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- Our speaker needs
no introduction,

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and I know it sounds
like a cliché,

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but really, Brice Harris needs
no introduction.

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But I still need to
introduce him.

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Now in his third year of service
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he has previously
served 16 years

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as the chancellor of Los Rios,
and before that,

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he was the president of
Fresno City College.

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Before coming to California,

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I think many of you know that he
lived in Kansas City,

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where he was both an
administrator and faculty member

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at the community colleges there.

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Recognized nationally
as a leader,

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Brice has served on
a host of local,

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state and national boards
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simply too many to name.

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But what makes Brice
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is his steadfast commitment to
both civic and community work.

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For that, he was named the 2010
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and was recently honored as the
Humanitarian of the Year

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by the United Cerebral Palsy of
Sacramento.

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On a personal note, Brice has
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but a personal friend.

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For nearly two decades, when we
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in Yosemite, about two decades
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one-on-one conversation,

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and the friendship has only
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I will miss him dearly, and
we will certainly miss

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his presence throughout
the state.

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Thank you very much for your
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I can't thank you enough, Brice.

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Without further ado, I' d like
to introduce to the stage

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your chancellor, Brice Harris.

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- Thank you, Ron, and thanks to
all of you for being here.

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Today's State
of the System Address

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is going to be a little bit
different than normal,

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so let's pause for a moment
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about today' s students
in the beginning

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of the State of the System
Report.

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- We are direction seekers.

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We are original thinkers.

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We are adventurers setting out
for the first time.

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We are revealing hidden
passions.

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We are discovering new talents,
uncovering hidden opportunities.

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We are creating
new ways to connect.

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We are collaborators, innovators
and thinkers.

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We are younger, older,
and everyone in-between.

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We are pioneers, first in the
family to attend.

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We are reinventing ourselves.

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We are shaping new lives and new
futures for all of California.

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We are 113 colleges made up of
millions of innovative,

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diverse and dedicated
individuals.

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We are the California Community
Colleges.

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- I do again want to welcome you

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to the 2015 State of
the System Report.

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This is the fourth of the
State of the System Reports

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I've had the opportunity
to give and, as you know,

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it will be my last.

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And as a result of that,
I am going to give you

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some of the topline numbers on
the state of our system.

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But in addition to that,
this evening,

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we'll try to put a face
on the system,

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and you'll meet some of
our best and brightest,

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some of the more than two
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in California's community
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But let's stop for a moment

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and take a look at the system
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As all of us know, we've been
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really on two driving forces
we'll report on this evening.

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The first of those is restoring

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and hopefully ultimately
increasing the access

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to our system.

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And we'll talk about some of
those numbers as we progress.

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In addition to that we' ve been
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over the past many years on
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Now, it' s really been the role

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of California's community
colleges for decades

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but over the past few years

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with the leadership of the Board
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the state of the system has
really focused on improving

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student success.

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And then, as a result of our
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the Board of Governors
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for the system.

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And that is workforce
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economic development, and the
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community colleges in those
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So, let's start first by
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and it's great news that our
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although it is very
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As you can see, back in
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we had nearly 2.7 million
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and we saw our enrollment drop
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in '12-'13.

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And as we know, the rationing
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for all of us.

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we've seen our numbers began to
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even though that's very slow.

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However, this next slide
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priming the pump.

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As you can see, back in
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we had 425,000 core sections

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in the California Community
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and that dropped down to below
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However, as you can see, we' ve
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significantly, thanks to Prop
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and the work all of
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we're back up very close to
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our noncredit as well as our
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is beginning to be restored.

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Part of the reason that
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in addition to the drop
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in the adult penetration rate in
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it actually got very close to 90
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in California.

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About one out of every 11 adults

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that you'd run into on the
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at a California Community
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That number dropped by '11-'12
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we hope to hit rock bottom
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What a terrible rationing
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Now only about one
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and what that meant was a denial
of access for literally hundreds

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of thousands of Californians.

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One of the things our students
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with is their financial ability
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And so it is tremendous
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that we're celebrating
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the 30th anniversary of the
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This program has helped

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more than five million
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and that gives you an idea of
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When you look at those
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another 500,000 students
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About $5 billion the citizens
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in the future of our students
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But let' s stop
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one of our students.

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Let me introduce you to Tamika.

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- My name
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and I am a student at
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Trying to leave
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after I had my children,

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I was shot in the back. In a
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had my throat slit, my son died,
and my girls were abducted.

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When life throws you punches,
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I moved to Bakersfield in 2007
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Went for a job I totally
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and they told me I didn't
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and I couldn't have the job.

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That very day that I
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I walked onto the campus of BC.

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If you are someone with children

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or you're looking
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you get directed
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I felt loved and I felt accepted
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from the moment that I walked
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Every resource that our campus
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I have used over and above
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As a mother of eight children,

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there would be no way to
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to a childcare place.

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My childcare facility
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That's an asset.

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That's something that allows me
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Online learning, what I loved
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was I could still live
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If kids need
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I didn't have to leave
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The best thing I found out about
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is the AA would transfer.

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Mine would be communication,
and I have a few colleges

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that I would like to pursue.

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I want to fight for policy and I
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in this world.

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- Ladies and gentlemen,
meet Tamika.

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Tamika, I--

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- Good evening, everyone.

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- I was very interested in your
comments about going to college.

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Can you tell us a little bit
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at Bakersfield College?

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- My first day.

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With someone who deals
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and having one lung,

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I looked at the campus
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and said, boy, this
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How am I going to tackle this?

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And I remember saying, well,

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I'm here, so I guess
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And I started down the walkway
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and alongside of me pulled
up a cart, SGA cart,

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and a sweet gentleman said,
"Do you need a ride?"

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And I looked at him, angel sent
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So, I hopped onto the cart,

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and that began my journey at
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But it is things like that, the
caring, the taking the time

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to make somebody feel important
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about the community level.

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- Tamika, we can always do
better at our job.

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What advice do you have for us?

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- I, as a promising
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I believe that we need
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I wish for the community
colleges to adopt a program

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like ours at Bakersfield College

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that was piloted by the Office
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where student ambassadors are
trained to be professionals

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while they engage and coach
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whether it be certificate degree
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or to transfer.

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- Thank you, Tamika.

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Now, let' s talk for a moment
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and we do have some really good
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We have some troubling news,
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But first, let me remind all of
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about a little more than a year
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set goals for our system
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of student success.

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I'm going to share some of the
topline numbers with you.

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This is about all
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The report will be released next
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we'll drill down into more
specificity.

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But I would remind all of us
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has directed us to both improve
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but especially to pay attention

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to closing the gaps of
performance of our students

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by race and ethnicity,
by gender and age.

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So, these are overall numbers
I'm going to share with you.

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But in December, you'll get much
more detailed information.

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The building block of
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is the successful course
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And it's good to see
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moving in the right direction,

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about a four-point improvement
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Now, you may say to yourself,

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well, that' s not a very
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But remember, you apply that to
nearly 400,000 core sections

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offered up and down the state

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and more than two million
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and you get an idea of what even
one percentage point means

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in terms of improving
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And so this is certainly a
direction we'd like to see.

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This is an even more dramatic
improvement.

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These are the annual awards,

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degrees, and certificates given
out by our system.

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And this shows you a 40 percent
improvement just in the last

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four years alone--
five years alone.

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And it was during a time when
our enrollment was going down.

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So our enrollment was going down
and our awards were going up.

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This is certainly information
that we like to see

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and hope to see continue.

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Now, these next six slides will
show you those key metrics

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in our Scorecard.

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And I would remind all of you,

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if you hadn't had a chance

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to go on the website
of your own college

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where that blue background

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and those yellow letters that
say Scorecard,

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you can click on that and see
how each

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and every one of your
colleges is doing.

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And you can see how the state
average compares.

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Now, these next few metrics

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show you those key success
indicators we monitor,

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the first of those being
the completion of 30 units,

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which we know help students

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succeed in greater
and greater rates.

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And as you can see,
over the last few years,

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we've seen a modest,

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about a percent and a half
improvement in that number,

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and that's certainly
the right direction.

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Again, you have to keep in mind
that these numbers

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move very slowly,
but you have to apply them

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to two-plus million students.

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The next one is the persistence
metrics and these are students

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that come to us and come back at
least two consecutive terms.

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And, of course, we know again
that greater persistence

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means greater student success.

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And these numbers dipped a bit
in '10 and '11,

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but now they are beginning to
tail upward again.

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The next three metrics are
remedial education metrics,

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the first of them being math.

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And again, you can see a trend

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that we certainly
want to continue.

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I can't tell you how much all of
us appreciate the work

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you're doing at the local level
to improve basic skills

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and remedial education.

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These measure the students
in our colleges

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that started below
college level work

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and, within a certain
period of time,

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finally completed at least one
college-level class

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in that area.

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Now, we all know that
it's unacceptable

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to have only 31 percent of our
students ultimately completing

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remedial math, and we need
remedial math

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and college-level math,

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and we need to make these
numbers better.

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Apparently, you're beginning to
do just that in your colleges

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up and down the state.

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English has softened a bit
this year.

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But again, the trend was in the
right direction,

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and hopefully will be again.

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Our colleges are working very
hard and we have seen

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in a lot of the work that
you've done in this regard.

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This is a trend we want
certainly to enhance.

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And the same thing with English
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we see again trending in the
right direction,

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the number of students that are
completing those programs.

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However, the next metric is the
most troubling in the deck,

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in that it shows us that the
alpha metric,

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the one we most measure,
which is completion,

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is turned in the
wrong direction.

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We saw it go up in '08-'09,
'09-'10, '10-'11 and '11-'12,

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and it's begun to soften again.

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Now, let me remind you what's
behind these numbers

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and that is that if a student

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comes to us prepared to go to
college,

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they're still succeeding
at roughly 70 percent.

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However what's really driven
this down is that students

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who come to us in need
of remediation

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are now less than 40 percent
likely to complete successfully.

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And as you know,
three of every four students

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that come into our colleges
are unprepared,

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they need remediation in either
math or English, or both.

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And so this is a metric that
will trail behind the ones

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you saw a moment ago.

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And hopefully, the trends
that we're seeing

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will begin to lift this.

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But this simply must change

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and this is what
the Board of Governors

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has set goals for us over
the next 10 years,

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and that we will be monitoring
not only at the state level

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and at the college level, but
will disaggregate this data

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by race and ethnicity,
by gender and age.

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But let's take a moment to meet
another of our students, Omar.

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- My name is Omar Rodriguez,

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and I'm a student at Irvine
Valley College.

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Growing up, I had a learning
disability,

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and I also was an
English-language learner.

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In high school, I had a teacher
that basically told me that

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because I struggled in math,
maybe college wasn't for me.

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Going into community college,

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I did have days where I
was, like, why am I here?

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I was not used to
a college campus.

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I didn't know how it was
going to be like.

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We have really great teachers.

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One time, I was really
struggling in math,

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and one of my teachers
basically told me

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I'm not giving up on you,

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and helped me pass the class.

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It boosted up my self-esteem
to the max.

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The professors, even the
librarians influenced me

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by just smiling
and waving at you.

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It just makes you
have a great day.

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I took public speaking,

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which was one of the general
required classes,

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and that's how I found out about
the communications major.

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I'm getting my associates
degree for transfer,

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so I can be prepared if I were
to go to a Cal State.

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Without financial aid, it would
be very, very difficult for me

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to attend college.

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Thankfully, I received
the BOG waiver,

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the Cal Grant and
the Pell Grant.

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I do all the volunteering on
campus and off campus

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because I like giving back to
the community.

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People doubted me in high school

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and thought I couldn't
go to college,

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but here I am, with a plan to go
to a four-year university

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and get a masters degree
from Stanford University.

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- Let' s meet Omar.

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Omar, I was intrigued with your
story about your experience

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in high school and, you know,
the difficulty you had making

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that transition.

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Tell us a little bit about
that conversation

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with that high school counselor.

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- Yes, so I got to meet with the
counselor to take very--

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like, the classes I needed
to go into a college,

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and basically, she looked at all
the classes I chose,

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crossed them out and just threw
it away, through my plan away,

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and tried to make
a different plan

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that had nothing to do with me
going straight to a college.

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And thinking about all that at
the moment is like in a way

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it's like crushing a
student's dreams,

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because you want to like take
those challenging classes

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and better yourself and prepare
yourself for a higher education.

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- But you didn't give up.

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You persisted.

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- No, sir.

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That's why I' m here today.

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- Tell us what advice you have
for us to do even better.

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- I believe there should
be like a program

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or some sort of orientation

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for students coming
in from high school

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into community college system,
or college in general,

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just to prepare students of all
the programs available to them,

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like the grants, the EOPS, DSPS,

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and ways to get involved on
campus, because that's just

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going to benefit them.

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And, like we always say, we care
about all the students.

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I care about all the students,
as well as all of you.

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So thank you very much.

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- Thank you, Omar.

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Let's talk for a minute about
some of the building blocks

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of student success, and the
first of those being transfer.

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As all of us know, the transfer
numbers in recent years

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have been constrained not by
anything we did,

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but by the fact that CSU
and UC were unable

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to take our transfers.

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In fact, as you can see,

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in '11-'12 and '12-'13, they
literally shut down

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spring admission for our
transfers.

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What we've seen, thankfully,
is a return to the growth

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in transfer.

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And with the CSU, that is driven
significantly by the hard work

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all of you have done on the
associate degree for transfer.

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That program has now,

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as a result of our faculty's
hard work

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over the past three years,

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created almost 2,000 new
transfer degrees

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in the state.

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And you can you can see how
popular they've become.

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In the first year, only a few
hundred students utilized them.

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That number went to 5,000 in
year two, doubled in year three,

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and almost doubled
again this year.

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And what's really important and
behind these numbers is the fact

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that these transfer degrees
document the progress

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of our students.

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In the past in transferring to
the UC or the CSU,

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many of them only earned 56 or
58 or 60 units,

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didn't complete the degree
with us and went ahead

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and transferred.

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And as we know, life has a
tendency to intervene

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occasionally and a lot of the
students were unable

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to ultimately finish
the bachelor's degree,

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and had no documentation of all
the hard work they've done.

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Now, these students
are leaving our institutions

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with a college degree in hand.

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And no matter what happens to
them they are able to document

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and prove the work they've done
and the success they've had.

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We've seen
the University of California

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begin to trend up
again, as well.

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Many of you probably attended
the ACCT conference

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that was held in San Diego
earlier this year,

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and heard President Napolitano
compliment all the work

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you're doing.

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She said, from the podium,
to all of the assembled folks

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from across the country,

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that California's community
colleges students do as well

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or better than their native
students.

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And she's really putting her
energy behind her rhetoric

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in that she and her colleagues
have created 11 new transfer

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pathways and have 10 more under
construction.

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When they finish all 21
of those,

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they tell us that will
accommodate more than 80 percent

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of our transfer students.

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And so, she's underscored,
finally,

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the university's previous
commitment

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which they'd never lived up to,

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to admit one community college
transfer for every two freshmen

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new students they enter.

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And again, if they follow
through and do that,

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and these numbers
continue to grow,

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we're likely to see not only
more of our students,

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but more of our students
representing more

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of our colleges up and
down the state.

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In addition to that, though,

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we've seen a lowering of the
transfer of our students,

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especially to in-state private
colleges and universities.

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As you can see, the blue bars
across the top are

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the out-of-state public and
private colleges,

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and those have remained
relatively stable.

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Most of the loss is taking place
in the in-state.

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This is probably
a fairly direct correlation

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with our squeezing off
enrollment

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and fewer of our students
being able to complete,

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because they couldn't
get the classes.

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So we are likely to see this
begin to tail back up

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in the future.

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Another really important
population we serve,

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and they come to us, and many of
them do ultimately transfer,

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is our veterans.

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I think it's exciting news that
we have nearly 70 new

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veterans resource centers

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over the last few years
in our system.

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And additionally, we serve more
than 70,000 active-duty military

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and veterans in the system.

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This group is likely to grow and
grow dramatically in the future.

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So I'd like to introduce you to
another one of our students,

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who is not a vet himself,

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but he's had a lot to do with
veterans.

494
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,200
Meet Gary.

495
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,200
- I' m Gary Walker-Roberts.

496
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:25,600
I am at Los Medanos
College alum.

497
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,920
The reason why I didn't go to
college right after high school

498
00:24:28,999 --> 00:24:30,440
is because of financial
struggles.

499
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:35,320
And I was really finding out who
I was, my personal identity.

500
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:39,480
So, my best bet was to get into
the employment world,

501
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,999
and so I started in cosmetics.

502
00:24:42,999 --> 00:24:46,040
I would always drive by Los
Medanos College on my way home,

503
00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:47,920
because it's my community
college.

504
00:24:47,999 --> 00:24:51,840
And I always had this inkling to
be successful and to go back

505
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,040
and get a degree.

506
00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:58,040
I met with the counselors, and I
got a Pathway Program of Success

507
00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:01,480
to be able to pick out what
night classes I could take,

508
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:06,560
and then also subsidize it
with the online classes.

509
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,000
We had some
of the same professors

510
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,680
that teach at some of the
big-name universities

511
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,999
in the Bay Area,
and they knew who I was,

512
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,800
I knew who they were,
and they just love to teach.

513
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,200
The passion just came through.

514
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:20,880
Being a part of the community,

515
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,480
I really wanted
to get some great experience

516
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,080
with civic leadership,
so I joined the government,

517
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:31,520
and with that, becoming
president of the student body.

518
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,200
I have a big love
for our veterans,

519
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,160
and I'm married to a veteran.

520
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,320
He retired from the Marine
Corps after 24 years.

521
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,080
Now that we have
all of our veterans

522
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,840
coming back to the community
colleges to get that education,

523
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:48,760
it's very important that we have

524
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,680
the accessibility
and the equity.

525
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,640
On campus, a lot of the veterans
were voicing their opinions

526
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,840
about not having of veterans
resource center.

527
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,240
And we had a wonderful
appreciation dinner

528
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,999
and the outcomes that were from
that dinner is that we are now

529
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,920
having our first veterans
resource center on campus,

530
00:26:07,999 --> 00:26:10,960
launching in spring 2016.

531
00:26:10,999 --> 00:26:14,800
I got my degree in behavioral
and social sciences,

532
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,080
and that was going to give
me a pathway

533
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,560
to transfer to CSU East Bay, for
their ethnic studies, sexuality,

534
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,080
and gender identity.

535
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,080
But I did return back to brush
up on some skills.

536
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,960
It's very important
in California to understand

537
00:26:30,999 --> 00:26:32,720
and to speak Spanish.

538
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,040
So, I am one class away from my
Spanish certificate.

539
00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:39,999
It's helping me to navigate the
space of international travel

540
00:26:39,999 --> 00:26:41,840
and international business.

541
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,800
But I also have my eye on being
that civic leader,

542
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,880
whether it's in our community
or beyond.

543
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,480
I certainly am a testimonial
to sit here and advocate

544
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:58,880
for the community college system
in California.

545
00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:05,680
- Now, as you can see,

546
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,999
Gary is not with us today,
and we really had hoped

547
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,680
all of our students
would be with us.

548
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,320
But he's got a good excuse.

549
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,999
Gary is attending a mandatory
training for his new job.

550
00:27:14,999 --> 00:27:18,999
He just started with a Northern
California biotech company.

551
00:27:18,999 --> 00:27:21,560
He's going to be in retail sales
and marketing,

552
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,960
and he has California and Hawaii
as his territories.

553
00:27:25,999 --> 00:27:28,200
And he told us on the phone
that in conversations

554
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,400
he'd had in the last few days,

555
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,480
because of that Spanish
certificate that he earned,

556
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,440
that they're considering giving
him South America

557
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,680
as a territory, as well.

558
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,920
So, we're going to let Gary off
the hook today

559
00:27:40,999 --> 00:27:45,080
and just ask you to give him one
more round of applause.

560
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,999
Now, some other activities in
support of our colleges

561
00:27:51,999 --> 00:27:54,480
and ultimately in support of
student success,

562
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,920
obviously, our budget is a lot
better than it was.

563
00:27:57,999 --> 00:27:59,720
Actually, if you go back to
'08-'09,

564
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,360
we were at about $6.5 billion in
the system,

565
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,960
and we dropped down below 6
billion in '11-'12.

566
00:28:06,999 --> 00:28:08,360
And as you can imagine,

567
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,080
inflation was going on at that
time, as well.

568
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,760
In fact, until this year,

569
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,999
when we got $7.7 billion
in the system,

570
00:28:16,999 --> 00:28:18,999
we were still not back to where

571
00:28:18,999 --> 00:28:22,999
we were inflation-adjusted
in '08-'09.

572
00:28:22,999 --> 00:28:24,999
If you look at these numbers,
back in '08-'09,

573
00:28:24,999 --> 00:28:28,280
we actually had about $5,450 per
each student.

574
00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:33,040
Our numbers now are up to $6,650
and that, for the first time,

575
00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:35,680
really is more funding
per student

576
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,280
than we've had in the past.

577
00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:40,240
I think the troubling thing
about these bars is you can

578
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,240
still see those orange bars

579
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,680
show you the state general fund
contribution to our budget,

580
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,160
and that's the money that we can
truly depend on.

581
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:53,240
The blue bars include property
taxes and student fees, which,

582
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,640
as we know, occasionally, there
are shortfalls,

583
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,400
and we don't get all
of that money.

584
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:01,080
But it is truly a much better
budget time that it was.

585
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:06,200
Dan Troy told us yesterday that
the legislative analyst office

586
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:10,120
has suggested we are going to
probably see about $250 million

587
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,320
in one-time-only
money next year,

588
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,480
settling out from the last
couple of years,

589
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,999
and that we're likely to see
$400 million more

590
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,280
in ongoing funding.

591
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,520
Now, as Dan said, it used to be
used to be if somebody said

592
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,960
400 million, we'd all dance
in the streets.

593
00:29:24,999 --> 00:29:27,080
But after getting
$1 billion last year,

594
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,000
it seems like a real downer.

595
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,999
The fact is we are very
fortunate to have our funding

596
00:29:32,999 --> 00:29:34,640
continuing to increase.

597
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:35,999
But let's not forget

598
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,999
we still have those looming
stirs and purrs obligations

599
00:29:38,999 --> 00:29:41,800
out there, and there is a 2
percent COLA

600
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,160
that will have to be, as well,
taken out about $400 million.

601
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,080
And so, that money is going to
decline pretty quickly

602
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,880
when the obligations
are settled up.

603
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,000
And in terms of the future,

604
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,440
we are likely to see some
more good years.

605
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,120
But as we know, Prop 30 is going
to be in sunsetting next year,

606
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,120
and then sunset some more a
couple of years after that.

607
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,600
If Prop 30 is not renewed
in some way,

608
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,120
it's likely that the increases
we'll still see,

609
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:09,600
but there'll be much more
modest,

610
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,999
in the one-and-a-half to 2
percent range in the future.

611
00:30:11,999 --> 00:30:14,880
So, our budget has
been very good.

612
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,999
It's certainly much better than
the hole we dug out of

613
00:30:17,999 --> 00:30:19,080
during the Great Recession,

614
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,160
but we still have some clouds on
the horizon.

615
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:23,680
I would remind all of you

616
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,040
that the bachelor degree pilot
program was approved

617
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,840
by the board late last year.

618
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,800
And in January and March,
they selected the 15 pilots.

619
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,840
I'm excited to say those
programs,

620
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,999
those colleges are developing
those programs as we speak.

621
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,999
And they are likely to see some
of those come online

622
00:30:39,999 --> 00:30:41,840
in the spring of '16.

623
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,999
And we should see all of them by
the fall of '17.

624
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,999
These programs are going to be
fabulous.

625
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,999
I think you're going
to see the legislature

626
00:30:49,999 --> 00:30:51,999
smile favorably on these.

627
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,200
And it won't surprise me if we
see more pilots

628
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,840
and more opportunity for
bachelor degrees at our colleges

629
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:58,840
in the future.

630
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,080
Now, keep in mind, there will
not be huge numbers

631
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:02,160
in these programs.

632
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,040
It's not like we' re going to
have a half a million

633
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,120
bachelor degree students
overnight.

634
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,160
But we will have bachelor degree
students at some point

635
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:10,080
in the future.

636
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,240
Another thing that
I want to mention

637
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:12,999
is our accreditation task force.

638
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,640
As all of you know, the
chancellor's office

639
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,400
has had nor one or two, but
three task forces

640
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,640
on accreditation
in recent years.

641
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,600
And the last one presented its
report to the Board of Governors

642
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,680
for information in September.

643
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,200
And then earlier this week,

644
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,999
after a couple of months of
putting that report out

645
00:31:31,999 --> 00:31:36,160
into the field, the Board of
Governors did pass a resolution

646
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:40,000
directing the chancellor's
office staff to come back

647
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,360
in March of next year
with a plan going forward

648
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,999
on a new model of accreditation
for our colleges.

649
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,880
Now, I'd underlined
that word model,

650
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,999
and that has a lot of
potential meanings.

651
00:31:51,999 --> 00:31:54,999
And I think it' s unfortunate
that some of the press coverage

652
00:31:54,999 --> 00:31:56,999
we've seen in the state has
suggested

653
00:31:56,999 --> 00:31:58,999
that we are automatically going

654
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:00,640
to one another accrediting
commission.

655
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,320
That's not necessarily the case.

656
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,240
But the Board of Governors
is very serious in that

657
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,040
we need to change the way we are
doing accreditation

658
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,999
in California, so look for more
to come on that in the future.

659
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,999
Now, let me introduce to another
one of our students,

660
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,320
a student who certainly
is concerned about our quality

661
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,000
and our programs.

662
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,320
Meet Angeela.

663
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:25,880
- I'm Angeela Riaz,

664
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:30,000
and I'm a student here at the
Cosumnes River College.

665
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:34,200
Born and raised in Pakistan,
a very strict atmosphere,

666
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,320
however you say it,
for a female.

667
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,600
I came in United States in 1999.

668
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,160
My in-laws living in America,

669
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:43,960
they were still tied
back to Pakistan,

670
00:32:43,999 --> 00:32:46,360
where they say female
is just a mother,

671
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,680
and she just do the housework.

672
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,120
So, I had a hard time.

673
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:51,999
It took me 12 years
to convince them

674
00:32:51,999 --> 00:32:53,880
that I want to go
back to school.

675
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,040
When I came to CRC,
the biggest fear was financial.

676
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,720
I was thinking how I'm going to
afford it, because,

677
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:04,160
you know, my husband, through
2009, he was disabled.

678
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,200
There's a huge thing that a lot
of people were not--

679
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,999
that I was not aware, called
BOG fee waiver.

680
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,080
On top of financial aid, that
take care of your tuition fee.

681
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:14,760
So, that's a huge help.

682
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:19,360
The support that I got from the
college staff, and even faculty,

683
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,840
I was surprised that people were
telling me where to go.

684
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,400
The quality is here,
it's so good.

685
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,400
We're getting one-on-one
with the professors.

686
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,760
My ultimate goal is to become a
nurse practitioner.

687
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,680
I have two semesters left,
and after this,

688
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:39,280
I'm applying to Sacramento State
University, for a BSN.

689
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,640
I start my school for my
daughter.

690
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:46,240
I don't want her to go through
what I went through.

691
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,999
- Ladies and gentlemen, Angeela.

692
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,960
- Thank you.

693
00:33:57,999 --> 00:34:00,720
- Angeela, in the video you
talked about your decision

694
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,520
to take up higher education.

695
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,640
Tell us why that was kind of a
difficult decision for you.

696
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,760
- So, as I mentioned in my
video, I am from Pakistan,

697
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,640
the country of Malala,

698
00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:15,560
where education for the female
is very--is a strict regulation,

699
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:19,160
that as a female, we just say at
home and take care of the kids.

700
00:34:19,240 --> 00:34:21,920
Where, in my mind,
I'm okay with that,

701
00:34:21,999 --> 00:34:23,600
because I'm going
to raise my kids.

702
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,440
But if I'm educated I'm going to
raise better generation.

703
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,080
So, I thought somebody have to
take a step,

704
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,560
and I'm going to country of
opportunity,

705
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:36,080
so I might have opportunity
but I have to fight for it

706
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:37,320
for 12 years.

707
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:42,999
But here I am and thanks
for community colleges.

708
00:34:47,999 --> 00:34:49,920
- Angeela, like your other
colleagues,

709
00:34:49,999 --> 00:34:51,120
what advice do you have for us?

710
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,200
How can we make your
experience better?

711
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,240
- As one of my other fellow
members said, you know,

712
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,999
the orientation, some kind of
orientation he mentioned

713
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,640
from high school to college.

714
00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:05,560
For me, yes, high school to
college is good,

715
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,000
but if there is any type
of orientation set up

716
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,080
for the new people,
first-generation people like me,

717
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:16,080
that know the terms and
technology and all the resources

718
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,560
available like, you know,
he mentioned EOPS.

719
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:19,280
I didn't know.

720
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,600
It took me a year to find out
those are resources.

721
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,960
So if there is a set
orientation,

722
00:35:24,999 --> 00:35:28,440
mandatory orientation on campus
that can tell students

723
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,360
that this is available,
that would be great.

724
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,240
- Angeela.

725
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,720
The last area I want to cover

726
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,760
is our emerging area in
workforce development,

727
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:46,840
economic development,

728
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,920
and the role of California
Community Colleges

729
00:35:48,999 --> 00:35:49,800
in that regard.

730
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,080
And I'm sure it was not lost
on any of you

731
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:57,280
that there is a certainly a
skills gap in America,

732
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,320
and it's very pronounced
here in California.

733
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,600
If you look at employers
who repeatedly say to us

734
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:05,360
we have all of these great jobs,

735
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,400
and we don't have any students
to fill them,

736
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,840
you see that supply and demand
mismatch.

737
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,640
When you drill down
into California,

738
00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:15,880
you can see along the coast
that those skills gaps

739
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,640
tend to be regionalized,
small business in the north,

740
00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:21,320
agriculture and water in the
central part of the state,

741
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,280
global trade down in south.

742
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,240
When you move to the inland part
of the state,

743
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,320
again, you see health in the
south and life sciences,

744
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,040
advanced transportation in the
central part of the state

745
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:32,800
and advance manufacturing.

746
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,600
Regional skills gaps that really
make it a challenge

747
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,999
for employers and colleges to
match up their needs.

748
00:36:39,999 --> 00:36:41,720
Why this is so important?

749
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,200
If you go back to the '60s
and '70s,

750
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:45,999
like we heard earlier today,

751
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,440
only a little more than a
quarter of the jobs

752
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,560
required an education beyond a
high school diploma.

753
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:55,160
Fast-forward to the '90s,
and it passed 50 percent.

754
00:36:55,240 --> 00:36:57,040
And if you go to 2020,

755
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,999
they expect nearly two-thirds of
every new job,

756
00:37:00,999 --> 00:37:02,520
groups of jobs created,

757
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,960
to require education beyond a
high school diploma.

758
00:37:05,999 --> 00:37:07,760
And when you drill down into
these numbers,

759
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,000
you find something else
interesting.

760
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,680
And that is the fastest-growing
segment of new jobs

761
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,360
is in that area beyond a high
school diploma,

762
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,999
but not yet the bachelor degree.

763
00:37:17,999 --> 00:37:22,480
So, right where our colleges are
situated is where the fastest

764
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,360
growing number of
jobs are found.

765
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,999
And if you look at the
population in California,

766
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,999
it's estimated there'll be a
million more associate degrees

767
00:37:32,999 --> 00:37:36,999
and certificates holders needed
in the next few years alone.

768
00:37:36,999 --> 00:37:39,160
But the hill is a high
one to climb,

769
00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:42,120
because if you look at the young
people in this country,

770
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:46,760
16 to 24, I was stunned to learn
that 40 percent of them

771
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,560
are not in any kind of formal
schooling at all.

772
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,840
And, of that same population,

773
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,800
15 percent of them are neither
in school or working.

774
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,320
They are basically just standing
on the sidelines,

775
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,320
letting life pass them by.

776
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,720
We as a state and the country
simply can't continue

777
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,560
to prosper in that regard.

778
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,160
And that's why the Board of
Governors,

779
00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:11,999
a year ago this month, chartered
a new task force on workforce,

780
00:38:11,999 --> 00:38:14,400
job creation
and a strong economy.

781
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,400
And that group started
in January, and in July,

782
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:18,999
they completed their work,

783
00:38:18,999 --> 00:38:22,000
25 recommendations
that earlier this week

784
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:23,640
at the Board of Governors
meeting,

785
00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:25,720
the board approved in total.

786
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,160
I won't go into detail, but they
were in seven areas.

787
00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:32,120
The student success area there
is some recommendations

788
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,200
to help our students
succeed in greater

789
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,080
and greater numbers
in these programs.

790
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,160
That's another one of those
Scorecard indicators

791
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:39,999
we're working on.

792
00:38:39,999 --> 00:38:43,680
The recommendation on career
pathways talks about easing

793
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,960
the pathway between high school
and community colleges,

794
00:38:46,999 --> 00:38:49,440
and then into the world of work,
or, in some cases,

795
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:51,560
onto the bachelor's degree.

796
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,160
Workforce data, I' m going to
tell you a little bit more

797
00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:56,520
about workforce data
in just a moment.

798
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,999
But clearly, we need to be able
to track these students

799
00:38:58,999 --> 00:39:01,240
from high school to college into
the world of work,

800
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,240
and we need better
data to do that.

801
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,999
These next two are the purview
of our faculty,

802
00:39:05,999 --> 00:39:08,920
improving our curriculum
approval process,

803
00:39:08,999 --> 00:39:11,320
and certainly that includes the
chancellor's office,

804
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,760
making our curriculum
approval process

805
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,600
at the chancellor's office more
streamlined and more effective.

806
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,680
And obviously finding a way to
do a better job of recruiting

807
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,440
CTE faculty, desperately
needed for us

808
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,880
to really promote
these programs.

809
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,160
We know that our employers
are telling us

810
00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:29,600
we must regionalize this work.

811
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:30,720
They're saying they simply

812
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,800
can't come to 10 or 15 or 20
colleges to get their needs met.

813
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:39,040
They need, by region, as you saw
earlier, to have us help them

814
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,440
find the workforce solutions.

815
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,999
And finally, we simply have to
figure out a way to provide you

816
00:39:44,999 --> 00:39:47,720
with stable and predictable
funding

817
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,840
for high-cost CTE programs.

818
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,040
If we can't do that,

819
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,999
you can't stay on the cutting
edge in that regard.

820
00:39:53,999 --> 00:39:55,640
Now, I mentioned data.

821
00:39:55,720 --> 00:39:57,320
Let me share something with you.

822
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:02,200
You know, I told a group
earlier this week,

823
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,920
since I announced my retirement,
I don't take directions

824
00:40:04,999 --> 00:40:06,960
as well as I used to.

825
00:40:06,999 --> 00:40:07,600
And the staff said,

826
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:08,240
"Oh, don't.

827
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:09,000
"Don't put these out.

828
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,000
We're not ready to
put these out."

829
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,280
I said ah, we're going
to put these out.

830
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,040
As you recall, one of the things
that our Scorecard does

831
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,640
is it measures 70 percent of our
headcount and about 90 percent

832
00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:19,999
of our offerings.

833
00:40:19,999 --> 00:40:22,200
But that 30 percent of our
students,

834
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,320
many of them are single
course takers,

835
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,999
and we haven't been able to find
out how they're doing.

836
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,000
So, the work group has been
developing a definition

837
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,520
of skill builders over the past
several months,

838
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,200
and this is what
they've come to.

839
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,400
These are workers who were
maintaining,

840
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,040
adding to, or preparing for the
next job.

841
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,520
They are certainly not attending
for the purpose of transfer

842
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,080
or earning a degree
or certificate.

843
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:49,320
They are almost always taking
only one or two CTE courses.

844
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,560
And they generally
are older students

845
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,600
who have been in the workforce.

846
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,240
And this is what we found, first
of all, in the one year cohort,

847
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,999
'12-'13, there are nearly
100,000 students

848
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,920
that meet that definition.

849
00:41:02,999 --> 00:41:05,999
And what's really exciting
is what that shows us,

850
00:41:05,999 --> 00:41:07,999
a quarter of those students,

851
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,240
the CTE students who had
previously been called

852
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:15,480
non-completers or unsuccessful,
fall into that category.

853
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,320
And look at this.

854
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,960
Look at these unsuccessful
students.

855
00:41:19,999 --> 00:41:22,040
Their median wage gain
after taking

856
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:27,040
one or two of our college
courses is $4,500.

857
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,999
Now, I don't know about you, but
if I five took one class

858
00:41:29,999 --> 00:41:32,000
and got a $4,500 pay increase,

859
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:36,480
I do not consider myself to be a
non-completer.

860
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:41,880
When you drill down
even further,

861
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,999
you find that that group
collectively has contributed

862
00:41:44,999 --> 00:41:48,999
more than 400--a million dollars
to California's economy.

863
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,080
So, these are the kind of data
that were looking forward to

864
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,360
in the future, to help capture

865
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,560
and prove the great work all of
you are doing.

866
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,960
But let me bring somebody up
who can tell you more about

867
00:42:00,999 --> 00:42:02,480
being a CTE student.

868
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:03,999
Here's Corrie.

869
00:42:05,999 --> 00:42:07,880
- I'm Corrie Beall.
I'm a Sierra College alum.

870
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,000
I went to University of
Redlands,

871
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,240
and after I graduated with a
bachelor of science

872
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:18,840
in business there,

873
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,000
I moved up to Lake Tahoe and got
a career year in accounting.

874
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,160
But I realized that I wanted a
job that challenged me more.

875
00:42:25,240 --> 00:42:27,560
I saw a girl get hit by a car,
and I wanted to help,

876
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,360
but didn't really know
enough about it.

877
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,880
So, I signed up for an
EMT class after that.

878
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,800
After that, I applied
to Sierra's Fire Academy.

879
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:35,999
I got accepted,

880
00:42:35,999 --> 00:42:39,360
and then everything happened
really fast, actually.

881
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,520
Career technical education
is classes

882
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,080
that are just to a specific
field that teaches

883
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:49,320
you everything from fire safety
to basic fire behavior,

884
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,160
all the mechanics
of different skills

885
00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:54,000
that you need for basic
firefighting.

886
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,000
I graduated December of 2014.

887
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:58,760
I saw the job at UC Davis,

888
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,200
and immediately, like, sparked a
smile on my face.

889
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,000
My mom lives in Davis and my dad
lives in Woodland,

890
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,999
which is, like, 15 minutes away.

891
00:43:06,999 --> 00:43:08,999
I thought it was the third
interview when the chief

892
00:43:08,999 --> 00:43:11,999
called me and said, "Hey, I'd
like to see you in my office."

893
00:43:11,999 --> 00:43:16,160
It turned out to be a job offer,
and I just didn't believe him

894
00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:16,999
when he first told me.

895
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,080
I was like, like, you're lying.
You're playing with me.

896
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,080
Like, who set you up?

897
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:26,400
There was over 300 applicants,
and three of us got hired.

898
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,840
It's great. It's great.
It's awesome.

899
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,999
'Cause it's not just a career,
like everybody becomes family.

900
00:43:31,999 --> 00:43:33,320
Thinking back to Sierra,

901
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,480
like, that stuff that I learned
was priceless,

902
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,720
because now it's like I'm using
it every day on my job,

903
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:39,760
every single day.

904
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,800
- Meet Corrie.

905
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,400
- Hi.

906
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:53,800
- I shook her hand earlier.

907
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:54,600
She almost broke it.

908
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:56,800
I'm not going to
shake her hand.

909
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:58,720
Corrie, tell us a little bit.

910
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,720
You mentioned
about your decision

911
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:01,600
to make a career change.

912
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:02,999
What caused that?

913
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:06,999
- So, it's ironic, actually,
because before the incident

914
00:44:06,999 --> 00:44:09,160
when I saw the girl
get hit by a car,

915
00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:11,920
a week before that I was sitting
at my desk and I was thinking,

916
00:44:11,999 --> 00:44:13,760
like, God, I want to get
out of his career.

917
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:15,600
Like, this is not for me.

918
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,000
And so, I thought about, you
know, what jobs I could do.

919
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,480
And I knew that I wanted a job
that challenged me more,

920
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,680
held me accountable to be
physically fit,

921
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,999
I wanted to help people and not
do the same thing every day.

922
00:44:25,999 --> 00:44:28,320
And so, then the incident
happened the following week,

923
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:32,640
and that was the turning point
that led me to where I am now.

924
00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:35,320
- What advice do you have for
us, Corrie?

925
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,960
- My advice would be in the
financial aspect of things.

926
00:44:38,999 --> 00:44:41,040
When I enrolled in the
fire tech program,

927
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,680
more specifically, the academy,

928
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,680
the initial costs were
listed online.

929
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,800
Like, they're all broken down
prior to enrollment.

930
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,480
But the actual expenses that
were incurred for us

931
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:51,840
during the academy ended up

932
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:53,440
being a lot more than
I think myself

933
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:57,080
or any of my fellow peers
had anticipated.

934
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:58,040
So...

935
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,960
- Corrie, ladies and gentlemen.

936
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:10,960
- Now, think about it,

937
00:45:10,999 --> 00:45:15,400
you've just met five students
in our attempt to represent

938
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,400
more than two million.

939
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,000
You've heard them talk about
financial aid and Pell grants

940
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:21,360
and BOG fee waivers.

941
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,480
You heard them talk about the
fabulous faculty

942
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,360
and classified staff about
wonderful programs

943
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:28,480
and their decision-making
process.

944
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:32,080
You've seen people who really
have overcome unbelievable odds.

945
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,999
And the truth is, I could walk
on any one of your campuses

946
00:45:35,999 --> 00:45:37,560
and probably the first
five students

947
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,760
I'd run into would be just like
these.

948
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:42,640
So when we get to the cocktail
function,

949
00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:45,640
don't ask me why we picked those
students instead of the ones

950
00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:50,120
at your college.

951
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,999
We are very focused on these
three system priorities.

952
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,200
We really do continue to need
to work on opening

953
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:01,000
the doors of these colleges
wide-open for Californians.

954
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,960
We certainly need to help those
Californians improve

955
00:46:03,999 --> 00:46:06,200
and succeed in greater and
greater numbers.

956
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:10,760
And we need to expand our role
in workforce development

957
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,680
and economic development.

958
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,999
We certainly can and will do
this with the hard work

959
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:17,240
all of you are doing.

960
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:21,040
The state of this system is,
frankly, quite a healthy one.

961
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,920
And we certainly are creating
California's future.

962
00:46:24,999 --> 00:46:27,800
We know who we are.

963
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,280
- We are the California
Community Colleges,

964
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:45,880
an education system
unlike any other.

965
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:50,040
Through innovative programs,
expansive accessibility,

966
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,640
and dedicated educators,

967
00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:56,920
we provide our students with
lifelong skills that enable them

968
00:46:56,999 --> 00:47:03,120
to venture out, be bold,
and dare to be great.

969
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:04,999
By helping them succeed

970
00:47:04,999 --> 00:47:07,520
and fulfill their higher
education goals,

971
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:11,120
we drive the workforce
and future of California,

972
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:12,999
while creating richer,

973
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:18,840
fuller lives for our students
and their families.

974
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:31,560
The California Community
Colleges, creating, building,

975
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,960
and shaping the future of
California

976
00:47:34,999 --> 00:47:39,999
one successful student
at a time.

977
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:52,520
- You know, people often say to
us how lucky our students are

978
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,120
to have opportunity like we
provide them.

979
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,080
The truth is,
we're the lucky ones.

980
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,760
We get to come to work every day
building California's future.

981
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:03,999
We had a fabulous system.

982
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,520
We have wonderful jobs.

983
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,880
And this is my last State
of the System Report.

984
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,240
And, again, I can't tell you how
much I've appreciated

985
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:13,760
representing you.

986
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,160
You can see behind you
the students you've met

987
00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:19,960
and the videos you've seen what
a wonderful system this is,

988
00:48:19,999 --> 00:48:23,280
and what a pleasure it' s been
for me to represent you

989
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:24,920
over the last
three-and-a-half years.

990
00:48:24,999 --> 00:48:34,999
Thank you very much.