1. Finding Your Way Through the Maze: Navigating Internal Organizational Structures

2. Why Spend Time on This?
May have only worked in one college and it is good to know the variations
Can help you understand your own organization better
Useful in considering future positions at other colleges

3. Typology Single college - one campus
Single college with outlying centers
Single college with multiple campuses
Macomb Community College
Main Campus
Hall Road Campus
University Center

4. Typology Lone Star College Multi-college district
More than one college under a board of trustees
College or district president/chancellor
Campus presidents or chancellors
Lone Star College
Florida State College at Jacksonville

5. Typology A sub-unit of a four year institution
University of Arkansas – Fort Smith
WI two-year transfer campuses
Ohio state university branch campuses
A statewide system—several colleges, a statewide board
Ivy Tech Community College

6. The Good and the Bad Which type is closest to your setting?
What’s good about it?
What’s not so good?

7. Internal Organizational Structure

8. Internal Organization
Most common structure: all units are grouped (think VPs)
Instructional
Student Services
Fiscal/operations
Human Resources/Personnel
Institutional Effectiveness
Foundation
Workforce Education and Training?

9. Internal Organization
Provost Model
Instruction
Student Services
Workforce Education and Training?
Administrative Services Model
Business Office – Fiscal Operations
Foundation
Human Resources

10. Never Forget….. It is a political organization Collaboration but…..
Budget, space, faculty positions, staffing are all “fighting words”
Collaboration but…..

11. Important Players Senior leadership Operational Offices Faculty
fiscal, HR, maintenance, foundation
Faculty
Academic Senate
Curriculum Committee

12. Important Players Collective Bargaining Units Support Staff
Board of Trustees

13. Never Forget…..
Buried somewhere in all of this is the goal of student success
Important that you are able to distinguish between what’s on paper and how it really works
organizational culture

14. Workforce Education Models Myriad of Structures!

15. Workforce Education Models - Traditional
Vice President of Instruction or Academic Affairs
Dean or AVP of
Workforce Education
Division Deans
CTE Programs
Noncredit Programs

16. Workforce Education Models - Equalizing
Provost
VP or AVP
Academics
VP or AVP of
Workforce Education
CTE Programs
Noncredit Programs

17. Workforce Education Models - Evolving
President
Vice President of
Academics
Vice President of
Workforce Education
CTE Programs
Noncredit Programs

18. Workforce Education Models - Emerging
President
Vice President of
Academics
Vice President of
Workforce Education
CTE Programs
Noncredit Programs

19. Workforce Education Models - CTE
CTE Programs are Integrated
CTE Programs are Separated
departments are concentrated in one or more divisions

20. Workforce Education Models - Noncredit
Where is adult basic education and English Language Learning?
Humanities?
General Education?
Workforce Education?
How does contract training relate to the rest of the institution?
Credit?
Noncredit?

21. Nomenclature Workforce and Economic Development Workforce Solutions
Continuing Educating and Training
Workforce Development and Basic Studies
Workforce Development and Community Education

22. All of the Models in the Room!
Where do you fit in?
What do you like about where you fit in the organization?
What don’t you like?

23. Knowing All of the Players in the Maze!
Student Services
Fiscal/Budget
Human Resources
Operations/maintenance
Institutional Effectiveness
Grants
Foundation
Strategy for success—ask how you can best work with them

24. Being Successful in the Maze
Do your job well (obvious but…)
On time –reports, meetings, evaluations
Own your mistakes
Choose your battles
Do you really want to die on that hill today?
Lose gracefully

25. Being Successful in the Maze
Understand and respect the perspective of the decision-makers above you
They have more information than you do and make decisions based on that information
Don’t get caught up in gossip or innuendo
Use data
Communicate, communicate, communicate