North Valley, East Sierra CVHEC Members Partner for K-16 Collaboratives State Planning Grants Could Lead to Expansion of CVHEC’s Dual Enrollment Initiatives
Two more Central Valley regions – North San Joaquin and Eastern Sierra – have each been awarded $250,000 state planning grants for the establishment of Regional K-16 Education Collaboratives Grant Programsas part of the statewide drive to strengthen the K-16 education-to-career pipeline.
Both collaborative efforts are headed by Central Valley Higher Education Consortium member institutions.
In the Northern San Joaquin Region, the University of California, Merced is the lead agency for the newly formed North Valley tri-county Workforce and Education (WE Will!) Regional Collaborative that includes four other fellow CVHEC-members: Merced College,
Modesto Junior College, San Joaquin Delta College and California State University, Stanislaus.
For the Eastern Sierra Region, CVHEC-member Columbia College is heading up the K-16 collaborative planning along with several school districts, colleges and employer groups.
These allocations amount to a total of four such collaboratives involving CVHEC members that will help bolster dual enrollment initiatives like the consortium’s successful Master’s Upskilling Program that has already been implemented in the mid valley region through the Fresno-Madera K-16 Collaborative and in the south valley area through the Kern K-16 Collaborative ...
The Valley’s Presidents and Chancellors to Convene
at Dec. 8 CVHEC Board Meeting
Greetings CVHEC Friends and Partners,
As we approach the end of the fall semester and prepare for the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holiday season, we are happy to share the November issue of the CVHEC Newsletter.
The CVHEC Board of Directors will convene for the fall Board of Directors meeting December 8, at the California Health Sciences University (CHSU) in Clovis. The meeting will give CHSU an opportunity to show off their new medical school campus. The meeting will also provide an opportunity to invite a number of new presidents who have assumed their positions since the last board meeting.
The board will be introduced to new CVHEC staff member, Elaine Cash, a former area superintendent who has taken on the role of Grants & Programs coordinator and introduced in our last issue. The Board will also hear a report on the work of the K-16 collaboratives in Kern County and in the central region that includes Fresno, Madera, Kings and Tulare counties.
Additionally, we will be delighted to announce two state planning grant awards. The WE WILL! collaborative in the North Valley region and the Eastern Sierra Region K16 Collaborative were each awarded a $250,000 planning grant that will result in the establishment of two more K-16 collaboratives in the Central Valley -- a total of four collaboratives across our membership!
In this issue you will also read the guest blog contribution from Chet Frantzich, English teacher at Buchanan High School in the Clovis Unified School District. Chet, one of the teachers who participated in the Master’s degree Upskilling funded by the Fresno/Madera K16 Collaborative, shares his experiences in the program and how his earning a master’s degree has impacted his students and him personally.
I hope you enjoy this edition and feel free to share it with friends and colleagues.
Here is wishing you all a wonderful and restful Thanksgiving Holiday!!
The Kern Master’s Upskill Program hopes to provide 100 South Valley high school teachers the opportunity to earn a master’s degree that achieves state qualifications for teaching community college dual enrollment English and math courses on local high schools.
National University, both CVHEC member institutions.
Cohort application deadlines are Dec. 9 for the math component taught by FPU (final math info session Nov. 29) and Dec. 12 for the English component taught by NU (final English info session Dec. 1). Cohorts begin in January.
With Burke’s appointment, CVHEC is moving full-steam ahead in collaboration with Dr. Krista Herrera, director of the Kern K-16 Collaborative, said Durán ...
This month’s guest blog is presented by Chet Frantzich, an English teacher at Buchanan High School in Clovis who earned a master’s degreein June through CVHEC’s Master’s Upskilling Program. Chet earned his bachelor’s degree at Fresno State in 2010 (credential 2012) and has taught at BHS since 2018. He shares the value of the upskilling program and how it will benefit not just his personal and professional advancement but also his students through dual enrollment courses he plans to teach in the near future.
Master’s Upskilling Experience Was a Game-Changer
By Chet Frantzich
Buchanan High School
The Master’s Upskilling experience afforded me courtesy of the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium, National University and the Clovis Unified School District was a career altering one. Not only did achieving my Master’s in rhetoric open up pathways for me to teach dual enrollment courses and even courses at my local junior college, but it also impacted the way I teach ...
This web page has a twofold purpose: to showcase the many communications experts working behind the scenes at CVHEC’s 30 member campuses and to provide a resource to the news media at any of our member campuses in the nine-county Central Valley region.
The PIO/Communicators Committee is chaired by Tom Uribes, CVHEC Communications/Media coordinator, former Fresno State PIO.
CVHEC Board News: Clovis Community College President
Dr. Kim E. Armstrong
Named New CCC President
Congratulations to Dr. Kim E. Armstrong who was named president of Clovis Community College by the State Center Community College District (SCCCD) Board of Trustees November 1 when she will also join the CVHEC Board of Directors.
President-select Armstrong will take office Jan. 3, 2023 replacing the current President, Dr. Lori Bennett, announced her retirement effective January 4, 2023.
“Dr. Armstrong is widely regarded as an effective and collaborative higher education leader, and I look forward to working with her in this new role as the third President of Clovis Community College,” said SCCCD Chancellor Dr. Carole Goldsmith, a CVHEC board member.
Dr. Armstrong currently serves as the Vice Chancellor for Student, Equity, and Community
Affairs at Arkansas State University Three Rivers.
She earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Howard University in Physiological/Neuropsychology and has Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization certifications ...
After delivering her final State-of-the-College Address Oct. 25, CCC President Lori Bennett poses with Stephanie Briones, left, of PODER and Dr. Omar Ruiz-Trejo, American Sign Language faculty.
MCC President Angel Reyna delivered his first State-of-the-College Address Oct. 21 before he and SCCCD Chancellor Carole Goldsmith (right) posed with student Jennifer Hernandez (left), producer of MCC's award-winning video and Marisela Maciel, the student featured in the video.
Two CVHEC members' President's Breakfasts:
a First and a Last Two Central Valley Higher Education Consortium members held milestone events this fall with the resumption of their pandemic-delayed President’s Breakfast and State-of-the-College Address: • Madera Community College (Oct. 21) • Clovis Community College (Oct. 25)
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REMINDER: 2022 CVHEC
Mini-Grant AppsAvailable Applications for the next Central Valley Higher Education Consortium 2022 Mini-Grant cycle are now being accepted and will continue until funds are allocated.
National University, both CVHEC member institutions. 
