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CREATING A FUTURE FORWARD COLLEGE

Unlearn or Forget It!!

Panelists: Butch Grove – Wake Tech Com m unity College Magdalena H. de la Teja – Tarrant County College Benita Budd – Wake Tech Com m unity College Rick Sm yre – Com m unities of the Future

Future Forward College Visionaries

Evolution of a Future Forward College at Wake Tech

“Much of what we teach is looking back, we need to focus more on the future.” Steve Scott - President, Wake Tech

Beginnings of the Future Forward College

2009

• How to develop a “futures culture” at Wake

Tech that supports transformational learning?

• Scott, White, Ryan, and Smyre
• Center for Strategic Futures was created
• Speaker series began

Speaker Series Format

2009

• Breakfast with Faculty
• Campus-wide Student Assembly
• Lunch and Learn
• Afternoon Dialogs
• Seed transformation learning, not directed it.

Prominent Speakers

2009

• 2014
• Thomas Frey – Da Vinci Institute
• Marv Centron – Forecasting International
• Rick Smyre – COTF
• Stan Litow – IBM/Corporate Responsibility
• Simon Anderson – Venture Foresight

Transforming Leaders

2011

• Jan-June: Monthly half-day coaching

sessions

• Facilitator – Rick Smyre
• Participants – VPs, Deans & Department

Heads

• Topics included…

Transformational Topics

2011

• Transformation Leadership, Megatrends and Futures

Context

• Week Signals and Thinking Systemically
• Asking Appropriate Questions and Connecting Disparate

Ideas

• Building Parallel Process, Applying Chaos and Complexity

Theories, Creating Interlocking Networks

• Looking for Access Points and Adaptive Planning
• Identifying Risks and Community Transformation

Transformational Leadership Outcomes

2011

• Future Forward College
• 47 Key Ideas
• Concepts embodied in various
• rganizational areas

“How are you preparing students for careers that don’t exist yet?” Steve Scott - President, Wake Tech

Building a Future Forward College Network

2012

• Two day retreat at Wake Tech with other connections in

Smyre’s network

• Goal: To develop a network of colleges in different states

interested in collaborating to enhance and spread the ideas and methods of transformation learning

• Wake Tech – 10
• Tarrant CC – 4
• Blue Grass CC
• Other CC leaders

Seeding FFC Concepts in the Classroom

2013

• Budd recruited and developed a Future

Forward Faculty group at Wake Tech

• Monthly meeting with Smyre to introduce

futures thinking

• Outcomes: Shifts in thinking and classroom

facilitation, and transformational approaches to learning

Expansion of FFC Network and Classroom Integration

2014

• Future Forward Fellow
• Two-day conference April 4-5
• Learn and apply 12 principles of futurist

thinking

• 84 participants from 9 states
• 12 colleges/universities and 17

business/organizations

Expansion of FFC Network and Classroom Integration

2015

• Established a student Futures Club
• Now over 75 FFC faculty at Wake Tech
• Fall and Spring semester 12 FFC faculty

members met once a month to study and become Master Capacity Builders

• Creating networks internally and externally

Future Forward College Journey at Tarrant County College

• Tarrant County College (TCC) picked up the

“weak signal” of the Future Forward College initiative in January 2012.

• Connected TCC NE Campus President with

FFC

2012

Paving the Way

• TCC Access Points: innovation in the

classroom--preparing our students for their future & jobs that do not yet exist

• Rick Smyre keynote speaker for Fall 2012

faculty convocation: “Preparing for a World that Doesn’t Exist, Evolving a Future Forward College”

2012

TCC Leadership Team Travels to Wake Tech

• September: Attended FFC Retreat at Wake

Tech: Faculty, Vice Presidents, Dean

• Retreat Outcomes: FFC Network & White

Paper

• FFC Concepts: And/Both; Access Points;

Parallel Processes; Weak Signals; Master Capacity Builder; Individualized Learning; Unlearning; Connecting Disparate Ideas; Self- Organizing; Systemic Thinking; Generative Dialogue; Idea Spaces…

2012

Master Capacity Builder

• Journey as Master Capacity Builder (MCB)

with transformational leadership skills

• Summer On-line Course: Leadership for an

Emerging New Economy (Entrepreneurialism)

• Shared FFC resources, including co-authored

article on FFC, with TCC NE Campus faculty and administrators

2013

• 2014

Master Capacity Builder

• Tarrant County College: Innovation Forum (IF)
• TCC Team Travels to Wake Tech for “Exploring New

Territories of the Future”, April 2014

• Served at FFC Conference as MCB group facilitator
• Fall 2014 TCC Faculty Convocation: presented

about FFC principles and classroom innovation with faculty, dean, and IF colleagues; giveaway flash drive with FFC resources

2014

• 2015

Where Dreams Come True

The Innovation Forum is a place on every campus where students, faculty, staff and the community will help us to improve Tarrant County College by proposing new ideas that will impact student success.

CHAMPION

Anyone and everyone from all walks of life can be Champions. Faculty, staff, administrators, students and community members, too, can all participate in the Innovation Forum. All you need is an idea.

DREAM Score – What’s important to us as an institution:

Plot and Prioritize

The Return on Student Investment ROSI is the bubble on the quadrants which is the total of DREAM Cost/Student, and Community Impact

The size of the bubble reflects the Community Impact Student Cost DREAM

DREAM Score – 1.0 Threshold

Rolling the Dice For Adaptive Planning

Rolling the D.I.C.E An Exercise in Adaptive Planning

1.Design – Transform learning with futures

• context. Minimum

requirements, maximum creativity.

• 2. Identify – Key players,

factors, ideas for development, individual investment.

• 3. Connect – Identify and

foster disparate connections, keep open- minded focus on design

• bjectives, and allow

results to . . .

• 4. Emerge – Goals are met

and exceeded, creativity preserved, new

• pportunities created.

Designing capacities for change

Identifying Capacities for collaboration

Connecting capacities for success

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Emerging results are transformational

D.I.C.E.

eliminates boundaries fosters connections collaboration creativity

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“I really enjoyed the

idea of being able to show our skills and work through something beyond a traditional essay.”

Tarrant County College Composition Student

“. .The real world experience is often unstructured and requires . . .ingenuity. . . “I got a lot of enjoyment from doing this assignment and I put much more effort into my work than I would have normally.”

Wake Tech English student

PREPARING FOR AN EMERGING CREATIVE MOLECULAR ECONOMY

COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND 21st CENTURY ENTREPRENEURIAL SYSTEMS

“The Rainforest helps innovators ‘tinker’ together in the same way that atoms ‘tinker’ together in natural biological systems. Tinkering is how Rainforests discover more valuable recipes for combining and recombining ideas, people and talent

• together. We seek to create human systems

that encourage evolutionary tinkering.” ….The Rainforest

McAllen, TX - Chamber Entrepreneurial System

FUTURE FORWARD COLLEGE

Centers for 21st Century Entrepreneurism

The Capacity to Imagine, Innovate and Transform The Capacity to Identify Weak Signals and Trends The Capacity to Collaborate at a Deep Level The Capacity to Connect Ideas, People and Processes The Capacity to Ask Appropriate Questions Collaboration with Chambers/Economic Developers to Build Community Innovation Ecosystems.

THINKING BEYOND

“The day before there is a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea.” Peter Diamandis, Bold. “Traditional college credentials, based on arbitrary amounts of time spent in obsolete institutions will fade from memory.” Kevin Carey, The End of College

Q&A

Contact Information

Butch Grove rhgrove@waketech.edu Magdalena H. de la Teja magdalena.delateja@tccd.edu Benita Budd babudd@waketech.edu Rick Smyre rlsmyre@aol.com