1. UCF Regional Campuses The Power of Partnerships New Vision Council Lake-Sumter Community College
David T. Harrison, Ph.D.
March 25, 2010

2. Slide title 3rd largest, 2nd largest undergraduate.
Valencia produces more associate degrees than any community college in America.
Always been a strong partnership, but it has run hot and cold. At times these have been driven more by geography than a true shared strategy.
That started to change in 2005…

3. What kind of partnership could...
Increase the percentage of the local population with degrees?
Guarantee access to local students who have the ability and the desire to earn a degree?
Leverage the regional assets that are already in place?
Ensure that regional investments are additive, not duplicative?
Address regional workforce needs in a strategic, sustainable way?

4. The Central Florida Higher Education Consortium:
A First-of-a-Kind Regional Higher Education Strategy
Guaranteed admission of all consortium community college AA and AS graduates to the University of Central Florida.
Doubling of UCF bachelors and graduate programs on consortium community college campuses.
Joint-use facilities with Valencia and Seminole.
Preferential and concurrent admission to selective UCF programs with coordinated advising and support.
Joint philanthropy to support student scholarships and access.
Focus on strategic program areas in support of regional workforce needs.
Refer to joint resolution.
Four years later this partnership has proven to be highly productive, fiscally responsible, and scaleable.
It has withstood the best budget conditions and the worst.

5. Branding to students and families.
Refer to DirectConnect brochure.

6. Discuss student services on CC campuses.
Students are connected with a UCF advisor as soon as they indicate that their goal is to transfer. Our advisors work with the CC advisors to make sure students are taking the right courses for their UCF major.
We want them to not only get in to UCF, but to come to us as juniors in their chosen field of study.
2+2 got them in, DirectConnect gets them out.

7. Results and Impact
UCF is now the 3rd largest university in the U.S. and accepts more community college transfer students than any university in Florida.
Over 8,000 new community college transfers at UCF in
Over 30,000 students in the DirectConnect pipeline
More than half of UCF’s bachelor’s degrees are awarded to community college transfer students, including:
Two-thirds of teaching and nursing degrees
Half of business degrees
Over 40% of engineering degrees
4900 new transfer students this fall, most from consortium colleges.
Retention of transfer students has also improved because they are coming to UCF with a plan.
We’re getting them in, and we’re getting them out. 7

8. Lake-Sumter Students UCF @ Lake-Sumter: 475 @ S. Lake, 60 @ Leesburg
LSCC DirectConnect students: 694 currently at UCF; 1139 in the pipeline
LSCC DirectConnect Grads:
111 in
34 education, 20 business, 11 health, 11 psychology

9. Cooper Memorial Library – LSCC South Lake

10. Shared Use Facility, Valencia West Campus
Polytechnic emphasis
Engineering
Architecture

11. Shared Use Facility, Seminole State Sanford/Lake Mary Campus

12. College Access Initiative:
Regional strategy to expand access to the bachelor’s degree
Implementation of DirectConnect principles into regional high schools
Data sharing: confronting the hard facts
Communication with students and families, helping them plan
“Summits” in November 2007, April 2008, February February 17, 2010 summit focused on high school accountability strategies.
Pilot high school opening Fall 2010
We’ve now done 3 of these, and each have been sold out.
Superintendents, counselors, assistant principals from K-12
Consortium presidents and student services staff from community colleges
Admissions counselors and financial aid experts from UCF 12

13. Curriculum Alignment
Goal: closer alignment of general education for all students
Faculty teams from UCF and partner community colleges
Common learning outcomes, learning activities, and assessment techniques for targeted courses
Math, chemistry, physics, biology, digital media
Next: include high school teachers in the project

14. The Architecture Partnership:
The Voice of the Employer
Bachelor of Design in Architecture developed in collaboration with American Institute of Architects
Partnership with Valencia Community College and the University of Central Florida
2+2+2 Design
AA at Valencia or other Consortium college, Bachelor’s at UCF, Master’s at UF
UF Master’s program at City-Lab at the Center for Emerging Media in downtown Orlando
First junior class in Fall 2010; focus on non-traditional students
Center for Emerging Media is a great partnership story in its own right:
State of Florida, city of Orlando, Orange County
Electronic Arts, House of Moves, other employers and start-ups
Catalyst for the creative village in downtown Orlando
Now our architecture partnership brings UF’s urban design studio to CEM 14

15. More than the public higher education systems in 16 states.

17. Questions and Discussion www.regionalcampuses.ucf.edu