Introducing 3 rd Space Community College

1. Fall 2013 Community Orientation Introducing3rd Space Community College Your anchor for community life and transformational interactions. The space to cultivate and illuminate. The place you want to be. Welcome to your zone!

2. Founding Queen Mothers Sub Irrigation Gardening Dr. Ashanti Hands Dr. Pearl Lopez Dr. Thekima Mayasa Inspiration • Revolutionary • Sustainable • Self-watering • Abundant Growth • The students are the garden. • We are changing the composition of the soil through education. • The greatness of our harvest is the local community! 1947 President’s Commission on Higher Education Conceives community colleges as local institutions, intimately connected to communities with the purpose of preparing students for a future – employment and personal well being.

3. Founding Queen Mothers Sub Irrigation Gardening Dr. Ashanti Hands Dr. Pearl Lopez Dr. Thekima Mayasa Inspiration • Revolutionary • Sustainable • Self-watering • Abundant Growth • The students are the garden. • We are changing the composition of the soil through education. • The greatness of our harvest is the local community! 1947 President’s Commission on Higher Education Conceives community colleges as local institutions, intimately connected to communities with the purpose of preparing students for a future – employment and personal well being.

4. Our students’ genius is the tool for education and transformation of self, neighborhoods and the world. VISION 3rd Space Community College

5. THIRD SPACE is a culturally congruent learning environment that promotes personal and community growth and transformation through collective and experiential learning experiences rooted in:- Divergent thinking- Development of life mastery skills- Development of the whole person- Conscious awareness of unique and common characteristics, and,- The reflection and cultivation of great thinkers in our local community MISSION 3rd Space Community College

6. Civic Engagement Community Creativity Cultural Congruency Divergent Thinking Experiential Learning Fun Innovation and Excellence Joy Rigor Self-efficacy Sense of belonging Service to Community Sustainability VALUES 3rd Space Community College

7. 3rd Space Community College Quick Facts

8. Quick Facts: Demographics _________ 3rdSpace Community College is a single college campus serving 10,000 students in the Hub of Diversity, California. _________

9. Quick Facts: Organizational & Communication Structures • Workforce Development • Professional • Development • Council of Elders • Campus Conscious • Cultural Info. Tech Sys. Spec • College Connection Organizational Structure Research Communication Structure Star/Open Network Lunenberg & Ornstein (2007) FOUNDATION VALUES Civic Engagement – Community – Creativity - Cultural Congruency - Divergent Thinking - Experiential Learning – Fun - Innovation and Excellence – Joy – Rigor- Self-efficacy - Sense of belonging - Service to Community - Sustainability

10. Quick Facts: Integrated Planning Long Range Planning Annual Planning

11. Quick Facts: Facilities • Amphitheater in the middle for celebrations and ceremonies • Shared learning spaces – rooms open up to connect with other rooms to share space • Garden areas located throughout facilities in addition to sub-irrigation plants • Sí Se Puede Walk • Tramway to bring students in from local community. Arrives directly on campus. • Platinum LEED Certified.

12. Quick Facts: Budget All annual unmet needs are funded by The Grace of God Foundation Grants

13. Quick Facts: Funding Highlights Due to our strong community tax support and our Grace of God Foundation • 3SCC students are funded at the UC level of $25,000 per student (vs. the CCC cost of $5500) • Loan forgiveness options are available for students who commit to serving the community or college upon completion • 100% of our students receive some form of financial assistance through federal, state, or community partnership stipends. These funds also help support students when “life happens.” Community partners include:

14. EVERY STUDENT HAS AN EXPERIENCE THE 3SCC EXPERIENCE IS DESIGNED WITH COMPLETION IN MIND

15. YOUR Student ExperiencePATHWAYS TO SUCCESS

16. Step 1:Connecting to the Community Who are we OUTREACHING to? • Local Feeder High Schools • Juvenile Detention Facilities • Continuation Schools • Community Centers • Homeless Shelters • Veteran Centers • Refugee Community Organizations • Foster Youth Organizations • Parolee and Probation Programs • Gang Prevention Centers Why? Because EVERYONE in our community has something positive to contribute. Everyone gets a seat at the table!

17. We've been preparing for you! We have created a space for you in our place. • Information Sessions • Application (Getting to Know You Section)- Strengths Quest & Questions about aspirations, life circumstances, experiences with college • Financial Aid - Federal grants, State grants, scholarships, community partnership stipends • Support Services -Traditional and non-traditional services to ensure success. • Preparation for Assessment – self-paced online modules • Education pipeline with high schools to ensure a smooth transition to college

18. Step 2:Beginning Classes • Mandatory Assessment, Orientation and Advising • Registration support • Life Map – Educational Plan. Everyone has their own path on how they will get there. • Supplemental Inquiry • Summer Bridge Program (2 Options): • First Option: 2-day orientation for the person who is more advanced in preparation. • Second Option: 4-week Summer Bridge Program • Includes same information as 2 day orientation in addition to accelerated program to catch up on math and English skills(root courses), life skills, personal development, etc.

19. Step 3:Preparing for Success • Multiple Assessments – Math and English placement, Strengths Quest, MBTI, skills analysis, interest-based assessment • Supplemental Instruction – In-class tutors and out-of-class lectures and discussion ran by SI tutors • Peer Mentoring - student to student mentoring • Life Mastery & Academic Coaches - can be from the community, or a faculty or staff member • First year experience – • Continuation of summer bridge program • Theme-based cohorts for various majors

20. Step 3: Continued… • Accelerated Programs – • Math & English root courses designed to bring students “up to speed” with college level requirements. Can be completed during summer or during first semester of college • Self-paced modules to complete root courses during first college semester

21. Step 3: Student Support Services • Traditional Support Spaces • Financial Aid, Counseling, Transfer Center, Tutoring, Career and Job Placement Space, Admissions & Records, EOPS/CARE, CalWORKs, DSP&S • Redesigned/New Support Spaces: • Wellness Center (Mind & Body) – Meditation, yoga, acupuncture, massage, nutrition, herbal, vitamin, and mineral support, sweat lodge, scented oils, mental health services, birthing center • Residential Living – Collaboration with surrounding apartment community to provide housing for students who cannot commute or have housing issues. There are also living learning spaces(Doing Space Place) and supplemental instruction available on site.

22. Step 3: Continued… • Redesigned/New Support Spaces : • Nelson Mandela Cross-Cultural Space – A center that supports diversity, equity and inclusion on the campus. • Creates a teaching and learning environment in which the entire campus community feels welcome. • Welcomes creative venues for enhancing social consciousness and equity. • Core program services: Student organizations and other affiliates (MECHA, Puente, Umoja, etc), social justice trainings and workshops, community space and resources. • Resources – LGBTQ Center, Women’s Resource Center, Foster Youth Center.

23. Step 3: Continued… • Career and Workforce Placement Space • Responsible for assessing student skills to identify major • Assist with portfolio development (resume, cover letter, work samples, accomplishments, letters of recommendation) • Internship, apprenticeship, job, and civic engagement placement • Assist with interview preparation using interview panel and video recording • Work closely with Life Mastery coach to prepare for potential placements • Assist students with joining online associations and organizations

24. Step 3:Student Success: Civic Engagement Academic Learning = Civic Engagement + Student and Community Success • 1st Semester - Direct Service • 2nd Semester - Community Based Research • 3rd Semester - Community Trainings/Workshops • 4th Semester - Policy Analysis • Cohort Based • Stipends & Scholarships • Guest Speakers

25. Program Evaluation & Development

26. Which path(s) will you take? 3SCC help you dream bigger dreams while reaching your long and short term goals Vocational Transfer Roots

27. Education TransformationA Holistic Learning Approach -“Conceptual Age Thinking”

28. The Road to Becoming a Root Scholar Academic & Life Coaches Early Alert, Calling Campaigns, Mandatory Meetings Groupware Technology 24-Hr Support Network, Distance Learning/Hybrids, Unique Programs Cultural, STEAM Experiential/Community Learning by Doing Relationship Building & Civic Responsibility Completion & Seamless Transformation

29. Step 1: First Term Progress Students

30. Develop Personalized Life Mastery Plan Identify your Life Mastery Plan Identify becoming a life-long learner Recognize the role of education in helping to achieve that endeavor Personalized Journey to Excellence Cohort Counseling (Academic, Life, Wellness, Student)

31. Step 1: First Term Progress Faculty

32. Step 2: Technology & Curriculum Integration Groupware (Shared Data) 24 Hrs. Tech/Tech-Tutoring (Live & Chat) Distance Learning/Hybrids Techno-Tools (Quizlets, Skype,etc.)

33. Step 3: Unique & Innovative Programing

34. Step 4: Culturally Congruent Environment/Curriculum Utilize Holistic Health and Human Capital that creates more than a Sense of Belonging to a Campus Culture of Belonging Limited class size 25 Students per class Root Courses – (Joint, main + support with accelerated learning ) Cultural Epistemologies (Ethnomathematics, Ethnoscience) Reflections Portfolio Project/Community-Based Learning (Sub-Irrigation Panting) Campus Experiential (Co-Op) Learning (Major based Student Agency

35. Educational PhilosophyStudent Agency =Student Empowerment Belief that ALL STUDENTS CAN LEARN – Institutional Commitment Communal cluster learning Student/Value-Based Education (VBE) (engage heart, mind, actions) Faculty w/ΔAttitudes/Assessments (Willing Able) Perceptions practice Effective VBE empowers student decision making, fosters actions, equity and assigns real responsibility Reality Pedagogy (Experiential Learning) -relevant to students everyday life as starting point to progressive, vested learning Action Teams (collaborative learning), 5 C’s (cogenerative dialogue, coteaching-student2student/instructor & student, cosmopolitanism, context, content), power of story/narrative learning, reflective learning, cypher – to create joy, appreciation love for learning) Creates community building, engagement, respect, ownership of learning and doing

36. Science, Technology, Engineering + Arts & Mathematic STEAM is a movement championed by Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and widely adopted by institutions, corporations and individuals. Encourage integration of Art (Culture)+ Design in K–20 education Extend National Science Foundation (NSF) & National Institute of Health (NIH) pipeline program through K-20 Federal Support by 113th Congress (2013-2014) H.R.E.S. 51 Recognizes the importance of art and design in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Supports the designation of a STEM-to-STEAM Month. Encourages the inclusion of art and design in the STEM fields during the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Higher Education Act. Encourages the Secretaries of Commerce and Education, the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a STEM to STEAM Council in order to facilitate a comprehensive approach to incorporate art and design into federal STEM programs. Recognition that the historical underserved communiitties

37. Step 5: Completion & Next Steps Workforce Partnerships/Collaboratives (i.e., I.D.E.A. District) through Cultural and Creative Industries Considered New Engines of Growth supported by White House Initiative, National Governors Association NGA 3-n- Deal – Students can receive Academic, Internship Credit & paid experience On-campus living & work w/timely educational completion Personal Ownership – Journey to Excellence Master Plan Review Assessment & Portfolio Self Assessment, Community Project Review Final Cluster Collaborations Pre-completion transitional support (Transfer, Employment, etc.) Portfolio Community Defense Community Announcement Transformation Celebration CONGRATULATIONS!

38. Step 6: Celebrating Milestones • College Hour • Celebrations honoring momentum points are held each semester. Awards are presented to students by college, community and/or family members. • Sí Se Puede Walk • Completed civic engagement projects are cemented by adding a personalized stepping stone to the pathway leading to campus. Each day our students stand on the success of community partnerships. • Commencement • Because we know it talks a village to educate a student, students have the opportunity to bring 2 special people with them as they walk across the stage at our annual commencement ceremony.

39. 3rd Space is the Place to Cultivate and Illuminate Thank You! From the Queen Mothers Get in the Zone 3C3 “The Place where students find their Sakhu (the illumination of the Spirit). To heal and restore the cultural essence of the soul as a genesis to elevating the mind and body in the pursuit of building solidarity in the framing and a future committed to peace, well-being and social justice for all” (3C3 Team & Nobles, 2013). 3rd Space Community College Committed to Creating Root Scholars who are Conscious, Confident and Competent

40. 3rd Space is the Place to Cultivate and Illuminate Thank You! From the Queen Mothers Get into the Zone! “The Place” where students find their Sakhu (the Illumination of the Spirit). To heal and restore the cultural essence of the soul as a genesis to elevating the mind and body in the pursuit of building solidarity that frames a future committed to peace, well-being and social justice for all. 3rd Space Community College Committed to Creating Roots Scholars who are Conscious, Confident and Competent. - Dr. W. Nobles, Dr. N. Akbar, 3SC5 Team

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