Today I’ll be meeting with Garrett Groves who directs the economic opportunity program at the Center for Public Policy Priorities. In particular, he’s looking at the impact higher education has on the state’s economy and he wants to make sure all Texans have the chance to benefit from it.

Today I'm talking with Jacob Fraire, President of the Texas Association of Community Colleges. Jacob has been with TACC going on two years and we've had the opportunity to work together on a number of projects, most of them policy related. 

Resources mentioned on today's episode:

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander

Steve Head is Chancellor of the Lone Star College system, one of the largest higher education systems in the United States. He’s served as Chancellor since 2014 but has been with Lone Star for more than 30 years as Executive Vice Chancellor, President of two of the colleges in the system and other leadership roles.

Resources mentioned on today's episode:

Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, William Craig

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't, Jim Collins

A History of the Arab Peoples, Hourani, McCaddon

Martha Ellis has seen the community college world from more points of view than just about anyone I know. From faculty member to college administrator to college president, she understands life on a college campus inside and out.

Greg Morris is the Academic Vice President at El Centro College, in Dallas. He joins us today to talk about the work he is doing at El Centro, and how he approaches the task of helping students find success. 

Resources mentioned on today's episode:

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, Harvard Business Review, Drucker, Christensen, Goleman,

Orphan Train: A Novel, Kline, Almasy, Toren

Kelty Garbee joins us today to discuss her work at Educate Texas, an organization in Austin that works on education policy, as well as program development in both K-12 and higher education. They were pioneers in the early college high school movement and have fostered a number of transformational programs.

 Resources mentioned on today's episode:

Redesigning America's Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success, Bailey, Jaguars, Jenkins
Gil Scot-Heron: Pieces of a Man, Marcus Baram
The Flavor Bible, Page, Dornenburg
TheTexasNetwork.org

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Today, we're in San Antonio, at the Texas Pathways Institute, organized by the Texas Success Center. We've had a chance the past couple of days to visit with people at community colleges working on developing guided pathways at their institutions, and we sat down with Davis Jenkins, a senior researcher with the Community College Research Center, at Columbia University Teachers College.

Resources mentioned on today’s episode:

Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Fabricant, Brier
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, McNeil, McCain

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Today our guest is Tonie Badillo, who directs dual credit and Early College High Schools at El Paso Community College. EPCC was a pioneer in both dual credit and early college high schools, and Tonie has been involved since the very beginning. 

Resources mentioned on today’s episode:

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success, Bailey, Jaguars, Jenkins

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Today, Jenna Cullinane Hege joins us to talk about the overarching policy goals for higher education in Texas. The agenda is called 60x30TX and aims to ensure 60% of adult Texans have some sort of higher education credential by 2030.

Resources mentioned on today’s episode:

Texas Higher Education Data
60x30TX Plan
Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Sandberg
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt
Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Granny, Patterson, Mayfield, McMillan, Switzler

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Today, Wanda Mercer, vice chancellor for student affairs, and David Troutman, vice chancellor for institutional research and decision support, at the University of Texas system join us to talk about the current state of dual credit in Texas and what changes we may be seeing over the next few years. 

Books mentioned on today’s episode:

Giant of the Senate, Al Franken
Being Mortal, Atul Gawandre
From Numbers to Words, Morgan, Reichert, Harrison

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