A NEW YEAR: Recharged for a Dynamic 2022
With 2022 well underway, we are pleased to share with you our first e-newsletter of the year. We at CVHEC wish you a dynamic start to the spring 2022 semester with hopes of reaching some sort of a new normal that will lead us to working, meeting our students and convening in-person in the near future.
Though 2021 was a challenging and unprecedented year for us all, CVHEC members and partners were fully engaged in working to deliver productive educational programs for our students and valuable professional development opportunities for our faculty and staff in the region. This month’s newsletter provides a brief summary and reminder of the good work that was done in the Central Valley this past year.
Among these are our Dual Enrollment Upskilling Teachers Master’s Program; announcement of our CVHEC Equity, Race and Social Justice Taskforce; success stories about our dual enrollment efforts featuring some of our Central Valley students as well as innovative initiatives undertaken with our popular CVHEC Mini-Grant Program; our communications initiatives resulting in ongoing development of this e-newsletter including a new blog feature, development of our public information officers/communications committee and a video on broadband disparity, one of three videos we are producing; our historic CVHEC/UC Merced Transfer Project and the appointment of several new chief executives for member campuses.
This newsletter will also provide a preview of higher education efforts to come in the valley this year.
Be on the lookout for a continuation of the work around equity and inclusion in member institutions through our Equity Task Force, the pursuit of dual enrollment as an equity strategy in rural parts of the Valley and the Consortium providing assistance in creating K16 collaboratives in the north and south counties of the region.
CVHEC is also partnering with state and regional advocates to work to bring broadband to rural parts of the Central Valley to ensure that internet connectivity and bandwidth are no longer a barrier for our students and residents.
Also, the CVHEC Board of Directors is considering conditions that will allow for delivering our annual Legislative and Policy Summit in an in-person setting later in the spring, for the first time since 2019.
Needless to say, while the pandemic has put the squeeze on all of us the past two years, we are more determined than ever to conquer that challenge as we have so many others. To that end, we look forward to continued partnerships with you all in the coming year.
