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TODAY’S STUDENTS, TOMORROW’S WORKFORCE:A Town Hall on Higher EducationFinal Report of the34th Statewide New Mexico First Town HallApril 20-22, 2006Held in Santa Fe, NMLead Sponsors:Public Education Department of New MexicoSandia National LabsBHP BillitonIntelHatton W. Sumners Foundation
Final Report: April 2006 Higher Education Town HallExecutive SummaryToday’s Students, Tomorrow’s Workforce: A Town Hall onHigher Education was convened by New Mexico First onApril 20-22, 2006 in Santa Fe. This town hall broughttogether stakeholders in the areas of higher education andeconomic development from all parts of New Mexico.In order to choose a topic for this town hall, New MexicoFirst commissioned a statewide citizen survey in June2005. Results from this survey, combined with feedbackfrom members, elected officials, and community leaders,identified higher education as a universal concern.In March 2006, the town hall was publicly announced andbackground report was released. These backgroundmaterials included scenarios developed with significantstakeholder input, which offered glimpses of potential NewMexico futures, depending on different policy decisions thatcould be made today. In addition to these scenarios, thebackground report included summaries of focus groupsheld by New Mexico First in the communities of Taos,Grants, and Tucumcari. The report also contained adetailed research appendix covering the current state ofNew Mexico’s post-secondary system, seen from a widevariety of viewpoints.New Mexico First focuses on attaining balance betweenvarious stakeholder groups so that all necessaryviewpoints are present in the discussion. To this end, fullscholarships were offered to high school and collegestudents as well as community members who indicatedthey needed financial support. Business representativeswere actively recruited. Registrants could choose betweenacting as a participant (attending the full town hall andactively taking part in discussions) or simply observing.Almost 200 people took part in the three-day event, with122 active participants. These participants developedrecommendations about what should be done to prepareNew Mexicans to thrive in the 21st century economy. Thecentral ideas in those recommendations follow: Reforming NM’s Systems of Higher Education Raise P-201 academic standards so that NewMexico’s students can meet employers’ needs andcompete in an increasingly demanding workplace.“P-20” is a term that denotes all levels of education, frompreschool through graduate school. Town hall participantsrequested that this language be used to underscore theultimate goal of enabling all students to go as far as theywish, realizing that for some students this might meangraduate school and for others it might mean trade school.Hopefully, it points toward lifelong learning for all. Thisterm is used throughout this document.1New Mexico First, 2006Promote a statewide system of governance andcoordination of higher education.Coordinate efforts and eliminate duplication amonggovernment and community organizations involved inthe educational system.Linking Education to Economic Trends Establish a strategic plan enabling all of New Mexico’sstudents to develop a career-oriented path through theP-20 educational system that aligns with economicdevelopment priorities, if they choose.Use long-term labor force projections to encouragestudents to follow career pathways that meetprojected labor needs and fill high-value future jobs.Implement a statewide work-based assessment (e.g.,Workkeys)Funding Change the higher education funding formula to placemore emphasis on student performance.Increase financial aid for college students.Increase educator salaries.Programs to Help Students Increasing Standards and Collaboration Establish one educational vision, measurablestandards to achieve that vision, and a database totrack progress and enable the exchange of data.The educational system should use a P-20 approachthat includes school and community programs.Establish and maintain a statewide education system. Evaluate contributors and barriers to student success,using lessons learned to recommend new strategiesand services.Create a statewide support network that linkseducational and economic development support for allcommunities, particularly rural ones.Strengthen programs that develop and support P-20life and career-readiness skills.Conduct a major public awareness campaign on thevalue of education.Support multiple learning styles through facultyprofessional development.Technology Establish a statewide high-speed digital networkinfrastructure to support learning and collaboration.2
Final Report: April 2006 Higher Education Town HallThese recommendations, presented in more depth later inthe full report, will be taken up by an implementation team,composed of town hall participants and led by GarreyCarruthers, Dean of the College of Business at NewMexico State University and former governor of NewMexico, and Mike DeWitte, Chairman of the New MexicoBusiness Roundtable and senior manager at SandiaNational Laboratories. This group will spend the next 12-18months advancing the recommendations withpolicymakers, community leaders, and the public.New Mexico First, 2006About New Mexico FirstNew Mexico First is a nonpartisan nonprofit organizationthat engages citizens in public policy. Co-founded in 1986by U.S. Senators Pete Domenici and Jeff Bingaman, NewMexico First brings people together for two- and three-daytown hall meetings. These town halls use a uniqueconsensus-building process that enables participants tolearn about a topic in depth, develop concrete policyrecommendations addressing that topic, and then workwith other New Mexicans to help implement thoserecommendations with policymakers. New Mexico First isentirely funded through donations, membership fees, townhall registrations, and contracts.3
Final Report: April 2006 Higher Education Town HallTable of ContentsExecutive Summary. 2Final Report of Town Hall 34. 5Introduction. 5Background . 5Scenario Planning . 5Common Themes and Vision . 6Town Hall Recommendations. 7Implementation of the Town Hall Recommendations . 9Appendix 1: Town Hall Sponsors. 10New Mexico First Sustaining Sponsors . 10Town Hall Lead Sponsors . 10Additional Town Hall Sponsors. 10College and University Sponsors. 10Community Scholarship Sponsors . 10Appendix 2: Full Text of Recommendations . 11Appendix 3: Town Hall Committees and Speakers . 14Town Hall 34 Scenario Planning Group & Review Committee. 14Town Hall 34 Leadership Team. 14Town Hall 34 Speakers & Presenters. 14Town Hall 34 Implementation Team. 14Appendix 4: Town Hall Registrants. 15Town Hall Participants. 15Town Hall Observers . 17Demographic Distribution of Participants. 18Appendix 5: Community Conversation Participants . 18Grants. 18Taos. 18Tucumcari. 19Appendix 6: New Mexico First Leadership. 19Executive Committee. 19Board Members . 19Board Emeritus. 20Founders . 20Ex Officio Board Members. 20New Mexico First Staff. 20New Mexico First, 20064
Final Report: April 2006 Higher Education Town HallFinal Report of Town Hall 34IntroductionIn April 2006, New Mexico First convened its 34th statewidetown hall. The topic was higher education and workforcedevelopment. This was perhaps the most well attendedtown hall in New Mexico First’s history, with participantregistration reaching the maximum well before thedeadline. It was made clear that many New Mexicans feelan urgent need to ensure the success of future generationsand our statewide economy. Town hall speakers includedGovernor Bill Richardson, as well as Dr. Beverlee McClureand Dr. Veronica Garcia, the two current CabinetSecretaries with oversight into the issue of education.Business and education sector leaders also spoke.Participants traveled from throughout the state to attend.New Mexico First ensured statewide representation byconvening focus groups in three rural communities and byoffering scholarships. These activities generated interest inthe town hall while providing specific focus to the uniqueneeds of rural areas.2 Town hall participants includedbusiness leaders, education administrators, teachers,professors, community members, two former governors,and high school and college students. Given that the townhall’s recommendations would directly impact the lives ofstudents, New Mexico First worked hard to ensure theirparticipation. Scholarships covered registration, food, andlodging fees for the students, some of the rural communityparticipants, and others whose financial circumstanceswould have precluded their ability to attend.BackgroundWhen the town hall opened, the challenge givenparticipants was as clear as it was difficult: achieveconsensus on actionable recommendations that identifywhat needs to be done and who might do it. Speakersshared statistical trends that, if left unaddressed, wouldlead to a dismal future not only in New Mexico but alsothroughout the entire country. There is an already existinggap between the education necessary to succeed intoday’s workforce and the skills and degrees currentlyachieved by students. This gap can be seen at all levels ofthe workplace, from doctoral-level research jobs at SandiaNational Laboratories to the trades in the oil fields of YatesPetroleum.The National Report Card on Higher Education (whichlooks at the full spectrum of post-secondary education,from job training certificates through graduate degrees)gave New Mexico an F for both Affordability andPreparation. While the state earned an A for Participation,it received a D for completion, indicating that New Mexicostudents enroll in college but do not finish. The report cardsaid, “Despite substantial improvement over the pastdecade, relatively few students in New Mexico earn acertificate or degree in a timely manner.”3Scenario PlanningIn order to prevent the discussion from progressing solelyalong well-defined irresolvable differences of opinion, NewMexico First used an innovative approach: scenarioplanning. This proven approach used scenarios, written asshort stories, to jumpstart dialogue and debate aboutissues – in different ways than participants might havedone if viewing raw data alone. The scenarios wereintended to stimulate participants’ imagination by showingfuture worlds that could exist. Combined with expertfacilitation, discussing the scenarios led to usefulrecommendations about New Mexico’s education future.The scenarios were based on research, existing data, andstakeholder input.Scenario planning has been used since the 1970s, whenRoyal Dutch Shell used it to successfully survive the oilcrisis. Most famously, South Africa used scenario planningto depict a possible future without apartheid. Those leadingthe South African effort printed and distributed one millioncopies of the scenarios, enabling South Africans toenvision and ultimately create what was then anunimaginable world.4New Mexico First used the scenario process to engagecitizens in the development of policy recommendations onhigher education and the workforce.5 The report offeredNew Mexico First background report, page 34, cited from“Measuring Up: The National Report Card on HigherEducation,” available at measuringup.highereducation.org.4 For more information on the scenario planning process,read The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz.5New Mexico First received significant amounts of adviceand support from Jack Jekowski of Innovative TechnologyPartnerships, who is an expert in the scenario planningapproach.3These dialogues were conducted in the format of a minione-day New Mexico First Town Hall. They were convenedin Gallup, Tucumcari, and Taos. Participants are listed inAppendix 5. Please refer to the New Mexico First TownHall 34 background report for a synopsis of thesecommunity-based dialogues.2New Mexico First, 20065
Final Report: April 2006 Higher Education Town Hallfour scenarios written about a fictitious Farmington family in2026. The parents were hard-working individuals whoslowly built a successful restaurant. Though far fromwealthy, they provided a warm, stable, and healthy homefor their children, Victoria and Robert. Both parents wereproud that their children had an opportunity that had eludedthem – the ability to go to college.Each of the four scenarios depicted a world resulting fromdiffering amounts of resources and innovation: Scenario I utilized abundant innovation and financialresources.Scenario II devoted no new financial resources, butfundamentally restructured the educational system.Scenario III did not significantly change the currenteducational model, but devoted significantly morefinancial resources.Scenario IV proposed a future without any additionalresources or restructuring.6These scenarios were not intended to be comprehensive,accurate predictions of the future; any number of differentstories could have been developed based on today’sstatistics and what decisions New Mexicans might make.The scenarios were simply meant to stimulate imaginationsand present options so that the most creative andgrounded thinking could be brought to bear on the subject.Common Themes and VisionAfter extensive discussions, town hall participants came toconsensus on their recommendations as one large group.Participants developed their initial ideas in small groups.The ideas were combined and refined until the full groupagreed to all the recommendations.Common themes began to emerge immediately including: Creating a statewide culture that promotes andsupports lifelong learning, since every job requirescontinuous learning;Creating high standards and expectations that supportcolleges as they prepare competitive students;Using available and future technologies to providestatewide access to information, enriching studentsand teachers;Focusing on the pedagogy of teaching (e.g. learningoutcomes for today’s children) by ensuring thatteachers have professional development support sothat they can respond to the diverse cultural andspecial needs of student learning; Ensuring that all students have access to andunderstand the resources available to support them ingoing to college while expanding programs to ensurethat all students – regardless of family income – canreceive post-secondary education;Creating alignment throughout the P-20 system andalliances between educational institutions and thebusiness community to ensure that graduatingstudents meet workforce needs;Providing mentorship for students at every level,engaging the community to support students stayingin school.From the emerging themes came a vision, providing acontext for the recommendations developed by the group.Participants envisioned a fully-coordinated preschoolthrough graduate school (P-20) educational system thatengages and retains students, helping them gain theeducations they need to meet the increasing demandsupon workers. Participants felt that higher education mustfulfill an increasingly important public obligation as theeducational bridge to the workplace.For educational institutions to best partner in this vision,town hall participants said, the K-12 educational systemmust coordinate seamlessly with the college and universitysystem (including certification programs). Key componentsof this coordination include: uniform standards and expectations regarding qualityand content of courses;easily transferable credits;coordinated missions; andcommunication throughout all educational institutionsand between these institutions and their communities.Visible and active support for education and lifelonglearning must be ever-present, with this message comingfrom a collaborative community that includes students,parents, educators, and business professionals from allcultures within New Mexico.Finally, participants specifically underscored the need forclose collaboration between education and economicdevelopment initiatives. The need to understand patterns ofpossible economic growth was defined, so that relatedskills needed in the workforce are more concretelyunderstood and can be used by both students and thosewho help them make their life choices.For the complete scenarios and additional statistics,please refer to a copy of the Background Report at:www.nmfirst.org6New Mexico First, 20066
Final Report: April 2006 Higher Education Town HallTown Hall RecommendationsThe following table summarizes the recommendations developed by the town hall participants. The recommendations have beenedited to make them consistent in format and style. In some cases, very similar recommendations have been combined in thistable. To view the original language developed during the actual town hall, see Appendix B on page 11. Please see the legendon page 9 for the acronyms used.#Central IdeaDetailsDeadlineIncreasing Standards and Collaboration1Raise P-20 academic standardsThe standards should be developed jointly by HED, PED, and theirso that NM students can compete schools. The standards should apply to high schools (ensuring collegewith students from other placesreadiness), college degrees, and certification programs. They shouldand can meet the needs ofdraw on national and international benchmarks.employers.2HED and PED should collaborate The vision should call for all students to navigate a P-20 career path. Itshould also honor NM’s diverse culture, connect to economicto establish one educationaldevelopment, and involve stakeholders in its development. The standardsvision, measurable standards toshould include learning outcomes and performance metrics. K-12achieve that vision, and acomprehensive database to track standards should align with higher education needs. HED should providefinancial inducements, best practices, and ongoing assessments. Itprogress and enable theshould also establish uniform criteria of transferable courses.exchange of data.3NM’s educational system shouldSchool guidance counselor outreach and school programs (such as peeruse a P-20 approach thatmentoring) should support all families but emphasize first generation andincludes school and communityat-risk students. Community programs should attempt to reengagebased programs.students who are no longer in school.4Establish and maintain aAttention should be paid to 1) strong public awareness through ongoingstatewide education system.conversations in order to raise awareness and support and 2) alignmentwith statewide economic development and workforce developmentpriorities to increase the value of education in our society. A stateconstitutional amendment may be required.Reforming NM’s Systems of Higher Education5Promote stakeholder discussions The effort should be led by HED, the governor, and the legislature. Theabout a statewide system ofeffort should involve stakeholders including workforce development andgovernance and coordination ofbusiness people, and it may call for a state constitutional amendment.higher education.6Coordinate efforts and eliminateAll stakeholder organizations should take part in this process. Participantsduplication among governmentmay include PED, HED, Dept of Labor, Dept of Corrections, Dept ofand community organizationsHealth/School-Based Health Centers, Children Youth and Familiesinvolved in the educationalDepartment, Juvenile Probation and Parole, DVR, YDI, OWTD, SER,system.National Indian Youth Council, Job Corps, and others.Linking Education to Economic and Labor TrendsThe planning process will include the governor, legislature, and tribes.7Establish a strategic planThe plan will be developed with input from a neutral board. These studentenabling NM students to developpaths will guide students toward whatever education they may need.a career path through the P-20educational system that alignswith economic developmentpriorities, if they choose.The Coordination Oversight Committee, tribal leadership, and funding8Use long-term labor forceprojections to encourage students agencies should take the lead in this effort, with shared data by privateto follow career pathways that will industry, the education sector, and the government. An industry/government task force should be established to research, fund, andmeet projected labor needs andimplement apprenticeship and internship programs to provide the hardfill high-value jobs of the future.and soft skills businesses need.9Implement a statewide workThe OWTD and PED should collaborate on this project, using thebased assessment (e.g.,assessment to measure education and work readiness among highWorkkeys)school and college students and guide educational work.New Mexico First, 2006April 2007April 2007Dec 20072009April 2007April 2007for taskforcecomponent7
Final Report: April 2006 Higher Education Town HallFunding10 Change the higher educationfunding formula to place greateremphasis on studentperformance.11Increase financial aid for collegestudents.12Increase educator salaries.Programs to Help Students13 Evaluate contributors and barriersto student success, using lessonslearned to recommend newstrategies and services.14 Create a statewide supportnetwork that links educational andeconomic development supportfor all communities, particularlyrural ones.15 Strengthen programs that developand support P-20 life and careerreadiness skills.16 The Governor, tribal leaders, andbusiness leaders should conducta major public awarenesscampaign on the value ofeducation.17 Support multiple learning stylesthrough faculty professionaldevelopment.New Mexico First, 2006Two possible approaches:1) Develop a strategic investment plan that changes the higher educationfunding formula from a solely quantitative to a more qualitative model.The effort would be convened by the LESC, the LFC and the DFA. Thoseparties would invite representation from the Public School FundingFormula Task Force, the Higher Education Formula Task Force, TribalGovernments, and the business sector.2) In the short-term, state officials would change the funding formula fromgrowth-based to performance-based. In the long-term, they woulddedicate dollars to students (P-20), not institutions. Payment might occurat the end of the year, based on successful completion.The HED should request funding from the legislature for merit, need, andnon-need based aid to encourage students to finish degrees andcertificates.The legislature has already begun this work and should continue toimplement increases in educator salaries so that the state can retain aquality educational workforce.Start in July2006The evaluation should occur annually for three years. The researchshould be conducted by the OEA and the LESC, in collaboration with thePED and HED.This work may take place in physical locations (i.e., schools) or virtuallocations (i.e., online), but all of them should involve collaborative, twoway learning, rather than one-way lecture.Programs might include goal-setting, decision-making, and alerts aboutavailable services. Efforts should target all students, emphasizing firstgeneration and at-risk individuals.The planning process should include additional state leaders. Thecampaign should create a sense of urgency about the need for studentsto complete school. It should also feature students of all ages and theeconomic value of education.HED should collaborate with P-20 faculty groups to identify and create aframework for teaching teachers to promote active learning. Thiscollaboration should also establish accountability and assessment teamsto determine effectiveness and level of innovation of subject-specificmethods.20088
Final Report: April 2006 Higher Education Town Hall#Central IdeaTechnology18 Establish a statewide high-speeddigital network infrastructure tosupport learning andcollaboration.DetailsDeadlineTwo approaches:1) The Governor should create a task force to plan, create, andactivate a network infrastructure to support collaborative P-20education, workforce development, and business and industry. Thenetwork should use best practices, including 2-way communication,decentralized technical and instructional resources, teaching andlearning communities, and business and training development. TheNM legislature should appropriate adequate funding each year for10 years to: 1) design and build an interoperable distance learninginfrastructure; 2) facilitate collaboration among higher educationinstitutions and industry; 3) provide faculty development / training;and 4) develop appropriate courses at all educational levels.2) HED and PED, in cooperation with all appropriate state andeducational institutions, should develop a plan to use technology tobridge the gap to provide optimal learning opportunities and tocreate a free reliable high-speed broadband network throughoutNew Mexico to expand access to educational resources andcounter rising transporta
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