Category: Innovation Showcase
Collaborating for Success: A Dislocated Worker Training Model
In response to the economic downturn and growing number of dislocated workers, Central Lakes College convened a planning group of workforce and economic development agencies. The group identified ways to help dislocated workers gain access to full-time academic and short-term training programs. Industry experts were involved in all aspects of the project, from designing and developing the curriculum to serving as adjunct faculty.
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Lessons from Successful Innovations: New Report Offers Insights and Guidelines for Community Colleges
Innovation
is in the American community college DNA, a significant part of its heritage,
character, distinction, and leadership for change. A new report
by the League for Innovation in the Community College adds new insights into
why, how, and with what result colleges innovate successfully and lessons they
can share. The Nature of Innovation in
the Community College reports findings from a study conducted by Terry
O’Banion, president emeritus of the League, and supported by MetLife Foundation.
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Transforming Brutalism: Student Art Prints Improve the Learning Environment
Like many college campuses built in the late 1960s, the learning environment at Lane Community College is classic Brutalist architecture: bare exposed concrete. In a recent survey, students overwhelmingly commented that they experience the Brutalism as austere, cold, drab, and gloomy, especially during the gray drizzly days of a Eugene, Oregon, winter. Some likened it to learning in a parking garage! Find out how Lane is using student and alumni art to transform the campus and celebrate the creative spirit, in this month’s issue of Innovation Showcase.
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