(Links will be posted through next week)

Broadening your Leadership Perspective
In recent years psychologists have demonstrated that 95% of our thoughts and behaviors are on automatic, based primarily upon our previous experience.  How do we broaden our future perspective so our minds can conceptualize beyond our current viewpoint?  Donna Zajonc knows well the challenges facing public policy leaders.  As a former legislator and now a professional leadership coach, Donna will challenge you to shift your problem-oriented mindset to an outcome perspective so as leaders, you will help define a new perspective for yourself and your college.
Donna Zajonc – Bainbridge Leadership Institute

Getting Past Goal: The Role of Institutional Leadership in Getting to 40/40/20
The state’s expectations for Oregon’s community colleges are clear—take steps to ensure that 40% of the state’s working age population has an associate’s degree or workplace certification.  Many of the operational steps needed to make progress toward this goal are known.  But how do you make sure that these steps are actually taken?  This session will provide practical suggestions about the policies and procedures that Boards of Trustees and Presidents should put in place to create an environment in which the necessary implementation steps can—and will—be taken.
Dennis Jones - President, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems

Top Ten Policy Issues Facing Community Colleges
Reading the “tea leaves” has always been more an art form than a science, but to be forewarned is forearmed.  Dr. Katherine Boswell who has worked for more than two decades on the front lines of state and federal policy battles impacting community colleges, will share her insights into the hot-button policy issues which may be poised to impact your college.
Katherine Boswell – Director, Community College Policy, AED Higher Education Management Service Center

Are You Ready? When Crisis Strikes
Because of the increase in campus shootings and other tragedies, colleges increasingly have crisis response on the radar screen. How we support students through a smaller crisis can have everything to do with preventing a larger one. Especially in community colleges, students come with a wide range of needs, backgrounds and challenges. Although “crisis response” seems reactive, it is all about providing information, condolences and/or support to students following tragedies such that they feel greater connectedness to the college and to one another, fostering greater retention in a climate of well-being and a sense of safety. Preparedness includes evaluation, training and practice.
Cheri Lovre – Director, Crisis Management Institute
Rebecca Bolante – Coordinator, Disability Services, Chemeketa Community College and member of Crisis Response Team

Oregon Green Tech Certificate - Creating Economic Opportunity for Rural People and Places!
The development, delivery and sustainability of new career and technical certificate and degree programs are especially challenging for rural and/or smaller colleges.  This unique distance-learning program provides the opportunity to some of Oregon’s smallest and most remote colleges a cost-effective way to offer a new certificate in a curriculum area that is cutting edge – Green Technology.  This program demonstrates the power of what can happen when Workforce Investment Act Programs and Oregon Community Colleges collaborate on program development.  The presentation will also outline the utilization of an “out-of-the-box” shared-delivery instructional model. 
Kris Latimer – CEO, The Oregon Consortium and Oregon Workforce Alliance
Pete Bober – Director, UCC SBDC and Workforce Training

Energy Conservation Without Economic Sacrifice
Make the most of your energy by leveraging available outside and alternative funding sources.  This presentation will outline trends in higher education related to energy, highlight key strategies for best practices and present an approach to developing a program to accomplish sustainability goals within constricted budgets.
David Palmer – Energy Solutions Program Manager NW Region, Schneider Electric

Understanding Student Government: A Cooperative Examination of Goals, Values, & Representation
Students will always need to work with administrators. Administrators only have their jobs because of the students. If both parties do not work well together it reduces the aggregate productivity of the college. This presentation will give a new perspective on the working relationship a college administration can have with student leaders. By working together and making compromises we accomplished a goal that very few people thought we would achieve.
Tom Worth -Former Director of Legislative Affairs, ASPCC Cascade
David Rule, PhD - Campus President, PCC Rock Creek

From Access to Success to Completion: When Moving Forward Is Also Coming Home
Student Persistence and Completion
Learning how to positively engage with the “Completion Agenda” will to a great extent determine our success (or failure) with it. Dr. Hamann would like to encourage you to use or adapt any part of the presentation for your own needs.
Greg Hamann, PhD – President, LBCC
Camille Preus, Commissioner, CCWD

Money Money Money: In It To Win It!
The workshop will focus on obtaining voter approval for a general obligation bond property tax levy. Presenters will focus on the financial and legal structure of these levies, using survey-based research to shape a campaign, and putting a winning campaign together. The facilities at Community Colleges have millions of dollars of needs, for which one key tool is a locally approved general obligation bond. Yet, obtaining approval of GO bonds is difficult in the best of circumstances. This session will give hands on training in how to best approach your voters and achieve success!
Dave Taylor - Senior Vice President, Seattle-Northwest Securities
Ann Sherman - Partner, K&L Gates
Melissa Martin - PAC Counsel
Bob Lawrence - One Move Ahead

Getting Value from Your Annual Audit
The annual audit should be about more than just getting the opinion so that you are in compliance with state law. As a board member or executive team member, can you sleep at night knowing that your financial stewardship responsibilities are taken care of? All municipal governments are under a microscope with respect to their financial situations and transactions. Find out if you are getting what you need to feel comfortable with your college’s financial situation.
Rob Moody – Partner, Talbot, Korvola & Warwick, LLP

Collective Bargaining in a Time of Limited Resources
Managing your human resource costs begins with effective and productive bargaining. Many colleges will be bargaining new contracts this year with limited resources to improve compensation or with the need to reduce personnel cost. This session explores options for insurance, salary and extra compensation bargaining as well as legal requirements for communication with staff and bargaining in good faith.
Nancy Hungerford – The Hungerford Law Firm

The Middle College Program
The Middle College program enables high school students, particularly those from under-represented backgrounds, to take college classes and earn college credit while still enrolled in high school. Research at the national level shows that early college programs like this one increase both high school completion rates and college-going rates.
Algie Gatewood, PhD – PCC, Cascade Campus President
Damon Hickok, M.Ed. – Middle College Coordinator

Partnering for Leadership That Works: Models for Effective Board/CEO Relationships
Challenging times require steady leadership that instills confidence and this cannot be provided unless the President and Board function as a TEAM. Learn how your board can forge a partnership to keep your college on a steady path.
Jane Reid - Board Chair, Clackamas CC
Joanne Truesdell - President, Clackamas CC
Jim Harper – Board Chair, PCC
Preston Pulliams – President, PCC
David Bridgham - Board Chair, SWOCC
Patty Scott - President, SWOCC
Penny York - Board Chair, LBCC
Greg Hamann - President, LBCC
Jim Middleton - President, COCC Moderator

Board and Foundation Development: New Perspectives on Development
A brief overview of the growing importance of your college board’s responsibility in supporting its foundation and development activities. The importance of the foundation board and their assessment of readiness to engage the community in development is more critical today than ever before. At this session you’ll hear about and discuss the new perspective of philanthropy and planned giving at your college that can create sustainable resources. Please bring your questions about foundations, board involvement and planned giving.
Jon Carnahan - President Emeritus and Executive Director of Foundation, TBCC
Maureen Thomas - Regional Director and Charitable Gift Planner, Oregon Community Foundation

Nontraditional Students: Needs Assessment Tools
With the “great recession” causing an acute need for job training and retraining, the returning veterans and a shortage of spaces in four college campuses, the climate of community colleges is vastly different than it was even a decade ago. Participants will receive a summary of national research into nontraditional students and be provided with a needs assessment instrument which may be used at their institutions as well as information about strategies for implementation.
Beth Jackson, Ed. M – Oregon State University
Greg Sampson-Gruener, PhD – Oregon State University

A Practical View of Financial Policies
Board members are asked to set and periodically review financial policies. Learn from the experts what goes into strong financial policies and how business decisions can have a direct financial impact on the cost of borrowing funds for capital projects.
Katherine Schwab – Vice President, Wedbush Securities, Inc.
Ronald Lehr – Wedbush Securities, Inc.
Matt Jones – Moody’s Investors Service

Ethics and Transparency: Finding Your Way to Sunshine
Renewed focus on transparency in public decision-making has important implications for public officials in Oregon. Learn more about the impact of recent decisions related to public meetings and efforts by the Oregon Attorney General to increase transparency through changes to public records law. This session will also provide an opportunity to review Oregon’s ethics law and allow you to ask OCCA General Counsel Karen Smith your questions.
Karen Smith – General Counsel, OCCA