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Volume 3 Issue 10November 1999

CEO Institute Aims to Educate

Susan Obler
Grant Development Office, Rio Hondo Community College

Rio Hondo Community College District was recently awarded a $150,000 Telecommunications Model Applications Pilot Project grant (RFA 98-0662) from the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office to establish a two-day institute designed for Chief Executive Officers (CEO) in the California Community Colleges in the areas of telecommunications and technology.

This one-year project will provide two institutes for CEO's to understand the language and the critical issues in Information Technology (IT). Higher education institutions are increasingly dependent upon IT systems; campus chief executives need timely information and strategies for planning and funding decisions.

The two-day institutes will include experienced leaders from public and private systems in California and other states. Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications, an affiliate of WICHE (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education), will contract for full services of the institutes including curricula, materials, speakers, lodging, and travel. This group currently provides high-profile summer institutes for managers of distance education programs.

The institute venues and dates are 1) southern region, the Kellogg Conference Center in Pomona, March 9 and 10, and 2) northern region at the Berkeley Marina Radisson, March 16 and 17).

Sally Johnstone, President of Western Cooperative, is the primary facilitator. CEO institute expenses will cover meals, accommodations, materials, and airfare for those traveling more than 200 miles from their college to the institute in their region. Mileage or travel to the institute outside their region must be paid by the CEO’s district.

The CEO's Advisory Committee, co-chaired by Jess Carreon of Rio Hondo and Martha Kanter of DeAnza College, will review and confirm topics of the proposed institute curriculum. Robin Etter Zuniga, Associate Director of the award-winning national Flashlight Project, will conduct the project evaluation. An experienced team has provided input for this proposal and the institute design.

Rio Hondo will monitor and direct the project within its scope of leadership experience with Distance Education, including its Virtual College, the California Virtual Campus (CVC) LA Regional Center, and the FII Flashlight Project.

Contact:
Susan Obler
Project Director,
Rio Hondo Community College
sobler@rh.cc.ca.us