Innovations

The John & Suanne Roueche Excellence Awards Program provides a record of the names, titles, and colleges of the 2017 honorees as well as congratulatory messages from their colleagues. The 2017 award recipients were celebrated at the Innovations Conference held March 18-21, 2018, and they received a copy of the Awards Program during the conference's closing ceremony.
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Resources from the Walmart Brighter Futures 2.0 Project
Section I
Program Summary
Section II
Sample Work Plan
Section III
Impact on Individual and Community
Section IV
Success Stories
Section V
Challenges and Lessons Learned
Section VI
Collaborative Partnerships
Section VII
Project Forms, Documents and Other Materials
Intake Form
Student Tracking
Section VIII
Project Publicity and Donor Recognition
Flyer
Information Card
Marketing Examples
Press Release
Section IX
Sample Sustainability Plan
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Join the League for Innovation and Strategies By Design for a series of dynamic 45-minute how-to sessions where we explore cutting-edge AI tools and their transformative applications in community colleges. Each session provides hands-on experience, live demonstrations, and best practices for ethical and responsible AI use in teaching, learning, and operations.
The following list includes free, members-only sessions. Click here to check your college’s membership status. These sessions will not be recorded.
Sessions are free to members, but registration is required. To receive registration...
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Community Colleges Creating Brighter Futures for Dislocated Workers is the final report for the Walmart Brighter Futures 1.0 Project, a cooperative effort between the Walmart Foundation and a select group of the nation’s community colleges led by the League for Innovation in the Community College.
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The 2022 League Awards Program honors 2021-2022 Innovation of the Year Award winners and 2022-2023 Excellence Award recipients, and includes congratulatory messages from their colleges.
Please see the downloadable PDF above.
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For the most current information, registered conference participants should log into the Event and click on the "All Sessions" tab.
The schedule and other information provided here are in draft form and may have changed since the date of the draft.
Please note: Times listed in this schedule are MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME (MST).
For reference, the conference starts each day at 8:00 a.m. Pacific; 9:00 a.m. Mountain; 10:00 a.m. Central; 11:00 a.m. Eastern.
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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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Karen Marrongelle, Chief Operating Officer, National Science Foundation
Reaching the Missing Millions in STEM: Community Colleges’ Central Role
The science and engineering enterprise faces the same diversity, equity, and inclusion challenges that are present in society. These issues prevent the U.S. from achieving a STEM ecosystem that is representative of the incredible diversity we see in our country, a diversity that is essential to maintaining U.S. global leadership in science and engineering. Strengthening our STEM workforce requires that we address the Missing Millions, the gap between...
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