Topics

Listed below are only some of the many topics for which there are League consultants and guest speakers available. Detailed information is available for many of the topics below by clicking on the links. If you would like someone to visit your campus regarding a topic not listed, please contact Ed Leach so that we can obtain additional information your needs.

The League is Pleased to Announce Several New Topics!

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A Big Laugh: Effectively Using Humor in the Classroom or the Boardroom
A House Divided: Bringing Together Academics and Student Services
Academic Careers at Two-Year Colleges
Academic Master Planning
Accreditation
Accreditation Management for Recognition and Renewal
Acres of Diamonds in Your College
Active Learning for Online Student Success
Active Learning Strategies for the Online Classroom
Adjunct Faculty
Applying Basic Supervisory Techniques in Community Colleges
Appreciative Advising Overview
Appreciative Inquiry (1)
Appreciative Inquiry (2)
Articulation Agreements
Assessment in Context: A Systems Approach to Educational Effectiveness
Assessment Outcomes
Assessment Strategies for Distance Learning
Athlete Mindset: Leadership and Management Techniques From the Sports Arena
Attract, Serve, and Retain a Culturally Diverse Campus Community
Authentic Leadership

B
Baldrige-Based Quality Principles
Benchmarking
Best Practices in Enrollment Management
Board Development
Budget Planning and Fiscal Management
Business Etiquette
Business Partnerships
Business Planning

C
Camtasia: Tools and Techniques
Career Strategies for Higher Education Administrators
Challenges and Opportunities for Two-Year College Faculty in the New Millennium
Championing Academic Integrity on Your Campus
Change Management
Classified Staff Development
Classroom Assessment and Active Learning: Making the Connection
Coaching for Teaching and Leadership Effectiveness
The “Colors” of a High-Performance Team
The “Colors” of Diversity and Culture
The “Colors” of Leadership
Communicating in the Midst of Controversy
Communication Strategies for Distance Learning
Conducting College Classroom and Program Assessment
Contextual and Integrated Learning: Understanding How the Brain Works
Course Management Systems
Creating TV, Movie, and Broadway Parodies to Hook Students on New Topics
Creating Your Own Crystal Ball: Resiliency in the Educational Workplace
Credentialing and Certification
Crisis Management
Critical Ethical Issues in Today’s Workplace
Critical Legal Issues in Distance Education
Critical Thinking and Active Learning: Teaching Thinking Skills in the Classroom
Curriculum Design and Development
Customer Service
Customer Service or Professional Service?

D
Dealing with Difficult People
Defeating Writer’s Block
Demanding Technology: Understanding the New Student
Designing Effective Assignments and Class Activities
Designing Online Learning That Works
Designing Rating Scales to Evaluate Teaching Effectiveness
Determining Your Purpose in an Academic Career
Develop and Expand Your Business Partnerships
Developmental Education
Dialogue vs. Monologue: Strategies for Meaningful Discourse
Discovering (or Refining) Institutional Vision Through College Participation
Distance Learning
Diversity
Diversity
The DotCommies are Coming!
Driving Forces and Trends: What Might Be the Next Big Thing?

E
Editorial Cartoons: Bringing World Issues to the Classroom
Education in a Digital Democracy
Educational Cartography: Mapping the Learning Outcomes Frontier
Effective Strategies for Passing Local Community College Tax Proposals
E-Folios
Emergency and Disaster Planning
Enable Your College to Use Benchmarking to Adapt Best Practices
Energizing Observations on Leadership
Enhancing International Education Opportunities
Enhancing Solutions: A Winning Opportunity
Enterprise Resource Planning
The Entrepreneurial Community College
Entrepreneurial Community Learning Center
Entrepreneurship and Intrapraneurship in Today’s Business Environment
Establish and Sustain a Diversity-Friendly Campus Community
Ethics and IT Professionals
Evaluation of College Programs and Processes: An Appreciative Approach
Executive Coaching/Mentoring

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Facilitation Skills
Facilities Planning
Faculty and Staff Orientations
Faculty Engagement as a Necessity for Meaningful Change
Faculty Learning Groups
Faculty/Staff Development Days
Faculty Development
Faculty Technology Training Programs
Finding Meaning at Work
Finding, Retaining, and Maximizing Employees
Foresight, Imagination, Resilience, and Ethos: Using Futuring to Light a F.I.R.E. Under College Planning
Fostering Student Learning for a Lifetime
Free and Inexpensive Tools to Use for Online Development
Fundamentals of Public Relations
Fundraising Program Assessment
The Future of the Community College
Futurizing: The Future and Some Ways to Approach IT

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Global Change and Higher Education’s Challenge
Grant Writing

H
Here to Stay: Faculty-Student Relationships
High Potential Employees: How to Identify, Train, and Retain Them
Homeland Security Assessment
How to Talk, How to Listen: Communication in the Workplace
How to Write Targeted Workplace Emails
Humor and Multimedia as Teaching Tools for the Net Generation
Humor as a Coping Strategy for the Stressors of Academe
Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator

I
Identifying Your Institution's Technological Innovation Capabilities
Improve Website Stickiness Through Content
Improving Communication Skills
Improving Intergenerational Communication
Incorporating Digital Photography Into Your Classroom
Information Technology Assessment
Information Technology Planning
Injecting Jest Into Your Course Tests to Reduce Test Anxiety
Institutional Alignment
Institutional Effectiveness
Instructional Technology and Teaching Style
Integrated Marketing Communications
International Education Opportunities
International Education Activities
Interpersonal Skills
Introduction to Camtasia
Introduction to Digital Literacy
Issues Relating to Recruiting and Retaining Minority Faculty

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Jest for Success!

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Language, Literacy Learning, and Teaching in Pluralistic Societies: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Leadership
The Leadership Development Process
Leadership in Times of Change
Learning and the Brain
Learning-Centered Education (1)
Learning-Centered Education (2)
Learning Communities and Community Connections
Learning Dialogs
Learning on a Budget
Learning Outcomes
Learning Strategies for the Information Age
Liberal Arts, Technical Literacy, and Computer Proficiency
Libraries and Learning Resource Centers
Lifelong Learning
Lively Lectures: Using Active Learning to Create Excitement in the Classroom
Living the Full Life: Manage Energy
Look Who’s Coming to Your Community College

M
Making Meetings More Exciting and Effective
Making the Connection to Learner and Learning
Making the Grade in the Information Age
Making the Most of Community Colleges on the Road Ahead
Managing an Online Education Program
Managing Diversity and Cultural Issues in the Workplace
Marketing/Community Relations
Mass Media in Today’s Workplace
Mentoring
Millennial Generation
Millennial Students
Moving From Effectiveness to Excellence
Music as a Teaching Tool: From Classical to Hip Hop Across the Curriculum

N
Next-Generation Faculty
Net-Generation Students
New and Emerging Instructional Technologies
New Revenues: Developing an Entrepreneurial Contract Training Program in the Global Millennium
The New Rules for Managers: Keys to Successful Management
Next-Generation Students
Non Credit Programs

O
The On-Target Student Success System: A Community College Imagineering Project
On the Horizon and In Your Face: Key Issues in Information Technology
Online and Distance Learning Program Review
Online and Hybrid Course Design
Organizational Assessment/Reorganization
Organizational Climate/Culture
Overseas Program Evaluation

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Paper-Based Versus Online Administration of Student Scales
Part-Time Faculty Development
Partnering for Progress: Aligning Technical Education With Business and Industry
Partnering for Progress: Aligning Technical Education With Technical Certification Sponsors
The Physiology of High Performance
Plagiarism in the Digital Age
Planning and Organizing Skills
Policy Development
Post-Tenure Faculty Development
The Power of Practical Magic
Practical Computer Security
Preparing Future Administrators
The President as Lobbyist
Preventing Sensitive Issues From Becoming Legal Headaches
Preventing Sexual Harassment in Community Colleges
Proactive Leadership: Creating a Vision for the Future
Problem-Based Learning
Producing an Edited Book
Program Development
Program Review
Promoting Customer Service and Professionalism for Community College Personnel
Proven Methods to Increase Diversity Among Faculty
Public Speaking and Presentation
Putting a Little Technology, Learning, and Community (TLC) into Higher Education
Psychology Program Evaluation

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R
Raising the Scalpel: Lessons From Surgeons in Training High-Performance Teams
Realistic Assessment of Learning Outcomes
Reclaiming the Nobility of Teaching
Relationship-Based University Model Fundraising
Resource Development
Resources to Hire, Aid, and Keep Excellent Adjunct Faculty
Retention Programs for At-Risk Students
Roadmap to Success: The College Business Plan
The Role of the President in Fundraising

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Seriously Funny
Service Learning: New Horizons for Change
Skillfully Working: Developing Your Strengths
So You Want to Teach the Future? Topics, Tools, and Tasks
Soft Skills for Information Technology Students
Strategic Planning
Student Retention
Student Services: Removing Silos and Creating Efficiency
Student Services: Time to Put Students First
Student Success is Everyone's Responsibility
Success Factors: Designing Online Learning That Works
Success Made Simple: Lessons Learned That Lead to Success
Supporting Student Success in Community Colleges
Systems Thinking as the Model for Operation in a Learning College

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Teaching and Learning Centers
Teaching Critical Thinking Skills for Life: A Necessary Skill
Teaching With Emotional Intelligence in Mind
Teaching With Video Clips: TV, Movies, YouTube, and mtvU in the Classroom
Team Building for Department Chairpersons
Teambuilding, Leadership, and Communication
Team Building: Using Our Strengths to Work Effectively Together
Techniques to Engage the Learner
Technology Trends Assessments in Education
Ten-Minute Futurist: Practical Tools When You Need Them
Think Fast! Improvisation for Professional and Personal Development
Thriving in an Environment of Constant Change
To Renew a College
Top 14 Strategies for Evaluating Teaching
The Top 15 Complaints by Students About Taking Tests and Some Solutions
Top Ten Flaws in Constructing Multiple-Choice Items
Toward a Rational Approach to Technology
Transforming Organizational Culture

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Understanding Bloom
Understanding Learning Styles
Universal Design for Learning
Unleashing the Power of the Internet in Teaching and Learning, Student Services, and Institutional Management
Unlocking Faculty Potential: The Whys and Ways of Supporting Full- and Part-time Faculty
Using Appreciative Inquiry for Strategic Planning
Using Camtasia to Produce Podcasts, Vodcasts, and Screencasts
Using Technology Effectively in Distance Learning Courses
Using Technology to Connect With the i-Pod Generation

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Web-Based Curriculum: Designing Lessons on the Net
Website Review
Women's Leadership Styles: Values, Assumptions, and Beliefs
Workforce Development
Working in a Union Environment
Writing Effective Business Correspondence

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