Innovations
2024-2025 Innovation of the Year Award and 2025-2026 League Excellence Award recipients were recognized at the 2026 Innovations Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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April 4, 2024
For most of the 20th century, course placement was designed to be a system to assess student needs and identify the appropriate interventions to support success. Yet research into student success showed that placement wasn't meeting those goals, particularly for students who enrolled in community colleges with the biggest hurdles to overcome.
A holistic understanding of student potential – built on powerful research on the role of noncognitive skills such as sense of belonging, goal commitment, and growth mindset – can help colleges better understand student strengths and...
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March 2, 2023
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ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence (AI) create implications for student writing, academic integrity, and, most importantly, student retention. While generative AI will write on behalf of its users, instructional AI is AI that is used to teach writing and thinking skills. Utilization of instructional AI maximizes faculty, rapidly accelerates student feedback, and improves student retention. Many community colleges have had a head start with using instructional AI over the last several years and are well positioned to thrive...
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We’re living through one of the fastest shifts higher education has ever seen. New tools appear every month. New terminology floods every inbox. And here’s something worth knowing: Even the engineers building these systems will tell you that no one fully understands all of this.
That’s not a warning. It’s a relief.
Because if you’re reading this, you’re already doing exactly what matters most—staying curious, staying engaged, and refusing to let the noise drown out the signal.
For community and technical colleges, the stakes feel particularly high. These are institutions that sit closest to...
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December 3, 2020
The pandemic has caused unprecedented turmoil across our nation. Postsecondary education now plays a more important role than ever in fueling economic mobility and recovery, yet learners have encountered disruption across their lives. Enrollment, which typically increases during recessions, is down. Now more than ever community colleges must play a critical role in providing access and fostering social mobility for students. Research has demonstrated that community college students who transfer to four-year universities graduate at faster or the same rates as students who...
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