CVHEC DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE (December 2023): Happy Holidays!

 

Best wishes for 2024 from the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium staff: (FRONT) Dr. Benjamín Durán and Ángel Ramírez. (BACK) Tom Burke, Dr. Liz Rozell, Pricila Villanueva, Stan Carrisoza, Elaine Cash, Dr. John Spevak and Tom Uribes. (Not pictured: Vikash Lakhani).

  All the best this holiday season as we reflect on 2023

 

Holiday greetings from all of us here at CVHEC,

I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful and restful Thanksgiving with your family and loved ones and are doing the same during this Christmas season.

We invite you to reflect on an eventful and rewarding 2023 for the Central Valley and the Consortium captured here in our final newsletter of the year. Thank you to our partners as we share our accomplishments in pursuing initiatives and projects with our region’s students in mind.

This year we are happy to salute and greet our K-12 partner districts who have joined us in creating meaningful pathways from middle school and high school to college.  As we prepare to welcome 2024, stay tuned as we continue to nurture many roads leading to one destination – getting students to and through college in a timely manner!

We were particularly excited to close the year this month with two major national conferences: the Talent Hub Convening in Mobile, Alabama by the CivicLab where we revisited how partnerships between industry and education, working off the same playbook, are vital to cross-collaboration success for both landscapes; and the Complete College America conference in Las Vegas, Nevada where we encountered “a clear-eyed vision for leading systems change” throughout our nation. We started the year-end conference season with the  Community Colleges League of California in November where our summit student panelist Araceli Tilley joined us to talk about her successful Program Pathway Mapper experiences.

CVHEC is excited to be an active part of these national and state movements as we leave 2023 and forge ahead into a promising 2024.

And in closing, congratulations to our two newest CVHEC board members selected this month to serve as CEOs:  Brian Sanders was named president of Modesto Junior College by the Yosemite Community College District’s Board of Trustees; and Dr. Steven Bloomberg was named chancellor of the Kern Community College District by the KernCCD Board of Trustees.

So, once again, holiday greetings to all with wishes for a wonderful start to the coming new year!!