Oregon Student Success Center
Oregon community colleges have a long history of implementing student success-focused initiatives and promising practices. Yet without a central, guiding core, the number of well-intentioned strategies can become disconnected and inefficient on the ground. This is where the Student Success Center at OCCA fits in.
The Student Success Center at OCCA leads transformative change by translating emerging trends, research and innovative practices to cultivate student-ready colleges; communicating a statewide vision of student success; and inspiring cultural change on campuses to improve student outcomes and close opportunity gaps.
The Center serves as a hub for a statewide shift in focus from the many transactional initiatives to an overarching and transformational goal for all Oregon community colleges. The primary work of the Center concentrates on knitting together research, policies, and promising practices to increase understanding and interconnectedness, assist colleges in the analysis and use of data, as well as provide leadership to create the vision for future student success work.
Advisory Committee
Patty Scott, Chair
Southwestern Oregon CC President
Annette Mattson
Mt. Hood CC Board Member
Gary Plano
Rogue CC Board Member
Erin Foote-Morgan
Central Oregon CC Board Member
Colin Ensminger-Stapp
Chemeketa CC/OCCDLA
John Hamblin
Mt. Hood CC/CSSA
Tom Tylee
Umpqua CC/OCABSD
Ali Mageehon
Southwestern Oregon CC/CIA
Erin McCarley
Tillamook Bay CC/OCCCIRs
Advisory Committee Meetings
Click here for the meeting schedule.
Funding for the Oregon Student Success Center is made possible through generous support from The Ford Family Foundation and The Oregon Community Foundation.
Information
For more information about the Student Success Center contact Elizabeth Cox Brand, Director, at 503.399.9912 or elizabeth@occa17.com.
For more information on the Jobs for the Future national student success network, please click here.
