Creating Our Future Together: A Summary Report from the Future Search Conference Series for Austin Community College.

Autor/in	Quereau, Tobin
Institution	Austin Community Coll., TX.
Titel	Creating Our Future Together: A Summary Report from the Future Search Conference Series for Austin Community College.
Quelle	(1995), (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	College Planning; Community Colleges; Conferences; Educational Cooperation; Institutional Mission; Multicampus Colleges; Organizational Objectives; Participative Decision Making; School Community Relationship; Two Year Colleges + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienplanung; Community college; Community College; Education; cooperation; Kooperation; Business goal; Unternehmensziel
Abstract	In Spring 1995, Austin Community College (ACC), in Texas conducted a series of six conferences in its effort to shift towards shared governance and a learning organization model of operation. The conferences were designed to develop a shared vision for the future, with each conference being held at a different campus or site and engaging nearly 400 stakeholders from all levels of the institution and from the community. The most challenging tasks in planning the conferences were recognizing the need for diverse perspectives and integrating the knowledge from the final conference into a comprehensive vision of the future of the college. The model used to develop the conferences emphasized the participation of the whole system, the historical and global contexts of ACC, small group self-management and dialogue, discovering common ground and shared visions, and process-oriented analysis. Specifically, the conference series sought to accomplish the following five major tasks: identifying significant events in the organization's past, recognizing present trends that will affect the organization, creating an ideal future, confirming the shared vision, and developing action strategies for the future. The conferences resulted in the development of a common vision and values statement; identification of potential projects, unresolved issues, and unique campus issues; and the establishment of seven task forces. Includes detailed summaries of individual conferences and a discussion of nine lessons learned in developing the conference series. (TGI)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC