Innovations 2013

As an ongoing service to our participants, the Innovations 2013 conference materials (in PowerPoint, PDF, and video format) are being made available to download. To open the materials, you will need Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe Reader. The following presentations are sorted in date/time order and correspond to the Innovations 2013 conference program. Additional session materials will be posted, so check back frequently. If you did not submit your session materials while in Dallas and would still like to do so, please send them to piccirilli@league.org.

Do students have a voice in the process of higher education? We posit that authenticity arises only when students are allowed to direct the message they want instructors to hear.

When a college is involved in multiple completion initiatives, competing priorities and possibilities become confusing. Leaders must employ creative ways to articulate meaning by connecting the dots.

Participants will learn about Connect2Complete, a program utilizing community-engaged learning and peer mentoring to support students in achieving academic success and engaging with their peers and the community.

Institutional leaders will learn about the innovative AQIP-Baldrige Option for accreditation, and how using the Baldrige Education Criteria can help them effectively meet their strategic goals and mission.

As a teacher, we always want the materials to be presented efficiently and effectively. Come and discover the lessons learned in the journey from traditional Math pedagogy to Tablet technology.

Learn how to improve college and career readiness by implementing the OVAE Rigorous Programs of Study framework, including academic integration, web-based career guidance, and professional development.

Social interactions support effective learning experiences. Faculty will participate in demonstrations of Blackboard, Voki, Connect and discussion boards to learn how to increase social presence in their online courses.

CJS 1106 is a transition educational program for incarcerated individuals that facilitates transition from incarceration to re-entry into society.

This session is intended for Workforce Development and Continuing Education staff. Participants will learn about virtual badges and how they can be used to assess non-credit student learning.

NGLC, a League partner, recently awarded grants to enable the development of ten new technology-enabled degree programs. Learn how the program developers plan to improve outcomes for disadvantaged students.

Learn about Montgomery College’s NSF S-STEM grant project that promotes full-time enrollment, academic achievement, and the successful transfer and completion of a bachelor’s degree in engineering.

Learn how students, even with 5th grade functional literacy levels, succeed in college, pass licensure exams, and start work though simultaneous integration of developmental, ESL, and accelerated technical education courses.

Cultural transformation followed when a group of faculty created a four-day, intensive workshop, convincing peers to adopt pedagogical and technological innovations. Participants will use our model to create their own.

Design collegewide programs to assist students over 50 in meeting career challenges. In this interactive session, discover the opportunities, available resources, and rewards of serving this engaging population.

This presentation will focus on the process and planning of the redesign project. The presenter will provide data on 2012 students’ progress in the newly redesigned mathematics project.

Reading Apprenticeship and inquiry-based pedagogy help faculty build on students' underestimated strengths as readers, writers, and problem solvers to “apprentice” students into discipline-specific academic literacies critical to college completion.

This session will present an overview of State Fair Community College's Academic Program Review process, including its initial definition, implementation experience, supporting BI reports, and current status.

Attendees will learn how Tidewater Community College developed a zero-textbook-costs degree in Business Administration and the techniques used to effectively transition to open educational resources.

At LSC Kingwood, it's not about playing games, it's about making them. Our college is preparing students by teaching them motion capture techniques.

This presentation will focus on allocation of resources with institutional planning and doing so in a collaborative environment. This session will benefit employees at all levels of an institution.

The Arts and Scholars Showcase celebrates student accomplishments and achievements in five traditional academic areas. This workshop will review the planning and development, high impact practices used, and the competencies achieved.

Learn the five dimensions necessary for bringing any plan to life: creating, evaluating, communicating, implementing, and budgeting. This session will benefit those responsible for curriculum redesign, and departmental or campus strategic planning.

This workshop presents a comprehensive overview of a performance-based general education assessment model. Participants work in small assessment teams to assess student work using holistic scoring rubrics.

OCCC's redesign included curriculum alignment, placement test creation, pacing options, team teaching, mini-lectures, group activities, guided practice, study skills, and support. Open discussion for people focused on increasing student success.

A panel of community college leaders in online education discuss how implementing Quality Matters improved their campus cultures and faculty relationships, and built a foundation for lasting change.

Learn the strategies and technologies that Sinclair’s award winning team used to successfully develop and deliver online science labs that ensure online students meet the same learning outcomes as classroom students.

Participants will view a live demo of eLab Set, a web-based computer literacy assessment, evaluation, and placement tool. Appropriate placement will maximize students' likelihood of success.

Presenters assess the efficacy of a café-style classroom with an open and mobile furniture design that led to an active, cooperative, and engaging learning experience for the majority of students.

This session is oriented to college/university instructors interested in learning an innovative method to provide e-feedback, benefit the teaching-learning process, and enhance the instructor-student relationship.

College readiness skills must include online learning. This session introduces methods implemented at one institution and the data used to develop readiness activities to increase student success in online education.

Participants will gain an understanding of the diversity programs at EPCC that stimulate awareness for staff, students, and community by giving examples of successful activities to promote at their institutions.

This session will explore how to create useful faculty development programs that work. This is useful for anyone interested in faculty development, including academic department deans and faculty leaders.

The Health Careers Resource Center provides healthcare assessments for students and program resources to the community, connects students to employers, and coordinates the vast healthcare programs and resources within the DCCCD.

Learn how an advising syllabus is being used to deliver consistent information campus wide, set clear student expectations, and define learning outcomes.

Presenters discuss the creation and implementation of a new, innovative instructional alternative to learning communities: learning networks. Faculty and administrators will discover how to implement this powerful alternative.

Learn from faculty who are using innovative approaches to improve retention by helping students avoid unplanned pregnancy. Participants will receive background information, free curricular materials, cool tools, and online resources.

Learn about how STLCC implemented new 3+1 districtwide front door success strategies for fall 2012 FTIC students. Offer your expertise to make them even better for 2013!

Presenters share innovative strategies for a collaborative framework for integrating planning and resource allocation. Participants will engage in discussion about fostering operational change to meet fiscal realities and demands for accountability.

How can you promote quality feedback in online courses? How should you leverage technology to transform “good” feedback into “great” feedback? Discover GEAR, Rio Salado’s web-based solution to providing feedback.

Discover strategies to help students overcome their college fears and learn the language of academic discourse. Discuss maintaining high standards without scaring students away or paralyzing them with anxiety.

In this session, instructors and campus leaders will learn how to create and implement a community college honors program based on the successful partnership model developed at Southwestern Community College.

It's time to do more with less. Learn innovative and cost-effective strategies that will help your department provide ongoing professional development anytime, anywhere.

This session focuses on helping senior administrators determine their interest in becoming college presidents. Strategies for assessing readiness for the presidency are explored, as is how to gain experience in weaker areas before applying for the position. Timing factors to be considered when considering a CEO position are also discussed.

Students use a Hands-On Labs LabPaq to complete the lab component of Navarro College’s fully online Introduction to Anatomy & Physiology course. Learn how working students can complete their science requirements online.

An interactive presentation discussing effective budgetary and measurable service changes within the Lone Star student population, including the young, disabled, fostered, and underprepared. This session will benefit all.

This presentation will help administrators and coordinators learn how to blend academic support services like embedded tutoring, prescriptive tutoring, and supplemental instruction to tailor academic programs for at-risk students.

This session offers an engaging look at how to develop high quality rapid response workforce development programs within complex multi-campus environments.

Supplementing instruction with cyber competition exercises provides a venue for high school and college students to gain authentic experience, assess their career interests, and apply knowledge gained in their coursework.

Faculty will discuss innovative research exploring the infusion of critical thinking concepts into a computer literacy curriculum. Integrative strategies and their impact will be presented.

The presentation will focus on debates over the proper functions of the community college website. Special attention will be paid to how a college website can directly improve student learning.

This session includes an overview of two sources of comparative data and benchmarking: the National Study of Community College Instructional Costs and Productivity, and the National Community College Benchmark Project.

OERs expand access to high quality instructional resources to support effective teaching/learning. This session will include highlights of OER initiatives and strategies for identifying, evaluating, adopting, and/or developing OERs.

Discuss strategies for achieving student success amongst minority or under represented student populations. This session is geared towards those who are seeking to improve diversity strategies at their organizations.

Students need to know storage in the era of server virtualization and cloud computing. Learn how EMC and NDG can help you deliver a hands-on storage course.

Blended learning! HCC's model of developmental education evolved into a mastery learning program with extensive lab time accompanied by recitation sessions. Sample materials, pros, cons, and data will be provided.

Participants will acquire knowledge of sustainability and assessment, a rubric to measure student learning of sustainability, and a plan to share these practices at their respective institutions.

Participants will experience using games such as Sudoku, role-playing, and Lego construction to enhance logic and team building skills for programming classes.

Three years ago a student success team was formed, which began with pockets of support services and has moved to a comprehensive success model based on data driven decisions.

Struggling to accelerate developmental-level students through reading/writing courses? I have solutions! Come see classroom-proven redesign strategies backed by evidence, statistics, and first-person testimonials.

This innovative model of 3+1 university partnerships addresses the issues of college completion and affordability. Learn how this new approach was designed, and its implications for higher education stakeholders.

This session will cover innovative initiatives, effectiveness data, and lessons learned. People teaching or overseeing developmental education will benefit from this session which covers various methods to accelerate student success.

PowerPoint is a very versatile tool when used properly, and almost everyone has it (important in today's economic climate)! This session will show you how to create interactive eLearning courses using PowerPoint.

BGTC's world-class Interactive Digital Center creates faculty-driven, customized, mobile applications for anywhere, anytime learning. Via computer, tablet, or smartphone, these interactive tools promote engaged learning and content mastery.

Participants will understand the MOOC model of instructional content delivery for developmental education. The session will benefit administrators and instructors in understanding the changes necessary to implement.

Participants will learn how their colleges can access and use labor-market data about their graduates to improve programs, advising, and student success.

Academic advisors will learn to apply a clinical model of change for student success. Four student examples will be used to illustrate the implementation of the ten processes of change.

Hear current research findings on the usefulness of social media in learning and the most effective pedagogical methods for incorporating social media into learning.

One week to successful completion of required developmental courses. Developmental faculty at Sinclair Community College are developing curriculum to accelerate their students through required developmental courses as part of the Gates Foundation’s Completion by Design initiative.

Come experience the use of digital gaming technologies, smartphone apps, and something different than PowerPoint (Prezi) to engage students in your classes.

Participants will learn how to use students as mentors and train students as community organizers. This session is intended for those wanting to develop community and civic engagement programs on their campuses.

It focuses on the ways the UW and the community colleges can partner on the innovative, low-cost online undergraduate degree completion program for adults.

Learning First is a collaborative effort involving the League for Innovation in the Community College, UMassOnline, Penn State World Campus, the University of Illinois-Springfield, and Coastline Community College. Learning First is a national consortium focused on: (1) increasing online community colleges’ capacity to serve students, particularly low-income and working adults; (2) following unique partner articulation models; and (3) decreasing the amount of time, and associated cost, required for students to earn a bachelor’s degree with a 1-2-1 transfer model and/or partner credit/transfer agreement. Join us for this discussion of planning phase outcomes and pilot project developments.

Build innovative courses from scratch with high quality content. Learn about the open source materials available today that can help you guide students towards discovery and learning.

Participants will learn how stackable credential and career pathway models in community colleges are designed and implemented. Specific student cases will highlight effective paths to employment for TANF students.

With limited resources, it’s tough to train students on success skills. Attendees will explore online tools students can use to gain knowledge about career options, test-taking strategies, and more.

How we got external validation to ensure high quality for our students, school, and faculty. This presentation will tell you how we selected AES, the process, and what we learned.

A critical collaboration designed to create a new paradigm for peace and safety on campuses by addressing societal violence. See how MCC's Civility Committee facilitated 20+ programs in four days.

College administrators and coordinators will acquire the knowledge to build a learning community focused on Black male achievement and discover steps to eliminate barriers to Black male success.

Come learn why an understanding of an entering student's noncognitive abilities, combined with faculty monitoring of student behavioral compliance, advising, and support services can positively affect student success.

Faculty, staff, and student personal and professional development are imperative for student success. Leadership, organizational, communication, customer service, and technology training approaches and successes provided. Participants will share their training models.

From the CEO and administrative implementation team, learn about a scalable, non-credit basic skills model that improves student performance and saves time and tuition dollars while preserving financial aid.

Course redesign has been taken to the next level. Join us as we discuss our full-scale, Integrated Reading and Writing curriculum supported by data driven decisions and ongoing professional development.

Learn about Moraine Valley Community College's efforts to bring district elected and business leaders together to discuss best practices, create region-specific partnerships, and identify opportunities to support sustainable economic development initiatives.

Participants will discover how to at once individualize and render collaborative their curricula, profiting from international resources available in multiple media.

In this interactive session, participants will learn and apply a systems approach to integration of planning, evaluation, and resource allocation that is based upon the effective use of program review.

Learn how a dynamic community college gained valuable input on challenging decisions through courageous conversations. Participate in the model to see how it can help move your college forward.

Presenters will introduce the model used by Tarrant County College to respond to workforce development needs in high demand sectors, focusing on creating and sustaining a community and industry driven program.

Find out how our new First Year Seminar, which uses high impact practices, is economically feasible, scalable to an entire freshman class, and demonstrating impressive student outcomes.

Participants discover a college guidance path system that students cannot disable. The 7 Truths for a Common Student Experience actualizes opportunities for each and every student's success.

The Educational and Career Positioning System (ECPS) transforms Big Data into personal data, navigating students toward a career. Students can track, position, and navigate educational journeys against personal data.

Participants will be presented with five exemplary career pathways programs that will inform them of six characteristics required for program success and non-community college funding that support career pathways.

Faculty and administrators learn about Classroom Notebook, an interactive tool making it possible for faculty to see teaching patterns and to improve practice from these patterns.

What does the letter grade mean? And what should every student know? With the help of a scoring rubric, one can understand the possible causes of discrepancies in assessment.

What does it mean to innovate? Exactly what is innovation? How do you do it? Participants will be engaged in exercises designed to develop innovation talent and abilities.

Academic success is not always enough for our students to enter their profession. This presentation provides practical suggestions for students to enhance their resume and prepare to enter the workplace.

Faculty! Still lugging around that bag of heavy class materials? Come and learn the tricks that make it possible to go into the classroom with nothing but an iPad.

Learn how to make academic advising work from the classic community college model recognized by NACADA and a top program in the country at Valencia College, recognized by AACC.

Games are fun, but class is often not. Learn how the presenter incorporated educational board games into the classroom to help teach complicated concepts while engaging less interested students.

Faculty and administrators will learn about adaptable and ready-to-use blended e-resources developed by faculty and IT leadership, with pedagogies to engage beginning-level students in STEM disciplines.

This study presents debt-to-income ratios for common majors; differences in earnings and student loan debt across educational levels by occupation; and promising practices for promoting responsible borrowing and career planning.

To prepare the cyber workforce, Anne Arundel Community College developed an innovative approach to cybersecurity education and training. Programs meet needs of new pipeline, dislocated/underemployed workers, and the incumbent workforce.

Used according to insights of Cognitive Load Theory, PowerPoint can tremendously boost understanding and retention. Faculty, use these insights when you need to talk to your class.

Explore an innovative approach to transforming developmental education with flexible, digital math/literacy modules, contextualized to health care, advanced manufacturing, and information technology, and developed by MCCWDTA, a Massachusetts Community College consortium.

LA Trade-Tech's Student Success Committee hosts Day of Dialogue events as a tool for engaging all campus constituents in self-reflection about key topics essential to student success and institutional effectiveness. Learn about the model and examples of multiple interactive strategies. Strategies, facilitator toolkits, and activities will be provided.

Attendees will learn to associate animation activity to Java terminology; generate instructions with arguments; and execute, test, and enhance program statements. Alice is created at Carnegie Mellon.

An online skills-based learning system for college planning that increases greater student responsibility and retention. Using an online self mastery better utilizes student affairs staffing resources.

Thirty-six percent of U.S. college graduates fail to develop higher reasoning! How can faculty embed critical thinking across curriculum? Group discussion and scenarios provide specific approaches promoting essential skills.

Community college students benefit from an assortment of models providing access to baccalaureate programs. This session addresses distance learning trends, alternative solutions impacting student success, and avenues to degree completion.

Many educational reforms over the last 25 years have failed due to a lack of focus on three areas. Let’s examine how to avoid another casualty and improve higher education.

This session covers results from a pilot at ChSCC using the National Repository for Online Courses Developmental Math course, and will interest developmental instructors, advisors, and academic administrators.

Participants will learn strategies to improve employee performance using an ongoing performance evaluation process. This session will benefit those who supervise employees at all college levels.

Participants will learn how tools from improvement science can be used to provide a disciplined, evidence-based approach that focuses on increasing student success and helping instructors improve their own practice.

City Colleges of Chicago and ETS present a robust, holistic placement model that also allows individualized student support interventions based on students' non-cognitive skills that will benefit administrators and faculty.

Learn about strategies and services that Department of Labor TAACCCT grantees are using to fully embrace OER, open licensing, universal learning design, and evidence-based online technologies as significant new innovations in education.

Participants learn how some life partners of nontraditional community college students perceive the college-going experience, how it impacts their relationships with their partners, and how they co-negotiate the experience.

This session introduces and describes institutional dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs), outlines the steps to identify KPIs, and recounts one college's experience with the process that produced its KPIs.

How do you onboard new adjunct faculty to maximize their success? Discover ways to fast-track their path from being a new hire to a highly experienced adjunct faculty member.

Presentation highlights community college opportunities through a recent joint federal grant program. The presentation discusses training development, train-the-trainer opportunities, and related homeland security online programs and resources.

STEM-focused English composition requires the integration of liberal arts/humanities with science and technology to bridge the specialization of career pursuits with what can be learned from literature, art, and history.

Faculty/administrators will discuss how classrooms must adjust in an era of increasingly diverse student populations, incorporating teaching styles and evaluation methods that lend themselves to a global perspective.

Participants will learn the questions to be asked when analyzing workplace communication. Anyone interested in improving communication skills will find this session beneficial.

We, as faculty, can increase the chances of student success by improving our students’ attitudes toward their learning, their sense of self efficacy, and their development of a growth oriented mindset.

Learn how two librarians spearheaded a campuswide initiative to help technologically unprepared students navigate the HACC portal and learn basic Microsoft Word skills. This session will benefit student affairs personnel.

How conducting a community college campus trees survey with free software can teach science method and techniques, provide information on utility savings, and provide evidence of benefits to your community.

The purpose of this presentation is to present how to increase retention, improve student grades, and raise student graduation rates by incorporating a theoretical framework based on seminal learning theories.

Learn about the motivations, decisions, implementation, and results of providing Smarthinking to support students anytime, anywhere. Included will be independent research showing the positive impact on student success and retention.

Through college readiness, college navigation, and wrap around support services, Seattle Goodwill Industries provides a student-centered approach to meet the needs of students enrolling in King County community colleges.

Come see how to apply veterans' experiences in problem solving, decision making, teamwork, and leadership to learning activities that can work for any academic discipline and produce more world-savvy citizens!

What happens when a college system invites a campus community to innovate by combining a chief strategist for innovation and entrepreneurship, a college president, and systemwide CIO?

In 2011, NGLC launched 29 Wave I projects. Central Piedmont Community College, Cerritos College, and OhioLINK detail their strategies for starting, sustaining, and scaling technology-supported educational innovations.

Participants will gain valuable information on strategies proven effective in recruitment and retention of adult learners. Individuals associated with administration, enrollment services, marketing, and faculty are encouraged to attend.

Learn about the MESA Program and the "cultural approach" that has been successfully piloted at San Diego City College to increase the success of first-generation and underrepresented students in STEM.

This session addresses the growing OER trend and how these alternative solutions positively impact student success. Students can earn college credit by matching OER courses with Excelsior College exams.

Nursing faculty struggle with providing quality clinical experiences. STLCC staff will share an innovative human patient simulator experience allowing students the opportunity to make clinical judgements and practice skills.

WVNCC is employing a variety of options to improve developmental math outcomes, including course redesign and web-based emporium labs, placement test preparation and remediation, dedicated counseling, and accelerated classes.

Want to move from short-term initiatives to sustainable student success outcomes? Learn how Lee College is engaging its community in a cradle to career network focused on educational success.

Participants will learn about the creation of this exciting combination course and discuss opportunities where developmental mathematics and credit science courses could benefit each other in understanding of course materials.

Participants will work in small simulation teams to identify a college's Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). They will be able to apply this KPI development process in their home institutions.

Presenters will demonstrate precise resources corresponding to industry requirements in demand. Participants will obtain innovative and maximum utilization of resources and improvements specific to industry in career and technical fields.

This innovative SuccessNC program accelerates completion and increases credential attainment by combining basic skills, occupational and employability skills instruction, and quickly transitions students into further education and the work place.

This interactive session will outline the creation of a strong, seamless first year student pathway at Sinclair. Participants will discover how new student orientation can successfully link to academic advising.

Explore opportunities for building local level branch campuses and expand access to credit classes, workforce training, and adult basic education. Senior administrators will benefit from this community-based strategy.

An innovative, competency-based bachelor's degree in organizational leadership is presented. This degree provides a quality education designed to provide skills identified by employers as necessary for the 21st century.

Contextualization is a promising concept to accelerate students through the developmental pipeline. This session will present the planning and implementation of a college reading course contextualized for Health 101.

Administrators and coordinators who attend this roundtable discussion will learn the key factors to consider in designing and implementing effective developmental bridge programs that are tailored to student population issues.

Learn the results of an exciting study done at five community colleges that focused on the relationships between administration, faculty, the union, and trust.

We will discuss the why, what, and how of creating multimedia, especially video, to supplement classroom instruction. All techniques demonstrated will use freely available software and inexpensive computer hardware.

DCCCD's JTS Program is a free service that connects students with Success Coaches to help them identify and overcome obstacles. Join us as we share our Journey to Success!

Now in its eighth year, Community College Leadership Champions has fostered an understanding of leadership in terms of indigenous cultures and a multi-campus system with limited centralized structure.

Be a happy warrior! Interactive workshop in which we plan a constructive dialogue with the entitled student. Of interest to administrators, program coordinators, and classroom instructors.

Join the Iowa Community College Online Consortium (ICCOC) and explore scalable strategies for increasing online student success through the use of student data delivered in a timely fashion.

Presenters discuss challenges and innovations in meeting critical healthcare workforce needs through partnerships. Participants will learn elements of successful partnerships during all phases of development and delivery of expected outcomes.

Participants will learn the benefits of using seven features defining fruitful social media interaction that can at once facilitate professionalism, encourage interactivity, and educate.

Administrators involved with campus sustainable initiatives and physical plant operation will learn easy to follow methods and formulas for involving staff and students in recycling, energy reduction, and conservation practices.

Traditional placement testing is dying, and in its place rise multiple measures of college readiness. Participants will hear the case for using high school GPA, admissions exams, and diagnostic tests.

Open educational resource (OER) challenges and solutions revealed through a FIPSE grant. Share and compare OER experiences and discover new ideas and solutions for successful OER access and/or creation.

Participants will learn a five-phase process to create highly interactive, engaging eLearning for workforce training. The process design focuses on sustained behavior change of the learner.

This session is geared towards faculty teaching online classes. Participants will learn student engagement techniques, how to analyze student grades using pivot tables, assessment using surveys, and free technology based teaching tools.

Learn how the model employed between Academic Advisement and Financial Aid at CCBC has assisted in developing academic plans for success and ensured federal SAP policy compliance.

Priming the Pipeline is an innovative approach to workforce education. It provides technical education, financial assistance, integrated work experience for students, and revenue for the college and participating companies.

Learn about a simple, collaborative process to measure the viability of occupational programs. See how the results can be used to make challenging decisions about the future of your programs.

Join TJC in offering a grocery-industry association endorsed certificate training curriculum. In collaboration with a local employer, this program began in August with 115 students. Learn about the implementation!

With student retention one of the top issues facing colleges today, it is becoming more and more critical that students receive high quality advising to help ensure their success. Learn how the Advisor Assessment model can help to increase the knowledge and effectiveness of your advising staff.

The challenge: Redesign a cherished study-travel experience to reduce costs by 50%. The result: Affirming learning community core values - experiential learning, self-reflection, and service to community. Mission accomplished!

Discover how to get your remote adjunct faculty to connect with one another and your department. Learn five practical and innovative strategies for engaging your adjunct faculty.

What faculty and students must bring to an online course to ensure that learning is equivalent to a college-level class. The session examines online technology, faculty methodology, and student engagement.

This is a how to session to encourage students' creativity in all disciplines. You'll hear students' stories of their creative experiences and learn how to provide creative experiences for your students.

Affordable online community college programs often go unnoticed because of today’s overcrowded internet marketplace and students are frequently misguided. Through collaboration and partnerships, national visibility is now possible!

This presentation involves students who earn credit via CLEP and their corresponding retention success. Advisers, admissions staff, and testing personnel contribute to this success.

Tutoring centers complement the work of faculty, yet they often operate in a silo. Learn how a tutoring center broke the divide, establishing a mutually beneficial partnership with faculty.

Concentrating on the needs of colleges, we will highlight best practices to calculate total cost of ownership and how it can be successfully implemented to make data driven decisions.

Student services, research and IT staff will see software and learn collaboration techniques fostering the development of this software which makes data accessible and relevant to student retention, completion, graduation, and transfer.

Participants will learn how President Pollard's charge to the taskforce led to the creation of an inclusive hybrid governance system and the development of an infrastructure that supports the system.

Excelsior College's Online Writing Lab (OWL), an open educational resource, provides both basic writers and ESL students with engaging, multimedia support through all stages of the writing process.

Professors from the nation's 14th ranked community college will discuss how to increase enrollment for job security and institutional growth. Learn how students benefit from online coursework in today's economy.

During this session, you will learn what an Executive Leadership Institute is. Participants will be given a road map to help get an Executive Leadership Institute established at their college.

This presentation will focus on the tools and strategies utilized to implement a new mandatory orientation requirement, and assessing the impact and challenges resulting from an immediate 29% attendance increase.

Learn how a new division for college readiness and developmental education has worked to achieve and leverage organizational change, building relationships across the college and throughout its K-12 school districts.

Learn how a nursing program developed a cost effective reciprocal relationship with a hospital obstetrical department to improve student experiences and patient outcomes using simulation, shared resources, and expertise.

A survey measured the goal to reduce boredom and frustration in developmental math, and then expanded to other courses. Participants will learn from this creative technique's impact on student success.

Explore innovative techniques, including, (a) open electronic digital delivery, (b) video podcasting and the flipped classroom, (c) use of living organisms, (d) use of multisensory exploration, and (e) field activities.

What are the benefits of incorporating a global perspective in humanities courses? Montgomery College is working toward meeting this goal with a grant from NEH.

Learn how a college system mathematics research project, focused on solutions rather than blame, has resulted in a shared responsibility between colleges and district school boards to support student success.

Oklahoma City Community College utilized Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) to implement a new learning management system. Topics will include stakeholder involvement in development and supports for the BYOD environment.

Participants will learn about the benefits and challenges of establishing a mentoring program in a community college environment. Session content is relevant to anyone providing professional support to employees.

A national study of community colleges contingent faculty provided teaching practices data and suggestions for improving teaching. These recommendations are incredibly inexpensive and cost-effective in implementation.