Track - Learning and Teaching

Rena Palloff Faculty and Director Fielding Graduate University

Keith Pratt Faculty Capella University

George Engel Teacher Clarkstown High School South

Using the World Café approach and mobile technology, participants will collaboratively explore the issues and trends emerging in online education.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Phyllis Grummon Director Society for College and University Planning (SCUP)

Valarie Avalone Director Monroe Community College - SUNY

Six competencies form the foundation of integrated planning. This highly interactive workshop provides application experiences using a case study of a community college facing reaccreditation that definitely needs better planning.

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Track - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Stuart Leitch Director Portage College

Trent Keough President and CEO Portage College

This interactive workshop, complemented with access to two credentialed online courses, supports awareness and offers the tools necessary to lead institutional diversity projects.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

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

Augustine Gallego Chancellor Emeritus San Diego Community College District

This session is designed to assist senior administrators to determine their interest in becoming college presidents. Explore strategies to assess readiness, gain experience in weaker areas before applying, and identify timing factors.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Taunya Paul Chair York Technical College

Join a discussion of strategies to increase the success and retention of students in developmental courses. These strategies promote early connections, value high expectations, and provide strong academic support.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

This interactive presentation focuses on incorporating innovation in technology and technique in classroom and online environments. Leaders of faculty development and online program support will benefit from this session.

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Track - Sustainability

Jodi Elness Director St. Cloud Technical and Community College

Philip Schroeder Vice President St. Cloud Technical and Community College

Are you ready for your college to become a tobacco-free campus? Learn to develop a plan that will build consensus and create a common goal and policy for students, faculty, and staff.

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Track - Resource Development and Foundation Management

Elizabeth Gombash Assistant Vice President Valencia College

Toni DeMaglio Grants Compliance Officer Valencia College

Beverlee Andrews Coordinator Valencia College

Grant professionals in proposal development, project administration, and compliance/grants management will lead a lively discussion of ideas to assess and modify approaches to common reality-based pre-award and post-award challenges.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

William Marzano Assistant Vice President Waubonsee Community College

Heather Reed Manager Waubonsee Community College

The Early College Academy demonstrates that underserved, urban high school students can succeed in dual-credit college course work and overcome barriers to high school completion and postsecondary engagement.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Glenna Lunday Professor Western Oklahoma State College

Funded by federal grants and focused on networking, population growth, and lobbying for economic and workforce development, this regional organization bridges higher education with tech prep centers and governmental agencies.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Karen Lankisch Consultant Paradigm Publishing

Our Digital World offers an engaging hybrid approach with live-in-the-application assessments. Help students learn essential computing concepts and their practical applications while capturing the excitement and promise of the digital age.

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Track - Resource Development and Foundation Management

Patricia Suess Chair St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley

Faculty sponsors and student recipients will share information about the innovative and successful project management of the NSF-funded St. Louis STEM Scholars Academy Scholarship Program.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Cindy Martin Coordinator Leeward Community College

Stanley Ronquillo Student The University of Hawai'i System

Discover how to create a student-to-student program that engages high school students in interactive workshops exploring the college experience. Session includes a hands-on demonstration of this powerful and cost-efficient program.

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Track - Open Educational Resources

Ty Bowman Web Administrator Cerritos College

Learn how seemingly insurmountable obstacles to web accessibility were largely overcome with political will and maverick software development. The presenter proposes an open-source software project.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Una Daly Community College Outreach Open Courseware Consortium

Show subject matter competency through real-world applications with e-Portfolios. Foothill College is implementing articulation agreements with local high schools and Regional Occupation Centers to streamline the transition from high school to college.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Mary Ellen Tancred Assistant Professor Columbus State Community College

Faculty and staff will benefit from learning how to record live presentations to post to the course management system for learners to review as often as they wish.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Mark Sarver Director and Chief Executive Officer EduKan

Pamela Kachka Academic Trainer Consultant Pearson

Want to engage in activities to think outside of the box, crush the box, or recycle the box? Come to this exploration of strategies for transforming EduKan, examination of various challenges through an innovative lens, and investigation of the connection between traditional and newer implementations.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Annette Parker Executive Director Kentucky Community and Technical College System

As colleges experience growth in the number of working students, corporations can re-engineer their global impact by cultivating employees as strategic assets. These factors create opportunities to explore innovation in college-industry partnerships.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Donald Orso Professor Anne Arundel Community College

Joan Doolittle Professor Anne Arundel Community College

In a presentation based on two years of research, participants will learn students’ perceptions of outstanding online instructors, and the impact outstanding online instruction has on academic success. This session is relevant for educators involved in online instruction.

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Track - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Dave Giberson Coordinator San Diego Community College District

Is your online instructional multimedia accessible? No budget or no time for commercial solutions? We’ll share our solutions for serving all of our students and complying with looming federal and state regulations.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Terry O'Banion President Emeritus, League for Innovation and Seni Walden University

The community college is going through a period of drastic change, and it will never be the same. Learn how those changes are impacting policies, programs, and practices in the core areas of the student success agenda, technology, innovation, and learning. Hear what creative community colleges are doing about it.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Michael Qaissaunee Professor Brookdale Community College

Norah Kerr McCurry Director Brookdale Community College

Our students are already mobile, and by 2014, the majority of web traffic will be mobile, too. Come explore strategies to transform your college into a mobile-ready institution.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Nancy Walker Content Manager Red Deer College

Anwen Burk Learning Designer Red Deer College

Greg Cebuliak Multimedia Specialist Red Deer College

Health-care professionals, nursing instructors, and learning designers will benefit from and learn about an interactive educational program designed to ease the transition of clinical experts to the teaching role.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Carol Passariello Assistant Professor Westchester Community College - SUNY

Jianping Wang Associate Dean Westchester Community College - SUNY

Eric Luther Instructor Westchester Community College - SUNY

Presenters discuss strategies for integrating convergent-technology across curricula to promote fluency in our increasingly digital world. Participants use multimedia tools to identify and demonstrate multiple-literacy teaching methods for all disciplines.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Elisa Robyn Professor Regis University

Using Alice in Wonderland, we will explore resiliency, leadership, and learning, including how to build a resilient institution. Participants will explore the connections between resiliency, learning, and courage.

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Track - Sustainability

Ronald Kielty Manager College of Central Florida

Implementing thin clients in teaching labs can save money, increase access, and reduce power consumption. We will discuss the pilot study, conversion of the infrastructure, and challenges of implementation.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Leslie Boon Director Harrisburg Area Community College

Beth Evitts Director Harrisburg Area Community College

Scott Decker Director Harrisburg Area Community College

Learning Center. Library. Instructional Technology. Career Services. See how the HACC Gettysburg Learning Commons blends four departments into one service area, increasing awareness of and access to academic support services.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Kelly Koermer Dean Anne Arundel Community College

Carrie Leary Professor Anne Arundel Community College

S.K. Bhaskar Assistant Dean University of Maryland University College

Explore AACC’s and UMUC’s collaborative Cybersecurity education pathway, reinforced by partnerships with business, industry, government, and K-12. Participants will learn transferrable best practices to build stackable cybersecurity curricula.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Thomas Murray Director Camden County College

Joanne Grason Consultant Annenberg Learner

Danella Soeka Manager Governors State University

Deliver media-rich courses accessible anywhere. Camden County College in concert with CollegeAnywhere and media producers Annenberg Learner and Governors State University help colleges offer streaming media content directly to mobile devices.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Vincent Accardi Sales Manager National Instruments

Two billion dollars in grant funding is available to create, expand and re-structure job training programs. Partner with NI to create innovative/unique proposals for instrumentation programs critical for the 21st century workforce.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Randy Malta Senior Instructional Designer St. Louis Community College

This interactive presentation will demonstrate the use of clickers to motivate and enhance a rich class discussion. Strategies for designing questions will be shared.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Anthony Baker Instructional Specialist Anne Arundel Community College

Learn about partnering to engage future community college students’ interests by creating a Thomas Edison Innovation Factory using a problem-based learning model. Participants will take part in a sample hands-on learning activity.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Jill Crouse Senior Research Associate ACT, Inc.

Debra Derr President North Iowa Area Community College

James Sconing Assistant Vice President ACT, Inc.

Come learn about the goals, design, and implementation of a state sponsored high school/community college concurrent enrollment program and the results of a study to assess student outcomes.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Dave Giberson Coordinator San Diego Community College District

Want to produce sophisticated-looking, multisource, live-to-tape instructional video all by yourself, with no crew and with just 20 minutes of training? You can do this with our Personal Video Studio. Anyone can do it!

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Kathy O'Shea Professor Monroe Community College - SUNY

Ann Tippett Associate Professor Monroe Community College - SUNY

While preparing to offer a program in humanities, faculty have reached out across campus to provide a range of events and initiatives designed to enrich the college community and celebrate the humanities.

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Track - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Dale Smith Professor Salt Lake Community College

Richard Diaz Graduate Student University of Utah

A partnership involving four school districts, Salt Lake Community College, and the University of Utah has created a program that provides recruitment, funding, and retention efforts for ethnic minority students that works!

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Katherine Hughes Assistant Director Community College Research Center

Nikki Edgecombe Senior Research Associate Community College Research Center

Myra Snell Professor Community College Research Center

Increasing evidence indicates that students placed into developmental education, especially at the lowest levels, are unlikely to complete a college credential, but new models of developmental education show promising results. Learn about this research and the innovative approaches that may help more students make progress toward completion.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Kevin Pollock President St. Clair County Community College

Learn how a community college can connect external drivers (state, community), internal drivers (students, faculty, staff), accreditation, vision, mission, assessment, and student success concepts while creating an inclusive campus atmosphere.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Vicki Cone Librarian Anne Arundel Community College

Participants will learn techniques that librarians embedded in online courses can employ to effectively and efficiently assist students with library research.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Mark Haverly Chief Information Officer State Fair Community College

Brent Bates Vice President State Fair Community College

A shared cycle of success between IT and academics builds a healthy college, strong IT programs, and a successful IT department. At SFCC, IT employees teach courses and recruit the finest IT students from the programs they teach.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

David Scott Professor Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Discover how a group of photography students maintained a balance of traditional academic rigor with the application of ideas and skills, while immersed in a real-world context and culture where photography began.

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Track - Sustainability

Jason Kovac Executive Director Johnson County Community College

Thinking about building green? Come hear results from a case study performed on a green community college campus, complete with recommendations and documentary photographs produced by faculty and students.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Angela Oriano-Darnall Associate Director Center for Community College Student Engagement

Findings from CCSSE and SENSE highlight practical strategies for implementing policies that promote the necessary conditions for improving student learning, expanding professional development opportunities, integrating student support services, and strengthening classroom engagement.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Amy Leonard Instructor De Anza College

Sarah Lisha Instructor De Anza College

Participants learn the elements of a successfully linked developmental reading and writing class, and supportive and collaborative methods that help engage the diverse student population of a developmental level classroom.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Raga Bakhiet MESA Director Southwestern College

Rafael Alvarez Director San Diego City College

Learn about the model collaborative between the mathematics, engineering, and science achievement programs at San Diego State University, Southwestern College, and San Diego City College for increasing the number of STEM graduates.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Debra Greene Director Howard Community College

Donald Doane Chief Executive Officer ConnectYard, Inc.

Student success and retention are key focus areas at Howard Community College. We are using ConnectYard to leverage the latest social media and mobile technologies to increase student engagement and awareness.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Kelly Bender Professor Passaic County Community College

Participants will learn the necessary process of course and curriculum revision and how to implement those changes. This will benefit new and seasoned faculty looking to either revamp or alter a course or curriculum.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Jae Pasari Instructor Berkeley City College

Learn about the results of research on the differences between oral versus written exams in assessing students’ scientific reasoning abilities, with an emphasis on underrepresented students.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Anita Wright Assistant Professor Camden County College

Elizabeth Hawthorne Senior Professor Union County College

Robert Campbell Vice President CUNY Graduate Center

Funded by the NSF, the ACM Two-Year College Education Committee held a strategic summit on the computing education challenges at community colleges. The report of findings will be presented.

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Track - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Karen Wosczyna-Birch Executive Director Connecticut Community Colleges

Ashley Halpin Project Coordinator Connecticut Community Colleges

This session will present innovative recruitment strategies such as social media and targeted marketing that have been successfully implemented by the Connecticut Community Colleges to benefit all academic institutions attempting to attract underrepresented student populations.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

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

Learn how to use collaborative techniques in planning a new facility or classroom renovation designed to improve learning. This session will sharpen your conceptual and practical skills.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Elizabeth Hodge Associate Professor East Carolina University

The virtual environment workshop will offer you everything you need to know about the importance of creating an interactive environment with engaging simulation activities to meet your instructional needs.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Robert Johnstone Dean Skyline College

Participate in a lively exploration of California’s BRIC Project—Bridging Research, Inquiry, and Culture. Near the end of our first year of technical assistance with 15 colleges in California, we will synthesize and explore the challenges and successes. Tools developed by the project are available.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Savitha Pinnepalli Assistant Professor River Parishes Community College

This session will display student-created Mindview projects from an introductory computer science class using Mindview software. Come learn more, including how to create a work breakdown structure and define and prioritize deliverables.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Sarah Shumpert Director Tri-County Technical College

Galen DeHay Department Head Tri-County Technical College

Presenters will share their engaging story of developing an outcomes-based orientation and invite participants to actively consider how building community between academic and student affairs enhances student and organizational learning.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Kathleen Callahan Director Elgin Community College

Christina Gilleran Faculty Consultant Elgin Community College

Janet Malecek Manager Elgin Community College

Program directors, faculty, and staff involved in recruiting for allied health programs will learn how to recruit great students and support their efforts to qualify for these competitive programs.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Brad Bankhead Vice President Colorado Mountain College

Ellen Heffernan Partner The Spelman and Johnson Group

Student affairs programs face significant changes caused by the increasing complexities within higher education. This session reviews skills that leaders need to possess and ways to identify critical talent.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Marilyn Martinez-Flores Dean Riverside City College

Tara Mccarthy Educational Advisor Riverside City College

Come experience planning, designing, and using integrative assignments, an integral part of successful learning communities. Riverside City College offers the CAP Learning Community Program.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Megan Healy Assistant Professor Patrick Henry Community College

Bronte Miller Associate Professor Patrick Henry Community College

Join this session for a demonstration on the effectiveness of cooperative learning as an educational tool for empowering students, a presentation of retention and success data, and an exploration of classroom activities.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Greg Stoup Dean Cañada College

Participants will be introduced to a set of institutional structures, processes, and policies that together support institutional learning and establish the tangible underpinnings of a culture of inquiry.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Darlaine Gardetto Professor and Chair St. Louis Community College at Meramec

Vicki Ritts Professor St. Louis Community College at Meramec

Amanda White Assistant Professor St. Louis Community College at Meramec

Participants will learn how a large, interdisciplinary department used Bloom’s Taxonomy to create community among adjunct faculty, and how to create Bloom-inspired community among adjuncts in their own department.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Jarred Truschke Instructional Media Developer Rio Salado College

Join a discussion of practical solutions for creating different types of multimedia for presentation, practice, and assessment, and explore various examples and templates. Learn how to align it all with objectives.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Kathryn Campbell Faculty Chair Capella University

Barbara Butts Williams Dean Capella University

Generosa Lopez-Molina Dean Lorain County Community College

Learn what is required to lead online programs that address changing demographics, and join a discussion on a checklist of key competencies and principles of good practice for optimizing teaching and learning engagement.

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Track - Sustainability

Lynne Ornelas Dean San Diego Community College District

Randy Barnes Dean San Diego City College

Michael Comulada Adjunct Professor San Diego Mesa College

Faculty and administrators interested in developing college-level green programs will learn how San Diego Community College District has developed innovative programs in sustainability, urban agriculture, architecture, diesel, and weatherization.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Trish Conlon Executive Director Chemeketa Community College

David Ellingson Instructor Chemeketa Community College

Judith D'Amico Regional Director Project Lead the Way, Inc.

Learn about the vision, development, implementation, and future strategy for a regional high school STEM Institute, a joint venture by Chemeketa Community College and Evergreen Aviation, based on the Project Lead The Way curriculum.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Sandy McIlnay Director Metropolitan Community College - MO

Karen Komoroski Chair Metropolitan Community College - MO

Participants will receive an overview of the Health Science Institute, which is designed to mimic a real-life health-care setting that fosters experiential and interdisciplinary instruction and learning.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Arleen Arnsparger Project Manager Center for Community College Student Engagement

Stand here, sit there, read syllabus, first test is when? Come learn from research, practice, and students how to create an on-ramp to college and increase student success.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

James Wayne Professor The Community College of Baltimore County

Barbara Weidman Senior Director The Community College of Baltimore County

Learn how the Superintendent of the 26th-largest school system in the country, using credit classes, partnered with the community college in a novel approach to training a workforce of 1,900 employees.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Kelly Sell Associate Professor Anne Arundel Community College

Lisa Starkey Coordinator Anne Arundel Community College

Discover how AACC created a pathway for professional development through collaboration with the computer technologies department.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Eileen Young Assistant Dean Excelsior College

Excelsior College uses teleconference technology to offer a series of online student success webinars that prepare returning adult learners for the online learning environment and connect students over distance.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Anu Khanna Faculty De Anza College

Discover how a three-quarter learning-communities sequence increased course success for Asian-American/Pacific Islander students through integration of content and pedagogy in reading, writing, general education, and leadership.

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Track - Resource Development and Foundation Management

Patricia Suess Chair St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley

Faculty sponsors and student recipients will share information about the innovative and successful project management of the NSF-funded St. Louis STEM Scholars Academy Scholarship Program.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Beth Dailey Faculty Training Specialist Education Management Corporation

Join this exploration of strategies for creating lasting educational experiences that promote deep learning and enrich the teaching and learning experience for students as well as faculty.

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Track - Sustainability

Al Starr Campus Dean The Community College of Baltimore County

Elizabeth Shrader Associate Professor The Community College of Baltimore County

Jaime Alvarez Instructor The Community College of Baltimore County

Have your college’s sustainability initiatives won the hearts and the heads of students and staff? Learn how CCBC uses celebrations, partnerships, community gardens, and geospatial applications to sustain sustainability.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Laurie Davis Sales Manager Atomic Learning, Inc.

Technology integration can help address a variety of campus goals. Join us to discuss impact technology integration can have and learn about tools to quickly integrate technology across the institution.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Trista Merrill Associate Professor Finger Lakes Community College - SUNY

Implementing reflection before, during, and after projects and classes can help give valuable insight on student learning processes and engagement in all disciplines and modes of teaching, including online.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Michael Greene Coordinator Cayuga Community College - SUNY

The presentation will describe the process of constructing a viable upper division program at a small community college serving a predominately rural service area.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Liane Dolezar Quality Advisor Waukesha County Technical College

Jill Metzger Coordinator Waukesha County Technical College

How do faculty and students know that students know? Participants will learn successful assessment strategies and ways to effectively share best practices among more than 300 faculty.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Purnima Sharma Professor West Virginia Northern Community College

Explore ways Vygotsky- and Keller-based strategies can engage students in active, interactive, and meaningful learning. Student participation guidelines, discussion facilitation and summary guidelines, and scoring rubrics for evaluating discussion will be shared.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Claudine Lowry Dean Nova Scotia Community College

Bobbi Dunham-Carter Specialist Nova Scotia Community College

Employee learning is a magical ingredient in student success. Leaders will learn how to design and implement a meaningful, innovative, collegewide Festival of Learning that showcases and celebrates employee learning.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

John Sbrega President Bristol Community College

Theresa Romanovitch Bristol Community College

Presenters discuss triumphs and challenges in creating an innovative hybrid health-care program for a region’s workforce need. Learn how to implement this high-touch, high-tech plan without going broke or compromising the college mission.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Homero Lopez Retired President Design of Learning Spaces

Ernie Lara President Estrella Mountain Community College

Karen Wells Provost and Vice President Lorain County Community College

Explore best practices to transform traditional classrooms into effectively designed learning studios. Presenters share planning experiences to maximize the impact of learning spaces. Gain insights to successful planning approaches. .

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Victoria Corriveau Director Butler Community College

Karla Fisher Vice President Butler Community College

Gene George Executive Director Butler Community College

Colleges often must quickly develop offerings aligned with the needs of their regional economies. BCC’s responsive Workforce Development Model provides a dynamic, data-driven approach to creating sustainable programs that meet community needs.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Ann Beheler Executive Director Collin College

Helen Sullivan Director Collin College

The Convergence Technology Center, a Regional NSF Center, successfully created an active business council that guides the center in reimagining IT careers. Participants will learn the process and benefits of this approach.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Tim Waines Associate Dean Red Deer College

Wayne Sehlin Rig Technician Instructor Red Deer College

Participants will learn about our three-year project to deliver online apprenticeship training as we explore the interactive resources that enable our students to become skilled tradespersons and pass their government exams.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Isabel Medina Chair Miami Dade College

Join this discussion of using relationship marketing techniques to open corporate doors, strategies that give workforce training professionals an opportunity to develop action plans based on the concept of service excellence.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Valerie Kisiel Owner Innovative Educators

Come explore a series of online tools students can use to gain knowledge about career options, study skills, money management, test-taking strategies, time management, and more.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Jennifer Kim Senior Research Associate Columbia University Teachers College

Cecilia Cunningham Executive Director Middle College National Consortium

Join a discussion of research findings on key predictors of college performance among dual-enrollment students, and explore ways to improve academic and social supports for students entering college.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Marsha Fralick Professor Emeritus Cuyamaca College

Come explore Cuyamaca Community College’s college success course that appeals to the technology-savvy New Millennial generation, that has increased student persistence by 27 percent, and that serves as a bridge from high school to community college to university.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Louis Aymard Professor Anne Arundel Community College

Cari Bixler Assistant Director Anne Arundel Community College

Explore practical steps for establishing a parenting center that provides family-life education, opportunities for student research, and streams of revenue. The session is ideal for faculty or senior administrators.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Ty Patterson Director Ozarks Technical Community College

Community colleges have led the tobacco-free campus movement. Many have done so by emphasizing respect for others and the environment. Learn how this approach benefits the institution’s culture.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

James Sconing Assistant Vice President ACT, Inc.

This session is for participants who seek a better understanding of the effects of entering student characteristics on community colleges’ transfer and degree attainment rates.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Laureen Balducci Dean Foothill College

Leeann Emanuel Counselor Foothill College

Counseling Workshop on Wheels takes college counseling to the high schools, providing students with career and transfer workshops, major preparation, and information regarding how to navigate the college system.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Michael Doolin Professor Monroe Community College - SUNY

Teaching composition to automotive technology students is challenging, and success requires targeted assignments, faculty with broad technical knowledge and teaching/writing skills, and a sense of humor. These are not ordinary composition students!

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Track - All Streams

Robin Piccirilli Meeting Planner League for Innovation in the Community College

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Jason Kaufman Instructor Inver Hills Community College

Join this discussion of the challenges of opening a psychology laboratory on a community college campus, with a focus on bringing lean and lab-rich experiences to introductory students.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Dave Hamilton Educational Advisor MatchWare, Inc.

Participants will learn to capture screen recordings from any software, turn them recordings into tutorials or support videos, and display them on a server, CD-ROM, or the web.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Reyes Quezada Counselor University of San Diego

Deanne Rabon Coordinator San Bernardino Valley College

Craig Luke Sr. Adjunct Counselor San Bernardino Valley College

This exploratory study assesses the extent to which students from an urban California Community College determined factors of resiliency that appeared to be most important in helping them succeed academically.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Richard Norris Director St. Louis Community College

Elizabeth Boedeker Senior Scientist St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley

Learn about STLCC’s Center for Plant and Life Sciences—with its teaching laboratories and classroom—which was established within a newly built post-incubator facility designed to house start-up companies from local incubators and universities.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Michele McArdle Dean Valencia College

Explore the leadership styles used by community college leaders in the past and present, as well as the history and use of the four frames in Bolman and Deal’s leadership theory.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

K. Allison Lenkeit Meezan Professor Foothill College

John Mummert Dean Foothill College

Explore how an academically rigorous campus GeoTechnology program integrates and streamlines campus operations, and join a discussion on student recruitment, funding, curriculum, and program management in this rapidly growing career field.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Robin Nickel Associate Director Worldwide Instructional Design System

Built around principles of performance-based learning, Web-based WIDS builds customized program assessment rubrics, program outcomes assessment and improvement plans, and course curriculum. Explore how to balance organizational needs and customization.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Tracy Harris Dean Prince George's Community College

Deidra Hill Director Prince George's Community College

Prince Georges Community College will showcase its value-added marketing technique, and how two separate departments, Enrollment and Marketing, used these strategies to increase enrollment by 26 percent. Higher education professionals welcomed!

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Track - Open Educational Resources

Gary Lopez Executive Director National Repository of Online Courses

The presentation features an online developmental math curriculum that uses OER guidelines and is aimed at increasing the math mastery of students from low-income and minority communities.

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Track - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Helen Nissani Professor Edmonds Community College

Pat Copeland Dean Edmonds Community College

Participants will learn about an IBEST program, Natural Leaders, developed for bilingual/bicultural public school. Explore how to enlist the support of community and school partners to recruit and enroll this underserved student population.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Richard Bingham Professor Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Jean Choi Professor Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

James Watzke Dean Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

The Humber College Staff-Initiated Research Fund (SIRF) provides a unique platform for faculty to direct student-assisted research. Examples will demonstrate this model’s potential to improve curriculum and student engagement.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Barbara Kavalier President San Jose City College

Jill Baker Dean San Diego Mesa College

Join this overview of community college culture and introduction to leadership strategies to inform faculty and administrators as they work to transform their organizations.

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Track - Open Educational Resources

Joanne Munroe Instructional Designer and Faculty Trainer Tacoma Community College

Listen to dialogue around the UNESCO findings and National Education Technology Plan. This session will benefit those interested in technical and educational challenges inherent in developing and sustaining quality open educational resources.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Julie Lewis Associate Professor The Community College of Baltimore County

Using a successful theatre project, War Stories Staged, participants will be taken through engaging exercises in transforming the written word to the stage, which can be applied to humanities courses.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Kerry Mix Administrative Intern San Jacinto College District

Laurel Williamson Vice Chancellor San Jacinto College District

Presenters will discuss piloting a faculty and staff performance- management process to validate commitment to faculty and staff, enhance the quality of instruction and student services, and implement differentiated pay based on performance. Learn about the process, successes, and opportunities of performance management.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Rose Mince Dean The Community College of Baltimore County

Dallas Dolan Director The Community College of Baltimore County

Erinn Izzo Assistant Professor The Community College of Baltimore County

Melvin Berry Assistant Professor The Community College of Baltimore County

Linda De La Ysla Assistant Professor The Community College of Baltimore County

Learn how to use Student Engagement Techniques (SETs) to increase students’ participation in and responsibility for their learning. Presenters will share a variety of approaches, assessments, data, and collegewide implementation strategies.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Claudia Hindo Research Assistant Columbia University Teachers College

Rosada Davis-Layne Counselor LaGuardia Community College-CUNY

Brittany Clark Faculty Middle College High School

Presenters will profile a seminar course intended to support students in dual-enrollment courses. Participants will discuss the role of college supports for entering students and implications for high school-college collaboration.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Carlos Guevara Coordinator Hostos Community College

Isabel Li Director Hostos Community College

Rebecca Hoda Director Hostos Community College

Varun Sehgal Assistant Vice President and CIO Hostos Community College

How do we bring together human capital while effectively maximizing resources? Hostos Information Learning Commons establishes a highly productive environment that breaks hierarchical barriers and encourages collaboration within professional settings.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Debbie Nellis Director and Professor Nova Southeastern University Abraham S .Fischler School of Education

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

NSU’s online doctoral program in community college leadership is designed and taught by community college presidents and chancellors, and is developed to assure relevant knowledge for successful leadership toward higher education administration.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Norah Kerr McCurry Director Brookdale Community College

Michael Qaissaunee Professor Brookdale Community College

Collaboration is critical to successful organizations for growth, innovation, and success. Brookdale’s TLC is a grassroots effort led by faculty to explore pedagogy, online and web-enhanced courses, and cross-disciplinary efforts.

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Track - Open Educational Resources

Annette Mileski Director Southwestern Michigan College

Looking to enhance your tutor-training program beyond content tutoring? Join Master Tutor Trainer Annette Mileski as she provides the tools to help you build a successful tutor training program.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Brian Bethune National Dean Devry University

Laura Kendall Director Cuyahoga Community College

Margaret Hnat Assistant Professor Cuyahoga Community College

Experience through the arts can be profound. Learn what faculty need to know, and presenters and directors need to provide, to create outstanding experiences for student learning using the arts.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Laura Hope Dean Chaffey College

Rob Rundquist Instructional Specialist and Coordinator Chaffey College

Jeff Brouwer Instructional Specialist Chaffey College

Wide-reaching, integrated, structural changes in curriculum and administrative structure focused resources on the development of college success centers as extensions of the classroom. Double-digit improvement in successful completion rates resulted.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Gisele Larose President WebStudy, Inc.

Carol Redfield Consultant WebStudy, Inc.

Look beyond the limits of class! Learn how a virtual environment can capture and address the common pitfalls of your subject. The intelligent hybrid tells you where to begin the next class.

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Track - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Donna Colondres Chair Chaffey College

Tom deWit Instructor Chabot College

Faculty and administrators will understand and experience the integrated and holistic curricular and professional development approach that leads to sustainable programs and closes the achievement gap for African-American students.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Susumu Kasai Professor Salt Lake Community College

Kim Cosby Chair Salt Lake Community College

Difficult employment conditions create a need for academic programs that enhance students’ positions in current employment, rather than training for a new career. Such programs require academic departments to work across disciplines.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

James Sconing Assistant Vice President ACT, Inc.

David Chadima Senior Consultant ACT, Inc.

Learn about retention and graduation results of a random sample of students, links to readiness and goals, and a baseline set that can be used for comparison.

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Track - Open Educational Resources

Joel Thierstein Executive Director Rice University

The promise of high-quality educational content available 24/7/365, online or off line, over any dissemination platform, has arrived. For over a decade, Connexions has delivered open education resources to the world for free.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Steve Holland Faculty Eastern Iowa Community College District

How do we know students have learned? In a pilot study, the presenter used a Learning Outcome Manager tool to assess English essays and guide student learning. Did LOM deliver?

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Steve Kashdan Department Head Trident Technical College

Discuss how instructors added synchronous components to asynchronous online courses, allowing instructors to enhance online courses. This adds community and creates an online classroom that supports interactive online learning experiences.

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Track - Open Educational Resources

Elizabeth Harvey Director Statewide Career Pathways

Bill Davis Coordinator Statewide Career Pathways

California Statewide Career Pathways provides an opportunity for faculty to collaborate at a state level and develop articulation templates, which are then made available in forging new local articulation agreements.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Alishia Nelson Academic Partnerships Manager Dallas TeleLearning

Discover fun multimedia tools you can add to your courses in minutes, and test interactive assignments that assess student knowledge in a safe learning environment.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Stoney Gaddy Director Northern Wyoming Community College District

Using a combination of Quality Matters standards and WIDS strategies, we will explore how weekly lesson overviews benefit students. Bring one assessment activity from an online or on-campus course to the session.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Thomas Scott Manager College of Southern Nevada

Based on the Great Teachers Retreat, the College of Southern Nevada offers an all-day workshop for online instructors in the quest for the Great Online Teacher.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Rebecca Moon-Stone Supplemental Instruction Coordinator Riverside City College

Marilyn Martinez-Flores Dean Riverside City College

Come explore how we assess growth and gauge a student’s initial perceptions, predictions, and behaviors. Learn how we get students to access deeper levels of learning and take ownership of the learning process.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Laura Hope Dean Chaffey College

Rob Rundquist Instructional Specialist and Coordinator Chaffey College

Len Crow Instructional Specialist Chaffey College

Adopting DLAs as outside-of-classroom curriculum resulted in shifting the pedagogy for underprepared students from focusing on correct answers toward strategies for metacognition. The success rates of all student categories improved.

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Track - Open Educational Resources

Ronald Bleed Vice Chancellor Emeritus Paradise Valley Community College

Paul Dale President Paradise Valley Community College

Faculty and academic leaders will learn about the emerging Open Educational Resources (OER) field. An overview, exemplary projects, where to get help, and a presidential perspective will be shared and discussed.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Roderick Nunn Vice Chancellor St. Louis Community College

Marcia Pfeiffer President St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley

Learn how St. Louis Community College’s workforce and academic units uncovered and used critical workforce intelligence to develop training programs connected to high-growth industries and local jobs.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Kimberley Miller Professor Labette Community College

Learn how to get your entire community engaged in your subject. This session will focus on ideas specifically for math, but may be modified for any subject.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Toni Green Counselor and Assistant Professor Cuyahoga Community College

Joan Steidl Cuyahoga Community College

If you have a toothache, all you can think about is your toothache. Learn how some mental-health conditions can present in the classroom and impact a student’s ability to succeed.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Terry O'Banion President Emeritus, League for Innovation and Seni Walden University

Africa Archield Ph.d. Candidate Walden University

In the next five years, community colleges will need thousands of new presidents, vice presidents, and full-time faculty. Many of these new leaders will be prepared in Walden’s online graduate programs. Walden staff and students review the distinctive elements making these programs the most innovative and substantive ever created.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Kathryn Nette Instructor Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District

Ideas for interdisciplinary, crime-based, case-study modules designed to foster scientific laboratory, problem solving, and teamwork skills will be examined, including uses of technology to facilitate interactions and learning.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Phil Speary Director Butler Community College

Join this session to engage in applying Butler’s model, which connects student learning data to strategic planning, resource allocation, and CQI to their own institution’s comparable processes.

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Track - Sustainability

Kenneth Ender President Harper College

Sean O'Donnell Principal Ehrenkrantz Eckstut and Kuhn Architects

Susan Shoemaker Senior Associate Ehrenkrantz Eckstut and Kuhn Architects

A student’s time is valuable; learning and support resources should empower students to master their environment effectively. Participants will learn how sustainable master plans shape campus resources and create opportunity.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Marly Bergerud President Strategic Alliance Solutions

Jamie Justice Director Kentucky Community and Technical College System

This session provides an opportunity for you to view highly engaging interactive digital content and to become part of a network of educators and developers who are addressing this challenge.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Maria Cazabon Manager Baltimore City Community College

An examination of students’ levels of engagement in small, medium, large, and extra-large community colleges is offered. The presenter will convey the findings from research and provide recommendations for improving student engagement.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Percy Cody Chair and Professor Johnson County Community College

Teaching a class in basic robotics has given me new insights into how students, both old and young, perceive technology and deal with it in their lives.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Paula Martin Assistant Director Kenai Peninsula College

Nancy Szofran Vice President Mt. Hood Community College

The Student Learning Progress Model focuses on student success from the student’s perspective: Is the student being served by the institution? Explore the model’s rationale and methodology.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Teresa Demonico Professor Sinclair Community College

Eric Kraus Associate Professor Sinclair Community College

This project, funded by the Gates Foundation, has created a national learning community of 26 developmental education faculty. The intent is to identify instructor traits and practices leading to academic success.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

David Bugay Vice Chancellor South Orange County Community College District

Robert Bramucci Vice Chancellor South Orange County Community College District

Twin storms—demographic and technological—loom on the horizon. Can Boomers, Xers, and Millennials mesh at work? Will Web 2.0 rewire our institutions? What new threat could dwarf both?

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Sean McFarland Director Chabot College

Tom deWit Instructor Chabot College

Incorporating design concepts and metaphors from disciplines as diverse as biology, architecture, cognitive science, and advertising, we will share how faculty are developing a mindfulness for designing learning spaces, curriculum, and assessment.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Cindy Miles Chancellor Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District

Constance Carroll Chancellor San Diego Community College District

Francisco Rodriguez Superintendent and President MiraCosta College

Three budget-strapped districts in San Diego County share tales of inventive solutions and serendipitous advances in the face of starkly reduced resources. Champions of creativity and paladins of parsimony are joining forces within and across these districts to promote stakeholder engagement, academic distinction, and educational opportunity during the gravest funding era in the history of California community colleges.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Mary Ellen Tancred Assistant Professor Columbus State Community College

Faculty and curriculum developers will learn how to develop course outcomes and unit objectives using Bloom’s Taxonomy. Test questions will be aligned in a test blueprint.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Jeff Seybert Director Johnson County Community College

This session defines a culture of evidence, describes its necessary components, and outlines the importance of and ways in which data should be used to improve college planning and management.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Suzanne James Specialization Coordinator Walden University

David Binder Faculty Walden University

This model to attract and retain quality online faculty helps community colleges meet the needs of their rapidly expanding student populations and strengthen learning effectiveness and faculty satisfaction.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Susan Buchholz Associate Professor Georgia Perimeter College

Wakita Bradford Coordinator Georgia Perimeter College

How can the iPad be used in education? iPads with preloaded software and lecture podcasts were provided to 50 nursing students. We will share results and what the future holds.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Mary Jane Bassett Dean Jackson State Community College

Betty Frost Associate Professor Jackson State Community College

Faculty and administrators will learn how to improve student retention and success and cut costs using individualized learning through technology-driven instruction.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Richard Olsen Associate Provost Grand Rapids Community College

Participants will learn to use scheduling software to create a virtual classroom building and test hypotheses that guide renovation projects. The session will benefit anyone planning a new classroom building.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Shree Iyengar Professor Anne Arundel Community College

The session will share instructional strategies, including student self-assessment, and promote discussion among the faculty audience regarding ways to engage students in the learning process in online science classes.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Brandy Fair Professor Grayson County College

Kim Teel Dean Grayson County College

Presenters discuss the use of SmarterMeasure and results from a pilot study examining whether the assessment tool accurately predicts student success in online core curriculum classes.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Sean Creighton Executive Director Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE)

Katherine Rowell Director Sinclair Community College

Presenters will discuss collaborative models of faculty development among colleagues from two and four year institutions that address common and distinctive pedagogical issues. This session will benefit faculty developers as well as administrators.

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Track - Open Educational Resources

Annette Mileski Director Southwestern Michigan College

Shane Varga Coordinator Southwestern Michigan College

As funding dwindles and budgets tighten, stress becomes common place. Join the Stress Busters of SMC and learn how to harness your daily stressors for a more peaceful work environment.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Darwin Bohnet Instructor Leeward Community College

Gregg Longanecker Instructor Leeward Community College

Genai Keliikuli Instructor Leeward Community College

Participants will learn about an innovative, interdisciplinary, place-based summer bridge program that presents environmental science from both a Western and Hawaiian cultural perspective, and integrates mathematical concepts through data collection.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Robert Sessions Professor Kirkwood Community College

Douglas Gustafson Professor Kirkwood Community College

Tonya Kehoe Associate Professor Kirkwood Community College

By showcasing their professional projects, a set of Kirkwood faculty members will discuss a myriad of ways faculty from other schools might benefit from similar programs.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Sally Search Dean Tallahassee Community College

Matthew Robinson Chair Tallahassee Community College

Sharisse Turner Professor Tallahassee Community College

Tallahassee Community College’s holistic approach to redesign leverages technology; increases student engagement, success, and time on task; and integrates student development into the developmental curricula. Discussion includes pedagogy, outcomes, and assessment data.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Gordon Snyder Director Springfield Technical Community College

Michael Qaissaunee Professor Brookdale Community College

The session will focus on creating and self-publishing eBooks for iOS devices such as iPad and iPhone, and combining traditional textbook content with a variety of multimedia audio, video, and hyperlinks.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Jim Mulik Director Edmonds Community College

Beth O'Donnell Chair Edmonds Community College

Kathleen Murphy Chair Edmonds Community College

Edmonds Community College has struggled with data-informed processes for meaningful assessment and planning without placing cumbersome work on personnel. Learn how the college identified resources and engaged employees in the SIMPLE Plan.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Kurt Hueg Associate Vice President Foothill College

Eloise Orrell Vice President Foothill College

Darya Gilani Project Coordinator Foothill College

Learn how Foothill College redesigned and overhauled its website in 2010, creating greater transparency around student learning outcomes, administrative and service unit outcomes, and accreditation information by implementing a comprehensive and transparent web solution.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

George Fazekas Associate Professor Monroe Community College - SUNY

Problem Solving 101 was designed to improve math and critical thinking skills as well as retention by creating an exciting and engaging environment for students to learn and collaborate in. Students use LEGOs© as an engaging tool to explore robotics, mechanical systems, electronics, and programming.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Megan Jones Professor North Hennepin Community College

Barriers to increased diversity among scientists are complex and difficult. Demographic changes in the U.S. population of at-risk students will make the challenge even greater in the future. Join this discussion of related issues and possibilities.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Evelyn Waiwaiole Project Manager Center for Community College Student Engagement

John Roueche Chair National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD)

Donald Cameron Guilford Technical Community College

Brenda Hellyer Chancellor San Jacinto College District

With the signing of Democracy’s College, community colleges have committed to playing a central role in ensuring an educated U.S. citizenry and a globally competitive workforce. Explore the scope of this issue and the questions you should be asking to make sure your college is ready to meet this challenge.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Beth LaBaren-Root Director Southwestern Michigan College

Understand how to design collaborative projects among faculty, make connections between subject areas, and create activities that will get students creatively engaged in learning.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Margaret Montet Librarian Bucks County Community College

Learners can use visual organization methods such as mind maps and concept maps to organize ideas, brainstorm, make connections, present ideas in distinctive ways, and find ways to deeper learning.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Jeff Seybert Director Johnson County Community College

Lee Ann Nutt Vice President Lone Star College System

Come learn about the institutional dashboard, a graphic display of critical institutional information in a succinct, easily understood, visually appealing format. Explore key performance indicators (KPIs), the steps necessary to identify KPIs, and one college’s experience with the process that produced its initial KPIs.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Dawn Hodges Vice President Southern Crescent Technical College

Academic advisement is essential; in times of change it becomes critical. College mergers, quarter-to-semester conversions, teach-outs, and curricular revisions create the need for something other than business as usual.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Andrea Wirgau Assistant Director Ferris State University

Presenters discuss personal experiences with the Strength Movement and leveraging strengths at work. Participants discover ways to leverage their own strengths in the complex world of higher education and develop a personal action plan.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Mark Shelley Campus Dean Yavapai College

Susan Johnstad Campus Executive Officer Yavapai College

Yavapai College has created a regional campus with Northern Arizona University using resources from both institutions to increase completion rates, reduce time to degree, and make higher education more geographically and financially accessible. Learning experiences and campus life employ an innovative hybrid format.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Feleccia Moore-Davis Vice President Lone Star College System

Ted Lewis Dean Lone Star College System

The impact of student engagement on student learning and success has been the subject of academic discourse for several decades. Surprisingly, the research and dialogue have not occurred significantly in the community college.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Robert Hartwell Instructor Foothill College

Join this interactive session for a discussion of the controversies and potentialities of popular culture in college curricula, as well as its suitability to learning-centered instructional design.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Terry Hancox Director Cuyahoga Community College

Victoria Berry Supervisor Cuyahoga Community College

Resources have been stretched, at times reducing aid to students who are struggling with technology. This session will benefit those in student services, including admissions, financial aid, tutoring center, library, and faculty.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Sandra Devlin-Cop Professor Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Mary Van Soeren Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

A distinctive case study approach to inter-professional teaching and learning using virtual communities brings real people’s lives to health science students. Participants experience use of narrative in an interactive format.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Eloise Orrell Vice President Foothill College

Judy Miner President Foothill College

Participants will learn how Foothill College realigned resource and budget requests to reflect all levels of learning outcomes, core missions, and strategic initiatives in a collaborative process involving faculty, staff, and administration.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Eileen De Courcy Director Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

When it comes to professional development (PD), are you competing for faculty members’ time and attention? Learn how Humber College attracts faculty and keeps them attending PD sessions.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Chris Hill Instructor Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District

Participants will discuss college planning models that successfully align planning, budgeting, and outcome assessment. Administrators will learn how knowledge management systems can support cultures of inquiry and data-informed decision making.

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Track - Sustainability

Stephenie Presseller Manager Moraine Valley Community College

Genevieve Boesen Executive Director South Metropolitan Higher Education Consortium

Join this discussion of SMHEC processes and outcomes, leveraging collective knowledge, and building regional communities to address sustainability. You’ll leave with concepts and knowledge to replicate.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Kathleen Cleary Director Sinclair Community College

Michael Gaines Faculty Sinclair Community College

Hear about Sinclair Community College’s initiatives to accelerate student success in developmental education, ranging from boot camps to accelerated English and math courses. Participants will discuss problem-solving strategies.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Derek Weber Assistant Professor Raritan Valley Community College

Through the use of a course wiki and iPod Touches, your lab can be transformed into a dynamic, creative environment where students write the lab manual.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Katherine Hughes Assistant Director Community College Research Center

Andrea Venezia Senior Policy Associate WestEd

A new California study finds that many students take placement tests without understanding their purpose or high-stakes nature, experiencing assessment as a one-shot deal. Join a discussion about the study, other states’ approaches to assessment and placement, and practical strategies for improving student placement and outcomes.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Dick Vallandingham Vice President Black Hawk College

Learn how enrollment management, developmental advising, orientation, and student support all work together to create a welcoming community for learning in this integrated student engagement model for student services.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Pamela Kachka Academic Trainer Consultant Pearson

Mark Sarver Director and Chief Executive Officer EduKan

Say goodbye to PowerPoint lectures. Transform your online courses by learning to use a few free and easy tools that engage all students and address the needs of multimodal learners.

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Track - Sustainability

Richard Perniciaro Dean Atlantic Cape Community College

Peter Mora President Atlantic Cape Community College

Creating a self-funded sustainability plan was a challenge until Atlantic Cape formed an enterprisewide cross-functional team. Learn how the Green Campus Initiative selects projects and invests in the future.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Alison Jameson Director Lehigh Carbon Community College

Larissa Verta Associate Academic Dean Lehigh Carbon Community College

Bernard Peruso Lehigh Carbon Community College

Faculty can use visual models and collaborative exercises to both enhance and streamline the integration of interdisciplinary learning communities. Create a high-impact practice using these inspiring and time-saving tools!

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Karen Owens Academic Trainer and Consultant Pearson eCollege

Brian Epp Supervisor Pearson

Struggling to get beyond the data collection process preceding program evaluations? Come learn about a hierarchical assessment method that provides meaningful, measurable data to help faculty evaluate curricular and instructional effectiveness.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Jason Kovac Executive Director Johnson County Community College

Jeff Anderson Counselor Johnson County Community College

Interested in trying something new for college negotiations? Come learn about several institutions’ experiences with principled, or interest-based, negotiation. Presenters will discuss lessons learned and make recommendations for peer institutions.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Leslie Rice Instructor San Jose City College

Robert Gutierrez Interim Director San Jose City College

Come learn about Avanzamos, a new program at San Jose City College that assists students in basic skills by providing trained tutors and academic coaches.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Ileana Porges-West Professor Miami Dade College - Hialeah Campus

Maria Ileana Garcia Director Miami Dade College - Hialeah Campus

Jean Alcime Professor Miami Dade College - Hialeah Campus

Immigrant students’ diets affect their well being and academic performance. Learn how hands-on activities combined with information literacy on nutrition can help develop critical thinking and quantitative skills, and join a discussion about academia’s role in promoting sustainable food practices.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Larry Warford Senior Consultant League for Innovation in the Community College

Marsha VanNahmen Interim Director Indiana University - Purdue University Columbus

Kathleen Beauman Director Anne Arundel Community College

Mara Palma-Sanft Project Coordinator San Diego Community College District

Joyce Thompson Associate Professor and Coordinator Lehigh Carbon Community College

Learn about Significant Discussions, a new tool to develop community college partnerships with schools, universities, and businesses to improve curriculum alignment across educational systems. Make the national completion agenda local work you can lead!

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Track - Leadership and Organization

William McGinnis Trustee Butte College

As colleges struggle to avoid financial disaster, trustees are tempted to micromanage. This session will provide trustees and senior administrators the tools to lead the organization and avoid financial disaster.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Katy Goforth Director Tri-County Technical College

Activities will highlight eight behaviors that all college students need for their college career. Participants will gain an understanding of how to incorporate these behaviors into their own course material.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Hilary Ciment Professor Foothill College

Learn how to integrate Voicethread, a fully online interactive verbal and video discussion board in any online community college class.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Polly Miller Acting Director Estrella Mountain Community College

Roselyn Turner Professor Estrella Mountain Community College

In 2010, Estrella Mountain Community College defined its communication ability as effective delivery of information via speeches and presentations, and developed an evaluation instrument and rubrics that support our learning college journey.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

David Schuermer Director Madisonville Community College - KCTCS

Mary Werner Professor Madisonville Community College - KCTCS

Critical thinking is an important student learning outcome. Participants will learn about a successful professional development strategy that engages faculty in critical thinking activities they can replicate in their classrooms.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Michael Ehrlinger Associate Professor The Community College of Baltimore County

New findings on shared governance in Maryland! What are the best practices? Can shared governance be cultivated? How does trust theory relate to shared governance? This session will be of interest to trustees, administrators, and faculty.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Susan Delker Chair The Community College of Baltimore County

Donna McKusick Dean The Community College of Baltimore County

Administrators and faculty will learn how The Community College of Baltimore County reframed the way we prepare students for college success. This distinctive, scalable approach was developed to prepare students for college challenges.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Jerry Lewis Director Columbia Basin College

Come hear how Columbia Basin College faculty are using Tegrity’s cloud-based lecture capture service to record their classes, create tutorials, and generate online lectures, thereby enhancing the student learning experience.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Barbara Lontz Assistant Professor Montgomery County Community College

Come learn about an award-winning arithmetic course redesign created using concepts instead of traditional math-course topics, and take the challenge to consider a change in pedagogy at your institution!

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Sandra King Associate Professor Anne Arundel Community College

Explore ways to move away from text by using engaging videos in online classes. Examples include creating an avatar, hosting guest speakers, taking virtual field trips, and using YouTube clips and Xtranormal movies.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Donna Engelmann Professor Alverno College

Shree Iyengar Professor Anne Arundel Community College

Elizabeth Daugherty Director Columbus State Community College

Come learn about effective strategies for implementing student learning outcomes (SLOs) and a framework for measuring progress in SLO implementation. Evaluate your institution’s progress and set goals for next steps.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Kates Brommeland Coordinator Sinclair Community College

Mortenous Johnson Manager Sinclair Community College

This interactive session will introduce a predictive model that prepares high school students to complete Ohio’s high stakes test, prepares them for early college enrollment, and supports high school graduation.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Ronald Kindell Faculty Sinclair Community College

Linnae Clinton Director Dayton Public Schools

Glenn Faircloth Principal Dayton Public Schools

This interactive session describes key strategies of the partnership between Sinclair and Dayton Public Schools in the collaborative operation of a 9-12 grade high school organized entirely around secondary-postsecondary pathways. Join a discussion on adapting the partnership elements to your specific setting.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Kate Sandel Senior Associate National League of Cities

Maria Harper-Marinick Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Maricopa Community Colleges

Shelagh Camak Executive Dean Riverside City College

Participants engage in a discussion based upon lessons learned from early implementation of the Communities Learning in Partnership initiative (CLIP), which engages municipal, K-12, and workforce leaders to increase completion.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Sylvia Orr Dean Estrella Mountain Community College

Marianne Smith Adjunct Faculty Estrella Mountain Community College

Faculty and administrators will learn approaches to adjunct faculty professional development and orientation. These will include developing and implementing strategies as well as motivating adjuncts to use the training.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Matthew Robinson Chair Tallahassee Community College

Chris McNally Professor Tallahassee Community College

After decades without change, learn how TCC’s developmental math department built consensus and support for radical changes to build a 21st century cutting-edge program that’s experiencing great results!

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Ping An Wang Professor Community College of Allegheny County

Come to this demonstration of the design and empirical results of a distinctive and effective self-assessment model that can be used daily in computer technology classes.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Jennifer Golightly Academic Trainer Consultant Pearson

Which students are at risk of withdrawing, and how do instructors reach them? Join a discussion of obstacles to student success and retention and strategies for surmounting these obstacles.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Karen McDaniel Articulation Coordinator SAIT Polytechnic

Christina Tulloch Facilitator SAIT Polytechnic

Do those who collect the data actually use the data to make program improvements? Using a case-study approach, we will discuss workable practices in data use that make sense.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Elizabeth Sette Director Bucks County Community College

Linda McCann Director Bucks County Community College

Come learn how Bucks County Community College’s model of student services collaboration, functioning under Learning Resources, led to receipt of the prestigious 2010 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Norah Kerr McCurry Director Brookdale Community College

Larry Hartzell Professor Brookdale Community College

Learn how the Faculty Fellow promotes effective teaching techniques and provides faculty with pedagogical and technical support, thus allowing for a team approach and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Gisele Larose President WebStudy, Inc.

New community physical workspaces are the latest and greatest. Are you applying the same planning to your campus cyberspace? Join this conversation and chart which academic functions are mirrored in a cloud.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Katherine Watson Professor Coastline Community College

Participants will learn six simple ways to excite interest in vocabulary and grammar, discover how to use words precisely, and avoid the almost-right for effective communication across the curriculum.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

George Engel Teacher Clarkstown High School South

Keith Pratt Faculty Capella University

Rena Palloff Faculty and Director Fielding Graduate University

The use of mobile technology is almost ubiquitous among university students. Come learn how to harness the power of mobile technology for learning.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Kim Yohannan Academic Alliance Manager EMC Corporation

Learn how you can enhance student career prospects in IT through the EMC Academic Alliance program. A free storage course and training is offered to qualified colleges.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Roger Warren Professor Madisonville Community College - KCTCS

Deborah Cox Chief Academic Officer Madisonville Community College - KCTCS

Come explore a technology-enhanced approach to teaching developmental math that inverts the lecture-in-class, practice-at-home paradigm, and learn how to deliver instruction when students are most likely to learn.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Brenda Watkins Instructional Designer Hillsborough Community College

With Web 2.0, the possibilities to engage students are endless. See how faculty are using Web 2.0, and learn techniques to employ blogs, wikis, Twitter, and Facebook into your classroom.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

William Griffin Instructor Triton College

Peggy Murnighan Instructor Triton College

Come learn how Triton College and local high schools are designing dual-credit programs to help students prepare for careers in accounting. Workforce preparation and development personnel will benefit from this session.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Cathy Vaughan Coordinator Madisonville Community College - KCTCS

Presenters address the nuts and bolts issues associated with developing, implementing, and sustaining an outcomes-based developmental advising program, including a discussion of the assessment plan and recent outcomes data.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Ironda Campbell Assistant Professor Pierpont Community and Technical College

I hear. I see. I believe. I do. This session explores communication styles and their interdependence, and the impact of human communication components on behavioral outcomes.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Brock Carothers Sales Representative Qwizdom, Inc.

Clickers are growing in popularity for good reason. How do clickers make instruction, assessment, and learning more dynamic? This hands-on session provides opportunities to experience classroom situations using Qwizdom clickers.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Nathaniel Samba Instructional Designer Ivy Tech Community College

Laurie Kirkner Senior Instructional Designer Ivy Tech Community College

Participants will learn the process of developing and delivering an online faculty certification course. Instructional designers, course developers, instructors, and faculty trainers will all benefit from this presentation.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Natasha Miller Director The Community College of Baltimore County

David Stewart Dean The Community College of Baltimore County

Several focus groups were conducted with students enrolled in a developmental math course. Learn about the changes we implemented as a result of student feedback.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Michele Cuomo Associate Dean Queensborough Community College - CUNY

With Epsilen, institutions can quantify student accountability and promote student retention. Learn how colleges and universities have implemented this transformative next-generation tool to engage students in interdisciplinary learning.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Tom deWit Instructor Chabot College

Sean McFarland Director Chabot College

Faculty and administrators will learn how accelerated models and practices are being locally created and implemented inside departments and programs, including how deep learning is fostered in accelerated settings.

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Track - Workforce Preparation and Development

Lauren Halsted Associate Professor Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District

Mary Beth Graham Instructor Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District

Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIG) provide ongoing and meaningful professional development opportunities. Presenters will discuss their experiences in a FIG, results from their inquiry projects, and strategies for forming a FIG.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Rollo Fisher Instructor Monroe Community College - SUNY

Explore intellectual transfer as a method to increase higher order thinking skills. Teachers and students of all subject areas will benefit by increased connections between diverse forms of learning.

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Track - Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Veronica Diaz Associate Director Educause/eli

Come explore the most successful blended course design models that address learners’ specific needs and customize the learning environment, and examine features of the country’s top faculty development programs. Deans, faculty members, and any support staff dedicated to blended learning will benefit from this session.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Lauren Miskelly Associate Manager Google

Steven Butschi Associate Google

Jocelyn Chong Dean Santa Monica College

Come hear how Google Apps can help campuses save money while providing rich technology tools that meet the demands of savvy students, staff, and faculty.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Felecia Johnson Professor Madisonville Community College - KCTCS

Natalie Cooper Professor Madisonville Community College - KCTCS

Join this interactive demonstration of ways in which critical thinking activities are implemented throughout multidisciplinary courses. These quick and clever activities encourage student participation and retention of course material.

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Track - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Holly Mendelson Owner INSIGHT Into Diversity

Higher education institutions are challenged with finding creative and cost-effective ways to attract diverse professionals. Come learn about why it’s important, and how to recruit for a diverse workforce successfully.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Darren Kok Section Head Institute of Technical Education

Are you an educator in the aerospace field? Care to provide visualization on aircraft fuel flow from tanks to nozzles? If yes, then ITE’s Aircraft Fuel System Simulator is for you.

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Track - All Streams

Robin Piccirilli Meeting Planner League for Innovation in the Community College

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Gail Mellow President LaGuardia Community College-CUNY

Diana Woolis Founding Partner Knowledge in the Public Interest

Louise Yarnall Scientist SRI International

This presentation reveals what GSCC has discovered through tagging classroom practices thematically and identifies patterns that are and are not emerging in the work of developmental educators. Certain activities may help raise the pass rate in developmental courses to 80 percent.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Todd Conaway Instructional Designer Yavapai College

Come see a demonstration of online instructors infusing their personalities into courses beyond text-based interaction using various web 2.0 tools, and getting more interaction and results from students as a result!

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Glen Kuck Executive Director San Bernardino Community College District

Bruce Baron Interim Chancellor San Bernardino Community College District

Learn how the San Bernardino CCD overcame unprecedented budget cuts in ways that not only maintained, but also expanded and diversified its tutoring services.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Susan Evans Chief Executive Officer SoftChalk LLC

When teaching online, faculty must ensure that students are engaged in the content or risk loss of student interest. Come see how easily interactive lessons can be created with the features offered in SoftChalk.

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Track - Learning and Teaching

Dave Podwojski Director Citrix Systems, Inc.

Learn how to increase access while reducing costs, simplify desktop management, securely deliver course-based instructional apps, and extend the lifecycles of computers and other devices.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Peter Barbatis Vice President Bronx Community College - CUNY

Perceptions of underprepared students who graduated or earned 30+ credits compared to non-persisters will be presented. Findings may suggest how to enhance the success of developmental students.

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Track - Leadership and Organization

Linda Brown Professor El Paso Community College

Arvis Jones Director El Paso Community College

Jeanne Foskett Instructor El Paso Community College

Come learn about Leadership EPCC, including curriculum, funding, portfolios, service learning, ropes, institutionalized student projects, and assessment details. Share your leadership-development program, too!

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Kenneth Gonzales Associate Professor University of San Diego

Eva Mejia Program Director University of San Diego

Come gain a clearer understanding of the relationship between the assessment of key performance indicators and learning outcomes as they relate to creating effective and innovative student services and programming.

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Track - Basic Skills and Developmental Education

Brian Bethune National Dean Devry University

John Eby Director Cuyahoga Community College - Metropolitan Campus

Margaret Hnat Assistant Professor Cuyahoga Community College

Reading and performing theatre and drama is an outstanding yet overlooked method of teaching reading and writing. Participate and learn from the experiences of those who’ve seen results using this method.

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Track - Student Services and Activities

Makena Stewart Counselor South Piedmont Community College

Linda Kappauf Director South Piedmont Community College

Explore the highlights of a student persistence model for basic-skills graduates that includes job-readiness training, wrap-around services, institutional collaboration, and a pilot summer bridge program. Join a discussion of successes, challenges, and program outcomes.

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