Wor-Wic Community College has been selected as part of the Aspen Institute College Excellence program’s Presidents & Trustees Collaborative for community college leadership development. Ten colleges from across the United States were chosen to participate.
“Wor-Wic is honored to be selected to be a part of this inaugural national cohort. Embedding student success into college governance with strong alignment with our board of trustees is crucial to our mission fulfillment for our local communities and workforce,” said Deborah Casey, Ph.D., president of Wor-Wic.
The initiative is designed to strengthen the capacity of community college presidents and their boards of trustees to sustain systemic reform that improves student outcomes. Aspen’s research into community college excellence reveals that long-term, scaled change depends on college presidents and trustees having a shared understanding of why student-outcome reforms are needed, agreeing on prioritized reform strategies and aligning their review of metrics, policies and budgets to those priorities.
Through a year-long series of sessions, presidents and trustees are guided through Aspen’s trustee framework and learn lessons from Aspen prize-winning colleges, with the goal of strengthening their capacity to align decision-making with their colleges’ student-success reform priorities.
Other participating colleges include Cerritos College, El Camino Community College District and Santa Rosa Junior College in California; Forsyth Technical Community College and Vance-Granville Community College in North Carolina; Monroe Community College in New York; Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Wisconsin; Tulsa Community College in Oklahoma; and UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey.
