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2009 Innovation of the Year Award Winners

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May 2009, Volume 4, Number 3

2009 Innovation of the Year Award Winners
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Established 27 years ago, the League’s Innovation of the Year Award was devised as a way to recognize significant innovations reflecting capstone achievements and the continuing renewal CollegeConnection of the spirit of innovation and experimentation upon which the League was founded. The award is designed to recognize faculty, staff and administrators at member colleges who have designed and implemented a significant innovation. Granting this award provides a venue for showcasing these innovations and the dedicated community college educators who are working to create new programs, improve processes, and enhance the opportunities available in their communities.

Criteria. Selection of award recipients is based on the following criteria established by the League:

Quality. Students and/or staff agree that the innovation increases quality in the course, program, office, or institution.

Efficiency. The innovation contributes to more efficient processes.

Cost Effectiveness. The innovation adds value to the institution while containing or reducing costs.

Replication. The innovation is easy to replicate at other institutions.

Creativity. The innovation is original and creative.

Timeliness. The innovation is not more than five years old in the institution, allowing plenty of time for it to be tested.

Nomination. To begin the nomination process, each college announces the Innovation of the Mechatronics Year award competition at its institution. The individual college forms a local committee to establish college-specific criteria and select the college’s award winner. The League encourages participating colleges to seek nominations from all areas of the college, including full- and part-time instructors, student services staff, administrators, and support personnel. The award celebrates the innovation as well as those who designed and implemented it; therefore, a single nomination will include both the innovation and the people who developed it.

Selection. Each participating college determines the selection process it will use and follows that process to select its Innovation of the Year award recipient. The college shares information about the winning innovation with the League, including a brief description of the innovation and the names, job titles, and a photograph of the personnel who developed the innovation. The League presents an Innovation of the Year award to each participating college’s winning innovation.

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Honoring Local Award Recipients. Participating colleges have a variety of ways to celebrate their local winners and further emphasize the value of innovation in community college education. Some colleges plan special award ceremonies, recognition programs, receptions, or dinners to honor and celebrate their award recipients. A number of colleges provide each member of the winning team with funding to attend a League conference. Participating colleges often issue news releases announcing the selection, and some publish pamphlets or booklets featuring the winning innovation.

2009 Innovation of the Year Award Winners. In 2009, 59 awards were granted in seven Kirkwood Family Day categories: (1) workforce preparation and development, (2) learning and teaching, (3) student services and activities, (4) research, assessment and accountability, (5) resource development, (6) basic skills and developmental education, and (7) leadership and organization. Click on the links below to learn more about the winning innovations in the 2009 Innovation of the Year competition. To learn more about the competition and how your college can participate, contact Wendy Neil at neil@league.org or (480) 705-8200, ext. 234.

Anne Arundel Community College Department of Public Safety Chief Gary Lyle, Major Cleveland Smith and the Department of Public Safety Personnel	Miami Dade College The MDC Honors College Dual Language Program Alexandria Holloway and Jennifer Bravo
Austin Community College College Connection Mary Hensley, Luanne Preston, Melissa Richardson, and the ACC/College Connection team members	Minnesota State Community and Technical College Course Approval Process (CAP) Software Eric Daeuber and Christopher Goltz
Baton Rouge Community College BRCC Assessment Institute Shana Corvers and Laci Talley	Mohawk College Online Course Outline Application Jim Cummings, Keri Carter, Ali Burke, Horatio Stewart, Rob McInnis, Lynda Morgan Murdoch, Ali Cheaib, Catharine Ozols, Lisa Pegg, Jaspreet Grewal, Bongi Dube, Maria Campos, Jacqueline Cowden-Scott, Margaret DiVincenzo, and Judy-Anne Sleep
Bow Valley College Innovative Training Delivery Options for Child Care Practitioners Russ Wilde, Linda O’Donoghue, Candace Cummings, Paula Wyne, Lona Tarney, and Becky Kelley	Monroe Community College The Sixth Act Maria Brandt, Gail Bouk, Jeffery Jones, Caren Pita, Paul D’Alessandris, Heather Fox, Jim Simmonds, Midge Marshall, Ann Tippett, and Robert Kashmer
Bucks County Community College Strategic Alliance: Leveraging Technological Knowledge and Experience Annette L. Conn, Maureen McCreadie, and Celeste Schwartz	Montgomery County Community College Call Center Barbara LeFevre and Erick Robinson
Central Community College Mechatronics Education Center Doug Pauley, Dan Davidchik, Sue Baer, David Vanderheiden, Allen Stenzel, and Justin Young	Moraine Valley Community College 2nd Annual Intern and Employer Meeting and Awards Ceremony Lisa Kelsay, Joyce Daniel, Pamela Payne, and Cecillia Carothers
Central Piedmont Community College Outreach to Part-Time Faculty Debbie Bouton and the Professional Development Team	Mountain View College CPA Starter Program Michael Tydlaska and Angela LeBlanc
Century College Digital Fabrication Lab Larry Litecky	Nassau Community College The Achilles Project Carol Farber, Wendy Eisner, and Valerie Lagakis
Columbia College Career Tools for Excellence Randy Barton, Melissa Colon, Jeff Fitzwater, Patricia Harrelson, Ida Ponder, Katherine Schultz, Meryl Soto, Kathy Sullivan, Adrienne Webster, and Gene Womble	Northeast Iowa Community College Agriscience Academy T. Mueller, L. Mueller, B. Kamm, K. Stock, D. Lawstuen, C. Harvey, J. Green, N. Gebel, T. Schnieders, M. Adams, M. Lansing, D. Martin, R. Twedt, M. Luckstedt, D. Mohling, M. Enyar, N. Zuercher, D. Dexter, and J. Dillon
Community College of Baltimore County The Accelerated Learning Project (ALP) R. Miller, S. Gearhart, S. Gilead, A. Roberts, M. Garcia, P. Adams, L. Berglie, S. Briggs, S. Grady, A. Nguyen, P. Rennie, P. Rogers, C. Scott, J. Scott, T. Nelson, M. Walker, A. Rusnak, and M. Berry	Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Shell Manufacturing Center Wanda Williams, Vincent Capri, Ryan Mussbacher, Mave Dhariwal, Dan Racette, and Neil Wenger
Community College of Philadelphia Advanced Tech at College Linda Hansell and Willette Whitaker	Northland Polytechnic Ngawha Prison Reintegration Project Shane Walden and Taina Savage
Cuyahoga Community College Creative Parenting Skills Course/General Studies 1801 Barbara A. Taylor and Phyllis J. Dukes	Northwestern Michigan College Innovation Mini Grants "Winners" are the faculty, staff and students of Northwestern Michigan College
Delta College Helen M. Nickless Dental Clinic Project Pamela Smith, Leslie Myles Sanders, Mary Jo Miller, Judy Miller, Melissa Appold, Virginia Przygocki, and Carol Wieland	Ocean County College Multiple Crime Scene Locations Thomas Lesniak
Fanshawe College Search Engine Marketing Liz Gray	Olympic College Cabinet (Executive Leadership) Learning Community Joanne Munroe
Gateway Community and Technical College Hybrid Library and Information Services Charlene McGrath, Yin-Fen Pao, Jeremy Berberich, Sheila Gray, and Ian Fry	Paradise Valley Community College Web-based Class Schedule Sam Fraulino, Alicann Lunceford, Carol Myers, David Preston, Paul Golisch, George Mathew, Jason Pociask, and Corey Weidner
Greenville Technical College Virtual Reality in Aviation Training Carl P. Washburn	Pennsylvania Highlands Community College One Book, One Community Barbara Zaborowski
Harford Community College Continuing Education and Training (CET) Action Teams Continuing Education and Training Division	Pitt Community College Microsoft Producer: How to have your own production studio Jeff Rorer
Henry Ford Community College Henry Ford Early College Lynne Hensel, Bill Barber, Marva Brooks, Ron Bodurka, Cyndi Scheuer, Paul Smith, and Bill Schramm	Polk Community College Linking Developmental College Reading Students with Elementary Students through Technology and Nonfiction Literature Lynda Wolverton
Hillsborough Community College Service-Learning Veterans (Website) Project Walt Ellis	SAIT Polytechnic Conversion of Culinary Waste Oil Into Bio-diesel Fuel Tom Bornhorst, Tran Ngo, Madeleine Ho, Reece Winter, Vita Martez, and Brad Rosenberger
Humber College Stop/Look Sabra Desai, Gina Antonacci, Donna O'Brien-Sokic, and Diana Belshaw	Salt Lake Community College Special Studies ESL for Facilities and Food Services Personnel Bob Askerlund, Lidya Gonzalez, Douglas New, and Sonia Parker
Indian River State College Baccalaureate Implementation and Transition Committee Baccalaureate Implementation and Transition Committee	Santa Fe College Bachelor of Applied Sciences Programs The BAS Cross-College Development Team
Institute of Technical Education “iDe’LITE” Beatrice Tan, Teo Pui Sing, Peh Wee Leng, and Alvin Toh	Shelton State Community College Adult Education On-line Professional Development Fran Turner, Philip Johnson, Curtis Coleman, Julia Chancey, and Kristen Peoples
Inver Hills Community College Finish What You Start Cheryl Frank, Kathy DeDeyn, and LeAnne Schmidt	Sinclair Community College Center for Energy Education Laboratory Robert B. Gilbert
Johnson County Community College ScholarSpace@JCCC Barry Bailey and Judith Guzzy	Snead State Community College CISCO Technology in the Classroom John Haney
Kirkwood Community College Family Day Doug Bannon	Southwest Wisconsin Technical College 100 Yard Tricycles Races Enhance Learning Scott Swan
Lake-Sumter Community College Intermediate Algebra Module Approach Judith Hayes, Thom Kieft, Donna Matthews, Alissa Sustarsic, and Brett Taylor	St. Clair County Community College Nursing Preadmission Scoring Cindy Nicholson, Pete Lacey, and Mary Owen
Lane Community College Agricultural Business Management Program Shirl Meads, Gene Hamacher, and Ross Penhallegon	St. Cloud Technical College Anatomy & Physiology Digital Textbooks Deborah Roiger
Laramie County Community College Creating and Implementing a Multimedia Electronic Textbook Leif Swanson	St. Louis Community College – Meramec Campus New Student Enrollment Orientation Julie Massey, Kim Fitzgerald, Suzzie Huff, Klaudia Krygiel, Ray Eberle-Mayse and Barb Shadburne
Leeward Community College In-Class Writing Consultants Laurie Kuribayashi	Ventura College Ventura College Promise Ventura College Foundation
Manatee Community College Revealing the Truth: Multidisciplinary Explorations into Crime Scene Investigations Jane Pfeilsticker, Andy Swanson, David Friedenbach, Cindy Hunter, Daisy Vulovich, Brad Davis, and Dory Lock	Wallace State Community College Improving the First Year of College: Sweet Success for Students in Transition Beth Bownes-Johnson, Cheril Grimmett, Wes Rakestraw, Rob Metcalf, Renee Quick, Natalie Shearer, James Tidwell, Karon Welch, Donnie Rice, Cindy Mallard , Rebecca Reeves, Ricky Burks, Brandi Gindhart, Lisa Harris, and Jerome Ward

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