Tuesday, March 25th at 1:00pm ET
To help you adapt or respond to changing conditions, NACAC is offering a Community Conversation webinar where members can gather with association leaders and experts in the field to discuss the challenges of the moment, including recent policy and legal developments. The Community Conversation on March 25 will feature Mike Gavin, president of Delta College.
Legislatures, courtrooms, and media scrutinize institutional autonomy and academic freedom nationwide. Leaders need concrete tactics and strategies to navigate legislation and politics interfering with their institutional missions. This session provides concrete tactics tailored to ensure overreach does not occur and to reduce the chilling effect on institutional culture while aligning internal and external stakeholders toward the college’s mission. Participants will leave with an action plan for their institutions to navigate their context.
Featuring:
- Mike Gavin, President, Delta College BIO
- John Hollemon, Director of DEI, NACAC
This webinar is for NACAC members only.
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Known nationally for his administrative leadership that focuses on academic excellence and equity, Mike Gavin has over 20 years of experience at large community colleges. Under his leadership, Delta College has increased enrollment, retention, and completion rates and numbers each of the three years he has been president. Delta has also eradicated racial and ethnic enrollment equity gaps; completion rates have increased for all students by 10 percent and for African American and Hispanic populations by 19 percent and 20 percent, respectively. Delta College was the winner of the Campus Compact’s Eduardo J. Padrón Award for Institutional Transformation under his leadership. Gavin earned his doctorate in American Studies at University of Maryland and most recently completed the Aspen Rising Presidents Fellowship that develops the next generation of community college presidents.