Three St. Clair County Community College leaders will make a presentation at DREAM 2013, Achieving the Dream’s annual student success conference.  Celina Grondin, director of institutional research;

Pete Lacey

Pete Lacey, vice president of student services; and David Buck, SC4’s chief information officer with technology partner Ellucian, will attend the conference Feb. 5 to 8 in Anaheim, Calif. 

David Buck

Their presentation, “Reporting Solution – from Zero to Wow in 360 days!”, will address how SC4 successfully created an institutional research office and tackled the challenge of developing a comprehensive reporting solution in less than a year. A variety of topics related to the details of the process, data tools being used, importance of campus-wide collaboration and creating a culture that depends upon data will be discussed. In addition, a brief demonstration of the SC4 information dashboard will be shared with the audience, as well as a discussion regarding reporting challenges and solutions being used on other campuses.  Achieving the Dream is a national nonprofit organization helping community colleges to identify strategies to improve student success, close achievement gaps and increase retention, persistence and completion rates. SC4 joined Achieving the Dream in 2010.  Education policy-makers, investors, practitioners, administrators, instructional professionals and faculty from community colleges and corporations serving higher education from across the nation will attend the conference.