When financial emergencies cause students to consider dropping out of school, Moraine Valley's Dreamkeepers program provides the financial support, resources, and social services to help students stay in school and be successful.

In this excerpt from a new League publication, Alternative Funding in Community Colleges, learn how one college met the needs of its community by using creative risk-taking and inclusive collaboration to build a new campus and a new state-of-the-art training facility on a relative shoestring.

Assessing student participation in online courses can be difficult and time-consuming. Learn about an online discussion/participation assessment tool that helps ensure students understand how to achieve their desired grade, encourages meaningful student participation, and recognizes time constraints on faculty, in the August issue of Learning Abstracts.