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A Collaborative Model for Improving Student Writing and Information Literacy in General Education
This session introduces a collaborative approach to building writing-intensive (WI) courses and assessing learning outcomes in writing and information literacy. General education WI courses at Passaic County Community College (PCCC) are created jointly by faculty, librarians, and writing staff. Electronic resources (i.e. e-portfolios, e-tutoring, LibGuides, video repositories) are integrated into each WI course. In response to a pressing need, PCCC has embarked on this multifaceted initiative. Discussions include assessment of a required college writing exam.
Gregory Fallon, Associate Dean
Academic Services
Passaic County Community College
Jacqueline Kineavy, Senior Vice President
Academic Affairs
Passaic County Community College
Alan Mitnick, Associate Professor
English
Passaic County Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 1, Casino Level
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A Complete Online Class- Course Management, Live Web Conferencing, and
Explore an online course by viewing the actual course preparation, movie of live web office hours, and teacher-made movies. Participants will experience a live online web session by watching a streaming move . Wireless tablets, headsets, tablet pc and other hardware will be demonstrated. Attendees will leave with strategies and tools to create links in Blackboard to improve student retention. Make your class as personal as possible.
Charles Sorcabal, Professor
Mathematics
Mt. San Antonio College
Poster Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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A Happy Marriage of Faculty Performance Evaluation and Professional Development
The performance evaluation of faculty and their required professional development activities can often seem to be at cross-purposes. For both to be as effective and productive as possible, they should be closely aligned and work in a complementary manner. This session presents Butler Community College’s faculty performance appraisal process that focuses the evaluation process in ways that promote targeted professional development as a solution to this dilemma.
Sherrell King, Instructor
Business Technology
Butler Community College
Lori Winningham, Dean
Beh. Science/math/science
Butler Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 2, Casino Level
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Academic Integrity in a Multicultural Context: Implications for Teaching and Learning
This didactic and interactive session will explore the complex nature of academic integrity, factors contributing to the rising rates of plagiarism, the role of culture in defining the ownership of knowledge, the influence of culture in the development of critical reasoning and writing skills, the importance of developing culturally responsive pedagogies, and ways we can develop and expand culturally sensitive responses to detected plagiarism. A goal of this session is to increase faculty awareness and understanding of the emergent norm of intellectual dishonesty in general, but more specifically perceived plagiarism among students, from diverse socio-cultural and language backgrounds.
Carol Jenkins, Faculty
Sociology
Glendale Community College (AZ)
Special Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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Adding Another Dimension: Using 3D technology to Improve Teaching and Learning
Students say, “Oh, now I see it.” or “Ok, I understand it better now.” after viewing a difficult concept displayed in 3D. See and hear how El Paso Community College is using 3D technology in various formats, from incorporating 3D into PowerPoint presentations to implementation of a full-scale 3D holoprojection lab.
John Gilbert, Project Coordinator
Distance Education
El Paso Community College
Shirley Gilbert, Special Assistant
Presidents Office
Austin Community College District
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the E-Learning Environment
This presentation explains several critical issues that must be considered by institutions of higher education before deciding whether e-learning should be considered as a total learning environment. Participants weigh the advantages and disadvantages of e-learning and how to determine and ensure that learners’ academic needs are met and educational quality is guaranteed in this dynamic and rapidly growing learning environment.
Abed Almala, Campus Dean
Academics
Strayer University
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 3, Casino Level
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All Math Software is Not Created Equal: What’s the Difference?
Technology in the classroom has become increasingly prevalent, but what makes one software system different from another? Hawkes Learning Systems (HLS) is a unique program that is proven to be more effective than the rest in helping students learn mathematics. Discover how HLS’s differences make it the perfect solution for student success!
Lalie Gibson, Customer Support Representative
Sales and Marketing
Hawkes Learning Systems
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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AMSER - Free Online Applied Math and Science Resources for your Classroom
AMSER, a FREE online collection of applied math and science educational resources and services, is funded by NSF and was built specifically for use by those in community and technical colleges. This session demonstrates how educators can utilize AMSER's wide variety of online resources, classroom materials, and useful organizational tools.
Chanda Halderman, Outreach Coordinator
Computer Science
Internet Scout University of Wisconsin Madison
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Asking the Right Questions to Improve Learning Spaces
When remodeling or building instructional spaces, knowing what questions to ask gives you the advantage, and there are plenty of questions to ask. The presenters outline a comprehensive approach to planning instructional spaces, focusing on dealing with internal and external constituencies in order to minimize barriers to meaningful change. Shared is research involving students and faculty that emphasizes the need for flexibility and thoughtful, collaborative design. If you have a new or renovated facility on the horizon, this session is for you!
William Flynn, Managing Director Emeritus
National Council For Continuing Education And Training
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Assessment and Academic Honesty Online
Tests and quizzes have traditionally been used for assessing student performance. In online courses, this may not adequately represent what the student has learned and brings with it potential for cheating. Alternative assessments and the use of an online learning community can help deter cheating. This workshop will benefit online faculty by exploring alternative means of assessment that can be used to combat this problem.
Rena Palloff, Faculty and Director
Educational Leadership and Change
Fielding Graduate University
Keith Pratt, Faculty
Business
Capella University
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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Assessment of General Education Outcomes: Engaging Faculty Across Campus to Become Active Learners
This session is designed to share a variety of strategies to move colleges forward in developing a systematic comprehensive general education assessment plan. North Seattle Community College set out to do the job and found it must become willing to learn first. Participants engage in small group activities and large group discussions around common roadblocks. Also considered are tools developed through the activities of a general education task force and faculty workgroups.
Davene Eyres,
Seattle Community Colleges
Mary Ellen O'Keeffe, Vice President
Professional and Technical and Workforce Education
North Seattle Community College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 2, Casino Level
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Bang, Bang You’re Dead: Police Use of Deadly Force
Thousands of women and men who will become members of the next generation of American law enforcement officers are preparing themselves for the opportunity to pursue a career in law enforcement by studying at a community college. Discussions about using deadly force, whose parameters include legal, philosophical, and moral rubrics, should be at the core of criminal justice curriculums. Criminal justice educators are introduced to the modus operandi used in the classroom by the presenter, a methodology found to be an effective strategy for introducing students to this complex issue.
Marc Stanton, Professor
Social Science
Massachusetts Bay Community College
Roundtable Discussion
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Blackboard Bivouac: An Online Training Program for Faculty Teaching Online
In January 2008, John A. Logan College launched an innovative online professional development course to prepare faculty to teach online through developing the pedagogical and technological skills necessary to design and to deliver standards-based courses that provide an effective learning environment for students. This session is relevant for faculty, administrators, and trainers.
Rick Burkett, Instructor
Teaching and Learning Center
John A. Logan College
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Bloom Where You are Planted
The six major categories of Bloom’s taxonomy were recently changed from nouns to verbs to make the classroom an interactive area to teach and learn. This session helps instructors know their role in the classroom as they assist students reach the highest level of Bloom’s taxonomy. Planning across six levels of thinking and eight different ways of knowing and understanding the world are incorporated into the session to assist participants achieve balanced programs that cater to all students’ abilities and interests.
Yvonne Alles, Coordinator
Allied Health
Davenport University
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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Building a Blended Distance Learning Model to Reach Across Alaska
Participants learn how a struggling technical program in Alaska survived and then thrived by migrating to a blended distance learning model. Discussions include overcoming technical and administrative hurdles. Participants experience how distance students can synchronously communicate and collaborate using web tools in a distance environment.
Cathy LeCompte, Associate Dean
Academic Affairs
University of Alaska Anchorage
Rick Mcdonald, Faculty
Computer Information and Operating Systems
University of Alaska Southeast
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 3, Casino Level
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Building Faculty Capacity Through Peer Coaching
This session presents the nonevaluative model for peer coaching that was developed at Milwaukee Area Technical College. With the goal of creating a true learning college, this model includes self-reflection, portfolio development, an annual action plan, and peer interactions to move from a traditional clinical model of performance improvement. Information about the peer-coaching model is presented and samples of the documents developed are shared and detailed.
Evonne Carter, Provost
Academic Affairs
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Building Learning Communities
Challenged to keep up with the fast-paced evolution of teaching and learning with technology in an era of reduced resources? Learn more about the nonprofit NROC Network model in which members share expertise and collaboratively develop high value online content to be shared with the world as open educational resources.
Terri Rowenhorst, Director
Membership
National Repository of Online Courses
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Building Online Learning Communities: Techniques that work!
Research continues to show that the construction of a learning community, with the instructor participating as an equal member, is the key to successful online course outcomes and is the vehicle through which online education is best delivered. How to develop effective learning communities, however, remains a mystery to some. This session will help instructors explore specific techniques that can be used in any online class to successfully develop a learning community approach.
Rena Palloff, Faculty and Director
Educational Leadership and Change
Fielding Graduate University
Keith Pratt, Faculty
Business
Capella University
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Building Sustainable Local and World Community With Whole People, Whole Organizations
This session features a national initiative for building sustainable local and world community, state and federal quality award programs with guidelines, and facilitator preparation for renewal and wholeness. Participants learn how to achieve organizational performance excellence by coupling a whole-person culture with a data-informed, strategic approach.
Sue Jones, Professor
Cultural Studies, Peace Studies, and Psychology
Richland College
Stephen Mittelstet, President Emeritus
Richland College
Special Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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Butler Learning Studios: Rapid Deployment. Is Over Commitment Better Than No Commitment?
Learn about Butler Community College’s Learning Studios journey from concept, to strategic priority, to implementation. This presentation will overview a multifaceted learning studios implementation that attempted a rapid deployment methodology and explore what worked, what didn’t, and why. As part of the Herman Miller Learning Spaces national research project we will explore the data to address preliminary results in adoption, implementation, and evaluation and compare that with other colleges and universities.
Tom Erwin, Chief Information Officer
Butler Community College
Homero Lopez, Retired President
Design of Learning Spaces
Special Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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Can You Teach Someone to Be Innovative?
Grand Rapids Community College, in partnership with Workforce Innovations in Regional Economic Development CQIN, industry partners, and students identified 23 skills possessed by innovators and methods for teaching those skills. Innovate Now Through Education and Retraining is a flexible and customized curriculum model that establishes a literacy foundation for an innovative mindset and the thinking and behavior inherent in being innovative. The curriculum and custom-designed social networking environment are discussed.
Liz McCormick, Director
Instructional Technologies
Grand Rapids Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Carson 1, Casino Level
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Catch Them While You Can!
New research findings tell us that new students are highly motivated, committed to achieving their academic goals, and sincerely believe they will. Yet our retention data tell a different story. More than half of new students leave during their first college year. Participants have a conversation with students about strategies that work to help students start right and stay in college.
Arleen Arnsparger, Project Manager
Initiative on Student Success
Center for Community College Student Engagement
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 3, Casino Level
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Challenges and Solutions for Online Lab Science Courses
The presenter has taught chemistry and physics via face-to-face interaction, videoconferencing, hybrid learning, and 100 percent online with various lab approaches. The pros and cons of online lab options, recent face-to-face versus online course assessments, and current challenges of online labs are reviewed.
Peter Jeschofnig, Researcher
Corporate
Hands-On Labs, Inc.
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Classroom Clickers Click with Students: Engaging Students with Technology
Join this interactive session to learn how Broward College uses classroom clickers to engage students in the learning process, encourage discussion, and help students provide feedback to the instructor in real time. With the student feedback the instructor has better insight into how well the students understand the material covered in class. Participants will use the same technology used at Broward College during this interactive, engaging session.
Greg Reeder, Professor
Broward College
eInstruction
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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Classroom Tabletology – Student Engagement through the Power of Ink
Join us for this information exchange focused on the latest notebook and tablet PC technology. Fujitsu and partners share stories and highlights of implementing state-of-the art technology in both the college and K-12 environments.
Slater Ohm, Director
Education
Fujitsu
Geoffery Allison, Director
Sales
Fujitsu
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Classroom Tabletology – Student Engagement through the Power of Ink!
Join us for this information exchange focused on the latest notebook and tablet PC technology. Fujitsu and partners share stories and highlights of implementing state-of-the art technology in both the college and K-12 environments.
Slater Ohm, Director
Education
Fujitsu
Geoffery Allison, Director
Sales
Fujitsu
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Classroom Tabletology – Student Engagement through the Power of Ink!
In today’s competitive college markets, institutions must do more than offer the usual academic attractions to recruit and retain students. DeAnza College and Fujitsu share the implementation of thousands of notebooks and Tablet PCs, and what it takes to develop a model program including all aspects of support, financing, infrastructure, faculty development, training and curriculum.
Slater Ohm, Director
Education
Fujitsu
Geoffery Allison, Director
Sales
Fujitsu
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 4, Casino Level
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Classroom Tabletology – Student Engagement through the Power of Ink!
In today’s competitive college markets, institutions must do more than offer the usual academic attractions to recruit and retain students. DeAnza College and Fujitsu share the implementation of thousands of notebooks and Tablet PCs, and what it takes to develop a model program including all aspects of support, financing, infrastructure, faculty development, training and curriculum.
Slater Ohm, Director
Education
Fujitsu
Geoffery Allison, Director
Sales
Fujitsu
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 3, Casino Level
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Clickers! How They Clicked for My Students!
Are you looking for better ways to engage students by making your teaching more dynamic? This session includes a demonstration of how a clicker response system was integrated into a computer information systems class to aid classroom activities. Student feedback was very positive and encouraging. Shared are tips and tricks for educators considering using clickers in their classrooms.
Preetha Ravikumar, Professor
Computer Information Systems
Oakland Community College
Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Colleges and Universities as Sites of Democracy
For the last decade the Council of Europe and a coalition of American universities and colleges have collaborated in an examination of the ways in which institutions of higher education are critical to the growth and development of robust democratic cultures. Prompted in part by European fears for the future of their new democracies, and in part by the growing movement for civic engagement in the US, this work has resulted in declarations of commitment (The Strasbourg Declaration of 2006), and a significant sharing of ideas and projects across national boundaries. What might this movement mean for American community colleges? How do we contribute to an expansion of democratic practices and sensibilities among our own students? This session will explore these questions, and bring a report on the most recent Strasbourg conference—the first attended by several American community colleges leaders.
Brian Murphy, President
De Anza College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Community Colleges and the Economy: Responding to the Downturn
The current economic downturn has placed significant burdens on the nation’s community colleges. Community colleges across the country confront significant reductions in their operating budgets even as they experience rising enrollments and growing demand for services. Students who might have attended other, more
expensive public and private institutions are turning to community colleges, as are individuals displaced by job losses in the manufacturing sector and layoffs in service and technology firms. What’s a campus leader to do? This session
presents the results of a winter 2009 survey of community college executives regarding the impact of the economic downturn on institutional budgets and resources. The focus is on campus efforts to serve students and communities with
declining state funding, decreasing revenue streams, and increasing service needs.
Kenneth Green, Director
The Campus Computing Project
Special Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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Concept Mapping: Visual Learning and Thinking
Come brainstorm and expand on topics that will become the framework for written documents, presentations, and class lectures. Mind Maps help facilitate students’ analytical thinking, comprehension, creativity, and writing skills across the curriculum. MatchWare OpenMind allows students and teachers to rapidly visualize, organize, and implement ideas and export them to HTML, Word, PowerPoint, or MatchWare Mediator.
Dave Hamilton, Educational Advisor
Sales and Training
MatchWare, Inc.
Poster Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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CONNECT: Building Relationships Among High Schools, Community Colleges, and Universities
Are you concerned about the continuity of education from K-16? Do faculty members in all your nearby K-16 institutions have the opportunity to build relationships and link their educational goals for the students they share? If not, then come learn about CONNECT, an event that does just that!
Teresa Huether, Professor
Mathematics
St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley
Karen Wade, Adminstrative Professional
Center For Teaching and Learning
St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 3, Casino Level
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Create Flash, Web, and CD-ROM Projects With Ease!
Participants learn to create comprehensive Flash websites in a matter of minutes with interactive navigation, object animation, and much more. Mediator 9 is an icon-based authoring tool that lets you drag-and-drop your way to interactive websites, Flash presentations, and multimedia CD-ROMs. No programming or experience is necessary. With easy-to-use One-Click, export to Flash and HTML and auto-run CD-ROM. Automated FTP upload allows students and teachers to focus on content rather than technology.
Dave Hamilton, Educational Advisor
Sales and Training
MatchWare, Inc.
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 4, Casino Level
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Create Video Tutorials for Students and Colleagues
Participants learn how to capture screen recordings from any piece of software, turn the recordings into tutorials or support videos, and display them on a server, CD-ROM, or the web. ScreenCorder 5 is an easy-to-use screen capture tool that allows instructors to create professional video tutorials quickly and efficiently. Create software training and support videos. Add audio instructions, text bubbles, animated images, SCORM-compliant quizzes, and picture-in-picture to your videos. Export files as WMV, Flash, or AVI. Use the web builder to create an online tutorial.
Dave Hamilton, Educational Advisor
Sales and Training
MatchWare, Inc.
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Creating a Credit and Noncredit Program to Highlight Foreign Languages
This session offers an overview of “Portal: Your Door to World Languages and Cultures,” a series of events created by the credit and noncredit foreign language programs at the Community College of Baltimore County to promote enrollment and retention for foreign language classes. Presenters discuss their experiences collaborating on program design, implementation, and results and offer practical suggestions for creating this type of program, which received a 2008 Innovation of the Year award from the League for Innovation.
Don Elliott, Coordinator
Continuing Education
The Community College of Baltimore County
Rachele Lawton, Chair
Reading and Language
The Community College of Baltimore County
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 2, Casino Level
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Creating a Professional Development Faculty Cohort: One College’s Story
Forty-eight Joliet Junior College employees enrolled in Illinois Online Network’s online program, Making Virtual Classes a Reality. In three semesters, 28 employees completed the program and received masters of online teaching certificates. Hear a panel of administrators, faculty, and staff discuss the implementation, execution, and benefits of this innovative cohort program.
Jane Cartwright, Instructional Design Specialist
Distance Education
Joliet Junior College
Dennis Haynes,
Joliet Junior College
Colleen Kestel-Branchaw, Professor
Nursing Education and Allied Health
Joliet Junior College
William Yarrow, Coordinator
English and World Languages
Joliet Junior College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 5, Casino Level
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Creating and Implementing a Customized Multimedia Electronic Textbook
Participants learn an easy-to-implement process for creating multimedia electronic textbooks that students can access online. This session will benefit faculty members with minimum technical skills who are looking for a customized, learning-centered, and cost-effective alternative to traditional textbooks.
Leif Swanson, English Instructor
English
Laramie County Community College
Howard Major, Dean
Arts and Humanities
Laramie County Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 4, Casino Level
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Creating Engaging Lessons and Reusable Learning Objects With SoftChalk
Educators learn how to create reusable learning objects (RLOs); how to make online content engaging, interactive, and professional looking; and how student learning is reinforced using learning activities, quizzes, and tools. The presenter discusses the importance of creating RLOs, demonstrates sample lessons, and using feedback from participants, builds a lesson to their specifications.
Steve Saltzberg, Marketing Director
Marketing
SoftChalk LLC
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Creative Collaboration: Merging Cooperative Education, Experimental Learning, and Service Learning
The Co-Op and Experiential Learning Department at Delta College blends cooperative, experiential, and service learning efforts. This innovative collaboration merges student services, experiential learning-centered approaches, community partnerships, academic service learning pedagogies, and the college’s strategic initiatives. Presenters demonstrate and discuss how logical partnerships can be built by sharing methods adaptable to other campuses.
Karen Wilson, Professor
Teaching and Learning
Delta College
Nancy Vader-McCormick, Professor and Director
Academic Service-Learning
Delta College
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Credentialing for Community and Technical College Faculty: A Statewide Model
This session outlines a new statewide requirement in Minnesota requiring community and technical college faculty to be credentialed by completing three two-credit courses in instructional strategies, course design, and assessment. The individuals who developed the program discuss its success, lessons learned, and how other institutions can benefit from a similar program.
Donna Burgraff, Dean
Business Education
Southwest Minnesota State University
Ellen Radel, Professor
Wellness and Human Performance
Southwest Minnesota State University
Winston Gittens, Associate Professor
Education
Southwest Minnesota State University
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Debate As a Teaching and Learning Tool in Science Education
Techniques and strategies used in science education should directly involve students in active learning. Debate is an effective teaching and learning tool. It involves students in a variety of active learning through reading, writing, listening, and speaking. It also allows students to enhance their higher-order reasoning by assessing research information to form opinions. This poster session presents the debate format used in biology courses and the evaluation of student learning in those courses.
Masood Mowlavi, Professor
Biology
Delta College
Poster Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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Developing a Unique Baccalaureate Degree Program: Benefits and Challenges
The findings from this study will be valuable to academicians and researchers involved in academic development. Participants discuss the main characteristics of a unique degree program, the significance of the program, the development process, and the benefits and challenges in developing a unique baccalaureate degree. The study’s results contributed to the development of a bachelor’s degree in CPM program and can be used to study the development of pertinent degrees in other countries.
Phillip Hoffmann, Associate Dean
Academic Affairs
SAIT Polytechnic
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 3, Casino Level
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Developing Leadership From Within
The national trend for academic institutions is that administrators turn over every three to five years, providing just enough time to begin a project and leave. Orange County Community College’s answer to this trend was to develop a three-day leadership conference open to every employee on campus, which grooms employees for future leadership roles. This session helps educators develop a leadership training program to promote leadership from within. Presenters outline the leadership program and how institutions can mirror it using resources they already have.
Lucinda Fleming, Assistant Chair
Business
Orange County Community College - SUNY Orange
Stephen Winter, Professor
Business
Orange County Community College - SUNY Orange
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Digital Video Learning Objects: Creating Media-Rich Learning Environments
Explore digital video learning objects and learn how online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses can benefit from and be enriched by incorporating media-rich elements. Video learning objects are presented in a digital repository environment. Demonstrated is how media can be managed and easily incorporated into any course management system. Sample video clips are reviewed and discussed.
Valerie Cavazos, Director
Marketing
Onlinecommunitycolleges.org
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 4, Casino Level
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Discovering Your Learning Styles
Do you ever wonder why some students struggle more than others in your class? This poster session highlights the benefits of helping students and faculty understand different learning styles. Data are presented from a recent pilot project performed at Yavapai Community College in support of these claims.
Utpal Goswami,
College of the Redwoods (RCCD)
Mark Shelley, Campus Dean
Northern Arizona University-Yavapai
Yavapai College
Poster Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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Do Amazing Things! Create Movies With Windows Movie Maker.
Get creative with your projects and presentations by enhancing them with motion and sound. This session will show you how easy it is to convert images or PowerPoint slides into movies using Movie Maker. The basic aspects of Movie Maker are demonstrated while a movie is constructed in five easy steps.
Gail Ruby, Director
Learning Technologies
Southeastern Community College (NC)
Poster Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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Doctoral Program Designed, Written, and Taught by College Presidents and Community College Chancellors
Presenters discuss an innovative new doctoral program with a minor in community college leadership that can be completed in two years and will be offered online or as a hybrid course. The session will benefit anyone seeking a doctoral program taught by professionals that conveys relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Debbie Nellis, Director and Professor
Post-Secondary Articulations and Program Development
Nova Southeastern University Abraham S. Fischler School of Education
Fred Ricci, Professor
Education
Nova Southeastern University Abraham S. Fischler School of Education
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Effective Ways of Teaching a Health Science Program at a Distance
Demonstrated are innovative and effective ways to teach a health science program at a distance. Participants learn new ways to use technology to improve their distance and classroom courses. This session will benefit any instructor who teaches at a distance or in the classroom.
Scott Clinefelter, Program Director
Nuclear Medicine and Positron Emission Tomography
Pitt Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 3, Casino Level
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Electronic Clinical Data Tracking for Health Care Education Programs
Discussed is the use of clinical data tracking software to track and report events, procedures, evaluations, and assessments by direct web entry or the use of handheld devices. The presenter demonstrates electronic data tracking and how it can ease the collection, analysis, and reporting of clinical data.
Daniel McDermott, Manager
Health Careers and Science
Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Emerging Trends in Faculty Development
Whether your community college has a majority of veteran, new, or adjunct faculty, times have changed, and the methods by which students learn are requiring more versatility, involvement, and instructional expertise from faculty. To foster student success, colleges must invest in professionals working directly with students to ensure they have the necessary skills and knowledge. This session highlights several professional development opportunities, including NISOD Learning Scenarios, a web-based synchronous series of courses that engage faculty with the ultimate goal of student success.
Evelyn Waiwaiole, Project Manager
High Impact Practices Initiative
Center for Community College Student Engagement
Coral Noonan-Terry, Dean
National American University
Zarina Blankenbaker, Vice President
Student Learning
Richland College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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Employing Concept-Based Curriculum Strategies to Enhance Classroom Critical Thinking
The participants learn how a concept-based curriculum can be used to decrease content saturation, encourage critical thinking, and discourage rote memorization of facts. Educational strategies and activities from this session will benefit educators in health-related fields in creating meaningful learning experiences for students in classroom settings.
Marianne Eichenberger, Assistant Professor
Nursing
The Community College of Baltimore County
Mary Kay Demarco, Campus Director
Nursing
The Community College of Baltimore County
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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Engage Your Students With Free Web 2.0 Tools
The presenter demonstrates using several new, free, web-based communications applications to engage students in new and powerful ways. These services emphasize collaboration and social networking. Participants get hands-on experience with many of these applications, including audio, video, music playlists, photos, wikis, instant messaging, social bookmarking, Twitter, web office, RSS, and more. All information is available for participants’ use after the course through Web 2.0 technologies.
Britt Watwood, Specialist
Center for Teaching Excellence
Virginia Commonwealth University
Learning Center Course
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Crystal 4, Casino Level
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Engaging All Learners in Math
Participants engage in activities that encourage involvement and personalized commitment to learning. This fun, interactive session focuses on examples that have been successfully used to motivate learning within community college mathematics classrooms. Video clips of students actively engaged in an exciting dynamic learning environment are shown. This is a creative exercise using everyday materials to expand student knowledge and engagement.
Renae Weber, Chair
Mathematics
Treasure Valley Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 5, Casino Level
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Enhancing Focus: Using Computers to Neutralize Emotions That Interfere With Learning
This session demonstrates how Heartmath techniques, used by hospitals to effectively retain nurses, are being used at Truckee Meadows Community College. Using computer labs, 132 nursing students and 51 college personnel have learned psycho-physiological methods to neutralize emotions that interfere with intellectual performance. Come experience a technique and witness a computer demonstration from a participant volunteer.
John Coles, Counselor
Counseling
Truckee Meadows Community College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Enhancing Learning With Custom Google Maps
Maps are fundamental tools that can put almost any lesson into spatial context. Online mapping using Google Maps provides a free-and-easy way for teachers and students to create and share maps without downloading or purchasing additional software. This session explores how to quickly make custom Google Maps.
Lisa Matthies, Instructor
Social Science
Erie Community College - SUNY
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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ePortfolio California: Developing a Statewide ePortfolio System for Learning and Assessment
Electronic Portfolios (“ePortfolios”) are ideal for contemporary outcomes-oriented learning approaches, as they allow students to collect, analyze, reflect upon, and present documentation of their learning. This poster will introduce the ePortfolio California Project, a statewide project sponsored by the California Virtual Campus that is identifying best practices in ePortfolios for K-20 schools.
Una Daly, Coordinator, EPortfolio California, California Virtual Campus, CA; John Whitmer, Director, EPortfolio California, Butte College, CA
Una Daly, Community College Outreach
Open Educational Resources
Open Courseware Consortium
Poster Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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Establishing Faculty Presence Online
This session will assist faculty in developing advanced skills in online course facilitation by presenting definitions of faculty presence as well as some of the research that shows the importance of presence in the online course and its relationship to successful course outcomes, increased participation, and increased learner satisfaction. Participants will leave with a better sense of how to establish their own presence online and will be able to immediately apply the skills learned to their online teaching.
Rena Palloff, Faculty and Director
Educational Leadership and Change
Fielding Graduate University
Keith Pratt, Faculty
Business
Capella University
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Evaluating Ethos: Using Critical Literacy to Improve Students’ Information Decisions
When students search online, they believe they can identify good sources based on surface credibility. But they make bad decisions if they apply criteria out of alignment with academic values. This presentation outlines an innovative merger of traditional rhetoric and information literacy to guide students’ research decisions in courses that are resource- or problem-based. Participants apply our framework of ethos and investigate its usefulness in a variety of disciplines.
Richard Hannon, Adjunct Professor
English
Palomar College
April Cunningham, Coordinator
Saddleback College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 3, Casino Level
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Every Student Can Succeed: Making Academic Achievement Possible Through Class Capture
During this presentation, learn how Yavapai College (YC) is able to provide any student on any campus with access to the courses and information they need to achieve academic success. Also learn how YC faculty are able to deliver a learning experience that optimizes and helps clarify complex concepts in a variety of subjects, including mathematics, chemistry, and nursing, all by integrating Tegrity’s fully web-enabled class capture service.
Utpal Goswami,
College of the Redwoods (RCCD)
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Exploring the World of Undergraduate Research
See how the innovative use of scientific instrumentation and undergraduate research has successfully increased the number of underrepresented students seeking STEM degrees and careers. University, government, and nonprofit partners have joined forces to open the world of research to underrepresented community college students. Posters display information about the project and samples of student research. See how far community college students can go when given the opportunity.
Melanie Gill-Shaw, Program Coordinator
NSF STEP
Eastfield College
Carl Knight, Faculty
Science
Eastfield College
Poster Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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Fighting Ignorance Through Composition
Recent winner of the Stanley Foundation’s International/Globalization Curriculum Development Grant, this composition course presents real global issues to students and teaches them the power of writing. Like the United Nations, each student represents a country, and through the written word, students discover a new world.
Lauren Sabel, Instructor
English
Front Range Community College
Steve Holland, Faculty
English
Eastern Iowa Community College District
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 4, Casino Level
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Finding the Missing Pieces
Do you ever leave your classroom with the feeling that something was missing? You knew the material and presented it effectively; however, the students didn’t respond the way you wanted. This session helps you discover the missing pieces in your puzzle and provide students with the materials that enhance your lessons.
Jane Tichenor, Professor
Life and Physical Science
Ivy Tech Community College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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Flat Leadership: The Power of Empowering
This session helps administrators and faculty members develop a leadership training program to develop leadership from within their organizations. The presenters discuss an interactive workshop outlining the Orange County Community College leadership program and how other institutions can mirror it using resources they already have. Participants develop Friedman’s (and others’) tools into an effective leadership model with applicants focusing upon collaboration, motivation, communication, and empowering.
Lucinda Fleming, Assistant Chair
Business
Orange County Community College - SUNY Orange
Stephen Winter, Professor
Business
Orange County Community College - SUNY Orange
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 1, Casino Level
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Fresh Food From the Campus Gardens
Our horticulture program produces a wide variety of vegetables for the college’s food services using sustainable growing methods. The planting of crops, production, and harvesting is closely coordinated with the culinary arts program. Students in both programs gain an in-depth understanding of the challenges of growing, preparing, and serving local, organic, fresh food. Participants learn about the requirements for establishing successful campus food production programs, the potential for cross-campus collaboration, and curricular opportunities.
Stefan Seiter, Faculty
Agricultural Sciences
Linn-Benton Community College
Poster Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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From Blackboard to Lulu for Online Instruction
Practical problems reoccur when using Blackboard, including downtime for maintenance. As a result, we shifted course materials to lulu.com. Demonstrated is how the lulu.com marketplace is effective for instruction. Discussed are the advantages to using this format, including creating a website for course materials, for students to submit assignments, and for a discussion forum. Websites are reviewed, as well as are course materials and student projects.
Patricia Cerrito, Professor
Mathematics
University of Louisville
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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From Concept to Proof of Concept: An Innovative NSF Project for Community College Faculty
During this session, project leaders facilitate a discussion about the latest National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education research findings. The project involves developing a prototype National Resource Center model. Details and context are provided during the session. Discussion topics include connections to Web 2.0 tools and technologies, connections between disciplines, connections to classrooms, and connections to other sponsored research.
Sandra Mikolaski, Consultant
Stem Education
Independent
David McNeel, Consultant
Boston-Area Advanced Technological Education Connections
University of Massachusetts - Boston
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Carson 3, Casino Level
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General Education: Principles and Framework for Effective Practice
Articulating the intended outcomes general education requirements are intended to achieve is difficult, but necessary, since they form the core of collegiate degree and certificate programs. Reflection on its historical purpose reveals seven fundamental principles that frame community college practice that connects philosophy with effective practice to fulfill general education expectations.
Ronald Baker, CEO and Principal Consultant
Baker Collegiate Consulting
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 4, Casino Level
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Getting Results: Free Online Professional Development for Faculty
Learn how colleges are using Getting Results, a free online faculty development program produced by WGBH-Boston in association with the League for Innovation, featuring video vignettes of community college instructors demonstrating effective teaching strategies. Designed for individuals or faculty cohorts and funded by the NSF, Getting Results targets STEM disciplines, but is applicable to any field.
Cynthia Wilson, Vice President
Learning and Research
League for Innovation in the Community College
Allatia Harris, President
San Jacinto College - North Campus
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Giving Students a SIRIUS Boost: Success for the Millennials
Millennial students need educators to understand how integral technology is in their lives. Come and explore an innovative approach to student engagement and learning that combines the use of the latest advances in educational theory and research. Any educator wanting to learn how to engage their students with a new approach should attend this session. It’s a must see!
Don Green,
Florida State College at Jacksonville
Shannon Groff, Professor
Organizational Learning Services
Florida State College at Jacksonville
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 4, Casino Level
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GPS LifePlan: A Holistic Framework for Student Development
With the diverse population of 21st-century students, how do we connect our students to services, faculty, and resources to help them achieve their personal and educational goals? The GPS LifePlan, an award-winning program developed collaboratively between student and academic affairs, facilitates this process. Learn how, through online tools and traditional approaches, students reflect on where they are now, where they want to go, and pathways to get from here to there.
Michele Jersak, Counselor
Counseling
Century College
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Green, Green, Green: What Does It all Mean in the Classroom?
Does going green mean saving time, resources, and money? How about going green in the classroom? Is it possible to go paperless using current technology? Imagine a class where students get all of their resources online. Is it possible for students to be as successful going paperless as in the traditional format? From e-texts to homework, from handouts to exams, how does it all work? The presenter teaches a traditional introductory accounting class that is now 99 percent paperless.
Steve Teeter, Professor
Accounting
Utah Valley University
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 3, Casino Level
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Hands-On Experience in Learning: Use of Simulation Tools to Increase Competency
Presenters share ways to use simulators and standardized patients to educate, evaluate, and increase competency. Participants view a live standardized patient/student encounter and participate in feedback techniques. Presenters share perspectives from a physician assistant manager, how simulation is used at other institutions, and steps in developing a simulation lab.
Yvonne George, Clinical Preceptor
Health Careers
Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus
Daniel McDermott, Manager
Health Careers and Science
Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus
Sandy Robinson, Dean
Academic Affairs
Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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HippoCampus and the Promise of Open Educational Resources
Learn about the rapidly evolving Open Educational Resource movement and what it means for teachers and students worldwide. An overview of exemplary projects is offered and the opportunities and challenges facing these efforts are discussed. In particular, the robust educational resources of HippoCampus.org are explored and lessons learned from the project are shared. Discover how you can be a part of HippoCampus.org!
Gary Lopez, Executive Director
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
National Repository of Online Courses
Special Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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How a Virtual Learning Environment Can (and Should) Help Learners
Beyond Web 2.0 internet-based technology can be used in various contexts to encourage learning for every student and learning style. Participants will leave this presentation with an extensive list of web resources and practical strategies for use and assessment will be demonstrated.
Jeff Borden, Faculty
Communications
Southeastern Community College (IA)
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Sierra 1 and 2, Mezzanine Level
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How Do You Know Your Students Are Learning?
The purpose of teaching is to improve and expand student learning. But regardless of how well we teach, how do we really know that our students are learning? In this session, the author of A Learning College for the 21st Century will set the context, and leaders from three colleges, who are also current students in the Community College Leadership Program at Walden University, will describe specific innovative practices and the evidence of their impact on learning.
Terry O'Banion, President Emeritus
League For Innovation
League for Innovation in the Community College
Cheryl Hawkins, Associate Dean
Liberal Arts
Schoolcraft College
Sandra Robertson, Program Head
Business
Thomas Nelson Community College
Jennifer Methvin, Vice Chancellor
Academics
University of Arkansas Community College Hope
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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How to Enable Better Understanding, Creativity, and Spontaneity in the 21st-Century Classroom
Instructors often need a way to re-energize their teaching and their students, especially reluctant and language-challenged learners. Use of synectic stretching exercises and key complimentary statements affect the culture of learning in any classroom. Synectics stretching exercises open an alternate pathway for students to grasp new ideas and concepts, thus leading them to better interest, proficiency, and accuracy in any subject. Moreover, the exploration of student creativity is important because it invites them to leap fearlessly across new thresholds of understanding!
Avon Chapman, Director
Adjunct Development and Faculty Administrative Support
Atlantic Cape Community College
Roundtable Discussion
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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How to Survive When You Have 18 Dual-Enrolled High School Students in a College Course
Shared is a pilot dual-enrollment experience, including its inception, design, implementation, and evaluation. Highlights include the challenges of completing the process by administrators, faculty, and the students. Discussed are the impact to college level and high school college students concurrently attending a predominately high school age dual enrolled section. The challenges of assessing this experience are also presented.
Ginny Przygocki, Interim Dean
Academic Services
Delta College
Bobbi Allen, Director
Academic Administration
Delta College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 4, Casino Level
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If You Feed Them, They Will Come: Motivating Faculty to Learn Technology
Funded by a Title III Federal Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Sullivan County Community College’s Teaching and Technology Center has computers and audiovisual equipment and is the training site for learning how to use technology. Once excitement for the new center waned, it was difficult to maintain faculty enthusiasm to come to the center for training. Today the center plays host to workshops and entertaining activities that keep faculty and staff interested. This session focuses on how alternative workshops, community-building events, and appealing to basic instincts caused faculty to learn and take technology back to their classrooms.
Olivia Lightle,
Sullivan County Community College - SUNY
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Implementing Critical Thinking in a Basic Public Speaking Course
In an effort to address the national trend indicating that students are underprepared for college, Madisonville Community College implemented critical thinking across the curriculum. This discussion highlights a course restructuring process and a critical thinking research project conducted in basic public speaking courses.
Beth Norton, Professor
Humanities
Madisonville Community College - KCTCS
Christy Adkins, Assistant Professor
Madisonville Community College - KCTCS
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Improving Engineering Technology Programs With Multidisciplinary Partnerships
This presentation addresses best practices and challenges in forming partnerships among community colleges, secondary schools, universities, and industry to improve engineering technology programs. This project was funded by the NSF-ATE program. Participants learn about securing buy-in, soliciting constituents’ needs, and the rewards of inclusive implementation.
David Spang, Dean
Science, Mathematics, and Technology
Burlington County College
Cathlene Leary-Elderkin, Administrator
Grants
Burlington County College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 2, Casino Level
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Incorporating Intelligent Tutoring in Educational Environments
Participants gain an understanding of the research principles associated with intelligent tutoring, increase their level of comfort in using technology to mediate instruction, complete a worksheet to be used in online course supplemental materials as they relate to class subject matter, and share this new approach to enriching the learning experience.
Gilbert Villanueva Jr., Engineer
Research and Development
WebStudy, Inc.
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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Increasing Enrollments in Microsoft Application Courses With Certification in Curriculum
Defined is a process for developing a new Office 2007 curriculum to include certification testing as part of course requirements. This session explores marketing strategies used to effectively increase enrollments and promote a comprehensive approach for the completion of Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook credit courses.
Kelly Sell, Associate Professor
Computing and Technical Studies
Anne Arundel Community College
Penny Foster, Professor
Computer Technologies
Anne Arundel Community College
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Information Literacy and Biology: Interdisciplinary Co-Teaching Fosters Deep Learning
This session describes a pilot project embedding information literacy learning outcomes into a biology course. Participants experience student learning activities, examine framework and assessment tools, and discuss how the marriage of information literacy and scientific literacy can increase students’ understanding and awareness of the biological world.
Michelle Edwards Thomson, Librarian
Red Deer College
Lori Stuber,
Red Deer College
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Innovative and Successful Approaches to the High School-Higher Education Connection
Students entering community colleges today bring many challenges, from limited college skills to barriers that either extend their graduation beyond the traditional two years that cause them to never finish. This presentation introduces three innovative and successful initiatives (college readiness initiative, early college high school, and dual credit) implemented at El Paso Community College to address these critical issues.
Dennis Brown, President
Lee College
Lydia Tena, Campus Dean
El Paso Community College
Richard Rhodes, President and Chief Executive Officer
Austin Community College District
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 1, Casino Level
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Inquiry-Based Learning for Leader Development: Shifting Paradigms
This session demonstrates the inquiry-based learning (IBL) model recently developed for use in the leader development program at the Army Management Staff College for the U.S. Army Civilian Corps, a population exceeding 287,000 employees. Participants learn how to lead and manage curriculum development and adapt faculty to successfully use IBL in the classroom. Administrators, faculty members, and curriculum designers will benefit from this session.
Pamela Raymer, Dean
Academics
Army Management Staff College
Michelle Dunham, Professor
Civilian Education System Advance Course
Army Management Staff College
Greg Hampton,
Army Management Staff College
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Integrating Civic Responsibility Into the Curriculum
How can community college faculty intentionally integrate more civic responsibility into their curricula? Learn about service learning, civic engagement, and how colleges can fulfill their mission and be meaningfully involved with their communities. Practice reflective teaching and learning techniques that engage students, faculty, administrators, and community partners. This session uses exercises and activities from the American Association of Community Colleges’ best-selling publication, A Practical Guide for Integrating Civic Responsibility Into the Curriculum.
Hoover Zariani, Director
Service Learning Center
Glendale Community College (CA)
Duane Oakes,
Mesa Community College
Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Integrating Service Learning, Technology, and Teams Into the College Curriculum
Participants actively examine a cross-curricular service learning delivery system (EMPACTS) that recently received a League Innovation of the Year award. This 12-15 week process developed by faculty combines the power of cutting-edge technology, authentic teamwork, and significant community service to help students develop their own interests and aptitudes while creating deeper learning of course outcomes. Over 200 community projects have been successfully completed across the curriculum in 20+ courses. Highlights, student projects, and benefits are shared.
Regina Ryel-Thomason, Coordinator
Teacher Education
Northwest Arkansas Community College
Dianne Phillips, Coordinator
Mathematics and Science
Northwest Arkansas Community College
Marvin Galloway, Dean
Mathematics and Science
Northwest Arkansas Community College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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Integrating Video Learning Objects Into Your Online Class
In an online or hybrid class students are more apt to become active learners and achieve stated student learning outcomes when the content is provided in varied formats and presented from different perspectives. During this session, presenters demonstrate the seamless integration curriculum-aligned streaming video clips into online classes using the INTELECOM Online Resources Network, a multidisciplinary digital content repository and video streaming service. The presentation will demonstrate the functionality of the repository. Participants will learn how to embed video clips within their own online classes and to use the content to engage students.
Cheryl Chapman, Intructional Designer
Instructional Design
INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications
Gabe Zaldivar, Account Manager
Marketing
INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 3, Casino Level
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Interactive, Multisensory Textbooks: Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation
We’re responding to our next generation by pushing the boundaries of innovation. Our program creates a virtual “teacher within the text” to link teachers and students together in a dynamic, digital learning environment. These innovative textbooks bridge the digital divide by transforming reading into an interactive, multisensory experience vital for today’s technology-savvy learners.
Stacey Kayden, Coordinator
Instruction
Laney College
Gianna Durso-Finley, Professor
Sociology
Mercer County Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 4, Casino Level
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Introducing Reflective Practice to Students
Participants learn about several different ways to include students in reflective practice focused on personal wholeness and authenticity. Community college students, young Millennials included, are proving open to the invitation to align their student, worker, spouse, parent, and adult children roles with their inner lives. The presenters outline their experience working with students on reflective practice to enhance their sense of wholeness and authenticity.
Ann Faulkner, Co-Director
Center for Renewal and Wholeness in Higher Education
Richland College
John Millemon, Assistant Dean
Human and Academic Development
Richland College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 5, Casino Level
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It’s Green, But What Does It Mean?
Being green is a popular label applied to almost anything we see today. We spend over three-quarters of our life inside buildings. In building design, being green has a specific definition that is part of a certification program. Learn how the industry is responding to claims of being green and sustainable through the USGBC’s LEED program and how we all can be better stewards of the environment.
Michael Ryan, Professor
Architecture
Anne Arundel Community College
Robert Lowe, Professor
Architecture and Interior Design
Anne Arundel Community College
Special Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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Jumpstart Your Learners’ Brains: Multisensory Whole Brain Teaching!
Consistent with today’s learning paradigm, multisensory, whole brain teaching is a dynamic and learner-focused method of teaching that actively engages adult learners. This presentation offers educators creative and brain-compatible suggestions to stimulate and excite adult learners. The audience tries several new approaches designed to jump-start their learners’ brains. This is a great strategy for educators seeking interactive classroom activities.
Laurie Materna, Professor
Nursing
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Kabbalah, Metaphor, and Sustainability
The Kabbalah has been used internationally as a contextual framework for understanding the ecology of the world that surrounds us, as well as our place in the cosmos. Each element, or sefira, holds a unique lesson and way of questioning. The Kabbalah, much like the Native American Seven directions provides the perfect template for solving problems and learning in context. We will use a talking stick and the circle of elders techniques to discuss and practice applying kabbalistic techniques. Participants create curriculum elements and apply a deep ecology approach to current situations, a powerful alternative to classic brainstorming techniques, and one that integrates sustainability into the curriculum to inspire students to embrace and dance with the challenges of the future.
Cindy Miles, Chancellor
Chancellors Office
Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District
Elisa Robyn, Professor
Innovative Studies
Regis University
Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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Keep Students in College with a Comprehensive College Success Course
College, career, and lifelong success topics are included in a comprehensive first-year experience course that has an excellent reputation with students, faculty, and administrators at Cuyamaca Community College. Students who successfully complete the course have increased persistence by 30 percent. This transferable three-unit course serves as a bridge from high school to community college to the university. Technology is used extensively in online, blended, and traditional options.
Marsha Fralick, Professor Emeritus
Business
Cuyamaca College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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Letting Go of Lecture: Implementing Interactive Teaching in Content-Driven Curricula
While the value of interactive pedagogies is well documented, too often they are presented with reference to conceptual curricula, and as a consequence, lecture-based pedagogies continue to dominate the theory component of content-driven curricula. This session presents an approach adapted from established pedagogies for transforming content-driven courses (such as introductory biology courses) from lecture centered to discussion centered. Participants explore how to become discussion centered and increase student ownership of the learning process through interactive lessons and demonstrations.
Steve Schenk, Instructor
Biology
Truckee Meadows Community College
Melissa Deadmond, Instructor
Truckee Meadows Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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Leveraging the Benefits of Computing Certifications for Academic and Career
Today, digital and desktop skills are critical in all we do. Now students and instructors can verify these skills through Microsoft 2007 certification. Practical information about how to successfully provide IC3 certification through test-out options or as part of final exams is provided.
Mike Maddock, Director
North American Sales
Certiport
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 4, Casino Level
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Librarian and Faculty Collaboration: Providing Library Services and Resources in Online Courses
As the number of online students grows, librarians and faculty members seek innovative ways to support those students. Participants discuss resources and services being used successfully, such as library guides, tutorials, and screen casts; providing library instruction in online classrooms; embedding a librarian into online courses; requiring using the library; and using electronic books and streaming video. Participants identify techniques and strategies to enhance and support students in their online courses.
Vicki Cone, Librarian
Anne Arundel Community College
Sandra King, Associate Professor
Arts and Sciences
Anne Arundel Community College
Kenneth Jarvis, Associate Professor
Culinary Arts
Anne Arundel Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 5, Casino Level
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Lights! Camera! Learning!
Session participants travel on a WebQuest to learn about using web-based video resources to engage students actively in the learning process. Not only will participants acquire an awareness of how to easily locate videos, but they also discuss strategies for introducing videos, concept reinforcement, and follow-up activities.
Celeste Fenton, Designer and Facilitator
Perkins Professional Development Institute
Hillsborough Community College
Brenda Watkins, Instructional Designer
Innovative Teaching and Technology
Hillsborough Community College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 1, Casino Level
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Man Up! African-American Male Professors Engaging African-American Male Students
This session describes how four African-American male professors are addressing low retention rates for young, black, male college students. Participants learn how these professors researched, developed, and are now teaching college success seminars to young, black males. Administrators and faculty concerned about this issue leave with an implementation plan and course materials that can be easily replicated.
Linda Uzureau, Assistant to the President
Community College Partnerships
Governors State University
James Moore,
Prairie State College
Elighie Wilson III, Associate Professor
Communication
Prairie State College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 5, Casino Level
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Manage Institutional Assessment With Digication E-Portfolios
Get an inside look at Digication’s assessment management systems and e-portfolios. This flexible web-based assessment solution supports institutional tracking for comparing and reporting on student progress and performance. Faculty and administrators, come see how you can now easily assess a class, department, or institution based on standards, goals, or objectives.
Jeff Yan, Chief Executive Officer
Business Development
Digication, Inc.
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 3, Casino Level
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Maricopa Institute for Learning: Ten Years of Transforming Practice Through Reflective Scholarship
This session tells the story about the Maricopa Community Colleges’ Institute for Learning (MIL) Fellowship program. The primary goal of the MIL Fellowship program is to support faculty members who choose to get involved in systemic analysis of their teaching practices through classroom-based investigations, observations, and reflection. Participants learn the value of creating a scholarly program at their respective colleges, are introduced to Maricopa’s MIL Fellowship program model, and discuss examples of the scholarly work completed by MIL Fellows over the program’s 10-year history.
Eric Leshinskie, Dean
Instruction and Institutional Services
Glendale Community College (AZ)
Maureen Zimmerman, Faculty
Food and Nutrition
Maricopa Community Colleges
Holly McKinzie Beene, Faculty
Communications
Maricopa Community Colleges
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 3, Casino Level
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Math and Science Learning for Teachers of Young Children
This session is designed to demonstrate how to support young children’s foundational understanding of math and science through strengthening teacher education in an early childhood education program. Developing teachers increase their knowledge and confidence in mathematical concepts and scientific principles while learning teaching strategies and curriculum content that affect their students’ success in math and science throughout childhood and beyond.
Connie Schatz, Department Chair
Early Childhood Education
Edmonds Community College
Wayne Reinhardt, Instructor
Early Childhood Education
Edmonds Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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Math Success Center: A New Initiative for Beginning Algebra Courses
A new initiative to improve success and retention rates in math courses at Long Beach City College has been launched with major funding from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s office. MATH 110 has been selected for implementation since this happens to be the gatekeeper course with low retention and low success rates. This session addresses how the Math Success Center is incorporated into MATH 110 and will benefit community colleges with similar problems in math courses.
Kris Mudunuri, Professor
Mathematics and Engineering
Long Beach City College
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Mathematics and Mastery Learning in General Education
There have been different types of general learning (i.e. spiral, immersion, business, and mastery). Spiral learning is most commonly used in mathematics education. Students must complete a series of modules with a high score before moving on to the next module. Demonstrated is how mastery learning can improve student learning.
Patricia Cerrito, Professor
Mathematics
University of Louisville
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Mixing the Scientific Method and Business Education
This session explores how the skills and steps used in the scientific method can be used to resolve business challenges. The fundamental premise of the scientific method is using observation of singular phenomena to define how and why the world and objects in the world react as they do. The traditional model of business analysis is collecting data and reports to analyze a singular source or cause. By shifting from data collection to observation, students more easily understand and interpret problems.
Melanie Lawler, Coordinator
Business Studied
Truckee Meadows Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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Models of Learning Communities: Engaging Students Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Learning communities use student-centered pedagogy to transform the learning environment into an active, collaborative, and interdisciplinary experience. Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) faculty have developed and facilitated various models of learning communities offered in several disciplines and for students with a broad range of academic skills. This session provides an overview of 21st-century skills and how learning communities naturally support the development of these skills. The trials and tribulations of learning community implementation at LCCC are also considered.
Larissa Verta, Associate Academic Dean
Academic Services
Lehigh Carbon Community College
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Models of Learning Communities: Promoting the Development of 21st-Century Skills
Learning communities use student-centered pedagogy to transform the learning environment into an active, collaborative, and interdisciplinary experience. Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) faculty have developed and facilitated various models of learning communities offered in several disciplines and for students with a broad range of academic skills. This session provides an overview of 21st-century skills and how learning communities naturally support the development of these skills. The trials and tribulations of learning community implementation at LCCC are also considered.
Larissa Verta, Associate Academic Dean
Academic Services
Lehigh Carbon Community College
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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More Than Fun and Games: Educational Games With the Computer
Games can promote teamwork, ease rote learning, teach problem-solving skills, and facilitate reviews. Simple office software can turn the screen into a game board. This session explores how to enhance learning with educational games, how to adapt familiar games to provide the skills your students need, and how to present computer-based educational games to a student audience.
Frank Schickor, Professor
Environmental and Life Sciences
Berkshire Community College
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Motivating International Students to Share Their Story Via E-Portfolios
This session features a case study of 12 international students who developed a portfolio during two years studying business at Kirkwood Community College. Students shared pieces of their portfolio during the development process, providing diversity education across the college. The development process and end-product provided a lasting tribute to their cultural experience. Tips, samples, and assessment are shared. Ways to adapt the principles to other college’s needs are discussed.
Marilee Feldman, Professor
Business and Information Technology
Kirkwood Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 4, Casino Level
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MS Producer 2007: Interactivity Without a Price Tag
MS Producer 2007 allows users to quickly combine PowerPoint slides, video, audio, and onscreen activity with a very short learning curve. See step-by-step instructions for how to use this free tool from Microsoft to publish training on the web or the desktop.
Robin Bagent,
College of Southern Idaho
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 3, Casino Level
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Navigating the Barnyard 2: The Desire to Inquire!
This session engages participants in a dialogue about how faculty can cultivate a sense of wonder within classrooms. Using examples, skits, and participatory activities, this session demonstrates how and why faculty must promote a desire to inquire within our students.
Daniel Dickman, Associate Professor
Psychology
Ivy Tech Community College
Don Shull, Associate Professor/ Program Chair
Psychology
Ivy Tech Community College
Steve Offerman, Associate Professor
Business
Ivy Tech Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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Novice to Expert: Helping Students Learn How to Learn
This presentation illustrates learning strategy sessions designed to teach students to learn how to learn. Learning strategy sessions help students develop the skills to determine the best approach for a given situation. A learning strategy report and test error analysis form that has proved to be a valuable tool in the diagnosis and remediation of student learning problems is shared and discussed with participants, as is a step-by-step process for modeling study strategies.
Taunya Paul, Chair
Developmental Studies
York Technical College
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Our Moodle Journey: Selection, Implementation, and Training
After evaluation of four course management systems, De Anza College adopted Moodle. This session explores the decision, implementation, training, and innovative ways instructors are teaching using this tool.
Linda Elvin, Supervisor
Distance Learning Center Support
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
April Qian, Instructional Designer
Academic Services
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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Perceptions of Online Course Effectiveness in Community Colleges
This presentation should particularly benefit online educators. A course evaluation inventory was used to investigate instructor and student perceptions of course effectiveness. Survey results were used to compare perceptions among instructors and students. Participants are able to gain a better understanding of how to develop an effective online course.
Chan Tung, Instructor
Computer Information Systems and Technology
Kansas City Kansas Community College
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Personal Learning Environments: If You Build It, They Will Come!
Gone are the days of the sage on the stage. This presentation demonstrates how to easily create personal learning environments that give online students the power to customize course curriculum to best suit their individual learning styles and long-term educational needs. Session participants create an example course using this format. Also considered is assessing customized curriculum using outcome rubrics.
Robin Bagent,
College of Southern Idaho
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Personalize Your Class With YouTube
Making ourselves accessible to students can be a formidable challenge, especially given the many off-campus demands placed on students and the challenges presented by online instruction. Creating YouTube videos is one way to reach out to students using a free medium that most students are already familiar with and often use. This session describes how this technology can be easily used to personalize courses and engage students.
Michael Coste, Faculty
Library
Front Range Community College
Angelica McMillan, Faculty
Humanities
Front Range Community College
Special Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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Planning E-Portfolios on Your Campus: Process, Pitfalls, and Benefits
This session explores the process of piloting student learning e-portfolios at a community college from the gathering of faculty requirements, tool selection, and training of students and instructors to engaging in portfolio thinking and learning. Case studies of e-portfolio usage in dental hygiene and career development programs are featured.
Una Daly, Community College Outreach
Open Educational Resources
Open Courseware Consortium
Phyllis Spragge, Dean
Biological and Health Services
Foothill College
Judy Baker, Dean
Foothill Global Access
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 2, Casino Level
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Planting, Nurturing, and Harvesting Learning Communities
For its Achieving the Dream initiative, Valencia Community College chose learning communities as one strategy to close the academic performance gaps for minority learners. Participants learn how to incorporate the theory, logistics, professional development, and data within the process of growing a learning community at their own colleges by linking courses supported by student services personnel.
Christy Cheney, Professor
Student Success
Valencia College
Julie Phelps, Project Director
Valencia College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 5, Casino Level
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Podcasting 1-2-3: Launch Instructional Effectiveness to Astronomical Heights
Podcasting 1-2-3 gives anyone, regardless of technical ability, the ability to make podcasts available with almost no effort. After a year and a half, our student outcomes have gone through the roof and the technology is extended to audio blogging, wikis, and chatting. This is truly one-stop shopping for an easy and effective solution. Instructors can also easily provide individual, password-protected audio feedback to all students. The software is open source and free. You can get an account and the software and start using it for increased instructional effectiveness as soon as the dust settles and the session is over.
Rick Leinecker, Assistant Professor
Business and Technologies
Rockingham Community College
Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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Podcasting and Beyond
Podcasting is a popular technology that allows students individual access to course content such as recorded lectures, graphics, and videos. Students use podcasts and videos to revisit lectures, access supplemental material, or make up missed content. As the technology has increased in popularity, it has also become easier to implement. Other technologies such as YouTube offer similar opportunities. Participants learn easy techniques to create new connections with students using accessible, and in many cases, inexpensive, technology. Participants also brainstorm ideas for applying podcasting to their own courses.
Michael Coste, Faculty
Library
Front Range Community College
Angelica McMillan, Faculty
Humanities
Front Range Community College
Learning Center Course
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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Preparing Leaders for the 21st Century
In the next five years, community colleges will need over 3,000 new presidents and vice presidents; in the next fifteen years, community colleges will need over 62,000 new full-time faculty. Many of these new administrators and faculty will be prepared in Walden University’s Community College Leadership (CCL) program and the new Higher Education and Adult Learning (HEAL) program. Participants in this session review the distinctive elements that make these programs among the most innovative and substantive graduate programs ever created. More than 130 doctoral students are already enrolled in CCL, and HEAL is attracting students from across the country. Join us to learn why these are the fastest-growing programs of their kind in the nation.
Terry O'Banion, President Emeritus
League For Innovation
League for Innovation in the Community College
John Cech, Deputy Commissioner
Two-Year and Community College Education
Montana University System
Lori Piotrowski,
College of Southern Nevada
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 3, Casino Level
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Preparing Multimedia Content to Enhance Student Learning and Class Participation
This session will particularly benefit computer science and teacher education faculty. Participants learn to create dynamic online modules (i.e. PowerPoint presentations, podcast, videos) using Camtasia software and basic video editing. Handouts are provided about resources available on the web for user manuals and user guides.
Savitha Pinnepalli, Assistant Professor
Computer Science
River Parishes Community College
Victor Sanchez, Head
Technical Services
River Parishes Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Carson 2, Casino Level
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Problem-Based Learning: How to Teach Students to Think for Themselves
Employers want to hire technicians that can communicate well, work in groups, and direct their own learning. Participants in this session practice these skills through a real-world scenario, review a library of existing scenarios, and discuss how to integrate a scenario into their courses.
Elaine Haight, Faculty
Computers, Technology, and Information Systems
Foothill College
Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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Putting Assessment Data Back Into Learning: A Faculty-Driven Spanish Assessment Model
This session is designed for modern languages faculty and administrators who would like to use their assessment data to make practical improvements to student learning and their program. Presented is a faculty-driven assessment model based on video clips of students interacting in the target language. Shared are rubrics and how to use data to promote faculty dialogue and to implement meaningful changes to programs.
Gabriel Decio, Instructor
Modern Languages
McHenry County College
Lindsay Carson, Instructor
Modern Languages
McHenry County College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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Putting the WOW Into Your Online Lessons
If you want to make your online content engaging, interactive, and professional looking, then come see how SoftChalk LessonBuilder creates content that integrates with all the major learning management systems or that can be placed on a web or file server. See how student learning is reinforced using LessonBuilder activities and tools. But most of all, see how easy it is to create lesson content.
Steve Saltzberg, Marketing Director
Marketing
SoftChalk LLC
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 3, Casino Level
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Quick, Easy, and Dynamic Web Guides for Your Students’ Research
Learn how to implement a simple content management system to create custom resource guides for your program and content areas. Demonstrated is how to provide students with embedded YouTube videos, RSS feeds from your library’s e-journals, customized library catalog and database searches, links to professional websites, and more.
Anne Kamps, Dean
Learning Support Services and Program Development
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Kim LaPlante, Manager
Learning
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 4, Casino Level
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Ready? Dramatic Change, Transcendent Learning, and a Charge for Education
Are we ready? Are they ready? How can we come together and get ready? The dramatic demographic, economic, educational, and technological change at hand begs all of these questions. During this presentation participants explore each question and discuss how students, educators, workforce developers, business leaders, community members, legislators, and even parents and grandparents can prepare for the trying transformations in our midst. Also examined are transcendent learning outcomes--critical, creative, social, and courageous learning--aimed at preparing those we serve to live and learn well in these tumultuous times.
Mark Milliron, Chancellor
Western Governors University
Special Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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Recording and Uploading Lectures: So Easy a Caveman Can Do It
This session is designed for classroom educators. Participants learn how to record and upload lectures to the web using Camtasia screen recording software and a tablet PC. Participants also learn how to edit lecture videos and make smaller teaching clips, as well as how to save files in different formats for the web or iPod viewing.
Angela Schirck-Matthews, Professor
Mathematics
Broward College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Sierra 1 and 2, Mezzanine Level
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Reducing Arbitrary Barriers Between the Disciplines
This presentation is about our team-taught, interdisciplinary course encompassing the fine arts and social sciences disciplines. The instructors are present at all times to help students connect the knowledge and skills acquired in two apparently different disciplines to develop the critical thinking skills needed in a global society.
Debra Schnell, Instructor
Art
Riverland Community College
Jackie Skilling,
Riverland Community College
Poster Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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Reinvigorating Community: Empowering People Through Community Education
We used an ambitious, but inexpensive, community education program, coupled with an extensive use of maps of our region, to empower citizens to ask hard questions about the future of our county, which is undergoing aggressive energy development. We learned how to use education to drive community discussions and, in some cases, policy. Also discussed are sample brochures and examples of media coverage to demonstrate how this low-cost program elevated the profile of public education and sparked dialogues.
Dave Throgmorton, Director
Carbon County Higher Education
Western Wyoming Community College
Judy Hamel, Programming Specialist
Creative Programming
Carbon County Higher Education Center
Roundtable Discussion
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Retooling Faculty Professional Development: An Opportunity for Change
Learn how Schoolcraft College uses the IDEA Center’s summative data to create a meaningful faculty professional development program. An overview of how the faculty evaluation process starts the conversation for professional development opportunities. The creation of a program delivered by the noncredit division is shared.
Sherry Zylka, Dean
Continuing Education and Workforce Development
Schoolcraft College
Cheryl Hawkins, Associate Dean
Liberal Arts
Schoolcraft College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 4, Casino Level
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Revised Learning Objectives in Elementary Statistics
What should students be able to do once they leave the classroom? What kind of data will they encounter beyond class? The answers depend upon their chosen profession. However, more and more, data will have thousands of observations and hundreds of variables. Students need practice with such data in the classroom. The presenters discuss a method of instruction that optimizes the ability of students to make decisions using information.
Patricia Cerrito, Professor
Mathematics
University of Louisville
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Revitalizing the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Bridging Academics With Real-World Issues
Participants are introduced to a semester-long assignment that encourages thinking beyond the classroom by bridging academic theory with real-world practice. Strategies to identify student interest and network in the community yield valuable resources for students, faculty, and community stakeholders, resulting in business partnerships, internships, and jobs. Teaching faculty will find this approach to learning easy to integrate into a variety of disciplines.
Warren Munick, Faculty
Economics
Pikes Peak Community College
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Scanners and Readers: Designing Online Content to Promote Learning
Are you a reader? Or do you merely scan for content? This session focuses on how students move through online courses to gather the information they need to complete assignments. Some read it all. Others merely scan. The session offers suggestions for serving both types of readers and improving retention of the course content, as well as keeping the student engaged with the lesson and the course.
Steve Holland, Faculty
English
Eastern Iowa Community College District
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 3, Casino Level
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Service Learning: A Toolkit That Works
Catch the excitement for service learning and leave with a toolkit filled with everything you need to launch service learning at your college. The toolkit includes checklists and examples of documents used to ignite action and support for service learning. Educators who don’t have or are in the beginning stages of incorporating service learning should participate in this session.
Sally Martin, Dean
Community and Regional Learning Services
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Elizabeth Wilting,
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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SLOw Start, SMART Start: Creating Student Learning Outcomes
Student learning outcomes (SLOs) are an integral part of any curriculum design. By using a seven-step process, educators are able to design specific SLOs with regard to the learning objectives of their assignments and courses. Participants are encouraged to bring their current reviews, course outlines, syllabi, and assignments. This session will particularly benefit educators interested in creating a stronger and closer relationship between course objectives and course assignments.
Robert Leonard,
Sinclair Community College
Heidi McGrew, Faculty
Communication Arts
Sinclair Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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Stairway to Heaven: Librarians and Faculty in the Classroom
Increasingly, faculty and librarians see the deer-in-the-headlights look from students who need to gather reliable and credible information to complete written course assignments. A small rural college has a novel approach to rectify this problem for the benefit of students, faculty, and librarians. This session introduces participants to a provincial digital library project, its application and usage in certain college courses by faculty, and the embedded librarian concept in the classroom.
Terry Chapman, Coordinator
Humanities and Social Sciences
Medicine Hat College
Keith Walker, Director
Libraries
Medicine Hat College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 4, Casino Level
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State Colleges in Florida: A Community College Update
While Florida’s universities turn away thousands of students, a new state college system is emerging to help more students earn bachelor’s degrees. The Florida legislature has created nine pilot state colleges, which are essentially community colleges that maintain their community college mission while conferring four-year degrees.
Beth Hagan, Executive Director
Community College Baccalaureate Association
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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STEM to Stern: An Educational Research, Action, and Change Project
Facilitated is a discussion about recent findings involving a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education grant. Discussion topics explored include learning collaborative models, diffusion of innovation, learnings about scaling up project work, classroom implications for latest research findings, and strategic and structural implications for community colleges.
Sandra Mikolaski, Consultant
Stem Education
Independent
Cheryl Vermilyea, Director
Career Center
Bellevue College
Robert Hobbs, Professor
Physics
Bellevue College
Poster Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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Story-Centered Introductory Engineering Course Inspires Student’s Persistence in STEM Fields
The United States is losing its global competitive edge in technology and innovation. Engineering courses have experienced a decline in enrollment, causing some institutions to cancel their courses. Main factors contributing to this decline are students’ disinterest in and lack of preparation for handling the rigors of engineering education. To address this problem, an introductory engineering course offered at Foothill College was redesigned using an innovative educational approach that organizes student learning around extended projects based on authentic professional practice.
Lianne Wong, Faculty
Engineering
Foothill College
Poster Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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Student Athletes: Success, Retention, and Decorum
Student athletes are the only group of students who are under the public microscope 24/7. This puts a lot of focus and pressure on the students and the college they represent. This session is designed to help administrators, faculty, and staff increase the retention and success of student athletes on and off the field. Presented are curriculum and a class outline for an orientation to athletics class. Discussion focuses on ways to improve and implement a course of this type.
Rich Schroeder, Dean
Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering
De Anza College
Kulwant Singh, Athletic Director
Physical Education
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Mark Landefeld, Faculty
Physical Education
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 5, Casino Level
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Student-Controlled Learning
Self-regulated learning (SRL) refers to specific ways that learners take control of their own learning. SRL is a metacognitive approach to learning that teaches instructors and students a new way of understanding and managing the learning process. SRL can be used to deliver almost any type of instructional content. It is a cyclical educational process that involves, planning, practice, and evaluation.
Arlene Floyd, Director
Associate Degree and Tech Prep Programs
Youngstown State University
John Hudesman, Principal Investigator
Case
City University of New York - CUNY
Sara Crosby, Instructor
Case
City University of New York - CUNY
Charlotte Skinner, Assistant Professor
Math Physics and Computer Science
UC Blue Ash
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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Students Coming to Class Prepared? Imagine the Possibility
Introducing and modeling PPR (Pre, Post, Relate) in your classroom will enable your students to: Be “brain ready” for class; participate and engage in reflective learning; and be better prepared for tests. Teachers, learning strategists, and student success professionals will receive a graphic illustration of the PPR framework and learn strategies for presentation to students.
Franklynn Chernin, Coordinator
Student Affairs
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Survivor - Reno: Student Tribes Using Simulation to Win Immunity Idol
Participants in this session learn effective uses of gaming and high-fidelity patient simulation in the changing health care environment. This high-tech pedagogy uses Captivate hot spot technology to provide interactive learning strategies designed for health care providers. Gaming strategies promote collaborative decision making for patient scenarios. Student application of decision making on human patient simulators provides immediate application of learned knowledge.
Vivian Hubbard-Jackson,
Sinclair Community College
Polly Roll,
Sinclair Community College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 4, Casino Level
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Take Your E-Learners to the Library: The Embedded E-Brarian Project
This session helps librarians and online classroom faculty incorporate information literacy instruction into online courses. Participants join the presenters in the process of collaborating with classroom faculty, creating customized tutorials that address specific assignments, facilitating student collaboration in dedicated online discussion topics, and sharing guides to online resources using Del.icio.us.
William Hemmig, Librarian
Learning Resources
Bucks County Community College
Margaret Montet, Librarian
Learning Resources
Bucks County Community College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 3, Casino Level
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Teaching in the Community College Graduate Certificate
This session provides participants with a collaborative model for faculty development that awards graduate credit. Courses are taught in a hybrid format on the community college campus. Topics include learning theory, technology, assessment, and accommodations for students with a disability. Administrators, faculty, and professional development staff are invited to learn about the partnership, course development and delivery, and faculty response.
Jane Regnier, Assistant Vice President
Program Development
Waubonsee Community College
Renee Tonioni, Dean
Distance Learning and Instructional Technology
Waubonsee Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 4, Casino Level
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Team-Based Learning: Moving From Storming to Performing
As a faculty member, how much of your time is spent dealing with group project issues and complaints about shared grades? This interactive session takes participants through our team-based learning modules and outcomes that include increased project grades and student satisfaction and decreased numbers of student complaints.
Diana McIntyre, Coordinator
Student Affairs
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Robert Malowany, Counsellor
Student Affairs
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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The Art of Visionary Leadership: The Human Touch
The presenter summarizes research findings that contribute to the extensive body of knowledge on effective leaders. This session focuses on the human skills, attributes, and proficiencies needed by presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other educators in a leadership role as they work to find common ground with community college faculty and staff members. Participants leave with added skills and understandings of human behavior and the impact of leaders on followers.
John Roueche, President
Roueche Graduate Center
National American University
Special Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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The Easy Steps Way to Teaching Through Multimedia Storytelling
Telling stories allows us to shift perspectives and form connections with students. Expand your repertoire of effective teaching techniques while deepening student engagement through examination of the why, what, when, where, and how of multimedia storytelling. Bring your content to life, conveying principles, values, and skills for your students while they learn and enjoy participating.
Susan Lieberman, Professor
Business
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 3, Casino Level
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The Heroic Quest: From Cornerstone to Capstone on the Community College Campus
St. Louis Community College has embraced a general education program that features an introductory cornerstone course (valuing) and a culminating capstone course (managing information). In an effort to facilitate student learning and student retention, faculty have closely partnered the cornerstone and capstone courses in terms of subject matter and facilitators. The resulting student progress and preparation for further education has been striking in terms of discovering what does and does not work in general education classrooms.
Paul Nygard, Associate Professor
History
St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley
Roundtable Discussion
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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The Living Classroom: Using Web 2.0 Technologies for Student Driven Collaboration!
Web 2.0 technologies herald a new era in user-built content and communities, connecting millions of people, and harnessing collective creativity. Presented is the living classroom, a forum for enhanced student-to-student and student-to-faculty collaboration. Participants learn specific strategies and tools to grow small group interactions, enhance student retention, and unleash collaborative innovation.
Robert Cormia, Faculty
Engineering
Foothill College
Timothy Woods, Dean
Ctis Division
Foothill College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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Theory Meets Practice: Piaget and Bandura Go Online
This session applies learning and motivation theories to a practical online conference and participation system to create nonthreatening environments to facilitate student reflection and self-assessment. Participants engage as instructors, students, or voyeurs. Takeaways include a resource disk and the answer to, “Who was Lev Vygotsky and why should I care?”
Richard Cerkovnik, Director
AACC Regional STEM Center
Anne Arundel Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Thoughtful Facilities Planning Equals Substantial Learning
Participants learn how to plan and develop new or renovated spaces that maximize learning opportunities. This session takes participants through the six steps that ensure flexible, collaborative spaces. Learned is how to minimize barriers to change, avoid instruction paradigm pitfalls, productively work with architects and designers, and develop a comprehensive approach to facilities design from concept to completion.
William Flynn, Managing Director Emeritus
National Council For Continuing Education And Training
Learning Center Course
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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Transforming Libraries: Developing the Next Generation of Facilities and Services
Libraries are undergoing a profound paradigm shift that is affecting facilities, services, and organizations across the country. Many libraries are having difficulty or are being challenged by this change. The presenters illustrate why this shift is occurring, pathways to meeting the challenge, and examples of how institutions are changing their libraries and being successful at creating more dynamic operations and new innovative partnerships with the teaching and learning process.
Peter Genovese, Professor Emeritus
Education Technology
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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Undergraduate Research Programs That Attract Underrepresented Students to STEM
Innovative use of scientific instrumentation and undergraduate research has successfully increased the number of underrepresented students seeking STEM degrees and careers. Collaborative partnerships with universities and nonprofit entities have provided exciting field and laboratory research opportunities for students who never dreamed they would experience such. Phenomenal results were found in diversity and retention.
Melanie Gill-Shaw, Program Coordinator
NSF STEP
Eastfield College
Carl Knight, Faculty
Science
Eastfield College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Unleashing the Knowledge Already Within Your System
This presentation will benefit community college leaders seeking an innovative approach with strategic initiatives that require participation across a broad range of internal and external audiences. Discussed is how WebCouncil facilitates problem solving and the creation of opportunities by tapping into all of the necessary voices required for strategic insights and execution excellence.
Rick Daniels, Director
Sales and Marketing
WebStudy, Inc.
Gisele Larose, President
Marketing
WebStudy, Inc.
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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Untying the tongue: Enlivening live chat online
Participants discover how unfettered electronic live chat can stimulate creativity and foster the development of effective learning strategies in foreign languages. The session will benefit online course designers and instructors seeking novel and cost-free ways to make courses relevant.
Katherine Watson, Professor
Distance Learning
Coastline Community College
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Using Camtasia Studio to Create Recorded Lectures and Podcasts
Discussed during this session are the benefits of recording lectures, suggestions for providing access, the tools needed for recording lectures, using Camtasia to record lectures, and importing external videos. This session will benefit any instructor that has ever had a student ask, “What did I miss in class?” Your answer, “Just watch the video.”
Steve Miller, Instructor
Business
North Iowa Area Community College
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Using Class Capture Technology to Improve Student Learning
Participants in this session learn how Cuyahoga Community College uses class-capturing technology to help improve student learning. Reviewed are processes to engage and nurture faculty, classroom setup, and capture delivery systems. Also reviewed are different uses for captured materials, faculty support systems, and initial data from 25 faculty users.
Lindsay English, District Director
Faculty Development
Cuyahoga Community College - Metropolitan Campus
Christina Royal, Associate Vice President
eLearning and Innovation
Cuyahoga Community College - Metropolitan Campus
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 2, Casino Level
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Using Clickers to Improve Learning
Clickers are growing in popularity for good reason. How do clickers make instruction, assessment, and learning more dynamic? Learn about how Qwizdom clickers are used effectively, issues encountered, and the differences among clicker systems. This session provides opportunities to experience various pedagogical practices in classroom situations using clickers, including game modes. Participants are encouraged to describe situations where clickers have been used at their colleges.
Gretchen Herzog, Vice President
Sales
Qwizdom, Inc.
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Using Clickers to Improve Learning
Clickers are growing in popularity for good reason. How do clickers make instruction, assessment, and learning more dynamic? Learn about how Qwizdom clickers are used effectively, issues encountered, and the differences among clicker systems. Participants are encouraged to describe situations where clickers have been used at their colleges.
Brock Carothers, Sales Representative
Marketing
Qwizdom, Inc.
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 4, Casino Level
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Using Goals to Help Students Value Writing
This poster session will interest instructors who require writing in their classes and feel that students are not engaged. While students might not value writing, students who are encouraged to connect writing to goals that they intrinsically value are likely to put more effort into their writing assignments. Displayed are a description of the project, sample responses, overall results, and charts and graphs.
Susan Malmo, Faculty
English
Estrella Mountain Community College
Poster Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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Using Innovative Collaboration to Create and Support a New Program
Starting a new program with no funding is a huge challenge. Outlined is the process used to create a transferable degree in occupational safety and health, including collaborating with a university, responding to industry requests, grant writing, and a unique collaboration between two community colleges that share the program.
Kerrie Muphy, Director
Health and Human Services Division
Edmonds Community College
Jo Ann Baria, Dean
Extended Learning
Pierce College
Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Carson 4, Casino Level
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Using Technology to Improve Student Engagement and Success in Pre-College Algebra
The math department at Sinclair Community College is incorporating technology such as MyMathLab, tablet PCs, and classroom response systems in a three-quarter precollege algebra track. Participants learn how to incorporate these technologies into their own courses. Additionally, participants learn about an elementary algebra pilot designed as a hybrid emporium model that offers students a flexible approach to learning and helping them to engage early.
Jim Willis, Associate Professor
Mathematics
Sinclair Community College
Richard Uchida, Associate Professor
Sinclair Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 4, Casino Level
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Virtual Tour: A DVD Alternative to Traditional Field Trips
In allied health, visualizing the work area is an important learning tool. This project provides an alternative mechanism for students to tour hospital health information management departments without leaving their seats. Multimedia and other emerging technologies are used to create this nontraditional method of instruction. Session participants view portions of the DVD, answer questions just like students, and become aware of the mechanics of video production as a learning tool.
Karen Motley, Chairperson
Health Information Management
Sinclair Community College
Mary Dudash-White, Professor
Health Information Management
Sinclair Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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Virtualization: Delivering More Than the Lab
Learn how the Citrix Application Delivery Center virtualizes the computer lab and provides anytime, anywhere, secure access to applications for more students. Virtualization experts from Citrix explain how Application Delivery Infrastructure also helps community colleges address key initiatives like green IT, remote access, mobile computing, and information security.
Tushar Mutreja, Senior Business Development Manager
Education
Citrix Systems, Inc.
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 3, Casino Level
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Want to Do Podcasting? We’ll Show You How
Have you heard about podcasting and wondered what it is or how you might use it in your classroom? During this session, learn how to create inexpensive podcasts in minimal time. During this session, participants observe an actual podcast being created and published.
Gail Ruby, Director
Learning Technologies
Southeastern Community College (NC)
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 4, Casino Level
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Web 2.0 Technology and You
The term Web 2.0 suggests a new version of the web, but in reality, it addresses new ways that end users use it. Discussed are the changing trends in the use of web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, secure information sharing, collaboration, and functionality. Shared are free tools that can be downloaded from the web and used to enhance courses.
Charles Henion, Instructor
Information Technology
Central Piedmont Community College
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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What’s Next in Learning and Teaching in Scotland’s Colleges?
The visions of five years ago are our current reality. This session includes an overview of the results of an authoritative, evidence-based report on current issues for learning and teaching from 43 community colleges. Discussed is the impact of learner profiles, policy drivers, and learning relationships on defining the characteristics of community colleges and on the complexity of the curriculum.
John McCann, Director
Next Practices
Scotland's Colleges
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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Where the Wild Things Read: A Unique Program for Promoting Literacy
The Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo has an after-school program for third graders that focuses on reading. The program is a unique partnership with the school board, a Rotary Club, and the college. This session shares the steps taken to move this program from conception to innovation of the year!
Tarah Jacobs, Education Specialist
Teaching Zoo
Santa Fe College
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Wind Energy Career Pathway Through CTE Demonstration Grant
The presenters will share the foundation design and early implementation strategies for a grant-funded replicable model career pathway specific to wind energy. Participants learn ways community colleges and secondary and industry partners can take a team approach to creating and streamlining multiple career pathways for all students using integrated curricula, dual credit agreements, team-based conference attendance and joint advisory committees.
Brenda Abbott, Manager
Instruction
Laramie County Community College
Mimi Hull, Grants Writer
Grants
Laramie County Community College
Jacob Sones, Program Manager
Pathways Partnership
Laramie County Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
McKinley Room, Mezzanine Level
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You Ready for 50+ Learners?
With advances in health care and growing life spans, adults over 50 are redefining retirement. Baby Boomers, the largest demographic group in our country, will have tremendous impact in the workplace, on our campuses, and for our society at large. Come discuss innovative community partnerships and transformations in learning delivery at community colleges participating in the American Association of Community College’s Plus 50 Initiative.
Mary Sue Vickers, Director
Plus 50 Initiative
American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Your Own Learning Management System in 30 Minutes and for $10
The presenters demonstrate the ability for a novice or semi-savvy user to own and administer a learning management system (LMS) through open-source applications and affordable online service providers. Discussed are installing and configuring Moodle, an open-source LMS, in a shared hosting environment costing $10 per month or less. Discussions also explore the nontraditional uses of an LMS and integrating it with other open-source applications.
Charles Henion, Instructor
Information Technology
Central Piedmont Community College
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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A Game of Chance: Community College Hiring Practices
Based on, The Hiring Game, this session presents an overview of current and past hiring practices within community colleges and explores why it is important to rethink how we engage in the hiring process and why changes are needed to reflect current needs and environmental challenges. Benefiting faculty, administrators, and board members, participants are introduced to best practices and lessons learned related to the recruitment, selection, and retention of faculty and administrators. The presenters include a summary of survey results from participating League colleges.
Suzanne Flannigan,
Lethbridge College
Barbara Kavalier, President
Presidents Office
San Jose City College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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Active Volunteers: All It Takes Is a Little TLC
Change student apathy to empathy and raise employee engagement while creating a culture of social responsibility throughout your campus community. Totally Lethbridge College (TLC), a structured volunteer program, is a tried-and-true formula for uniting diverse campus groups to assist in college and community events. The presenter describes the effect a little TLC has had on the pride and culture at Lethbridge College.
Steven Dyck,
Lethbridge College
Kelly Burke, Faculty
Biology
College of the Canyons
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Assessing a 21st-Century Organization in Higher Education
In 2007, Bismarck State College flattened its organization to better reflect the working environment of the 21st century. The new organization empowers employees with decision making and encourages collaboration for innovation. This presentation offers lessons learned in creating a new organizational culture and in implementing cultural and structural changes.
Larry Skogen, President
Bismarck State College
Drake Carter, Provost and Vice President
Academic Affairs
Bismarck State College
Carla Braun Hixson, Associate Vice President
Continuing Education Training and Innovation
Bismarck State College
Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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Breaking the Mold: An Innovative Approach to Faculty Loading
During this session, learn about how faculty and administration at Yavapai College collaborated to formulate a fundamentally new approach to faculty loading. All aspects of faculty duties are considered with a focus on what can reasonably be considered overwork or underwork rather than what is a faculty load.
Utpal Goswami,
College of the Redwoods (RCCD)
David Gorman, Instructor
Faculty
Yavapai College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 2, Casino Level
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Building Statewide Partnerships and Collaborations to Promote College Access
Statewide partnerships and collaborations between higher education and K-12 drive aNorth Carolina technology focused college access initiative that has increased access among first generation, low income students by 9% in just 6 years. The national model access portal has expanded from a one stop “plan, apply, & pay” portal to included career exploration and planning tools linking work force readiness and education. See how the NC model was developed.
George Dixon, Senior Fellow
The Institute for College and Career Services
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Calling All Skunks! Ways to Integrate Innovation Into Everyday Work
Like many institutions, Sinclair Community College (SCC) struggled with putting an innovative process improvement or idea into practice. Based on the skunk works concept in industry, shared is how SCC brought together a cross section of employees to solve some of the college’s most pressing issues. Participants learn how the group was formed, its philosophy, how it identifies and addresses issues, and how ideas move from concept to action!
Rebecca Butler, Managing Project Director
Completion By Design Ohio Cadre
Completion By Design
Allison Rhea, Faculty
Registration and Student Records
Sinclair Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Can You Redesign Career Technical Programs to Be Online in One Year?
In an environment of unmet workforce and student needs and declining budgets, career technical programs in health care and sustainability were redesigned to be online. The presenters address the institutional framework and leverage points used to maximize effectiveness while ensuring fiscal sustainability, student learning, and quality of employee work life.
Sonya Christian, President
Bakersfield College
Mark Williams, Division Dean
Business and Computer Information Technology
Lane Community College
Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Classroom Observation: Can a Rubric Enhance the Culture of Teaching and Learning?
Through classroom observations, administrators routinely get a glimpse of the teaching and learning process in action and faculty effectiveness in the classroom. The development of an observation rubric tool has provided a mechanism to further embed the culture of learner-centered teaching on our campus. The presenters share their evolutionary experience, tools, and evidence of impact with participants.
Carolyn Bortz, Dean
Allied Health and Sciences
Northampton Community College
Pamela Bradley, Assistant Dean
Business
Northampton Community College
Christine Pense, Dean
Humanities and Social Sciences
Northampton Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 1, Casino Level
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Clicking Our Way Through the Realities of a Continuum of Leadership Theories
This session presents a continuum of leadership theories applied at a two-year technical college. Using foundational principles from Paul Hersey’s Situational Leadership Theory, the presentation and discussion break down the applicability of the continuum of styles and theories presented. Further feedback is obtained through the use of wireless clickers.
Jim Begotka, Associate Dean
Learning Support Services
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Michaeline Schmit, Dean
Business Technology
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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Closing the Gap in Planning and Assessment
Erie Community College has incorporated a planning oversight committee that ties together the elements of assessment, planning, and budget completing the sustainable assessment process. This discussion focuses on how the committee functions, difficulties encountered in its creation, and how it brings together assessment, planning, and budget operations.
Louise Kowalski, Assistant Professor
Information Technology - Middle States
Erie Community College - SUNY
Gail Butler, Instructor
Mathematics
Erie Community College - SUNY
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 1, Casino Level
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College Boards and Learning and Teaching: Is It Any of Their Business?
What is the board’s role in enhancing the quality of learning and teaching? At Scotland’s 43 community colleges, the answer to, “Is it any of their business?” is, “Of course it is.” During this session, participants learn about steps taken to engage college boards in the quality of learning and teaching at their institutions. Anyone dealing with college boards should be interested in hearing about the progress being made in what for many boards is a completely new agenda.
John McCann, Director
Next Practices
Scotland's Colleges
Special Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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Collegewide Integrated Approach to Starting a New Academic Year
This session illustrates how Illinois Central College has transformed orientation week into a thriving collegewide August Celebration of Learning. The presenters share events that have and have not worked based on assessment surveys and feedback. The big ideas can be tailored for any college. Challenges are addressed with participants suggesting options and sharing their own college’s orientation stories.
Janice Kinsinger, Associate Dean
Instructional Innovation and Learning Resources
Illinois Central College
Patrice Hess, Director
Instructional Innovation and Learning Resources
Illinois Central College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 3, Casino Level
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Community College Planning for the 21st Century
The 21st century ushered in a new generation of challenges and opportunities for community college leaders. Today’s global, high-tech economy is fueled by intellectual capital that requires more highly skilled workers to meet the demands of the changing workforce. In addition, the new generation of digitally savvy students is causing community colleges to rethink their strategic directions. This session highlights the environmental challenges affecting strategic planning processes, providing direction for aligning multiple procedures and processes into one comprehensive plan.
Kenneth Gonzales, Dean
Student Services
Riverside City College
Barbara Kavalier, President
Presidents Office
San Jose City College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Creating a Seamless Transition for Students Between Community College and University Center Programs
This session will benefit educators working with one or more four-year institutions on their campuses. Does your college have less than optimal student advising for students in university center programs? Do four-year institutions with programs on your campus fail to coordinate their course offering schedule with yours so that shared students can create viable schedules? Southwestern Michigan College had these problems, as well as underenrolled and poorly marketed baccalaureate programs, but it found a way to solve these problems and double their baccalaureate program enrollments in less than a year.
Diane Chaddock, Executive Vice President
Southwestern Michigan College
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Creating a Vision and Strategic Plan Through Teamwork
Participants learn how to use a team approach to create a community college vision and strategic plan that ties together accreditation, continuous quality improvement, state mandates, performance measures, and student success. Discover how teams are created and assigned broad goals that allow input in creating innovative solutions.
Kevin Pollock, Vice President
Student Services
West Shore Community College
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Creating an Institutional Focus for the Entire College Community
Bergen Community College (BCC) has created an institutional focus for the entire college that allows faculty, staff, students, and administrators to understand the sense of place occupied by a suburban community college. BCC’s institutional focus on the middle landscape is a crucial element in the college’s mission since this landscape helps to define the lives of our students, as well as the communities it serves. Demonstrated are how BCC established this institutional focus and how this focus enabled the college to take a more influential leadership role in the community, as well as in regional, national, and international arenas.
Philip Dolce, Chair
Suburban Studies Group
Bergen Community College
Win Win Kyi, Professor
Bergen Community College
Special Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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Culture as Context for Transformation at Community Colleges
In their desire to promote change, presidents and other administrators sometimes overlook strengthening the infrastructure on which change can be instituted. Through interactive dialog, this session considers cultural assessment and development related to involvement, consistency, adaptability, and communication as a means of facilitating change. The Cultures Contextual Elements questionnaire is explored based on its application at community colleges.
Alex Johnson, President
Presidents Office
Community College of Allegheny County
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Deal or No Deal: Negotiating a Learning-Centered Contract
Leadership at Community College of Allegheny County is exhibited through a shared governance system that is grounded in the contract with Local 2067 of the American Federation of Teachers. This session focuses on the negotiations process including meeting state statutes, pre-negotiations planning, approach for negotiations, ratification, and orienting the college community to the contract. Changes related to the assessment of student learning are also featured.
John Dziak, Assistant Professor
Biology
Community College of Allegheny County
Mary Frances Archey, Vice President
Student Development
Community College of Allegheny County
Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Educating in a Sustainable Environment
The Illinois Community College Sustainability Network is establishing statewide Sustainability Centers to provide communities with program and resource information. Come learn how focusing on sustainability has led to curriculum and workforce development in addition to LEED certification for capital projects.
Bert Jacobson, Dean
Environmental and Institutional Sustainability
Kankakee Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Effective Meetings: Practicing Quality in Communication
A nod, a yawn . . . another meeting. But wait! Meetings can be improved. Waukesha County Technical College’s process improvement approach (Plan/Do/Study/Act) maximizes the time and effort of planning, conducting, and following up on meetings. Participants incorporate quality tools (i.e. consensus tools, tree diagrams, radar charts, feedback techniques) into everyday meetings.
Jill Metzger, Coordinator
College Advancement
Waukesha County Technical College
Mary Poehls, Quality Facilitator and Corporate Trainer
Center for Quality and Innovation
Waukesha County Technical College
Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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Establishing a Sustainability Office: From Task Force Initiation to an Operating Office
This session guides participants through the establishment of a sustainability office. Addressed are task forces, focus areas, recommendations, and developing priorities. The presenters discuss aligning collective input with the goals of the triple bottom line and the college’s guiding principles. Offered is a model for creating a budget and promoting a clearinghouse for proposed projects.
Linda Petee,
Delta College
Mike Finelli, Faculty
Business and Finance
Delta College
Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Everyone Grows: Organizational and Professional Development for All Employees
How does a college invest in significant learning experiences that result in engagement, empowerment, and leadership development for its faculty, staff, and administration? Learn how Delta College’s COS/FCTE offers sustainable, measurable, organizational, and professional development programs to all employees, including innovative for-credit courses.
Thelma Bushong, Director
Delta College
Elaine Karls,
Delta College
Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Extreme Makeover: The College Edition
Taking the institution’s brand from the 1970s to 2008. This is the Lethbridge College rebranding story. Learn how an institution with a stale and dated visual identity created a new and vibrant identity that has translated into a significant competitive advantage. Come discuss the triumphs and tribulations along the way, the importance of collaboration, the research process that validated the change, and the ultimate success of this incredible journey.
Steven Dyck,
Lethbridge College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 1, Casino Level
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Faculty Involvement: What Matters Most?
During this session, what matters most in eliciting and fostering faculty leadership, commitment, and ownership to increase student success is explored. The presenters focus on ongoing lessons from coaches’ work with Achieving the Dream college CEOs, teams, and faculty pertaining to developing a culture of evidence, inquiry, and discovery.
Byron McClenney, Director
Achieving the Dream
The University of Texas at Austin
Margaretta Mathis, Senior Vice President
Roueche Graduate Center
National American University
Julie Phelps, Project Director
Valencia College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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Finding Collegewide Common Ground Using Appreciative Inquiry
Learn about Appreciative Inquiry, an inclusive tool used in shared governance that helps colleges find common ground to productively move forward and take action. Come hear how one college used AI as a strategic planning tool to build on their successes and solve problems, together, from the success perspective. This information is valuable to all educators involved in shared governance.
Joyce Helens, President
St. Cloud Technical and Community College
Jonathan Parker,
St. Cloud Technical and Community College
Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Global Vision With Local Focus: Best Practices in Internationalization
This session is designed to benefit professionals developing or enhancing programs in international education. It includes an overview of Santa Fe Community College’s international education initiative, including a model for collegewide organization and the use of grants to internationalize the curriculum and focuses on best practices in study abroad. Finally, the presenters explore how internationalization is currently finding a natural extension within the college’s sustainability initiative.
Edward Bonahue, Provost and Vice President
Academic Affairs
Santa Fe College
Katie Aiken, Coordinator
Academic Affairs
Santa Fe College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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Going the Distance With Adjuncts: Innovative Solutions to Managing Adjunct Faculty
Are you spending hours providing adjuncts with college and course materials? Are you concerned that adjuncts don’t know what to cover in a course? Participants find out how to help adjunct faculty learn about their college and course requirements. Presenters provide details about how WebCT and Blackboard can be used to develop a general education course template that faculty can use so they don’t have to develop a course from scratch. Participants explore how the faculty information website is used for distributing materials, communication, and sharing best practices.
Barbara Yancy, Chair
Information Technology
The Community College of Baltimore County
Renuka Kumar, Assistant Professor
Applied and Information Technology
The Community College of Baltimore County
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 1, Casino Level
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Graduate Dually Enrolled High School Students and Community College Students Simultaneously
This session explores extending community colleges’ reach to students in public schools. It is designed for administrators searching for new ideas, models, and concepts for growth. The presenters share a model to capture high school students that desire to shine in an accelerated format and simultaneously earn their associate’s degree and high school diploma. Participants identify obstacles and discover ways to enhance relationships and overcome potential pitfalls.
Jeffrey Fields, Dean
Applied Science and Engineering Technology
Patrick Henry Community College
Colin Ferguson, Director
Applied Science and Engineering Technology
Patrick Henry Community College
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Green Richland: Building Sustainable Local and World Community
Richland College’s vision of being the best place to learn, teach, and build sustainable local and world community is achievable through comprehensive strategies to advance social justice and equity, economic vitality, and a healthy environment. The presenters share key college initiatives for achieving sustainability’s triple bottom line.
Carole Lester, Dean
Administration
Richland College
Eddie Hueston, Special Projects Coordinator
Facilities
Richland College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 1, Casino Level
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Help! Adjuncts Everywhere and No Support in Sight
Due to budgetary constraints, an increasing proportion of adjunct instructors are teaching students. Through a structured, multitier approach, part-time faculty can have success equivalent to that of full-time instructors. Strategies include discipline-specific workshops, alternatives to office hours, mentoring by seasoned faculty, and ongoing evidence-based evaluation of these approaches.
Denise Tolan, Chair
English
Northwest Vista College
Anna Harwin,
Northwest Vista College
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Hiring Your Next Technology Leader
Provided are the results and implications of a 2008 higher education technology leadership study. The research captured the background of technology leaders and their perceived effectiveness according to themselves and other members of the institution cabinet. The study provides insight into attributes and circumstances that have an impact on the leader’s effectiveness.
Wayne Brown, Vice President
Extended Education
Excelsior College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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IC3 Certification: Successfully Getting Everyone Computer Literate
To survive and thrive in the 21st century, individuals must have a functional understanding about how and when to use computers. Because digital literacy is vital to success in academic and professional environments, IC3 is the perfect credential for students and employees. Learn how Southwestern Michigan College worked with staff, faculty, students, and community to develop pathways supporting the achievement of IC3 certification for everyone.
Brian Leonard, Dean
Academic Development and Assessment
Southwestern Michigan College
Diane Chaddock, Executive Vice President
Southwestern Michigan College
Elaine Foster,
Southwestern Michigan College
Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Icebergs of Change: Creating a Community College/K-12 Concurrent Enrollment Partnership
This session describes how a Colorado community college and K-12 school district partnered to create a districtwide concurrent enrollment program within nine high schools. Come listen and learn how to chart a course from the leaders who are successfully navigating their ship through the icebergs of change.
Kim Kuster, Dean
College Outreach
Arapahoe Community College
Diane Hegeman, Vice President
Instruction
Arapahoe Community College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Improving Operational Efficiency by Reducing Curriculum Development and Approval
The curriculum development and assessment office, which coordinates the curriculum development and approval process, took on a process improvement challenge in 2004 to reduce cycle time. The multidimensional approach included implementing technology, process improvement and development, and support and training. This project received the 2008 Innovation of the Year Award for Cuyahoga Community College.
Kathy Telban, Director
Curriculum Development
Cuyahoga Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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Inclusive Strategic Planning: Getting Institutional Buy-In
Discuss inclusive strategic planning development and implementation. A case study looks at moving from a bare-bones framework to a fully developed plan that considered self-study; assured linkage and guidance between plan, mission, values, and goals; and guided program and curricular development and outcomes. Come discuss how campuses can work to assure campuswide collaboration and constituent representation.
Cecelia Connelly-Weida, Associate Dean
Planning and Assessment
Lehigh Carbon Community College
Donald Snyder, President
Presidents Office
Lehigh Carbon Community College
William Davison, President
Presidents Office
The Davison Group Inc.
Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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Increasing Your College’s Impact on the Community
The presenters provide strategies to increase colleges’ impact as economic stimulus packages. Participants gain a better understanding about how colleges can affect their communities and learn ways to capitalize on their position in the community. This session will particularly benefit presidents and workforce development, institutional research, and marketing personnel.
Gabriel Rench, Director
Business Solutions
Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc.
Henry Shannon, President
Chaffey College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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Instruction and Student Services: Friends or Foes?
This session begins by examining a case study in which a student services support program fails due to the lack of engagement from the instructional division. Participants develop new strategies and tactics for developing partnerships between student services and instructional faculty. Finally, participants share strategies for campuswide ownership of performance-critical student support programs.
Duncan Burgess, Director
WorkSource
South Seattle Community College
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Instructor Preparation Academy: An Investment in Your Future
Do you have a vested interest in seeing new faculty move from novices in the classroom toward master educators? Find out how to use a campuswide team to evaluate your development program and create a three-year instructor preparation academy and about the successes our faculty are experiencing.
Sandy Ryczkowski, Vice President
Human Resources
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Amy Mangin, Coordinator
Staff and Organizational Development
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Leader Formation Curriculum Development Strategies
This session is designed for educators responsible for developing leader formation programs. The presenters review three unique curriculum models that include community college competencies, leadership strategies and development, and college core indicators.
A sample curriculum is provided.
Susan Scaggs, Vice President
Jefferson Davis Campus
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Joan Haynes, Vice President
Instruction and Student Services
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Leader Formation: An Essential Piece of Community College Success
This session is designed for educators responsible for the development and implementation of leader formation programs. The presenters outline a model used for the past three years at one community college and highlight its essential pieces. How this leader formation program uniquely feeds into a regional leadership initiative is also discussed.
Susan Scaggs, Vice President
Jefferson Davis Campus
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Joan Haynes, Vice President
Instruction and Student Services
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Doris Carver, Vice President
Continuing Education
Piedmont Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Making Ends Meet: Seven Habits Render Success So Sweet
Success is the energy of education, the intertransmission of knowledge and awareness between instructors and students. Discover how Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Successful People can be practiced. Participants provide ways to be proactive, begin with the end in mind, share understanding, conceive mutually beneficial solutions to problems, balance self-satisfaction, prioritize, and synergize their college’s scheduling, curriculum design, and learning environments.
Katherine Watson, Professor
Distance Learning
Coastline Community College
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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More Textbooks, Less Cost: Open Doors With Open Content
Headlines have touted the promise of open educational resources efforts to provide a solution to the high cost of textbooks. Participants learn about a one-year feasibility study by the Community College Open Textbook Project to test various approaches to sustainability. Educators seeking to lower the educational costs for students will benefit by learning about the pitfalls to avoid.
Judy Baker, Dean
Foothill Global Access
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Martha Kanter, Under Secretary of Education
U.S. Department of Education
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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NACCTEP: Preparing Future Teachers Across America
The National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs promotes the community college role in the recruitment, preparation, retention, and renewal of diverse pre-K-12 teachers and to advance quality teacher education programs in community colleges. This presentation includes information about association initiatives, data on the recent teacher education profile survey, the newly developed online faculty professional development modules, publications, national advocacy, scholarships, and the national conference. This presentation is for anyone supporting community college teacher education.
Ray Ostos, Executive Director
Marketing
National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs (NACCTEP)
Pam Asti, Executive Assistant
National Center for Teacher Education
National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs (NACCTEP)
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 3, Casino Level
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P-16 Partnership Initiative: Bridging the Gap
This session explores the collaborative partnership initiative between Truckee Meadows Community College and Washoe County School District. Participants experience a demonstration of educational technologies that have promoted collaboration across P-16 such as virtual world, podcasting, digital video, and online learning. Educators looking to develop their own P-16 initiative leave with processes and activities to do so.
Fred Lokken, Associate Dean
Webcollege
Truckee Meadows Community College
Cathy House, Professor and Instructional Designer
Computer Technologies
Truckee Meadows Community College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Passion, Purpose, and Partnership: Building Organizational Leadership Through Service Learning
This session shares the experience of Reach Out to Nova Scotia where nearly 10,000 students and 1,600 staff of Nova Scotia Community College in one day engaged in over 300 volunteer community projects across Nova Scotia. The presenters identify how this service learning event can engage citizenry, uncover passionate leadership in all areas of the college, and leave an institution wanting more! Through discussion and discovery, participants discuss creating a similar rewarding experience at their own institutions.
Craig Collins, Principal
Lunenburg Campus
Nova Scotia Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 4, Casino Level
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Pathway Collaborations: From Early High School to the Technical Baccalaureate Degree
Learn how 14 school districts, a career and technical high school, a community college, and a remote state university deliver a seamless multiple entrance/exit/dual enrollment/credit system of high school diplomas, technical associate degrees, and a baccalaureate in engineering technology. Key success factors, lessons learned, and results to date are shared.
Jeffery Gibbs, Dean
Business and Engineering Technology
Zane State College
Larisa Harper, Director
College Tech Prep
Zane State College
Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Personality Plus! Where Knowledge is Power
Participants learn about the four primary personality types, personality blends, and how knowledge of this information will improve their decision making and relationships. This information is practical knowledge that will benefit anyone in the organization from custodians to the CEO.
Roger Bingham, Vice Chancellor
Student Affairs
Ivy Tech Community College
Roundtable Discussion
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Preparing for the Silver Tsunami: Development of a Geriatric Training Center
Our college completed an environmental scan to determine the educational needs of the aging population. Discussed are the process used to determine the geriatric focus areas and progress made thus far. This session is appropriate for anyone looking to the future and the geriatric population boom.
Kay Tupala, Dean
Health Sciences
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Professional Learning Communities: Connecting Secondary and Higher Education
This presentation describes the planning and process of developing a successful professional learning community (PLC) between high schools, vocational education schools, and a community college in an effort to create standardized curriculum to be used by all schools involved in the process. Insight is provided into the process used to create a positive learning environment in which curriculum mapping, differential instruction, information literacy, and assessment is collaboratively developed. Creating a successful transition through the educational pipeline from high school to higher education is a positive outcome of this PLC.
Mary Ann Westerfield, Division Chair
Healthcare
Cumberland County College
Thomas Isekenegbe, President
Cumberland County College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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Professional Learning: Your Time, Your Place
Staff development and training is at a new frontier, offering customizable training solutions, cost-efficient learning, and training on demand. A well-designed program, training seminar, or workshop that has defined learner outcomes is interactive, engages the learner, and provides take-away skills. Discussions include the benefits of online staff development. Participants can enroll in an online staff development workshop as a follow-up to this session.
Kathy Becker, President
Training
Company of Experts.net
James Pulliam, Chief Executive Officer and President
FINTELO
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Ratcheting Up: Partnerships Using Distance Technology to Enhance College Readiness
This session will actively engage participants in a demonstration of several of the activities developed and implemented by the Center for College Readiness. The Center’s projects, which include Step Write Up, Ready or Not Writing, and Math Works, allow college faculty to collaborate with K-12 teachers and students using interactive distance technologies and enhanced curriculum to improve the college readiness.
Don Drummond, Faculty
Mathematics
Minnesota State Community and Technical College
Michael Cary, Director
Center for College Readiness
Minnesota State Community and Technical College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Rebranding for Equity Through the Signature Learning Experience
This session presents a leadership strategy for meeting the challenges of a changing environment. The Signature Learning Experience involves a social justice course called Global Citizenship: From Social Analysis to Social Action taken by all diploma students, completion of a portfolio required for graduation documenting equity competencies, the embedding of equity principles across the college, and enhancement of the professional development function throughout the organization. Increase your toolkit by joining our discussion of rebranding, the developmental process, key learning components, implementation plans, and business results in domestic and foreign markets.
Margaret Brigham, Dean
Office of Equity
Centennial College
Vicki Bismilla, Vice President
Academic and Chief Learning Officer
Centennial College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Redesigning Curriculum to Enhance Fiscal Sustainability and Student Engagement
Maximizing student interaction with faculty and peers is critical to student engagement and success. With examples from automotive technology and computer science, the presenters discuss the redesign of programs and courses, with the goal of increasing interactive learning while simultaneously enhancing fiscal sustainability and quality of employee work life.
Sonya Christian, President
Bakersfield College
Jim Bailey, Instructor
Computer Information and Technology
Lane Community College
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Reflection on Retirement
Does the idea of retirement cross your mind more and more frequently these days? For many, thoughts about retirement bring up mixed emotions and conflicting scenarios of life without the job that has defined us and shaped our daily routine for many semesters. Please plan to join us if you would like to join a community of colleagues trying to make sense out of the myriad feelings surrounding the topic of retirement.
Sue Jones, Professor
Cultural Studies, Peace Studies, and Psychology
Richland College
Ann Faulkner, Co-Director
Center for Renewal and Wholeness in Higher Education
Richland College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 5, Casino Level
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Rio Salado College’s Community Partnership Approach to Intergenerational Learning
The Rio Salado College Lifelong Learning Center produces an innovative approach to lifelong and intergenerational learning. The college partners with human services (Interfaith Community Care) and municipal services (Surprise, Arizona) to offer their customers educational opportunities based on the community’s needs and focused on producing social beneficence.
Todd Aakhus, Director
Community Partnerships
Rio Salado College
Michelle Dionisio, President
Administration
Interfaith Community Care
Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Seeing the Community in Community College in New Ways
How often do we think about the meaning of community in community college? At the Community College of Baltimore County, our vision says community is paramount. Session participants leave with a broader sense of the word community and unique ideas they can apply at their own institutions.
Al Starr, Campus Dean
Administrative Services
The Community College of Baltimore County
Carol Sullivan, Campus Dean
Dundalk
The Community College of Baltimore County
Tonja Ringgold, Dean
Administrative Services
The Community College of Baltimore County
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 1, Casino Level
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SNAP Into Action With a Multicampus Emergency Notification System
Security Notification Alert Process (SNAP) has been implemented at over 67 college campuses to deliver instant text and audio notification through email, telephone services, cell phone text messaging, and instant computer screen warnings. The SNAP system is demonstrated and discussed and recent lessons learned in our ever-changing world of security are provided. The material will benefit anyone concerned about campus security and instant notification.
Bob Hammonds, Director
Homeland Security
Kentucky Community and Technical College System - KCTCS
Donna Roark, Cheif Information Officer
Hazard Community and Technical College - KCTCS
Bart Massey, Webmaster
Hazard Community and Technical College - KCTCS
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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So You Want to Be a President! Are You Ready?
This session focuses on helping senior administrators determine their interest in becoming college presidents. Strategies for assessing readiness for the presidency are explored, as is how to gain experience in weaker areas before applying for the position. Timing factors to be considered when considering a CEO position are also discussed.
Brenda Beckman, Senior League Consultant
League for Innovation in the Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 2, Casino Level
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Still Partying Like It’s 1999? Enhancing the Value of Online Learning
Are you still partying like it’s 1999? Responding to changes in evolving fields such as online learning can be challenging when paradigm shifts in thinking are required at all levels of an institution to accommodate the change. This session shares one college’s success in affecting change through an institutionwide distance learning strategic planning process.
Christina Royal, Associate Vice President
eLearning and Innovation
Cuyahoga Community College - Metropolitan Campus
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 2, Casino Level
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Strengthening Your Leadership Team
College leadership teams are building on their strengths to turn frustration into empowerment, become informed risk takers, support and protect each other, improve success in student retention and enrollment, increase the success of capitol campaigns, and turn challenges into creative opportunities. Participants engage in a miniversion of a leadership retreat with a future focus.
Kathy Becker, President
Training
Company of Experts.net
James Pulliam, Chief Executive Officer and President
FINTELO
Roundtable Discussion
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Succession Planning: Strategies for Positive Transition
Why does one executive transition bring out the best in an institution while another fails and plunges a college into chaos? Are there strategies institutions can undertake to ensure stability during leadership change to leverage new energy for innovation and to preserve their essential and positive culture? Examined are how institutional self-knowledge and self-reflection define the characteristics and selection of leadership and institutional culture, professional development, and institutional systems foster stability and innovation in the midst of leadership change.
Pam Eddinger, President
Presidents Office
Moorpark College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 2, Casino Level
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Sustainability at Johnson County Community College: Greening the Campus and the Community
This session examines the sustainability movement at Johnson County Community College from initial grass roots efforts through the creation of a Center for Sustainability. Topics include lessons learned, bringing different on- and off-campus constituencies together, avoiding green washing in favor of measurement, and benefits to the institution.
Jay Antle, Professor
Center for Sustainability
Johnson County Community College
Deborah Williams, Associate Professor
Environmental Science
Johnson County Community College
Tim Gelvin, Executive Director
Corporate Outreach
Johnson County Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 2, Casino Level
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Teaching Excellence: Our Road to the Future
This session provides an overview of Humber Colleges’ mandatory two-year professional development program that exposes new full-time faculty to the multilayered responsibilities of teaching in a postsecondary institution. The various courses, activities, and assignments, all of which are geared to maximizing their teaching effectiveness, are described.
Patricia Hedley, Director
Professional Development
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Deborah Dunbar, Director
Organization and Staff Development
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 2, Casino Level
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Ten Reasons Why You and Your College Need to Change
Administrators and faculty leaders need to see what changes are on the horizon in order to react and plan. Join us to learn the 10 coming trends that will affect your college in the future. Come discuss these challenges and develop your own take-home strategy to turn tomorrow’s crisis into opportunity. A white paper on the topic will be provided.
Ellen Long, Director
Ed2Go
Cengage Learning, Inc.
William Flynn, Managing Director Emeritus
National Council For Continuing Education And Training
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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The Challenge of Change: Reinvigorating a Student Learning Outcomes Initiative
This session highlights the challenges of organizational change required to initiate and sustain a student learning outcomes initiative. The presenters highlight the results of using an organizational model of change developed by Harvard professor John Kotter. Participants apply the model to their own settings. This session will benefit college leaders looking for workable models of change to jumpstart or to reinvigorate a student learning outcomes initiative or other forms of deep and pervasive organizational change.
Kristeen Abrahamson, Dean
Liberal Arts and Sciences
Santa Rosa Junior College
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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The Changing Nature of Leadership in the Community College
What is your institutional approach to succession planning? An empowering approach to leadership involves supporting and diversifying leadership. During this interactive session, participants discuss ways to ensure that the leadership selection process is widely inclusive and identify organizational frameworks and strategies for implementing succession planning within their respective institutions.
Kimberly Spoor, Chair
School of Education
Capella University
Kathryn Campbell, Faculty Chair
Education
Capella University
Generosa Lopez-Molina, Dean
Academic Foundations
Lorain County Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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The I.D.E.A. Behind Accountability: Building Your Own New and Improved Planning Process
Quite often at colleges, there is a disconnect between the strategic planning process and daily operational affairs. The hoopla surrounding planning and building activities and the production of slick planning documents fail to translate into the normal job routines of faculty and staff. Participants learn how to build an institutional planning process that reconnects operational initiatives with strategic goals. They also gain experience using new advances in technology that facilitate the creation, implementation, tracking, and assessment of plans.
Dana Grove, President
Morton College
Sandra Warner, Director
Administrative Computing Services
Johnson County Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Carson 3, Casino Level
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The Theory, Application, and Result of Eight Years of Formation
Does formation make a difference in work environments, college cultures, or classrooms? Does it translate outside the academy? Framed within the scholarship of transformative learning, this session addresses these questions through the sharing of eight years of experience and research with formation at Grand Rapids Community College.
Frank Conner, Professor
Center for Teaching and Learning
Grand Rapids Community College
Judy Jankowski, Professor
Center for Teaching and Learning
Grand Rapids Community College
Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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The Wonderful World of Wiki for a Successful Accreditation Self Study
By using the open-sourced platform used by Wikipedia, Las Positas College was able to write, post drafts and open-edit our Self Study. We were able to increase participation, communication, and transparency in garnering broad-based input. Participants will learn about why we decided to use this exciting new technology, as well as some of the logistical issue we encountered.
Laurel Jones, President
Mission College
Jeff Sperry, Support Specialist
Business Technology
Las Positas College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Using the League’s Consulting Services to Develop a Collegewide Strategic Technology Plan
Session participants learn how Shelton State Community College used the League for Innovation’s consulting services to assist in the development of a collegewide strategic technology plan. This session provides an overview of the technology consulting process along with an understanding of expectations and benefits.
Steve Fair, Interim President
Administrative Services
Shelton State Community College
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Visual Arts and Technology Programs: A New Paradigm
At many colleges and universities, computer graphics and digital media programs were developed and placed in departments outside of traditional visual art programs. Rapidly changing digital media programs often evolve in a way that finds the foundation concepts of visual design, art history, creativity, and effective visual communication taking a back seat to software applications. Participants learn how this situation was addressed at the Community College of Baltimore County with the creation of a new Institute of Art, Design, and Interactive Media.
Michael Netzer, Dean
Applied and Information Technology
The Community College of Baltimore County
Hal Rummel, Chair
Institute of Art Design and Interactive Media
The Community College of Baltimore County
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Web-based Program Review: Could it Work at Your College?
The presenters share a new web-based program review process, explain the benefits and challenges of the system, and demonstrate various features. Participants have the opportunity to discuss their own challenges with program review and whether a web-based system would be useful in their own settings.
Mary Kay Rudolph, Vice President and Assistant Superintendent
Academic Affairs
Santa Rosa Junior College
Kristeen Abrahamson, Dean
Liberal Arts and Sciences
Santa Rosa Junior College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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What Leaders Need to Know Now to Improve Student Engagement and Success
Seven years of Center for Community College Student Engagement research reveal two key factors (high expectations and high support) college leaders can use to improve student engagement and success. How can college presidents, vice presidents, deans, and directors make sure these factors are present, visible, accessible, and unavoidable within their institutions? Come learn about promising practices, policies, and programs from colleges that are using high expectations and high support to help more of their students reach their educational goals.
Karla Fisher, Interim President
Academic Affairs
Butler Community College
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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What the Bleep Do We Know and Where the Bleep Do We Put It?
Institutional repositories collect, preserve, and showcase the intellectual output of academic institutions. This presentation assists academic leaders develop the appropriate timeline for planning and implementing a digital scholarly content preservation program for their respective colleges. The presenters outline the history of institutional repositories, project design, software, and the unique benefits and challenges for community colleges.
Judi Guzzy, Associate Professor and Librarian
Academic Support
Johnson County Community College
Barry Bailey, Associate Professor and Librarian
Library and Digital Projects
Johnson County Community College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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What’s Staff Got to Do With Student Success?
Following an extensive review of student services using an external consultant, it was decided to initiate a complete redesign of all student services including reorganization of college leadership and the design of a staff intranet. This 40-year-old, large, urban multicampus community college is redesigning student services in a big way. Join us to discuss the opportunities and challenges we are facing as we tackle this three-year project.
Lorraine Morales, Assistant Vice Chancellor
Student Development
Pima County Community College District
Brigid Murphy, Vice President
Pima County Community College District
Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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When the Media Attacks: Survival Stories From the Field
At a New Jersey community college, an adjunct instructor emailed a student denouncing her beliefs and the Iraq war, explaining how he would shame her student club off campus. The student scheduled appearances on FOX national news. The president and his assistant share personal threats, crisis plan implementation, fiscal costs, staff development, and public relations management strategies.
William Austin, President
Warren County Community College
Tina Kolodzieski, Executive Assistant
President's Office
Warren County Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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Advancing Frontline Workers Through Community College and Employer Partnerships
This session explores how work-based learning introduces community colleges to the opportunity to deliver education in a nontraditional way. Participants hear about one community college’s experience integrating a work-based learning training component into their curriculum in partnership with a behavioral health center in their community. Community college administrators, instructors, and others will benefit from this strategic discussion about the promise of this approach, as well as the importance of securing stakeholder buy-in for successful implementation of the program.
Maria Flynn, Program Director
Building Economic Opportunity Group
Jobs for the Future
Frederick Rocco, Dean
Bristol Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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A Model Program for Bioscience Workforce Training
Cuyahoga Community College conducted a survey to identify the need for Bioscience Workforce Training, defined as the design, manufacturing, and distribution of medical devices and pharmaceutical drugs. The results of the survey indicated that 420 companies employing 20,200 individuals in Northeast Ohio at an average salary of $47,563 per year met the definition. This session describes the study, the goals of the Bioscience Workforce Training Center, the technical training approach, the equipment used for training, and industry involvement.
John Gajewski, Executive Director
Workforce and Economic Development Division
Cuyahoga Community College - Unified Tech Center
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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A Proven Model for Enhanced Student Transitions: A Success Story at Sinclair Community College
Learn how Sinclair Community College got involved in the College and Career Transitions Initiative (CCTI), internalized it, and developed steps to improve the five outcome areas of CCTI. What was the role of the CEO and other administrators? What were the barriers that had to be overcome? Learn what the future holds in store in terms of actions, staffing, and new projects. Discussion also focus on projections for decreasing remediation and increasing retention and what this mean for economic development in the region.
Ronald Kindell,
Sinclair Community College
David McDaniel, Project Manager
Tech Prep
Sinclair Community College
Steven Johnson, President and CEO
Sinclair Community College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
McKinley Room, Mezzanine Level
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A Unified Workforce Education Pathway for Engineering Technologies
This session shares Florida’s unified and seamless technical education system for engineering technology disciplines. The education pathway begins in high schools and goes through bachelor’s degrees with community colleges playing a critical role. Multiple seamless entry and exit points offer students and incumbent workers maximum flexibility throughout the system. National certifications play a key role in articulation processes. Discussed are the process, statewide buy-in, student recruitment, and barriers to success.
Marilyn Barger, Executive Director
Hillsborough Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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AA Regional Partnership to Meet Critical Workforce Issues
Participants learn how Santa Fe College in partnership with other regional community colleges, the University of Florida, and health care providers held two regional health care summits and developed a regional steering committee to foster collaboration and strategies to address recruiting and retaining health care workers, clinical site shortages, and increasing the capacity of nursing programs and other critical health career programs.
Paul Hutchins, Dean
Academic Affairs
Santa Fe College
Joan Suchorski, Associate Vice President
Development
Santa Fe College
Lois Ellis, Director Nursing Programs
Academic Affairs
Santa Fe College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Applying the Apprenticeship Advantage: Preapprenticeship Opportunities to Nontraditional Communities
Participants discuss how recent research and innovative partnerships provide preapprenticeship opportunities to nontraditional communities. The engagement strategy was developed to ensure that nontraditional students have increased access to postsecondary education and are connected to meaningful educational opportunities and sustainable employment. Best practices and success stories are presented.
Kizzy Bedeau, Manager
Community Partnerships and Special Projects
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Rosa Duran, Project Coordinator
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Brenda Pipitone, Director
Community Partnerships and Special Projects
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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BEST: Basic Employability Skills Training
Employers are increasingly frustrated in their search for dependable workers. Absenteeism, tardiness, negativism, and unethical behavior affect productivity and morale and are costly to employers. The Basic Employability Skills Training (BEST) is a modular curriculum focused on the soft skills required to become employees of choice. BEST is appropriate for secondary and postsecondary students and employees seeking to improve their workplace skills. Participants discuss the curriculum and sample several of the activities.
Sally Vonada, Director
Workforce Development
Manhattan Area Technical College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Boost Enrollment in Your Blended-Learning Engineering and Industrial Technology Programs
Come hear the exciting journey taken by four South Carolina Technical Colleges as they collaborated to develop an enterprise-ready regional workforce to support the ever-growing BMW supply chain.
David Just, Vice President
Corporate and Community Education
Spartanburg Community College
Tony Oran,
Spartanburg Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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Career-Focused Dual Enrollment: Partnering to Prepare California’s Future Teachers
Dual enrollment is increasingly popular across the country as a way for high school students to gain college experience and enter a career path. The Concurrent Courses Initiative supports eight secondary and postsecondary partnerships in California designed to implement career-focused dual enrollment. One of the partnerships is implementing a teacher preparation program that is helping young people earn college credit and find their future in education.
Katherine Hughes, Assistant Director
Work and Education Reform Research
Community College Research Center
Dennis Davino, Special Projects Director
Teacher Preparation Educational Interpreter and Paraprofessional Programs
Cypress College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Cisco Students Case Study Designs Network for New Campus
Learn how a case study allowed Cisco Networking Academy students to be involved in the network design for the new West Dallas campus. Participants discover how CCNA and CCNP students used concepts from their new curriculum, gathered information, and presented their findings using Packet Tracer and podcasts.
Bette Plog, Director
Information Technology Institute
Dallas County Community College District
Juanita Marquez, Faculty
Information Technology
El Centro College
Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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Collaboration Works! Strategies for Successful Educator and Business Relationships
Effective partnerships between educators and industry partners are critical to having successful workforce training programs. Discussed are NSF-ATE project and Perkins initiatives focused on developing dynamic training models that incorporate working with businesses and key educational partners. The presenters share lessons learned, samples of materials used to recruit businesses and encourage student participation, and tools used to involve businesses in program improvement and enhancements.
Ellen Hill, Dean
Resource Development
Louisiana Delta Community College
Allison Gault, Chair
Business Services
Louisiana Delta Community College
David Derousse, Coordinator
Career and College Transitions
Louisiana Delta Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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Colleges Launch Program From Convergence Mentoring
To meet the growing need for technicians supporting the converged network and the increasing green IT needs in energy conversation and lessoning of environmental impact, the Convergence Technology Center (CTC) has implemented strategies that help colleges around the country rapidly implement their own convergence program. CTC representatives share how the process has worked for its mentored colleges and how other colleges can benefit from these experiences.
Ann Beheler, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Porterville College
Helen Sullivan, Director
Convergence Technology Center
Collin College
Bette Plog, Director
Information Technology Institute
Dallas County Community College District
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Connecting Education and Business: Preparing Tomorrow’s Workforce
Given the challenges faced by education and workforce today, it is critical that we work together to prepare everyone for success in the 21st century. Join us to learn how to connect education and business, resulting in a stronger workforce tomorrow with better prepared and informed students today.
Scott Vandever, Vice President
Marketing
Kuder, Inc.
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Convergence Technology: The Green IT Solution
Information technology educators find themselves in the middle of an IT and energy technology (ET) revolution called the Energy Internet. How will community college programs be affected by this revolution? What kind of education and career paths will be affected in this merging of IT and ET? The Convergence Technology Center funded by the National Science Foundation is evolving its offerings and the way it prepares educators and students.
Ann Beheler, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Porterville College
Helen Sullivan, Director
Convergence Technology Center
Collin College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Developing a Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Practices
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College has developed a Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Practices that includes individual technical studies degrees, certificates, continuing education, seminars, technology camps, and career academies. This session explores the importance of and process required to facilitate collaborations between business leaders, environmental leaders, and governmental leaders.
Mark Weber, Dean
Trades and Technical
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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Developing Partnerships for Workforce Training That Brings Economic Success
The Mississippi Corridor Consortium developed partnerships and programs that assist in locating $5,000,000 of capital investment since 2004. This session provides information about how the consortium was established and how programs were developed and marketed.
James Williams, Vice President
Economic and Community Services
Itawamba Community College
Nadara Cole, Vice President
Workforce
Northeast Mississippi Community College
Todd Beadles, Director
Community Development
Community Development Foundation
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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Directed Studies in the Work Force for Learner Enhancement
The Millenial Generation coming through our Post Secondary Institution doors, requires us to find new ways of thinking as educators. To prepare them for successful integration into the workforce we need to be creative in our approach. Teaching paradigms need to shift.
Participants will learn how to help students in areas they may not yet have been exposed to, such as: Inter- Social Skills, Team Management and Collegial Decision Making. These skills have become almost a lost art in today’s e-world. Graduates need these skills to survive and mature in the work force. BCIT’s Directed Studies is a dynamic way for educators to help students prepare for careers and for Learning Institutions to forge good relationships with the industry that accepts their graduates.
Anne Marie Webb-Hughes, Program Head
Directed Studies and Part time Studies
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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Embedded Career Services: Delivering the Promise
Presented is an innovative model that assures quality placements for professional-technical students. The WorkSource Career Center partners with instruction to deliver an integrated career skills development program. The design of career services is driven by program faculty. The Embedded Career Services model culminates in with a job offer and placement. In one year, job placements increased 100 percent.
Duncan Burgess, Director
WorkSource
South Seattle Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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Enabling Student and Faculty Success for Green Design and Alternative Energy Occupations
Faculty members share innovative student success and faculty development initiatives that lead to increased student participation in careers related to the green design and alternative energy industry. Participants gain increased knowledge, practical experience, and best practices from faculty from related programs for innovative system design. Educators from institutions interested in creating alternative energy and green design programs will benefit from this session.
David Wilson,
Lansing Community College
Howard Dillman, Director
Livingston County Center
Lansing Community College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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Enhancing Mathematics and Science Rigor Through Evidence-Based Curriculum Projects
Ever-changing workforce requirements mean students need even more sophisticated skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Come explore 62 free curricular projects created under a U.S. Department of Education-OVAE grant and available online. The classroom materials integrate essential math and science topics into agriculture, health science, information technology, manufacturing, STEM, and transportation career clusters.
Scott Hess, Branch Chief
College and Career Transitions
U.S. Department of Education
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
McKinley Room, Mezzanine Level
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Give Students a Leg Up: Professional Business Certifications and Placement
Today, truly preparing students to go out into the work world is a requirement not an option. Lawyers take the bar exam. Physicians take the board exam. Accountants take the CPA exam. There are now options for the general business arena. During this session sponsored by Pearson Learning Solutions, learn directly from the President and CEO of the Association of Professionals in Business Management exactly how professional business certifications can assist today’s students enter the business world.
Devi Vallabhaneni, President and Chief Executive Officer
The Association Of Professionals In Business Management
Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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Green Pathways: Using the Existing Skills of Dislocated Workers to Transition into Green Jobs
The latest economic stimulus plan includes substantial investments in "green" projects such as building retrofitting for energy efficiency, alternative energy (wind, solar, hydro), and environmentally friendly manufacturing. While many workers are being laid off, demand for green jobs is increasing. This interactive session presents a framework for (1) identifying and profiling the dislocated workers in your region, (2) mapping those workers to the most compatible "green" occupations, and (3) assessing skill similarities and skill gaps along with any other barriers to transitioning.
Isaac Grauke, Vice President
Customer Solutions & Consulting
Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc.
Gary Saganski, Director
Corporate Training and Skilled Trades
Henry Ford Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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Increasing the STEM Pipeline: Building Seamless Pathways to STEM Careers
This session describes the evolution of a system designed to significantly increase the number and success of students aspiring to science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM) careers. Presenters describe a series of successful strategies to recruit and motivate students, engage them in a STEM program of study, seamlessly transition them from one educational institution to another, and to support them along their journey. Participants leave the session with information about how to fund and build a successful STEM pipeline.
Robert Driggs, Dean
Mathematics and Science
Kirkwood Community College
Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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Industry Demand for Entry-Level IT Employees and the Role of Community College IT Programs
Community colleges were in the forefront with the development of IT programs a decade ago, but are they working hard enough to get jobs for their students? This session covers preliminary findings from a research and action study examining the hiring requirements for entry-level information technology jobs and industry demand for community college IT degree programs in Seattle and Detroit. Researchers from the Community College Research Center and the National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies share research findings and faculty from Macomb Community College and Bellevue Community discuss their experiences with working with industry.
Sandra Mikolaski, Consultant
Stem Education
Independent
James Jacobs, President
Macomb Community College
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Innovative Strategies: Career Center and Faculty Collaboration
Often career centers and faculty act independently. Participants learn the strategies that are used between the career center and faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf that led to successful co-op and permanent employment for students and graduates. Strategies discussed include the co-op visitation program, the job fair, the job search course, employer development, and faculty involvement.
John Macko, Director
Rochester Institute of Technology
Ronald Till, Associate Professor
Industrial and Science Technologies
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Integrating EHR Competencies Into Your Curriculum
Participants learn how to navigate a state-of-the-art electronic health record system, how to envision and plan for its successful integration into health profession curricula, and how to move the plan from inception to implementation. This session will benefit educational administrators and faculty members associated with health professions educational programs.
Shirley Eichenwald Maki, Assistant Professor
Healthcare Informatics and Information Management
College of St. Scholastica
Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Linking Career Clusters and Industry Standards to Curriculum
With pressure to integrate career clusters and other industry standards into curriculum, frontline educators are left to sort out requirements and build them into courses and programs. Ideally, adapting curriculum involves a clear development process that eases the burden on educators while maintaining quality. Explore a career-focused strategy based on learner knowledge and skill that builds partnerships from K-12 to colleges to business and industry. Examine a tool that brings efficiency to the process. Hear from a frontline practitioner currently meeting such challenges.
Robin Nickel, Associate Director
Worldwide Instructional Design System
Worldwide Instructional Design System
Nancy Chapko, Instructional Designer
Student Learning
Gateway Technical College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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New National Center Puts Student Success as Top Priority
Following a successful five-year College and Career Transitions Initiative, the League for Innovation is establishing a national center to help community colleges lead collaborative efforts to improve students’ ability to transition from one educational level to the next and to be prepared for successful employment. Discussed are how partnerships were created across educational levels and with industry; how to develop pathway templates for a variety of constituents; innovative approaches to communicating with students, parents and faculty; how a self-assessment rubric can help move your programs; and what we’ve learned that can make your life easier.
Larry Warford, Senior Consultant
Workforce
League for Innovation in the Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
McKinley Room, Mezzanine Level
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NSF Support for Community Colleges: The Mid-Pacific Information and Communications Technology Center
This session describes a center funded by the National Science Foundation that brings together industry leaders and educators to improve the quality and availability of ICT education in Northern California, Southern Oregon, Northern Nevada, Hawaii, and the Pacific Territories. The center engages industry and educators to expand experiential learning opportunities, student internships, student mentoring, and service learning. Described are fully articulated education pathways to four-year universities that allow students to obtain a bachelors degree in what has traditionally been an associates level program.
Tim Ryan, Network Manager
Technology Learning Center
City College of San Francisco
James Jones,
City College of San Francisco
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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NSF’s Division of Undergraduate Education: Funding Opportunities for Community Colleges and Partnerships
Undergraduate education is central to NSF’s mission in human resource development. The Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) serves as the focal point for agencywide support for undergraduate education. DUE program activities strengthen and continuously improve the vitality of undergraduate education for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. Funding opportunities for community colleges within DUE in STEM areas are discussed.
Eun-Woo Chang, Instructional Dean
Science, Engineering, and Mathematics
Montgomery College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Our Students and the Workplace Are Changing: Are We?
Today’s community college students and the workplace they’ll work in and support are different. As educators, we want to understand how students learn, and students need to understand the expectations and demands ahead. For a lifetime of success, it’s a marriage between the new and the tried and true.
Pattie Odgers,
Northern Arizona University
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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Partnering With High Schools to Fill the STEM Pipeline
Reacting to shortages of qualified workers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, Cochise College and its high school partners launched the Running Start Academy that provides high school students with an advanced STEM education on the college’s campus without drawing funds away from the public schools.
Ben Berry, Director
Center for Teacher Education
Cochise College
Doris Jensen, Dean
Academic
Cochise College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Partnerships That Work
In collaboration with a hospital system and a secondary partner, Henry Ford Community College developed an accelerated nursing program for hospital employees and a health care-based early college. Learn how these innovative programs created new career opportunities for hospital employees and high school students.
William Barber, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Henry Ford Community College
Katherine Howe, Associate Dean
Nursing
Henry Ford Community College
Ronald Bodurka, Associate Dean
Health Careers
Henry Ford Community College
Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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Peer Mentoring: Collaborative Learning as a Way to Develop a Career Pathways Initiative
This session introduces participants to a peer mentoring project that provides a fast-track, collaborative learning experience for community colleges interested in developing an effective career pathways initiative. Discussions center on the character of the project, its approach to supporting peer learning as a model for professional and initiative development, and the value of learning-based, collegial partnerships for improving student success. Participants are introduced to various tools to support institutionalization and sustainability, including a career pathways action plan, an institutional assessment and sustainability matrix, and a marketing and communications plan.
William Munn, Coordinator
College Mentoring Program
JBL Associates Inc.
Margallee James, Coordinator
Career Pathways and Perkins
Southwestern Oregon Community College
Jacob Sones, Program Manager
Pathways Partnership
Laramie County Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
McKinley Room, Mezzanine Level
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PETRI Project: Optimizing Production Training
Collaboration between regional biotechnology companies and a community college created hands-on training opportunities in two critical biomanufacturing skill areas: aseptic technique and automation control. Open to anyone interested in forming Industry/Education partnerships that boost productivity and minimize turnover of entry-level employees while enhancing the employability of program participants.
Cindy Adams, Project Director
Pipeline for Education, Training, Resources and Innovations (PETRI)
Northampton Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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Regional Collaborations in Skilled Trades Education and Workforce Development
Community colleges must be increasingly flexible in the delivery of training and their ability to cooperate in regional collaborations to meet the needs of a changing economic environment. Learn how Henry Ford Community College is reorganizing its structure and forming regional partnerships to meet the needs of employers and workers.
William Barber, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Henry Ford Community College
Gary Saganski, Director
Corporate Training and Skilled Trades
Henry Ford Community College
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Rubber, Meet Road: Reflections on Piloting a Workforce Readiness Certificate Program
The Workforce Readiness Certificate (WRC) program is changing how faculty and students at Ivy Tech Community College--Central Indiana answer the question, “What does it mean to be job ready?" Lessons learned in piloting the WRC program will interest colleagues committed to graduating students with the technical and professional knowledge and soft skills required for success in today's workplace.
Nancy DiLaura, Executive Director
Academic Affairs
Ivy Tech Community College
Michael Hall, Program Chair
Business
Ivy Tech Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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Shaping Education and Enhancing Learning Through Successful Partnerships
This session introduces participants to the concept of partnerships between higher education, public schools, and business and industry. Participants engage in discussions about how to develop and implement these initiatives and ensure success. Provided is an overview of an award-winning partnership to showcase how other institutions can implement these initiatives.
Marsha Jackson, Associate Vice President
Student Affairs
Erie Community College - SUNY
Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Strategies for Student Transitions: A Success Story at Anne Arundel Community College
Participants learn how the College and Career Transitions Initiative helped to design and implement strategies to successfully transition high school students into next steps, including higher education, and how this model is being applied to other learner populations. The presentation focuses on secondary and postsecondary partnerships, program pathway design and implementation, staffing strategies, integration of student services and instruction, and program sustainability. Leave with important steps for implementing a sustainable model for successful student transition.
Kathleen Beauman, Director
Business Education Partnerships
Anne Arundel Community College
Andrew Meyer, Vice President
Workforce Development
League for Innovation in the Community College
Martha Smith, President (Ret.)
Anne Arundel Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
McKinley Room, Mezzanine Level
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Student Engagement, Parent Participation, and Career Exploration
Participants discuss the results of the Center for Community College Student Engagement and what it means to their colleges. Want more involvement from parents? Learn about the College and Career Exploration Center that provides comprehensive career information for learners of all ages, and how the lack of career orientation assistance and planning can be a major factor in whether students complete a postsecondary program of study.
Marsha VanNahmen, Interim Director
Center for Teaching and Learning
Indiana University - Purdue University Columbus
Kay McClenney, Director
Marketing
Center for Community College Student Engagement
Larry Warford, Senior Consultant
Workforce
League for Innovation in the Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
McKinley Room, Mezzanine Level
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Take a Byte ... and Learn about Storage Technology Education and the EMC Academic Alliance (EAA) Program
The EMC Academic Alliance program was created to address the skills gap resulting from the growing volume and complexity of digital information. The program’s ‘open’ course on Information Storage and Management represents the next wave of in-demand IT expertise. Position your college as an IT thought-leader by joining the program. Offer students a course about technologies such as SAN, NAS and data replication to solve the problems of storage capacity, data availability and data mobility.
Kim Yohannan, Manager
Education Services
EMC Corporation
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 4, Casino Level
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Web 2.0 Career Center: What does it mean, why should you care and how you can be Web2.0 for free!
Web 2.0 Career Center is a career center that reaches more students, attracts more employers, generates revenue, while providing extensive multi-media career content such as career videos and more! Come learn what it means to be Web2.0 for a Career Center, why it’s critical, and how you can get there quickly and for free. Come listen to Top 5 ways Foothill College career center engages its students through Facebook, virtual mentoring, blogging and career networking. Attend if you also have an interest in student workforce certification.
Laureen Balducci, Dean
Counseling and Matriculation
Foothill College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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What this company needs is a good project manager
Every activity that organizations undertake can be considered a project. This presentation outlines the present and future of project management and the need to incorporate it into all curricula, but especially into information technology courses. Come learn why all students, regardless of their chosen curriculum, must be familiar with project management methodology if they expect to be productive employees.
Charles Henion, Instructor
Information Technology
Central Piedmont Community College
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Workforce Skills Certification System: Seattle Project
The Workforce Skills Certification System pilot is creating a certified résumé beta model that will combine and verify individual job seekers’ specific academic and soft skill levels. This model integrates three distinct tools and practices (workforce development curricula, CASAS, and LRI’s AccuVision) into one model to locally certify work readiness.
Duncan Burgess, Director
WorkSource
South Seattle Community College
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Workplace Soft Skills: Measurement, Applications, and Results
Employers, in their discussions with educators, frequently focus on the lack of adequate soft skills among today’s students. Come learn about the development and application of three psychometrically sound soft skill assessments—performance, talent, and fit—and their use in preparing community college students and other job seekers for future careers.
Thomas Kilijanek, Regional Manager
WorkKeys
ACT, Inc.
Gary Nolan, Director
Workforce Services
ACT, Inc.
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Stream4 - Student Services and Activities |
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46 Percent Increase in STEM Retention: How Did They Do That?
Student retention is a national crisis. How did Project Pathways increase retention 46 percent with STEM students? Creative programming and collaboration was the beginning. What techniques and strategies motivated underrepresented students to not only become engaged in STEM, but to stay in school? Join us to find out how females, minorities, and students with disabilities were hooked on college!
Melanie Gill-Shaw, Program Coordinator
NSF STEP
Eastfield College
Carl Knight, Faculty
Science
Eastfield College
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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A Multi-Institution, Online Tutoring Program: Collaboratively Delivering Excellence in Student Services
This session introduces educators to the concept of interinstitutional collaboration in online tutoring. eTutoring.org is a state-sponsored, nonprofit program that assists college students attending 51 participating institutions. The presenters share the program’s model, as well as the pedagogy and the technology developed through the collaborative process.
Carolyn Rogers, Director
Academic Services
Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium
Gregory Fallon, Associate Dean
Academic Services
Passaic County Community College
Alan Mitnick, Associate Professor
English
Passaic County Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Academic Success Kit: Retention Intervention
This session focuses on a complete retention intervention, the Academic Success Kit, based on student development theory with a counseling focus. The program is presented, as are assessment and data from student evaluations and institutional analysis of the GPA change in students who received the intervention versus students who did not receive the intervention.
Melanie Purdy, Counselor
Counseling
Truckee Meadows Community College
Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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Achieving College Transitions: Partnerships That Work
Staff from the Office of Community Partnerships and Special Projects at George Brown College present information on achieving innovative college transitions for nontraditional students through various initiatives that focus on recruitment, an early warning system, and retention. Presenters discuss the importance of partnerships with community agencies as well as organization and college divisions that develop sustainable and dynamic program models.
Kizzy Bedeau, Manager
Community Partnerships and Special Projects
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Rosa Duran, Project Coordinator
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Brenda Pipitone, Director
Community Partnerships and Special Projects
George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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Call Centers That Work: Customer Care in Higher Education
This session shares information about and experiences in the world of call centers at community colleges. Learn how Columbus State Community College increased customer service in admissions, registration, financial aid, academic advising, fee payment, and general information by implementing a call center. Students in the 21st century have different needs and busier schedules. Call centers allow students to access services over the telephone. The presenters describe starting a call center and outline what student services are essential to create a successful customer care unit.
Nina Reese, Director
Telephone Information Center
Columbus State Community College
Barbara Simpson, Supervisor
Telephone Information Center
Columbus State Community College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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College Achievement Program: Serving First-Generation Students Through a Learning Community
This session examines the challenges first-generation, low-income, and developmental students face in pursuing higher education and what educators are doing to guide their success through a learning community and the college achievement program (CAP). Presenters highlight the research that prompted the launch of CAP and the learning community. Strategies used for recruitment, retention, teaching, and improving college access for this student population are discussed.
Kristen Demay, Counselor
Counseling
Truckee Meadows Community College
Patty Avila Porter, Program Coordinator
Truckee Meadows Community College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Comprehensive Diagnostic Testing: A Resource to Reduce First Semester Remediation
This session explores the use of the COMPASS Diagnostics on campus and in collaboration with local high schools as a resource to reduce the number of students placing into remedial course. A demonstration is provided on the customization, administration, and reporting features of the diagnostics.
Pat Schroeder, Director
Student Success Center
College of Southern Maryland
Pamela Murray, Consultant
ACT East Region
ACT, Inc.
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Connecting for Success: Mentoring Teacher Education Students Using Appreciative Inquiry
This session describes a collaborative mentoring program for teacher education students based on the philosophy of Appreciative Inquiry (AI). Mentors from partnering colleges and universities and K-12 teachers participate in workshops to build connections with students using AI. This session includes several useful and interactive demonstrations of these mentoring workshops.
Ann Musgrove,
Title V Teacher Education
Broward College
Glenn Musgrove, Senior Professor
Behavioral Sciences
Broward College
Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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Continuous Improvement, Quality Tools, and Improving Student Services
Continuous quality improvement, flowcharts, affinity diagrams, and outcomes assessment. Confused? Greater accountability and new accreditation models focus on quality improvement. Discover how student services can use tools to improve their admissions, financial aid, and counseling processes and extend individual effectiveness, improve problem solving, and make better decisions regarding processes and systems.
Kevin Pollock, Vice President
Student Services
West Shore Community College
Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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Creating a Campus Climate of Prevention and Preparedness: Recognizing and Responding to Threats of Violence
This session is designed to challenge college administrators to work across departmental and divisional lines to deal with violent incidents and threats of violence on campus. Establishing effective campus threat assessment protocols and educating the campus community how to recognize and respond to threats of violence are presented. Using a behavioral consultation team and threat assessment team is discussed. Specific recommendations about how to educate the campus community on active-shooter survival are also provided.
Lee Struble, Director
Public Safety
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Creative Activities for Underrepresented Student Success in STEM
Project Pathways uses multiple levels of student support to increase the success of underrepresented students in STEM disciplines. Strategies include individualized advisement and case management, financial and academic assistance, and an array of activities designed to create a sense of community amongst STEM students. The success of these tactics is demonstrated in the outstanding retention rate of the target population.
Carl Knight, Faculty
Science
Eastfield College
Melanie Gill-Shaw, Program Coordinator
NSF STEP
Eastfield College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Developing a Competitive Edge by Leveraging Athletics
Discover how integrating a facility like Monroe Community College’s (MCC) PAC Center into the college’s master plan can enrich the student experience, provide benefits to the surrounding community, attract athletes from across the United States and internationally, and ultimately enhance a school’s reputation. The presenters discuss the funding, construction, and benefits derived from the center, a 53,000 square foot recreational and athletic training complex that features top-grade athletic amenities rarely found at community colleges.
Valarie Avalone, Director
Academic Services
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Raymond Shea,
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Discover Your Future Path: Creative Career Awareness and Outreach Strategies
This presentation focuses on career awareness and outreach activities, including creative ways to reach the community and a three-part career awareness event. Participants are provided with a disc that includes the lessons learned and the materials necessary to replicate the activities.
Cindy Burman-Woods, Director
Pathways to Health Careers
Whatcom Community College
Lynnette Wells, Coordinator
Pathways Program
Whatcom Community College
Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Faculty-Student Mentoring Partnerships at Two-Year Colleges
This session is designed to assist faculty, counselors, and others who work with students to increase student success and retention, as well as increase the numbers of math and science majors. The presenter describes the model created by one community college for a mentoring program for female STEM students, its background, benefits, and future goals. The model may be reconstructed for various other groups.
Arminda Wey, Associate Professor
Mathematics
Brookdale Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Fostering Student Success Through a Climate of Collaboration
The presenters discuss how Bucks County Community College created an interdepartmental climate of collaboration that fosters successful online learners. A variety of tools and strategies implemented are detailed, including the course manager system that provides online students with in-depth course information prior to registration and the Technology Learning Center that provides a one-stop student technical support services.
Elizabeth Sette, Director
Technology Learning Center
Bucks County Community College
Jenny Diprimio, Assistant Director
Online Student Services
Bucks County Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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Go Online to Be On Track!
An online orientation to college class was created as a way to share needed information with new students and introduce them to online classes. All new students are required to complete the noncredit online course during their first semester. Topics covered include getting started, welcome to college, student services, academic resources, student life, and life after North Iowa Area Community College. Using email, Web Advisor, degrees, counseling and advising, procrastination, and using technology responsibly are a few of the topics included in the course.
Terri Ewers, Director
Student Services
North Iowa Area Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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Holistic Approach to Student Outreach
Everyone is a stakeholder when it comes to student outreach and retention. Whether you are recruiting for a specific program or providing student services, the goal is to attract and retain students. During this session, learn about a comprehensive model of outreach and retention that anyone on campus can use.
Maisha Haywood-Smith, Outreach Specialist
Student Support Program and Services
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Lyliana Hernandez, Outreach Specialist
Student Support Program and Services
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
MariaElena Apodaca, Outreach Specialist
Student Support Program and Services
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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How an Early Alert System Changed Intervention Strategies
Foothill-De Anza Community College District developed an online early alert system to identify at-risk students as early as the second and third weeks of instruction and to provide an online collaboration tool between instructors and student services personnel. This session presents case studies and how the system is beginning to affect retention and success rates, as well as intervention strategies. A demonstration of the system is provided.
Howard Irvin,
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Lan Tao, Counselor
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Leveling the Playing Field for Underrepresented College Learners Through a Proactive Service Model Partnership
This session takes participants through the development of a learner assistance program that successfully provides individualized academic plans and other support for students with disabilities and multiple barriers. The presenters discuss proposal development, building successful partnerships, funds acquisition, program implementation, and the continued growth and development of services. Participants have an opportunity to scrutinize the successes and challenges of the program and apply lessons learned to their current service models.
Debbie O'Halloran, Chairperson
Counselling and Career Services
Keyano College
Cathy Davis-Herbert,
Keyano College
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Leveraging Student Assessment and Academic Planning: Building a Comprehensive Strategy for Student Success
More than half of the students entering community college require remediation, while close to 50 percent don’t return for a second year. Furthermore, many students who hope to transfer out of community colleges are unable to do so. Attend this session to discuss strategies for improving academic outcomes among community college students. Participants acquire assessment and planning tools to help their students transfer to and succeed in four-year institutions.
Deborah Harmon, Director
Counseling Center
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
Gary Greer, Assistant Dean
University College
University of Houston - Downtown
Dot McGinnes, Coordinator
Assessment Center
Santa Fe College
Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Listening to Students: Creative Tools to Use
Cuyahoga Community College found that one key element of transformation to a student-success-oriented institution is examining processes through the eyes of the students. Join us as we demonstrate The Game of Tri-C Life and hear what students say about services, faculty, courses, other students, and more.
Jennifer Spielvogel, Vice President
Planning and Institutional Effectiveness
Cuyahoga Community College
Karen Miller, Dean
Cuyahoga Community College - Metropolitan Campus
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Make Student Service a Top Priority and Increase Operational Efficiency
Most people in higher education today agree that enhancing the student experience is a priority. However, there are many questions about how to accomplish this. At Delgado Community College (DCC), co-sourcing support has greatly contributed to this effort. During this session, the presenters discuss the evolution of co-sourced support for IT services to launch DCC Live!, a 24/7 comprehensive education services management model.
Arnel Cosey, Campus Provost and Assistant Vice Chancellor
Academic Affairs
Delgado Community College
Thomas Lovince, Assistant Vice Chancellor
Information Technology
Delgado Community College
Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Meeting the Needs of the Returning Combat Veteran to the Campus Community
Presented are strategies used by the Veterans Upward Bound program at Truckee Meadows Community College designed to serve veterans who are low-income, first-generation college students with diverse special needs. Come explore ways these strategies can also be tailored to serve other students with similar needs.
Susan Thomasson, Academic Counselor
Veterans Upward Bound
Truckee Meadows Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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New and Renewed Ideas to Enhance the Experience of Honors Students
This session explores new ideas and traditional practices designed to improve existing honors programs and jumpstart new ones. Come hear about efforts to reinvigorate a 23-year young honors program that uses “Basic Characteristics of a Fully Developed Honors Program” published by the National Collegiate Honors Council. As a result, participation in the program nearly doubled within a year. Topics discussed include administrative structure, curriculum, advising and mentoring, assessment, recruiting, and student engagement.
Eric Meyer, Coordinator
Honors Program / English
St. Louis Community College at Meramec
George Wasson, Campus President
St. Louis Community College at Meramec
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Partnering With Microsoft to Deliver Student Email
The session explores using Microsoft to deliver student email and its value to the student body. Also discussed are the implementation plan, the infrastructure used, features of the solution, its current status, and lessons learned from its implementation.
Mark Doering, Manager
Business System Support
St. Louis Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Pathways to Success: Retention Strategies That Work!
This presentation focuses on retention activities such as mentoring, case management, and family nights implemented based on recent research of best practices in student retention. Participants are provided with a CD-ROM that includes the research that guided these projects, lessons learned, and the materials necessary to replicate the activities.
Lynnette Wells, Coordinator
Pathways Program
Whatcom Community College
Cindy Burman-Woods, Director
Pathways to Health Careers
Whatcom Community College
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Retention and Financial Planning: An Overview, the Program, and Next Steps
One of the major issues identified by students who drop out of community college or who encounter academic difficulty is the lack of financial resources and the need to work. The presenters provide an overview of the extent and nature of financial problems students encounter. Programs, services, and lessons learned during the first year from Bronx Community College’s Office of Financial Planning are described.
Jason Finkelstein, Assistant Dean
Academic Affairs
Bronx Community College - CUNY
Orlando Lopez, Director
Student Development
Bronx Community College - CUNY
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Selection and Implementation of a Prospect Management System for Enrollment Growth
Personalized messages transmitted using carefully selected modes of delivery designed to attract prospective students to credit and noncredit programs in a large competitive market requires customer relationship technology. Selection of a technology partner through a competitive process, development of key implementation strategies, and expected benefits are reviewed. Policy issues, operational approaches, and technology concerns are discussed.
John Grabowski, Assistant Dean
Student Services
Anne Arundel Community College
Thomas McGinn, Director
Admission and Enrollment Development
Anne Arundel Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Student Retention: Issues, Implications, and Strategies for Success
Community college students face many challenges to their persistence in higher education. There’s a lot at stake for students if they don’t succeed. This session discusses the affect college attrition has on the individual, institution, and society, and offers concrete strategies for educators to bolster students and the communities in which they live.
Laurie Snyder, Retention Advisor
Academic Services
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Success is in the Details: College Readiness Testing in High Schools
Do you want to increase the number of incoming students at your institution who are prepared to be successful in college-level courses? Join us for an informative session to learn the benefits of giving college placement tests to students in your local high schools. Shared is how Hennepin Technical College and El Paso Community College expanded their use of ACCUPLACER online testing to develop college readiness testing programs that support and facilitate college admissions processes for local high school students.
Kathie Montognese, Consultant
Higher Ed
American Education Corporation
Kay Lambert,
El Paso Community College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 8, Arcade Level
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Synthesizing Orientation, Advisement, and Registration Programming for New Students
Participants discuss the concept, development, implementation, and assessment of an orientation, advisement, and registration programming model designed to complement a one-stop student services delivery system. The orientation, advisement, and registration model is used as an enrollment and retention strategy. Senior administrators and professional staff will particularly benefit from this discussion.
Julie White, Assistant Director
Student Services
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Corinne Mulhall, Counselor
Student Services
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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The K-16 Bridge Program Creates a Seamless Pathway From Secondary School to College
The K-16 Bridge Program is a unique approach to preparing and transitioning students from K-12 to postsecondary education. Designed by a high school teacher with 29 years of experience, this program works from the inside out with every level of the education process becoming an active participant in preparing students to move beyond high school.
Chris Piercy, Director
Political Science
Victor Valley College
Mary Retterer, RETIRED 7/2010
No Institution
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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They’re Back! Now What? Addressing Our Newest Recruits . . . Veterans
Participants discuss the special needs of the returning service veteran. Topics include an overview of veterans’ programs, educational support, GI funding, transitional issues, and building re-entry skills. This session will benefit faculty, administrators, counselors, and all student services support staff.
Rhonda Goldstone, Outreach Specialist
Student Support Program and Services
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Carmela Xuereb, Veterans Program Coordinator
Student Support Program and Services
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Roundtable Discussion
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Using learner readiness to improve online student retention
In today's economy student retention is important - especially for distance education programs. In this presentation learn how that a community college in Wyoming measures learner readiness and how they use these measurements to identify at-risk students followed by interventions to help these students succeed.
Tara Boozer, Account Manager
Accounts
SmarterServices
Christine Lustik,
Western Wyoming Community College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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Using synchronous technology to deliver virtual tutoring to nontraditional populations
It’s 9:00 p.m.; do your students have access to tutoring services? Learn how to build virtual labs and study groups by utilizing structured collaboration in the virtual space of campus communication systems. Examine how these services provide an added layer of support to nontraditional student populations taking math courses at a rural community college.
Jessica Breidinger, Intervention Specialist
Title III
Treasure Valley Community College
Poster Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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What Can an Early College High School Do for Your College and Community?
Participants discuss the early college high school at Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC). Come learn how a partnership between TMCC and Washoe County School District helps meet college and district goals in attracting first-generation college students and increasing the completion rates in high school and college. Presenters share the results of an advisory board of representatives from the school district, college, and community established to explore the feasibility of restructuring the high school to a 9-12 school.
Susan Mayes Smith, Principal
Early College High School
Truckee Meadows Community College
Estela Levario Gutierrez, Director
Student Support Services
Truckee Meadows Community College
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Women on the Move: Helping Low-Income Working Women Succeed in College
Women on the Move was developed to address the needs of low-income working women and help reduce obstacles to success such as child care, health care, and safe housing. The program combines career development coursework, mentoring, and personal support. Women on the Move was Monroe Community College’s 2008 Innovation of the Year.
Julie White, Assistant Director
Student Services
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Corinne Mulhall, Counselor
Student Services
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Sierra 1 and 2, Mezzanine Level
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Stream5 - Basic Skills and Developmental Education |
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A Teacher-Generated Template for Online Vocabulary Practice
A teacher-generated, self-correcting, online computer program is being developed to provide instruction for deaf college students placed in English language development courses. The program focuses on learning vocabulary words through their word roots in self-paced lessons. The program supplies students and teachers with immediate feedback on the word practice opportunities.
Eugene Lylak, Professor
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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Academic Appeal Process: Facilitating Student Success
This session focuses on newly developed institutional policies and strategies at Erie Community College used to address the challenges of at-risk students. The strategies have improved student success and increased college enrollments. Discussions include the academic standards review process; Fresh Start, a coordinated studies program; the college success skills course; and tracking academic performance.
Marcia Gellin, Assistant Academic Dean
Liberal Arts
Erie Community College - SUNY
Mary Beard, Assistant Academic Dean
Liberal Arts
Erie Community College - SUNY
Roundtable Discussion
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Accelerating Developmental Learning: Using Evidence to Create a Plan and Measure Its Effectiveness
Participants leave this session with a new awareness about issues related to the completion of developmental sequences, a clearer knowledge about programming possibilities to improve completion rates for developmental learners, an understanding of why various interventions are more successful than others, and an interest in examining their data and programming at their home institutions.
Donna McKusick, Dean
Developmental Education and Special Academic Programs
The Community College of Baltimore County
Peter Adams, Professor
Accelerated Learning Program
The Community College of Baltimore County
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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Accelerating the Transition From Basic Skills to College and a Career Pathway Through I-BEST
Learn how to speed the transition to college and careers for adult basic skills students based on the experience of I-BEST, an innovative program that pairs basic skills and career-technical instructors in the classroom to help students gain basic and occupational skills concurrently. I-BEST challenges the conventional wisdom that students must first complete all levels of remediation before they can begin workforce training.
Davis Jenkins, Senior Research Associate
Institute on Education and Economy
Columbia University Teachers College
Tina Bloomer, Project Director
Workforce Education
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Karen Johnson, Dean
Developmental Education Division Office
Edmonds Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Access and Early Success: A Comprehensive Approach to Assist Entering Students
This session provides information about the Developmental Education Initiative at El Paso Community College. At this open-enrollment institution, students have the opportunity to review and refresh their basic skills prior to taking the placement test. A case-management approach is used to help students transition to college, access programs and services, and plan for early success.
Irma Camacho, Director
Student Success
El Paso Community College
Juan Garcia,
El Paso Community College
Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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Are Computer Skills Important in Achieving Academic Success?
This presentation offers an overview of findings about how possessing basic computer skills enhances students’ potential for higher education academic success. Shared is how Hennepin Technical College (HTC) has gone from discussing this issue to full implementation of testing all incoming students’ computer literacy skills. Learn how HTC uses the Computer Skills Placement Test along with ACCUPLACER to provide a more complete guidance picture for incoming students.
Kathie Montognese, Consultant
Higher Ed
American Education Corporation
Roundtable Discussion
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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College Readiness: A Collaborative Approach
Increased college readiness reduces the need for remediation, lowers educational costs, shortens time-to-degree, and increases the overall success rate of Illinois college students. It takes more than a village to address college readiness. Join us and let’s share what can be accomplished when state agencies, community colleges, and high schools work together to create readiness prescriptions for students.
Denise Crews, Associate Dean
Educational Programming
John A. Logan College
Toyin Fox, Director
Educational Programming
John A. Logan College
Leah Winter, Instructor
Educational Programming
John A. Logan College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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College Readiness: Initiatives to Meet the Challenge
Over one-third of high school graduates lack the academic preparation needed for collegiate success. This interactive session looks at six categories of action that colleges can initiate in partnership with high schools and middle schools. The initiatives draw and expand upon a Center of Excellence model at Century College.
Larry Litecky,
No Institution
Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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Developmental Mathematics in a Web 2.0 World
Mathematics remains a daunting challenge to college success for traditional and adult students. How might new media, technologies, and alternative learning modalities expand upon effective practices for reaching these students? How might free web-based resources help support these efforts? Join us as we brainstorm new possibilities for the future.
Terri Rowenhorst, Director
Membership
National Repository of Online Courses
Dani Pedrotti, Director
Member Services
National Repository of Online Courses
Roundtable Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Developmental Summer Bridges: Young Texans on the Road to College
Nationally, large numbers of students enter college needing remediation. Texas is working to change this trend by creating innovative, state-supported developmental summer bridge programs. Several programs are participating in a rigorous evaluation conducted by the National Center for Postsecondary Research. This session offers insight into their models and early results.
Elisabeth Barnett, Senior Research Associate
Community College Research Center
Columbia University Teachers College
Roundtable Discussion
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Digital Bridge Academy: Accelerating the Transition to College for At-Risk Students
Learn how to accelerate the transition to college for at-risk students based on lessons from an innovative program that seeks to help at-risk students get on a path to success in college through an intensive full-time semester of courses that integrate remedial instruction with college-level content. The session features new research on the model’s effectiveness and lessons learned, as well as tools developed for colleges seeking to implement the Digital Bridge Academy approach on their campuses.
Davis Jenkins, Senior Research Associate
Institute on Education and Economy
Columbia University Teachers College
Diego Navarro, Director
Academy for Excellence
Cabrillo College
Craig Hayward, Director
Planning, Research and Knowledge Systems
Cabrillo College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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Innovative Approaches to Remediation: Accelerated and Embedded
This three-part presentation highlights initiatives to create innovative and replicable remediation programs funded by the Lilly Endowment and the Joyce Foundation. Part one describes accelerated remediation in mathematics, reading, and writing; part two describes embedded mathematics in automotive technology; and part three describes embedded reading and writing in early childhood education.
Michael Petty, Adjunct Faculty
Liberal Arts
Ivy Tech Community College
Mark Lammers, Professor
Automotive Technology
Ivy Tech Community College
Susan Jindrich, Professor/Program Chair
Childcare School Office
Ivy Tech Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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It’s a Jungle Out There, But the Classroom’s a Real Bore!
Is your classroom full of sleeping lions? Put the g-r-r-r back in great teaching. Wake up your students and get them to learn. This session provides participants with a handbook of ways to liven up learning in developmental classes. Students get involved in meaningful interaction and invigorating engagement. Session participants engage in various activities they can easily incorporate into their classes.
Joanie DeForest, Faculty
College Preparatory
San Jacinto College - South Campus
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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Learning Communities: A Promising Strategy for Developmental Education Students
Currently, there is great enthusiasm for using learning communities as a strategy for developmental education. But are they effective? Experts from the National Center for Postsecondary Research (NCPR) review the current state of knowledge regarding interventions for developmental education students, and the evidence on learning communities in particular. A practitioner from a college in NCPR’s national learning communities study leads a discussion about the different learning communities models and the challenges to implementing them.
Thomas Bailey, Director
Community College Research Center
Columbia University Teachers College
Mary Visher, Associate
Young Adults and Postsecondary Education Policy Area
MDRC
Donna McKusick, Dean
Developmental Education and Special Academic Programs
The Community College of Baltimore County
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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Learning, Literacy, and Leonardo: Teaching Writing Through Art
This interactive session explores various ways in which the visual arts may be used to reinforce teaching and learning, especially in developmental writing courses. Masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture are shown as parallels to issues of structure, form, theme, content, grammar, and symbolism in the art of writing.
Michael Nealon, Professor
Humanities and Performing Arts
Lansing Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Options for Developmental Reading and Writing Students
Through the support of a Title III grant, the English department at Raritan Valley Community College redesigned its developmental reading and writing courses. The hallmark of the overwhelmingly successful redesign was that it allowed students different paths to credit-level composition courses. This session shares the results of the redesign and offer suggestions for colleges looking for new ways to offer developmental reading and writing.
Christine Pipitone Herron, Associate Professor
English
Raritan Valley Community College
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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The Art of Developmental Teaching: Successfully Mentoring Adjuncts
From the points of view of a department chair and a full-time professor, discussed is the essential role full-time faculty play in mentoring adjunct professors, particularly in developmental education. How is the mentoring process organized? How are adjuncts assessed? How can we help adjunct professors maximize their effectiveness in the classroom? How can we foster open, lasting, fruitful relationships with our adjunct professors? Although the focus is developmental educators, the basic principles cross departmental lines.
Laurel Severino, Associate Professor
Academic Foundations and Reading
Santa Fe College
Carole Windsor, Chair
Academic Affairs
Santa Fe College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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You Can’t Afford Not to Do Things Differently, and Here’s Why
Think that your nontraditional developmental education program can’t be expanded because it costs too much? This session demonstrates how to think differently about doing things differently, using an approach that’s been tested on a variety of innovative developmental education programs from a number of different states.
Robert Johnstone, Senior Research Felllow
Rp Group
Completion By Design Assistance Team
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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Stream6 - Resource Development and Foundation Management |
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Creating Change for Our Communities
Community colleges are the first line of defense in our civilized society. Community college leaders are reinvigorating community by bringing together community leaders, businesses, and their college communities to hold critical conversations and develop plans for creating nurturing environments that foster learning. This session describes the movement underway by college, community, and business leaders to regain our competitive edge by joining together.
Kathy Becker, President
Training
Company of Experts.net
James Pulliam, Chief Executive Officer and President
FINTELO
Roundtable Discussion
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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How to Make the Accreditation Self-Study Process Pay Off
Facing or completing an accreditation self-study and interested in finding resources to address the resulting revelations and recommendations? Learn strategies to guide your institution through these complicated processes and how one community college used the outcomes from their highly participatory and well-organized self-study to acquire a $1.92 million U.S. Department of Education Title III grant.
Beth Nichols, Director
Grants and Strategic Initiatives
Edmonds Community College
Eva Smith, Instructor
Computer Information Systems
Edmonds Community College
Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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NSF Funding Opportunities: Writing Effective Proposals
This session demonstrates how to create more effective proposals for submission to the National Science Foundation. Presenters provide a deeper understanding of the components of an excellent proposal and analyze portions of proposals as a tool for giving context to abstract ideas. Participants may bring a proposal for analysis.
Eun-Woo Chang, Instructional Dean
Science, Engineering, and Mathematics
Montgomery College
Special Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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Reaching Out: The Kirkwood Community College and Mark Twain Connection
Mark Twain, an elementary school located less than two blocks from Kirkwood Community College (KCC), asked for help improving the achievement level of their students in science. The KCC science faculty, enthusiastic about working with the Mark Twain students, developed support programs for their science curriculum at the third- and fourth-grade level and started an after-school club to help older students. Come learn how the process and support programs developed, as well as how the after-school science club works.
Beatrice Curio-Penny, Science Lab Specialist
Iowa City
Kirkwood Community College
Dale Simon, Associate Vice President
Iowa City
Kirkwood Community College
Lynne Zeman, Assistant Professor
Accounting
Kirkwood Community College
Poster Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada Foyer, Arcade Level
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Students’ Voices Are the Loudest: Involving Your Students in Advocacy for State Higher Education Funding
In an era of ever-tightening funding for community colleges, this session reports on a unique partnership between the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now and New Mexico adult basic education (ABE) administrators and practitioners who provided advocacy training to community college students. The result was ABE day at the state legislature and $150,000 in additional funds. Participants learn how to engage students, particularly low-income students, in efforts to secure funding so their higher education needs can be met.
Katherine Hughes, Assistant Director
Work and Education Reform Research
Community College Research Center
James Jacobs, President
Macomb Community College
Bonnie Greathouse,
Nevada Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Using Mobile Labs to Increase Course Enrollment
Learn how to replace archaic hard-wired computer labs with a more versatile and cost-effective mobile IT classroom.
Peter Jauss, Director
Sales
PARAT Solutions
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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Stream7 - Research, Assessment, and Accountability |
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An Assessment Data Package Faculty and Administrators Can Use
Once a college develops an assessment process that gathers student learning achievement data, the next obstacle is communicating information back to the faculty and administration in a usable manner. Butler Community College has devised a reporting and response system that completes the feedback loop and makes improvement through meaningful assessment possible across the institution. This session will benefit educators who want to build an assessment program that affects instruction and student learning.
Phil Speary, Director
Assessment
Butler Community College
Theresa Pacitti, Specialist
Assessment
Butler Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Assessment and Life (or Death) After Your Accreditation Visit
An accreditation visit should encourage assessment efforts. However, don’t rely too heavily on such outside forces or your assessment energies may leave with the self-study visiting team. This session examines pre- and postaccreditation strategies to sustain assessment momentum once the visiting team has left.
John Cosgrove, Director
Research
St. Louis Community College
Larry McDoniel, Faculty
English
St. Louis Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Assessment Boot Camp
This course is designed for assessment-phobes and for educators who are eager to know more about assessment. The interactive session offers practical tips for developing more effective test questions and scoring rubrics. Covered are multiple-choice and open-ended questions. The course is appropriate for faculty members as well as administrators.
Cathrael Kazin, Director
Higher Education and School Assessments
Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Learning Center Course
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Crystal 2, Casino Level
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Assessment Made Easy by Faculty for Faculty
Assessment doesn’t have to be messy. By using the internet, simple database applications, and an easy-to-use interface, assessment in the classroom can be a fast, productive tool. Designed by faculty for use by faculty, SNap uses these technologies to collect student test data, feedback on student presentations, pretest and posttest data, and more. SNap has proven to be a package that is useful today and indispensable in the future.
Norbert Thomes, Instructor
Business
North Iowa Area Community College
Steve Miller, Instructor
Business
North Iowa Area Community College
Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Assessment of Student Learning: Course, Program, and Institutional Accountability
This session helps administrators and faculty develop processes to document the assessment of student learning in a user-friendly manner. One college’s collaborative development and implementation of an assessment process is shared. Electronic tools for collection of assessment information at the course, program, and institution level are presented.
George Pillainayagam, Professor
Engineering Technologies
Lorain County Community College
Wendy Marley, Director
Institutional Effectiveness and Planning
Lorain County Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 5, Arcade Level
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Assessment: From Monitoring Report to Commendation
Using a case-study approach, this session discusses going from getting up to speed to demonstrating improvements in institutional effectiveness and student learning. Come discuss institutional best practices, getting staff and faculty buy-in, and the assessment cycle, all while avoiding institutional exhaustion.
Cecelia Connelly-Weida, Associate Dean
Planning and Assessment
Lehigh Carbon Community College
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Breaking Through: Jobs for the Future
The evaluators of Breaking Through, funded by the Mott Foundation, present findings from six demonstration colleges funded to construct pathways from low literacy into occupational credentials. The focus is on creating pathways through college silos, instructional innovation, and positive student outcomes.
Elisabeth Barnett, Senior Research Associate
Community College Research Center
Columbia University Teachers College
Judith Taylor, Program Director
Building Economic Opportunities
Jobs for the Future
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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Building Measures of Student Success Into a New First-Year Experience Initiative
Using real data samples, session participants interpret and critique innovative assessment data from Mercer County Community College’s inaugural learning community for first-year students designed to foster improved learning. Classes were evaluated using the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) Course Feedback Form that directly ties classroom-level student engagement to 2008 institutional-level CCCSE findings.
Linda Scherr, Professor
History
Mercer County Community College
Mark McCormick, Dean
Academic Affairs
Salem Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Community Colleges Focusing Up Front: Using SENSE Data to Improve Practice With Entering Students
Why do so many students show up at our doors, yet drop out before they’ve barely begun taking classes? Launched last fall, the Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE) is already providing community colleges with critical information about the kinds of experiences students are having in their earliest weeks of college. Learn how practitioners from SENSE pilot colleges are using SENSE results to form a holistic approach to program and practice redesign.
Angela Oriano-Darnall, Associate Director
College Relations
Center for Community College Student Engagement
Mike Baumgardner, Director
First-Year Experience, Student Life
Butler Community College
Tom Jaynes, Dean
Counseling & Student Development
Durham Technical Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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Course Placement Strategies and Motivational Skill Tools to Promote Effective Enrollment Management
Effective course placement and appraisal of student motivation is essential to first-year success. Using a national longitudinal study of entering two- and four-year college students, this session highlights how the accuracy of course placement decisions relates to course success. Examined are the role noncognitive factors play in improving course outcomes and findings that point to the differential effects of placement accuracy and motivation on varying course content areas.
Steve Robbins, Managing Principal Research Scientist
Center for Academic and Workforce Readiness and Success Res
Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Creating and Working Within a Culture of Evidence
For some time, community college leaders and decision makers have been urged to adopt and work in a culture of evidence rather than a culture of anecdote. Very little information exists, however, for exactly what comprises a culture of evidence and how it can be used to better inform planning and management decision-making. This session defines a culture of evidence, describes its necessary components, and outlines the importance of and ways in which data should be used to improve college planning and management.
Jeff Seybert, Higher Education Consultant
Research, Evaluation, and Instructional Development
Johnson County Community College
Special Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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Data, Debate, and Decisions: Program Evaluation for Continuous Improvement
This session presents one college’s current program evaluation process designed to measure key indicators of effectiveness that are quantitative and qualitative, establish support processes to ensure input and accountability, and provide a reporting and documentation process that is informative and dynamic.
Evonne Carter, Provost
Academic Affairs
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Karen Kraus, Instructor
Academic Affairs
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: An Interactive Program Review You Can Borrow
College of Marin developed a web-accessible, interactive program review template for academic programs that is user friendly with drop-down selections, prompts, examples, and options for attachments. This session takes participants through the template sections on budget, staffing, facilities, learning outcomes, and curriculum. Participants receive electronic access to the template.
Derek Wilson, Instructor
Multimedia Studies and Digital Art
College of Marin
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Education Program Trending and Analysis Tools
Enterprise Reporting is a powerful reporting suite that places user activity, course progress, grade information, and a variety of online data in an accessible, web-based tool. This is the evolution of eCollege’s reporting strategy with the ability to monitor daily program information and allow institutions to quickly create customized reports about their online learning programs.
Heather Lloyd, Consultant
Product
Pearson
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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Emotional Intelligence: A Research-Derived Model for Student Success
Attend this session to learn about a comprehensive academic and student support program for strengthening student and college success by using an education model of emotional intelligence (EI). The presenters discuss how the ESAP program is used to introduce students, faculty, and administrators to the skills essential for college success, career effectiveness, and personal well-being.
Gary Low, Professor
Educational Leadership and Counseling
Texas A&M University
Ali Esmaeili, Dean
Bachelor Programs And University Relations
South Texas College
Darwin Nelson, Visiting Professor
Psychology
South Texas College
Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 9, Arcade Level
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Enhancing Student Persistence Online: Retention and reporting; a multi-dimensional approach
Previous Student Retention research has focused on programs using traditional pedagogical and assessment processes. We discuss how student retention could be enhanced for online learning applying the lessons learned from traditional models. In this session we will present multi-dimensional techniques available in the online environment, how this data can be gathered, reported and the possible significance of this data.
Thomas Downey, Chief Academic Officer
Education
Embanet-Compass Knowledge Group
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 6, Arcade Level
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Finding the Missing Link: Board Goals, Institutional Effectiveness, and Program Success
Explore the evolution of building a connection between board priorities, college planning, institutional effectiveness, and college assessment. Discussion points include the steps for building this connection from embracing board direction to building capacity to measuring and communicating progress. Successes and failures are shared allowing participants to discover ways to consider ideas for their institutions.
Brynn Pierce, Institutional Researcher
Institutional Advancement
Central Oregon Community College
Matthew McCoy, Vice President
Administration
Central Oregon Community College
Chris Egertson, Research Analyst
Institutional Advancement
Central Oregon Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 11, Arcade Level
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Innovations and Inquiry for Student Learning in Two-Year Colleges
This study describes the progress of a Lumina-funded consortium of two-year colleges interested in using institutionwide student learning outcomes to foster student learning. The goal is to clarify barriers to progress and articulate a sharable model that can guide implementation of faculty-defined student learning outcomes fostering integrative student learning.
William Rickards, Senior Research Associate
Educational Research and Evaluation
Alverno College
Mary Anne Grabarek,
Durham Technical Community College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Late Registration: Designed to Fail?
This session helps enrollment managers design a strategy for dealing with late enrollment. While evidence suggests that first-time freshmen registering late pose a higher risk of dropping out, research is not so conclusive about returning freshmen or sophomores. Balancing work life and other economic pressures may compel students to register late. During this session, the presenter shifts the focus of admissions policy to accommodate students’ needs rather than emphasizing institutional requirements.
Santanu Bandyopadhyay, Director
Institutional Research
Zane State College
Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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New Options for Managing Test Results Fairly and Effectively
Even with the soundest test development, administration, and scoring procedures, you may need to review test results and modify test results. Learn during this session how to use the Questionmark Results Management System to evaluate test and exam results, make authorized changes, and publish the finalized results.
Jeff Place, Sales
Questionmark Corporation
Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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No Child Left Behind: Correct Placement Equals Retention
Do you want to increase the retention rate for your incoming students? Join this informative session to learn about the benefits of using A+dvancer, an online tutorial that helps identify college readiness proficiencies, performs skill-level diagnostic reporting, and has optional prescriptive instruction. Join the discussion to learn how two colleges use A+dvancer to increase students’ chances for success by accurately placing them in the appropriate reading, writing, and mathematics courses.
Kathie Montognese, Consultant
Higher Ed
American Education Corporation
Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Outcomes Assessment Through the Accountability Management System by TaskStream
As administrators guide campuswide collaboration and communication regarding institutional effectiveness, they seek tools to streamline the processes and support the efforts of faculty and staff. TaskStream provides a web-based Accountability Management System that promotes a culture of educational excellence in academic and nonacademic units. The presenters demonstrate real-time creation and management of web-based assessment plans and the system’s capability for process flow management and reporting.
Webster Thompson, President
Sales
TaskStream
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Program Review Under Review: Turning It Into a Dynamic, Focused, and Constructive Process
The presenters describe the experience of a large, urban community college that revitalized its program and discipline review process. The process and its challenges and opportunities are presented from different perspectives by various campus constituents. Participants receive the program review handbook and other materials and forms, are asked to describe comparable processes on their campuses, and identify the significant challenges and benefits of academic program review.
Elena Bubnova, Director
Institutional Research
Truckee Meadows Community College
Jowel Laguerre, Superintendent/President
Solano Community College
Patricia Slavin, Associate Dean
Academic Support Center
Truckee Meadows Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carson 1, Casino Level
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Reading the Evidence: Measuring the Right Parameters
Data provide clues to the efficacy of academic programs, but only if the parameters measured reflect students’ goals. What are the artifacts of a program with an effective intervention? What are the signs of coming challenges? Bring your data or your questions about interpreting and collecting information to this session and we will help you uncover their story.
Anna Harwin,
Northwest Vista College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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Scrutinizing Community Colleges: Trends and Challenges
Community colleges are facing unprecedented scrutiny from lawmakers, local leaders, and the public at a time of limited resources and increased demands. This session explores why, in this environment, community colleges frequently fail to get their message out and what they can do about it.
Scott Jaschik, Editor
Editorial
Inside Higher Ed
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 1, Casino Level
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Setting Up an Institutional Review Board for Grants and Research
The federal government now requires community colleges to comply with regulations governing research involving people that until recently only research universities were expected to follow. This session provides practical guidance and direction regarding forming, implementing, and assessing this process without replicating the costly oversight structures seen at universities.
Brian Dille, Faculty
Political Science
Mesa Community College
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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Student Learning: How Long Should It Take?
This session provides an overview of using a data warehouse that encourages institutional intelligence, which involves data-based decision making. Administrators spend less time gathering data and more time analyzing them to provide key indicators for retention and graduation, longitudinal analyses, cohort comparisons, and data mining. Advisors and faculty have quicker access to student information, which helps developmental advising, at-risk intervention, ad-hoc reporting, and centralized contact notes across departments.
Richard Whipple, Director
Curriculum and Instruction
Southwest Texas Junior College
Blaine Bennett, Dean
Institutional Advancement and Technology
Southwest Texas Junior College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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System for outcomes-based assessments and the measurement of institutional effectiveness
Tk20 will demonstrate the CampusWide assessment system for the setup of institutional mission, goals and outcomes, generation of assessment plans, definition of measures and actions, and generation of analysis and recommendations for improvement. We will also present dashboards and reports on student learning (individual and aggregate), program and unit performance and curriculum maps.
Amy Levy, Sr. Product Consultant
Sales
Tk20, Inc.
Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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The Changing Faces of Community College Students in Arizona, Maryland, Missouri, and Washington
This session examines the characteristics of community college students for the next 30 to 40 years in 4 states. The presentation not only focuses on demographic changes, but also examines students’ developmental needs and campus access concerns. Participants develop strategies for supporting the students of the future.
Natasha Miller, Director
Planning, Research, and Evaluation
The Community College of Baltimore County
Mark McColloch, Vice President
Instruction
The Community College of Baltimore County
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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The Institutional Portfolio Model to Assess General Education Learning Outcomes
This course presents an overview of a performance-based general education assessment model. The course begins with a description of the critical steps needed to design and implement an outcomes assessment model and the major methodologies and processes available to assess student learning outcomes. Next is provided a history and description of the design and implementation of the Institutional Portfolio Model for assessment of general education outcomes. Participants then garner hands-on experience scoring actual student artifacts using the model’s holistic scoring rubrics. Expected student outcomes, assessment methods, and institutional standards are also discussed.
Jeff Seybert, Higher Education Consultant
Research, Evaluation, and Instructional Development
Johnson County Community College
Learning Center Course
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Crystal 5, Casino Level
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The National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships: Is Your CEP Accredited?
The National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) created a national accreditation process for quality concurrent enrollment partnerships at two- and four-year institutions. In 2006, Johnson County Community College’s College Now program received accredited status. This session describes NACEP, the standards for accreditation, the benefits of accreditation, and the methods used to study College Now students to help ensure accountability in the area of concurrent enrollment.
Loralee Stevens, Assistant Dean
Community Outreach
Johnson County Community College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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Using Business Analytics to Manage Enrollment
Community colleges facing increased enrollment challenges are looking for ways to improve the overall educational experience for their students. This presentation outlines Sinclair Community College’s strategic enrollment management environment and how business analytics are used to create a more positive experience. A short demonstration of the system’s capabilities is provided. This session will benefit anyone responsible for enrollment management.
Karl Konsdorf, Manager
Research, Analytics, and Reporting
Sinclair Community College
Allison Rhea, Faculty
Registration and Student Records
Sinclair Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 4, Arcade Level
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Using Data to Improve Developmental Education: Three Case Studies
How three institutions are making quicker, better-informed decisions: Achieving the Dream school analyzes gaps in developmental progression, creates interventions, and increases gatekeeper completion. Private university links student intervention to outcomes to anticipate, approach and assess at-risk students. Large community college district analyzes student progression via conditional probabilities and time series analysis.
Michael Taft, CEO
Design FM
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 10, Arcade Level
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Using Online Secured Testing to Authenticate Students
New language in the Higher Education Act requires distance education providers to ensure that the person receiving the degree is the one who actually did the work. Presented is a case study of one institution’s approach to authentication through online secured testing. Discussed are various alternatives for authenticating students.
Henry van Zyl, Vice Provost
Direct Independent Adult Learning
Thomas Edison State College
Forum Session
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Using Student Satisfaction Accountability Survey Data for Academic and Institutional Improvement
As part of a provincial government accountability method started in 1999, Ontario colleges have reported the rate of student satisfaction, graduation, graduate satisfaction, graduate employment, and employer satisfaction to the government and the public. This session focuses on how Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning uses student satisfaction survey data to drive institutional improvements.
Carlo Mandarino, Manager
Institutional Research
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Elaine Popp, Associate Dean
Hospitality Recreation and Tourism
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Special Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 7, Arcade Level
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Combat2College: Facilitating the Transition From Warrior to Student
This session is designed to assist community colleges develop comprehensive programming for combat veterans. Presenters explore key components of Combat2College, an inclusive, inexpensive, and easily replicated model that provides academic opportunities and support services within a framework of using military training and combat experience as a source of personal strength and psychological resilience that can be channeled towards a successful college experience.
Rose Sachs, Professor and Chair
Disability Support Services
Montgomery College
Sue Haddad, Associate Professor and Counselor
Disability Support Services
Montgomery College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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Creating a Safe Zone for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Students, Colleagues, and Allies and Questioning/Queer
Simply having an institutional sexual orientation EOE statement doesn’t guarantee that students, faculty, staff, or administrators feel safe raising issues about their experiences with colleagues and in classes. Safe Zone is a self-defined program that helps colleges create a plan for dealing with issues that not everyone is comfortable discussing.
Brian Bethune, National Dean
College of Media Arts and Technology
Devry University
Elizabeth Berrey,
Cuyahoga Community College
Roundtable Discussion
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Developing Leadership Programs That Meet NCATE Standards
This session will benefit educators in the process of developing or who have already developed new educational leadership programs that require NCATE approval. Participants learn how to incorporate multidepartmental input into program development and how to create an approved program through participation across the disciplines.
Barry Birnbaum, Professor
Special Education
Northeastern Illinois University
Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Diversity and Pop Culture: Mixed Messages
This presentation examines the messages and influences found in American Pop Culture in regards to diversity and diversity-related issues. By looking at what is portrayed through TV, film, music, and other forms of pop culture, participants discuss the messages received and their impact on society. Are the messages positive or negative? Do they help forward the progress of diversity, inclusion, and acceptance, or do they hurt diversity progress? Are we receiving mixed and confusing messages? How can we have an impact on these messages? What can we learn?
Leo Parvis, Principal Instructor
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dunwoody College of Technology
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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English as a Second Language, Hope as a First
This project promotes deeper contact between majority college students and minority English as a Second Language (ESL) students. The project also raises the awareness of higher education possibilities for ESL high school students. Participants learn how this project was formed, funded, and implemented.
Roger Bingham, Vice Chancellor
Student Affairs
Ivy Tech Community College
Roundtable Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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Growing and Nurturing Great Ideas from the Grassroots Level
This session offers best practices on championing innovation at Lake Land College. Applying an original idea, an administrative assistant moved throughout campus challenging in-state, out-of-state, and international structures. Attendees discover how one employee’s dedication to success resulted in international opportunities for students.
Chris Kramer, Administrative Assistant
Academic Services
Lake Land College
Deborah Hutti, Associate Vice President
Education Services
Lake Land College
Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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Helping Low-Income, Minority, and First-Generation College Students in Nevada Attain Biomedical Careers
The goal of the Nevada Biomedical Student Pipeline Program is to increase the number of underrepresented undergraduates successfully pursuing biomedical careers. Select community college students receive a stipend to participate in two workshops. The Bridge Workshop improves career awareness and overall college preparedness. The BioPrep Workshop enhances laboratory and critical thinking skills.
Julie Ellsworth, Instructor
Biology
Truckee Meadows Community College
Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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Planting the Seed: Girls Exploring IT Career Possibilities
Learn about the successful pilot of “Girl Tech Camp” that was a three-day camp for fifth-through ninth-grade girls held this past summer at Moraine Valley Community College. This program was created through a collaboration between IT faculty and the college admissions office to spark greater interest of girls in nontraditional, IT-related career pathways. Faculty, administrators in business and workforce development, and admissions representatives will greatly benefit from this session. Participants are provided with a copy of the toolkit used to plan and implement this program.
Debbie Wills, Recruiter
Admissions
Moraine Valley Community College
Jane Long, Dean
Academic Development and Outreach And Learning Resources
Moraine Valley Community College
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 2, Arcade Level
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POWER: A Re-Entry Program for Persons in Mental Health Recovery
This session introduces social science faculty and student support personnel to a program designed to integrate persons in mental health recovery into college life. Classes teach the skills and knowledge necessary for successful re-entry into college and the workforce. POWER (Partnership on Work and Educational Readiness) students complete an individual career and educational plan and a polished résumé. Participants are introduced to the POWER model as well as strategies for designing a curriculum and replicating the program.
Diane Haar, Director and Associate Professor
Social Sciences
Montgomery County Community College
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nevada 3, Arcade Level
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Tenure and Promotion: Women Faculty and Faculty of Color at Community Colleges
Learn about a national study regarding promotion and tenure differentials for women faculty and faculty of color employed at America’s public two-year colleges. In addition to gender, race, and ethnicity differentials, learn the extent to which these findings differed for faculty employed within centralized community college systems.
Janna Oakes, Dean
Instruction
Arapahoe Community College
Forum Session
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Nevada 1, Arcade Level
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Upon Reflection of My White Man’s Burden: Totems, Tokens, and Systems
This session involves a frank discussion about how the complex privilege of institutional and systemic racism inhibits the growth of inclusionary practices in postsecondary organizations. College leaders are challenged to reflect on the visible and invisible markers of race and class biases existing in their institutions’ policies and procedures and to propose strategies to eliminate them.
Trent Keough, President And Ceo
Portage College
Roundtable Discussion
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Silver State Pavilion, Arcade Level
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California's Community College Electronic Transcript eXchange: The Fast, Green, Affordable Solution
College to college electronic transcript exchange is not just a possibility, but a true reality. Gain insights on how the California Community Colleges working with other universities have utilized what the American Associates of College Registrars and Admission Officers. Transcript reported is the first of its kind system in the nation. Additionally, learn how your community college can participate too, either high school to college or college to college. Xap has delivered over two million electronic transcripts between over 1,500 schools nationwide to date.
Keith Franco, Regional Manager
XAP Corporation
Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
Crystal 3, Casino Level
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Lessons Learned....Lesson Shared
The classroom should be considered a physical place within a larger supportive environment. The combination of space, place, teaching, learning, and discovery should all flow seamlessly. This session will describe the re-gigging of a learning place from rigid and inflexible to a model designed to support teaching and learning.
Marilyn Teitelbaum, Professor
Applied Technology
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Forum Session
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Crystal 3, Casino Level
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So You Want to Be a President! Are You Ready?
This session focuses on helping senior administrators determine their interest in becoming college presidents. Strategies for assessing readiness for the presidency are explored, as is how to gain experience in weaker areas before applying for the position. Timing factors to be considered when considering a CEO position are also discussed.
Brenda Beckman, Senior League Consultant
League for Innovation in the Community College
Augustine Gallego, Chancellor Emeritus
San Diego Community College District
Forum Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Carson 1 and 2, Casino Level
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