Innovations

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 Disclosure Referral Card Section VIII Project Publicity and Donor Recognition Flyer Flyer - Call Center Snapshot Section IX Sample Sustainability Plan
June 16, 2021 Click here to see the recording of this webinar. In fall 2019 and spring 2020, 10 institutions participated in a research study comparing student outcomes on Packback discussion to outcomes found with traditional Learning Management System discussion. In April 2020, Packback released the findings of that study in Impact of Online Discussion Platform and Pedagogy on Student Outcomes. Among the findings from the study, institutions reported increased levels of student engagement, vastly improved discussion rigor, improved final grade outcomes, and high rates of student and faculty...
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Welcome back to Innovatus, the magazine of the League for Innovation in the Community College. In this issue, readers will Consider the capabilities approach as a way of enabling students to achieve their potential; Reflect on the importance of clearly defining, promoting, and providing the resources to meet an organization’s vision; Learn about an innovative intervention to address food insecurity as a barrier to student success; Explore the implementation of competency-based education in STEM courses to improve learning; And more …
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October 16, 2023 Click here to access the webinar recording. The world of noncredit is expansive and often not well understood, for students and practitioners alike. This webinar will share recent work out of the Rutgers Education and Employment Research Center that explores the structure and context of noncredit workforce programs, potential markers of quality, and the experiences of students in these programs. This session is for faculty and administrators who want to understand more about the fast-growing, yet underresearched world of noncredit workforce education. The webinar will explore...
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Reimagining the traditional face-to-face, lecture-based instructional model is at the heart of academic transformation in higher education, and faculty development is central to this change. Getting faculty to want to modify how they teach will enable grassroots experimentations to gain traction and inspire systemic change. Yet this process first requires faculty developers to recognize and support the affective dimension of teaching and learning and, in turn, experiment with more human-centered approaches. Expect it to be messy. Recognizing Faculty Culture Creativity and risk-taking in the...
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  From 2021 through 2024, the League convened four community colleges in Arizona—a variety of rural, urban, and tribal institutions—to participate in a project focused on improving student connections to wraparound services and the workforce. The project, “Community Colleges and Communities: Collective Impact – Workforce Development with Wraparound Services” was generously funded by the Garcia Family Foundation. The goal of the project was to multiply the effectiveness of community resources in addressing students’ basic needs while connecting students to careers and jobs related to their...
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