Innovations 2012 - Session Powerpoint

As an ongoing service to our participants, the session materials below are being made available to download. To open the materials, you will need Microsoft Powerpoint or Windows Media Player or Adobe Reader. The following presentations are sorted in date/time order and correspond to presentations listed in the i2012 Conference Program. Additional session materials will be posted, so check back frequently. If you did not submit your session materials while in Philadelphia and would still like to do so, please send them to phillips@league.org.

Media literacy education provides students with the skills necessary to make sound judgments concerning the relevance and credibility of information, regardless of its media format.

Learn how students develop a political issues agenda of critical concerns, promote the agenda, and request political elites to make these issues their legislative priority.

A common routine of simulation is post-simulation debriefing. WCCC also uses in-simulation debriefing as an effective tool to facilitate closing the loop between goals, objectives, and participants.

Presentation of the development and implementation of the Mercer Leadership Academy, Mercer County Community College's response to the need to cultivate the leadership potential of faculty and staff.

Learn how a successful student retention effort has expanded and begun to infiltrate campus student success efforts. The program, outcomes data, and sustainability strategies will be discussed.

In this practical survey of what works in evaluating the efficacy of online learning tools, the presenter demonstrates current study design, scientific basis, and practicality, and participants design their own studies.

Learn about proven techniques and activities to create a welcoming and comfortable classroom environment that helps motivate and engage students, increase persistence, and improve performance.

Explore ePublishing techniques used to distribute classroom material to enhance student learning outcomes. Learners will be taught methods to create E-pub and PDF files on iPads, iPhones, and laptops.

This session will explore ways for instructors to easily create targeted videos to enhance their traditional, online, or hybrid courses with low-budget, off-the-shelf video equipment.

Two Maryland community colleges partnered to develop a Global Distinction program, which increases global perspectives and intercultural competencies of students through globalized curriculum, study abroad options, service learning, and more.

Sinclair and Cincinnati State collaborated with regional industry partners to develop a short term bioscience curriculum. It focuses on development operators, manufacturing and packaging technicians, and laboratory and research assistants.

Learn about the successful LMS movement from Educator (UCompass.com) to WebStudy with the detailed conversion followed by St. Clair County Community College ensuring a timely launch of WebStudy.

Virginia?s first semester of developmental mathematics redesign to improve student progression to college-level courses and an overview of road to redesign will be shared. For all considering redesign.

From online office hours to class sessions to technical support, come find out how Northern Wyoming Community College District is engaging learners real time in the online environment utilizing Web conferencing.

Educators will learn about and discuss a model to integrate global citizenship into their curricula, a necessity as technology shrinks our world and makes our futures interrelated.

Learn how Polk State College Collegiate High School implemented a comprehensive STEM program including structured curriculum and research components. This session will benefit professionals wanting to implement STEM initiatives.

Learn how to develop a proactive, dynamic, and effective intervention system for at-risk students in this session designed for student services and developmental education professionals.

By understanding Hollywood story structure and embracing the teacher-hero at the white board, a dynamic narrative unfolds making "Class" the best movie your students have ever seen.

This session introduces the concepts of Human Needs psychology. The presenter will apply these techniques with session participants to solidify engagement at all educational levels.

Faculty, staff and administrators will benefit as they learn concepts and techniques to become better listeners: listening vs. hearing; listening types; listening styles; listening barriers; listening tips.

The CAO and the CSSO at Moraine Valley Community College will share their philosophy of leadership, practices, and programs that support student retention, success, and program completion.

The presentation will offer academic administrators and faculty an overview of a learning studio implementation project: physical plan, technology/active learning relationship, faculty professional development, and research on our students' success.

Participants will learn how Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana has used Blackboard as a departmental resource allowing the math department to facilitate communication with all faculty.

Credentials That Work (CTW) uses innovations in real-time labor market information to better align investments in education and training with the needs of the economy.

This presentation highlights how one college is responding to the central role of community colleges play in educating the next generation of American leaders by infusing civic engagement across curriculum.

Is English placement a strong predictor of success in general education courses? Participants, including faculty and administrators, will discuss the need to establish guidelines or prerequisites for courses.

Department chairs share strategies used to motivate, retain, and develop transfer and technical degree part-time faculty at a North Carolina community college with limited financial resources.

Teaching lab sciences online is reality! Hands-on wet labs versus the virtual labs will be compared. Best practices, student feedback, and outcomes will interest both faculty and administrators.

In the new-normal age of fiscal responsibility, we must determine an appropriate level of employee compensation. Too much compensation aired in public can ruin a good career.

Learn how our college?s Title III grant has used Starfish Early Alert, allowing advisors, counselors, and academic support staff to reach at-risk students at critical times in the semester.

Presenters share a lesson created to lead students toward self-exploration, define identity, and discuss how their experiences relate to the journey expressed in African-American literature.

Madison College, 2010-11: Explore leadership strategies involved in winning the largest referendum election in state history while dealing with massive budget cuts amid historic political controversy.

Students may be unprepared for online education and receive inadequate information regarding virtual senior institutions. See how a two-year and virtual state college maintains rigor while addressing transfer.

Learn about model practices of community college and employer partnerships that ensure development of a workforce with the education needed to be competitive. Receive steps on engaging and sustaining these partnerships.

Tour a professional development program for new faculty in a blended environment that highlights content, communication, and accountability. Share successes and challenges with faculty development in the digital age.

ITE College West will share a School of Engineering project on ECO Marathon car development to encourage teamwork, authentic skill training, innovative platform design approach, clean-and-green technology awareness, and fun in engineering.

Our country and businesses need people trained in Cybersecurity, and our students need jobs. Learn how easy it is to create an Online Cybersecurity Certificate Program.

This session will provide community college faculty and administrators with an opportunity to examine collegewide assessment and explore the newly developed assessment process at Erie Community College.

Students learn what Ben Franklin professed about preparation. Explore the collaboration, implementation, and content of a placement test strategies workshop and academic advising support strategies for mandatory placement testing.

Through guided activities, participants will experience resources from the Exploring Humanitarian Law curriculum that empower students through experiential learning to explore, question, and understand complex issues related to conflict.

Presenters demonstrate how CCBC instructors have globalized their courses in order to develop their students? global perspectives. Participants will learn about approaches to globalizing the curriculum in any discipline.

Community colleges leaders learn best practices for training faculty on a new LMS. Participants discover that it?s more than just learning how it works; it?s also how individuals and institutions approach e-Learning.

For the disadvantaged, finding and succeeding in entry-level jobs is more difficult than ever. Learn practical strategies leading to foot-in-the-door job opportunities in health care.

Post-ESL college students pursue degrees, unfamiliar with American academic culture, and their professors unaware of their needs. Learn how an online survey, feedback, and awareness led to action.

Presenters will discuss the National Center for Hispanic Achievement and what it is doing to promote awareness, innovation, and best practices for Hispanic student achievement.

This workshop will present placement test and retention data for GED graduates entering community college, data that can inform the development of more successful supports for this cohort.

This highly interactive session will include everything you’d want to know about community colleges to establish and sustain strategic and productive relationships and partnerships as a business or corporate partner.

Higher Education in Tumultuous Times (Kisner and Hill) provides the conceptual framework and session structure for sharing a dialogue on how we can live the future of education now.

Small-scale programs that meet the distinctive needs of immigrants may constitute a more effective approach to meeting their educational needs. The presentation describes the design of a specialized curriculum.

Virtual Break Rooms encourage interaction among instructors and students in online environments. Online instructors will be particularly interested in this discussion of the elements that make these virtual spaces successful.

Participants will learn about an online process, Road Map, that uses a data-driven approach to vet new program ideas and culminates in a three-year feasibility study.

The first year of applying a virtual model to coordinate diffused tutoring services had its challenges and successes. Come hear about them and about our comparative assessment data for final grades, persistence, and retention.

Presenting a successful safe-campus model that uses technology, a desktop icon, and cross-functional committees to improve reporting, tracking, monitoring, and collaboration between linked safety initiatives.

Objective: Understand process, lessons learned, and significance of undertaking global education and workforce development initiatives. Benefit: Community colleges, nations, and partners seeking to impact the 21st century global workforce.

Assessment and Achieving the Dream results confirmed the need for a revolutionary approach to developmental education. Participants will consider instigating this proposed revolution and discuss anticipated actions.

Creating a support system of colleagues doesn't need to be limited to just people down the hallway. Learn how IT instructors have developed a national model mentor network.

Educators will benefit from learning about successful programs and strategies implemented to engage women in nontraditional careers and at-risk youth and young adults in postsecondary education.

Butler spent a decade building a highly effective, replicable model for faculty development. Administrators and faculty should attend to explore the model?s use of rigor, restriction, and reward.

Learn how 21st-century workplace demands for an educated and skilled workforce call for distinctive triad relationships connecting businesses with college and university solutions.

Presenters discuss how institutions can improve student readiness activities for online courses to reduce the likelihood of mismatched expectations between students and instructors and subsequent poor online outcomes.

Learn how we collaborated across campus to produce a video orientation product that serves as both a highly visible marketing piece and an informative tool for our incoming students.

Participants will learn how to calculate ROI to help determine which academic programs should be subsidized, revitalized, consolidated, or retired.

Discover rich, adaptable, open educational resources to support new models of instruction. This nonprofit effort aims to increase educational opportunities for financially disadvantaged learners struggling with mathematical literacy.

This institutionally supported, data-driven, interactive session will introduce and illustrate a comprehensive triangulated model that supports the retention and completion rates for African-American students.

A framework for offering bachelor?s degrees at a community college will be presented and audience discussion encouraged. The intended audience is interested community college administrators, faculty, and other staff.

Student leadership program details and two-tiered staff leadership academy training successes will be shared. Participants will also share their program challenges and successes.

Faculty, administrators, and student services staff will explore the multifaceted set of barriers and empowerment strategies that support under-resourced students in achieving academic success.

Learn how innovative strategies, including curriculum re-design, linked classes, and integrated classes fast-tracked developmental education. Research from this pilot shows that students benefit from innovative strategies that save time and money.

EDUCAUSE’s Next Generation Learning Challenges initiative provides funding to identify and scale technology-enabled solutions to problems of student readiness and completion. Participants will learn from leaders of three NGLC projects how their work is ensuring that underprepared or underperforming students get the resources, attention, and support needed for success.

Join the director of distance learning, a Spanish Instructor, and an English professor for a demonstration of our training and conversion program.

"My students don't think!" Sound familiar? Help students become critical thinkers. Come learn proven strategies to increase students' critical thinking. Presenters will share practical, cross-disciplinary strategies.

Join the ICCOC, a Next Generation Learning Grant recipient, as it shares scalable strategies for increasing online student success through the use of student data delivered in a timely fashion.

The Information Literacy Institute was created to help faculty incorporate IL seamlessly. This presentation will share some of the ideas and inspirations that make the institute a success.

Presenters will demonstrate how techniques of Global Skills for College Completion helped them become more intentional and effective teachers by addressing the cognitive goals and affective needs of students.

Organizational change creates anxiety and can have adverse effects. Learn how one college capitalizes on change by incorporating it into its operational infrastructure and budgeting cycle.

Lane?s Sustainability Coordinator degree is an interdisciplinary program built on existing courses. Learn how to implement a similar program at your own institution for little or no additional cost.

This study examines the precollege educational system, including teacher quality and location, to develop opportunities to improve developmental education. Modern integrative applications with old-school techniques are shared.

The session will guide the participants through a coordinated model for academic strategic initiatives. This will help administrators improve their efforts to achieve disparate strategic goals with limited resources.

The interactive discussion includes the innovation process; a partnership between advancement and student affairs; and student success. Ideal for presidents, advancement staff, and student affairs professionals.

Global Education Network, a collaboration of premier institutions, provides students with an international learning experience for employment in a global economy. Strategic planning drives the success of this network.

Faculty and administrators will learn how faculty preparedness, communication, and building a sense of community can transform adjuncts, who are critical to student success and learning.

Learn how a teacher-centered learning analytics tool, Activity Meter, and student guidance tool, Course Map, of the Etudes Learning Management system, enhance student retention and promote success.

Earning the designation CAE2Y for a cybersecurity program is a great honor. This designation is earned through meeting guidelines set forth by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The influence of earning this designation has spurred us into action creating a Cybersecurity Training Institute. During this presentation the participant will learn about short-term credit-free mini-courses and workshops that have been developed for manager, IT personnel, and other staff who need to know cyber basics and/or earn cyber-related certifications. Detail of the creation and marketing of the Institute will be shared during this discussion.

From defining outcomes to implementing changes based on the assessment result. All educators get the gory details on completing the assessment cycle for the general education computer literacy outcome.

Exactly how did the Community College of Baltimore County significantly enhance success rates, reduce attrition, and develop confident, dedicated, developmental writing students in its Accelerated Learning Program? Come find out in this session!

The QR code phenomenon is booming in advertising. Lone Star College will demonstrate how we pushed beyond just advertising by using QR codes to connect and serve students.

This lively, interactive presentation, geared toward the entire college community, explores how prepared Illinois community college trustees are in their role as elected official and their understanding of role.

This presentation is a compilation of memory devices designed to help students recall math facts and concepts. It covers arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and other math topics.

Increase retention and success rates by blending authentic learning with significant learning, on site and online. Increase student interest through projects of global and intergenerational relevance.

How can students master basic skills? We highlight three approaches ? college readiness partnerships, summer bridge programs, and learning communities ? and discuss where to invest scarce college resources.

Learn from college examples how to use college data, student engagement surveys, and student and faculty voices in professional development to improve pedagogy and support services for student success.

This session introduces using Alice software in student recruitment and retention. Using Alice software concepts, instructors can bridge students from Alice to NetBeans Java programming.

Community colleges have more online courses, affordable programs, and students than any other postsecondary institutional type, but remain relatively hidden in a competitive, sophisticated marketplace. Learn about strengthening community college's visibility through OnlineCommunityColleges.org.

Creating an integrated planning process benefits campuses. Done well, integrated planning reduces silo behavior, increases collaboration, and enables a campus to target resources where they are needed. Learn the six key components of effective integrated planning.

This interactive presentation demonstrates the use of classroom response systems courses to enhance and stimulate critical thinking. Explore and learn if clickers can be used in your class.

Western Governors University, an online, competency-based institution, measures learning through the passing of assessments. Learn how all faculty can apply competency-based approaches to their own courses.

ABE students were asked how they would design the perfect college program, what the most difficult thing about college would be, and more. Their responses will be of interest to administrators, faculty, and staff.

The EAP/Virtual Librarian project teaches information skills and assesses student learning with LMS Angel. Participants learn about the project and review assessment data.

Participants will reflect on the cultures to which they have been exposed; discuss culture in a reflective, interactive manner; and leave with a lesson on culture appropriate for classrooms.

Find out how to use small amounts of seed money to develop value-added projects with tight budget constraints, in this session designed for coordinators, chairs, deans, and faculty. Participants will explore developing seed money projects.

Participants will discover seven customizable free Google tools useful to educators for Web navigation, search, multimedia interaction, communication, calculation, and organization, with consistency and no learning curve.

Presenters will share findings on the process and challenges of scaling reforms in developmental education. An innovative conceptual arithmetic course, now at full scale, will be described in detail.

This session will demonstrate how information about the transfer process to a four-year institution can be disseminated through transfer-specific student success courses.

Presenters will discuss how to integrate classes from different disciplines through a service-learning project that builds partnerships across the entire campus. Administrators, faculty, and most especially students, benefit!

Learn how Foothill College implemented a new SLO system and created a clear Service Area Assessment cycle that aligned with institutional goals while maintaining the focus on students.

Presenters will provide information about an instructional approach applied to introductory chemistry courses. The approach focuses on conceptual understanding using active learning techniques that promote critical thinking.

Instigate a collegewide conversation about stereotypes and how they affect the achievement gap. Learn how to start conversations about ways identity contingencies affect performance.

Students today must develop skills and knowledge to navigate complex global realities. Participants with engage with tools and strategies that promote critical thinking, civic engagement, awareness, and cultural sensitivity.

Faculty create much of their own media; little of it is accessible to hearing-impaired students. Learn about options for captioning podcasts, video lectures, recorded PowerPoint, and other media.

Many development officers wonder where to start when developing an annual campaign. This session introduces a framework for building a campaign to fit your college?s culture and resources.

Learn how SLCC uses a central contact center as well as key technology programs to enhance overall student services and provide a 24/7 service model.

A model for effective faculty development built on five adult learning principles will be presented. This session applies to community college personnel concerned with effective instruction.

Learn how the Mesa College Honors Program, with Student Support Services, provides academic and personal training to students of diverse academic backgrounds to help them become scholars and leaders.

Learn how Montgomery College geometrically increased support of innovation in classrooms and beyond with its Innovation Fund, and find out how it sparked philanthropy from donors.

Native-speaker led conversation groups develop language students? fluency, vocabulary, and cultural appreciation. Learn how our dynamic, cost-effective program uses peer conversation leaders to help students learn languages.

The Assessment of Institutionalization Mapping (AIM) Tool measures whether campus innovations have been institutionalized and produces a road map for what needs work in the campus?s innovative STEM program.

Presenters will share strategies for positively impacting the affective factors associated with student success currently evolving at the two year college they represent. Come join the conversation!

To support distance education programs, Etudes augments its learning management system technology with a well-developed faculty training program, peer-to-peer support, and vibrant user communities of practice.

Attention Advisors: Explore an innovative, alternative approach in academic advising. Empower and engage students to be active partners in their own educational journey.

Achieving Readiness in Math and Science Across the River Parishes is aimed primarily at preparing high school students by intervention and placement tests for developmental courses funded by BOR.

Anyone who teaches a subject that has numeric answers for many content questions can learn techniques for improving students? ability to detect incorrect answers by developing number sense.

Learn about community college opportunities to participate in recent federally funded initiative to train students, faculty, and staff how to be prepared for disasters lasting up to 72 hours.

An online doctoral program taught by college presidents and community college chancellors is designed for those desiring a doctoral option offered as a blended or totally online program.

Faculty from various disciplines will discuss how to encourage critical thinking through learner-centered techniques. Participants will revisit John Dewey?s seminal work, reflecting learner diversity present at community colleges.

Learn how to develop and sustain an LGBTQ Ally/Safe Zone Program at the community college. Intended audience: faculty, administrators, or staff interested in LGBTQ student support.

The collection of student outcomes assessment data has become a key means of evaluating learning effectiveness. This session investigates best practices for meaningful data collection.

Participants will learn how to develop and implement a systemwide student success course for developmental students. The challenges, benefits, and data will be shared.

Participants will learn about initiatives that support faculty in their teaching. Ideas for assessing the effectiveness of the strategies will also be presented.

The Transition and Advising Program is designed to help first-generation students find success in higher education. Join us as we discuss program design, implementation, achievements, and lessons learned.

Participants will learn how Sinclair Community College, Norco College, and their partners are creating a pipeline of supply chain workers with an NSF National Center for Supply Chain Technology Education Grant.

Although focused on a specific training program, this presentation will describe the benefits of accelerated programs in all workforce development departments. Strategies and best practices will be shared.

Learn about a project that helped to internationalize a computer skills course providing collaborative activities, which concluded in a presentation.

The pursuit of excellence in teaching and student learning is the goal. Tools and strategies will be shared in an interactive approach with chairs, deans, and professional development personnel.

Presenters discuss how a large urban institution used data, best practices, and continuous assessment to create multifaceted and high-touch interventions to engage African-American males.

This presentation will describe an online professional development program for teachers, Scenarios. This session is of particular interest to all concerned with faculty development.

This session will explain how a community college formed an office of innovation, developed a process to implement new ideas across campus and how it is transforming campus culture.

Bucks created successful models for students completing developmental requirements. Learn about pilots in composition, reading and mathematics. Those embarking on their own acceleration adventures will benefit from this session.

Discover rich open educational resources freely available to empower teachers and students at the new HippoCampus.org. Learn how to leverage new tools to support your educational innovations.

This roundtable will address the challenges that the dean and assistant dean of the School of BSSWE at The Community College of Baltimore County confront on a daily basis.

Come learn how to publish your article in the Community College Journal of Research and Practice. Join this discussion of opportunities offered by a new section featuring shorter manuscripts that highlight innovative practices and research.

This session will provide faculty with free online resources that engage students through interaction with touch technology, using tablet PC and iPad apps to enhance critical thinking.

Financial emergencies derail educational dreams. Learn how modest grants keep students on track and moving forward. Come explore the benefits and challenges of creating a Dreamkeepers financial emergency program.

Participants will learn elements to successfully bridge the gap between students? online social communities and the educational community of the classroom to create a meaningful and successful learning experience.

Learn the techniques of integrating the 3-click rule in Blackboard 9.1 course design, and discover ways to enhance course design to ease faculty and student frustrations.

Engage your students by having them collaboratively create an original game incorporating their favorite psychological concepts. Project details as well as grading criteria will be demonstrated.

Learn how to use Impatica for PowerPoint and Jing to create audio-visual presentations that will help students connect with the course material in online and hybrid courses.

View results from research examining applied baccalaureate degrees in technician education. Contribute to the conversation as we explore existing challenges, strategies to overcome challenges, and what makes programs exemplary.

Participants interested in completion rates for at-risk students will learn how a large, urban college transformed support for low-SES and underprepared students using an access and completion model.

A brief overview of our LMS search, a look at our favorite WebStudy tools, and an opportunity for participants to share creative uses of similar LMS tools.

Presenters describe a successful general media education program from effective assignment design, marketing to other faculty, quality of student work, copyright issues, and overall educational impact.

Help your students complete college by addressing pregnancy planning, prevention, and healthy relationships. Try out replicable curriculum templates, online resources, and data from five colleges that make it work.

It takes a “college community” to support completion. This interactive session will highlight innovative efforts at Baltimore City Community College that support the academic and social integration of learners from start to finish and will serve as a roadmap for integrating college-wide efforts designed to engage and empower learners from start to finish. Session participants will also be provided an opportunity to share their unique completion strategies.

A national task force is examining all aspects of education in public health toward rewriting the 1915 Welch-Rose Report. An interactive discussion will explore the rationale and expected outcomes.

Learn how to achieve administrative buy-in, meet the high-tech needs of students, and ensure upbeat delivery. Data will validate why onsite orientation is crucial for student success.

This session provides faculty and administrators with opportunities to discuss the process of course, certificate, and program development, including preliminary review, curriculum committee decision, and follow-up.

Through 18 NSF grants, EdCC created a STEM Hub. Learn how we improved access to data, engaged faculty, and leveraged resources to fund a student-centered STEM support network.

Professional development is something part time faculty desire! Hear how we succeeded in bringing together 400 part-time instructors for a full-day professional development conference.

Learn about retention, performance, developmental education, and impressive 2- and 3-year graduation outcomes for two cohorts of the innovative CUNY ASAP program in relation to the cohort constructed comparison groups.

Participants will discover five ways to mix and mash-up with new social technologies, brainstorming to glean the most useful alternative resources for individualized and shared learning.

Participants will explore teaching practices and the use of technology used in teaching public speaking online. Discussion focus on successes and best practices in this environment.

This presentation focuses on the humanities applications of a flexible rubric developed at St. Petersburg College for assessing critical thinking skills across a range of assignments in various disciplines.

All who teach or administer online education in community colleges will benefit from this session that will present and discuss best practices leading to success in online courses.

The Trade Bridge Academy is an innovative composition of activities designed to increase the success of all incoming students. Educators involved in orientation, assessment, and student success will be interested.

Participants will learn about the innovative techniques being employed in the field of law enforcement and first-responder training at the community college level.

Faculty at West Shore Community College have used common readings to facilitate a powerful shared learning experience across the disciplines and in the surrounding community.

Come learn how learning resources at Bucks has shifted delivery of services and resources from a library with an instruction-centered model to one that is now learner centered.

To succeed in science, students need to know and practice basic skills for mastering large volumes of information. Come learn how to teach these skills to your students.

Imagine starting a program knowing students will come and that the program will be successful and sustainable. It can happen! Learn about a three-phase program feasibility process and the successful new programs!

This session addresses forces driving the development of baccalaureate and similar programs in several countries. Program similarities and differences, institutional culture, political issues, and challenges in attaining success will be addressed.

We will explore Lane Community College?s 2011 study on defining technology and digital literacy skills in the community college and will discuss the implications on student success and preparation.

The Hostos EdTech brand encompasses a faculty learning commons, a social network, a feature-rich rich-media management platform, and more, providing immediate access to valuable educational technology tools.

Continuing Education must deliver in-demand training and financial sustainability. Use practical tools such as pricing, scheduling, evaluation, and marketing to assess quality and achieve financial viability of programs.

This presentation demonstrates the effectiveness of a cooperative learning as an educational tool for empowering students. Data will be presented highlighting the efficacy of cooperative learning for student success.

The presenters will highlight the globalization efforts of a statewide community college system and discuss benefits, opportunities, and pitfalls of adding international experiences to the curriculum.

Join this exploration of an award-winning hands-on student-driven Problem Solving approach, which netted its developer the 2010 U.S. Professor of the Year Award in community colleges.

Benefiting faculty and administrators, this session introduces a course redesign project by engaging participants in analyzing the project?s challenges and successes.

The presenter will share dissertation research findings regarding the impact of faculty learning styles on their perceived usefulness and perceived ease of integrating media-rich content into instruction.

Presenters discuss the results of a nationwide survey of community college students on how technology impacts student achievement and success.

This 3-day Academy introduced students to a STEM culture of success. Learn about City College’s efforts to increase the retention and success of students in STEM majors.

Can emerging 21st century community college leaders engage society's diverse challenges? Morgan State University uses a model that improves success. Come learn how to use the strategy.

Our college engaged the campus community in a series of current and future state visioning sessions to lay the groundwork for its strategic planning and unit effectiveness cycles.

?Recruit, Retain, Renew? is the new mantra for workforce training and development in Alabama, a charge issued by Governor Robert Bentley to the Alabama Community College System regarding workforce training needs.

After four years, displaced workers and unemployment still affect our colleges and communities. Participants will experience tools, communication models, and resources used to connect displaced workers with training and workforce.

Learn how to develop a faculty observation form collaboratively, train observers effectively, and use feedback to improve teaching. For administrators and faculty seeking to improve classroom observation.

Student and veteran services, college administration, and student leadership professionals will experience a hands-on approach to developing a veterans center and improving services and support for this diverse, under-represented population. Share strategies for improving persistence and success of veterans at your college.

Join an exploration of passionate teaching and student motivation, suggestions for faculty professional development strategies, and ways institutions may create a climate of internal motivation for faculty and students.

There will never be enough resources, time, talent, or funds for any sector to succeed alone. Organizations must join forces to meet community needs and stimulate economies.