CREATING A FUTURE FORWARD COLLEGE

Unlearn or Forget It!!

Moderator: Rick Smyre – Communities of the Future

Panelists: Butch Grove – Wake Tech Community College

Benita Budd – Wake Tech Community College

Larry Darlage – Tarrant County College

     

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

  ~Alvin Toffler

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STRONG BELIEFS WILL KILL YOU

WHAT IF “TRUTH” ISN’TTHREE STAGES OF A NEW IDEASELF-IMPOSED BARRIERS ADAPT, ADAPT!!

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FROM CONCRETENESS TO COMFORT WITH UNCERTAINTY

THE WAY WE ARE TAUGHT TO THINKLEFT BRAIN-RIGHT BRAINEMERGENCE

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Thomas Reid

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Keith Richards

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FROM HYPER-COMPETITION TO COLLABORATION

THE INDIVIDUAL AS SACROSANCTFROM WHENCE ONE’S IDENTITY?WHEN WORLDS COLLIDESHIFT FROM ONE TO MANY

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THE NEW SCIENCE OF RISK TAKING AND MISTAKE MAKING

IN TURBULENT TIMES THE RISK IS NOT TAKING IT!BE BOLD…BUT NOT FOOLISH!

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WHAT YOU THOUGHT JUST AIN’T SO

THE CHALLENGE OF BEING TRULY OPENWHAT? THAT CAN’T BE RIGHT!!

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Key Concepts a Future Forward College

Transdisciplinary LearningIdentify Weak SignalsAnalogous ComplexityDICE

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“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ~ Lao Tzu

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Evolution of a Future Forward College at Wake Tech

Butch Grove

“Much of what we teach is looking back, we need to focus more on the future.”

Steve Scott - President, Wake Tech11

Beginnings of the Future Forward College

2009

• How to develop a “futures culture” at Wake Tech that supports transformational learning?

• Scott, White, Ryan, and Smyre

• Center for Strategic Futures was created

• Speaker series began

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Speaker Series Format

2009

• Breakfast with Faculty

• Campus-wide Student Assemble

• Lunch and Learn

• Afternoon Dialogs

• Seed transformation learning, not directed it.

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Prominent Speakers

2009

• Thomas Frey – Da Vinci Institute

• Marv Centron – Forecasting International

• Rick Smyre – COTF

• Stan Litow – IBM

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Transforming Leaders

2011

• Jan-June: Monthly half-day coaching

sessions

• Facilitator – Rick Smyre

• Participants – VPs, Deans & Department

Heads

• Topics included…

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Transformational Topics

2011

• Transformation Leadership, Megatrends and Futures Context

• Week Signals and Thinking Systemically

• Asking Appropriate Questions and Connecting Disparate Ideas

• Building Parallel Process, Applying Chaos and Complexity Theories, Creating Interlocking Networks

• Looking for Access Points and Futures Generative Dialog

• Identifying Risks and Community Transformation

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Transformational Leadership Outcomes

2011

• Future Forward College

• 47 Key Ideas

• Concepts embodied in various

organizational areas

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“How are you preparing students for careers that don’t exist yet?”Steve Scott - President, Wake Tech

Building a Future Forward College Network

2012

• Two day retreat at Wake Tech with other connections in

Smyre’s network

• Goal: To develop a network of colleges in different states

interested in collaborating to enhance and spread the

ideas and methods of transformation learning

• Wake Tech – 10

• Tarrant CC – 5

• Blue Grass CC

• Other CC leaders

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Seeding FFC Concepts in the Classroom

2013

• Budd recruited and developed a Future

Forward Faculty group at Wake Tech

• Monthly meeting with Smyre to introduce

futures thinking

• Outcomes: Shifts in thinking and classroom

facilitation, and transformational

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Expansion of FFC Network and Classroom Integration

2014

• Now Over 75 FFC faculty at Wake Tech• Future Forward Fellow• Two-day Conference April 4-5• Learn and Apply 6 Principles of Futurist

Thinking• 84 Participants from 9 states• 12 colleges/universities and 17

business/organizations

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1. Kitchen/Prep Area

2. Mixing Bowls & Cooking Utensils

3. Recipe

4. Ingredients

5. Preparation

6. Heat

7. Cooking Time

8. Results (delicious, we hope)

Cooking Up the Future

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Benita Budd

CommunityItem One:

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Item Two:

College Container23

Item Three: A Good Recipe

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Item four:

Quality Ingredients25

Item five:

Preparation time26

Item Six:

Pressure

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Item Seven:

Cooking Time28

Item Eight:

Results

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Larry Darlage

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Innovation Forum

The Innovation Forum is a process for developing ideas or initiatives that impact student success at TCC, and a framework for building an understanding of how initiatives measure against TCC’s institutional goals.

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DREAM SCORING KEY

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Cost Per Student

A calculation of Cost per Student, or the cost to implement the initiative divided by the number of students impacted by the initiative.

Cost of Initiative ÷ Total Impacted Students

= Cost Per Student

Threshold $ 3000

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Community Impact

Dollars contributed to Tarrant County produced by the initiative

Primary components of the community impact number:

- Increase in student Enrollment & Related TCC tuition impact

- Student Job Placement Rate and salary contribution- Student Transfers to 4 Year Universities in Tarrant County- Incremental TCC staff salaries

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ExampleThe Return on Student

Investment ROSI is the bubble on the quadrants which is

the total of DREAM Cost/Student, and Community Impact

The size of the bubble reflects the Community Impact

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DREAM

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Networking the Future Forward College

1) Contact Wake Tech, COTF, Tarrant County College or WFS.

2) Creating Individual, Futures Projects, and Comprehensive College Networks

3) Use the Principles of Complex Adaptive Systems to Seed and Grow the FFC Network: Connecting and Emergence

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Q&AContact InformationRick Smyre rlsmyre@aol.com

Butch Grove rhgrove@waketech.edu

Benita Budd babudd@waketech.edu

Larry Darlage larry.darlage@tccd.edu

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