1. Responding to our Community's Needs: Cuyahoga Community College and Rotterdam Academy...A Comparison Karen Miller, Vice President for Enrollment & Student Affairs, Cuyahoga Community College Roland van der Poel, Dean SCHE programs, Rotterdam University

2. Cuyahoga Community College Cleveland, Ohio USA Responding to our Community's Needs

3. Tri-C is Ohio's oldest and second largest community college, opening in 1963 as a single metropolitan campus; now a four-campus college The College serves more than 55,000 credit and non-credit students annually through traditional classroom and online courses 65% place in to pre-college English; 93% place in to pre-college math More than 800,000 area residents have attended Tri-C County levy-funding, state-funding, tuition - $97.88 per credit hour More than 140 career/technical programs and liberal arts programs; 600 non-credit workforce and professional development courses

4. Responding to our Community's Needs Rotterdam Academy Rotterdam, The Netherlands

5. Responding to our Community's Needs Who? What? Associate degree programs (SCHE) Why? Raise, Need, and Reduce Rotterdam Academy

6. Responding to our Community's Needs Rotterdam Academy Student & Academic Profile Intermediate Vocational Education (MBO) Higher Education (HBO) Program, students, teachers, field of activity competencies

7. Cuyahoga Community College & Rotterdam Academy Challenges/Obstacles to Success: 1. Funding 2. Business & Industry 3. Students 4. Completion Responding to our Community's Needs

8. Lessons Learned Responding to our Community's Needs