BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20161102T120000Z DTEND:20161102T130000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Chamber Business Breakfast November 2016 DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker\n\n\n\nDr. Cris Valdez\n\nPresident\, Richland Community College\n\n\n\nCristobal "Cris" Valdez has nearly ten years of executive level experience in community colleges. He has served as the President of Richland Community College since August 2016 and prior to Richland he served in the same capacity at Central Wyoming and Edison Community College. At Richland\, Dr. Valdez has focused on expanded internal and external communications\, leadership development\, academic and non-academic assessment\, strengthening academic and student affairs programs and enhancing continuous improvement processes\, teams and thinking.\n\nValdez believes that comprehensive community and technical colleges allow people to dream and provide the opportunities for those people to realize their dreams. He believes community colleges should remain open-door institutions that aspire to both high academic standards and high rates of student success and completion. Valdez added\, "As leaders\, we must continually strive for and demand excellence in each of the above areas". His commitment as a leader in this environment is to instill trust and integrity\, deliver and demand direct and accurate communication and strive for increased partnerships and collaboration to promote economic development and diversity in the larger community and region.\n\n\n\nSponsored by\n\n \n\n\n\nLive Broadcast by\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExhibitors X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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\nCristobal &ldquo\;Cris&rdquo\; Valdez has nearly ten years of executive level experience in community colleges. He has served as the President of Richland Community College since August 2016 and prior to Richland he served in the same capacity at Central Wyoming and Edison Community College. At Richland\, Dr. Valdez has focused on expanded internal and external communications\, leadership development\, academic and non-academic assessment\, strengthening academic and student affairs programs and enhancing continuous improvement processes\, teams and thinking.
\nValdez believes that comprehensive community and technical colleges allow people to dream and provide the opportunities for those people to realize their dreams. He believes community colleges should remain open-door institutions that aspire to both high academic standards and high rates of student success and completion. Valdez added\, &ldquo\;As leaders\, we must continually strive for and demand excellence in each of the above areas&rdquo\;. His commitment as a leader in this environment is to instill trust and integrity\, deliver and demand direct and accurate communication and strive for increased partnerships and collaboration to promote economic development and diversity in the larger community and region.
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\n LOCATION:The Decatur Club 158 W. Prairie Avenue Decatur\, IL 62523 UID:e.1825.3094 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260410T092324Z URL:http://business.decaturchamber.com/events/details/chamber-business-breakfast-november-2016-11-02-2016-3094 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR