Rural college supports brainstorming (May 2025) by Raelea Taylor

rtaylor306 — 2025-05-02 13:44:55 UTC

A cohorted,capacity-building intiative, with significant pass through dollars to offset participation. Replication of current cohort with supports related to data, partnerships, and external communications.

rtaylor306 — 2025-05-02 13:47:07 UTC

Coordinated peer learning networks for rural colleges paired with relatively lighter-touch ATD supports, perhaps tiered or otherwise categorized based on the needs of subsets of participants.

rtaylor306 — 2025-05-02 13:49:52 UTC

A cohorted, service building inititative focused on enrolling and supporting rural learners. By the end of the initiative, all participating colleges have a plan tailored to their local context and partnerships.

Update to strategies

2025-05-02 14:41:28 UTC

Reflect on the benefit of the PDP as it was a heavy lift and I am not sure we ever saw enough gains.

Add AI in the digital literacy

Community of Practice

2025-05-02 14:44:54 UTC

This is an outstanding opportunity to build out even further as giving rural colleges the opportunity to share work and learn from each other between the coach visits could help keep momentum going and build deeper peer relationships

after Foundations of Transformation

mhatch21 — 2025-05-02 14:46:45 UTC

Reaching the historically underrepresented

2025-05-02 14:47:21 UTC

Clovis is really looking at areas identified in the community vibrancy workbook and thinking about unique strategies for diverse communities where post-secondary is a harder sell could be an opportunity to build out further.

Data Summit

2025-05-02 17:15:32 UTC

I like the support and expectation that the cohort attended one of these. It is an important for the skill development that is going on for new network colleges and having a convening connected to this event allows for deeper conversation on becoming a data centered institution and for data professionals to further develop peer learning.