This session presents an innovative teaching strategy that uses a virtual person, "Audrey," to initiate discussions about managerial accounting practices. Audrey, the owner of a small regional paper jet manufacturer and a local candy company, comes to life in the students' world. She brings thought-provoking issues in business, and encourages interaction in both online and the traditional classroom. This session applies Audrey to various teaching situations.

Erskine Hawkins, Instructor - Accounting
Business
Georgia Perimeter College
Ingrid Thompson-Sellers, Associate Professor
Social Sciences
Georgia Perimeter College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Enrollment in online courses, including mathematics, at St. Petersburg College is increasing. SMARTHINKING offers 24/7 academic support electronically for distance learning students by providing access to a qualified instructor along with expanded access to individualized instructional support delivered at the teachable moment.

Danny Clark, Instructor
Mathematics
St. Petersburg College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

The mix of millennials, gen-x’ers, baby boomers, and more make the provision of modern education a complex process. In addition, blended learning, mobile devices, gaming, social networking, high-impact presentation technologies, and analytics are bringing new twists to our learning environments. What else is ahead? What’s in store? How much more can we take? How do we retain the human touch? Come join the conversation about how a new generation of learning is taking shape.

Mark Milliron, Chancellor
Western Governors University
Kathleen Plinske, Provost
Valencia College
Coral Noonan-Terry, Dean
National American University


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Magnolia, Third Floor

Bellevue Community College students partnered with the Rotary Club and industry mentors to provide over 8,000 consulting hours valued at more than $300,000 to women- and minority-owned businesses and organizations, contributing to the total annual economic impact of over $10 million provided by our partner, the Bellevue Entrepreneur Center. Program businesses saw revenues increase over 50 percent. This course has received national and state awards and commendations in service learning.

Leslie Lum, Faculty
Business
Bellevue College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

The purpose of this session is to highlight colleges that act on fact; that is, colleges that have used CCSSE results to inform decisions about student success and can show the impact of those decisions. CCSSE-member colleges and participants will discuss how to use CCSSE results to inform institutional effectiveness, strategic planning, reaffirmation of accreditation, and faculty development to improve student success.

Kay McClenney, Director
Marketing
Center for Community College Student Engagement
Christine McLean, Senior Associate
CCSSE
Center for Community College Student Engagement
Larry Litecky,
No Institution
Annette Conn, Provost and Dean
Academic Affairs
Bucks County Community College


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 21, First Floor

The way to learn and remember is to make the student an active participant in learning. We will show you some ways to do this. We will be using case studies, quizzes, and instant feedback to facilitate learning. We will be using a classroom performance system, clickers, to show how easy it is to get all students to participate.

Marilyn Shopper, Professor
Science
Johnson County Community College
Donnie Byers, Professor
Science, Health Care, and Mathematics
Johnson County Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Oak Alley, Third Floor

Learn by doing, as you explore active learning strategies to help students maintain focus and engage their brains. This session is intended to involve faculty and faculty developers in use of educational games, activities, graphic organizers, and movement to make learning active and long lasting. Come expecting to be engaged and energized.

Michele Neaton, Director
Center for Teaching and Learning
Century College
David Bate, Faculty
Faculty Training and Leadership Center
Salt Lake Community College


Forum Session
1:15 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 16, First Floor

Much good can result from a diversity-infused course, not just in terms of course content but in areas of critical thinking, cultural awareness, negotiation, sensitivity, and social consciousness. This presentation will benefit educators who want to find ways to incorporate diversity content in their courses – with an eye to shake, shape, change, and examine theirs as well as their students' ways of thinking and making meaning in an increasingly diverse world community.

Andy Reyes, Professor
English as a Second Language
Bunker Hill Community College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Students gain understanding, appreciation, and interest in mathematics when they are encouraged to discover concepts for themselves. . By devoting more class time to a Socratic mode of instruction, teachers can enhance their effectiveness by encouraging student creativity and cognitive learning. Come explore selected topics from algebra in a natural, discovery-oriented fashion.

Harvey Yarborough, Professor
Mathematics
Brazosport College


Poster Session
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Chemin Royale, First Floor

Administrators and cross-discipline faculty explore collaborative structures to improve alignment of curriculum objectives, assessments, and expectations between high school and college. We showcase initiatives with our local school system, including a jointly funded student services position, our collaboration council, alternative pathways to mathematics placement, alignment of English curriculum, and a dual-enrollment program. This session benefits faculty and administrators who have responsibility for the success of first-year students.

Betty Holton, Chair
English
Frederick Community College
Christine Helfrich, Associate Vice President
Teaching and Learning
Frederick Community College
Barbara Angleberger, Department Chair
Social Sciences
Frederick Community College


Forum Session
1:15 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 9, First Floor

Cumberland County College, New Jersey, uses WebCT for its online courses – except in the Humanities Division, where one instructor created his own courses. This roundtable explores the pros and cons of going your own way and weighs options concerning proprietary programs such as WebCT. We’ll also discuss the joys and sorrows of a home-grown project, including time management, the language of online courses, grading, and course design.

Kevin McGarvey, Associate Professor
Arts and Humanities
Cumberland County College


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

No matter how well planned, interesting, colorful, computerized, or relevant the lesson may be, if a student is not interacting with the material, then the only brain that will grow belongs to the teacher. Session participants will learn how to apply individual learning styles to whole class instruction, methods and materials to reinforce success for adult students, critical thinking strategies, and more.

Hope Toole, Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Bainbridge State College


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Participants will learn from our research on the educational impact of Apple's iPod on college students, comparing learning outcomes of the traditional class (without iPods) and the class using the iPod. We’ll provide description and analysis of how students applied iPods to professor’s notes, the course syllabus, assignments and due date alerts, podcasts, and vocabulary list.

Louis Molina, Professor
English
Miami Dade College - Kendall Campus


Forum Session
3:00 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 16, First Floor

More than content experts and learning facilitators, faculty are the primary researchers and assessment leaders of an institution. All teachers can collect data via course-embedded, authentic assessment techniques to create innovative interventions that will enhance the college experience for their students. Discover how faculty can use classroom assessment techniques as well as more formal tools to assess and enhance student learning at the course, program, and institutional levels.

Tara Ebersole, Professor
Biology and STEM Liaison
The Community College of Baltimore County
Rose Mince, Dean
Instruction for Curriculum and Assessment
The Community College of Baltimore County


Forum Session
3:45 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 4, First Floor

Monroe Community College provides an opportunity for online students to attend a face-to-face workshop which directs students to resources they can use to become successful online learners. Participants in the workshop gain an increased familiarity and comfort level with working in the online environment, ultimately increasing student retention and satisfaction rates. This session is designed for anyone who works with students in the online environment: administrators, instructional designers and developers, faculty, advisors and counselors, and career center personnel.

Susan Forsyth, Professor
Health Professions
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Martha Kendall, Specialist
Instructional Technologies
Monroe Community College - SUNY


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 22, First Floor

This three-hour workshop builds on the philosophy of Parker Palmer that we lead and teach who we are. Participants will share their experiences of excellence and community, and build on one another’s stories to develop a personal action plan. Action plans will focus on teaching and leading in a way that truly creates community among internal and external constituents and ultimately yields innovation and excellence for the college. We will address the meaning of dialogue and community, ways to foster meaningful dialogue in the internal and external community, and ways to gain support from the college community for innovation and productivity efforts.

Larry Litecky,
No Institution


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 16, First Floor

This workshop has been designed to provide instructors with ideas, best practices, tips and tricks, pedagogical models, and instructional strategies for teaching and learning in the online environment. We’ll discuss issues surrounding course architecture and navigation, online course design, and the design and incorporation of interactive course content that is accessible to all users.

April Bellafiore, Director of Distance Learning
Distance Learning
Bristol Community College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

This workshop explores strategies for incorporating interdisciplinary service-learning projects directly into the classroom and curriculum. A community-based, student-centered service-learning project on hunger and poverty in human services, economics, and architecture classes will be shown as a model. Participants will have the opportunity to apply the model to other local, national, and global community issues. The session should particularly benefit faculty and administrators seeking innovative interdisciplinary or collegewide civic engagement projects that involve students in active learning.

Beth Potter, Associate
Human Services
Anne Arundel Community College
Michael Ryan, Professor
Architecture
Anne Arundel Community College
Robert Lowe, Professor
Architecture and Interior Design
Anne Arundel Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 24, First Floor

Participants will explore how problem-based learning can be used effectively in technical courses and will develop and formulate a brief action plan for an introductory problem-based module which can be used in any technical course. The participant will receive information on the next steps to developing more sophisticated problem-based learning scenarios.

William Barrett, Associate Professor
Computer Studies
Iowa Western Community College


Roundtable Discussion
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

This session profiles learning connections among students and faculty of different disciplines, a community organization, and culturally diverse citizens of two states through a weeklong service learning project implemented in Louisiana by Sinclair Community College and the Dayton, Ohio, Chapter of Habitat for Humanity. We will discuss lessons we learned and are using to facilitate creative, hands-on multidisciplinary teaching, learning, and reflection. Chief academic officers, deans, and faculty will benefit.

Gloria Goldman, Associate Provost
Nursing
Sinclair Community College


Forum Session
4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 10, First Floor

The development of relationships among community college students, faculty, and staff is being rapidly recognized as one of the most significant contributors to increased student retention and success. This session presents promising practices data from a new study conducted by the MetLife Foundation Initiative on Student Success. MetLife Foundation award-winning college representatives will consider with participants ways to intentionally design strategies to create a culture in which supportive relationships can develop and thrive.

Arleen Arnsparger, Project Manager
Initiative on Student Success
Center for Community College Student Engagement


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 7, First Floor

Learn how high-tech assessment technology and an innovative assessment model are integrated to deliver onsite, real-time, standards-based, authentic performance evaluations to improve student motivation, retention, learning, and achievement. eLumen Achievement deployed on wireless tablet PCs allows health science faculty to conduct real-time lab and hospital clinic performance evaluations using electronic scorecards, which provide timely, prescriptive student feedback for customizing improvement plans.

Connie Lee McCall, Assistant Professor
Health Science
Kirkwood Community College
Maggie Thomas, Professor
Health Science
Kirkwood Community College
Michael Robinson, Coordinator
Health Science
Kirkwood Community College
Rich Edwards, Assessment Consultant
Executive
eLumen


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 18, First Floor

This session presents an institution's process for developing three levels of certification for faculty teaching online. The session focuses on Level 2 and its development, content, and completion requirements. The session would benefit instructional deans and administrators, instructional designers, online faculty, and professional development professionals.

Hilton LaSalle, Associate Professor
Center for Teaching and Distance Learning
Lone Star College System
Nita Schiro, Program Manager
Center for Teaching and Distance Learning
Lone Star College System


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Belle Chasse, Third Floor

How do I produce web pages using Dreamweaver, create a podcast, or deliver classes using Blackboard? Learn how Belmont Technical College answers these questions and more by using Atomic Learning to empower faculty, staff, and students to excel in technology. Through a show-and-tell approach, Atomic Learning not only delivers web-based software training for faculty and staff, but can also improve student achievement from novice computer users to seasoned technology veterans.

Amy Leoni, Librarian
Learning and Information Services
Belmont Technical College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Grand Salon 19, First Floor

This session identifies a data-driven approach employed by one Achieving the Dream college to develop and continually refine successful learning strategies for first-year developmental reading students. Using qualitative and quantitative data to identify achievement gaps and to document what students perceive as barriers to persistence, HCC has implemented and/or expanded two classroombased, student-centered retention strategies to increase the success and retention rate of developmental reading students. This session is interactive and highly informative.

Charity Freeman, Instructor
English
Hillsborough Community College
Shannon Grinstead, Articulation Specialist
Academic Support Services
Hillsborough Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Grand Salon 13, First Floor

If you have college employees who need to upgrade their computer skills but won't attend traditional courses, then come find out about an innovative series of computer training courses that differ from traditional computer training. Employees are lining up to take these courses and improve their skills.

Rebecca Wale, Manager
Human Resources
Clark College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Slow down and claim three hours to consider your connection with your job. We all feel enormous pressures these days that fragment and fatigue. Grounded by Parker Palmer’s suggestion that we can live “divided no more,” we will take time for quiet and reflection to consider the unfolding of our own lives and careers. The course will take the form of a retreat, allowing participants quiet time to reflect and journal as well as an opportunity to share, if they wish, insights gained about our topic. We will offer a poem or reading as a catalyst for thought.

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


Special Session
1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 24, First Floor

Participants will engage in a discussion about the development and implementation of cooperative investigations used within college mathematics classrooms, primarily for the precalculus or early calculus courses. Participants will collaboratively investigate some phenomena from science or business, and explore the mathematics within these phenomena. The projects' primary focus is on problem solving and communication, and the implementation increases students' abilities to solve problems and communicate their findings.

Don Drummond, Faculty
Mathematics
Minnesota State Community and Technical College


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Participants will learn how to capture screen recordings, turn them into tutorials or support videos, and display them on a server, CD-ROM, or the web. ScreenCorder 4 is an easy-to-use screen capture tool that allows instructors to create professional video tutorials quickly and efficiently. Come learn how screen recordings can answer frequently asked questions from students relating to software and online applications.

Dave Hamilton, Educational Advisor
Sales and Training
MatchWare, Inc.


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Come learn how to develop a general humanities course and a compatible website that explores the process of artistic creation. The presentation covers how to select one period in history to serve as a window into the creative process, how to develop your own materials that are accessible and student friendly, and how to create a website that will function as a textbook.

Ninon Rodriguez, Professor
Arts and Philosophy
Miami Dade College - Wolfson Campus


Forum Session
4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Belle Chasse, Third Floor

The most important asset of an educational organization isn’t equipment, facilities, or technology; it’s the faculty. However, even these creative professionals need a booster shot from time to time. This session will take participants through a process that will help re-energize faculty, and even chairs and deans, by identifying the best teaching and learning practices and creating ongoing teaching initiatives that can be connected to instructional planning.

Rodger Bennett, Vice President
Academic Affairs and Student Success
Brookhaven College


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 21, First Floor

Maricopa Community Colleges is supporting an E-Learning Faculty Development Project jointly sponsored by Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction, National Center for Teacher Education, and Educational Impact. Maricopa faculty members are creating three faculty development modules that residential faculty, adjunct faculty and education students will be able to access 24/7 via the web. We will present examples from each module and provide insight into the process of design and development of e-learning for faculty development.

Cheri St. Arnauld, Provost
Grand Canyon University
Ray Ostos, Executive Director
Marketing
National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs (NACCTEP)


Forum Session
12:00 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 10, First Floor

Learn how faculty and administrators at Bellevue Community College have taken steps to bridge gaps and break down silos between credit and noncredit IT and business programs. Join a discussion of ways previous areas of competition have become areas for cooperation, and hear the ideas and strategies that helped increase student learning opportunities, enhance program efficiency and collaborative use of scarce IT resources, and create stronger lines of cross-campus communication.

Jeffrey Johnson, Academic Area Lead North America
Microsoft Learning
Microsoft Corporation
Margaret Turcott, Assistant Dean and Faculty
Business Technology Systems
Bellevue College


Forum Session
12:00 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 7, First Floor

You’ve seen it: Students toss out a chunk of information, especially for a test, but meaning and significance are often lost. Using three disciplines, this presentation explores, “So What?” Applying Bloom’s taxonomy, a cross-discipline critical thinking matrix, frames content questions at various learning levels. Benefits include collegiality, a curriculum review process, and a consistent approach to critical thinking. Student benefits include improved critical thinking, a connection among disciplines, and an applicable cognitive skill.

Lyndel Colglazier, Associate
English
Tulsa Community College
Susan Kamphaus, Associate Professor
Psychology
Tulsa Community College
Jackie Swicegood, Assistant Professor Of Mathematics
Math and Science
Tulsa Community College


Forum Session
9:15 AM
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Grand Salon 15, First Floor

Publicly funded institutions have a legal and ethical obligation to ensure that any online course content is offered in a form accessible to all who chose to participate. A thoughtful, well-designed online course must be inclusive of all students, in particular those with either a learning or physical disability. This interactive session illustrates ways of building course content accessible to all students, with emphasis on the Americans with Disability Act.

Allen Dooley, Professor
Business and Computer Technology
Pasadena City College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

As professional educators, you have the experience and knowledge to recognize learning in students. This action-oriented program is designed to draw out that tacit knowledge from participants and craft it into valuable learning assessments and rubrics. This is a collaborative experience, facilitated by a fellow instructor and specialist in student learning outcomes and classroom assessment. Get ready to see how your own knowledge and experience confirm and enhance scholarship in learning-centered outcomes assessment practices.

Angela Breckenridge, Learning Outcomes Specialist
Title III
Delgado Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 16, First Floor

Through examples of recent implementation of service learning components into a technical college setting, participants in this session will be exposed to a teaching and learning approach that integrates community service with academic preparation. Strategies for incorporating service learning initiatives into instructional programs, including adapting course materials, forming community partnerships, and enhancing student development will be explored. Faculty, academic administrators, and others interested in service learning will benefit from this session.

Pat Hannon, Vice President
West Georgia Technical College
Kristen Douglas, Vice President
Instructional Services
West Georgia Technical College
Sindi McGowan, Director
Institutional Planning and Research
West Georgia Technical College


Forum Session
10:30 AM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 9, First Floor

During Summer/Fall 2006, Sinclair Community College launched two remote learning centers in partnership with the regional YMCA. This session presents the college's market evaluation, community data, and administrative processes used to launch these centers. Academic, financial, and marketing leaders will find the pragmatic information useful in conceptualizing similar ventures.

Rebecca Butler, Managing Project Director
Completion By Design Ohio Cadre
Completion By Design


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 13, First Floor

How do we teach critical thinking without boring students with theory? How are students’ outcomes measured? This presentation will demonstrate a classroom-based research project that examined critical thinking outcomes. The project involved an innovative computer simulation assignment designed to develop critical thinking in nursing students. A holistic scoring instrument, based on Peter Faccione’s critical thinking behaviors, measuring students' outcomes will be presented.

Susan Longacre, MS RNC
Registered Nursing
City College of San Francisco


Roundtable Discussion
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

What better way to prepare to teach online than to immerse yourself in the learning environment as a student? In Humber’s Clinic for Online Teaching, faculty put pedagogy to practice. They create material for their online course while learning effective strategies for teaching online. Interact with the development team and facilitators to learn about this innovative fully online clinic. We will share tips and tricks to help you to cook up your own faculty favorite.

Nancy Epner, Professional Development Consultant
Professional Development
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Ruth Hickey, Director
Centers for Learner Support
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Dawn Marie Warren, Technologist
Instructional Support Studio
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Katharine Webb, Mulit-Media Design Technoligist
Professional Development
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Melrose, Third Floor

This presentation focuses on how youth programs have been taught by faculty across disciplines at Cy-Fair College through summer camps, holiday camps, spring break camps, reading programs, and Scout merit badge classes. Courses are integrated into the college’s learning signature. These offerings meet a community need for children’s programs, serve as a powerful recruitment tool, and provide young learners with an introduction to the college experience.

Ted Lewis, Dean
Instruction
Lone Star College System
Terri Hill, Program Manager
Continuing Education
Lone Star College System


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 16, First Floor

Nursing education is being asked to educate more nurses. This presentation will highlight how three community colleges partnered to provide students with a nontraditional asynchronous alternative to nursing education. This conference program will provide participants with a step-by-step process for establishing and implementing an online associate degree nursing program.

Susan Wood, Vice Chancellor
Academic Services and Research
Virginia Community College System


Forum Session
3:45 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 16, First Floor

Discussion boards can be a tool to initiate or extend class discussions. Many benefits and challenges of creating and monitoring discussion boards will be discussed. Pedagogy will be included, as well as the instructional design process. Fair assessment of discussion board postings can be a challenge. We will share with you our rubrics for assessments as well as tools to integrate discussion boards into any instructional delivery method.

Melanie Jackson, Director
Educational Technology and E-Learning
South Florida State College
Michele DeVane, Professor
Social and Behavioral Sciences
South Florida State College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Explore different assessment delivery and reporting options that provide cost-effective assessment management and quick, meaningful results. Instructors and test center administrators will learn methods for delivering tests online, offline, via PDAs, or on paper; scoring bubble sheets and online assessments together; discouraging cheating with secure browsers and other technologies; managing test centers; and generating, configuring and distributing reports.

Jeff Place, Sales
Questionmark Corporation


Forum Session
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 19, First Floor

Come learn about using a dollar grading scheme for classes: All tests and assignments are graded in dollars, with course grades determined by accumulated semester earnings. Learn the advantages and gain insights on avoiding the pitfalls. Join a role play that models student interactions, and experience the difference between receiving a traditional grade and a grade in dollars. The dollar grading scheme is a good fit for business and economics faculty. Example syllabi and grading rubrics will be available.

John Reiners, Professor
Business and Economics
Georgia Highlands College


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

This presentation describes the development of experiential contemplative practices in mindfulness at a community college in NYC, based on the presenter’s experiences and preparation for the practice. Participants learn how to use contemplative techniques of silence, meditation, guided imagery, visualization, and journal writing to teach students to focus on issues by tapping into their individual experiences of compassion and meaning.

Lana Zinger, Assistant Professor
Health and Physical Education
Queensborough Community College - CUNY


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

This presentation provides an example of how Learning Styles can be used online by letting learners select learning activities that match their styles. It also discusses methods for assessing the effectiveness of detecting improvements in learning and learner satisfaction with this learning process. Participants will be encouraged to explore their own learning styles and discuss how they would use this knowledge to direct their learning in this environment.

Jack Krichen,
Capella University


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 4, First Floor

Participants in this session will learn how to find and make malleable even the most apparently rigid course management template. The successes and failures experienced in the course of template research and development in the Coast Community College District will be shown to have parallelled the successes and failures of students in learning. Administrators, technical staff, and instructors will benefit from the trials and the serendipitous successes that have led Coast to go eclectic.

Katherine Watson, Professor
Distance Learning
Coastline Community College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

This presentation documents the transformation of a suburban community college campus with a fragmented faculty and limited student activities into one in which students and faculty actively participate in cross-discipline discourse outside the classroom. The multimedia session illustrates objectives, marketing materials, websites, blogs, events, and community outreach. Faculty, academic deans, student services officers, and administrators interested in student engagement will benefit.

Michael Ronan, Division Chair
English
Houston Community College - Northwest College
Cynthia Belmar, Library Director
Library
Houston Community College - Northwest College
Gary LeBlanc, Assistant Chair
Government
Houston Community College - Northwest College


Roundtable Discussion
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Is anybody home? Many of us have wondered that about our students. The multisensory culture of the early 21st century makes reaching and engaging students in the learning process a challenge. Come hear what we are doing inside and outside honors classes at Frederick Community College to create intentional learners, and share with us your ideas. Open to faculty, program coordinators, and all others interested in using active learning techniques to foster learning.

Barbara Angleberger, Department Chair
Social Sciences
Frederick Community College
Bruce Thompson, Assistant Professor
Social Sciences
Frederick Community College


Forum Session
2:30 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 19, First Floor

Participants will learn how to create a campus periodical of student writings, representative of the community college’s diverse student body. The presenter will illustrate ways this ESOL multicultural publication is being used to help students, faculty, and staff understand different perspectives, ways to integrate diversity into the college curriculum, and ways to build connections across the campus and in the local community.

Suzanne El Rayess, Assistant Professor and Chair
ESOL and Foreign Languages
Monroe Community College - SUNY


Roundtable Discussion
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Participants will examine ethics and accountability in the context of policing in a free society. The roundtable, a replication of a class in police management, provides participants with the opportunity to study the role and responsibilities of the police manager in the context of the larger society, including the issue of accountability for crimes and injuries. A course planning guide will be distributed.

Marc Stanton, Professor
Social Science
Massachusetts Bay Community College


Roundtable Discussion
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Students who write graceful, profound academic essays often enter paralysis when faced with research papers. Adapted fiction writing exercises help students better analyze their research and focus their presentation. Using concepts of characterization, setting, point of view, conflict, etc., students discover connections to their topic and ways to interact with the ideas of other writers. Instructors weary of uninspired research papers should find useful ideas here.

Tammie Bob, Professor
English
College of DuPage


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

When do we say no to a faculty member? When do we inform the academic department leader of a concern? How can we work better as a team to improve teaching and learning at the college? Who's responsibility is quality? Join this roundtable to discuss answers to these and other tough questions posed by faculty development professionals.

Janice Kinsinger, Associate Dean
Instructional Innovation and Learning Resources
Illinois Central College
Patrice Hess, Director
Instructional Innovation and Learning Resources
Illinois Central College


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Recent research regarding online teaching and learning is pointing to the critical component of faculty presence and its relationship to successful course outcomes and learner satisfaction. How to establish and maintain faculty presence as well as promoting the development of presence among learners will be the focus of this session. Techniques for establishing presence will be explored and participants, working in dyads or small groups, will have the opportunity to start thinking about and working with their own sense of presence online. At the end of this session, participants should have a better idea of what is meant by presence, its importance in online teaching, and should leave with one or two good ideas for establishing presence in their online courses.

Rena Palloff, Faculty and Director
Educational Leadership and Change
Fielding Graduate University
Keith Pratt, Faculty
Business
Capella University


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Come learn how to explore the personality type and learning style of your students using free, online tools. Then learn how to use this information to provide a learning environment that addresses all students’ needs in both online and face-to-face settings.

Kristine Christensen, Director
Center for Teaching and Learning and Management Information Systems
Moraine Valley Community College
Norma Grassini-Komara, Instructional Designer
Center for Teaching and Learning
Moraine Valley Community College
Sylvia Jenkins, President
Moraine Valley Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 16, First Floor

Learn to create Flash websites in minutes with interactive navigation, object animation and much more. Mediator 8 is an icon-based authoring tool that lets you drag-and-drop your way to interactive websites, Flash presentations, and multimedia CD-ROMs, and no programming or experience is necessary. The tool is easy to use, with one-click exports to Flash and HTML, auto-run CD-ROM and automated FTP upload, and allows faculty to focus on content rather than technology.

Dave Hamilton, Educational Advisor
Sales and Training
MatchWare, Inc.


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Rosedown, Third Floor

Learn fundamental strategies and processes in planning and starting a futures institute at your college ,based on the Institute for the Future (IF) at Anne Arundel Community College, a model that seeks to be the local information and training source for information on the future in the area served by AACC. Participants receive a how-to workbook of presentation slides and samples of IF projects, training, and processes.

Stephen Steele, Director
Institute for the Future
Anne Arundel Community College


Forum Session
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Melrose, Third Floor

This roundtable discussion identifies the free resources provided by textbook publishers that streamline the development and implementation of online courses. Resources include streaming video cases, chapter practice quizzes, audio clips, chat sessions with experts, and other resources. The discussion outcomes include compiling a list of free resources, ranking textbook publisher’s resource support material, and documenting methods to integrate the free resources into an online course.

Guy Lochiatto, Professor
Business
Massachusetts Bay Community College


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

For seven years, K. Patricia Cross enlightened community college professionals with her instructive Cross Papers on teaching and learning. In 2004, Pat Cross retired from The Cross Papers and generously endowed The Cross Papers Fellowship, awarded annually to a practitioner and scholar in community college education. The League is pleased to introduce in this session the third Fellowship recipient, Michael Schoop. Schoop has written Number 10 in The Cross Papers series, From Classroom to Learning Spaces: Teaching by Design. Come hear the author discuss the architecture of learning and strategies faculty can use to help shape a physical environment that fosters and complements effective teaching and learning.

Cynthia Wilson, Vice President
Learning and Research
League for Innovation in the Community College
Michael Schoop, Campus President
Cuyahoga Community College - Metropolitan Campus


Special Session
12:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 6, First Floor

Learn how to apply six strategies to your own curricula based on Google’s user-friendly, popular success. Lessons include how to, as Vise and Malseed note, "disregard the impossible, do the unexpected, remember what was taught at home, use modern motivators, and rewrite rules to prove that what is known now can be what will become." Learn from the example of distance learning courses at Coastline Community College. This session will benefit administrators and faculty.

Katherine Watson, Professor
Distance Learning
Coastline Community College


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

This session summarizes the second “Conversations with the Field” paper, which examines how faculty learn to design courses and teach online and assesses the degree to which online learning is changing teaching. Of particular interest are faculty views on the need to individually design their own courses. Conversations papers are based on open-ended interviews with 40-50 faculty teaching online in large and small U.S. colleges, so come hear what is really going on with online learning. View the previous paper at http://www.league.org/publication/whitepapers/1006.pdf.

Robert Threlkeld, Senior Research Analyst
Online Course Evaluation Project
National Repository of Online Courses


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 19, First Floor

This poster presentation will illustrate how to successfully design a service-learning fact sheet. Key points will define service-learning, identify benefits of service learning, and explain what students can expect in a service learning class. The audience will learn how to use the fact sheet as a marketing tool to attract both students and faculty to engage in service learning and how to design and incorporate a service learning fact sheet into their own learning signature.

Ronald Nespeca, Professor
Kinesiology
Lone Star College System


Poster Session
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Chemin Royale, First Floor

One of the greatest challenges to community college technical faculty and administration is keeping faculty up to date on leading-edge practices and industry developments. A group of community colleges has addressed this challenge the past 5 years with Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institute. As grant funding sources dwindled since its inaugural year, institute leaders have evolved the program to a sustainable cost-recovery model.

Ann Beheler, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Porterville College
Ann Blackman, Grants and Contracts Manager
Convergence Technology Center
Collin College


Forum Session
10:30 AM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 4, First Floor

Based on faculty use of The New York Times and other sources in an English class, Writing About Survival, English and humanities faculty will learn how to intensify learning and improve critical thinking skills by using diverse sources. The session includes details about Knowledge Network.

Jan Gilboy, Manager
Sales
Turnitin


Special Session
12:00 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 6, First Floor

The presenters will discuss efforts to implement self-directed learning in their community college. SDL's assessment will be part of the presentation along with how incorporating self-development among the students was operationalized. A model describing student's presenting behaviors in the classroom will be included. The participants will learn ways to engage students in self-directed learning. This session will benefit educators to engage students in controlling their own learning.

Roger Manning, Dean
Technology and Curriculum
Odessa College
Lucinda Hurlbut, Director
Child Development
Odessa College
Nancy Stewart, Department Chair
Office Systems
Odessa College


Forum Session
10:30 AM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 13, First Floor

In designing distance learning courses, faculty often find the learning curve is greatest in setting up a good Discussion Board, probably because there is no real corollary to this in classroom teaching. This session explores the changes that a faculty member has made to enhance and streamline this part of her online course. Bring some ideas of your own so that we can all leave with new avenues to explore.

Patricia Daron, Professor
Biology
Northern Virginia Community College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

This session will highlight progress made, practices worth benchmarking by others, and work yet to be completed. The presenters will also share with those in attendance the critical next steps for full implementation of the learning college concept. This session is targeted to faculty, department and division heads, academic vice presidents, and presidents.

John Roueche, President
Roueche Graduate Center
National American University
Margaretta Mathis, Senior Vice President
Roueche Graduate Center
National American University


Special Session
3:00 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 6, First Floor

This session will discuss how community college students can learn to include students with special needs into the elementary and secondary classrooms. Inclusion is particularly important because students with disabilities must be given the same learning opportunities as their nondisabled peers. Those in attendance will be given strategies on how to include this group of students in the appropriate learning environment.

Barry Birnbaum, Professor
Special Education
Northeastern Illinois University


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Demonstrates strategies community colleges can use to increase student retention in their online programs by training the online faculty to present interactive, academically rigorous, interesting content that engages students and encourages them to succeed. This session should benefit department chairs, deans, faculty trainers, and faculty. Others who would benefit are curriculum developers for online training of any kind for staff and faculty.

Janie Sullivan, Faculty Development Specialist
Title V
Central Arizona College


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Belle Chasse, Third Floor

Is lecture capturing a fad or does it serve a greater purpose in educating students? The presenters discuss basic lecture capturing concepts, as well as how Apreso improves student satisfaction and learning outcomes. Also shared is how lectures are captured at Brevard Community College (BCC). Session participants discuss criteria to take into account when considering a lecture capturing solution, student and faculty responses to on-demand lecture availability, and how BCC maximizes their education outreach with automated lecture capturing.

Jayne Gorham, Associate Provost
Workforce Programs
Brevard Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 19, First Floor

This presentation will discuss strategies for using electronic response systems. Topics covered include how a variety of systems work, pedagogical benefits of using the systems, guidelines for creating questions, examples of question styles, solutions to common problems with the systems, possibilities for student academic dishonesty, and a summary of student evaluations and performance from several years of experience using various systems in lectures ranging from 40 to 170 students.

Marc Perkins, Instructor
Biology
Orange Coast College


Roundtable Discussion
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Student engagement, both physically and intellectually, can be increased through intramural activities which incorporate physical ability and critical thinking skills. The "Amazing Geocache Race" and "Survivor: CyFair College" combine geocaching and other activities with elements of popular television shows. Both activities will be discussed in detail, along with an actual survivor contest involving forum participants.

Tim Sebesta, Professor
Kinesiology
Lone Star College System


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Join us as we explore how inquiry-based lessons are an effective method of engaging the learner and building a deeper understanding of concepts. We will share examples of successful inquiry-based lessons and discus the advantages and disadvantages of their implementation. This session will benefit faculty in all disciplines.

Lisa Riffle, Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus
Adam Zambetti, Assistant Professor
Counseling
Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus


Forum Session
4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 12, First Floor

With SNAP from Paradigm Publishing, students can demonstrate and enhance computer skills learned in the classroom. SNAP can be used to take exams, get course information, and communicate with instructors. This session will provide an in-depth look at SNAP, a state-of-the-art tool for training, assessing, and managing student proficiency in an LMS environment using Microsoft Office.

Robert Galvin, Vice President
Sales
Paradigm Publishing


Roundtable Discussion
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Games motivate students, hold their attention, and introduce excitement, spontaneity, and fun into a class session. They are useful for review, developing research skills, or as a novel way to present course content. The presenters demonstrate how to use flexible tools such as PowerPoint, which allows for a variety of classroom applications beyond displaying lecture content. Included are suggested assignments and various strategies for integrating internet resources and pathfinders into the tasks.

Paula Williams, Professor
Library Science
Bergen Community College


Roundtable Discussion
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Rapidly changing and content-specific technology programs, particularly those that are career pathways, often evolve in a way that begins to treat traditional visual art skills as an afterthought. Participants will learn how this situation was addressed at CCBC with the creation of a new Institute of Art, Design, and Interactive Media. This department, created across academic divisions, has reintegrated fundamental art skills into current technology programs while revitalizing foundation art courses.

Hal Rummel, Chair
Institute of Art Design and Interactive Media
The Community College of Baltimore County


Roundtable Discussion
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

This interactive workshop should particularly benefit those interested in service-learning and learning communities. This is a forum for combining interdisciplinary curriculums with civic engagement. The session encourages relationships between various disciplines and community organizations in an effort to advance student awareness toward vital community issues. Interactive strategies for this session include selecting student populations and their community concerns, as well as selecting college courses and community organizations to provide service-learning and civic engagement opportunities.

Donyel Williams, Dean
Instruction
Harold Washington College
Dennis Lehman, Special Assistant
Instruction
Harold Washington College
Floyd Bednarz, Instructor
Biology
Harold Washington College


Forum Session
1:15 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 13, First Floor

Distance learning and online resources are changing the ways we work, live, and learn. These technology tools are shaping our future, and iStream, the League for Innovation’s latest web-based service, should be part of assembling your college’s new directions. Join us for this interactive demonstration of iStream and tomorrow’s learning and leadership edge.

Stella Perez, Vice President
Operations and Technology Programs
League for Innovation in the Community College
Matthew Milliron, Director
Information Services
Rio Salado College
Trish Casey-Whiteman, Associate Vice President
Academic and Student Affairs
Anne Arundel Community College
Shirley Gilbert, Special Assistant
Presidents Office
Austin Community College District


Special Session
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 6, First Floor

Examines the field of information communications technology (ICT), which is also known as convergence technology. New business needs such as voice-over IP and video on demand are increasing the need for trained ICT/convergence workers. The Convergence Technology Center is meeting that demand with new degrees and certificates and is replicating this program at other colleges through the Mentor Program.

Ann Beheler, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Porterville College
Bette Plog, Director
Information Technology Institute
Dallas County Community College District


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Rosedown, Third Floor

Participants belonging to institutions with a semirobust assessment process already in place will find this session productive through their engagement in hands-on exercises that link concrete assessment results to improvements. By means of narrative sharing and model-building strategies, the application of these approaches to participants’ respective campuses will likewise be contextualized and highlighted.

Ray Somera, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Guam Community College


Forum Session
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 19, First Floor

Exciting developments in technology are transforming virtually every service organization, including community colleges. New learning environments that include exciting gaming, simulations, repositories of content, visualizations, and virtual tutors have serious implications for teaching and learning. Participate in this session that challenges today’s and tomorrow’s leaders to think differently about education in a knowledge-based economy, and explore the challenges ahead for community college leaders in preparing tomorrow’s workforce.

Edward Gould, Faculty
Higher Education Leadership
Capella University
Kathryn Campbell, Faculty Chair
Education
Capella University
Lois Bartelme, Board Chair
President's Office
Kirkwood Community College
Generosa Lopez-Molina, Dean
Academic Foundations
Lorain County Community College


Forum Session
2:30 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 12, First Floor

Students are not the only learners in a learning-centered college. Faculty from the Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, and Technology share their success in applying learning college principles to professional development program design. Learn about the processes, philosophy, and strategies used to engage faculty. Representatives from CELTT will share practical tips and novel ideas that sparked increases in faculty and staff participation in professional development activities.

Mary Therese Hattori, Assistant Professor and Coordinator
Information Technology
Kapi‘olani Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 9, First Floor

Brookdale Community College transformed its TLT (Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center) to a TLC (Teaching and Learning Center) to shift the focus back to its primary purpose: teaching and learning. The change also helps emphasize technology as a tool to be used for student success. Good pedagogical techniques, collaboration across departments, and teaching circles are employed to create a dynamic learning environment for students and teachers.

Norah Kerr McCurry, Director
Teaching and Learning Center
Brookdale Community College
Kathleen Offenholley, Professor
Mathematics
Brookdale Community College


Roundtable Discussion
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

No matter how well you explain those concepts, real learning will not take place if your students are bored. Many learning styles require involvement, and when people are having fun they get involved. In this interactive workshop, participants will explore innovative ways to make learning fun. We’ll go from Ho Hum to Fun in 60 minutes flat.

Maureen Colenso, Professor
Microcomputer Specialist
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Video has the power to transform any lesson into a memorable learning experience. This session will provide a brief look back at the evolution of video delivery methods and a look forward at new and emerging digital technologies impacting the way video is delivered. Using a series of educational case studies, we’ll look at what has worked well, what hasn’t worked, and what steps you can take to ensure success with any digital video initiative.

Wendy Collins, Vice President
Digital Strategy
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Gina Cone, Manager
Marketing and Special Projects
North Seattle Community College


Forum Session
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Belle Chasse, Third Floor

With its streamlined yet robust interface, Microsoft Office 2007 offers more professional format options and advanced publishing features. In Word and PowerPoint, features such as live previews, themes, Quick Styles, SmartArt, and Quick Parts let your students explore and master more document publishing skills with ease. Excel and Access offer a wide array of new templates, enhanced sorting and searching techniques, and new page layout features.

Robert Galvin, Vice President
Sales
Paradigm Publishing


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Fountain, Third Floor

Improve reading and writing skills by creating mind maps which increase retention, comprehension, and the organization of main ideas. Include images, text, video,s and hyperlinks. Create professional interactive Timelines, and export to Word, PowerPoint, HTML, and Mediator. Mind maps help facilitate students’ analytical thinking, comprehension, creativity, and writing skills across the curriculum.

Dave Hamilton, Educational Advisor
Sales and Training
MatchWare, Inc.


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 18, First Floor

Discover the benefits of using interactive software in teaching and learning mathematics. Come see a demonstration of the Hawkes Learning Systems student software, the instructor online grade book, and our state-of-the-art test generator. This software promotes grade improvement and motivates students as helpful feedback is provided by artificial intelligence, unlimited practice problems, and mastery-based homework.

Emily Cook, Sales and Marketing
Sales and Marketing
Hawkes Learning Systems


Forum Session
3:00 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Magnolia, Third Floor

Learn about how to use AMSER (http://amser.org), a free online library created with National Science Foundation funding for community and technical college faculty and staff. Math, science, and engineering educators and trainers will benefit from this hands-on exploration of AMSER's tools and resources. Participants receive materials to aid in use of AMSER in classrooms.

Rachael Bower, Co-director
Computer Science
Internet Scout University of Wisconsin Madison
Susan Van Gundy, Director
Education and Outreach
National Science Digital Library


Forum Session
10:30 AM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 12, First Floor

NSU's has an innovative new doctoral program with a concentration in community college leadership. This program has been designed for full-time administrators and professors worldwide who wish to pursue all doctoral classes online with only one weekend orientation and a one-week on-site program of instruction. The doctorate is designed for professor and administrators who wish to complete their coursework within two years.

Fred Ricci, Professor
Education
Nova Southeastern University Abraham S. Fischler School of Education


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Online courses are sometimes derided as a new name for correspondence courses. That need not be the case. Presenters will discuss strategies and tools to move traditional online courses into the 21st century with video, audio, and social media. Many of these tools are free or inexpensive and can be used to engage all learners: adults, gamers, millennials, and neomillennials.

Norah Kerr McCurry, Director
Teaching and Learning Center
Brookdale Community College
Michael Qaissaunee, Professor
Engineering and Technology
Brookdale Community College
Gordon Snyder, Director
National Ict Center
Springfield Technical Community College


Forum Session
12:00 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 4, First Floor

A recent study of the educational outcomes in elementary statistics and college algebra classes at the University of Mississippi compared two leading software products with classes taught in a traditional fashion. We found that only one of the products produced significant learning improvements, whereas the other actually reduced average grades. We will discuss the results and ways in which computer-aided learning is effective in the classroom.

Tristan Denley, Chair and Associate Professor
Mathematics
University of Mississippi
Kimberly Denley, Instructor
Mathematics
University of Mississippi


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

To accommodate different learning styles, many professors are adapting their teaching and testing methods to meld with this diversity. Come be introduced to online, open-book, open-notebook testing; learn ways to facilitate test creation, inhibit cheating, and enhance learning; and view a demonstration of Respondus test-creation software used in conjunction with WebCT.

Melanie Arpaio, Instructor
Psychology
Sussex County Community College


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Wondering if you should build your own instructional design process and software tool? Piedmont Technical College went through a similar inquiry and chose a vendor. Learn about the specific factors related to this decision and what you should consider when reviewing the instructional design process at your institution.

Lynn Mack, Associate Dean
Instructional Development and Transfer Coordinator
Piedmont Technical College
Judy Neill, Director
Instructional Design
Worldwide Instructional Design System


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Oak Alley, Third Floor

With outdated curriculum and low student scores, Piedmont Technical College needed to redesign its nursing program so students could better succeed. Working with faculty, deans, and department chairs, the college identified criteria for alignment, program outcomes, competencies, performance standards, and program configuration. Using an external WIDS facilitator brought consistency, plus a software tool and training. Now courses are efficiently managed, instructors are skilled in instructional design, and matrix reports are generated for accreditation. Learn about the design process and tools used.

Lynn Mack, Associate Dean
Instructional Development and Transfer Coordinator
Piedmont Technical College


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Participants will learn how to use painting as a prewriting strategy to enhance specific recall by visualization and to diminish student anxiety about their perceived verbal and cognitive limitations. This strategy might also be used in other disciplines, such as literature and history, when, for example, student analysis of a trend or recognition of a pattern might be encouraged by first perceiving it visually.

Sharoh Moore, Counselor
Holomua (Developmental)
Kapi‘olani Community College


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Melrose, Third Floor

Did you know the most homeless person in the United States is a seven-year-old child? Advocating for these deserving children is an opportunity for students to earn college credit while changing the world. We use field experiences at Family Gateway, a shelter for needy families, to analyze social issues and poverty, child and adolescent psychology, cultural diversity, and the allocation of scarce resources. This presentation is ideal for educators who believe the classroom can create societal change.

Dave Shorow, Professor
Business and Technology
Richland College
John Millemon, Assistant Dean
Human and Academic Development
Richland College
Jason Wright, Tutor Coordinator
Human and Academic Development
Richland College


Forum Session
3:00 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 10, First Floor

Workshop participants will engage in small group discussions and hands-on activities, with illustrative examples and useful handouts, to adapt a practical model of assessment, incorporate intended learning outcomes into syllabus, align outcomes to assignments, and use routinely graded student assignments to generate assessment results. The model is applicable to a variety of disciplines and course delivery formats.

Shree Iyengar, Professor
Chemistry
Anne Arundel Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Oak Alley, Third Floor

African-American males’ low participation rate and persistence in higher education has become a national issue. Presenters will define the problem based on information and data, share best practices in higher education programs, and provide materials that may serve as resources for individuals wanting to address this issue. Additionally, participants will hear the voices of successful students as they discuss this issue and the factors that have contributed to their success.

Jennifer Wimbish, President
Cedar Valley College
Andrew Jones, Chancellor
Coast Community College District


Forum Session
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 16, First Floor

This forum presents two different examples of project-based learning programs that provide students an educational experience they can immediately apply in their community: the Project Learning Model being developed by the Priestly School of Architecture and Construction in New Orleans, and the Service Learning model being piloted by Richland College at the Family Gateway Shelter in Dallas.

Gary John, Professor and Coordinator
Human and Academic Development
Richland College
Ray Nichols, Board Member
Priestly School of Architecture and Construction


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Rosedown, Third Floor

Composition anthologies are by their nature out of date and reflect the agendas of their editors, rather than their readers. This workshop presents successful strategies to find readings that engage our students and fulfil our pedagogical purposes. Participants will leave with innovative approaches for engaging their students and helping them to develop research skills, critical thinking skills and avoid plagiarism. This workshop will benefit classroom instructors and those who whish to encourage pedagogical innovation.

Wayne Fulks, Professor
Liberal Arts
Sullivan County Community College - SUNY


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Come explore the success of the Problem Solving with LEGO Robotic Systems Summer Institutes held by Louisiana Delta Community College in 2005-06. These intergenerational institutes were hosted by TEAM-Delta, our student technology, engineering, and modeling club, and facilitated by certified teachers, parent volunteers, and Delta faculty and staff.

Lyneta Coats, Teacher
Carroll High School
Monroe City School Board


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Belle Chasse, Third Floor

The Sakai Project, named after television’s "Iron Chef" Sakai Hiroyuki, has established the foundation for rapidly propagating innovation in higher education. More than 105 institutions have joined, adopting Sakai software to support teaching, learning, and collaboration – including the ETUDES Project, a consortium of more than 30 institutions, primarily California community colleges. Learn about Sakai and consortia efforts like the ETUDES Project, and find out how your institution can benefit.

Vivie Sinou, Executive Director
Etudes, Inc.


Special Session
8:00 AM
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Grand Salon 6, First Floor

This roundtable will address how to successfully establish a professional working relationship with community agencies for a service-learning program, how to design a service-learning manual, contact an agency, sett up orientations, establish open communication, and engage in problem-solving with the agency. The session benefits those looking to start a service-learning program and those looking for innovative styles to improve an established service-learning program.

Ronald Nespeca, Professor
Kinesiology
Lone Star College System


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

An interactive session for those seeking to develop a service-learning class and those wanting to extend their currect approaches. A dialogue will take place on what service learning is and how to do it. Exercises will establish a classroom community and form a rapport with a community partner, and barriers will also be discussed. Participants will hear about service-learning projects and receive handouts and sample forms.

John Tigue, Dean
Academic Affairs
Baton Rouge Community College


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 9, First Floor

New technologies are consistently incorporated into education. Instructors have abilities to demonstrate in ways never before imaginable. However, technostress escalates with the traditional lecture frowned upon, edutainment concerns, lack of technical support, funding problems, and equipment breakdowns.This panel addresses common administration and teaching issues in a technologically mediated learning space.

Robert Saldarini, Chair
Business
Bergen Community College
Gisela Ables, Chair
History and Geography
Houston Community College - Northwest College
Donnie Kirk, Instructor
Speech
Vernon College


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Magnolia, Third Floor

This session discusses two strategies which faculty in Humanities Department have adopted to help students enhance their writing skills. The first is the use of specific rubrics to grade assignemnts. The second is a learning community in partnership with the Developmental Studies Department. This presentation should benefit any faculty who are interested in ways to improve their students’ writing.

Michael Coste, Faculty
Library
Front Range Community College
Angelica McMillan, Faculty
Humanities
Front Range Community College
Stewart Erlich, Faculty
Developmental Studies
Front Range Community College


Forum Session
3:45 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Belle Chasse, Third Floor

The increasing number of part-time faculty makes their integration with full-time faculty a vital issue to be addressed by community colleges in planning for adjunct faculty success. Explore systems and strategies to ensure excellence in the use of part-time faculty in the classroom. A model of hiring practices, methods of orientation, models of teacher preparation including the LENs and Adjunct Certification Training programs, and award and recognition will be presented. Many applications and examples will be shared. This workshop will be highly interactive. Handout materials will include lists of online resources and examples of established programs that model current strategies at community colleges. At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to develop strategies that can incorporated into their institutional strategic plan for adjunct faculty.

Joseph Gadberry, Consultant
Johnson County Community College
Helen Burnstad, Director Emeritus
Staff and Organizational Development
Johnson County Community College


Learning Center Course
9:00 AM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 21, First Floor

This session highlights the leadership of innovative diffusion. Session participants will be exposed to authentic applications applied in diverse locations and engaging different populations in understanding the power of foresight and its application to creating the best possible local future. Participants will have an opportunity to network directly with this emerging group of local-oriented futurists.

Stephen Steele, Director
Institute for the Future
Anne Arundel Community College
Diane Ford, Director
Workforce Training Development
Northern Wyoming Community College District


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 16, First Floor

This session profiles the new instructional paradigms required when teaching technology to student populations with a wide range of technical and language skills. This session will focus on alternative methods of providing instruction, including optimal-use team learning, grade balancing, coaching, and advanced topic relevance.

Steve Lee, Discipline Coordinator
Instruction
Colorado Mountain College


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

This session includes how to develop a futures course and is based on the work of faculty members who have developed a course on futuring and the art of foresight. Participants will learn the basic tools of futuring and their applicability to a well-rounded education. Participants will develop a syllabus as well as their own ideas for the course. This course is a must for educators interested in having their students become critical thinkers.

Joan Doolittle, Professor
Psychology
Anne Arundel Community College


Forum Session
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 9, First Floor

Miami Dade College and Valencia Community College are partnering to provide accessible, cost-effective adjunct faculty support. The series of ScenariosOnline courses foster collaboration within an online learning community for faculty at multiple locations who are often unable to attend face-to-face events. Participants will engage in scenarios-based course activities and leave with implementation strategies for their institution. Valuable for those responsible for professional development in districts with multiple colleges or campuses.

Marie Nock, District Director
College Training and Development
Miami Dade College - Kendall Campus
David Hosman, LinC Coordinator
Student Affairs
Valencia College


Forum Session
3:00 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Oak Alley, Third Floor

Hybridizing your traditional course can make it better and more accessible to students. It can help you stay organized and provide students with learning resources they can access anytime, anywhere. Participants will discuss the benefits of various learning methods and how they can be included in online, traditional, and hybrid classes.

Maureen Colenso, Professor
Microcomputer Specialist
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Qualified peer tutors are often hard to find, available for a limited time, and required to take peer tutor training while busy with jobs and families. One solution is a peer tutor training course like that offered at Finger Lakes Community College. Students receive social science credit and academic support centers benefit from well-trained tutors. This session is for teaching faculty and professionals in academic support centers.

Karen O'Donnell, Professor
Developmental Studies
Finger Lakes Community College - SUNY
Patricia Malinowski, Professor
Business
Finger Lakes Community College - SUNY


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Access to baccalaureate degrees through community colleges is improving every day. This session will explore the articulation, university center, virtual, and conferring models now prevalent throughout the United States and Canada. Issues of emerging public policy, challenges of implementation, accreditation considerations, and an up-to-date inventory of degrees currently being conferred by community colleges will be presented.

Beth Hagan, Executive Director
Community College Baccalaureate Association
Roberta Teahen, Director
Doctorate in Community College Leadership
Ferris State University


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 9, First Floor

Just as learning and teaching strategies are changing in response to new technology and classroom strategies, tutoring in the next 25 years will undergo a major facelift. Technology will impact how tutoring is delivered – iPods, computers, online approaches, contract services, and other emerging services will be explored. Professional tutors, faculty, and tutoring directors will be interested in sharing the ideas and the excitement.

J. Juechter, Director
Institutional Advancement
Bronx Community College - CUNY


Roundtable Discussion
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Do you have lethargic, unmotivated students? Come hear our tips on how to strengthen students’ learning and help them study smarter. Explore what's new in neurobiology and the classroom connections for effective teaching and learning. We will concentrate on making learning fun, why some teaching techniques work and others don't, and how gender can make a difference in teaching and learning.

Marilyn Shopper, Professor
Science
Johnson County Community College
Charis Sawyer, Professor
Reading
Johnson County Community College


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Melrose, Third Floor

Participants will learn the power of building better interpersonal communications strategies and bridging interpersonal communication gaps by connecting with the intricacies of social, historical, and political context. The dynamisms of subcultural norms will be examined as key components in building effective strategies.

Ironda Campbell, Assistant Professor
Communication and Academic Studies
Pierpont Community and Technical College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

During the first five years of the Center for Formation in the Community College, 45 colleges in 24 states committed to developing formation facilitation teams. Looking to our next five years, we’ll share a vision of the future of this inner work and the effect it can have on institutional life. We’ll open with quiet reflection, discuss the response to formation in colleges and plans for new collaborations, and invite participants to discuss bringing formation to a college.

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
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 10, First Floor

Roundtable participants will learn how the Seven Ps framework was developed, how it was used with a learning project at Prince George's Community College, and how the concept can move from paper to practice. Administrators, faculty, and staff who are responsible for or involved in a learning-centered initiative, as well as those who seek to have a practical understanding of learning-centeredness, will benefit.

Kirk Nooks,
Northern Virginia Community College


Roundtable Discussion
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Explore video learning resources and learn how your faculty’s online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses can benefit and be enriched. Dallas TeleLearning will present examples of how to use video effectively in today's internet-based learning environment, especially in scaled sections of core transfer courses where developing, managing, and maintaining quality are vitally important. This presentation will benefit all levels of higher education administrators and faculty.

Rachelle Howell, Dean
Marketing
Dallas Learning Solutions (Formerly Known as Dallas TeleLearning)
Valerie Cavazos, Director
Marketing
Onlinecommunitycolleges.org


Forum Session
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 13, First Floor

This project, funded by the Department of Education, addresses the extreme shortage of special education teachers in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) through an innovative field-based program designed to bring diverse professionals – career changers – into the urban schools. Northeastern Illinois University, in partnership with CPS, has prepared 80 new teachers, many with community college background, combining traditional university coursework with extensive field-based supervision and instruction.

Effie Kritikos, Associate Professor
Special Education
Northeastern Illinois University


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Faculty and instructional designers will learn about Richland College’s experience with establishing a framework for cultural awareness, including building institutional support and collaborative international partnerships, bridging cultural and language barriers, selecting and evaluating instructors and students, adapting software for flexible, online delivery, adjusting course components to cultural and learning-style preferences, and the many benefits of the web-cam and other technologies.

Fred Newbury, Faculty
Business
Dallas County Community College District
Joyce Williams, District Director
Workforce Education
Dallas County Community College District


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Magnolia, Third Floor

This interactive presentation provides guidelines and tools for conceptualizing, strengthening, and evaluating linked courses and integrated learning communities. Research on learning communities will be discussed. A case example of a developmental English and study skills class link will illustrate a successful collaboration. An in-development learning community of writing, history, and research classes will also be discussed. Participants will receive handouts and worksheets to assist them in identifying shared outcomes and assignments.

Gina Huston, Dean
Student Development
Olympic College
Koi Tirima, Professor
English
Olympic College
Dianne Moore, Faculty
Library and Media Services
Olympic College


Forum Session
4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 16, First Floor

This hands-on session highlights the concept behind Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a new paradigm for teaching, learning, and assessment through flexible applications of technology and digital content. Session goals include identifying principles of UDL, applying strategies to classroom practices and curriculum planning, using technologies that support UDL, and developing action plans for the integration of UDL principles. This session is designed for educators, instructional designers, and administrators.

Kathleen Gay, Director
Educational Technology and Electronic Learning
Bossier Parish Community College
Desiree Devereaux, Coordinator
E-Learning
SOWELA Technical Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Grand Salon 7, First Floor

Participants will actively participate in the creation and publication of a podcast based on a lively and entertaining discussion of the use, and misuse, of technology in the classroom. Participants will learn the easiest methods for including this soon-to-be essential technology into their own coursework, thereby revitalizing their lectures and making self-assessment fun and painless in the process. Using a laptop computer, desktop microphone and Apple’s free iLife suite of applications, the facilitator will engage the audience in a lively discussion of how they use technology in the classroom, including cautionary tales they may have regarding the practices and pitfalls of today’s digital higher education environment. We will edit the recorded session together, add music and still images with a digital camera, and publish the resulting podcast to the web for all to access. PowerPoint-style presentations and printed handouts will punctuate the session so participants will be able to recreate the techniques in their own classrooms.

Harry St. Ours, Professor
Communication Arts Technologies
Montgomery College


Learning Center Course
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 21, First Floor

Real World Learning Objects (RWLOs) take advantage of some of the unique and compelling benefits of the Internet to create engaging, active learning activities in math, science, language arts and educational technology. In this session, faculty members will have an opportunity to explore RWLOs that have been developed by faculty from 33 community colleges through a U.S. Dept. of Education PT3 grant. It will feature an overview of RWLOs, their use, and value in engaging students. Participants will leave the session knowing how to access the extensive RWLO library as well as how to use these RWLOs in courses they are teaching.

Marie Nock, District Director
College Training and Development
Miami Dade College - Kendall Campus
Rhonda Berger, Director
Technology Training
Miami Dade College - Kendall Campus


Forum Session
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Magnolia, Third Floor

Strategic planning often requires a visionary approach to predicting how your college will evolve. Scenario planning, used by corporations, governments, and the military, is a powerful tool in helping planners visualize the future. This session will highlight a scenario developed to help planners predict the future of physical learning environments at a fictitious community college. Based on a number of predicted trends developed by an expert panel, participants will learn how Harbor Community College met the learning needs of its students, constituents, and stakeholders. Participants will also contribute to the scenario and apply its principal predictions to their own institutions.

William Flynn, Managing Director Emeritus
National Council For Continuing Education And Training


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Oak Alley, Third Floor

Teaching visual art courses online has its own set of challenges that differ from other disciplines. In this session, course demonstrations and facilitated discussion will give visual art instructors opportunities to share the best distance education practices. Find out what other visual art instructors are doing in their online courses. Share your own successes. Take home new ideas to add to your distance education repertoire.

Ron Herman, Instructor
Photography and Digital Imaging
Foothill College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Fountain, Third Floor

Vodcasting – video podcasting – is a relatively new term for distributing video files over the internet. Come see how two technical college instructors work with their administration to develop vodcasts using Camtasia to be delivered via the internet, video iPods, and Sony PSP's. Participants will help produce a vodcast that integrates video, PowerPoint, and an annotated Excel worksheet. You will leave this session with the skills to create your own vodcast.

Tina Cipriano, Instructor
Administrative Assistant
Gateway Technical College
Ken Haling, Instructor
Accounting
Gateway Technical College
Jeff Robshaw, Vice President and CIO
Learning Innovation
Gateway Technical College


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 22, First Floor

Many of us teach in more than one location or in online classes from wherever we are. But if our resources are stored in the wrong location, we’re stuck. One solution is BlackBoard, software that offers storage, structure, and accessibility for curriculum and source materials. Participants will learn how to set up an instructional resource area that they can access anytime from anywhere.

Maureen Colenso, Professor
Microcomputer Specialist
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

There is a simpler way to talk about learning assessment with students and faculty. We learned it from the river. In the face of great challenges, guides on a white water paddle raft assess to assist, assess to advance, and assess to adjust – and accountability model that works just as well in the classroom. Participants in this session should leave being able to use language and images from a white water river and bring clarity to assessment practices in the classroom.

Jane Reis, Faculty and Coordinator
Integrated Studies Program
North Seattle Community College


Forum Session
3:00 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 22, First Floor

This presentation will demonstrate the ability of a novice or semisavvy user to own and administer his or her own learning management system (LMS) through open-source applications and affordable online service providers. The presenters will provide an overview of installing and configuring Moodle, an open-source LMS, in a shared hosting environment for $10.00 per month or less.

Adam Brooks, Developer
Instruction and E-Learning
Central Piedmont Community College
Charles Henion, Instructor
Information Technology
Central Piedmont Community College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Participants will walk away with a road map of how to develop a strategy and a business plan that harness your institutions’ vertical subject matter expertise into revenue centers. The structure and process of integrating the college’s culture to attract industry and government resources is reviewed. The presentation provides an outline of steps to become an effective industry contract training solutions provider.

Duncan Burgess, Director
WorkSource
South Seattle Community College


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Magnolia, Third Floor

The Institute for Community College Development and Interact Communications conducted research to gauge the leadership succession crisis. They then created a program to attract Gen X and Gen Y leaders. Gravitational Leadership, aligned with the AACC competencies, will help launch new leaders while keeping current leaders grounded. This session is for leaders, those preparing for a leadership role, or those responsible for leadership development or succession planning.

Barbara Viniar, President
Chesapeake College


Forum Session
4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 13, First Floor

For the past 15 years, Anne Arundel Community College, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, and local business and industry have partnered to create seamless educational pathways that help facilitate successful student transition. Through our involvement in the College and Career Transition Initiative, we have focused strongly on the integration of student services and instruction at both the secondary and postsecondary levels. Participants will be provided with a framework for developing career pathways through shared focus, reflective practices, and collaboration with all partners. Participants receive examples of model outreach activities and materials developed by the partner work teams.

Kathleen Beauman, Director
Business Education Partnerships
Anne Arundel Community College
Lise Foran, Manager Smaller Learning Communities
Career and Technology Education
Anne Arundel County Public Schools


Forum Session
1:15 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 19, First Floor

How do you create an environment where people are free to create and innovate? Lethbridge College has embarked on a journey to foster a climate that will encourage excellence in leadership. We'll share our progress to date and invite your ideas and feedback to help us as we move forward.

Tracy Edwards,
No Institution


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Rosedown, Third Floor

During this session, we explore attributes rooted in higher education’s history, culture, and structure and identify critical strategies for a successful change initiative. Looking through this lens of change management, we take a candid look at how Montgomery College, a diverse, urban/suburban, multicampus community college, has engaged the entire community – from faculty to facilities techs – in its evolution to becoming a more learning-centered organization.

Clarice Somersall, Vice President
Academic Initiatives and Partnerships
Montgomery College
Mary Kay Shartle-Galotto, Executive Vice President for Academic and Student
Academic Student Services
Montgomery College
Krista Walker, Director
Human Resources
Montgomery College


Forum Session
12:00 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 9, First Floor

In this interactive forum two senior administrators from academic and student development describe a collaborative model designed to maximize student success. Topics include campus culture, administrative structures, and opportunities for formal and informal collaboration. Collaborative efforts at BCC have resulted in increased enrollment and improved retention numbers. Participants will share their experiences with collaboration and assess how the BCC model might work at their campuses.

Jason Finkelstein, Assistant Dean
Academic Affairs
Bronx Community College - CUNY
Bernard Gantt, Dean
Enrollment Management
Bronx Community College - CUNY


Forum Session
4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 7, First Floor

What will participants in this session learn? Roundtable participants will learn about the first-year results from establishing a comprehensive system of collaborative governance. During the discussion, the challenges and opportunities associated with developing the governance system will be highlighted. Participants will learn about the differences between collaborative and shared governance. Who will this session particularly benefit? Administrators, faculty and staff who are interested in solving challenges and issues surrounding college governance.

Kirk Nooks,
Northern Virginia Community College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Come learn how Morton College transformed into the community’s college by creating an administrative body proficient in diverse cultural ideas and experiences that allowed the college to connect with the community. Participants will learn strategies used to attract qualified candidates and they will be able to share their best hiring practices. This session will benefit faculty, administrators, and trustees serving on hiring committees.

Manuel Gomez, Associate Dean
Academic Affairs
Morton College


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Magnolia, Third Floor

On April 7, 2006, Volunteer State Community College was hit by an F-3 tornado, causing $6 million dollars in damage, and luckily only minor injuries. The president's office, business office, and public relations office received massive damage, and crisis response had to be carried out with what we had. Previous crisis planning, including various phone and email contact lists, helped immensely in the hours and days that followed. Come join this discussion of what we have learned and done to improve our crisis preparation and response.

Eric Melcher, Coordinator
Communication and Public Relations
Volunteer State Community College
Warren Nichols,
Volunteer State Community College


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

This session provides an overview of a working crisis management plan for today's community college administrators. The plan,which was implemented at MGCCC after the college experienced the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, provides a working model that can help prepare your college for a natural or man-made disaster. The session includes examples of community support and workforce training opportunities that arise after a catastrophe.

Mary Graham, President
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Anna Faye Kelley-Winders, Vice President
Community Campus
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Billy Stewart, Vice President
Administration
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College


Forum Session
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Oak Alley, Third Floor

Enrolling half of the nation’s undergraduates, community colleges are committed to accessible higher education, yet face crucial economic and workforce development roles that can conflict with that commitment. Drawing upon case studies from six states, this panel discusses how these new challenges impact educational opportunity. A president of a Texas community college, part of the national Achieving The Dream initiative, discusses the practical difficulties of building an equity agenda.

James Jacobs, President
Macomb Community College
Thomas Bailey, Director
Community College Research Center
Columbia University Teachers College
Vanessa Smith Morest, Dean
Institutional Effectiveness
Norwalk Community College
Kay McClenney, Director
Marketing
Center for Community College Student Engagement


Special Session
2:30 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 6, First Floor

This session will help participants identify the characteristics of a successfully adopted and implemented diversity strategic plan, learn about ways in which principles of justice and equity for all students can be embedded and monitored in a complex public organization, and recognize strategies through which faculty, staff, and administration can work collaboratively to ensure a welcoming and educationally comfortable environment for all students.

Michael McGovern, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Northampton Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 13, First Floor

Following the devastating tsunami in South Asia, Humber College provided technical assistance to small and medium enterprises in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, the area most severely affected. This project highlights how the depth of expertise within our colleges can serve as a resource for disaster recovery to benefit the larger community and the colleges themselves. This multimedia session will benefit those involved in faculty development or international projects.

Jim Skinner, Professor
Business School
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Guillermo Acosta, Program Coordinator and Professor
Business School
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Sheryn Beattie, Professor
Business School
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Belle Chasse, Third Floor

A continuing challenge among the nation’s community colleges is acceptance of transfer credits for distance delivered courses to four-year institutions. Other double standards persist for courses delivered via the internet: student attendance requirements, quality assurance, student reading and writing requirements, student course evaluation, instructor performance evaluation, etc. Faculty and administrators are invited to discuss the meaning and ramifications of marginalizing distance learning.

Judy Baker, Dean
Foothill Global Access
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Dolores Davison, Professor
Business and Social Sciences
Foothill College


Roundtable Discussion
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

This session is designed to help senior administrators determine their interest in and realistically evaluate their readiness for serving as college presidents. Innovative strategies for assessing readiness and for gaining essential experience in weaker areas will be explored. Matters of timing career moves into CEO positions will also be addressed.

Brenda Beckman, Senior League Consultant
League for Innovation in the Community College


Special Session
8:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 6, First Floor

Health officials state it's not a question of if but when a flu pandemic will strike. The government has asked us to prepare. Does your college have a plan? Through discussion, presentation of a sample plan, and a question and answer opportunity, you'll learn the importance of a thorough pandemic plan, including specific discussion of leadership, continuity of operations, infection control, campus closure, communication, and potential liability.

Tom Eckert, President
Blackhawk Technical College


Roundtable Discussion
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Our institution needed a plan to increase employee moral and retention. When we found an employee who was lost trying to find the mail room, we knew we needed a special time just for our new employees. Our educational technology and HR teams collaborated to design a half-day workshop that teaches new employees all they need to know about our institution and makes them feel valued.

Melanie Jackson, Director
Educational Technology and E-Learning
South Florida State College
Michele DeVane, Professor
Social and Behavioral Sciences
South Florida State College


Forum Session
1:15 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Fountain, Third Floor

To create a high-energy teaching and learning environment, San Jacinto College initiated two faculty-driven programs: professional development and faculty recognition. This workshop will help leaders and faculty understand how the process can be successfully implemented into the college culture to improve student learning. Materials will be distributed and time alloted for Q and A.

Ann Tate, Director
San Jacinto College District


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Rosedown, Third Floor

Learn more about engaging your faculty and staff in issues of quality teaching and learning, student engagement, academic challenge, living your college’s core values, and accepting responsibility for action. Participants will learn from Illinois Central College. as it takes action from its second round of CCSSE data, embarks on three AQIP projects, uses Six Sigma teams, and continues the ongoing work in assessment. Participants will work together to discover new strategies to increase engagement of their own faculty and staff in quality issues.

Janice Kinsinger, Associate Dean
Instructional Innovation and Learning Resources
Illinois Central College
Patrice Hess, Director
Instructional Innovation and Learning Resources
Illinois Central College


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

Getting Results, a free, online faculty development project produced by WGBH-Boston in association with the League for Innovation, and funded by the National Science Foundation, is the focus of this workshop designed for faculty development professionals. Project consultant Allatia Harris leads this train-the-trainer workshop, which has an intended outcome of helping participants become more familiar with the six modules. Participants will experience Getting Results content and activities with other faculty development professionals, and they will craft a model for implementing their own faculty development program using the modules.

Cynthia Wilson, Vice President
Learning and Research
League for Innovation in the Community College
Allatia Harris, President
San Jacinto College - North Campus


Learning Center Course
1:00 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 18, First Floor

This session is intended for colleagues engaged in professional development activities that involve the services of external presenters. It is designed to help in the clarification and communication of college interests and needs to ensure close alignment between audience, speaker selection, topics, and activities. Presenters will provide insights from college, service clearinghouse, and consultant perspectives and give examples of effective practices when bringing external experts to campus.

Ronald Baker, CEO and Principal Consultant
Baker Collegiate Consulting
Allatia Harris, President
San Jacinto College - North Campus


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Oak Alley, Third Floor

For a college’s technology leader, in the ever-changing world of technology, installing new elements – software or hardware – is the easy part. Leading the institution to adopt new and changing technology, though, takes the collaboration of constituents representing the entire college. Come learn some keys to successful collaboration, with specific examples of successful projects leading to both process and technology change at Ulster County Community College. This presentation applies to anyone participating in changing technology on a college campus.

Patricia Smith, Associate Chief Information Officer
Information Technology
Valencia College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

In 2005, Ivy Tech State College – a statewide vocational technical college emphasizing job training – gained sole responsibility for Indiana’s statewide comprehensive community college system and became Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, serving over 106,000 students annually in 14 regions with 23 campuses and many other community sites. Come learn how we turned growing pains into growing gains. Our comprehensive strategic plan focuses on expanding educational opportunities throughout the state and increasing enrollment by 50 percent by 2010.

Mike Clippinger, Assistant Dean of Instructional Support
Academic Affairs
Ivy Tech Community College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

This hands-on discussion focuses on Richland College’s approaches for hiring, orienting, developing, and retaining a high performing faculty and staff. From hiring non-negotiables to annual professional development requirements including intercultural competence training to planning for succession management, Richland’s Director of the Thunderwater Organizational Learning Institute will share how Richland deploys its strategies to ensure employee success.

Roy Bond, Associate Dean
Thunderwater Organizational Learning Institute
Richland College


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

The massive number of baby boomer retirements of instructional administrators and executive leadership teams is a daunting challenge. The challenge of recruitment and employment of individuals who understand the role of leading a community college in the 21st century will provide colleges new opportunities for leadership development and succession planning. Presenters will share the MGCCC Leadership Training Program and Succession Plan. Participants will engage in case-based scenarios.

Anna Faye Kelley-Winders, Vice President
Community Campus
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Mary Graham, President
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 19, First Floor

This session presents a distinctive perspective and overview of coaching methods that are sure to increase staff and faculty performance and satisfaction in the workplace. Using Co-Active Coaching described by Whitworth, Kimsey-House, and Sandahl, participants will learn hands-on skills to assist them in developing their own coaching staff development models.

Janice Aanenson, Manager
School Administration
Capella University


Roundtable Discussion
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

Using a shared governance model, Clark College successfully changed its tobacco use policy and became a tobacco-free campus. Come learn how we did it, what we would do differently, and how it could change your campus.

Rebecca Wale, Manager
Human Resources
Clark College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

The first generation of outcome-based learning environments has been in operation for several years. A panel discussion will examine the motivation, process, and results on several campuses that have successfully created and are implementing culture-altering physical spaces. Administrators, staff, and faculty will benefit from the experiences of those who have led the way in creating the campus facilities of the future that are altering the adventure of learning today.

Terry Hajduk, Owner
Learning Environment Planning And Design
Hajduk Llc
William Flynn, Managing Director Emeritus
National Council For Continuing Education And Training
Carol Brown,
Eastfield College
Michael Schoop, Campus President
Cuyahoga Community College - Metropolitan Campus


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Belle Chasse, Third Floor

Participants in this session will focus on forecasts impacting community college enrollment management strategic planning for the next decade, priorities for community college enrollment management leadership, implications for enrollment management retooling, and critical checkpoints for individualized community college enrollment management remodeling. This session will benefit community college leaders vested in making enrollment management related institutional advancements and enhancements.

Barbara Keener, Faculty
Education
Capella University


Forum Session
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 16, First Floor

Frederick Community College successfully renewed its accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, then developed a new multiyear strategic plan based on recommendations from its self-study as a situational analysis to develop collegewide goals and objectives for the new plan. This session is helpful for presidents, strategic planners, and others who have planning responsibilities.

Gohar Farahani, Executive Director
Assessment and Research
Frederick Community College
Mick O'Leary, Executive Director
Library
Frederick Community College


Forum Session
12:00 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 16, First Floor

Proposal: Innovative Degree Development in Response to a New College Mandate The British Columbia (B.C.) provincial government recently expanded the mandate of B.C. colleges to include the offering of applied degrees. In response to this expanded mandate and a large government driven five year growth initiative, Douglas College has implemented a number of new degree programs. These degree programs include a wide range of models from collaborative and joint degree programs with other degree institutions, through to two plus two and integrated degree models offered by Douglas College. The process of implementing degree programs first began with the development of an Academic Plan that outlined the key strategic directions the college hoped to achieve through new program development. Subsequent to adoption of this plan the college embarked on the development of a new degree development policy that would guide the process of degree development. In addition, a sub-committee of Education Council was tasked with the responsibility of establishing standards for review of degree proposal; including depth and breath requirements. Following development and adoption of the Academic Plan, a Tactical Plan was developed. This plan included a college-wide (Education Division) component along with specific Faculty plans developed by each of the seven Faculties. These plans addressed the details of program development and also addressed the concomitant changes that would occur in regards to scholarly activity development, implementation of an Academic Signature, increased student engagement, and increased access and foundational support opportunities. To date, Douglas College has implemented three new baccalaureate degrees and four collaborative or joint baccalaureate degrees. Three additional Douglas College degrees are expected to be implemented in September 2007, with a fourth one planned for September 2008. Douglas is also presently working with four other colleges to develop a collaborative Bachelor of Performing Arts degree that is planned for implemented in September 2008. These degrees, in combination with other new program initiatives, have significantly enhanced the post-secondary access of students served by Douglas College.

Jan Lindsay, President and CEO
North Island College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Middle States coordinators of Erie Community College demonstrate how their successful governance and planning (GAP) model allows for the incorporation of a sustainable assessment process. We will illustrate the GAP model, focusing on how assessment is incorporated into our program review process and how that assessment element feeds into our planning cycle. Participants will receive copies of the GAP and the planning and assessment models.

Maryann Justinger, Professor
Mathematics and Computer Science
Erie Community College - SUNY
Christina Slazak, Professor
Nursing
Erie Community College - SUNY
Louise Kowalski, Assistant Professor
Information Technology - Middle States
Erie Community College - SUNY


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Melrose, Third Floor

Just like jazz, community colleges are an American art form that needs leaders who can improvise with the best of them. Learn how to be a swinging program manager who gets the job done and never sings the blues. This workshop will help you improve the harmony of your staff, get you singing an entrepreneurial tune, and earn you a standing ovation from adult learners and other stakeholders.

Patrick Dail, Senior Administrator
Continuing Education Division
Borough of Manhattan Community College - CUNY
Louann Tracy, Director
Continuing Education Department
Anne Arundel Community College


Forum Session
1:15 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Belle Chasse, Third Floor

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a generative way to energize the creative best in people and their organizations. While positive in focus, the appreciative approach does not avoid problems. Rather it refocuses energy away from ideas of blame and the cause of problems to possibilities and solutions. Participants will also learn how they can become trained to facilitate AI on their campuses.

Kathy Becker, President
Training
Company of Experts.net


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 22, First Floor

Learn how the actions and leadership of lesbian administrators can influence a cultural shift toward a more equitable and inclusive community college culture. Participants will receive an intricate map and cache of leadership tools for daily use in navigating, influencing, and transforming environment, communication, policy, and advancement. Lesbian leaders, those who support lesbian leaders, and anyone who wants to employ and retain rich leadership will benefit.

Rebecca Kenney, Vice President
Instruction
College of Alameda


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

Midlands Technical College Commission developed a model for analyzing cost, and the college’s credit and noncredit programs were analyzed using the model. The analysis resulted in a better understanding of the college’s cost of programs and provided an effective strategic decision-making tool. Come learn more about this model and how it may help your college make strategic decisions.

Ron Rhames, Vice President
Business Affairs
Midlands Technical College
Marshall White, President
Midlands Technical College
Robert Dozier, Chair
Midlands Technical College Commission
Midlands Technical College


Forum Session
12:00 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 24, First Floor

Many higher education organizations are struggling to create a climate of support for learning across all sectors of the institution. Nurturing department and division leaders who can make student learning their first priority when making difficult decisions is essential. Come join this interactive session and learn how one college takes training faculty leaders very seriously. The presenter will emphasize an essential component of this authentic leadership development process: cooperation and collaboration across all institutional lines to create a real learning-centered college.

Sandra Carey, Dean
Bluegrass Community and Technical College - KCTCS


Roundtable Discussion
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

With the arrival of a new college president, cultural change is often inevitable. Come hear one team’s perspective in effecting change as they moved from obscurity to empowerment. Join a conversation with members of the Lethbridge College President's Task Force Team as they describe their experiences in going through this time of change.

Tracy Edwards,
No Institution
Dean Johnson, Manager
Network Services
Lethbridge College


Forum Session
12:00 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 19, First Floor

This session provides a description of efforts made by Delta College Academic Administration to add to the diversity of the faculty. Participants gain information about successful recruitment techniques used by Delta to generate large, diverse pools of faculty candidates over a three-year period of high faculty attrition due to retirements. This session will benefit anyone in administration or human resources who is interested in potential recruitment strategies for creating large, diverse pools of candidates for faculty positions.

Karen Wilson, Professor
Teaching and Learning
Delta College
Judy Miller, Dean
Learning Support Systems
Delta College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 12, First Floor

Delagado Community College lost 70 percent of its physical plant and significant enrollment due to Hurricane Katrina. The college quickly realized that one way to remain vital was to move most of its course offerings online. An outreach was made to Fielding Graduate University to assist with strategic planning for substantive change as well as training and coaching for faculty in online course design and delivery, resulting in a partnership between the two institutions. Presenters will discuss the partnership and a panel of faculty from Delgado will discuss the impact this has had on the institution.

Rena Palloff, Faculty and Director
Educational Leadership and Change
Fielding Graduate University
Keith Pratt, Faculty
Business
Capella University


Forum Session
3:45 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 13, First Floor

This program will review the issues related to the impace of a pandemic flu on a college. Learn about compliance with emergency planning under the National Incident Management System as an overview to pandemic planning, and join a facilitated discussion to explore critical issues for colleges. An overview of resources related to pandemic planning, including two national checklists and alternative educational program and service delivery for students, will be provided.

Daryl Johnston, Director
Institute of Public Safety
Santa Fe College
Anne Kress, President
Monroe Community College - SUNY


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Melrose, Third Floor

Tri-County Technical College and Clemson University partnered to create an invitation-only transfer program. Through Tri-County, students complete 30 credit hours and receive specially designed services culminating in a seamless transition to the university. Students will participate in a living and learning community as Tri-County implements the Learning Excellence Initiative, a three-pronged approach for improving student learning. Faculty and administrators will receive an overview and discuss the logistics of implementation.

Robin McFall, Department Head
English
Tri-County Technical College
Galen DeHay, Department Head
Science
Tri-County Technical College


Forum Session
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 12, First Floor

Come watch as distance learning is demystified in a behind-the-scenes comparison of programs at Foothill College, Florida Community College at Jacksonville, and San Diego Community College District in terms of policies; procedures; services such as proctored testing, online tutoring, and plagiarism protection; faculty performance eval process; workloads; and others. A case will be made that currently no one community college’s approach is the magic bullet to success.

Judy Baker, Dean
Foothill Global Access
Foothill-De Anza Community College District


Poster Session
3:00 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Chemin Royale, First Floor

Come see an overview of a 45-hour training program developed to grow successful online instructors. Our instructors become students as they progress through this program, which combines pedagogical theory; practical information; best practices; hands-on practice; hardware, software and CMS training; and some online activities. We share a quick and easy way to bring fun into the training. Roundtable participants receive our extensive course plans, sample activities, and assessments.

Melanie Jackson, Director
Educational Technology and E-Learning
South Florida State College
Jessica Webb, Chief Information Officer and Executive Director
Information Technology and Institutional Research
North Florida Community College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

In the next 5 years, community colleges will need more than 3,000 new presidents and vice presidents; in the next 15 years, they will need more than 62,000 new full-time faculty members. Many of these new leaders will be prepared in Walden University’s Community College Leadership specialization. Come learn why this rapidly growing program is one of the most innovative and substantive graduate programs ever created, and meet Julie Waskow, the program’s first graduate.

Terry O'Banion, President Emeritus
League For Innovation
League for Innovation in the Community College
Laura Weidner, Dean
Center for Workforce Solutions
Anne Arundel Community College


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 7, First Floor

Delta College has uncovered a way to meet needs for professional development and staff productivity and motivation while building a framework for developing leadership. Presenters will share the core program and strategies session participants can use to build similar models. In addition, major elements Delta used in developing the first Michigan statewide conference for community college support staff will be covered.

Michele Allen, Manager
Academic Testing Center
Delta College
Susann Deford, Office Professional
English Division
Delta College


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 15, First Floor

The Community College of Southern Nevada (CCSN) experienced a 163 percent growth in e-learning enrollment during a four-year period. This growth creates such issues as meeting demand for more e-learning courses, providing help desk support, developing e-learning degree programs, developing quality standards and guidelines for e-learning course development, providing equivalent online student services to students, and more. Come learn our survival strategies while facing these issues.

Terry Norris, Director
E-Learning
College of Southern Nevada


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

Share the exciting odyssey of Moraine Valley Community College (Palos Hills, IL) in its six-year quest for a diverse and inclusive environment. Discover how the college recognized the need for a new strategic priority, built consensus among faculty and staff, engaged students, and developed a diversity plan, the commitment to which has led today to the selection of three key projects for AQIP reaccreditation. Furthermore, participants will learn how to develop the necessary components for a diversity plan to take back home.

Sylvia Jenkins, President
Moraine Valley Community College
Andrew Duren, Executive Vice President
Administrative Services
Moraine Valley Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 13, First Floor

Explore the processes involved in reinventing a campus, focusing on reshaping the culture, seeking new faculty and staff to replace retiring faculty and staff, and using the learning college concept as the organizational principle for the task. Share your ideas about transitioning leadership to promote a shared vision of becoming a learning-centered campus that focuses on successful student learning experiences. Administrators and faculty will benefit.

Terry Jones, Provost
Portsmouth Campus
Tidewater Community College


Forum Session
3:45 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 24, First Floor

Rio Salado College, one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the United States, has developed an approach to preparing community college leaders that will take the college to higher levels of excellence, providing training and mentoring programs that support a comprehensive leadership model. The Rio Salado College Leadership Model is a balanced approach that develops leaders in the realm of individual, organization, and community.

Todd Aakhus, Director
Community Partnerships
Rio Salado College
Sharon Koberna, Associate Dean
Academic Affairs
Rio Salado College


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 24, First Floor

The purpose of Red Deer College’s President’s Leadership Development Certificate program is to enhance and develop leadership capacity by developing leaders at all levels. The program combines three elements – assessment, active learning, and support – to create a powerful learning experience. This session is of interest to those involved in staff and faculty training, leadership development, and expanding organizational capacity.

Lori Stuber,
Red Deer College


Forum Session
9:15 AM
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Grand Salon 12, First Floor

Effective risk management requires an understanding of best business practices, legal liability, and a framework for effective decision making. Bronx Community College has embarked on a strategic model to foster cutting edge business operations. Three components of the strategic model will be presented: (1) incorporating the logic model into decision-making; (2) adopting Sarbanes-Oaxley principles of ethics, transparency, and problem anticipation; and (3) addressing equal employment opportunity and diversity.

Mary Rogan, Legal Counsel
Presidents Office
Bronx Community College - CUNY
Nancy Ritze, Dean
Institutional Research and Planning
Bronx Community College - CUNY
Sahana Gupta, Assistant
Office of the President
Bronx Community College - CUNY


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 24, First Floor

At Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey, the New Faculty Orientation program achieved highly successful results by focusing on communication and team-building activities rather than information about college policies and procedures. Orientation activities included common readings, writing across the curriculum, interactive roundtable discussions, speed-meeting interactions, and a group project. This interactive presentation looks at RVCC’s faculty orientation program.

Thomas Valasek, Interim Dean
Faculty
Raritan Valley Community College
Constance Mierendorf, Special Assistant
President's Office
Hudson County Community College
Bick Treut, Instructor
Communication and Languages
Raritan Valley Community College
Gwendolyn Kane, Assistant Professor
English
Raritan Valley Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Grand Salon 22, First Floor

El Paso Community College and the University of Texas at El Paso have partnered with 12 school districts to reduce the number of students needing remediation upon entering higher education. This effort is resulting in increased placement of students in college level courses, better student retention, and better student persistence. The partnership and the program are detailed for instructional administrators, faculty, and staff.

Dennis Brown, President
Lee College
Richard Rhodes, President and Chief Executive Officer
Austin Community College District
Joyce Ritchey, Dean
Analytical Chemistry Studies Division
El Paso Community College


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 19, First Floor

Never before has the identification and development of the next generation of community college leaders been so critical for our institutions. This session will offer insights in helping community colleges define the new leader, build alignment with organizational strategy, and build a systemic leadership development program.

Donald Cameron, President Emeritus
Guilford Technical Community College
Charles Carroll, Vice President
Instruction and Student Services
Florida Gateway College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Grand Salon 15, First Floor

Increasing accountability requires institutions to put processes in place that ensure institutional efforts are correctly and efficiently aligned with stakeholder needs. This session will present how Sinclair Community College employed these principles in its program alignment efforts. The session focuses on the technological innovations used to ensure both campuswide input and consistent use of a common data set.

Michael Burns, Director
Systems Development and Maintenance
Sinclair Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 7, First Floor

This presentation's main objective is to explore how service learning can enhance environmental education in the classroom, in the community, and across the campus. Traditional college-level environmental curricula do not always provide the basic skills needed to address enormous environmental issues today. Service learning may enhance a students’ abilities to meet these challenges and help them assist their college and community in setting green standards. The data can inform administrators and faculty.

Rosemarie Russo, Dean
Instruction and Transfer
Front Range Community College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

One of the major elements in developing a successful faculty diversity program is establishing a welcoming culture. Minority candidates who perceive a hostile and or indifferent campus climate are less likely to remain at that campus. It is important to distinguish here between a campus culture of tolerance versus a culture of welcoming and acceptance. Participants will be exposed to strategies to increase the likelihood of minority faculty recruitment and persistence.

Andrew Jones, Chancellor
Coast Community College District
Karen Wilson, Professor
Teaching and Learning
Delta College


Special Session
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 6, First Floor

El Paso Community College is experiencing a challenging and exciting metamorphosis by taking on nontraditional functions, forming nontraditional partnerships, serving nontraditional customers, and using nontraditional methods. The presenters will share their experiences with session participants and encourage others to do the same in an open dialogue. This session will be of interest to all faculty, staff, and administrators.

Shirley Gilbert, Special Assistant
Presidents Office
Austin Community College District
Richard Rhodes, President and Chief Executive Officer
Austin Community College District


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Melrose, Third Floor

It takes perceptive leaders to juggle the competing demands of the Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials in today's workplace. Methods for communicating, motivating, and retaining this diverse workforce will be presented. This information will be helpful to community college faculty and administrators who seek to understand students in the academic environment.

Melanie Hilburn, Professor
Managment and Marketing
Lone Star College System


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

This session will outline the recovery and redevelopment of the hardest hit community college in the Katrina Hurricane disaster. It will include summary references from recent publications, national response efforts in support of rebuilding Delgado Community College, and opportunities to exchange ideas towards the development of your college’s disaster response plans.

Alex Johnson, President
Presidents Office
Community College of Allegheny County


Special Session
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 6, First Floor

Paul Elsner completed his 13th Sedona Conference and Conversation in Guan Zhou, China, in November 2006. Using video art, digital media, and independent document film genre, he will trace several of the Sedona’s agendas, including Women in Technology; Authentic Lives, Vital Institution; Demystifying Digital Media; The Open-Source Summit; and China on Our Mind. The presenters will also discuss how entertainment media technology and education intersect, or how they don’t intersect.

Paul Elsner, Chancellor Emeritus
Center for Learning and Instruction
Mesa Community College
Gerardo de los Santos, President and CEO
League for Innovation in the Community College
Mark Milliron, Chancellor
Western Governors University


Roundtable Discussion
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

Paul Elsner completed his 13th Sedona Conference and Conversation in Guan Zhou, China, in November 2006. Using video art, digital media, and independent document film genre, he will trace several of the Sedona’s agendas, including Women in Technology; Authentic Lives, Vital Institution; Demystifying Digital Media; The Open-Source Summit; and China on Our Mind. The presenters will also discuss how entertainment media technology and education intersect, or how they don’t intersect.

Paul Elsner, Chancellor Emeritus
Center for Learning and Instruction
Mesa Community College


Special Session
1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 6, First Floor

Providing students with relevant instructional equipment has always been a challenge. Faculty members teaching technology compete for a share of the college instructional budget. This session will describe the development of the Digital Media Design Center at Frederick Community College, a unique collaboration of marketing, college and community service, four-year college partnerships, and instruction. Outside funding from a wide range of sources provides equipment and staff far beyond the limitations of the instructional budget. Learn how this model can be applied to your program.

Joseph Osmann, Professor
Digital Media
Frederick Community College


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Napoleon, Third Floor

In this session, three doctoral students in Walden University’s online Community College Leadership Ph. D. specialization share how they are using their doctoral experience to have a positive impact on their colleges. Walden enrolls 130 students in this innovative, learning-centered program in which all students use their colleges as learning laboratories to improve their jobs. This creative approach is designed to integrate the students’ academic experience and work life, providing an opportunity for aspiring leaders to have an immediate impact on the future of the community college.

Todd Aakhus, Director
Community Partnerships
Rio Salado College
Ann Beheler, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Porterville College
Julie Waskow, Chair
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Glendale Community College (AZ)


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 15, First Floor

Community college infrastructures, with their professional staff and diverse delivery systems, are ideally suited for creating parent education centers. This presentation, valuable for administrators and academicians, will demonstrate how a Maryland community college established a comprehensive family life education center that offers open enrollment parenting courses, consultative services, contract training, and opportunities for applied student learning.

Louis Aymard, Professor
Psychology
Anne Arundel Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 7, First Floor

The Kentucky Community and Technical College System and the NewCities Institute and Kentucky League of Cities, have formed a partnership – NewCitizens – that will enable KCTCS colleges to serve as a delivery system for NCI/KLC regional training. Faculty will have the opportunity to involve students in civic engagement and service learning opportunities leading to applied learning. The partnership will collaborate in “Leadership KCTCS: A Student Leadership Program.”

Gloria McFadden-McCall,
Kentucky Community and Technical College System - KCTCS


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 18, First Floor

This session is designed to highlight the dramatic changes in technology collectively called web2.0. These technologies are leading to growth in user-created content and other new innovative technologies that will dramatically impact the future of education. We will look at the impacts of sites like www.myspace.com, while developing a mental framework for how these trends will impact the delivery of quality higher education at the community college level.

Thomas Mancino, Associate Dean
Business and Information Technology
Tulsa Community College


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

The WebCouncil suite of web communication tools can be applied to problem solving across multiple disparate groups or for accelerating feedback cycles on an important initiative. We'll show how WebCouncil incorporates software, online access for all participants, a process tailored to your requirements, and an organizational development facilitator to achieve broad understanding and desired results through the use of highly participatory methodologies.

Gisele Larose, President
Marketing
WebStudy, Inc.


Forum Session
3:45 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Fountain, Third Floor

This session focuses on the evolution of a six-day series of faculty development workshops on online learning held at a rural community college. A faculty member, an instructional designer and an instructional technology specialist discuss the challenges they faced in creating, in less than six months, an institute for 75 faculty members, each with distinctive needs. This session will help other colleges plan and execute similar development opportunities.

David Graser, Instructor
Mathematics
Yavapai College
Tres Ikner, Educational Tech Specialist
Technology Enhanced Learning Services
Yavapai College
Thatcher Bohrman, Coordinator
Technology Enhanced Learning Services
Yavapai College


Forum Session
2:30 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 9, First Floor

The National Network for Pulp and Paper Technology Training, (npt)2, was established to provide the pulp and paper sector of the United States forest products industry with a globally competitive, technologically advanced workforce. This presentation will provide an overview of the successes and pitfalls of establishing a network of community colleges across the nation working toward a common goal of preparing the workforce of the future.

James Bond, Professor
General Education
Mid-State Technical College
Randy Parker, President
Guilford Technical Community College


Poster Session
3:00 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Chemin Royale, First Floor

Not surprisingly, after Pensacola, Florida, was hit by three major hurricanes within 18 months, businesses associated with residential and commercial construction were stretched beyond capacity. Pensacola Junior College met the challenge of tremendous need in an atmosphere of shrinking budgets and fiscal austerity through a partnership with Habitat for Humanity. This collaboration helped meet the community’s need for housing, the industry’s need for entry-level career education and training, and the students’ need for service learning and real-world experience.

Sue Halfhill, Director
Center for Information and Engineering Technology
Pensacola State College


Poster Session
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Chemin Royale, First Floor

Career Pathways is one of the most sophisticated systems change models developed to date. It's about changing the way workforce and education practices and policy work so that more people, including low-wage working adults and new students, can be employable in a region. Career Pathways can systemically link the resources of the workforce, economic development, welfare, adult, K-12, and postsecondary education systems together with employers.

Toya Barnes-Teamer, Senior Vice President
Academic and Student Affairs
Louisiana Community and Technical College System
Barbara Endel, Consultant
Consultant
Endel Consulting


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Fountain, Third Floor

The session goalis to share best practices for fast-track teacher certification opportunities andpathways. Attendees receivean annotated list of resources to guide development, an overview of a 4-tiered design for guiding field experiences, a format for candidates to record personal reflections based on the 12 Accomplished Practices, an interview format for program eligibility, candidates' use of case study approach, and tips on how to develop partnership connections to foster high peforming teachers.

Sharon Miller, Dean
Adult and Continuing Education
Hillsborough Community College
Mary Ann Ratliff, Director
Adult and Continuing Education
Hillsborough Community College


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Oak Alley, Third Floor

During the past year, colleges from all over the nation and Canada have joined with CCTI. In this session you’ll learn from CCTI Network member Kirkwood Community College. Kirkwood has developed an extensive partnership with over 30 high schools to help students become more career focused and academically prepared for college. This session shares a "system" that includes thirteen Career Edge Academies, career pathway planners, a regional "one-stop" work-based learning office, web-based college readiness assessment, scholarships, and an extensive professional development for teachers.

David Bunting, Executive Director
Secondary Programs
Kirkwood Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 4, First Floor

Olds College, the University of Alberta, and Town of Olds, Alberta, partner in the Community Learning Campus joint venture project, along with a core high school, eLearning core, health and wellness facility, community services mall, transportation center, student leadership center and fine arts and multimedia center, to combine intellect, ideals, resources, and spirit to shape a new path for rural higher education and lifelong learning.

Tom Thompson, President and CEO
Olds College


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

The Convergence Technology Center, a regional ATE center funded by the National Science Foundation, took a regional collaborative approach to the shortage of convergence technology workers. Three college districts partnered with regional businesses in identifying needed job skills, resolving curriculum gaps, and developing new curriculum. The result included new degrees and certificates, new curriculum, and an increase in IT enrollment. The process can be used for any technical program.

Ann Beheler, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Porterville College
Bette Plog, Director
Information Technology Institute
Dallas County Community College District


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 18, First Floor

Office policies and procedures are changing daily and the new workplace participants –students) – are looking to instructors for quick and easy answers on how to fit in and get that dream job. What better way for instructors to give first-hand advice than to get back into the workplace and find the answers to those questions through working, interviewing, and job shadowing working professionals. Come hear about one faculty member’s on-the-job experiences,. and join a discussion on ways to develop professional development activities for instructor job shadowing and externships.

Kathryn Striebel, Professor
CIS
MiraCosta College


Roundtable Discussion
4:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

The Roundtable discussion will detail reports and web-based tools that facilitate regional collaboration between community colleges, workforce boards and economic development organizations. The presentation will go through base practice principles and tools all of which have brought success to colleges and economic developers across the county.

Andrew Crapuchettes, CEO
Administration
Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc.
Gabriel Rench, Director
Business Solutions
Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc.


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

This session will present lessons from the leading-edge efforts of community and technical colleges in Washington State to build comprehensive career pathways for low-skill adults that not only provide a bridge to community college occupational credit programs for adults in ABE and ESL, but also support completion of certificates and associate degrees in high-demand career fields and lead to further education at the baccalaureate level and beyond.

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


Forum Session
3:00 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Belle Chasse, Third Floor

Skyline College leads a consortium (BIOMAPS) including biotechnology companies, high schools and others to grow biotechnology programs and opportunities for students in secondary schools. Learn how the consortium aligns industry driven curriculum, develops articulation agreements, provides hands on biotechnology industry experience for students, and meets industry's need for a highly skilled biotechnology workforce pipeline to sustain global competitiveness. Excellent for Administrators, faculty, workforce developers.

William Watson, Director
Center for Workforce Development
Skyline College


Forum Session
10:30 AM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 10, First Floor

Come explore the partnership between the Louisiana Technical College-Florida Parishes Campus and the Career and Technical Education Division of the Livingston Parish School Board, and how they developed a pathway for high school students to enroll at the technical college in Allied Health programs. We will discuss the development of the partnership as a response to the state’s healthcare shortage, as well as timelines, internal and external stakeholders, andtracking of completers from high school through a practical nursing program at Louisiana Technical College.

Sharon Hornsby, Campus Dean
Northshore Technical College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 21, First Floor

Join us for a discussion of the partnership between City o Baton Rouge, Parish of East Baton Rouge, and Baton Rouge Community College to create a leadership development institute for city-parish government employees. The institute provides systematic educational leadership programming for middle managers and frontline supervisors to enhance leadership, teamwork, and customer service skills. Courses are designed to address best practices on such issues as project management, City-Parish rules, policies and laws, interpersonal communication skills, performance evaluation, diversity, and team development, customer service, business math, and business grammar and correspondence. Leaders of corporate training, continuing education, workforce training, and similar programs will benefit.

Celyn Christophe, Executive Director
Continuing Education and Workforce Training
Baton Rouge Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 22, First Floor

Responding to a major teacher shortage in the K-12 system, Bunker Hill Community College's Urban Teaching Program is designed to assist qualified students in pursuing associate's degrees as a first step in becoming K-12 teachers in an urban setting. The program offers a format of scholarship, mentoring, and coaching format to participants. This presentation benefits administrators and faculty who are interested in developing their own program, partnering with other institutions, establishing program criteria, and developing or expanding teacher training curricula.

Andy Reyes, Professor
English as a Second Language
Bunker Hill Community College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

During the spring of 2005, a group of community college practitioners met to determine how career pathways could be used to define the entire community college effort in workforce development, including markets served by community colleges, from high school students transitioning to college occupational programs, to nontraditional adult students. This panel will introduce a paper written by the group and will facilitate a stimulating discussion of the future of workforce development with the community college.

Nan Poppe, Executive Director
Completion By Design Assistance Team
Completion By Design Assistance Team
James Jacobs, President
Macomb Community College


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 4, First Floor

Growing numbers of community college leaders are turning toward an approach known as career pathways to improve the performance of public education and workforce development systems. Join national leaders and community college practitioners as they discuss Workforce Strategy Center’s latest research on career pathways and describe innovative campus-based career pathways experiences.

Angie Taylor, Vice President
Business and Industry Services
Gateway Community and Technical College - KCTCS
Carolyn Seward, Executive Director
Metropolitan Education and Training Center


Forum Session
2:30 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Fountain, Third Floor

For business students a good co-op experience can be a great skill and resume builder. The traditional co-op, however, often leaves much to be desired. We've all heard stories of make work, meaningless jobs, and poor supervision. Come learn how to design a robust co-op experience that combines hands-on, meaningful business experience for students, strong academic program instruction, and rapid-fire responsiveness to employer needs. Also learn how to secure internships and full-time employment for students.

Raymond Shea,
Monroe Community College - SUNY
John Striebich, Assistant Professor
Business and Economics
Monroe Community College - SUNY


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 13, First Floor

Connecting with resources in the community is vital to the development of the 21st century workforce. Hear how partnerships between a Malcolm Baldrige Award winning community college, chamber of commerce, WIB, and local businesses provide a renewed energy and purpose to the local community’s employment base, workforce needs, and education services. Establish a real-time, demand-driven workforce system that can connect your college to new workforce programs and funding sources.

Tandy Dollar, Assistant Dean
Continuing Education
Richland College
Mehrdad Haroutunian, Chief Corporate and Workforce Develpment Officer
Workforce Training
Richland College
Shellie Heard, Dean
Corporate and Community Relations
Richland College


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 16, First Floor

Come learn about a case study describing the creation, obstacles, and establishment of a new program that took existing academic and workforce courses from our inventory to match with the curriculum from the International Facilities Management Association (IFMA) certificate program. The end result was a new associate degree and certificate program with the blessings from IFMA.

Dom Bongiorni, Professor
Speech
Lone Star College System


Roundtable Discussion
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Versailles, Third Floor

A single-state recession exists in Michigan, largely as a result of the well-documented struggles of the automotive industry. Learn how Macomb Community College's Workforce Development Institute, located in the epicenter of the auto industry, observed speed limits and yield signs to drive effective global partnerships.

Carol Churchill, President
Mid Michigan Community College
Victoria Corriveau, Director
Curriculum Development
Butler Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 21, First Floor

CCbenefits and Workforce Strategy Center (WSC) will demonstrate practical tools for using data to determine key economic sectors and build workforce and economic development strategies. Community colleges and workforce development professionals will have the opportunity to look at their local data and to learn how strategies are developed for building partnerships, analyzing occupations that move workers into high-wage, long-term occupations and maximizing returns on program investments. CCbenefits and WSC will present their processes and tools in a hands-on, interactive presentation that provides an opportunity to interpret the demographic, industry and labor market data in an effort to build demand driven programs.

Andrew Crapuchettes, CEO
Administration
Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc.


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Magnolia, Third Floor

This session profiles a partnership between a community college and 27 local school district which provides an early-college high school for dropouts aged 16 to 20. Come learn about a proven model of high school diploma and concurrent college enrollment leading to a certificate or associate degree awarded simultaneously. This data-driven session will benefit institutional designers, academic deans, career technical education administrators, enrollment management administrators and others.

Stanley Kogut, Superintendent
Ingham Intermediate School District
Toni Glasscoe, Director
Project-Based Learning
Lansing Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 13, First Floor

As enrollment and funding issues become more critical, it is important to develop partnerships and collaborations that can enhance student learning. This program will cover the elements needed for a partnership or collaboration to become a success, ultimately enhancing the learning process. This presentation will highlight successful partnerships and collaborations between Erie Community College, public schools, business, and industry. Program participants will learn tips on how to develop and maintain successful partnerships and collaborations on their respective campuses.

Marsha Jackson, Associate Vice President
Student Affairs
Erie Community College - SUNY


Forum Session
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Grand Salon 12, First Floor

How can your community college support your local economy? NACCE connects community college administrators and faculty as they embrace the power of entrepreneurship education in economic development. Examples of best practices in community college entrepreneurship from Johnson County Community College, Everett Community College, Dakota County Technical College, North Iowa Area Community College, and more will demonstrate the power of entrepreneurship education and its role in providing skilled workers and economic growth.

Heather Van Sickle, Executive Director
Nacce
National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE)


Forum Session
12:15 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Melrose, Third Floor

The award-winning National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce (NCBW) is the recipient of a U.S. Department of Labor presidential high-growth initiative job training grant. Five community colleges, each with a subspecialization of biotechnology workforce training, work together to supply best practices for employer driven training. The NCBW has explored standards, curriculum development, outreach and apprenticeship-internship models built with employers for plug-and-play trainees and biotechnology workers. The NCBW will report on its findings and progress.

Russ Read, Executive Director
Biotechnology
National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce
Janet Paulson, Director
National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce


Forum Session
3:45 PM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Grand Salon 12, First Floor

If you are a community college faculty member or administrator interested in developing partnerships with graduate institutions to develop learner-centered faculty focused on contemporary issues in community college teaching and active participation in their schools, then this forum is for you. The forum will outline the background, development, intent, and future of the Faculty Leadership In Teaching (FLInT) Graduate Certificate Program, a partnership between Roosevelt University and the City Colleges of Chicago.

John Metoyer, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Harold Washington College
John Hader, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Harold Washington College


Forum Session
1:30 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Belle Chasse, Third Floor

Hawai`i Community College has partnered with Bay Clinic, Inc.'s Youth Business Center to spawn workforce and educational innovation through Kea`au Middle College High School, a program which awards dual credit to at-risk seniors; MAPS International, an entrepreneurial catering group, and Youth Leadership opportunities. This session will describe how the dynamism of today’s education involves the wedding of real workforce skill development in the community and the willingness to leave Kansas for uncharted territory.

Trina Nahm-Mijo, Professor
Liberal Arts
Hawai`i Community College
Howard Moon Brown, Education Specialist
Social Science
Hawai`i Community College
Jerry Nahm-Mijo, Lecturer
Social Science
Hawai`i Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Grand Salon 18, First Floor

Come learn about a nursing career ladder, federally funded for six years that can be replicated by other institutions. Join an interactive discussion of grant writing , creative funding, copies of actual budgets and evaluation tools, and outcomes used for refunding that can serve as the bases for your grant ideas. Participants will be provided critical information regarding federal audits to help grants remain viable. Individuals interested in funding or refunding, as well as faculty and senior administrators who want to keep grants, will benefit.

Genie Wessel, Project Coordinator
Health Sciences
Howard Community College
Sharon Pierce, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Howard Community College


Forum Session
3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Grand Salon 10, First Floor

Come view hundreds of photos and miles of video from the Iraqi Police Academy, where the presenter served for 11 months. This session includes discussion of the challenges of training caused by extreme weather and climate conditions as well as language, cultural, and teaching barriers. Interviews with Iraqi and Jordanian students and instructors and photos and video of Iraqi Tribal singing and dancing will also be shared.

Wayne Seely, Associate Professor
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Owens Community College


Poster Session
11:00 AM
Monday, March 05, 2007
Chemin Royale, First Floor