going to have a lot of information.
We're going to go through.
More than you can really absorb,
we're going to go through it really
quickly because we want you to
get a sense of where we are.
Everything you see today will be
sent and put up on the website and
you'll get a survey afterwards so
you won't be able to maybe read
everything you see on the screen.
Will talk through it,
but you'll have plenty of chances to
really sit down and think about it.
And at the end,
we'll talk about all the impact
cover to nitties that are going
to happen going forward,
so I'm going to share my screen
now and get going.
OK, here we go here. As George said,
he went through the through the
agenda today and I want to reiterate,
we're going to go through a lot of
material quickly, but you have plenty
of time afterwards to look at it,
but we just want to get your
first impressions today.
So let's talk about project overview.
We are here today.
Actually, for a celebration,
because we have gone through a lot
of work to get to where we are,
and I want to talk to you a little
bit about what the process has been
because we have a real time tested
process working with colleges and
community colleges and strategic
planning to get a lot of information
and then work with you so that you can
prioritize and absorb it and refine it.
So we started at the very beginning.
With interviews with people and
on line survey focus groups,
we have a very robust environmental scan,
which is a summary of all the information
that we have collected with trends for
where we think the Community is going,
where the college is going,
opinions from everyone about what they think,
the strengths and challenges are
that is on line died encourage
you to take a look at it.
It's quite robust,
but it has a very good executive
summary at the beginning.
We had an equity visioning form because
this is a strategic plan whose goal
is to be centered in equity and we
have started with that and we at the
very beginning we ask people in the
college what does equity mean for you
and how would we implement it as we
go forward and you will see a little.
Today equity statement that we have
been working on for our last number of
months that we have been working on.
You have been working on for the last
couple months to really say what is
important about equity to the college.
We had a big threat to look at some
of the goals and out of that we came
out with a series of six goals for
the strategic plan and here we are.
Right now we have facilitators and a
large number of people from the college
that have been sitting for the last
month in meetings with those goals saying.
OK, now we know what the goal is.
How are we going to get there?
What are the objectives,
the projects?
What are the things we need
to do to achieve that goal?
And that's what we're going to be
looking at today in the town Hall.
Right here. We have and I will
tell you this. We at MI G.
We have done a pretty large number of
Community College strategic planning.
This one has had the most robust
participation from the college community
of any plan that we've really done.
And that's why we're celebrating today.
And it just makes your plan so much better.
And we have a great steering committee,
chaired by Marcie and George,
have been working over the last few months,
digesting and sorting and
prioritizing all the material.
We did Inter individual interviews.
We did focus groups with 45 participants and
internal staff and external to the college.
We had amazing response to
the on line survey.
We had over 200 people in
the equity Visioning Forum.
Over 100 people in the strategic
planning shred and we have almost 200
today and all of this information is
summarized in the environmental scan.
If you want to see exactly what people
said and where their priorities were.
Out of all that,
we made a strategic plan framework.
Now this is an eye test,
but it's mostly important to
show you how it's organized.
We have, you know,
missions at the top you could see the
six circles for the goals that are
going across and then statements that
we got from all of the input about
what the topics were for those goals.
So let's take a little look at the
different pieces in order so from the
top you have your equity statement,
which is in draft,
which you will see today a mission statement.
Envision and value statements have
been drafted by your colleagues
in that working group.
Under that, there are six goals,
and here are three of them.
You can see goal AB&C success for
students teaching and learning an
educational programs and support services.
This will all be on line so you
can take a deeper look at it,
and then we have a sentence for each that
talks about the nature of that goal.
For example,
on Goal C,
educational programs that support services,
it's provide the full range of
educational and support programs
and services needed to allow
students to meet their educational.
Career and personal goals.
And when you hear from Group C,
They will be talking about the
objectives they were they are
proposing to help the college actually
implement and attain goal. See.
So here are the next three goals.
Organizational structure and processes,
facilities and technology
and community connections.
And for example,
an organizational structure and processes.
It is aligned.
The colleges organizational structure.
Systems and processes with equity
centered principles reflecting the
diversity and the communities we serve.
And when you hear Goldie,
they'll be talking about the objectives,
the ways they think that the
college can get there below the
the goals and the objectives you
will have the detailed objectives,
those blank boxes.
There we have some dress today
to look at and below that the
next thing will be
working on the working groups.
Your college peers will be
working on in the next month is.
How do we determine success?
We're going to layout an objective
away or how to get there,
but how will we know when we
get there an what are those
ways of determining success?
So that is what people will be
working on in the next month
in the various working groups.
So here is just a summary of all of
the six goals in one place and you
can see a success for all students all
the way through Community connections.
And I want to make a note to you.
The college is a very complex,
integrated place,
and so you will see in some of
the objectives today they might
appear solutions or objectives
or recommendations might appear
in more than one goal,
and that's because things are
inexorably linked at the college,
which is a good thing,
but we will be sorting that out.
Because we are learning from the working
groups that goals that occur in goal.
See objectives and goals.
C also support the goal of student
success in which is how it should be.
So you will be seeing a
little bit of that today too.
So now I want to move to the
facilitator presentations and I
just want to say a big thank you.
We've had amazing facilitators for
each of these goals in no takers and
volunteers from the college community
have been sitting down really thinking
about what these objectives are.
An you know,
apologies in advance to them,
they only have two minutes to show a
really robust months work of work,
but when you go into your breakout groups,
you'll be able to see them in
more detail and discuss them.
But we just want to get a sense right now.
So I think let's go right to we're
going to do the working group that
has worked on the equity statement,
the Mission, Vision and values first.
So please go ahead.
Great thank you Kate San.
Thank you everyone.
My name is Wendy Stewart.
Anne I'm the facilitator for the equity,
mission, vision and Value Statement Group.
First, I just wanted to
recognize we are a great group.
We've got 11 strong members and as Kate said,
they're all volunteers,
so this is the power of the people we're
bringing together some great work and
a special thanks to Rozella cruise.
She's our note taker so she's
partnering with me on that and.
Just again want to reiterate this
is amazing collaborative work,
so it's been a real honor and a
privilege to work with this working
group and see the amazing work that
we've been able to do before I read you.
The different draft statements
I wanted to just let you know.
There are four main things that
have guided our work as a working
Group One is the strategic plan
framework that Kate just showed us,
representing the six goals.
Areas second,
the collected input an that is escaped.
Summarized,
you know tremendous amount
of input received so far.
And we also were very conscious of
the fact that this plan needs to.
Everyone needs to feel they are
represented in statements and in the plan.
And Lastly, Doctor Johnson said it again.
But our board has told us and
and President Johnson,
we have permission to be bold,
not just permission but
encouragement to be bold.
So I think you'll see that reflected
in these different statements.
So I will go ahead and read the statements.
And.
We'll just walk through it here,
so here's the draft equity statement again.
It's an iteration of what was already
created in previous sessions by all of us,
so we commit to being an anti racist
institution and require all students,
faculty, and staff receive the access,
resources and services needed to achieve
their educational career and personal goals.
Green River College makes social and
economic justice, equity and inclusion.
Our first and foremost priority.
The Green River College definition of
equity includes, but is not limited to,
race, economic status, gender,
sexuality, ethnicity, disability,
age, culture, and religion.
Spirituality.
We understand each
individual needs vary widely,
and the effects of discrimination
and historical oppression must be
taken into account while aiming
for equitable opportunities.
And outcomes for all.
Let this be a call to action to all
members of the Green River College community.
Everyone must contribute to this ongoing
effort to achieve equity for all. OK,
we'll just keep rolling the next one forward,
so there you go.
Now we're going to give you our
draft mission statement.
And Kate, I'm at the three minute Mark.
I think right now.
Should I keep on?
Yes, please keep on going in.
I'm having trouble shifting the slide so K.
Well,
I will just say that again with the
mission and vision how we wrote
this was with the vision meeting
our destination and the mission
being our vehicle.
So here is the draft mission
statement for your consideration.
Green River College provides a culture of
care and a commitment to equity that empowers
students to achieve their educational,
professional and personal goals and
prepares them to contribute to our local.
And global communities.
In our vision, again, the destination.
Green River College will be an
equity centered leader in higher
education committed to Exel.
In teaching and learning and to
advancing racial and social justice,
Green River will be a destination of
choice for postsecondary education.
First choice, in partnership with business,
an industry.
And ranked among the highest
in student achievement,
closing all opportunity gaps.
The racial and ethnic diversity of staff,
faculty, and leadership will reflect the
diversity of the communities we serve.
All members of the college community
will feel a strong sense of belonging
and together build a culture of care.
Green River students will be prepared
for the global workforce and for civic
engagement in an increasingly diverse,
Inter dependent world.
Probably just the high high points.
Yeah Yep Yep.
So the values we have we've developed 9
values and I'll just read the bold part,
but after this session,
hopefully you will all look at the specific
language that describes these values.
So we have diversity,
equity and inclusion, culture of care,
Accessibility, accountability.
As you're there we go community
engagement's growth and development
global civic engagement,
natural environment, an innovation.
So there we go.
Thank you, Wendy.
So let's go to goal A and
I just want to make a note.
I saw there was a hand raised.
I think we're going to try
to get through all of this,
but please use the chat to put any
comments or ideas that you have in there.
Thank you.
OK,
so goal a.
Good morning goal A which was success for
all students and removing opportunity
gaps are objectives were one to
develop mechanisms to continuously
gather feedback from students,
including those who have left Green
River employees and community
members to assess needs and barriers,
and then to create systems for
reviewing and acting on that feedback.
Goal two were was to explore
opportunities within the four
essential pillars of guided pathways
to incorporate a college success class.
Gold three is to provide support
for students successful transition
in two and three college.
Matt includes refining placement
mechanisms in development,
of course, sequences in English
and math to accelerate students
progression to college.
The low courses,
as well as maximizing the number
of courses taught in multiple
modalities to accommodate students
learning styles and schedules.
Go for is to ensure all students
entering Green River have an assigned
mentor or support person for the
length of their college career.
In five is to update campus signage
campus signage to ensure that it
reflects students diverse languages
and identities and help students
locate the services they need.
Thank you Sarah.
Goal A is a pretty all encompassing one.
I think your team did a great job
in picking some good objectives
and I wanted to note for people on
the zoom the little the citations
are just to make sure that we know
where these suggestions came from.
So on some of these where it is
possible they have put where they
have drawn this suggestion forum.
Thank you Sarah.
Let's do goldby.
Hi there, my name is Chitra Solomonson
and the facilitator for group E&R gold
centers around teaching and learning.
The note taker is Ian Sherman
who collaborated very closely,
is more than a note taker and
then our group was consisted of
15 members who worked intensively
to come up with these objectives.
So we focused.
We found that based on the feedback from
campus and all the materials applied to us,
what bubbled up with four distinct areas
and objectives are based on these areas.
I'm not going to read out all
the objectives verbatim because
of the two minute time limit,
but I will go and get the gist of it.
Alright, so the first goal is
systematic professional development.
Implement a robust college wide
center of teaching and learning with
programming that supports excellence
where professional development in
high impact practices for college.
I mean, for faculty and staff.
Goal the second objective is
balancing costs modalities,
balanced course offerings
between on campus online,
an hybrid classes maximize opportunities
for students with diverse course needs.
Next slide please.
Objective three centers on college culture.
Build a campus culture of
trust through routine,
professional development,
mentorship, and relationship
building for all faculty and staff.
Encourage communication,
self reflection,
sharing of stories and safe spaces
from which to fight oppression.
Next objective community connections
increase and deepen connections with our
external external partners and communities,
including K through 12,
to understand their diverse needs so
that the college can address them.
Next slide, please.
Hiring, retention,
labor and compensation.
Actively push for diverse applicant
pools for job opportunities.
Support faculty and staff.
Diverse identities an ensure that faculty
and staff have equal opportunities
for equal compensation of Labor.
Assess and track retention of
underrepresented staff and faculty,
especially staff and faculty of color.
Next objective was on assessment and
operations develop Green River College
operations with transparency, openness,
diversity, equity and inclusion in mind.
Breakdown silos across areas,
assessments of college programs and
departments should include measures
of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Thank you. Really excellent job.
This is a complicated one.
Thank you so much to Tret
and your excellent team.
So let's go for goal, see.
Hi, I'm Lori centari.
I'm the note taker for Group C and
Allison Warner was is the facilitator.
Now since on phones in the Korean
services area, so I'm going to
present so we can go to our yes.
So overall the intent.
This is what Kate had read out earlier
so we can go ahead to the objectives
we came up with on the next, yes.
So we came up with three objectives.
Here's the overview of them.
First objective.
Support student pathways and
transitions to through an beyond at
Green River College and Objective
#2 is streamline student support
service delivery and awareness by
engaging and educating students,
faculty and staff and objective three
is build a robust career services
Department and increased pre employment
activities that prepare all students
for professional opportunities and
strengthen industry partnerships.
So if we go to the next slide,
yes, awesome.
Here,
if you're in our breakout room,
will talk more about the
activities and resources that we
discussed in our working group.
To go along with each of these
objectives and then like he said earlier,
that we have a sourcing with each of those.
Yeah, and this will get more into each
of those if you go to objective too.
I just wanted to make one point
in here with the activities and
resources in this streamlining,
student support services deliveries
and one of the big things I wanted
to point out was there are to be.
There is what we were talking about.
A super pass system,
something that goes a bit beyond our
current pass system to improve it.
And so again,
if you're in our working group in our
breakout room, will go into these activities,
resources and same thing for objective.
Three, so I'll leave it there.
Great job Lori.
Thank you so much.
Really very well organized in this
participation. Alright, thank you.
Let's go to Goldie.
Thank you,
our group worked on organizational
structure systems and processes and
to align those with equity centered
principles reflecting the diversity
of the communities we serve an I'm
Nancy Kramer and I'm joined by Anna Vargas,
Dan Ferguson, Deb Casiana,
Lee coring, Kevin Grossman,
Megan Swanson, Tammy Sheila.
But are Teresa Torrell,
scion Chang Richard Wilkerson an
are wonderful note taker soon.
Tan.
We started with the discussion topics
which were there were four and they are one.
Improve structure systems,
policies,
processes to support our drive to be
anti racist and inclusive to review,
update and implement policies that
support our vision of being an anti
racist equity centered institution.
Three adopt recruitment,
hiring and retention policies
for diversifying all
positions an for expand financial
resources to support all students in need.
And here's what we came up with
after reviewing feedback from
focus groups and equity forum.
The charettes. An environmental scan.
We offer seven objectives to achieve goldian.
They are D1.
Ensure that all recruitment and hiring
processes are built on equity principles.
Identify and eliminate inherent biases
and increased diversity of all GRC
employees to ensure that employee
onboarding and professional development,
including HR, all divisions and departments,
sets everyone up for success and that.
We retain our diverse and unique
talent Pool 3 all GRC, GRC,
locations and people are treated equitably
and fairly when it comes to policies,
processes, programs, spaces and events.
D for our policy making process
will be transparent,
inclusive and equity focused.
Five established a well defined governance
structure with robust employee involvement.
Six expand the financial resources
available to support students with
financial and securities and finally,
D7 create a welcoming environment to promote
and affirm equity and inclusion for all,
to include both physical
and online locations.
And with that I'm done.
Perfect timing, thank you.
These are excellent objectives.
I'm very will be very interested to
see the metrics for success for these.
So let's go to Goldie.
Hi everyone, filled in from
college relations here.
Just want to thank Ashley for
serving as our note taker.
So we had Goldie which was
facilities and technology with the
goal being optimizing educational
facilities and technology to
support teaching and learning.
And we quickly learned that we had
two very distinct different areas
and so we broke him out into area one
which focus on facilities in Area
2 which focus on the technologies.
So really quickly and or reminder these
are drafts and work in progress so.
First goal for area one identifying
and designated body that is either
internal or external to the college
that would have authority and resources
to make signage related decisions,
which is included in Facilities master
plan in all future capital projects.
Number two create clear directional
signage alongside our current campus
mapping that provides easy to follow
directions to major campus locations,
allowing individuals to successfully
navigate their way to their destination
from any entry point on campus.
#3 clearly list resources
within building so students,
faculty,
and staff can reliably find
locations for classrooms and student
support services for Area 2 which
is technology related objectives.
We also came up with three
current objectives.
So the first being standardized,
the online tools that are used
to provide support services and
facilitate remote work for faculty,
staff and students, and, if possible,
try and have that be a single platform.
Alongside that,
providing robust on boarding as well
as ongoing training and support to faculty,
staff and students.
Number two,
continuing to offer events,
services,
and courses and online modalities
that allow students and employees
access even when in person.
Interaction is allowed.
And then Lastly,
ensuring equal access to technology
and student support services to
individuals with limited access or resources.
This may include identifying
funding to help mitigate impact to
students in need who might not have
access to those resources already.
Thank you, thank you,
thank you Phillip to you and your
team for sorting out this one for us.
We do appreciate it.
OK so let's go to group F and before
we get there I see a lot of good
comments in the chat and know that we
will send your comments on to each
of the working groups as appropriate
so all those will be kept group F.
Hi everyone,
I'm Amanda Walsh.
I'm an English language learning
faculty member and I wanted to
thank Rosenberg for being our
note taker and all of our other
group members for your work here.
Our goal is the Community connections
goal and this is really about
strengthening our connections
within the College in our outer
community and kind of just.
I will say rebranding re imagining
what our community means or what
are college means to the community.
And so we had three objectives,
and we have kind of objectives within them.
But the first is to really revamp
our website and our social media
outreach and the goal here is to
make it more accessible,
to make it easier for people in the
community to access us and to connect
with us in this very digital time.
So yeah, thank you.
Our second objective is to
implement required equity focused
customer service training for
all Green River employees and the
idea here is really to make sure
that anyone coming to our campus
is having the same experience.
You can go to any office on
campus and you will have the same
expectations of treatment and how
we interact with the Community.
And our third objective is the largest,
and this is to establish a central
community focused office on campus.
So this office would act as the liaison
for businesses for Community resources
and this is really to help us have a
centralized place for people to go when
they want to connect with us on campus.
So this would include identifying and
building relationships with businesses.
Seabios, different community organizations.
Um and just kind of making a one stop shop.
One location for people to go to
start building those communities,
and then the next one please.
These are all included in this as well,
and a lot of this is about making Green
River the place where the community
goes to find to fill their needs right.
Having some kind of child care
center having a Resource Center that
people in the community have access
to to use our facilities to engage
with the college so that we become.
Ascential within the community
that we are located.
Thank you very much, Amanda,
and I appreciate your group
took a very broad goal and it's
defined some pretty clear specific
things that the college could do.
So thank you very much to your team.
Well, thank you to all the facilitators
you managed to get through a
tremendous amount of material on time.
I really appreciate that.
But now it's time to spend a little
more in depth time looking at each
objective and to lead that portion.
And I'm going to turn it over
to Jamila Jordan from MI G who
is expert facilitator to take
us through the next piece.
Great, thanks so much,
Kate and good afternoon everyone.
It's great to be with all of you and
I want to just echo what Kate shared
at the top of her presentation.
We have over 180 people here today and I
think that's a testament to the energy,
the enthusiasm,
the momentum surrounding this process.
We want to keep that going.
We want to hear from you today
will be many more opportunities.
So what we're going to do is we're
going to break out into groups,
will be randomly assigned by our
seven different themes if you will.
And don't worry if you're not able to
get into the group where you had the
most interest in talking about today.
As George mentioned,
there will be a survey that will be
sent out by the end of this week
for you to provide additional input
and ideas at your own leisure.
When you have the time to do so,
so our facilitators will lead you
through an interactive discussion
to really get into the meat or
the protein if you will.
Of the different themes and for
you to discuss those objectives
that they shared with you just a
moment ago and add your thoughts
around what additional refinements
would you like to make?
How would you like to see that information,
further augmented?
And then in addition to that?
Another question we have is,
do you have ideas for additional
specific action oriented objectives
to accomplish this goal to make a
difference or really moving into the
action oriented phase of this I want
to remind the group of what Doctor
Johnson said at the top as well
around being bold around the fact
that we want to be courageous bold
in our implementation in our idea
generation at this point so don't hold back.
So with that I'm going to ask my
colleague Maria Mayor to go ahead and
break us out into our seven different
categories here and happy discussions.
Everyone will come back and we'll
have a report out on what you share.
In about 20 minutes thanks so much everyone.
OK everyone, so I hope you all had
some fruitful conversations and I know
in our group we had a really rich,
productive set of insights that
were shared to help iterate these
ideas and objectives even further,
and so we're going to go in the order that
we shared in the initial presentations,
and I'm going to start with Group
G and that's the group around the
vision values and mission statement.
So I'm going to ask for Wendy
and Rozella to lead us in this,
and this is just a high level
recap of some of the big picture.
Teams that were covered in the discussion,
so windy and rozella please take it away.
Create thank you Brasilia.
All start out but let's just jump
right in and and partner here.
We'll start with the equity statement.
The feedback we got on that was positive
for the most part and with a plug
for it was great to have the call to
action included in that to all Members
so that really resonated with folks.
There was some question on the word
require in the first sentence there,
so we'll take that back
and give that some thought.
The mission statement,
so anything else rozella on that one.
On the first one, sorry.
On the equity you covered it.
Thanks 20, super OK.
And then for the mission statement.
There were positive.
Here was one challenge we got
which is to really think about.
Is it bold?
Enough,
several members of our groups isn't bold
enough and it was really around the
word anti racist that was really cast
out in the beginning of this process.
As you know,
a challenge to the institution,
can we be an anti racist college so
that not only came up in the mission
statement but also the vision and the values?
Where is that word? Where is that intention?
Does that capture it? Rozella?
It does. Thanks Wendy.
OK, Yep.
Um, I think that was the main thing
from mission and then the vision again.
This is the destination.
The main feedback, again,
positive, generally, but OK.
It's long and it's hard to digest
at a glance.
So very helpful feedback on format,
so nobody really had ideas
of what could be removed,
but certainly better formatting,
bulleted formatting,
so that could be at a glance digestible.
I think it again another.
How can we infuse anti races you
know approach or the anti racist
intention into the vision as well?
How is that going to be in
our future rozella any?
Well I just wanted to reiterate from
our breakout session is that if
we're going to be bolder as a singer
mentioned and Patrick mentioned,
how?
Needs to be bolder with it,
with the statements that we're
making and know where do we have
and adding the value of antiracism
that Patrick suggested.
I think is is a really important thought.
Consideration for sure.
Yeah yeah.
And before we go to values just again.
One thing worth noting is with
the the mission statement,
the vision statement.
These have multiple audiences.
They're both internal and
external audiences, so again,
the working group really looked at that.
That element you know that
dynamic in choosing the language,
so the language has to be meaningful.
To all of those audiences,
OK and then values again.
No, no particular questions or
comments on them other than again,
where is the the anti racist statement?
Should it be?
A stand alone?
Should it be incorporated
into the dyay diversity,
equity inclusion and also the culture
of care that had some mixed reviews
on that as a strong statement,
again, boldness?
There was a question of is it bold
enough in our different statements
or are they similar to any college?
Could kind of say that?
So again Rozella,
now I've lost you on my screen.
Are you any other?
Yeah,
I'm I'm here.
Still.
I think too.
Just to add is maybe I don't
know if I I made this might
be my interpretation of what
Sega maybe Patrick where we're
communicating earlier is that you
know with culture of care for sure.
Anti racism that statement is
bolder in the sense that you
know being anti racist is a part
of a culture of care of caring.
OK, really important stuff everyone.
I want to thank Group G for leading that.
Thank you, Wendy rosella.
And to everyone in that group, great job.
Really important stuff there as
we think about these statements
really guiding that own.
The future of the organization
of the college campus.
So thank you so much for that group.
We're going to go ahead and
go to our next group,
which is A and I popped it into the
chat here who that group is all about?
It's about student success ultimately,
and so I want to invite those
individuals to share about success
for all students who can take it here,
and I want to just remind folks
we want to get out on time.
So let's try to keep our.
Report backs pretty tight about 2
minutes or less of great so you can
take it for Group A. Thank you.
Yeah, this is Sarah I can take.
I took a few notes.
One of the pieces we had.
It was in our collection of feedback
wanting to be cognizant of how we
would address feedback provided
about particular employee and how
that gets action comes from that.
We talked about our college success
course and the balance between
having things tailored to particular
subject area but also fostering
the ability for students to have
that liberal arts approach of
really exploring different areas
than the one that they think.
They want to go into.
Um?
We talked about the non cognitive
and non academic elements of
barriers that are students and
how we address those an.
Whether we can do all of that
in one college success course.
And that the fact that we
in our continuously online
and computer based society that we
need to also address some of those
literacy skills that are sometimes
going to be providing our students from
even getting started at the college,
much less being fully able to access the
services and things that we can provide.
Adam, do you have any things to add there?
Yeah, regarding our objective
about updating signage on campus,
there was a question or a suggestion
that in addition to providing
multiple languages there,
we also look into providing broad
linguistic support across campus,
including including translation
services to our students.
I think you captured it. Thanks Sir.
Excellent, great job, great job.
Thanks so much to Group A there.
Appreciate that.
Let's go ahead and keep rolling
here everybody.
We're going to Group B and this group was
really centered on teaching and learning,
ensuring that all teaching and learning
processes in body equity centered principles.
Please take it away.
Group B.
Thank you,
I will lean on E and also to jumping
in whenever I missed something here,
but let me summarize what I from my
notes first in the very first goal,
I mean objectively had on
professional development.
We were asked to we would you know,
the feedback we got was in the
word implement was probably a
little weak and maybe we should
have a stronger word that suggests
mandating professional development.
We were.
We were also asked how we would
measure certain.
Aspects of Community College culture.
For example,
how do you measure the phrase,
encourage communication?
And so we talked about putting
down structures 1st and then using
those structures to implement
a change in college culture.
And we also talked about implementing
a climate survey which might
give us some information on it,
but it is difficult to measure
things like creating safe spaces.
We talked about starting first in
terms of the hiring process to
start with the DHPD and the D2 S 2.
Documents and process.
We also talked about.
Let's see.
So what we need in terms of program
assessment we talked about how
we can create blind spots if we
only engage in self assessment
and maybe we should encourage.
People from outside our unit to help
us see those blind spots instead of
and go ahead with the spirit of not.
Not a gotcha spirit as much as how
can we better serve our students?
And what do you see is working out?
I know I've missed something so
Ian you took notes you want to add
to that for sure that she did a
great job of capturing some of the
most critical points a couple more.
We had a comment on in making a
cultural change like in our culture,
college culture, how come.
It's hard to create a College
of a climate of trust without a
climate of accountability,
and the point was made that some
there's some deeper fundamental
changes that need to be made.
First, we talked a lot about
the process of cultural change.
It's not something that you
can just implement like a new
policy or a new structure.
Rather,
it's something that you have to grow very,
very intentionally.
And very reflectively,
we also got some feedback about
adding in references to resources
already available for professional
development around the state,
including statewide initiatives as well
as programs being made at other colleges.
Alright, thank you so much.
He tried Ian. Great job there.
I heard a lot of good stuff in
there and particularly around
the climate of accountability.
I heard Teacher mentioned.
How do we measure this in some
of these things are difficult to
measure and that's kind of the next
part of our of our work together.
Is thinking how we can determine
ways to track and measure success.
So appreciate that group so much.
The next group that we're going to
hear from everyone is let's see here.
Group C educational programs and
support services. Please take it away.
Yep, thank you.
Alright, I'll try to keep ours brief.
We had some great feedback from our group.
In relation to objective number
one support student pathways and
transitions to through and beyond the
green over there was a big focus on
the Beyond understanding and getting
more information from our students
have already transitioned onto
employment or University programs.
There is a general consensus that we
want to know more about how they're
doing and how we can help them
be better at that transition into
their professional or University.
Stage in their in their journey
and so we talked a lot about data,
an alumni, an expanding what we already.
Do try to get information from our
University partners as well as from
industry objective #2 streamline
support service delivery and awareness
by engaging and educating students,
faculty and staff.
So we talked about making sure that
this expanded beyond just like the
student services and the and the full
time faculty really be intentional
about making sure the adjuncts are part
of this education in this training,
making sure that they are also being
apart of some of the solutions in terms
of how we deliver information to our
students into our faculty and staff.
Also,
expanding beyond student services
and other frontline staff who are in
other areas outside of the student
affairs and student union building,
so that was also something we focused
on quite a bit and I checked it 3 build
a robust crew services Department,
increased pre employment activities
that prepare all students for
professional opportunities and
strengthen industry partnerships.
So and that we had,
we didn't have as much time
'cause we were really.
You know, focus on the 1st two objectives,
but some of the feedback was
expanding crew services beyond
just you know our traditional.
Next up in professional opportunities,
but looking at how are you in our University?
Down students are getting careers
beyond their their University pathway
and combining some of the work
that was being done in the other
working groups regarding community.
Like a Community Center community
service center and we saw a lot of
intersections between those two.
Activities as well alright, Laurie,
or anyone else in my group for Group C.
did I miss anything? I tried to be broad.
No, you got it all OK.
Then hit it out the park.
Thank you so much.
Allison Lorriane Group C.
Appreciate that everyone I want to
encourage folks to use the chat.
If you'd like it here.
Things that are piquing your interest
or that she'd like to comment on,
please feel free to share that
in your own words via chat.
We'd love to hear it.
Let's go ahead and go to our next
group everyone, and that is Group D,
organizational structure
systems and processes.
Take it away please.
Thank you if that was me and assume who Nan.
Great feedback we received that
will be able to take back to
the workgroup and consider.
We spent a bit of time.
The first objective that we had
was for ensuring all recruitment
and hiring processes are built on
equity principles and so the phrase
identify and eliminate inherent
biases received some feedback,
and perhaps if we just remove
the word inherent,
it would flow better and actually be
a little more succinct and deliberate,
and so we're going to take that back.
That feedback back and also the word
eliminate elicited some discussion.
Is that something that we
are ultimately able to do?
And so we did have a conversation
about being bold and putting things
into place that we really wanted
to achieve as as a as a college.
So again,
will be taking that back to the
workgroup for consideration
and I'll pass it too soon for
some additional feedback soon.
Extensive, um,
we also had quite a few hours, I think.
Well,
at least two objectives that kind of
pertain to employees at Green River.
Once the onboarding and professional
development process and the
other ones are defined.
Governance structure with
employee involvement.
So those two kind of also had we
spent some time discussing what
the processor should look like and
how do we get employees involved
and giving them a clear direction.
On what being an employee at Green
River essentially is an it should
not just be a chars role to give
us all of that that it should
encompass within our Department,
San and the key thing is how do
we retain our pool so when we
work on the ways to measure,
we need to be more clear about
identifying how are we doing?
How are we trying to achieve
all of these things that we're
seeing in our objectives?
And I think we also had some we
didn't have enough time clearly,
so we had some.
Good conversation on our chat as well,
and I saved that so we can
share that with our work group.
We also talked a little bit about D3.
Well in the chat about kind
of equitable way of ensuring
that our physical locations in
our constituencies get.
Fair consideration for funding policies,
processes,
programs and facilities space and whatnot,
and somebody brought up that
hopefully we are also including our
adjunct faculty and considering
office spaces for them and possibly
equitable facility and maintenance
to buildings and programs.
So those are really good feedback
that will take back to our work
group an we ran out of time like
I'm sure everyone else did as well,
so they too are are small work.
Really appreciate feedback,
nice job, nice job.
And what I heard there was a lot
of overlap and synergy with their
synergy with our next group which
is around facilities facilities,
an technology.
So I'm going to ask that
group to take it away please.
We just have two more groups
folks facilities.
Next step slowly taking it over and will
keep it pretty high level given our time.
We had some suggestions in terms
of how we might be able to.
We can combine a few of our goals,
so for facilities we had two that
were very focused on signage,
so both internal and then one
independently of external,
and how we might be able to combine
that into one objective given
us room to play with a little
bit more goals and objectives,
one of which was identified of being
able to address the physical spaces
of our building and creating some sort
of plan for that is proactive on updating.
The needs of our campus facilities.
So potential five year plan that
would allow for campus transparency
and allow individuals to know what's
next on the docket for renovation,
upkeep,
upgrades and the like.
Additional areas of interests are pulling
out in highlighting parking in particular,
so not just on our main campus,
but on our kids campus as well,
which oftentimes struggles with parking
at peak times during the Kent station needs,
and then one that I really enjoyed
was a way to acknowledge the
land that we use and how we are
located on so potentially using
signage for Atlantic Knowledgement,
but also highlighting the
indigenous plants and.
Difference landscaping that we do on
campus that highlight the Pacific
Northwest and the area that we get to
call hope on the technology front,
the main one that was in addition
to our current objectives was to
continue offering the computer
loan program and just calling that
out specifically.
Alright, nice job, feel nice job to group.
I think it's F their facilities in
technology really appreciate that
everyone what I heard and that was
the landing knowledgement being
coming more and more crucial to
acknowledge the land that we were on,
both from indigenous standpoint of
the individuals but also the plants
which is also something really
important to the Green River community.
And then I also heard you say
that having this plan talk to the
Facilities master plan if you will,
that this planning processes is
still working in coordination and
collaboration with the other ongoing
planning processes for the campus.
So thanks so much. Will appreciate that.
Last but not least, everyone,
we are rounding out in the home
stretch here everyone and we are
going to go to community connections.
Next community connections go F.
Take it away. Alright everybody.
Thanks again for having us.
So for goal F we had some great
conversation and we received some
great feedback about our objectives.
For our first objective regarding the
Green River website and social media,
people really just wanted to make
sure that we are aware that we do
have students of varying ages, right?
Instagram is not going to be the best
way to connect with all of our students,
so to be aware of that for
our second objective,
which was related to the equity
focused and the verbage that we
used was customer service training
and that feel felt field that felt
a little bit transactional for some
people which I can agree with.
I think that's a valid point.
So kind of reworking the language that
we use here and what that looks like.
People were also wondering why we felt
like that needed to be an external training,
and so I think that's something
for our group to further discuss.
Finally our third objective.
We had the most conversation
around this and that was the
centralized community focused office.
I think that this idea is kind of
a big umbrella office that would
cover a variety of issues,
so we wanted to we need to work
on the wording to clarify.
What exactly is happening in this
office and to further discuss how this
would integrate with existing offices
and services that we provide at the college?
And also I I see Carlos in the
chat had had was wondering about
community partnerships and social
justice based organizations.
So I think that group Group F
will need to revisit how this is
working with both businesses and
community based organizations.
Um?
And I think just in general,
how the campus will interact with it.
So we have a lot to further discuss there,
but we got a lot of great feedback.
Nicely done, thank you so much for that
Amanda and great job to that group.
Group F there everyone.
Let's give ourselves a round of applause.
We covered a lot of ground here today.
Let's give it up ourselves here.
Everybody really appreciate
your participation.
We still have 120 people here
so we didn't bore you to tears.
Which is fine.
Fantastic,
we appreciate you all making time
to be with us today.
I do want to give you a sense of
what's coming next in our process
and then I'm going to hand it over
to our Co chairs. Marcie in Georgia.
I want to pull up my screen here
quickly just to share with you
all what's coming next.
What do you have to look forward to?
So in terms of next steps,
everyone, we're going to revisit
our process graphic here,
which is also available on our website.
On the plan website I should say
all of your groups will take time
to take in this feedback and to
really think more more strategically
about how they can
integrate the ideas and input that
you shared in the conversation today.
They'll also be a survey that goes
out likely by the end of this week
for you all to provide additional
input that those workgroups will take
into account and further revise and
flesh out these objectives to really.
Address the comments and ideas
that we heard here today,
though, then report back to the
steering committee meeting.
We have an upcoming conversation
on April 5th coming up and then
another meeting on April 26 as well,
so that will feed into what
we're calling the administrative
draft of the plan everyone.
And from there we want to share that
out with the campus community and
we'll have a series of online forms
online comment forms for people to give
input all throughout the month of May,
and that will ultimately lead
to the final draft plan.
And then you'll have a board of Trustees
meeting that will happen as well so.
Encourage you all to check the
website for more details about dates.
To see some of the other materials
that have been created from
the beginning of the process.
Until now,
we want this to be very transparent for
you to have all the information you
need to help make informed decisions
and ensure your thoughts and ideas.
So again,
I want to thank you all so much
for making time to be with us.
I'm going to go ahead and pass it
over to Marcie and George should
just share some closing comments
before we wrap up everyone.
I want to say thanks a million to folks
again for the time and effort you've put
into our facilitators and the theme,
theme group members and also
to the steering committee,
really excited to see this work continue
and again appreciate the time and
effort that our campus is put into
this and I'll I will end there Marcie.
This one, this reiterate that,
and also say again, as Jamila said,
we're going to have a survey but will
also have a discussion board on Canvas
and will also have the strategic
planning website you can go to and there
are going to be lots of opportunities
for giving input over the next.
Basically there like the last
few months of this process,
but for this town Hall as well,
so that will be out this week.
And thank you so much.
Excellent everyone is Doctor Johnson.
Are you still here with us?
I am I would just want to give you the
closing final word of the day. Here.
I want to thank everyone for being here,
Doctor Johnson.
Please take us on home if you don't mind.
Oh my OK. This is been amazing work.
I see themes across the Golden framework.
I think this is honoring so much of
the every aspect of conversations that
have a curd over the past couple of years.
Especially I feel that things are
converging and it's becoming a
culmination of so many small group and
larger college engagement processes.
You are just.
It's amazing work that's happening
and I know that how this evolves and
comes tighter and tighter together.
Things will become very clear and
stay tuned to a video message that
you'll be getting from me at the
start of the spring permanent few
weeks because I'll try to bring some
things home around this work taken.
Excellent, thank you so much everyone.
Be well, will talk to you all soon.
Have a great rest of your day.
Thank you everybody.
Bye bye, stay safe.