Dear SDCCE Community,

I am pleased to announce that SDCCE's Forward Together vision boards and strategic goal banners have been placed at the entry way of each campus. This will allow all students and employees to know our 7-year strategic goals and the institution focus areas annually. The vision boards were shared in my 6-Month SDCCE Forward Together Campaign video which can be watched here and SDCCE Spring Institution Presentations can be found here.

Tomorrow, we will conclude Black History Month at the Educational cultural Complex theatre and foyer. Please join me at 1 p.m. for the "Black Resistance Through Belonging and Reflections from Ghana" cultural presentation, art, and light refreshments. Learn about the expedition to Ghana made by SDCCE leadership alongside other California Community College leaders and students.

Enrollment Updates

SDCCE’s overall enrollment for spring stands at 22,911 (22% greater than this time last year, and a 1% increase from last week), with a fill rate of 74%, which is less compared to last spring’s (76%). SDCCE’s overall headcount is currently 13,272, an increase of 30% compared to this time last spring (10,244 and a 1% increase to last week (13,089). FTEF scheduled for the spring semester are 13% higher than last spring (183.80 to 163.20).

Campus Updates

• SDCCE's Career and College Transitions team will host a Skilled Trades and Automotive Industry Career Fair on March 7 at 9:30 a.m. Registration is required. Sign up here.
• SDCCE's Career and College Transitions team will host a Summer Fun Hiring Event March 22 at 9 a.m. at the ECC campus. Students and public welcome. For more information, please contact breaves@sdccd.edu.
• SDCCE received more than 700 scholarship applications for this year’s Stars on the Rise Scholarship awards event.
• SDCCE has received over 200 basic needs support request applications since launching the SDCCE CARES website on January 12th.
• The reopening of the SDCCE CARES Marketplace pantry has resulted in an average of 45 students being served in just two hours of the pantry opening.
• SDCCE’s BE Well program will offer suicide prevention and trauma informed care trainings this spring for all SDCCE administration, faculty, and classified professionals.
• Congrats Milena! A student in Laurel Slater's Intermediate English for Parents class, Milena Velez, completed the Child Development School-Age Care and Leadership certificate, in the fall semester while also studying ESL. Now, she has been offered a job in a bilingual preschool program for next year.
• SDCCE’s office utilization/ dean co-location plan was completed this week at each campus. Each SDCCE campus now has two deans, an instructional dean and a student services dean. This will allow for the full wrap around support of our students needs.
• SDCCE is hiring an Interim Executive Director (application closes, March 8th) for the SDCCE Foundation and an Administrative Assistant to the President (application closes, February 24th).
• SDCCE students are invited to attend the Community Health and Resource Fair hosted at the Jackie Robinson YMCA during the first Wednesday of every month. The Jackie Robinson YMCA will provide transportation to SDCCE students to and from ECC to attend the fair. Pick up and drop off will occur in front of the ECC main entrance every 30 minutes (on the hour and 1/2 hour) and transportation from the health fair back to ECC will occur every 30 minutes (on the 15 and 45 of the hour). The next fair is scheduled for Wednesday, March 1. Learn more here.
• Students attending San Diego City, Mesa, and Miramar colleges as well as SDCCE now have access to their own personal student email. All students are encouraged to visit sdccd.edu/student-email to set up their account.
• This March for National Brain Injury Month, students and teachers from SDCCE's Acquire Brain Injury (ABI) program are rallying together once again to raise funds and awareness for San Diego Brain Injury Foundation’s (SDBIF’s) annual surviveHEADSTRONG Walk for Recovery. The event will be held on Saturday, March 18, 2023. To donate, please go to our fundraising page on classy.org.
• Save the date! To support the historic preservation of the Educational Cultural Complex, SDCCE's Foundation is hosting the Coretta Scott King Inaugural Benefit: A Gospel Brunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on June 10th outdoors at the ECC Foyer.

President's Updates

• I had the privilege of joining the SDCCE Gateway to Career and College podcast! This podcast is extremely special because it focused on Black History at SDCCE, the programs we offer to support all of our students and our impact on the community. The host of the podcast, Alfredo is a former student of our Gateway program and now he is an #SDCCE employee!
• I hosted my first President Advisory Council at SDCCE! I’m excited about the community members and partners who are supporting us to advance our college.
• I worked with Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher to secure a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance dual customer training programs (DCTPs)--non-degree programs that prepare workers for in-demand jobs and actively engage employers to ensure the success of the worker.
• I attended the Community College Baccalaureate Association "Imagine the Possibilities for Community College Baccalaureate Degrees!" conference.
• I have been named among the Top 50 Black Leaders of Influence in 2023 by the San Diego Business Journal.
• I was awarded the 2023 Mena Valdez Community College Award and will be honored at the LKC 20th Anniversary Celebration & Awards Ceremony: Pasado, Presente, Futuro on Sunday, April 2, 2023, at 8:00pm during the 2023 NASPA National Conference in Boston, MA.

The Research Corner

This week, we invite you to check out the SDCCE Productivity Dashboard. This data product contains enrollment, FTES, FTEF, and productivity data for CE. The results from this dashboard may be disaggregated by CTE status, overall program, and certificate programs. Moreover, the dashboard also includes options to filter data by academic year, fiscal year, term, modality, and campus. Take a minute to review this resource and email jrivas@sdccd.edu if you have any questions.

President's Office Hours

President's Office Hours are back! Individual zoom meetings will be 20 minutes and are available on a first come first served basis. If you would like to schedule a virtual appointment with me, please email sdccepresident@sdccd.edu for detailed information.

Best,

Dr. King