1. - Fast Company Magazine www.fastcompany.com
“Culture is your organization’s DNA – the blueprint for everything you do.”
- Fast Company Magazine

2. A Learning Culture of Success: A Cultural Approach for Increasing Diversity & Inclusion in STEM
Rafael D. Alvarez - MESA Program Director
San Diego City College
2012 STEMtech Conference
Tuesday, October 30

3. Purpose

4. Topics – Engage, Educate, Empower
Culture: Definition
Language & Culture of Success
MESA Creators: Testimonials
STEM: Proven Strategies
Elements of City College MESA Culture

5. What is Culture?
"the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group"
"the characteristic features of everyday existence shared by people in a place or time <popular culture>"
"the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization <a corporate culture>"

6. Language & Culture of Success
Positive language
Encourage personal & academic growth
High expectations
Community of learners
Focus on performance
Learning resources
Mentoring
Provide strong leadership
Collaboration
Key learning activities
Embrace student potential
Help “non-believers”

7. MESA Creators: Testimonials

8. STEM: Proven Strategies Common to MESA Model
Academic Support & Social Integration
Professional Development
Internships & Research Activities
Mentoring
Summer Bridge

9. The Secret is Culture!
Culture of Success
Language of Success
STEM

10. Home for the MESA Family!

11. Choice? Victims … FAILURE Creators … SUCCESS Blame others Complain
Make excuses
Repeat ineffective behavior
“Have to” do things
Pretend their problems belong to others
“Try”
Give up
FAILURE
Victims seldom achieve goals
Creators …
Accept responsibility
Take actions
Seek solutions
Do something new
“Choose to” do things
Own their problems
Commit & follow through
Take control of their choices & their lives!
SUCCESS
Creators often achieve goals

12. Secret to Success a.k.a. African Village Story
“When you find something in life that you want as much as you want to breathe, then you will find the secret to success!”

13. The Model – City’s MESA Program

14. The Model – City’s MESA Program

15. The Model – City’s MESA Program
Capstone

20. MESAdvantage Report Card
Industry “Standards”:
University Bridging
Counseling
Academic Support
Community
Industry Exposure

21. Culture of Effective Leadership Foundation for Leadership Development

23. There is no crying in MESA, we’re in this fight to win it!
The Corner Man says …
There is no crying in MESA, we’re in this fight to win it!

24. Research on Student Success
Culture of Success
Language of Success
STEM

25. MESA works! Questions?