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WHAT THE CV-HEC IS HAPPENING BLOG (December 2022): Year-In-Review/Silver Edition

December 14, 2022

Celebrating Our 25th Edition with a Look Back at 2022 E-Newsletter Stories

The December “What the CV-HEC is Happening” Blog is presented by Tom Uribes, CVHEC’s communications/media coordinator who joined CVHEC in 2020 after serving as a California State University public affairs specialist for two Fresno State offices in a 30-year career from 1988-2017: the University Outreach Services and University Communications offices, where he also served as the University’s public information officer for two decades of that career. Among his current projects is editor of the CVHEC e-newsletter which presents its 25th edition with this issue. His blog looks back at some of the newsletter stories published in 2022.

By Tom Uribes
CVHEC Communications/Media Coordinator

With the close of 2022 – and near resumption of post-pandemic “normal life” – we present our now annual review of top stories featured in the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium e-newsletter for this December issue: our 25th edition!

This Silver Edition of the CVHEC e-newsletter crowns a venture that started when I signed on with the Consortium in March, 2020 just as the pandemic broke — sending me back home after just one day in CVHEC’s office in Fresno to work out of a hastily revived bedroom office.

Under the direction of my new CVHEC boss at the time, Virginia Madrid-Salazar (who I had hired as one of my first news interns when she was a Fresno State student in the late 80s), we published our first issue in June 2020 and when Virginia left us in August 2021 to play lawyer, Ángel Ramírez assumed this CVHEC communications partnership as my lead. His able and competent guidance and leadership has continued the solid foundation started by Virginia for the growth of this e-newsletter into this, its 25th edition.

We hope you enjoy this milestone issue — a compressed journey through the past 12 months of the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium. Topics range from our Dual Enrollment Convening and Legislative and Policy Summit in in the spring, the historic CVHEC Board of Directors quarterly meetings, the appointments of new campus leaders, the growth of our “What the CV-HEC is Happening” Blog first introduced in 2021 and more.

We strive to tell the CVHEC story: bringing together 30 Central Valley institutions of higher education through its board of directors made up the presidents and chancellors in the nine-county region who make history every time they meet to deliberate, act and speak as one voice on higher education issues and policies affecting our region — a feat not seen too often throughout the academia CEO world.

  • JANUARY

We presented our first year-in-review looking back at 2021 in January with Dr. Benjamín Durán, CVHEC executive director, ushering in the New Year in his monthly director’s message:

“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,” Dr. Duran messaged that month. “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.”

  • FEBRUARY

CV-HEC BLOG: Dual Enrollment – An Equity Change-Maker

Our first CV-HEC Guest Blog of the year in February featured a guest writer who was instrumental in planting seeds for our “What the CV-HEC is Happening” Blog, the aforementioned Virginia Madrid-Salazar, Esq., former CVHEC strategies lead turned private law practice dependency attorney. Virginia shared some observations on dual enrollment from her unique dual perspective stemming from when she worked with CVHEC setting up the CVDEEP and its convening and as a mom of a dual enrollment student.

“As the strategies lead for the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium, it was an honor to work alongside area educators to affect transformational changes that have occurred in the region’s higher education sphere during that period,” said Virginia who wrote CVHEC’s white paper in 2020: CVDEEP White Paper: “Dual Enrollment in the Central Valley, Working Toward a Unified Approach for Equity and Prosperity.” 

  • MARCH

Dual Enrollment Convening: Face-To-Face Space for K-12 and Higher Ed and new DE Video

More than 135 secondary and postsecondary educators assembled for the “Establishing Dual Enrollment Pathways in the Central Valley” Convening March 17 in Fresno to address challenges and barriers to dual enrollment success. Presented by CVHEC’s Central Valley Dual Enrollment for Equity and Prosperity (CVDEEP) Task Force, the five-hour convening was opened by Dr. Mayra A. Lara, associate director of Educator Engagement for The Education Trust-West, discussing her organization’s report, “Jumpstart California: A Roadmap for Equitable Dual Enrollment Policy & Practice.”

The event also featured the premiere of CVHEC’s latest education video, “Blurring the Lines Between High School and College: Dual Enrollment in the Central Valley.” The video depicts three student success stories as well as three area educators advocating for dual enrollment including CVHEC board members Dr. Kristin Clark, chancellor of the West Hills Community College District, and Dr. Chris Vitelli, president of Merced College. Convening participants also heard four valley students – including three from the video — share their success stories. Two completed associate degrees before their high school graduation.   See press release.

  • APRIL

CVHEC Founder Welty To Return for Summit and 20th Anniversary

This year for our 20th anniversary, the Consortium reunited with President-Emeritus John D. Welty, CVHEC’s founding president at our Higher Education Policy And Legislative Summit May 6, where the founding president witnessed a 30th member added to the board (see May).

SUMMIT NEWS: Attendees Hear the Voice of Student Experiences

A special feature of the 2022 CHEVC Summit was the student experiences panel including students who were featured in two Central Valley Higher Education Consortium videos in the past year.

  • MAY

CVHEC’s Higher Education Policy and Legislative Summit (Photo Gallery)

Nearly 300 intersegmental educators, legislators and partner representatives from throughout the Central Valley and the state joined us for our Higher Education Policy and Legislative Summit May 5-6 to examine such issues as equity, dual enrollment, transfer pathways and broadband disparity and access under the theme, “Post Pandemic World: Recovering with Equity and Inclusion in the Central Valley.” The event marked CVHEC’s 20th anniversary featuring the return of founding board of directors president Dr. John D. Welty, president-emeritus of Fresno State, who joined fellow founding board members Dr. Frank Gornick, West Hills Community College District chancellor-emeritus, and Dr. Benjamin Duran, Merced College president-emeritus and current CVHEC executive director, on a summit panel recalling the early days of the consortium. A special feature of the 2022 CHEVC Summit was the student experiences panel including students who were featured in two Central Valley Higher Education Consortium videos in the past year.  The night before (May 5), CVHEC presented its Cinco de Mayo Reception providing the occasion to reconnect in-person with colleagues, new and old, after a two-year pandemic-forced hiatus from in-person convenings. The reception featured Las Hermanas Medinas from Hanford, two college grads and a current student (two of the three attended CVHEC member institution Fresno State and the third is a UC Santa Cruz alumna). See summit agenda.

BOARD NEWS: UCSF-Fresno Becomes CVHEC’s 30th Institution of Higher Education Member

At its quarterly meeting May 5, the CVHEC Board of Directors formally accepted the membership application from the University of California San Francisco – Fresno Campus and welcomed the 30th institution of higher education to join the Consortium. Michael W. Peterson, MD/MACP, associate dean for Undergraduate Medical Education and Research at the UCSF-Fresno Campus, was seated on the Consortium board joining the presidents and chancellors of 29 colleges and universities in the nine-county region from San Joaquin to Kern counties.

  • JUNE

CVHEC Teacher Upskilling for Master’s Degrees Supports Dual Enrollment in South Valley Via Kern K-16 Collaborative

CVHEC’s Dual Enrollment Teacher Upskilling Program for English and Mathematics pilot program first launched in Fresno by CVHEC in 2021 was funded in June for the South Valley. In partnership with the Kern Regional K-16 Education Collaborative, the program will provide 100 South Valley high school teachers with the opportunity to earn a master’s degree that achieves state qualifications for teaching community college dual enrollment English and math courses on local high school campuses.

Dr. Krista Herrera was named executive director of the newly formed Kern Regional K-16 Education Collaborative, a partnership between Kern County Superintendent Of Schools, institutes of higher education including the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium and Kern business partners to significantly expand Kern County’s workforce development efforts (reported in our July issue).

  • JULY

CVHEC BLOG: UC Enrollment Push Supported by CVHEC/UC Merced Transfer Project and new Mapper Software

The June “What The CV-HEC Is Happening” Blog featured guest contributor Dr. James Zimmerman, senior associate vice provost and dean for Undergraduate Education at the University of California-Merced where he is also director of the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning and a physics professor. He serves on the CVHEC/UC Merced Transfer Project committee and for this blog he connects the committee’s work the past year to a recent article on UC enrollment expansion.

  • AUGUST

Pathway for Community College Students to the Medical Field: California Medicine Scholars Program-SJV: a collab of UCSF Fresno and CVHEC members  

A valley wide collaborative by CVHEC partners and Sen. Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) led to a major accomplishment for the Central Valley with the launch this summer of the California Medicine Scholars Program and the designation of the University of California, San Francisco – Fresno as one of four Regional Hubs of Healthcare Opportunity (RHHOs) in the state. Sen. Hurtado cited a healthcare provider shortage in the Central Valley and credited CVHEC for rallying leaders of the Consortium from Stockton to Bakersfield to support UCSF-Fresno as one of the state’s four hubs authorized by the legislation.

  • SEPTEMBER

Zero-Textbook-Cost/OER Movement picks up steam with $115m state grant West Hills College Lemoore among leaders; CVHEC plans regional task force

The Central Valley Higher Education Consortium (CVHEC) is creating a regional task force to support its member institutions interested in reducing the overall cost of education for students and decreasing the time to complete degree and certificate programs by using alternative instructional materials and methodologies, including open educational resources (OER).

CV-HEC BLOG: The ZTC/OER Movement

The September blog is the first by a CVHEC Board of Directors member: West Hills College-Lemoore President James Preston who writes about the Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Program and the California Community College Chancellor’s Office supporting the system with $115 million to do the work in the “OERevolution” (Open Educational Resources).

  • OCTOBER

CVHEC NEWS: Elaine Cash Is Grants & Program Coordinator as Consortium Grows

Educator Elaine C. Cash, retired superintendent of Riverdale Joint Unified School District and a K-12 liaison for the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium since 2017, was named to a full-time position as CVHEC’s Grants & Programs coordinator. In her new capacity effective Oct. 1, Elaine is responsible for grant writing, management and reporting of grants and sponsored programs, announced CVHEC Executive Director Dr. Benjamín Durán. “This new position for CVHEC will help support the growth and sustainability of the consortium and our work,” Durán said.

MINI GRANT SUCCESS STORY: AOA Journal Features CHSU ‘Pre-Med Bootcamp’ for Promoting Cultural Competency, Osteopathic Medicine Awareness

The Pre-Med Bootcamp Program of the California Health Sciences University College of Osteopathic Medicine was recognized nationally for its success in promoting cultural competency and osteopathic medicine awareness and assisting students in applying for the medical school. The bootcamp, held in 2019 and the first of five held since then, was supported by a Central Valley Higher Education Consortium Mini-Grant.

  • NOVEMBER

North Valley, East Sierra CVHEC Members Partner for K-16 Collaboratives State Planning Grants Could Lead to Expansion of CVHEC’s Dual Enrollment Initiatives

Two more Central Valley regions – North San Joaquin and Eastern Sierra – were each awarded one-year $250,000 state planning grants for the establishment of Regional K-16 Education Collaboratives Grant Programs as part of the statewide drive to strengthen the K-16 education-to-career pipeline. Both collaborative efforts are headed by Central Valley Higher Education Consortium member institutions.

In the Northern San Joaquin Region, the University of California, Merced is the lead agency for the newly formed North Valley Tri-County Workforce and Education (WE Will!) Regional Collaborative that includes four other fellow CVHEC-members: Merced College, Modesto Junior College, San Joaquin Delta College and California State University, Stanislaus. For the Eastern Sierra Region, CVHEC-member Columbia College is heading up the K-16 collaborative planning along with several school districts, colleges and employer groups. These allocations amount to a total of four such collaboratives involving CVHEC members that will help bolster dual enrollment initiatives like the consortium’s successful Master’s Upskilling Program that has already been implemented in the mid valley region through the Fresno-Madera K-16 Collaborative and will be getting underway in 2023 in the south valley area through the Kern K-16 Collaborative.

  • DECEMBER (Silver Edition)

CVHEC Board Winter Meets  (Photo Gallery)

The Central Valley Higher Education Consortium Board of Directors held its final quarterly meeting of the year Dec. 8 highlighted by a discussion of Assembly Bill 928 regarding transfer reform and a farewell to a beloved colleague: Dr. Lori Bennett, outgoing president of Clovis Community College who delivered her final State-of-the-College at the CCC President’s Breakfast Oct. 25. See the board photo gallery.

CV-HEC BLOG: Year in Review-2022

The December “What the CV-HEC is Happening” Blog takes a look back at some of the newsletter stories published in 2022.

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Year-In-Review: CVHEC’s Top 2021 Stories

January 25, 2022

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See our broadband disparity video, “Pursuing The Last Mile,” released in May 2021.

With the close of 2021 – or the second pandemic year — we present a glimpse back at top stories featured in the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium e-newsletter:

• JANUARY

Dual Enrollment Upskilling Teachers Master’s Program Advances Equity

An innovative master’s degree program launched in January, “Dual Enrollment Upskilling Teachers Master’s Program in English and Math,” was designed to incentivize dual enrollment delivery at Central Valley high schools and address an equity concern raised by the CVHEC’s Central Valley Dual Enrollment for Equity and Prosperity (CVDEEP) Task Force:  not enough Central Valley teachers are available to teach dual enrollment resulting in fewer opportunities for students and fueling an equity gap.

(See December for the first graduating cohort).

Photojournalism Project Brings Students COVID-19 Challenges into Focus

Miguel Contreras, a 22-year-old student majoring in nursing at College of the Sequoias (COS), was featured in a special year-long project by photojournalist Rachel Bujalski for The Lumina Foundation (Lumina), a partner of the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium. The photo project, which was published on Lumina’s website, presented a candid, close up look at the lives of five low-income students and the immense college challenge they face during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• MARCH 

CVHEC Equity, Race and Social Justice Taskforce Established

CVHEC launched its Equity, Race, and Social Justice Taskforce to assess and recommend action for its 29 member institutions in Central California’s nine-county region with findings and recommendations planned for presentation at the CVHEC Higher Education 2022 Summit. Convened in response to the social unrest of summer 2020 and the impacts of the pandemic, the taskforce seeks to rebuild and improve higher education outcomes for the Central Valley region.

CVHEC Mini-Grants Support Brandman Students in Pandemic Era

In this regular feature, we spotlight innovative uses of our CVHEC Mini-Grants by member institutions and how funded projects positively impacted the region’s students in support of CVHEC’s mission to increase degree attainment rates.

In March, Brandman University (now UMass Global) was featured for its Textbook Award Program that provided immediate relief to students at three Central Valley campuses during the COVID-19 pandemic by using its CVHEC Mini-Grant to create $150 book vouchers for 50 undergraduate, first-generation students. The program fulfilled one of the Mini-Grant strategies: to help students when the pandemic was having the greatest impact on them as they attempted to attain a degree.

CVHEC Eyes State Equity Taskforce Recommendations 

A report by California’s Recovery with Equity Taskforce  provided recommendations CVHEC is exploring The state report, “Recovery with Equity: A Roadmap for Higher Education After the Pandemic,” was submitted to Governor Gavin Newsom and the Governor’s Council for Post-Secondary Education with a series of interconnected, interdependent recommendations developed by the state taskforce to help post-secondary systems.

• APRIL

KCCD Selects Dr. Sonya Christian as Sixth Chancellor

Dr. Sonya Christian became the sixth chancellor of the Kern Community College District succeeding Dr. Tom Burke. She was serving as president of Bakersfield College in KCCD when its board of directors announced her promotion April 19.

Dr. Kristin Clark is WHCCD’s Next Chancellor

Dr. Kristin Clark became the third chancellor of West Hills Community College District when the WHCCD Board of Trustees selected her April 20 to succeed Dr. Stuart Van Horn upon retirement June 30. Dr. Clark, who had served as president of West Hills College Lemoore (WHCL) since 2016, began her new duties July 1.

Central Valley 2021 Commencement Spurs Creative Celebrations

The pandemic shutdown of 2020 resulted in most colleges across the country cancelling commencement exercises but as restrictions abated in 2021, many were able to confer degrees in person once again, while some continued with virtual broadcasts and others employed a hybrid version of both in-person and virtual.

CVHEC Members Provide COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics on Campus

Central Valley colleges and universities served California and their respective communities as key partners in the state’s plan to provide safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines by lending their campuses as mass COVID-19 vaccination sites.

• MAY

Broadband Disparity: Equity Issue In California’s Central Valley — Adequate Access Is Essential To Increasing Degree Attainment Rates  

In 2021, the CVHEC communications team headed by Tom Uribes undertook a video project with Juanita Stevenson and Justin Davis of Fenceline Media to produce, “Pursuing the Last Mile: Broadband in the Central Valley,” looking at broadband disparity   — an inability to access reliable internet in the Central Valley that impacted CVHEC’s mission to increasing degree attainment rates in our nine-county region — and highlighting how some students met the adversity head-on. The video was featured on ABC 30 News and the KSEE 24 Central Valley Today show as well as KSEE’s Education Matters series.

o SEE: CVHEC video project (No. 1) – “Pursuing The Last Mile-Broadband In The Central Valley” 

• JUNE

Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval is First Immigrant to Head Fresno State

Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval, Ph.D., became Fresno State’s ninth president May 19 when the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees announced his selection to succeed Joseph I. Castro who was named CSU chancellor in fall 2020. Jiménez-Sandoval, who was serving as interim president joining the CVHEC board of directors in January, is the first immigrant to lead Fresno State. Born in Mexico, President Jiménez-Sandoval’s family moved to the Central Valley where he grew up on the family farm in Fowler.

Dr. Santanu Bandyopadhyay is Modesto Junior College President

Dr. Santanu Bandyopadhyay became president of Modesto Junior College effective June 1 after serving as interim president since January. Previously, Bandyopadhyay had served as president of Columbia College in Tuolumne County, YCCD’s other institution, since July 2018 when also he joined the CVHEC Board of Directors.

CVHEC Mini-Grant Success: MJC’s Faculty Mentor Plan Supports AB705

Modesto Junior College recently used its CVHEC Mini-Grant to support compliance with California AB705 by funding its Faculty Mentor Program that embedded adjunct faculty into accelerated/co-requisite English and math courses during the Spring 2021 semester, addressing the key elements of persistence; time to degree; and decreasing equity gap.

CCA Podcast Features CVHEC Equity, Race and Social Justice Taskforce

A new podcast series by Complete College America, “CCA On the Air,” aired June 22 featuring Virginia Madrid-Salazar, former strategies lead for the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium, discussing “Committing to Systemic Equitable Change.”  Virginia, who left CVHEC shortly after the podcast to begin her law career, talked about CVHEC’s Equity, Race, and Social Justice Taskforce and its regional approach to the equity work.

• SEPTEMBER 

Pilot CVHEC/UC Merced Transfer Project improves process for students

The CVHEC/UC Merced Transfer Project, a pilot program developed between the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium and three member institutions — UC Merced, Merced College and Bakersfield College — designed to enhance a community college student’s transfer experience was unveiled at the CVHEC Board of Directors quarterly meeting Sept. 3. The specific aim of the initial pilot project, which includes a new web-based software application, Program Mapper, is to increase the number of successful and timely transfers from the Central Valley member community colleges in CVHEC’s nine-county region to UCM, reported Stan Carrizosa, southern regional coordinator for the consortium. Tom Burke, former chancellor of the Kern Community College District, serves as the Transfer Project coordinator.

Mini-Grant Success: Reedley College’s Motivational Poster Project

More than 70 motivational posters profiling a diverse range of student success stories were produced by the Reedley College Academic Senate thanks to funding from Central Valley Higher Education Consortium’s Mini-Grant project.  Prof. Rebecca Al Haider in the Communication and Languages Department undertook the Motivational Poster Project as part of the college’s Academic Senate’s anti-racism action plan “to create campus spaces that are equitable inclusive and diverse” by producing 70 posters that were printed in various languages, framed and displayed on campus.

Dual Enrollment Success Story: Nataly Frias of Turlock

The Covid-19 pandemic of the past 18 months cast a shadow over joyous occasions like graduation events for Class of 2020 and 2021 high school and college students everywhere, but one narrative emerged repeatedly in the Central Valley that provided a spark of optimism for our region’s college attainment rates: dual enrollment success stories. One of those stories is 18-year-old Nataly Frias, who, during her pandemic senior year at Turlock High School (2020-21), had taken enough Merced College courses online to earn two associate degrees in May, even before receiving her THS diploma in June.

New ‘What the CV-HEC is Happening’ Blog: A Pandemic Year in Valley Higher Education

In our September e-newsletter, CVHEC began a new feature: the “What The CV-HEC is Happening?” Blog featuring guest columnists providing a personalized insider look at aspects of higher education life. The inaugural column was penned by Stan A. Carrizosa Sr., retired College of the Sequoias superintendent/president who is now CVHEC’s southern regional coordinator. He reflected on the previous 18 months since the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the world with the ups and downs, lessons learned and the opportunities to be had from this era.

• OCTOBER

Historic UC Merced Transfer Pathways with Bakersfield, Merced Colleges launches Nov. 4

A hybrid convening at the University of California, Merced Nov. 4, “Charting Better Maps to Degrees,” launched the historic UC Merced Transfer Pathways initiative between three Central Valley Higher Education Consortium member campuses that include a demonstration of how the new Program Pathways Mapper can revolutionize positive outcomes across enrollment, completions and equity for students (first announced in the September issue).

Mini-Grant Success: COS Equitable Teaching Institute Supports Faculty Learning

The Equitable Teaching Institute at College of Sequoias this summer engaged 10 faculty in an innovative four-week interdisciplinary cohort-based summer learning session that studied equitable pedagogy and how to apply it to gatekeeping courses at COS thanks to a $7,500 Central Valley Higher Education Consortium Mini-Grant. The Equitable Teaching culminated with the ETI Faculty Presentation Showcase Aug. 11 as part of the college’s Faculty Development Workshop Series attended by over 40 of their colleagues during Fall 2021 Convocation Week.

Dual Enrollment Success Story: Celeste Galván of McFarland

Celeste Galván of McFarland earned an associate degree at age 17 before she even graduated from high school, marching alongside thousands of other Bakersfield College students at the commencement ceremony in Memorial Stadium in 2018. In high school, Celeste participated in a Bakersfield College pilot dual enrollment program at the Wonderful College Prep Academy in Delano that provided students with the opportunity to complete an associate of science in agriculture business from BC by the time they graduated. Then just two years later, after transferring to Fresno State, she earned a bachelor of arts degree in Liberal Studies in May and now, at age 19, she is enrolled in the credential program at California State University, Bakersfield while serving an teacher internship at a nearby elementary school. All three colleges are CVHEC members. (UPDATE: Celeste completed her internship in December and now has her sights set on beginning her teaching career this summer or fall).

CV-HEC Blog: COS Puente Prof Oral History/Research Paper Featured 

Our October e-newsletter “What The CV-HEC is Happening?” Blog featured Jamie Moore, professor of English at CVHEC-member institution College of the Sequoias in Visalia, by reprinting the  California Acceleration Project (CAP) “Notes from the Field” blog she wrote: “Transforming The Research Paper: Using Oral History To Center  Students’ Voices And Communities.” Prof. Moore, a teacher in the statewide Puente program, discusses how she uses oral history to transform the research assignments in her first-year composition classroom. The CVHEC blog features guest columnists providing a personalized insider look at aspects of higher education life.

• NOVEMBER

CVHEC E-Newsletter – Special Edition: Cradle-to-Careers Data System Announcement

The California Cradle-to-Career Data System launched this fall brings together early education, K-12, higher education and social service systems to create better futures for students statewide while helping close college opportunity gaps. The result of a three-year partnership between the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium (CVHEC) and the California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI), the Cradle-to-Career Data System was established by California Assembly Bill 132 (AB 132) and will help Central Valley students transition smoothly from K-12 to higher education with the online platform, CaliforniaColleges.edu. This platform provides students with personalized tools using their official transcript data in coordination with participating school districts and the California Department of Education. Historically, districts paid for the cost of CCGI’s transcript-informed tools and services. The Central Valley partnership helped make these tools and services available to all free of charge.

• DECEMBER

Dual Enrollment Master Upskilling Program: First Cohort Conferred Degrees

The first cohort of  17 National University graduate students participating in the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium Dual Enrollment Upskilling Teachers Master’s Program in English (see January) completed degree requirements for an M.A. in December, marking a milestone for this innovative project that benefits thousands of the region’s dual enrollment students.  The Master’s Upskilling Program for area English high school teachers, which addresses equity and access issues, began in January funded by grants from the Fresno K-16 Collaborative.

CVHEC Blog: ‘What The CV-Hec Is Happening’ (Dec. 2021)

Our December e-newsletter “What The CV-HEC is Happening?” Blog featured Tom Burke, former chancellor of Kern Community College District where he now serves as deputy chancellor as well as a coordinator with the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium. He provides a personalized insight on his new “assignment” as a coordinator of CVHEC’s Transfer Project and the opportunity to continue serving students in general. Specifically, he is helping build effective pathways to our community colleges for a smoother, efficient transfer experience after the launch of the Transfer Project this fall including a hybrid convening at UC Merced Nov. 4, CVHEC’s first in-person event since the pandemic shutdown held in concert with UCM and Bakersfield and Merced Colleges.

Mini-Grant Success Story: CHSU Pre-Med Pathway Bootcamp

A Pre-Med Pathway Bootcamp helped 25 local students prepare to apply to California Health Sciences University College of Osteopathic Medicine (CHSU-COM) thanks to funding from Central Valley Higher Education Consortium’s Mini-Grant project.

Goldsmith Named SCCCD Chancellor

See our broadband disparity video, “Pursuing The Last Mile,” released in May 2021.Dr. Carole Goldsmith was named the 11th chancellor of the State Center Community College District Board effective Jan. 1. She fills the position vacated when Dr. Paul Parnell retired July 6. Dr. Goldsmith was serving as the president of Fresno City College at the time of her appointment and serving on the CVHEC Board of Directors in that capacity. She will remain on the board now as SCCCD chancellor. Dr. Goldsmith has also previously served as president of West Hills College Coalinga.

Preston Selected to Lead West Hills College Lemoore

Mr. James Preston, former vice president of Educational Services who was serving as interim president of West Hills College Lemoore, was appointed as the college’s 4th president effective January 1, 2022.

West Hills College Coalinga Names Tweed President

Dr. Carla Tweed, a Central Valley native, will lead her alma mater as the 6th president of West Hills College Coalinga effective January 14, 2022 when she also becomes a member of the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium board of directors.

 

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New campus leaders featured in 2021 were: TOP ROW – Chancellor Sonya Christian, Kern Community College District (May issue); Chancellor Kristin Clark, West Hills Community College District (May); Pres. Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval, Fresno State (June). BOTTOM ROW – Pres. Dr. Santanu Bandyopadhyay, Modesto Junior College (June); Chancellor Carole Goldsmith, State Center Community College District (December); Pres. James Preston, West Hills College-Lemoore (December); Pres. Carla Tweed, West Hills College-Coalinga (December).

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