HCC Transformation recognized on global scale
Jun 3, 2016
The League for Innovation in the Community College has selected Houston Community College (HCC) as a winner of its 2016 Innovation of the Year award.
Guided by a vision of student success via high quality and innovative education, a team known as the G-65 laid groundwork to transform HCC from six diverse colleges to 13 instructional Centers of Excellence. The G-65 solicited and incorporated input from faculty, staff, students, board members, community and business partners.
“The G-65 worked together not only to define a new vision for the College, but also to establish new values that would lead the institution deep into the 21st Century,” said Dr. Cesar Maldonado, HCC chancellor. “Leveraging size and resources has opened many doors to partnering opportunities with business and industry leaders across Houston and the nation.”
Faculty and staff have rallied around the transformation initiative, teaming to redefine approaches to new student orientation, advising, discipline adjacencies, early alert and other student-centered processes. Implementation of these novel approaches and structures is now underway.
“Though the road to Transformation is filled with hard decisions, budget conversations, and configuring human capital to serve the defined needs, students are reaping the rewards of the thousands of hours dedicated to this effort so far,” said Chancellor Maldonado. “Many more miles will be traveled and hours spent, all to produce the intended outcome: student success.”
The League for Innovation in the Community College is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to driving the community college movement by fostering innovation and experimentation that lead to student and institutional success. The Innovation of the Year award recognizes innovative programs, practices, partnerships, policies, and activities that improve the ability of institutions to serve students and the community.
To learn more about the HCC Transformation visit hccs.edu/transformation.