Role of Community College Trustees

The nation’s goal to double our number of college graduates relies on the transformation of community colleges to improve transfer and graduation rates. More than ever, community college boards of trustees are being charged with leveraging their position as education and community leaders to advocate for local and state policy change to enable this transformation. To support the role of the community college trustee as leader and advocate in improving student success, included here are guides for creating conditions for change through effective conversation, one state’s evidence-based policy recommendations to support student success, a case study report on building partnerships for workforce development, and other reports for advancing the student success agenda.

	Title	Rating	First Author	Year	Resource Type
Expand	Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT)	0			Web site
	The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) is a non-profit educational organization of governing boards, representing elected and appointed trustees who govern over 1,200 community, technical, and junior colleges in the United States.
Expand	Carpe Diem: Delivering on the Promise of College Success	0			Presentation
	Key note speech on the pivital role of trustees delivered by Jamie P., Merisotis, President of Lumina Foundation for Education delivered to the Association of Community College Trustees Annual Leadership Congress in Sna Francisco on October 8, 2009.
Expand	Carpe Diem: Delivering on the Promise of College Success	0	Merisotis, J.P.	2009	Web site
	Keynote speech at the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) Annual Leadership Congress, San Francisco, CA.
Expand	Fact Sheet: System Accountability Dashboard	0	Minnesota State Colleges & Universities	2007	Web site
	The dashboard’s purpose is to promote continuous improvement and hold the system and each of its 32 colleges and universities accountable by providing ongoing performance assessment. Currently, the dashboard reports data on six of 10 measures for each college and university and for the system as a whole. They are affordability, student persistence and completion rates, employment rate of graduates, licensure exam pass rates, facilities condition and percent change in enrollment. The dashboard also provides context for interpreting system and institutional performance with trend information, comments and direct comparisons.
Expand	Governance Institute for Student Success (GISS)	0			Web site
	The Governance Institute for Student Success is a national initiative designed to provide a governance leadership model that will identify key policy decisions, actions, and levers for institutional transformation that trustees and presidents can utilize throughout the country to support innovation, accountability, and work to break the logjam of developmental education and improve student success, equity, and completion.
Expand	The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT)	0			Web site
	The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) website provides resources on community college board leadership and advocacy for affecting policy changes.
Expand	What is the Role of Community College Boards of Trustees in Student Success Initiatives?	0	WestEd	2012	WestEd Memo
	WestEd researchers conducted a literature review and interviewed experts in the field to gather information about the role that community college trustees can and should play in the student success agenda.