Dear CC Community, During its centenary celebrations in 1974, CC decided to celebrate the next rather than the last one hundred years. They asked themselves: How can we do what we do better? They came up with an answer. The Block Plan. “What if CC did something similar on the occasion of its 150th,” President …
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New Compensation Philosophy
Dear Campus Community, At CC we seek to “ignite the passion and potential of our students, and the entire CC community, to create a world that is more equitable, humane, and just.” That vision, along with our commitment to nurture and maintain a thriving community, led the college leadership and Project 2024 to revisit the …
Project 2024 Year 3 Update
Dear Campus Community, It was good to see many of you at Spring Conference, and to share updates on how the college can think big about meeting current and future challenges to higher education and CC. What can we do now to prepare for what we can and cannot predict? What should we do to …
Project 2024 Year 3
Dear Campus Community, As we settle into a new academic year, I want to update you on Project 2024 and share with you our plans for Year Three. In our first two years, groups across the college community discussed “what we hope to do,” and “how to do it.” We also addressed how challenges facing …
Wrapping Up Project 2024 Year Two
Dear CC Community, As we wrap up our second year of Project 2024, we are thrilled to share our Year Two Report. This details what we’ve done to move from ideas to action plans. The Project 2024 Steering Committee pursued several initiatives this year. All of them build on what we heard in last year’s …
Project 2024 Year Two
Dear CC Community, It was rewarding to share updates on Project 2024 and to explore ways of connecting our actions with our aspirations with colleagues at Spring Conference 2023. We took inspiration from John F. Kennedy’s directive to NASA in 1962 to “land on the moon by the end of the decade” to brainstorm motivating …
Project 2024 Year Two
Dear CC Community, As we approach the end of our fall semester, I want to share with you what we have been doing since my last update in September. The students, faculty, and staff on the Project 2024 Steering Committee are instrumental to the success of Project 2024. Each has their own reasons for taking …
