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Results

CBT Accolades

Imperial Valley College

Logo“Imperial Valley College needed an Educational Master Plan, a Strategic Plan, a Technology Plan and a Resource Plan. I was new to the college, and we were under a deadline from the ACCJC to produce the documents. And while a lot of good work was already underway to respond to the Commission’s recommendations, we needed objective insight and expertise from someone who had been through this process before and yet who would facilitate our ownership of the process. And we needed to work quickly to meet our deadlines, so we called The College Brain Trust.

CBT consultants Dick Giese and Ed Buckley had expertise that was immediately accepted by the planning groups. They facilitated an effective planning process and helped us see how to implement the Commission’s recommendations in a way that worked for our collegiate culture. More importantly, the consultants were able to communicate directly and in a positive, objective way the serious nature of the accreditation issues we were facing and create a productive dialogue with our teams.

As a result, the on-campus meetings between CBT and our teams went extremely well because they didn’t spend all their time with me – Dick and Ed were out working with the people who would be implementing the plan on a day-to-day basis, and helping them move forward in the process of creating those plans in a way that conformed to the ACCJC standard.

The successful outcome are multiple plans that we created ourselves that are not just sitting on a shelf, but are being implemented, even now. We take the planning process seriously, and the execution of the plan will be part on our ongoing nature and culture as a college. I absolutely recommend CBT to other colleges. Our work with them helped us move beyond creating the documentation to actually living out the plans that we made, and we are going to do it in a way that is second to none.”

Sincerely,
Ed Gould, Superintendent President
Imperial Valley College