Brian Sanders – Central Valley Higher Education Consortium

A promising 2024!

Greetings and welcome to 2024 from the CVHEC Team,

We are excited about what the new year holds for our member Central Valley colleges and universities and the thousands of students they serve in this part of California.

As we find ourselves halfway through the 2023-24 Academic Year, you will find in this first newsletter of the new year updates on the exciting initiatives and projects that we undertook during the fall semester and will continue into the spring of this year.

In the fall, our Board of Directors introduced the CVHEC Strategic Plan that will guide the consortium for the next three years. One way to plan your future ventures is to take stock of where you have been. Please enjoy the blog by team member Stan Carrizosa who has masterfully laid out the collective efforts and accomplishments of the CVHEC team, its colleges and universities and its contributing partners this last year as a guide into 2024.

Also, to help carry out that plan, we will soon be rolling out our 2024 CVHEC Campaign which will serve as the umbrella under which our higher education and K12 partners will do their work. We have found that the talent and insights of our Central Valley higher education professionals are reflected in the collaborative approach to developing and implementing innovative strategies to addressing student success challenges the Central Valley way.

These efforts will include work from CVHEC’s Math Task Force, English Task Force, Online Educational Resources/Zero Textbook Cost Task Force and the CVHEC Dual Enrollment for Equity and Prosperity (CVDEEP) Task Force. Keep an eye out for more details about our campaign!

We are also delighted you will read about the continued support for the consortium from the College Futures Foundation as well as new federal funding awarded College Bridge, one of our partners working with us to deliver the innovative Math Bridge intervention in partnership with regional community colleges and their feeder high school partners in the valley. This includes new Math Bridge collaborations with our Central Valley Transfer Project as well.

Last but not least, our member institutions were engaged this month in their annual local efforts to bring community members to their campuses for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations and activities in observance of the contributions and sacrifices of this great American leader of civil rights and next month for Black History Month.

Thanks for joining us in kicking off a great 2024!!

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!!

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