CREATING A FUTURE FORWARD COLLEGE Unlearn or Forget It!! Panelists: Butch Grove – Wake Tech Com m unity College Magdalena H. de la Teja – Tarrant County College Benita Budd – Wake Tech Com m unity College Rick Sm yre – Com m unities of the Future
Future Forward College Visionaries 2
Evolution of a Future Forward College at Wake Tech “Much of what we teach is looking back, we need to focus more on the future.” Steve Scott - President, Wake Tech 3
Beginnings of the Future Forward College • How to develop a “futures culture” at Wake Tech that supports transformational learning? • Scott, White, Ryan, and Smyre 2009 • Center for Strategic Futures was created • Speaker series began 4
Speaker Series Format • Breakfast with Faculty • Campus-wide Student Assembly • Lunch and Learn 2009 • Afternoon Dialogs • Seed transformation learning, not directed it. 5
Prominent Speakers • Thomas Frey – Da Vinci Institute • Marv Centron – Forecasting International 2009 • Rick Smyre – COTF - 2014 • Stan Litow – IBM/Corporate Responsibility • Simon Anderson – Venture Foresight 6
Transforming Leaders • Jan-June: Monthly half-day coaching sessions • Facilitator – Rick Smyre 2011 • Participants – VPs, Deans & Department Heads • Topics included… 7
Transformational Topics • Transformation Leadership, Megatrends and Futures Context • Week Signals and Thinking Systemically • Asking Appropriate Questions and Connecting Disparate Ideas 2011 • Building Parallel Process, Applying Chaos and Complexity Theories, Creating Interlocking Networks • Looking for Access Points and Adaptive Planning • Identifying Risks and Community Transformation 8
Transformational Leadership Outcomes • Future Forward College • 47 Key Ideas 2011 • Concepts embodied in various organizational areas “How are you preparing students for careers that don’t exist yet?” Steve Scott - President, Wake Tech 9
Building a Future Forward College Network • Two day retreat at Wake Tech with other connections in Smyre’s network • Goal: To develop a network of colleges in different states interested in collaborating to enhance and spread the ideas and methods of transformation learning 2012 • Wake Tech – 10 • Tarrant CC – 4 • Blue Grass CC • Other CC leaders 10
Seeding FFC Concepts in the Classroom • Budd recruited and developed a Future Forward Faculty group at Wake Tech • Monthly meeting with Smyre to introduce 2013 futures thinking • Outcomes: Shifts in thinking and classroom facilitation, and transformational approaches to learning 11
Expansion of FFC Network and Classroom Integration • Future Forward Fellow • Two-day conference April 4-5 • Learn and apply 12 principles of futurist thinking 2014 • 84 participants from 9 states • 12 colleges/universities and 17 business/organizations 12
Expansion of FFC Network and Classroom Integration •Established a student Futures Club •Now over 75 FFC faculty at Wake Tech •Fall and Spring semester 12 FFC faculty 2015 members met once a month to study and become Master Capacity Builders •Creating networks internally and externally 13
Future Forward College Journey at Tarrant County College • Tarrant County College (TCC) picked up the “weak signal” of the Future Forward College initiative in January 2012. 2012 • Connected TCC NE Campus President with FFC 14
Paving the Way • TCC Access Points: innovation in the classroom--preparing our students for their future & jobs that do not yet exist 2012 • Rick Smyre keynote speaker for Fall 2012 faculty convocation: “Preparing for a World that Doesn’t Exist, Evolving a Future Forward College” 15
TCC Leadership Team Travels to Wake Tech • September: Attended FFC Retreat at Wake Tech: Faculty, Vice Presidents, Dean • Retreat Outcomes: FFC Network & White Paper • FFC Concepts: And/Both; Access Points; 2012 Parallel Processes; Weak Signals; Master Capacity Builder; Individualized Learning; Unlearning; Connecting Disparate Ideas; Self- Organizing; Systemic Thinking; Generative Dialogue; Idea Spaces… 16
Master Capacity Builder • Journey as Master Capacity Builder (MCB) with transformational leadership skills • Summer On-line Course: Leadership for an 2013 Emerging New Economy (Entrepreneurialism) - 2014 • Shared FFC resources, including co-authored article on FFC, with TCC NE Campus faculty and administrators 17
Master Capacity Builder • Tarrant County College: Innovation Forum (IF) • TCC Team Travels to Wake Tech for “Exploring New Territories of the Future”, April 2014 • Served at FFC Conference as MCB group facilitator 2014 - • Fall 2014 TCC Faculty Convocation: presented 2015 about FFC principles and classroom innovation with faculty, dean, and IF colleagues; giveaway flash drive with FFC resources 18
The Innovation Forum is a place on every campus where students, faculty, staff and the community will help us to improve Tarrant County College by proposing new ideas that will impact student success. Where Dreams Come True 19
CHAMPION Anyone and everyone from all walks of life can be Champions. Faculty, staff, administrators, students and community members, too, can all participate in the Innovation Forum. All you need is an idea. 20
DREAM Score – What’s important to us as an institution: 21
Plot and Prioritize Student Cost The Return on Student Investment ROSI is the bubble on the quadrants which is the total of DREAM Cost/Student, and Community Impact DREAM The size of the bubble reflects the Community Impact DREAM Score – 1.0 Threshold 22
Rolling the Dice For Adaptive Planning 23
Rolling the D.I.C.E An Exercise in Adaptive Planning 1.Design – Transform 3. Connect – Identify and learning with futures foster disparate context. Minimum connections, keep open- requirements, maximum minded focus on design creativity. objectives, and allow results to . . . 2. Identify – Key players, factors, ideas for 4. Emerge – Goals are met development, individual and exceeded, creativity investment. preserved, new opportunities created. 24
Designing capacities for change 25
Identifying Capacities for collaboration 26
Connecting capacities for success 27
Emerging results are transformational 28
D.I.C.E. eliminates boundaries fosters connections collaboration creativity 29
“ I really enjoyed the idea of being able to show our skills and work through something beyond a traditional essay.” Tarrant County College Composition Student 30
“. .The real world experience is often unstructured and requires . . .ingenuity. . . “I got a lot of enjoyment from doing this assignment and I put much more effort into my work than I would have normally.” Wake Tech English student 31
PREPARING FOR AN EMERGING CREATIVE MOLECULAR ECONOMY COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND 21 st CENTURY ENTREPRENEURIAL SYSTEMS 32
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“The Rainforest helps innovators ‘tinker’ together in the same way that atoms ‘tinker’ together in natural biological systems. Tinkering is how Rainforests discover more valuable recipes for combining and recombining ideas, people and talent together. We seek to create human systems that encourage evolutionary tinkering.” …. The Rainforest 34
McAllen, TX - Chamber Entrepreneurial System 35
FUTURE FORWARD COLLEGE Centers for 21 st Century Entrepreneurism The Capacity to Imagine, Innovate and Transform The Capacity to Identify Weak Signals and Trends The Capacity to Collaborate at a Deep Level The Capacity to Connect Ideas, People and Processes The Capacity to Ask Appropriate Questions Collaboration with Chambers/Economic Developers to Build Community Innovation Ecosystems. 36
THINKING BEYOND “The day before there is a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea.” Peter Diamandis, Bold . “Traditional college credentials, based on arbitrary amounts of time spent in obsolete institutions will fade from memory.” Kevin Carey, The End of College 37
Q&A Contact Information Butch Grove rhgrove@waketech.edu Magdalena H. de la Teja magdalena.delateja@tccd.edu Benita Budd babudd@waketech.edu Rick Smyre rlsmyre@aol.com 38
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