Alternative Energy Symposium - Renewable , Sustainable & Beyond
by
Michelle K. Mueller

Institution
St. Clair County Community College

Description
St. Clair County Community College, in partnership with Lambton College, Ontario, DTE Energy, Macomb-St. Clair Workforce Development Board, BP & Dome Petroleum Corp., Economic Development Alliance of St. Clair County, Kettering University, NextEnergy, Macomb-St. Clair Tech Prep, Regional Workforce Development Consortium and the SC4 ECO Club, developed a three-day symposium on alternative energy. The purpose of the event was to educate the public and economic planners as to emerging alternative, sustainable and renewable energy technologies. Regional and national experts were available to provide insights on ariculture, hydrogen, wind, solar and geothermal energy resources, and the economic opportunities ahead for the region. The symposium consisted of a keynote address featuring Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a day-long seminar featuring regional and national speakers and an Alternative Energy Exhibition which featured college programs, student projects and an Alternative Auto Show.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Workforce Preparation and Development Community Leadership

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other	Community Leadership

An Old Dog Teaching with New Tricks!
by
Raymond Tanner

Institution
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Description
When MGCCC began offering online courses, Mr. Tanner was vehemently opposed to teaching math classes online. He believed math could not effectively be taught online. In addition, he could not fathom how math equations could be electronically transferred between the students and instructor. Mr. Tanner spent the last 2 ½ years tirelessly searching for tools that make online math courses as effective, if not more effective than on campus math classes. Mr. Tanner's search ended when he discovered the MyMathLab software through Prentice Hall Publishing. This software provides students a robust learning environment adaptable to those with varying learning styles. Using this software, students can work through various types of math problems. The software dynamically displays an equation editor suited to the problem type being worked. In addition, he has encouraged other instructors to offer their classes in a non-traditional format and serves as a mentor to them as they build their courses.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

College at the Crossings
by
Dr. Stephen Brown, director; Ms Deborah Scott, secretary

Institution
NorthWest Arkansas Community College

Description
NorthWest Arkansas Community College recognizes the new seniors college outreach program, Colllege at the Crossings, Bella Vista, Arkansas. Beginning in 2004, this outreach center started with a secretary and a few volunteers to provide classes for senior citizens in a well-established retirement village. Initially, the goal was to enroll 400 members of this new, exclusive college; the number now stands at 429. Located in a former corporations's headquarters with other non-profit organizations who target senior citizens, the CATC facilities include classrooms for art, physical fitness, computer, and general education classes. Recent popular classes have included digital photography, Arkansas history, philosophy and world religions, and geneaology. This low-cost center is helping serve the post-retirement needs of the growing and aging population in northwest Arkansas

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Other serving senior citizens

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other	serving senior citizens

Computerized Assessment System
by
Audry J. Bopp, Martha Kendall, and Pamela D. Korte

Institution
Monroe Community College

Description
This system was designed to track and measure change in student knowledge and skills over time. The outcomes guiding the project were to 1) demonstrate a comprehensive and efficient strategy for measuring change in student knowledge and skills over time in relation to designated learning outcomes; 2) demonstrate direct evidence of student learning through the evaluation of skill-based competencies; 3) evaluate handheld computer methodology for evidence of expedient assessment of student learning; 4) evaluate the potential for improved faculty dialogue as a result of using a Computerized Grading System as an assessment tool.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Research, Assessment and Accountability 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Creative Ingenuity
by
Larry N. Fisher

Institution
Central Piedmont Community College

Description
At CPCC’s Harper Campus, the water for the sprinkler system, a vital safety system, comes from a valve pit on the highway. But when it was discovered that the wire was broken somewhere between the valve and the fire alarm control panel, professional contractors wanted to dig up the old cable and install new cable. However, the cable runs several hundred feet under a popular parking area. Larry Fisher proposed an out-of-the-box solution. He combined a wireless transmitter, a solar panel, a battery charger, and a deep cycle storage battery to correct the problem for less than $2,500 and with no disruption to student parking. This application can be readily duplicated and has been examined by the same professional contractors who insisted that there was only the traditional way to address the problem. They may also use it in long run applications.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Other 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Dynamic Web Tools for Computation & Visualization
by
Mike Martin, Alan Swarts and Steven Wilson

Institution
Johnson County Community College

Description
Mathematics faculty and members of our information technology staff began developing and delivering interactive web pages to complement the delivery of a variety of undergraduate math and applied science courses. These web pages utilize a product, webMathematica, that enables the authors to construct web pages that allow students and faculty to compute and visualize results directly from a web browser. The user interface utilizes standard web elements. These pages, through parameter variation, graphing, animations, and drill, offer opportunities for student exploration, teacher demonstration, modeling of concepts, implications of theory, and basic skill mastery. The publicly available tools are listed at http://staff.jccc.edu/mmartin/webmath.html

How project was recognized:
2004 International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics Award for Excellence and Innovation with the Use of Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Early Intervention Online
by
Alan Bickerton, Norm Downey, Marilyn Reeder, Carol Yoannone

Institution
Community College of Allegheny County

Description
The Community College of Allegheny County receives funding to enhance the success of students enrolled in career programs. Within this effort, staff work with an online intervention program for assisting at-risk students. Faculty members log into a secure website to access an "Early Intervention Behavior Checklist" for courses that they are teaching. This checklist is a roster of students and a list of negative behaviors. The online form allows the faculty to detail the behaviors their students are exhibiting such as poor attendance, does not take notes, and low grades. Faculty complete the online form and submit via a secure web site to a college database. The faculty receives an automated email indicating that the referrals have been received. Staff extract the referrals and contact students. The referral, options and resources are discussed. Referrals are tracked using Access. Using the database, the staff e-mails the faculty detailing the intervention efforts.

How project was recognized:
Website article

Innovation Type
Student Services and Activities 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Enrollment Management Digital Dashboard
by
Laura Carmickle, Chuck Shreve

Institution
Northwestern Michigan College

Description
Faced with the goal of increasing classroom efficiency as a cost savings measure, Northwestern Michigan College developed an enrollment digital dashboard to provide the information academic chairs need to make decisions about adding or deleting new sections. Laura Carmickle, programmer/analyst and Chuck Shreve, Dean for Student Services, have been the key leaders of this project. During the last few weeks academic chairs monitor the system daily to check on enrollments and compare those to previous years. Using this information to make difficult decisions has resulted in an increase in classroom efficiency from 78% in 2000-2001 to 86% in 2004-2005.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Student Services and Activities 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Integrating Critical Thinking Skills into the Curriculum of the Technical College
by
Bill Swindal, Sharlene Toney, Dee Coulter, Darryl Harrison, Eddie Rhodes

Institution
West Georgia Technical College

Description
For the past year West Georgia Technical College has engaged in an initiative to embed critical thinking skills into the curriculum of every educational program. Based on a review of student performance on the critical thinking section of the CAAP exam, the college embarked on an intitiative to create a series of critical thinking modules applicable to all academic programs. A faculty committee researched and created an instructional manual containing ten critical thinking modules. Each module contains an introduction, list of competencies, instructional content, classroom activities and a Power Point presentation to assist the instructor to teach module content in the classroom. After completion of the manual, copies were ditributed to all faculty and a staff development program began to assist faculty in using the manual. The college is now in the process of implementing the content of the critical thinking modules into all academic programs.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Interactive Media Program
by
Marc Shahboz, Jamey Weare, Wes Lindberg, Gregg Jones, Patrick Grigsby, and Eugene Jones

Institution
Santa Fe Community College

Description
Santa Fe’s Interactive Media Certificate program offers students the opportunity to learn cutting edge skills to create professional VHS and DVD presentations, including ads, promotional films, and multimedia portfolios. Because the certificate is offered in the evenings during four fast-track flexterms, it is perfect for working professionals, and most students do hold prior degrees. Interactive Media is taught in an interdisciplinary format by a team of faculty from information technology education, graphic design, and theatre; this approach stresses the multiple literacies required in multimedia authoring. The program leverages existing college resources and facilities, creatively repurposing them, and students’ assignments frequently revolve around college needs. They even design promotional DVDs for the program itself.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

KSDS/Jazz 88 FM City School Partnerships
by
Winston Butler and Mark DeBoskey

Institution
San Diego City College

Description
KSDS/Jazz 88 FM (KSDS) has developed a number of innovative partnerships with middle and high schools throughout City College’s service area to promote the understanding and appreciation of jazz as a musical art form. Since 2003, Jazz 88 has developed three creative programs to this end: CALIFORNIA MUSIC EDUCATORS JAZZ FESTIVAL, MUSIC MATTERS, and JAZZ FOR YOUNG PEOPLE CURRICULUM.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Legal Studies at a Distance
by
Cathy Vidas Trecek, J.D.

Institution
Iowa Western Community College

Description
The following prompted us to develop distance education options for paralegal and pre-law studies. Law requires research. Legal research utilizes electronic database libraries. Today’s students maintain busy schedules. And, the practice of law utilizes web based resources and tools. Delivery of course content using these same tools and processes prepares students for the work-world and lifelong learning. Initially, we used the Iowa Cable Network, a high definition cable system allowing two-way audio/video interaction between multiple sites, to offer courses. Then starting in Fall 2003 courses were delivered online to a state-wide population via the Iowa Community College Online Consortium (a 7-college partnership formed to provide the Associates Degree online). Currently all course work for prelaw majors and all except the experiential internship class for paralegal majors are delivered online. Internships are offered in student’s local communities and facilitated online.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Operation We Care
by
Meridee Walters, Kim Clarkson, Bob Evans, Bea Roanhorse, Dana Husted, Lisa McGaha

Institution
San Juan College

Description
Operation “We Care” is an innovative idea to link service and support departments to learning - in order to help students succeed during their first critical contact with the college. We utilized a quality-based nine-step process to identify and address the needs of our stakeholders. Using the bookstore as a focal point, the team used decision drivers to reduce waiting time in lines, improve customer service, and provide students a single location for services with a fun and relaxed atmosphere. In the bookstore, representatives from the business office assisted with funding questions, switchboard personnel answered the telephone, and Information Technology provided a DVD player for the new Kid’s Corner, enabling parents to conduct their business. Success measured high in the many compliments that came from our students - we placed ourselves in our customer’s shoes and revisited procedures to look for effective ways to combine services.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Student Services and Activities 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Outcomes Assessment: Accurate, Collegial, and Effective
by
Joseph Babio, Marc Bonagura, Richard Dery, Christine Elliott, Kathleen Kennedy, Debbie Mura, Suzanne Parker

Institution
Brookdale Community College

Description
To assess how well research/writing students document sources on cited pages, the project initiaters, using a variety of techniques and strategies, broke through the typical usspicion andresistance related to outcomes. They used language focussed on learning and away from criticizing teaching methods, created visual representtions of findings, made recommendations rather than dictating action, hosted discussions to encourage participation and effect pedagogical change and fostered collegiality through departmental interaction. The approach involved 5 steps: Laying Groundwork, Collecting/Assessing Data, Presenting Findings/Recommendations, Moving Forward and Starting the Next Project. Our English Department, with 29 full-time faculty and 71 adjuncts, is on the way to full participation. Because of information generated, changes were made immediately to improve student learning. The text was changed; faculty rethought their teaching modalities, replication has begun.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Research, Assessment and Accountability 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Part-time Justice Studies Diploma/Degree Program for Law Enforcement Practitioners
by
Sgt. Stephen Jones, President Robert Gordon, Gina Antonacci, Sara Mezzone, Frank Trovato and Ron Stansfield

Institution
Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Description
The University of Guelph-Humber and Humber have partnered to create an innovative degree/diploma completion program for experienced law enforcement practitioners who are sworn peace officers. The goal when developing this program was to create a program and process that would significantly recognize the prior learning of officers. The outcome is a part-time program that is designed with the flexibility in delivery for law enforcement officers, and one that optimizes the prior learning processes at both Humber and the University of Guelph. Students in this program learn through a combination of intensive face-to-face study and distance instruction. Each course consists of three weekends in class and two extended periods of distance study. This program has membership from Police Services across Ontario and, as a result, both the University of Guelph and Humber have been identified as leaders in this area of study.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Physics 12: Physics for Poets
by
Andrew Fraknoi

Institution
Foothill-De Anza Community College District

Description
This a five-unit course that introduces students with no background in science or mathematics to the most exciting areas of modern physics. The course grew out of the instructor’s conviction that Einstein’s ideas—and other parts of our modern conception of the physical universe—are too beautiful and too important to be left out of the cultural heritage of our students. The course focuses on key topics in modern physics that have most changed humanity’s understanding of the rules of the universe—all of which are explained with analogies and thought experiments, rather than with equations. The class features analogies from everyday life, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary techniques, and tabletop demonstrations to convey the key ideas of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and structure of the atom. Students then develop an understanding of the influence

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Quality Control of Online Courses
by
Dr. Jurgen Hilke

Institution
Frederick Community College

Description
Dr. Jurgen Hilke has provided the leadership to develop a peer review protocol for the quality control of online courses which was shared with other Maryland community colleges and ultimately became the pilot FIPSE funded entitled "Quality Matters." The QM project developed 40 quality standards that online courses should meet. These standards are translated into a rubric and are used for both external and internal peer review processes. At Frederick Community College Jurgen has trained faculty and tenaciusly added courses to create a program that has grown 140% in three years.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Searchpath Library Tutorial
by
Bonnie Sanguinet, Celia Bouchard, Kay Garsnett, and Rebecca Helbling

Institution
St. Louis Community College

Description
Searchpath is a new resource for St. Louis Community College students, an online self-instructional tutorial to teach basic library and research skills. It covers the research process from initial topic selection to citation styles and the issue of plagiarism.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Service Learning for FYE: A Campus Recycling Project
by
Krista Hiser

Institution
Kapi'olani Community College

Description
This is an on-campus recycling project initiated by students in Spring 2003 has since been developed into a service-learning project designed for first-year students in developmental studies classes and integrated into Reading, Writing, and Math classes. Student groups manage one recycling bin and connect the management of the recycling to course content in critical reading, research, and/or volume and measurement. The project allows easy entry into service-learning, while giving students a connection to the campus community and to current issues on OŒahu, where landfill, a new bottle bill, and city recycling initiatives are regularly in the news. Service-learning may not the most efficient way to handle on-campus recycling, but it places learning at the center of a fundamental campus function. Other faculty who contributed to the project: Lavache Scanlan, Joshua Cooper, and Kristine Korey-Smith, and John Messina, Director of Auxiliary Services

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Skills 2006 Technology Corridor Report
by
Dee Baird

Institution
Kirkwood Community College

Description
Kirkwood Community College awarded the Innovation of the Year Award to Dee Baird for her work on the Skills 2006 Technology Corridor Report. The report is providing a continued impetus for workforce training programs offered by Kirkwood, secondary schools, and local businesses. Kirkwood is currently using the report to reinforce the role of community colleges in the Grow Iowa Values Fund and to lobby for increased funding for other programs. The college anticipates that the Skills 2006 report will serve as an important tool for innovative educational programs in our region, as well as continued economic development across Iowa.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Workforce Preparation and Development 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

SMCC/AAEC BIOSCIENCE COLLABORATIVE (SABiCo)
by
Linda Proctor-Downing, Dr. Michael Brown, Dr. Kenneth Ludeke, Dr. Ralph Conley, Dr. Susan Starrfield, Bonnie Goebel, Marshall Logvin, and Dr. Ann Scarbrough

Institution
South Mountain Community College

Description
SABiCo developed a comprehensive biotechnology curriculum with research quality facilities creating a charter high school, MI/HSI community college, and university pathway. Students learn science concepts as they conduct original research in association with four residential PhD’s, USDA, and U.C. San Diego’ Supercomputer Human Genome Project. Students

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Strategic Planning Database
by
Fred Walls, Kim Holston

Institution
Delaware Technical & Community College

Description
Delaware Tech's evolution in embracing and utilizing planning has been accompanied by positive results at many levels. But, this planning evolution created extensive and complex sets of interrelated information, encompassing different kinds of goals, objectives, achievements.Together, in 2004, Kim and Fred created a comprehensive and sophisticated planning database that captures and links the College’s strategic goals, campus annual goals and objectives, and Middle States recommendations and achievements. Search capacity exists in the new database for criteria such as key word, fiscal year, and responsible unit. The data base eliminates time consuming manual searches of multiple paper documents to track and report progress. Formatted reports display targeted information on one screen and print quickly. Data is easily entered and extracted by end users at any campus location without additional software, saving $125,000 to purchase a similar product and annual fees of $20,000.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Research, Assessment and Accountability 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

STUDENT SUCCESS AT MIAMI DADE COLLEGE: THE MATHEMATICS CONNECTION
by
Patrick Bibby, Gina Cortés-Suárez

Institution
Miami Dade College

Description
Miami-Dade Community College District recognized Student Success At Miami Dade College: The Mathematics Connection developed by Patrick Bibbey and Gina Cortes-Suarez for this year’s Innovation of the Year Award. The College identified a set of high risk courses, defined by the College as being courses with high enrollment and low pass rates. The goal of this project is to enhance student learning by implementing innovative curricular, instructional, support, and assessment strategies in College Prep Mathematics, College Prep Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, and College Algebra. It represents a significant step forward in addressing the issue of student learning and success in mathematics.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Student Webteam Internship Program
by
Joyce Hansen and David Stephens

Institution
Seattle Community Colleges

Description
At the Seattle Community Colleges, the district web development department (known as the WebTeam) has the highest turnover of any department — and they’re proud of it. Students in the colleges’ computing technology programs are gaining workplace experience and leaving a legacy of rich online applications which benefit students, faculty and staff. Under the leadership of a full-time manager and a full-time team coach, WebTeam interns work on all aspects of sophisticated, database-driven applications in a high-production, team environment. Its dozens of accomplishments include a searchable online database of the programs, courses and class offerings district-wide. Since its establishment in Summer Quarter 2000, 54 interns — plus exchange students — have used their WebTeam experience as a springboard to careers at major corporations such as Microsoft and Real Networks.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

System Audit for General Education
by
Art Goss, Dima Protchenko, Robin Jeffers, Chequita Williams-Cox, Rick Mahaffey

Institution
Bellevue Community College

Description
Bellevue Community College’s Innovation of the Year is SAGE (System for Auditing General Education), a master database that tracks students’ individual progress in completing general education requirements. BCC’s general education requirements are defined as 18 specific competencies under the five general headings of Reasoning, Communication, Responsibility, Cultural Traditions and Science, and Environment. The project involved quantifying and cataloging the general education content in each course across the entire curriculum, then creating a computer-based tracking system that interfaced with the existing on-line advising tools. The team that developed SAGE included Art Goss, Dima Protchenko, Robin Jeffers, Chequita Williams-Cox and Rick Mahaffey.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Research, Assessment and Accountability 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Teaching Circles
by
Michele Neaton, Judy Evenson

Institution
Century Community and Technical College

Description
Teaching Circles were created to strengthen the culture of teaching and learning at Century College. A teaching circle involves 6-10 faculty who focus on a teaching and learning topic for one semester. The goal of the program is to improve teaching and learning, as well as promote community among faculty. Teaching circles foster an environment of support and discovery, where faculty can learn from one another. The expected outcome is that each teaching circle member will implement a new or improved teaching strategy. The circles give faculty the structure, support and incentive to try new approaches in their teaching.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

The ATLAS Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
by
Alina Adams

Institution
Wallace State Community College

Description
The ATLAS Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is a technology-rich facility established to provide access to resources and services for best practices and the infusion of instructional technologies at Wallace State Community College. The ATLAS Center was created from the vision of Alina Adams, chair of the Wallace State Professional Development Committee and Director of the Physical Therapy Program. Faculty, support personnel, and administrators engage in learning in the ATLAS Center to acquire technology-based knowledge and skills, explore the concepts and best practices of learning-centered instructional design and development, and collaborate on cross-discipline learning projects that innovate a more dynamic curriculum. The ATLAS Center stimulates ideation and creativity in learning environments that appeal to sensory experience, maintaining an aesthetic for innovation. Its initiatives focus on its aspiration toward becoming a national model.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Resource Development 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

The Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence
by
Santiago Peregrino, Bobbi Allen, Jennifer Williams, Deborah Temperly, and Peter Carlson

Institution
Delta College

Description
The Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence was created sixteen years ago when Peregrino and other faculty members were given approval for creating an office with a wealth of resources to support the faculty’s mission for teaching effectiveness and educational and professional growth.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Resource Development 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

TILI - Technology and Information Literacy Initiative
by
L. Tiffany Evans, Alex Johnson, Douglas Fox, Rebecca Ranallo Kahl, Kris Carroll, Holly Rosby, Constance Clemons, Delores Peoples, John Wilkes, Brian Simpson, Michael Trent, Gerald McMillen, Eric Susyne, Mohammadreza Rowshanbakhtfardian and Scott Marous

Institution
Cuyahoga Community College

Description
Cuyahoga Community College’s Technology and Information Literacy Initiative (TILI) is an electronic platform designed to support the delivery of instruction, academic and student support services in campus, community and virtual learning environments. The focal point of TILI is its E-Village portal. Through this portal, users can access technology and information literacy training. The TILI Reference Desk features on-line reference provided by a librarian and on-line reference materials are available to support college curriculum, distance learning and instructional offerings at the community learning centers. TILI is at the heart of eight Community Learning Centers in Cleveland that are managed by the College. The centers provide academic tutoring gear to the curriculum of the Cleveland Municipal School District, exposure to the arts and culture, basic, intermediate, and advanced technology training, preparation for State Proficiency Tests and GED, and opportunities for enrollment in the College’s credit course offerings. Through TILI the community and K-12 partners can find a wealth of education and information resources geared to their needs and interests.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Learning and Teaching 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Visions of Excellence
by
Allatia Harris, Guy Gooding, Delryn Fleming, Sonya Hopkins, Mary Osentowski, Pamela Vance, Susana Dominguez

Institution
Dallas County Community Colleges

Description
The Dallas County Community College District Office has been selected as the winner of this year’s Innovation of the Year Award. Allatia Harris, Guy Gooding, Delryn Fleming, Sonya Hopkins, Mary Osentowski, Pamela Vance, and Susana Dominguez are being recognized for their work on Vision of Excellence (VOE). VOE is an orientation program for new faculty which offers forty-eight hours of learning activities. The program consists of a three-day retreat and seven workshops, which occur throughout the academic year, most often on the 4th Friday of the month. VOE was designed to orient new faculty to the culture of the Dallas County Community Colleges and the community college, to insure that new faculty enter the classroom with the knowledge and skills needed to deliver excellence in teaching and learning, and to create opportunities for new faculty to learn from and with our already outstanding faculty.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Leadership and Organization 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Web Content Management System
by
Russ Little, Rex Mt. Castle, and Cheryl Palafox-Stewart

Institution
Sinclair Community College

Description
This innovation is a web-based content management system that allows users of all skill levels to create and maintain web-based content for a dynamic web site from a visual display template (http://www.sinclair.edu). This system includes maintenance tools that can be accessed through a web browser. With minimal training, effort and time, over 200 Sinclair employees have learned to post web-based content and maintain their web sites. The new Sinclair web site is consistent, with over 5,000 pages and is generated real time from a database. This innovation gives the users control over the content and navigation; and, allows the user to see the latest content available, while providing a consistent user interface.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Resource Development 

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other

Web Content Management Video Series
by
Josh Ganyo

Institution
Mohave Community College

Description
MCC's service area spans 13,000 sq. miles, with campuses in KC, BHC, LHC, and one across the Grand Canyon in Colorado City. Staffing is a major challenge, and staff training in IT areas is virtually non-existent. The IT staffing in the web area consists of a single resource, the Webmaster. The web is a critical marketing and communications vehicle for MCC, so training department/discipline specific content managers is critically important to the success of MCC. Given the aforementioned geographic dispersion and IT staffing at MCC, keeping web content up to date is also a major challenge. Josh Ganyo, MCC Webmaster, has created a video training series with voice that allows content managers to access instruction via the web at any time. The software utilized allows creation, editing, and publishing all-in-one and is not bandwidth intensive. This training series has saved MCC 1000s of dollars and allowed the College to overcome obstacles to further the mission through the website.

How project was recognized:

Innovation Type
Other Efficiency and Effectiveness

Innovation Criteria
Quality	Efficiency
Cost Effectiveness	Creativity
Timeliness	Replication
Other	Efficiency and Effectiveness