York Technical College adopted and implemented a campuswide model of critical thinking. Discussed are the model’s development and real-world examples of how faculty and student service staff members work in concert to improve students’ critical thinking skills. Participants engage in critical-thinking activities and a short consensus-building process and discuss critical thinking as it relates to their campuses.

Jack Bagwell, Associate Vice President and Interim Vice Presiden
York Technical College


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Are you interested in technology and looking for new ideas for teaching college success? Come hear about a course designed to appeal to the technology-savvy Millennial generation. Learn how technology is successfully integrated into traditional, blended, and online courses increasing student persistence by 27 percent. This student success course has been approved for transfer to four-year universities and serves as a bridge from high school to community college to the university. This session offers participation opportunities, idea sharing, and interactive exercises. Web resources and written handouts are available to participants.

Marsha Fralick, Professor Emeritus
Business
Cuyamaca College


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

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, and approaches to teacher preparation including iStream, adjunct certification training andstrategies for inclusion and recognition are presented. Materials include examples of established programs that model strategies currently being implemented at one or more community colleges. At the conclusion of this session, participants are able to design a comprehensive system for hiring and supporting part-time faculty that can be incorporated into their college’s strategic plan.

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


Special Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Governor's Square 14, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Peter Jackson’s three successful films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings have brought many new readers to this classic of western literature and sent many erstwhile readers back for a second look. This session presents the successes and challenges encountered when the facilitator used the cornerstone (valuing) and capstone (information management) experiences that bookend the college’s general education program to stimulate the intellectual curiosity of first-generation college students. The presentation includes PowerPoint visuals, film clips, and examples of student projects. Participants take a Tolkien quiz and offer opinions and advice concerning the use of the world of imagination and pop culture in the

Paul Nygard, Associate Professor
History
St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Learn about Nova Southeastern University’s fast-track online doctoral program with a concentration in community college leadership designed for professors and administrators who wish to complete their coursework within two years. The presenters discuss the importance of doctoral programs in community colleges. Participants discuss articles about community college education, the doctoral program, and the need for community college leadership doctoral programs.

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


Roundtable Discussion
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

To respond to the needs of Millennials, the College of Southern Nevada (CSN) developed a pilot project aimed at offering content at a time and location convenient to students. Presenters discuss funding, logistical controls, technology and pedagogy support, project assessment, benefits faculty receive from using these new technologies. Real examples are used to engage the audience in a true exchange of ideas.

Michael Judge, Director
Academic Technology
SunGard Higher Education
Sondra Cosgrove, Professor
Social Sciences
College of Southern Nevada
Alok Pandey, Professor
Computer and Engineering
College of Southern Nevada


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Communication faculty at Sinclair Community College have innovatively improved student learning and course outcomes across all sections of high-enrollment courses. Participants learn the reasons for standardization, including advantages and disadvantages, and the process that can be used to build buy-in among full-time and part-time faculty. This session will benefit faculty, chairs, and administrators of high enrollment, multiple-section courses. Participants provide feedback and share their processes for ensuring similar outcomes across multiple section courses at their institutions.

Lori Zakel, Dean
Liberal Arts, Communication, and Social Sciences
Sinclair Community College
Mary McGirr, Professor
Communication Arts
Sinclair Community College


Forum Session
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Spruce, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Students and professors experience frustration when students have difficulty reading and responding to college texts. Geared primarily to teachers of introductory level courses, this session presents four methods for addressing college level reading and writing. Participants discuss how these strategies apply to their classes and leave equipped to incorporate these reading and writing strategies. The presenter surveys participants on their courses, experiences, and needs. Participants choose a lesson and draft applications of strategies.

Alice Conn, Assistant Professor
English and World Languages
Howard Community College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Math, science and engineering educators and trainers will benefit from this exploration of tools and resources as they learn how to use AMSER, a free online library created for community and technical college faculty and staff. Participants receive materials to aid in using AMSER in classrooms and access to materials they can use in professional development or faculty and staff trainings. This session also includes a walk-through of portal features, a PowerPoint presentation participants can access online a mini-tutorial, URLs of training modules, and a brainstorming session.

Rachael Bower, Co-director
Computer Science
Internet Scout University of Wisconsin Madison
Edward Almasy, Researcher
Compute Science Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

This presentation introduces the pedagogy behind Henderson Community College’s refurbished information literacy program, the linkages between this new methodology, and the expectations of regional and disciplinary accrediting bodies. Participants see how learning units are created and linked to pre- and post-tests that identify student learning outcomes. Presenters discuss the mechanics of setting up an e-community, demonstrate this novel collaboration method, and highlight learning units. Additional examples are explored based on participants’ questions.

Mike Knecht, Director
Library and Off-Campus Programs
Henderson Community College - KCTCS
Kevin Reid, Assistant Library Director
Library
Henderson Community College - KCTCS


Forum Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Governor's Square 9, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Discussed are ways to transform traditional classrooms into smart classrooms. Participants learn how to design technologically friendly learning spaces that facilitate instruction and compare various classroom setups.

Russell Esfahani, Director
Media Systems
South Florida State College


Roundtable Discussion
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

When remodeling or building instructional spaces, knowing what questions to ask architects, designers, and facilities planners gives you the advantage. The presenters outlines a comprehensive approach to planning instructional spaces, focusing on handling internal and external constituencies involved in the process to minimize barriers to meaningful change. Hear true stories from administrators who were successful at infusing deep learning into new instructional spaces. Learn how to minimize barriers to change, avoid instruction paradigm pitfalls and develop a comprehensive approach to facilities design from concept to completion.

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


Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Governor's Square 15, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

In the attempt to enhance their skills, teachers need to reflect upon what they’re doing and test the efficacy of their practices through action research. Participants discuss how to design action research, brainstorm personal research projects, and view the amazing results of past experiments.

David James, Instructor
English
Oakland Community College


Roundtable Discussion
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Traditional students, designated Generation Y, are saturated with media since birth and can be wary of message devices that attract older groups. This session explores effective message design, including what is changing and what is timeless. After a survey of available software and with audience input, presenters build a podcast with Garage Band and explore the instructional/institutional uses of blogs, vlogs, and podcasts. Participants build a story using presentation concepts and develop strategies that relate directly to their projects and target audiences.

Harry St. Ours, Professor
Communication Arts Technologies
Montgomery College


Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Come learn how to overcome the silo approach to developmental education by committing to a coordinated developmental program that builds upon teamwork, technology, and training. Presenters share ways to achieve team development; start a website for developmental faculty, staff, and students; and create an online early alert program, a student orientation DVD video, and faculty training opportunities. After a demonstration of online early alert systems and websites, presenters invite participants’ questions, ideas, and input.

Mary Beth Looby, Director and Professor
Developmental Education and English
Delta College
Marcie Carter,
Delta College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Spruce, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

The League for Innovation and the National Repository of Online Courses have partnered to bring new and innovative tools and multimedia resources to community colleges. This presentation focuses on the online resources the partnership provides to administrators, faculty, staff, and students to support innovation, professional development, collaboration and research. Participants learn about multiple content materials and resources, including streaming video, publications, project highlights, social authoring, curriculum building, and more. These pieces are highlighted as the audience is led through iStream's tabbed navigation. A closer look at the NROC offerings is also provided. This session highlights benefits available specifically to League iAdvantage Members (iStream subscribers).

Terri Rowenhorst, Director
Membership
National Repository of Online Courses


Special Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Governor's Square 14, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

The coming tidal wave of enrollments means cramped quarters, stressed and aging facilities, and less learning. How do you plan for the future to build new facilities or renovate current ones to maximize learning? How do you assemble a campus team, deal with architects and designers, and measure learning per square foot? This course takes participants through the planning and implementation steps, provides interactive small group opportunities for planning space, and provides a handbook of practical ideas to reshape your classrooms into learning spaces.

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


Learning Center Course
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Colorado, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Serving the educational and economic needs of at-risk students can be difficult because academic programs are too often structured for traditional-aged, full-time students, with less support for older students, many of whom need special academic support services in order to succeed. Shared are key lessons learned from the five-year Bridges to Opportunity Initiative and reflections on building bridges, not barriers to student success. Questions posed facilitate interactive dialogue with the audience.

Barbara Endel, Consultant
Consultant
Endel Consulting
Sara Stapleton, Instructor
English
North Seattle Community College
Byron McClenney, Director
Achieving the Dream
The University of Texas at Austin
Kristin Corash, Associate Vice President
Strategic Planning
Colorado Community College System


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Century, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Learn how educators from different institutions across the country and around the world are using Camtasia Studio to enhance the learning experience inside and outside the classroom. This session provides the opportunity to learn from the experiences of others and share with the group. Camtasia beginners or experts can benefit from this informative session that teaches new and innovative ways to deliver content to students. Participants will watch screencasts and learn how to apply them.

Dave McCollom, Education Evangelist
Marketing
TechSmith


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Get the basics under your belt! During this course, learn to use Camtasia Studio screen recordings to visually explain how to use software and websites, record PowerPoint presentations, including the narrative, and make better decisions about what you record. Take advantage of the class that will help you become the Camtasia Studio user you've always wanted to be and get the benefits that custom-created videos will bring you and your organization.

Ryan Eash, Instructional Designer
Training
TechSmith


Learning Center Course
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Gold, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Participants in this poster session see the results of switching from paper exams in a traditional science class to digital exams given during class via computers. Are there any significant changes in student performance? Are traditional students comfortable with this format? What is the impact of saving time and money on the students, the faculty, and the institution? This exhibit showcases the results of a study aimed at answering these questions.

Pamela Mclaughlin, Assistant Professor
Technology, Mathematics, and Science
Harper College


Poster Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Second Floor, Tower Building

The most meaningful classroom learning experiences are infused with the personality of the instructor. Explore how personality can help you connect with students in online classes too. This exhibit highlights the results of a year-long focus on increasing faculty presence in online courses, including many examples from existing courses, and feedback from faculty and students on the difference these efforts made in their learning. Participants share their own examples and receive a worksheet to help them brainstorm ways to add more personality to their own courses.

Tammy Vercauteren, Dean
Online Learning
Front Range Community College
Stephanie Wickman, Educational Technology Coordinator
Online Learning
Front Range Community College


Poster Session
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Second Floor, Tower Building

Faculty committee co-chairs share their processes after conducting a three-semester course redesign project. Participants learn how to define course competencies, write learning outcome competency statements, create rubrics, ensure grading consistency, design a research plan to assess student performance, and develop strategies to enhance instruction and student learning for continuous improvement. This session will benefit teaching faculty, administrators, and professional staff interested in course revision projects, strengthening student assessment, or creating major course revisions in a gateway course.

Mary Werner, Professor
English
Madisonville Community College - KCTCS
Greg Jewell, Coordinator
Academic Affairs
Madisonville Community College - KCTCS


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

The Student Success Center, a collaborative effort between Student Development and Title V, acts as a bridge between student services and instruction at San Jacinto College. This session focuses on the partnerships that have been formed with faculty, staff, and administrators to aid in student success. Presenters discuss the importance of partnerships and share methods for blending instruction and student support services. The session ends with a group activity and discussion of which presented initiatives work best for participant campuses.

Shelley Rinehart, Retention Counselor
Student Success Center
San Jacinto College - South Campus


Roundtable Discussion
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Now is the time to develop instant rapport and convincing persuasive techniques, identify learning styles, and learn how to have listeners hang on to every word. Selected techniques presented in this forum include using presuppositions, chunking up and down, using embedded commands, and mastering congruity. After learning techniques, participants engage in enjoyable mastery exercises, and a video camera provides instant feedback.

Rick Leinecker, Assistant Professor
Business and Technologies
Rockingham Community College
Michael Preuss,
Pitt Community College
Amy Edmunds, Instructor
Humanities
Rockingham Community College


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Beverly, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Access to baccalaureate degrees through community colleges is improving every day. This session explores articulation, university centers, and virtual and conferring models now prevalent throughout the United States and Canada. Participants discuss providing access to baccalaureate degrees through community colleges and the political underpinnings that are enhancing and impeding the conferring of degrees in both countries. Participants engage in a facilitated discussion tailored specifically to participants’ states, provinces, and individual institutions.

Beth Hagan, Executive Director
Community College Baccalaureate Association
Ali Esmaeili, Dean
Bachelor Programs And University Relations
South Texas College
Brian Carr,
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Cherylyn Cameron,
Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Beverly, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Participants learn how to create visual mind maps, such as idea, concept, and organizational maps, and how to automatically build a multimedia presentation or website from these maps. The presenter demonstrates how, through the use of mind maps, faculty can help facilitate students’ analytical thinking, comprehension, creativity, and writing across the curriculum. Using OpenMind, students and teachers can rapidly visualize, organize, and implement ideas and export them to HTML or Word or create them as interactive timelines.

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


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Governor's Square 17, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

During this poster session, participants receive an inside look at an evolving set of requirements for an innovative teaching and learning national resource center. The project organizer shares how these requirements led to the creation of a prototype resource center. Participants examine the requirements in light of their own needs for relevancy and provide feedback directly to the presenter. Participants also receive summaries of resource center requirements gathered to date, key questions for interested faculty, and forms for future project involvement.

Suzanne Marks, Faculty
Business Technology Systems
Bellevue College


Poster Session
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Second Floor, Tower Building

This session will address some of the major challenges faced by the e-learning community. Participants will learn how to build a truly interactive e-learning course that is both engaging for learners and cost-effective to build. Also, this session aims to educate participants on how to create engaging interactivity without using any scripting or programming language. It addresses the critical issues of long development times and lack of skilled professionals in building engaging interactivity.

Seema Chaudhary, Director
Products
Raptivity by Harbinger Knowledge Products


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

How do college and high school cultures differ? Why does this difference matter for first-year students? Through group discussion and real-world scenarios, this session offers concrete approaches for tackling common differences regarding college versus high school expectations (e.g., reading, writing, note-taking, time management, study skills). To foster college success, what can be done to help reduce tensions and miscommunication? The presentation includes a combination of small group discussion, what-if scenarios, and student comments.

Robinson Yost, Assistant Professor
History
Kirkwood Community College
Laura Yost, Assistant Professor
Distance Learning and Social Science
Kirkwood Community College


Forum Session
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

This roundtable discussion focuses on a learning community consisting of Music Appreciation and Introduction to Computers. Methods for combining course material and creating an engaged community discussed. Participants compose music using computer software even if they have no music background. Demonstrations include the composition software, specific assignments, and projects combining music appreciation and technology. The discussion will benefit anyone teaching these courses as a learning community or as stand-alone classes.

Patricia Harden, Professor
Art ,Music, and Humanities
Rockingham Community College
Rick Leinecker, Assistant Professor
Business and Technologies
Rockingham Community College


Roundtable Discussion
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Creative professionals often work as independent contractors or function as small businesses. Learn about the Creative Arts Entrepreneurship Program, a distinctive certificate program tailored for individuals interested in creative professions that builds a solid understanding of basic business processes, self-promotion, sales techniques, portfolio preparation, and presentation techniques.

Anna Szabados, Director
New Media Center
Mission College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Participants learn how to create a Microsoft Excel workbook that not only allows students to quickly analyze statistical data, but can also be used as a learning tool. The presenter Demonstrates how to apply the multiple features of Microsoft Excel to create a spreadsheet that calculates population estimates with appropriate margins of error and ways to use Excel formulas to accomplish personal goals. Participants who bring a laptop will perform hypothesis tests and with one or more Excel workbook files that they can use.

Dan Gryboski, Instructor
Mathematics
Front Range Community College


Poster Session
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Second Floor, Tower Building

Discussed is a time-tested semester-long classroom assignment that encourages thinking beyond the classroom. Learn how to identify students’ interests and career plans and work closely with groups of students to help them research these interests. Come participate in an interactive discussion about ways to forge strong community links between the college, students, and professionals in local businesses and selected industries.

Warren Munick, Faculty
Economics
Pikes Peak Community College


Roundtable Discussion
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Come discover how to use the technology and skills you already have to create rich, interactive multimedia learning experiences. See several examples of multimedia learning objects that are used in online classes and experience the decision making process for effectively planning, designing, and developing these materials. Participants leave with a multimedia decision guide, including a list of development resources that can be used immediately.

Michael Cottam, Director
Instructional Design Services
Rio Salado College
Jarred Truschke, Instructional Media Developer
Instructional Design Services
Rio Salado College


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Do you have these students in your class or online every semester? They certainly have different levels of comfort with technology. Discussed is how these groups learn not only current technology, but also systems that are in perpetual beta. Topics covered include critical skill development, technology literacy, digital media literacy, and immersive virtual environments. Participants develop an action plan to implement in their classrooms and receive handouts that include best practices and a quiz students can take to become aware of their technology literacy level.

Kae Novak, Student Success Coordinator
Online Learning
Front Range Community College


Roundtable Discussion
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

The Community College Survey on Student Engagement clearly notes the importance of student-teacher interaction in student retention and success. Presenters share experiences in designing effective international learning experiences for community college students. Participants develop an out-of-classroom experience along with an assessment tool to measure effectiveness of teacher-student interaction and receive a packet of information about organizing affordable trips, along with assessment tools for measuring the effects of teacher-student interactions.

Katherine Rowell, Director
Center for Teaching and Learning
Sinclair Community College
Mohsen Khani, Professor
Geography
Sinclair Community College


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Spruce, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Evidence is mounting that today’s college graduates are leaving with degrees, but without the critical thinking skills necessary for many professional jobs. Tulsa Community College faculty devised and implemented strategies to encourage students to think critically. Following a brief overview of this initiative, participants experience a lesson from the traditional and the critical-thinking perspectives. Participants receive handouts detailing the initiative and examples of classroom activities in various disciplines.

Terry Mcdevitt, Assistant Professor
Science and Math Division
Tulsa Community College
Rosemary Carlson, Assistant Professor
Science and Math Division
Tulsa Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Are you frustrated by students spouting information absent of meaning and significance? Come explore a cross-discipline approach to elicit student thinking that is more rigorous and rich. Facilitators use a common lexicon to frame and design critical thinking objectives. This collegial, cross-discipline process offers faculty the benefit of a reinvigorated academic community and it offers students a transparent, cross-discipline application of critical thinking. Participants leave with a plan for using Bloom’s classification of learning objectives to teach critical thinking in discrete, measurable steps.

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


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

This session is designed to help senior administrators determine their interest in becoming college presidents. Innovative strategies for assessing readiness for the presidency are explored, as are how to gain experience in weaker areas before applying for a presidency. Also addressed are timing factors to be considered in connection with career moves into CEO positions.

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


Special Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Governor's Square 14, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

In the past, the idea of communication in the online learning environment was limited to discussion boards, chat rooms, and email, all which lacked the real-time exchange of dialogue and information experienced in traditional settings. Elluminate Live! is a tool that can help instructors bridge the gap between the online environment and face-to-face environments by allowing real-time, media-rich online communication. Participants learn the basics of the software and gain ideas about incorporating this tool into their learning environment.

Stephanie Wickman, Educational Technology Coordinator
Online Learning
Front Range Community College
José García-Paine,
Front Range Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Century, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Students in human services programs must develop knowledge and skills essential in the delivery of services to a diverse population. Demonstrated are the possibility and opportunity for students in community colleges to develop qualitative investigative skills through field research around the topic of diversity from an international perspective. Learn strategies that help early undergraduates understand the importance of research and the application of basic research skills. Discuss examples of how faculty and student collaboration facilitates mutual learning.

Alia Thobani,
Community College of Denver


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

This session explores the use of e-portfolios in college courses and ways in which students can benefit from creating online portfolios. Participants learn how to create an e-portfolio, incorporate it into the curriculum, and create group e-portfolios using freeware multimedia software. Presenters discuss portfolio contents, including essential employment documents, documentation of SCANS skills and learning college objectives, and work samples demonstrating skills and abilities. If you have ever thought about integrating e-portfolios into your class, workshop, or counseling activities, this session is for you.

Elaine Casquarelli,
Santa Fe College
James Yawn, Coordinator
Career Resource Center
Santa Fe College


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Experience two hybrid-delivered class samples from a dynamic adjunct certification program that equips part-time instructors with the tools and techniques to create successful learning opportunities for their students. Participants learn how to increase adjunct faculty instructional quality and promote student success through diverse learning methods. The presentation includes session handouts and learning materials for each hands-on exercise, which require audience participation.

Karla Leach, President
Western Wyoming Community College
Jean Grove, Associate Vice Chancellor
Human Resources
Lone Star College System
Laurie Passmore, Manager
Training and Development
Lone Star College System
Christine Salmon, Adjunct Faculty
Journalism and Communication
Lone Star College System


Forum Session
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Rather than stifling the technologically inclined students entering college, educators must learn from the success of social networking websites like MySpace and Second Life and the ubiquity of text, instant messaging and cellular phones. Presenters review three software suites (an online hospitality internship, an online social economy, and an online academic discussion community) and foster a discussion about how instructors can develop online social and educational simulations and build similar applications to embrace the new generation of students.

Edgar Troudt, Instructor
Tourism and Hospitality
Kingsborough Community College - CUNY
Christoph Winkler, Curriculum Director
Tourism and Hospitality
Kingsborough Community College - CUNY


Forum Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Podcasting is a new and increasingly popular technology that allows students individual access to course content such as recorded lectures, graphics, and videos. As the technology has increased in popularity, it has also become easier to implement. Students use podcasts to revisit lectures, access supplemental material, or make up missed content. The potential uses of podcasting are limitless. This innovative and exciting presentation informs and inspires participants to pursue the potential of this new medium. Emphasis is on creating an action plan that enables participants to move from vision to reality. Participants are introduced to a variety of ways podcasting is being used in education. In addition, participants are shown easy to learn techniques to create new connections with students using accessible podcasting technology. Multimedia, including video and graphics, are used in the presentation to portray actual uses of podcasting technologies. Finally, participants engage in brainstorming ideas for applying podcasting to their own courses. This session will benefit faculty and other educational leaders interested in using cutting-edge technology.

Michael Coste, Faculty
Library
Front Range Community College


Learning Center Course
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Denver, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Have advances in learning management systems, digital content delivery, and broadband technology outpaced institutions’ ability to keep up without sacrificing instructional quality? During this session, presenters introduce the Intelecom Online Resources Network, a next-generation digital content repository, and demonstrate how to use it to enrich online courses. Audience interaction via discussion of current trends, questions, and answers is encouraged throughout the session. Participants receive the information they need to try this resource on their own.

Cameron Cox, Vice President
Marketing
INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications
Cheryl Chapman, Intructional Designer
Instructional Design
INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Presenters discuss how developmental learners succeed in postsecondary environments and the type and quantity of supports required to enhance the transformation from developmental learner to postsecondary achiever. The balance of this session comprises question-and-answer and facilitated discussions about the results. Participants share individual experiences with developmental learners or learners who are unprepared for the postsecondary environment.

Audrey Penner, Director
Applied Research
Holland College


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Learn how to address the critical shortage of practicing nurses and qualified nursing faculty in rural areas experiencing downsizing. Discover how colleges and area health care providers can develop a strategic plan to attract Master Degree Nursing staff and expand enrollment in associate degree nursing programs through grant funding. Participants learn about the challenges faced by a college, area health care providers, and students.

Ron Sanderson, Coordinator
Workforce Development
Lake Land College
Linda Von Behren, Associate Vice President
Workforce Development
Lake Land College
Diana Glosser, Director
Workforce Development
Lake Land College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Share the excitement of participating in learning activities based on well-known TV game shows. Preparing your institution for Higher Learning Commission site visits or sharing important student engagement information with faculty members comes alive in this interactive session using the latest in classroom technology. The audience actively participates in the game using Turning Point clicker technology and discusses ways in which the technology can enhance faculty forums or classrooms by engaging students in the learning process.

David Corba, Dean
Business and Information Technology
Macomb Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Participants learn the value of taking college students out of the classroom. Field trips, which can include visits to libraries or even to Europe, offer intensive and focused learning and opportunities for students and faculty to explore unique areas of learning and teaching. Presenters show slides, discuss several of Front Range Community College’s successful field trips, and explain the role of student services in funding and recruiting trips. This session will benefit educators looking for new ways to interact with students for new teachable moments.

Jennifer Eisenlau, Instructor
English
Front Range Community College


Roundtable Discussion
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

During this session, the presenter demonstrates how Fintelo effectively manages the delivery of course content to students while providing an intuitive student-to-instructor interface based on the latest web technologies, current research, and learning theory. Participants see Fintelo’s standards-based content management, student learning outcome (SLO) assessment, alignment of learning activities, and learner engagement features. Participants share their education outcomes during a focused inquiry and engage in interactive activities focused on online learning environments and SLOs.

Melissa Robaina, Marketing Specialist
Company of Experts.net
Kenny Pulliam, Associate
Marketing
FINTELO


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Spruce, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Learn how technology students learn problem-solving, communication, and team skills, as well as technical content through industry-driven, problem-based learning tasks. Presenters share resources, procedures, and successes in this practice-based, multimedia presentation and discussion designed for instructional designers, faculty, and administrators. The session explores podcasts, virtual intranet sites for scenario-based tasks, and online instructor resources in a quest for answers regarding what realistic options are available for problem-based learning in technical classes and how to incorporate problem-based tasks into classrooms efficiently and effectively.

Ann Beheler, Vice President
Academic Affairs
Porterville College
Jane Ostrander, Instructional Designer
Truckee Meadows Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Participants will learn to create comprehensive Flash and HTML websites and auto-run CD-ROMs in a matter of minutes with interactive navigation, object animation, and much more. Mediator 9 is an icon-based authoring tool that lets you drag-and-drop your way to interactive websites, Flash presentations, and multimedia CD-ROMs, and no programming or experience is necessary. Easy to use, with one-click exports to Flash and HTML, auto-run CD-ROM, and automated FTP upload, Mediator 9 allows students and teachers to focus on content rather than technology.

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


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

College 101: The Student Experience is a one-credit course designed to help students build meaningful connections with other students, staff, and faculty; develop strategies for success; and learn about services and resources that will aid them in achieving their academic and career goals. This session focuses on course overview, best practices, and success and retention rates.

Jerry Mason, Director
Student Life
Community College of Denver


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

What is general education, really? Surely, it’s more than just accumulating a required number of credits from a list of qualifying courses. By examining historical antecedents and current practices, participants discover that general education requirements are modern manifestations of well-grounded principles and expectations of higher learning. The presenter engages participants in discussions about founding principles and their relationship to general education. Humor, metaphors, videos, music, and examples are used to underscore key points. Facilitated discussion reinforces the link between general education requirements and principles of higher learning.

Ronald Baker, CEO and Principal Consultant
Baker Collegiate Consulting


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

What must our students know in order to prepare for the changes they face in the coming century? This presentation engages participants in conversations about and reflection on the role of general education. Participants review these sources, experience a conversational inquiry process, and garner consensus-building tools for addressing the role of this curriculum that is essential in our changing world. After a group activity, participants discuss the ways in which such an inquiry process might be used to assess student outcomes at their own institutions.

Rob Stuart, Director
Institutional Research
Cuyahoga Community College
Carol Franklin, Associate Dean
Social Science
Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus
Guy Hutt, Associate Dean
Mathematics and Applied Technologies
Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus
Lisa Jozwiak,
Cuyahoga Community College


Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Teaching basic general education courses can be a difficult task. Throw in the needs of incoming freshman to be entertained and it sometimes seems an overwhelming task. Is teaching students so they not only retain and apply knowledge, but also feel entertained impossible? Not necessarily so. The trick to engaging auditory and visual learners is to get the ever-increasing number of kinesthetic learners engaged. Participants discuss solutions for getting students up and moving with innovative techniques in the classroom.

Carol Westcamp, Chair and Assistant Professor
English
University of Arkansas - Fort Smith


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Getting Results is a free, web-based faculty development program featuring video vignettes of community college instructors demonstrating effective teaching. Funded by the National Science Foundation and produced by WGBH-Boston in association with the League for Innovation, Getting Results is designed for use by individuals or cohorts of faculty. The program is targeted to science, technology, engineering, and math instructors; however, the principles and strategies are applicable for faculty in any discipline. Come hear how colleges are using Getting Results with their faculty.

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


Learning Center Course
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Silver, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Getting Results is a free, web-based faculty development program featuring video vignettes of community college instructors demonstrating effective teaching. Funded by the National Science Foundation and produced by WGBH-Boston in association with the League for Innovation, Getting Results is designed for use by individuals or cohorts of faculty. The program is targeted to science, technology, engineering, and math instructors; however, the principles and strategies are applicable for faculty in any discipline. Come hear how colleges are using Getting Results with their faculty.

Allatia Harris, President
San Jacinto College - North Campus


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Inspired by Carl Hiassen’s novel, Hoot, the presenters designed an investigative case study in which students in the social sciences and natural sciences examine the case from two different perspectives. Participants assume the role of investigators and collaborators as they analyze the case and weave interdisciplinary connections, watch a video clip of destruction of an endangered ecosystem, address it by completing a case analysis worksheet. A CD-ROM containing tools and resources is provided.

Mari Dewees, Professor
Social Sciences
Edison State College


Roundtable Discussion
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

What does Google technology have to offer your students and faculty? Hear about how colleges across the world are using Google’s free, hosted software to increase collaboration among professors, enhance group learning, and make it easy for distributed students and staff to track same-page assignments and projects from any place.

Jeff Keltner, Business Development Associate
Enterprise - Edu
Google


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

This session explores how current brain research translates into practical classroom teaching techniques. Breakthroughs in the fields of medicine, neuroscience, and psychology have given us new insights into the brain functions and the environments and conditions that best facilitate learning. Following a brief description of brain anatomy, participants create their own study guide to complete as the presentation unfolds. Research studies are cited and a bibliography provided to support teaching techniques and learning activities. The impact of stress and emotions on teaching and learning are also covered. This presentation provides an overview of current brain research and educational practices and to encourage participants to continue their own studies in this exciting field. The brain learns well in a social, interactive environment, so participant engagement is a vital part of the presentation. Although the presentation is primarily designed for educators involved in teaching, the material will interest anyone in the field of education.

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


Learning Center Course
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Century, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Come to this session to learn how screen-capturing software can strip away the fears that instructors and students alike have when it comes to online education. See how to use Blackboard to train faculty, Camtasia and Captivate to create online training sessions, and Respondus to make online assignments and tests. The session explores ways to use online videos to tickle the various learning styles of faculty and students. You’ll be dancing your way into new methods of delivering training for online and web-assisted courses after attending this session!

Alex Johansson, Assistant Professor
Integrated Systems Technology
Moraine Valley Community College
Kristine Christensen, Director
Center for Teaching and Learning and Management Information Systems
Moraine Valley Community College
Sylvia Jenkins, President
Moraine Valley Community College


Forum Session
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 5, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

This session demonstrates three tools that help increase faculty use of online assessments. Using Respondus, you’ll see how to create assessments offline, import existing questions from Microsoft Word, and publish assessments to ANGEL, Blackboard, Desire2Learn, eCollege, or WebCT courses. With Respondus LockDown Browser you’ll learn how to lock down the testing environment (i.e., prevent cheating) within a learning management system. With StudyMate, you’ll see how to easily create self-assessments and games for online courses or iPods.

Shea Ramquist, Manager
Sales
Respondus


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 5, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

What happens when you have a distance education program missing one major required element? Find out how a small college developed an online human anatomy course for delivery through e-campus. Presenters share the challenges and solutions for the delivery of this difficult course content. The session includes insights into the course information format, accompanying lab DVD development, and methods of tackling the visible nature of this subject. This presentation will interest content specialists and technology support teams.

Nora Way, Dean
Health Studies
Medicine Hat College
Chuck Payne, Director
Information and Technology
Medicine Hat College


Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Beverly, Majestic Level, Tower Building

As Alfred Mercer once said, “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” this presentation illustrates the value and strengths of incorporating humor into the classroom and provides new tools and techniques for presenting classroom material. It is guaranteed to make participants laugh and give them ideas and techniques to enhance their learning environment in the process. The presenter shares humorous pictures, videos, short stories, and personal experiences collected over 13 years of teaching experience. Participants are called upon for demonstrations, and a handout of various humor and dynamic presentation delivery weblinks is distributed. Participants are guaranteed to leave the session with a smile and a new approach to presentation delivery.

Todd Sheaman, Program Director
Emergency Medical Systems
Front Range Community College


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Come join an interdisciplinary team of Front Range Community College instructors as they discuss their adventures in teaching hybrid courses. This session presents basic information regarding several different models of the hybrid course. Let’s explore the unique qualities of this fairly new way to combine learning opportunities and communities in virtual and live environments. Attendees will take “online tours” of presenters’ Blackboard sites. Presenters will share ways to help students achieve success and invite new ideas from participants.

Beverly Leslie,
Front Range Community College
Mary Croissant, Faculty
Arts and Languages
Front Range Community College


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Teaching developmental writing or seeking tools to enhance your students’ written communication skills? Discussed are specific and painless methods for improving students’ abilities to structure an essay, transition effectively from one thought to the next, communicate clearly and concisely, and notice and begin to repair grammar and punctuation errors. Writing exercises, before-and-after student writing samples, and literature on writing instruction and student and faculty connections are provided.

Laurie Snyder, Retention Advisor
Academic Services
Monroe Community College - SUNY


Roundtable Discussion
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

The Florida Consortium partnered with a tutoring service called SMARTHINKING, which allows students to access a mathematics tutor 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The session provides a live web-tutoring demonstration, showing how faculty may participate with their students in the 24/7 tutoring provided by SMARTHINKING. Participants set up accounts to experience a live whiteboard session.

Danny Clark, Instructor
Mathematics
St. Petersburg College
Li-Lee Tunceren, Lead Faculty Associate
Communications and English as a Second Language
St. Petersburg College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Are you looking for ways to create online courses that engage students in interacting with one another while learning and applying the course material? This interactive session addresses various innovative strategies that help participants create meaningful learning environments; emphasize understanding and acquisition of knowledge; and promote self-direction, problem solving, reasoning, and motivation. Techniques discussed are applicable to all disciplines. This presentation uses PowerPoint, handouts, and live demonstrations of an online course emphasizing active learning.

Behnaz Rouhani, Professor
Mathematics
Georgia Perimeter College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

This session describes how Lane Community College (LCC) is strengthening interest and viability for GIS and IT careers at the community college level. LCC has created multiple student career options by introducing GIS learning activities into general science and social science classes and implementing a GIS course sequence that articulates to four-year state institutions. Creation of a workforce pathways certificate in GIS allows flexibility for career entry choices in agencies, industry, and academic discipline research.

Jane Benjamin, Faculty
Geography
Lane Community College
Sarah Ulerick, Dean
Science
Lane Community College


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Traditional classes are no longer in style. Most classes now are interactive and are designed to teach more than just traditional material. This exhibit focuses on how students have indicated a great interest in community activities and creating social change, making service learning an increasingly important component in courses. The presenter discusses the benefits of social learning and provides assignment ideas and student feedback.

Albert Bramante, Instructor
Psychology
Union County College


Poster Session
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Second Floor, Tower Building

As part of its statewide initiative for adjunct faculty development, Ivy Tech Community College designed a basic training course for new adjunct faculty on its distance learning platform (Blackboard). The course incorporates the Getting Results material available online through the League for Innovation enriched by additional material relating to the Ivy Tech experience. Participants view the online course and discussion board content; receive descriptions of procedures for marketing, enrolling, administering, and evaluating the course; and discuss using Getting Results material to benefit their institutions.

Jeanne Silliman, Professor
Liberal Arts
Ivy Tech Community College
Charles Lepper, Director
Institutional Effectiveness and Grant Administration
Ivy Tech Community College


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Discussed are an overview of a strategic plan responsible for the improvement of student success in English 101 from 64 percent to 84 percent in two years. Learn how these advancements included technological availability for all English students and the implementation of two support programs for faculty. This discussion includes the variables responsible for increasing student pass rates, as well as handouts explaining the process.

Beth Bownes-Johnson, Department Chair
English
Wallace State College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Early fieldwork experience is important to new teacher candidates. Presenters lead an interactive discussion that addresses logistics, course assignments, and successes. Participants receive resources that enable them to infuse fieldwork and energize teacher education programs. Participants leave with the ability to identify the steps necessary to infuse early fieldwork experience into existing teacher education courses and create authentic fieldwork activities. Teacher education professors, department chairs, and other educators involved in teacher education will benefit from participating in this session.

Brenda Hurbanis, Chair
Education
Anne Arundel Community College
Jennifer Irwin, Professor
Education
Anne Arundel Community College


Forum Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Successful integration of project management into the curriculum is directly dependent on faculty member’s ability to understand and communicate the benefits of these techniques. Learn how to infuse your curriculum with aspects of project management techniques. This discussion focuses on team dynamics and ways teambuilding supports the successful introduction of project management into the culture of the college. Included is a short activity in which two teams compete to finish a short project.

Jean Hindie, Faculty
Center for Business and Technology
Community College of Denver
Carol Miller, Professor
Business
Community College of Denver


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Facilitators share how institutions are fostering collaborative inquiry among faculty around student learning outcomes and their improvement. Handouts address issues confronted by institutions in implementing their own innovations and describe characteristics of effective approaches to collaborative inquiry and to implementing student-learning outcomes across the curriculum. Participants discuss initiatives on consortium campuses addressing these issues. Those most likely to benefit will have interest in moving beyond meeting accountability demands to approaches that make assessment integral to teaching and learning across a curriculum.

Glen Rogers, Director
Educational Research and Evaluation
Alverno College
Elizabeth Daugherty, Director
Assessment
Columbus State Community College


Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

To respond to tremendous student interest, the College of Southern Nevada (CSN) teamed up with SunGard Higher Education and quickly launched a virtual college. With consolidated student services and strong emphasis on quality, FTE growth has been phenomenal. This presentation includes the mission, the vision, the need, the process, the role of faculty, the help of SunGard Higher Education, and the return on investment. Participants take an online tour of CSN’s virtual college and share lessons learned from their development experience.

Michael Judge, Director
Academic Technology
SunGard Higher Education
Sondra Cosgrove, Professor
Social Sciences
College of Southern Nevada


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Beverly, Majestic Level, Tower Building

How can community college faculty integrate civic responsibility more intentionally into their curricula? This hands-on forum uses exercises and activities from the American Association of Community Colleges’ best-selling publication, A Practical Guide for Integrating Civic Responsibility Into the Curriculum to explores ways to prepare students for effective involvement in a diverse democratic society and examine the role and obligation of higher education to produce good citizens. Participants will try many of the activities for themselves and learn how to use the guide.

Mary Prentice, Assistant Professor
Educational Mangagement and Development
New Mexico State University - Doña Ana Community College
Rudy Garcia, Dean
Office of Experiential Education and Mentor
Central New Mexico Community College


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

The bystander mentality is among the most relevant topics in the current climate of ethnic cleansing and racism. During this session, a variety of emotionally charged visuals from the past and present, along with commentary, engage the audience in a discussion about how to help students learn why and how not to remain passive in the face of religious, racial, ethical, or sexual bias in their own lives. Participants leave with a booklet that includes student directed activities.

Richard Kalfus, Chair
Humanities
St. Louis Community College at Meramec


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Many of your students have little white cords sticking out of their ears. Chances are they are listening to a podcast from a learning-centered professor. During this session, learn about the many forms of podcasting and how they can be used in the learning-centered classroom. Participants get a live demonstration of see how to make a podcast from start to finish. The session itself is a podcast as particpants make a podcast on site. The session will assist educators looking to start podcasting at their institutions

Brian Shelton, Academic Chair
Mass Communication
Rock Valley College
Chuck Konkol, Associate Professor
Computer Information Systems
Rock Valley College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Century, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Ever want to share your conference experience with others? This session allows participants to share the best of what they have learned, express their needs, and establish connections with others for future support. The presenter facilitates group interaction and collects information so participants leave with a comprehensive list of shared insights and resources. You will leave with a sense of fulfillment and motivation to move forward in your distance learning initiatives.

Edward Bowen, Director
Administration
Dallas County Community College District


Roundtable Discussion
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

This interactive session provides seven strategic tips for doing educational business in Japan. Presenters share ideas learned by the Community College of Denver staff who successfully established a learning partnership with Teikyo University in Fukuoka, Japan. Participants receive handouts outlining tips and engage in a discussion about the Japanese culture and how it affects relationship building. This session will interest administrators, faculty, student services staff, and other educators who wish to open their college to international students.

Peg Rooney,
Community College of Denver


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

This session covers basic brain structures and principles allowing participants to experience various teaching strategies designed to optimize leader potential. Highlighting current research, this lecture presents information about how the brain processes language, develops language, and acquires a second language. In addition, gender differences in language development and processing are explored. Although this presentation is designed primarily for those directly involved in the classroom, it will interest anyone in the education field.

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


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Governor's Square 9, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Classroom Performance System (CPS) Learn how eInstruction's Classroom Performance System combines radio frequency response pad technology and award winning software to revolutionize the higher education classroom experience. Instructors from hundreds of institutions are engaging their classes and getting instant detailed feedback from each student using CPS. CPS works seamlessly with PowerPoint and integrates with both WebCT and Blackboard.

Cindy Yates, Vice President
Higher Education Marketing
eInstruction


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Beverly, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Experiment with designing real-world learning environments in the virtual world of Second Life (SL). New SL users set up an avatar and learn the basics of interacting. Experienced SL users enter the Studio Design Lab and begin to experiment with various simulations of real world learning environments. Participants have the opportunity to become part of a national network of theorist-practitioners of design for learning environments.

Michael Schoop, Campus President
Cuyahoga Community College - Metropolitan Campus


Learning Center Course
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Gold, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Institutions of higher education, from community college to Ivy League universities, must provide constant communication, immediate access to critical information, and instant connectivity to their communities. Join a lively panel of education and technology leaders in a discussion about the challenges faced in meeting the requirements of today’s students, faculty, and staff with complete communication, collaboration, and learning management solutions. Participants discuss ways to turn their current LMS into a streamlined, easy-to-learn, complete solution to modern education.

Katherine Tietge, Associate Professor
Humanities
Ocean County College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Can learning be transformed when faculty development and student life merge? Can students teach faculty? Can faculty connect course concepts to real-life experiences? Discover how to add energy, excitement, and purpose to Learning College efforts by considering an innovative partnership between faculty development and student leadership development. Frederick Community College leaders model best practices in an organizationally integrated approach to maximizing teaching and learning inside and outside the classroom. Participants leave with ideas for creating learning without boundaries at their institutions.

Christine Helfrich, Associate Vice President
Teaching and Learning
Frederick Community College
Jeanni Winston-Muir, Director
Student Life
Frederick Community College


Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Learning-centered innovations in programs and practices have swept through the nation’s community colleges creating new approaches and opportunities for student success. Learn how leading educators from three community colleges have implemented strategies for student success that work. Hear about a career exploration program where students meet onsite with local business and industry representatives, an employee-learner program in which all college members participate in cross-functional teams to create student success strategies, and a statewide career pathways program for disadvantaged adults that boasts an 80 percent retention rate.

Terry O'Banion, President Emeritus
League For Innovation
League for Innovation in the Community College
John Cech, Deputy Commissioner
Two-Year and Community College Education
Montana University System
Jennifer Methvin, Vice Chancellor
Academics
University of Arkansas Community College Hope


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Governor's Square 17, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Most faculty don’t have time to learn costly, complex solutions for recording and distributing lectures. Grand Rapids Community College partnered with TechSmith to offer an easy and effective way to capture lectures accessible by students through Blackboard and RSS feeds. Learn how faculty can capture lectures and share them in multiple formats, such as Flash, iPod Video, or MP3. Participate in a live demo in which the software is used to record and send a mini-presentation to the server. Participants

Eric Kunnen, Coordinator
Instructional Technologies
Grand Rapids Community College
Rich Boys, Product Manager
Marketing
TechSmith


Forum Session
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Spruce, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Ongoing development in course management systems, software, and web-based services continues to expand the ways learners can demonstrate what they know or don’t know. Session examples include feedback loops; digital presentations; image and video services; audio, telephony, and conferencing services; and e-portfolios. Tech-supported assessment activities serve as the backdrop for audience contributions. Participants see technology tools used for various formative and summative practices, contribute their own experiences, and brainstorm new assessment possibilities.

Alice Bedard-Voorhees,
Colorado Mountain College
Lisa Marie Johnson, Director
Faculty Development
Colorado Community Colleges Online


Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Librarians on the front lines see students’ confusion everyday as they attempt to gather reliable, credible information. This session describes ways to inject elements of information literacy into college courses and emphasize librarian and faculty collaboration. This exploration of assignment redesign includes sample handouts, and time for participants to apply these ideas, and helps answer the following commonly asked questions: How do I use online resources? How do I cite sources? How do I tell the difference between a scholarly article found with an online database and one found with a website?

Margaret Montet, Librarian
Learning Resources
Bucks County Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Evaluating literacy and fostering civility in students can assist them in becoming better members of a healthcare team. During this interactive session, facilitators discuss the use of non traditional literacy and civility assessment tools and observation of classroom civility behaviors to validate test results. Participants review literacy and civility tools and the results of literacy and college placement data. They also evaluate their own literacy and civility skills and engage in discussion of civility and its impact on learning.

Genie Wessel, Project Coordinator
Health Sciences
Howard Community College
Kathleen Jones, Director
Allied Nursing
Howard Community College
Becky Lessey, Director
Continuing Education and Workforce Development
Howard Community College


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

The presenter introduces the WorldWideWhiteboard and offers participants technical assistance during this live tutoring session. Participants role-play as students, counselors, tutors, and instructors using the WorldWideWhiteboard. Members of each group use a tablet, headset, and a camera to communicate with each other. The session includes audio- and videoconferencing, voice and type chat, drawing, URL sharing, special symbols, image and audio file loading, polling, equation writing, and application sharing. A summary of the tools used and participant experience follows.

Charles Sorcabal, Professor
Mathematics
Mt. San Antonio College


Poster Session
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Second Floor, Tower Building

When a college articulates general education outcomes, it must address varied audiences to make those outcomes central to the instructional culture. During this session, presenters use Butler Community College’s ten-year journey with Learning PACT as a model for getting outcome statements off the printed page and into the lives of college stakeholders. Participants identify general education outcomes, generate ways to address audiences, and create a practical curriculum design.

Phil Speary, Director
Assessment
Butler Community College
Alexis Hopkins, Chair
Fine Arts
Butler Community College


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

This session highlights research findings with particular attention to policy development and practices that increase student persistence and performance. Participants leave with specific recommendations for their home institutions to improve student success.

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


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

This session will help participants become aware of hidden disabilities and the functional limitations that students experience. Information is provided about how to make online courses more accessible for these students. Participants learn what the law requires, what hidden disabilities are and what functional limitations they create for students, and what can be done to make online courses more accessible.

Maxine Christenson, Professor
Business
Aims Community College


Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

This presentation will illustrate applications of basic mathematics, precalculus through differential equations, linear algebra, probability, and statistics, in the medical sciences. Modules, web tools, and resources will be illustrated for a select set of medical applications. Alternative methods to instruct mathematical concepts using these applications will be discussed. The work represents phase one of a National Science Foundation grant, which involves reforming an existing Calculus for Biology and Medicine course, and designing new Mathematical Methods for Biology and Medicine courses.

Mike Martin,
Johnson County Community College


Poster Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Second Floor, Tower Building

This lively session includes activities and numerous songs that can be used in college-level classes from beginning algebra through calculus. Multiple intelligence theories are the basis for much of this hour-long festival of knowledge. Bring your ideas to share and, of course, your best singing voice. Be ready to relax, share some ideas, learn some new ones, and most of all, enjoy this celebration of mathematics through song!

Barbara Aaker, Professor
Mathematics
Community College of Denver


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

During this session, participants discuss how the implementation of the tablet PC positively influences student learning, engagement, and achievement. Participants see how the tablet PC’s use can benefit face-to-face, hybrid, and online classrooms. Several problem-solving scenarios are discussed and participants share and communicate solutions using the tablet PC. Faculty members from across disciplines can benefit from attending this session.

Don Drummond, Faculty
Mathematics
Minnesota State Community and Technical College


Roundtable Discussion
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

During this discussion, participants gain an understanding of meaningful learning by exploring learning styles, active learning, and classroom management techniques geared toward Millennial students. After a guided discussion of teaching and learning myths, participants use the VARK tool to assess learning styles, participate in active learning activities such as think-pair-share, and propose classroom management challenges to the instructor. Participants receive a questionnaire and answer key on teaching and learning, the VARK questionnaire, active teaching and learning techniques, and a guide to teaching Millennials.

Megan Way-Nicholson, Professor
Human Studies
St. Lawrence College of Applied Arts and Technology


Roundtable Discussion
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

This session provides participants with an understanding of the elements of change and their connection to productive learning. This will be accomplished in an interactive setting where presenters and participants discuss practical examples and classroom strategies that can facilitate effective and creative change in the student. The session provides practical, multimodal examples of activities and motivational approaches that faculty and staff can use to increase positive changes in the classroom.

Daniel Dickman, Associate Professor
Psychology
Ivy Tech Community College
Don Shull, Associate Professor/ Program Chair
Psychology
Ivy Tech Community College
Steve Offerman, Associate Professor
Business
Ivy Tech Community College


Forum Session
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

If you want to know what works, go to the source. Hear from a panel of high school students and staff how collaboration between their district and a community college is helping them graduate and look toward a postsecondary future previously considered unattainable. Learn how these organizations partnered to provide an online learning program using Class.com content, Blackboard, and resources from both institutions in a successful way for students. Participants view the website, sample content, and receive handouts describing funding and a curriculum overview.

Melinda Ness, Coordinator
Student Support Services
Littleton Public Schools
Karen Goodwin, Director Of Alternative Education
Student Support Services
Littleton Public Schools
David Shellberg, Executive Vice President
Arapahoe Community College


Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

This discussion is appropriate for anyone seeking funding for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) projects. Funding opportunities within the National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education for community colleges in the STEM areas are discussed. This session includes a dialogue among participants and the presenters about community needs and NSF programs that can help meet those needs.

Kathleen Alfano, Primary Investigator
California Regional Consortium for Engineering Advances
College of the Canyons


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Governor's Square 15, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Each year since 1992, students, faculty, staff, and administrators from Oakland Community College and secondary and postsecondary educational institutions in Oaxaca, Mexico, have participated in exchange programs. However, inadequate language fluency and geographic distance have been consistent barriers to deep and sustained learning and understanding. In 2005, a new cybercommunity was developed to erode these barriers and amplify the benefits for all participants. This session will benefit schools interested in using low-cost technology to augment traditional cross-cultural exchange.

Steven Reif, Campus President
Oakland Community College
Kayla LeBlanc, Director
Academic Technologies
Oakland Community College
Doug Riddering, Academic Counselor
Computer Information Systems
Oakland Community College
Patricia Harris, Faculty
English
Oakland Community College


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Is it possible to discuss professional development or training without competencies? Come explore and discuss the purpose, choice, categorization, measurement, updating, and implementation of competencies, as well as faculty buy-in and support. The focus is on the need for instructional competencies in distance learning programs. Through discussion, participants explore the purpose of competencies, faculty roles in developing and implementing competencies, choosing competencies, and measuring competencies.

Edward Bowen, Director
Administration
Dallas County Community College District


Roundtable Discussion
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Do you own your online instruction content? Is there academic freedom in asynchronous teaching or has it been taken away? The facilitator reviews how the courts have defined academic freedom, academic censorship, and

Cynthia Lauber, Instructor
Paralegal Studies
Front Range Community College


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Quality e-learning courses result from interactive tutoring and course design. Concepts in outdoor experiential learning—dramaturgy, experiential game, holistic activity, or adventure wave—create unexpected inspiration. Discussed are connections between those two methods based on extensive experience with European Outward Bound experiential learning and American e-learning application design. Participants leave with inspiration for tutoring and course design, immediately applicable for creating effective, fun programs.

Daniel Franc, Director
Research and Development
WebStudy, Inc.


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Sure, any techno-geek can podcast. But, how can you get the entire faculty podcasting so students can move to an incredibly high level of achievement? With software that streamlines the process. Discussed are how to get faculty, regardless of their technical abilities, to easily podcast their classroom material. Proprietary software written by a software engineer is demonstrated and provided free of charge. After this presentation, participants are able to move into a new arena of instructional effectiveness.

Rick Leinecker, Assistant Professor
Business and Technologies
Rockingham Community College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Participants discuss strategies that are based in research and practice that train reluctant college students to implement and use technology in their daily lives. Shared are how to get the most computer-phobic students to realize the importance of technology. A PowerPoint presentation engages participants in the process of creating learning strategies to increase the technological capabilities of college students.

Barry Birnbaum, Professor
Special Education
Northeastern Illinois University


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Via Blackboard and personal websites, this session features the college’s faculty development workshop site, distribution via CD-ROM of prepared digital materials, discussion about coordination information technology, instructional technology, physical plant services, registrar, enrollment management, and other services, and distribution of the Bronx Community College Faculty Development model. Session participants develop a web-enhanced course for fall and a distance-learning course for spring. They receive ongoing online mentoring with trained tutors and tech assistants, and access to the appropriate technology.

Stephen Powers, Associate Professor
Education and Reading
Bronx Community College - CUNY
Charles Alston, Professor
Health, Physical Education, and Wellness
Bronx Community College - CUNY


Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Advances in GIS technology are opening opportunities for teaching and learning in a variety of community college disciplines. Participants discuss how Lane Community College is implementing instructor-designed learning activities in science and social science classes to enhance critical thinking and problem-based learning using GIS. Desktop computer activities can be used in the classroom or as homework assignments. Come discuss how this model can be used in your college.

Jane Benjamin, Faculty
Geography
Lane Community College
Lynn Songer, Faculty
Social Science
Lane Community College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Join us as we explore problem-based learning (PBL) in radiography. Learn how a class project incorporating this method assisted a nonprofit organization in its planning for a new facility. Additionally, the importance of college support for the use and successful implementation of this stimulating learning method are addressed. A PowerPoint presentation introduces PBL scenarios, allowing participants to interact with presenters and each other.

Linda Thomas-Glover, President
Eastern Shore Community College
Penelope Logsdon, Director
Allied Health
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College - KCTCS


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Spruce, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Can the strategies and resources created in two successful online college mathematics and science programs be used in school improvement programs for those public institutions not making AYP? During this session, the successful components and strategies implemented in programs to increase content knowledge for middle grade and special education teachers are discussed. Participants are asked to share their experiences with similar programs or school improvement projects. School improvement strategies will be developed and discussed.

Kathryn Bishop, Director
Grants
Darton State College
Tarrah Mirus, Coordinator
Instructional Technology
Darton State College


Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

This session explores the increasing interdependence of the life sciences with mathematics, statistics, and computation. Presenters will outline the rich history of discovery and collaboration at the intersection of math and biology and the emerging areas of systems biology and bioinformatics; exhibit the incorporation of chance and stochastics in biological processes and related curriculum; use discrete, continuous, and multivariate models to describe biological events and pose questions; and investigate biological rhythms and their place in the mathematics curriculum beyond trigonometry. Online video, animation, visualization, simulation, and assessment guide participants to readily available resources and modules and encourage inquiry for particular processes and models.

Mike Martin,
Johnson County Community College


Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Discussed is a narrative about the discovery process encountered during a fellowship project in an effort to help students by improving reading and writing integration in composition courses. Explored are the results of research and three exemplary composition programs that already use reading and writing integration. Participants review the resulting thematic menu of assignments for a freshman composition course and discuss the long-term benefits such an approach can provide students beyond the composition classroom and into their college and professional careers.

John Pekins, Professor
English
Tallahassee Community College


Roundtable Discussion
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Developmental studies programs have become easy targets because of perceptions that they are an inefficient use of funding and tuition dollars; nevertheless, the demand is still great. This session focuses on an innovative approach to redesigning developmental studies courses to use proven planning processes for faculty and staff, infuse technology into course design, and create partnerships with K-12. The session engages the audience in a discussion of the likely pitfalls and strategies for creating a more coordinated developmental studies program.

Bruce Vandal, Director
Postsecondary Education and Workforce Development Institute
Education Commission of the States


Forum Session
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Governor's Square 15, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Discuss how the Carbon County Higher Education Center used maps to ignite a public discussion about the history and future of our rural county. This session teaches how to use geography as a tool for making higher education an indispensable institution in rural communities that are struggling to clarify their identity and provide a future for their children. Participants review the maps and discuss the process that galvanized the elders in our community, as well as discuss the power of geography to define a community.

Dave Throgmorton, Director
Carbon County Higher Education
Western Wyoming Community College
Karen Webster, Program Planner
Carbon County Higher Education Center


Roundtable Discussion
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Are you looking for a professional development program that will enhance faculty understanding of the unique and diverse needs of adult learners? Instructional Skills Workshops (ISW) enhance the classroom effectiveness of new and experienced teachers with methodology based on the principles of adult learning, including outcomes-based assessment. The ISW has successfully helped new and experienced faculty in Canada and the United States since the 1970s. This session includes interactive and engaging workshop handouts.

Kathy Becker, President
Training
Company of Experts.net
Kay Weiss, Expert On Call
Instructional Skills
Company of Experts.net


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

The summer bridge program helps high school graduates hone their academic skills to prepare for college. Experience some of the trials, tribulations, and joys Cochise College experienced while creating a successful summer bridge program and a student learning community program. The session consists of a combination of multimedia tools and a presentation of initial data demonstrating the success of the programs. During this session, participants learn how to become part of a mini-learning community.

Grace Mah, Faculty
Computer Information Systems
Cochise College
Doris Jensen, Dean
Academic
Cochise College
Ben Berry, Director
Center for Teacher Education
Cochise College


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Learning in most institutions centers on a model that emphasizes the individual. The presenters discusses the principles of the learning organization that Peter Senge writes about in The Fifth Discipline: building shared vision, mental mastery, team learning, personal mastery, and systems thinking. In addition to definitions and examples of the principles, participants learn how students can make them work as they develop ways to keep learning in their professional lives as members of organizations.

Sam Geonetta, Professor
Mathematics, Physics and Computing Technology
University of Cincinnati


Poster Session
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Second Floor, Tower Building

The use of Second Life, a multiuser virtual environment, is the newest trend in razor-edge teaching. During this session, participants learn about the basics of Second Life and brainstorm ideas about its ethical use as an instructional tool. Presenters lead a tour of Dante’s Inferno, Edgar Allan Poe’s House of Usher, Grendel’s Lair, Camelot, The Women and War Learning Community Classroom, the Kate Chopin Classroom, Frankenstein’s Lab, Walden Pond, and the Virtual Naylor Project. Participants receive a resource kit to get started exploring virtual worlds at their institutions and discuss how to create effective and ethical assessment techniques in virtual environments.

Beth Ritter-Guth,
Lehigh Carbon Community College
David Longenbach, Dean
Liberal Arts
Burlington County College


Special Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Governor's Square 14, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Second Life is receiving significant attention as a new and exciting learning environment for enhancing instruction. The presenter outlines a new collaborative multi campus experience providing a shared island for exploring and implementing best practices with students, and offer an opportunity to sign up for this project. In this highly interactive session, the presenter also shares his experiences, then leads discussions to solicit participants’ experiences in virtual worlds. The presentation includes PowerPoint with audio, video, and an in-world tour.

Terrance Keys, Assistant Vice President
Instructional Technologies
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Larry Dugan, Director
Learning Environments
Finger Lakes Community College - SUNY
David Shaw, Associate Professor
Visual and Performing Arts
Monroe Community College - SUNY


Forum Session
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Participants discuss how to encourage students’ critical thinking and make it come alive for them. Shared is information about an interdisciplinary classroom with faculty from two disciplines working together with organizations and speakers from the community to capture students’ interest. Participants discuss how to use service learning in an academically rigorous way. The session includes audio from guest lecturers, excerpts from student journals and papers, how-to guides for team teaching and service learning, and resources for critical thinking skills development.

Catlyn Keenan, Faculty
Philosophy
Front Range Community College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Service learning integrates academic learning and relevant community service with classroom instruction, focusing on critical, reflective thinking and personal and civic responsibility. Participants discuss how to adapt existing courses into service learning courses, possible assignments, reflective writing, and critical thinking activities. Also discussed is adapting curriculum and developing materials for a service learning experience. Participants also brainstorm ways to develop their own service learning plan and receive handouts with specific guidelines.

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


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

This session features an interactive PowerPoint presentation demonstrating how portfolios are a perfect classroom assessment tool. Using Anne Arundel Community College’s Architecture and Interior Design Department as a model, presenters show the successful evolution of portfolio assessment in a curriculum as a requirement for graduates transferring or seeking employment. Participants discover how to transform portfolios into effective basic skills assessment tools for an introductory class and learn how to create more successful courses and programs at their college using practical and concrete examples. Rubrics and guidelines are provided to help structure any project to successfully meet learning outcomes.

Michael Ryan, Professor
Architecture
Anne Arundel Community College
Robert Lowe, Professor
Architecture and Interior Design
Anne Arundel Community College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Learn about a new policy encouraging slow migration into Second Life (SL) rather than an all-out, virtual-world invasion. This session recounts SL adventures and misadventures as the presenters introduced students to SL. Hear how this model can be applied to your program or college. Presenters provide attendees with an action plan for incorporating SL in the classroom regardless of delivery method. Participants receive handouts documenting implementation strategies to successfully incorporate SL into a classroom and online setting. No purchase of an island required!

Kae Novak, Student Success Coordinator
Online Learning
Front Range Community College
Chris Luchs,
Front Range Community College
Cheryl Barnes,
Front Range Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Governor's Square 9, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

This session is designed to provide teaching strategies for classroom and online instructors and will be audience driven using videos and online examples to address teaching questions and concerns provided by participants. STARLINK’S collaborations with hundreds of nationally renowned educators, its extensive video library, and Dallas TeleCollege’s years of experience as an innovative online course producer form the basis of this teaching and learning hour.

Henry Hartman, Director
Starlink
Dallas Learning Solutions (Formerly Known as Dallas TeleLearning)
Jim Picquet, Vice President
Dallas TeleCollege
Dallas Learning Solutions (Formerly Known as Dallas TeleLearning)


Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Beverly, Majestic Level, Tower Building

This presentation describes how oral and written communications faculty members collaborate in a learning community to help students develop interactive communication skills appropriate to their tasks and audiences. Participants learn how to design their own learning communities to help students accomplish these goals.

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


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

This session focuses on emerging lessons from Achieving the Dream colleges that have focused on improving student success. Based on over 500 reports from coaches’ work with college CEOs and teams, the top ten reasons institutions are progressing or not with institutional transformation, and institutional change practices to improve student success are featured.

Byron McClenney, Director
Achieving the Dream
The University of Texas at Austin
Margaretta Mathis, Senior Vice President
Roueche Graduate Center
National American University


Forum Session
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

The instruction of mathematics involves communication with technology. From chalkboard to projector, abacus to calculator, and notes to video—the toolset changes and we hopefully evolve. With an overarching historical context, this presentation will focus on recent developments with exercise videos, concept videos, and the technology that support them; likewise, presenters will discuss portals that accumulate open-source software, video, and resources for math instruction. Portals of the mathematics community into the National Science Digital Library will be included in the discussion.

Mike Martin,
Johnson County Community College


Poster Session
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Second Floor, Tower Building

The Family Involvement for Latino Success in College Program is creating credit instruction based on the integration of family members in the educational process. Best practices, student engagement strategies, and faculty interaction from the grant project are featured in a session designed to provide participants with an immersive, multimedia experience illustrating elements of a multi college program that will appeal to faculty and administrators. Wide-format video, interactive dialogue, and handouts facilitate the session.

Rene Prupes,
Mountain View College
James Corvey, Executive Dean
Educational Resources and Distance Education
Mountain View College


Forum Session
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Come learn how to help students succeed in college, career, and life by identifying their top five strengths as identified by the StrengthsFinder Assessment. Discussed are how to publish custom materials that include components of the course syllabus, assignments, and exemplary individual projects. Participants receive a syllabus, a hard copy of the session’s PowerPoint presentation, and StrengthsFinder material.

Saundra King, Director
Transitional Studies
Chattanooga State Community College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Learn how to engage your students using current events, human rights, and international policies. Hear about a fresh approach to Composition II in which students learn to write research papers and perfect their researching skills through discussion and debate over some of the biggest issues facing our world today. Attendees leave the session with a comprehensive understanding of how to teach a research paper writing class that keeps students enthralled and connected to the global community and each other.

Lauren Sabel, Instructor
English
Front Range Community College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

This poster session demonstrates how students became involved in their own learning through combined individualized research projects and classroom presentations. Participants see student presentations, learn ways to design classes to allow students to choose and research their own topic, and discuss how this method honors different learning styles.

Claire Miller, Science Chair
Science Department Center For Arts and Sciences
Community College of Denver


Poster Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Second Floor, Tower Building

Students and instructors report the need for courses that help develop writing skills. Learn how writing-intensive courses help facilitate the development of writing skills through course content areas. An instructor shares samples of work with writing strategy applications. This session provides participants with research-based writing intensive instructional strategies applicable to the classroom. Participants discuss issues from their classrooms and problem-solving approaches, and receive an outline of activities, strategy descriptions, and online resources.

Effie Kritikos, Associate Professor
Special Education
Northeastern Illinois University


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

The general perception among many online instructors is that teaching online classes takes significantly longer than traditional classroom courses. On the other hand, a lack of instructor presence is among the most common complaint voiced by online students. What is going on here? This session explores this mismatch between faculty and student perceptions by exploring what teaching really means in the online environment. The presentation includes a slide show, examples from actual online courses, and handouts. Session participants share their experiences and engage in critical discussion on these topics.

Eric Salahub, Faculty
Front Range Community College


Roundtable Discussion
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

This session presents a model of embedding core abilities into an integrated learning community of U.S. history, English composition, and library research courses. The presentation includes an overview of research on the assessment of core abilities at the course level; a discussion of strategies for designing assignments that assess critical thinking and information competency; and an activity in which participants identify methods for evaluating those assignments.

Dianne Moore, Faculty
Library and Media Services
Olympic College
Debra Lamb, Professor
History
Olympic College
Jody Delay, Professor
English
Olympic College


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Beverly, Majestic Level, Tower Building

This session is designed not only for chairs and administrators who want to learn how to teach others to start online classes, but it is also useful to individuals hoping to create their own online class. Participants learn how to help teachers create and develop an online course using an online teaching platform. Techniques for encouraging faculty to start online classes are presented, as well as methods for teaching faculty how to teach online.

Gerard Cronin, Assistant Professor
Science and Allied Health
Salem Community College
Christopher Cronin, Professor
Psychology
Saint Leo University


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Attend an exciting session presenting new techniques for training adult ESL teachers. Ideas and research are presented from five community colleges with exemplary practices in adult ESL instruction. Community college and adult program leaders gain exciting tips for designing professional development courses from colleges with varied populations. This session focuses on helping other community college or adult education leaders consider how new professional development programs improve their instructors’ knowledge about successful practices in adult ESL instruction and classroom pedagogy.

Elizabeth Zachry, Associate
Young Adults and Postsecondary Education Policy Area
MDRC
Jodi Crandall, Professor
Education
University of Maryland, Baltimore Cty
Suzanne Leibman, Chair
English as a Second Language
College of Lake County


Forum Session
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

The facilitators share how they combined two sections of the same course in order to team teach. This discussion is suitable for educators interested in trying team-teaching. Participants learn how to split up the teaching responsibilities, handle having two authorities in the room, and handle the effects of this type of teaching on instructors. Student reactions to the team teaching environment are shared.

Jeff Vande Zande, Associate Professor
English
Delta College
Janet Alexander, Assistant Professor
English
Delta College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Although we live in a visual world, most students do not interpret that world effectively. Session participants gain interactive ways of engaging students in the acquisition of visual literacy skills. The presenter discusses visual literacy as a key component of critical thinking.

Phyllis Fleming, Assistant Professor
Arts and Business Technology
Patrick Henry Community College


Poster Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Second Floor, Tower Building

This session will focus on reliable methods of accurately diagnosing your students’ individual academic strengths and weaknesses in reading, writing, and math. Accurate diagnosis provides your institution with the empirical data needed to measure learning outcomes after instructional intervention, access course content so it aligns with student needs, measure teaching effectiveness, and help promote college readiness via high school outreach programs.

Don Pitchford, Account Executive
ACT, Inc.


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Governor's Square 9, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

As institutions turn to creating more of an online presence and online courses, one wonders how to improve this presence. What practices are valuable and necessary? How can community colleges make their courses more motivating and successful? How can they create videos to help students learn? This discussion addresses these issues listing points and examples, and includes various ways to improve the visual appeal of the pages and the content offered. Participants are encouraged to offer their good and bad online teaching experiences. There are ten basic topics, but others are discussed as they are generated.

Mary Hall, Associate Professor
Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering
Georgia Perimeter College


Roundtable Discussion
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

High-cost learning materials exacerbate the rising costs of attaining a college degree. Customized curriculum is an effective solution for containing costs and creating learning materials relevant to the institution’s students. Community College of Vermont, in close collaboration with ED MAP, has entered the world of customized texts. Come hear lessons learned – from working with publishers to keep content “evergreen” and assure materials align with course objectives, to developing a customization plan that supports brand extension and cost savings.

Kenneth Sherman, Senior Vice President
Words & Numbers


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Governor's Square 15, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

ANGEL is a communication bridge that connects faculty and students. The system becomes an everyday tool faculty and students expect to use in their courses that adds value to teaching and learning. Join us to learn about the ANGEL difference: Active ANGEL Community Interactive, Collaborative Learning Environments Automated Agent Technology, Tokens and Environment Variables ANGEL Course Conversion Benefits

Christine Wyatt, Vice President
Sales
Moodlerooms, Inc.


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Governor's Square 11, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

As faculty, we have all been there. We ask a question and all we get are blank looks and silence. What do we do now? Come to this interactive, dynamic workshop and discover the possibilities of a lost art. Participants learn how to ask a range of questions effectively, when to use these techniques, and when other options may be more effective. This workshop is by faculty and for faculty, and includes an interactive presentation of Theodore Roethke’s, "My Papa’s Waltz", as well as a discussion about how and why the method works, what the applications are, and what the limits are.

Michael Mackey, Professor
Arts and Sciences
Community College of Denver


Roundtable Discussion
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Faculty have the expertise to develop effective rubrics to assess student mastery of learning outcomes, but often not the time to design these tools. The FRAMES Project (Foothill’s Rubric Assessment Model for Evaluating SLOs) provides the studio for the design of assessment rubrics, as well as a venue for creative conversations about student learning. Faculty members, student learning outcomes (SLOs) coordinators, and instruction officers can learn how the FRAMES Project works, review its design and planning process, explore the assessment rubrics already developed, and find out how the information achieved from the rubric assessments informs future curricular and policy decisions that focus the campus on strengthening student achievement of institutional SLOs.

Rosemary Arca, Faculty
Language Arts
Foothill College
Lucy Rodriguez, Project Coordinator
Instruction and Research
Foothill College
Dolores Davison, Professor
Business and Social Sciences
Foothill College


Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Developing relationships among college students is a significant contributor to student retention and success. Discussed are ways to create a culture in which supportive relationships can develop and thrive, including guidelines and tools for developing and implementing interdisciplinary-linked assignments. A case example of a linked assignment between a biology and public relations class illustrates successful collaboration. Participants receive handouts and worksheets to assist them in identifying potential linked assignments for their courses.

Judy Kaufman, Associate Professor
Biology
Monroe Community College - SUNY
Mary Jo Popovici, Associate Professor
Visual and Performing Arts
Monroe Community College - SUNY


Roundtable Discussion
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

This session illustrates how community colleges can nurture students to engage in science research through paid summer programs. Learn about a project that allowed community college students to work at a nature preserve with professors from several major universities and assist in data collection used for national strategic planning related to environmental problems. Participants hear project outcomes and engage in a discussion about the importance of active and collaborative learning in the sciences.

Carl Knight, Faculty
Science
Eastfield College


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Participants will engage in a live online math session using NetTutor writing tablets. Two wireless tablet PCs are passed through the audience so participants can experience a live interactive session with College Algebra and Business Calculus students in California. The presenter demonstrates programs for loaning tablets to students and creating homemade movie lectures. Participants receive a PowerPoint presentation outline, links to the software, and ways to share the experience at their colleges.

Charles Sorcabal, Professor
Mathematics
Mt. San Antonio College


Poster Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom Foyer, Second Floor, Tower Building

For most students and faculty, assessment is not taken lightly. Instructors are frequently frustrated when they realize, often while grading a major test or final exam, that what they thought they were teaching is not what the students learned. This session provides a comprehensive overview of traditional and alternative assessment strategies and ends with a glimpse into the future of assessment and a challenge to Innovations participants to embrace and explore a fusion of old strategies and new technologies.

Celeste Fenton, Designer and Facilitator
Perkins Professional Development Institute
Hillsborough Community College
Brenda Watkins, Instructional Designer
Innovative Teaching and Technology
Hillsborough Community College


Special Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Governor's Square 14, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Come hear about the evolution of the GCC Instructional Palette (now eGCC), a completely homegrown comprehensive system for delivering automatically generated, password-protected accounts for student and faculty with access to standardized and registration-dependent specialized software. The presenter links by remote desktop to an eGCC workstation at GCC and performs live demonstrations of the system, including the delivery of virtualized software to the desktop. Handouts include the overall system design features and more specifics about the software delivery.

Jim Daugherty, Faculty Director
Technology Research Implementation
Glendale Community College (AZ)


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Online tutoring services provide support to students who cannot or will not access traditional face-to-face tutoring. Developing a comprehensive program entailing most, if not all, academic and workforce programs involves bringing together faculty, chairs, administrators, tutors, and students to look at tutoring in a new light. Participants discuss how to develop, market, and implement a program that works. This session includes a hands-on demonstration of online tutoring and discipline-specific group work to develop best practices for a variety of subject areas.

Deborah Hardwick, Manager
English as a Second Language
Houston Community College - Southwest College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

This informative, interactive session offers a proven active-learning model for educators interested in effecting a more successful high school-to-college transition for their students, thereby increasing first-year retention. Showcasing the successful team-taught, humanities-based, critical-thinking seminar currently being offered at the Community College of Rhode Island, this session affords participants hands-on, collaborative activities to create their own course. Provided are an overview of the creation and development of the presenters’ course.

Susan Apshaga, Associate Professor
English
Community College of Rhode Island
Carol Panaccione, Professor
Foreign Languages and Cultures
Community College of Rhode Island
Debra Lilli,
Community College of Rhode Island


Forum Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Responding to a new generation of students immersed in a world of nontextual media, Tallahassee Community College has developed a course strand to equip students with the skills needed to decipher the media noise that envelops them and us. The presentation offers concrete strategies to increase media literacy and engage and empower the next generation of students. Participants join in open discussion, see video footage of student activities, and complete a short assignment.

Gareth Euridge, Assistant Professor
English
Tallahassee Community College
Missy James, Professor
English
Tallahassee Community College


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Learn about the rapidly evolving Open Educational Resources (OER) movement and what it means for teachers and students worldwide. This session offers an overview of exemplary projects, along with a discussion of opportunities and challenges surrounding these efforts. The presenter explores the robust educational resources of the free homework help website HippoCampus.org and shares lessons learned from the project. Participants watch a demonstration of the website’s content and tools and learn how they can ensure the success of OER efforts like HippoCampus as pioneering teachers, content contributors, and supporters.

Gary Lopez, Executive Director
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
National Repository of Online Courses


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Sustainability is more and more of an issue in the world and on campuses. An English instructor and a speech instructor demonstrate hands-on techniques instructors can use to create classrooms that sustain available resources and reduce waste by moving toward paperless instruction, as well as educate students through projects to reduce waste themselves. Topics include the importance of teaching sustainability and creating sustainable classrooms, the value of using electronic texts in class, the benefits of electronic submission and grading, and special challenges encountered when using electronic media. This highly practical and interactive session includes tips and techniques for grading electronically, using electronic texts, and using tablet computers.

William Yarrow, Coordinator
English and World Languages
Joliet Junior College
Bobette Wolesensky, Associate Professor
English Literature Foreign Language and Speech
Palm Beach State College


Special Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Governor's Square 14, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Explore video learning objects and learn how online, hybrid, and face to face courses can benefit from and be enriched by incorporating media-rich elements. The presenters uses video learning objects in a digital repository environment to show how media can be managed and incorporated easily into any course management system. The session is highly interactive with video demonstrations, discussion groups, hands-on demonstrations, and discussions about how to incorporate video learning objects into a course management system.

Rachelle Howell, Dean
Marketing
Dallas Learning Solutions (Formerly Known as Dallas TeleLearning)


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Discussed are how engineering students teamed with theatre students to build a moveable set piece in the musical, "Something’s Afoot". Facilitators describe the idea’s emergence, logistics management, and resulting benefits and challenges. This session will benefit faculty members whose students limit their view of employment opportunities and for educators who want to increase their students’ career focus from a choice between science or art.

Gina Neuerer,
Sinclair Community College
Jeff Donbar,
Sinclair Community College


Roundtable Discussion
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Graduating students who think critically is a popular and laudable general education goal, but exactly what does it mean and how do students learn to do it? Faculty from a moderately sized community college with a largely underprepared student population share a professional development strategy for creating a faculty seminar that promotes critical thinking and active learning across the curriculum. Participants discuss key ideas and practices that frame the seminar.

David Schuermer, Director
Grants Planning and Effectiveness
Madisonville Community College - KCTCS
Mary Werner, Professor
English
Madisonville Community College - KCTCS


Roundtable Discussion
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

In the changing landscape of higher education, community colleges must become proactive in community college faculty development. Hear about an interdisciplinary graduate seminar model designed and taught by community college faculty and doctoral students. Participants discuss the community college’s role in preparing university graduate students for faculty careers in which they can become reflective practitioners, habitual scholars of pedagogical theory and practice, and researchers in their disciplines. Participants access a course blog and describe their own programs, ideas, and models for preparing future faculty.

Peter Gray, Associate Professor
English
Queensborough Community College - CUNY
Belle Gironda,
Queensborough Community College - CUNY
Mehmet Kucukozer, Graduate Student
Queensborough Community College - CUNY


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Beverly, Majestic Level, Tower Building

This session provides the most important aspects of researching potential grant funds, writing the grant, and preparing a packet that maximizes the likelihood you will be funded. Participants receive information about the types of grants and funders, weblinks providing specific information about grants and tools to use as you prepare proposals, and the know-how to get and keep funding. Participants are provided with the outline for grant preparation, specific assistance for finding potential grants, a budget packet, and a goals and objectives primer.

Genie Wessel, Project Coordinator
Health Sciences
Howard Community College


Special Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Governor's Square 14, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Find out how online enrollment went from 0 to 250+ in less than a year. Presenters share their new approach to achieving a familiar strategic objective: grow the student base while maintaining learning excellence. Centering on technology, this session recounts considerations and action steps for transforming the student base. This session will benefit faculty and administrators alike as they see examples of course content and outcomes and participate in discussions.

Larry Banks, Vice President
Academics
Eagle Gate College
Jim Brown, Associate Professor
Science
Ocean County College
Marc Campbell, Professor
Mathematics
Daytona State College


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Learn about a pilot process for creating sustained change around the principles of engaged learning and learning spaces. This session highlights the research, creates new insights for building the ultimate learning environment, and provides anyone in the process of changing or creating meaningfully different learning spaces with ideas and success factors. Participants see photographs of the current project and discuss barriers they have experienced or foresee in transforming classrooms.

Carol Brown,
Eastfield College
Linda Richardson, Dean
Admissions
Dallas County Community College District


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Beverly, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Engaging instructors to align curriculum and assessment strategies is a challenge of time and learning support. Curriculum-embedded assessment was the goal of , a recent project involving instructors across several disciplines, Operation: Matrix Experience the matrix process and learn how WIDS software visualized links between course assessment and collegewide outcomes. Participate in a simulation of the project process, explore implementation methods, receive and discuss project documentation samples, and listen to the assessment conversations that characterized the project. Faculty, assessment directors, and faculty developers will particularly benefit from this presentation.

Robin Nickel, Associate Director
Worldwide Instructional Design System
Worldwide Instructional Design System


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Governor's Square 17, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

In today’s classroom a professor encounters students of traditional and nontraditional backgrounds. In order to be effective and establish rapport, the instructor must be able to address different learning styles and needs by showing unconditional regard and building personal strengths. During this interactive session, the presenter shares anecdotes and experiences using a strengths-based perspective combined with regular course work. Sample assignments and ideas for beginning and closing courses are discussed.

Albert Bramante, Instructor
Psychology
Union County College


Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Instructors at Front Range Community College use a variety of audio and video resources to improve teaching and learning in online and traditional courses. During this session, see examples of these resources, learn how to create them, and hear from faculty about how the use of audio and video affected teaching and learning. Participants create a sample audio file during the presentation and leave with practical tips for creating audio and video resources for classes.

Eric Salahub, Faculty
Front Range Community College


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Explore scientific research on the brain and learning and look inside a real brain. A neuroscientist, formerly a community college educator, bridges the gap between brain research and classroom practice by providing principles about how the brain learns and strategies for the college classroom. See what brain scans show us about learning differences and experience a simulation of a learning difference. This active, energetic presentation is suitable for anyone interested in learning research and practice.

Janet Zadina, Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Neurology
Tulane University


Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Beverly, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Participants discuss Carl Jung’s theory of personality type and explore their own personality type. Discussed are examples of how personality type can be used to help students make career decisions, understand their learning style, communicate effectively and improve interpersonal relationships. Also discussed are innovative online options for assessing personality types and resources for using personality types to teach career or college success courses.

Marsha Fralick, Professor Emeritus
Business
Cuyamaca College


Roundtable Discussion
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Examine how Labette Community College is using Second Life, an online virtual world, to improve teaching an online humanities course. Witness a live demonstration of a class session for a Music Appreciation Course. Discuss the pros and cons of these brave new teaching worlds. If you are interested in starting a project in Second Life, come learn how to do it simply and inexpensively.

Robert Walker,
Labette Community College
Elizabeth Walker, Director
Academic Affairs
Labette Community College


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Join in a lively and interactive discussion about improving online course design using the nationally recognized Quality Matters rubric. The session explores the standards that lead to quality online courses and how to ensure that all components of a course foster student success. Participants examine the rubric tool developed by the nationally recognized, FIPSE-funded project to guide them through course overview, learning objectives competencies, assessment and measurement, resources and materials, learner interaction, course technology, learner support, and accessibility.

Edward Bowen, Director
Administration
Dallas County Community College District


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Beverly, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Conversational anxiety is the nervousness that overwhelms speakers as they attempt to conduct conversation in a new language. This nervousness is a barrier to a student’s ability to internalize, process, and successfully construct a new language into meaningful conversation. Coastline Community College (CCC) is overcoming these barriers through interactive gaming technology. During this session, presenters from CCC explain and demonstrate everything from the CMS to handheld devices and virtual gaming worlds. Shared are full motion video and a gaming simulation called “Virtual Arabic Village” to help audience members travel via an avatar through the gaming environment.

Shawn Mann, Manager
Military Programs
Coast Community College District
Ted Boehler, Dean
Marketing
Coast Learning Systems / Coastline College


Forum Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Discussed is a checklist using the acronym DREAMS to help make online courses the best they can be. The focus of this program on using the latest brain-based research to significantly improve student's learning and course enjoyment in a primarily text-based environment. Participants work collaboratively to improve each other’s online courses. Anyone who wants to develop or improve an online course will benefit from this session.

Jeffrey Strauser, Instructor
Life Sciences
Jamestown Community College - SUNY


Roundtable Discussion
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Your students want to use Wikipedia for online research because it’s all they know. If you want students to use those databases that you invest thousands of dollars in every year, you can’t just wait for them to use them on their own. You have to aggressively promote these resources through an outreach program that teaches students the benefits of reliable online databases. Discussed are the strategies of an outreach program that increased database usage by 370 percent in one year.

Jeff Wahl, Librarian
Front Range Community College


Roundtable Discussion
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Discussed is research that determined web-enhanced resources improved students’ grades significantly. Learn how regression analysis was used to analyze four regression models and determine the predictive relationship between variables in college algebra classes taught in traditional and web-enhanced classes. After a brief review of resources, participants discuss key components for successful web-enhanced classes.

Kathryn Bishop, Director
Grants
Darton State College
Darryn Ostrander, Director
Instructional Technology
Darton State College


Forum Session
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Century, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Why do so many students show up at our door, yet drop out before they’ve barely begun? A new national community college study on the entering student experience offers data and insights on what drives students away and what we can do to help them succeed. Come listen to students talk about their experiences during the first weeks of college and learn about preliminary findings from the new Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE) and the MetLife Foundation Starting Right initiative. The session includes a facilitated discussion with participants and students on preliminary research findings and targeted strategies for helping new students succeed.

Arleen Arnsparger, Project Manager
Initiative on Student Success
Center for Community College Student Engagement
Angela Oriano-Darnall, Associate Director
College Relations
Center for Community College Student Engagement


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Participants learn six pedagogical strategies that are brain based and research backed as among the most effective teaching attributes. Furthermore, the presenter models these practices as they are taught, providing an experiential and engaging time for participants. The presenter demonstrates that good teaching at the college level literally does not give students a choice whether to learn. Rather, they are forced by these techniques to be academically engaged at high levels, thus resulting in high levels of student learning.

Pete Turner, Faculty
Occupational Education
Estrella Mountain Community College


Forum Session
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

How can underprepared college students achieve success in one of the most challenging courses on campus? Come see how faculty at Madisonville Community College integrated three courses into a learning community with the goals of increasing students’ academic success, improving retention, fostering camaraderie among students applying for a competitive admissions program, and providing students with the skills necessary to think critically and learn independently. Participants engage in learning activities used in the classroom and learn to modify these activities to fit any subject area.

Andrea Deal, Assistant Professor
Humanities
Madisonville Community College - KCTCS
Mary Poole, Coordinator
Humanities
Madisonville Community College - KCTCS


Forum Session
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Discover how asking “Can we do this?” has launched a new era in curriculum development. During this session, educators and developers can join in one college’s exciting experience of partnering with a key textbook publisher to develop curriculum. Learn the unique process taken to align the publisher’s learning solutions with the college’s curriculum to create customized, electronic learning material for students. This session provides an internet demonstration of the final curriculum from the students’ perspective.

Corey Wolfe, Consultant
Education
Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins
Dawn Witherspoon, Curriculum Developer
Health and Human Services
NorQuest College


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Reading assignments from textbooks followed by PowerPoint presentations are a thing of the past. Learn how to keep up with students’ demand to learn using social networking, computer gaming, MP3 players, Second Life, and YouTube—to name a few. Find out how to show up in their play lists, invade their social networks, live in their virtual worlds, and get plugged into their learning. During this interactive session, participants experience new learning tools and create a collaborative audio/video podcast.

Lori Walljasper, Coordinator
Information Technology
Eastern Iowa Community College District
Steve Holland, Faculty
English
Eastern Iowa Community College District
Scott Swanson, Program Manager
English as a Second Language and Foreign Languages
Eastern Iowa Community College District


Forum Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Savoy, Majestic Level, Tower Building

This presentation demonstrates the ability of a novice or semi-savvy user to own and administer a learning management system (LMS) through open-source applications and affordable online service providers. The presenters provide an overview of installing and configuring Moodle, an open-source LMS, in a shared hosting environment costing $10 per month or less. Discussions further explore the nontraditional uses of an LMS and integration with other open-source applications.

Charles Henion, Instructor
Information Technology
Central Piedmont Community College


Roundtable Discussion
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Participants see demonstrations of online instructors infusing their personalities into their courses beyond text-based interaction and getting more results from their students. Discussions of the needed skills, the pedagogy that drives the need for more than text-based discussions, best-practice models in distance instruction, and a tour of locations to gain the skills needed to present a better version of you are addressed in this session. Participants receive resources and examples of online instructors integrating their personality into their courses.

Todd Conaway, Instructional Designer
Technology Enhanced Learning Services
Yavapai College


Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

The panel presents the strategy and planning for a pilot program of 32 instructors for the creation of the first community college on iTunesU. Presenters discuss hardware and software; audio, video, and test files for podcasting; consultation, training, and support to the pilot members; and copyright issues and problems. Participants receive the URL to the podcasting website and a CD-ROM that includes program materials, agreements, training handouts, kickoff posters, and the final podcasting course list.

Qiquan Wang, Director
Instructional Technology
Harrisburg Area Community College
Ellworth Beckmann,
Harrisburg Area Community College
Frank Brophy,
Harrisburg Area Community College


Forum Session
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 8, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Hear how Shelton State Community College meets the needs of local employers seeking qualified skilled workers with certificates or applied degrees while striving to serve today’s diverse student population. Presenters discuss efforts to recruit and retain technical students from the pool of undecided students who enroll in academic programs because they are unaware of opportunities in technical fields. Participants discuss innovative approaches that allow students to make more informed choices about their future.

Linda Grote,
Shelton State Community College
Steve Fair, Interim President
Administrative Services
Shelton State Community College


Roundtable Discussion
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

This presentation provides insight into how a small college in rural Alberta annually reviews all academic programs with limited personnel. This comprehensive process involves administration, faculty, and students. The reviews are driven by the mission and mandate of the college and result in data-driven decision making for continued evaluation, development, and expansion of academic programs. Allow us to share our process and assist you in creating your balanced scorecard.

Nora Way, Dean
Health Studies
Medicine Hat College
Craig Wood, Manager
Institutional Research
Medicine Hat College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Vail, Majestic Level, Tower Building

Most college organizational structures have grown around the needs of land-based campuses and their local communities. How do these existing structures meet the needs of growing online programs? Join our panel to explore how Front Range Community College has integrated our collegewide, online learning program with our traditionally campus-based organizational structures. Topics include faculty leadership structures, student support services, and business processes.

Tammy Vercauteren, Dean
Online Learning
Front Range Community College
James Butzek, Vice President
Front Range Community College


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 8, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

New advisors are faced with an almost vertical learning curve in their first few weeks. Advising 101 provides new advisors with a comprehensive learning program giving them information they need about the advising process, community college student populations, and degree and program information essential to the advising process. The session consists of 20 modules with corresponding assignments that form the basis for becoming an effective advisor. This session will benefit anyone looking for an innovative and efficient way to teach new advisors.

Nancy West, Director
Advising
Front Range Community College


Forum Session
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 8, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Delta College is in a state of transition involving accreditation, planning, and culture. This session outlines a series of activities called “Are You Puzzled?” created to help the college community gain a better understanding of the key college initiatives, how the pieces fit together, and how the various employee groups fit into the initiatives. Participants gain ideas for interactive ways to communicate with large employee groups and partake in a group discussion about how to use these techniques at their institutions.

Karen Wilson, Professor
Teaching and Learning
Delta College
Andrea Ursuy, Director
Strategic Planning
Delta College
Leslie VandenBosch, Administrative Assistant
Office of Vice President of Instruction and Learning Services
Delta College
Shelley Beattie, Administrative Office Professional
Academic Services
Delta College


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Plaza Court 5, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

New Faculty Mentoring at Kellogg Community College is a faculty-designed and driven initiative that builds community, helps faculty assimilate, and encourages quality teaching, with the goal of enhancing student learning. Presenters share the Plan of Excellence for new faculty, beginning with mentor-mentee recruitment at the academic department and institution levels and handouts describing the program. Also shared are teaching videos and a three-year assessment of the program. Participants engage in mentor and mentee activities and leave with a general template for initiating or improving a new faculty mentoring program.

Kevin Rabineau, Dean
Academic Affairs
Kellogg Community College
Steven Severin, Professor
Social Science
Kellogg Community College


Forum Session
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 5, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

What are the top issues of today’s community college business officers? How do their concerns influence the academic mission of the institution? Join Gaye Manning, the Board Chair of the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), to learn about the work being done at the national level to address these issues. Ms. Manning – who is herself a chief business officer at a community college, Southern Arkansas University Tech – also will focus on external forces affecting community colleges.

Gaye Manning, Vice Chancellor
Finance and Administration
Southern Arkansas University Tech


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Learn from four deans and a president the perks and perils of leading a university with an embedded community college. The folks at Fairmont State University/Pierpont Community and Technical College contend with their own issues involving communications, finances, and mutual feelings of inferiority as both institutions share facilities, faculty, and the same student body. The presenters discuss working in this unique structure and provide a real-life resource for participants.

Jerry Bacza, Dean
Business Aviation and Technology
Pierpont Community and Technical College
Jean Bolyard, Dean
Academic Studies
Pierpont Community and Technical College
Beth Newcome, Dean
Human Services
Pierpont Community and Technical College
Rosemarie Romesburg, Dean
Health Services
Pierpont Community and Technical College


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Plaza Court 5, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

The session is intended to help educate CEOs and those interested in being a CEO about how to improve the unity of the trustee board in order to improve the performance of the board and more importantly, the college. While some trustee boards engage in micromanaging or ineffectiveness, using the information gained in this session can move the board to become highly effective. Using a combination of scenario discussions and a PowerPoint presentation, participants engage in a discussion about changes a board can make to become more productive and effective.

William McGinnis, Trustee
Butte College


Forum Session
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Governor's Square 9, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

With increasing pressure to show accountability to constituents, community colleges must be able to tie together accreditation, continuous quality improvement, and performance measures. Participants discover how one community college created a vision and strategic plan that emphasizes student success and ties together these areas along with state mandates and national initiatives. Participants receive a CD-ROM that includes copies of West Shore Community College’s vision, strategic plan, action projects, institutional climate survey, and student satisfaction survey.

Kevin Pollock, Vice President
Student Services
West Shore Community College


Forum Session
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Plaza Court 8, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Members of the College Board’s National Commission on Community Colleges present findings of the Commission’s report on the critical role community colleges play in American education. Shared are the report’s recommendations as participants engage in a discussion about how the influence of these institutions can be expanded to respond to the workforce challenges facing the nation.

Augustine Gallego, Chancellor Emeritus
San Diego Community College District
Paul Sechrist, President
Oklahoma City Community College


Special Session
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Governor's Square 14, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Participating in this learning experience creates greater capacity for conscious accountability in the realm of unconscious processes generated in higher education learning spaces. Participants receive an interactive mini-lecture with integrated multimedia on experiential learning, learning styles, psychological learning preferences, and the biology of conscious, unconscious, cognitive, and emotional processes in learning. Also discussed are competence in the recognition and integration of their own higher education shadows.

Guy Hutt, Associate Dean
Mathematics and Applied Technologies
Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus
Joan Murdock, Unit Operations Supervisor Ii
Business, Mathematics, and Technology
Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 8, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

This session explores the need to restructure higher education to replicate what is occurring in the business world—a flattening of organizations. The structure of higher education harkens back to the Middle Ages. With titles, regalia, symbols of office, and so forth, institutions are well grounded in their heritage. Unfortunately, administrative structures are often equally grounded in the past. However, through Web 2.0, YouTube, Second Life, and a host of other technological innovations, society is coming to expect a more participatory structure since individuals believe their voice will be and must be heard.

Larry Skogen, President
Bismarck State College
Drake Carter, Provost and Vice President
Academic Affairs
Bismarck State College
Carla Braun Hixson, Associate Vice President
Continuing Education Training and Innovation
Bismarck State College
Steve Huff, Director
Federal Accounts
eInstruction


Forum Session
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Governor's Square 9, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

This session describes a replicated program for the professional development of new faculty, based on the New Faculty Teaching and Learning Community used at Madisonville Community College. Presenters explain the program’s genesis, funding, structure, activities, culminating project, and evaluation and engage participants through an anticipation guide, one-minute papers, pair and share, group discussion, and a question and answer period.

Greg Jewell, Coordinator
Academic Affairs
Madisonville Community College - KCTCS
Deborah Cox, Chief Academic Officer
Academic Affairs
Madisonville Community College - KCTCS


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Plaza Court 5, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

An institution’s community is made up of a diverse group of stakeholders, including its leadership, staff, faculty, funds providers, donors, students, and parents. The financial aid office must interact and effectively communicate with them all. The 21st Century Financial Aid Office should be empowered to use these interactions to affect desired outcomes in support of institutional goals and objectives. During this session, we will explore several areas to include key performance indicators and metric management, task and reporting automation, implementing communication mediums, and more, to create a 21st century financial aid office.

Leonard Napolitano, Vice President
Sales and Marketing
Regent


Forum Session
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Governor's Square 10, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Community colleges are the first line of defense in our civilized society. Community college leaders are reinvigorating community by bringing together community leaders, businesses, and their colleges to hold critical conversations and develop plans for creating nurturing environments that foster learning. Participants discuss the movement under way by college, community, and business leaders to regain our competitive edge by joining together.

Kathy Becker, President
Training
Company of Experts.net


Roundtable Discussion
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Grand Ballroom I & II, Second Floor, Tower Building

Minnesota is launching an innovative strategy that transforms educational systems to better serve learners and communities. Administrators, trustees, faculty, and planners participating in this session learn how to build seamless curricular pathways and restructure services that promote successful student transitions into education and relevant careers. This strategy focuses on learning well to live well and can be replicated in diverse communities. Using a case study approach that relies heavily on audience participation and feedback, the presenters illustrate the steps used to create Minnesota’s Alliance for Successful Student Educational Transitions.

Anne Weyandt, Senior Fellow
Academic Affairs
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System Office
John Cacich, Vice President
Academic and Student Affairs
Anoka Technical College


Forum Session
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Century, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

This session describes how Richland College sustains a culture of high performance with emphasis on the Baldrige-based practices the college uses to promote extraordinary customer service to its students and stakeholders. With emphasis on empowering the leader within each employee, this session provides the context, practices, and outcome measures for creating customer loyalty and delight. The session includes a PowerPoint presentation with audience interaction.

Kay Eggleston, President
Administration
Richland College


Forum Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 8, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

Enjoy the adventure as a few intrepid souls take their show on the road to bring the Business Institute to fruition in North Scottsdale, Arizona. From concept development to opening, learn how to create a distinctive culture while affiliated with a local icon. During this conversation, representatives from student services, instruction, and administration share their perspectives and answer questions about how to bring an enormous undertaking under control through focus, flexibility, and service. This session will benefit anyone interested in campus expansion projects or creating a strong culture and identity.

Norma Johansen, Director
Scottsdale Community College
Mark Barton, Faculty
Business
Scottsdale Community College
Jessica Morris, Professor
Business
Scottsdale Community College


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 5, Concourse Level, Plaza Building

How do community college leaders improve student engagement and learning by engaging their colleges to use data to inform decisions, programs, and practices? What are some practical ways college presidents, vice presidents, and leaders of institutional research, accountability, and assessment uniquely use student engagement data to lead their colleges? Leaders from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement colleges discuss the types of intentional strategies, programs, and relationships that have contributed to promising student outcomes.

Cindy Miles, Chancellor
Chancellors Office
Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District
Sharon Kristovich,
Parkland College
Anna Chieffo, Campus Academic Officer
Instruction
New Mexico State University - Doña Ana Community College
John Walker, Vice President
Academic Affairs
New Mexico State University - Doña Ana Community College
Christine McLean, Senior Associate
CCSSE
Center for Community College Student Engagement


Forum Session
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Monday, March 03, 2008
Spruce, Mezzanine Level, Tower Building

Consortiums and associations can bring to a budding community college a wealth of professional services that can save money and make a significant difference between a successful start-up program and a collapsed dream. Lessons learned from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) shed light on ways administrators, faculty, and students can maximize their respective association membership benefits, take their organization to new heights, and offer a different perspective for growing mutually beneficial partnerships.

Evelyn Waiwaiole, Project Manager
High Impact Practices Initiative
Center for Community College Student Engagement
Phil Neal, Provost
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College - KCTCS
Coral Noonan-Terry, Dean
National American University


Forum Session
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level, Plaza Building