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Summary of President's "Listening Tour" Meetings
There are a number of reoccurring themes being expressed by those attending the Presidents Listening Tours. Following are some of the most frequently mentioned themes:
- Communication
- Improve all areas of communication / review, streamline and improve current college systems and processes
- Encourage college employees to participate in the community, especially in the areas of economic development and planning, with the employees then working to ensure the College is aware of and deals with the needs of the communities
- Develop internships / provide training to businesses on subjects like how to interview
- Changing demographics / workforce / job market
- Produce qualified employees to fill current openings
- Train / retrain / help with career planning
- Diversity
- Recruit diverse faculty and staff
- Enhance human resources efforts in attracting employees of color
- Facilitate cultural diversity training
- Rebuild trust and appreciation among all MHCC employees
- Be inclusive as we celebrate all the nationalities that our students and staff represent
- Develop mentoring opportunities for employees
- Provide orientation in Spanish for students
- Provide more signs in Spanish
- Provide a case manager for all students of color who may have difficulty with the language
- Advertise opportunities for Latino students
- Provide more support to Oregon Leadership Institute (OLI)
- Economic development
- Attract businesses to the area
- Collaborate on economic development efforts needed and align regionally
- Facilities
- Enhance signage
- Keep bookstore and other facilities open later into the evening
- Create a centralized calendar for events at all locations
- Enhance Gresham Campus buildings and Maywood Park Campus
- Provide budget training for all employees
- Review Public Safety procedures
- Foundation
- Get word out about scholarships
- Generate more scholarships
- Find grant writers
- High School outreach
- Expand college presence in high schools / have faculty visit high schools
- Provide day-to-day support to counselors, students and parents providing counseling, advising, career coaches
- Provide key contact person at MHCC
- Participate in College Night at high schools / attend College and Job Fairs
- Improve customer service and communication
- Market earlier and better to potential students
- Provide scholarship information
- Utilize high schools more for dual enrollment programs
- Invite high school students to visit MHCC
- Increase scholarships for Latino students
- Visit ELL classes in high schools
- Learning
- Have all students take one class for free
- Offer free online applications
- Expand medical programs to attract more students
- Develop part-time nursing program and WIN program for nurses from other countries
- Determine how to enhance interaction with African American males
- Improve Testing Center
- Develop programs in sustainability
- Provide lifelong learning opportunities
- Offer more evening and weekend classes
- Offer more social science classes that are not from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. stagger the times
- Offer more math and GED courses, particularly at Maywood Park Campus
- Stop batch entering of students
- Enhance transfer programs with Colleges and Universities
- Provide more courses in the area that serves David Douglas and Parkrose students
- Offer more evening classes at the Bruning Center
- Offer more classes in downtown Gresham
- Enhance Distance Learning advisory committee
- Provide more tutoring services
- Enhance advising area and processes
- Legislative issues
- Work with communities to educate voters on legislative issues
- Build relationships and a connection with communities to ensure future bond measure success
- Marketing
- Enhance and develop comprehensive marketing, advertising and promotional plans for MHCC programs, services, individual and collective successes from all locations to all constituents (the college is more than Gresham)
- Market to growing Latino / Hispanic communities, residents in the southwest region of the service area and within the greater Portland areas
- Identify success stories
- Enhance Web site
- Send more electronic media to communities
- Improve signage
- Promote programs like athletics and theater
- Partnerships / Collaboration among K-12 , the College and businesses
- Find partnership opportunities to increase connection between K-12, the College and businesses
- Expand medical programs and 2+2 programs
- Share resources
- Expand the vision and reach of the college / create a compelling and unified vision, mission, strategic plan and organizational structure
- Enhance and develop programs and services by providing traditional and innovative credit and credit-free courses and services at a variety of times
- Grow distance learning programs
- Understand more completely current student learning needs
- Support and understand learning and service needs for first-generation and minority students
- Integrate learning outcomes into all coursework
- Enable credit-free students to register online
- Enhance student services at all levels within the institution
- Produce jobs, internships and mentoring for students and others in the communities / jointly promote
- Partner to develop to develop a Leadership Academy to train younger leaders to engage in community action and governance
- Identify new and creative ways to finance the operation of the college
- Enhance and develop community outreach activities
- Provide expanded classes at satellite locations
- Research
- Provide high schools with data on students who become MHCC students
- Student Services
- Create an information / welcome desk area
- Enhance customer service
- Transportation
- Work with communities to bring safer, more effective transportation to the area, including expanding the MAX to the college, providing shuttles to satellite locations and encouraging expanded transportation to areas not currently served by MAX or the bus line
- Provide discounted TriMet passes to students
- Visibility in Community
- Increase MHCC participation in community events and participation by employees in the community / networking
For a schedule and summary of each listening tour that has been held, click here.
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