Innovations

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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September 14, 2021 This session will provide a holistic view of how to align workforce needs of students, community college programs, and employers, drawing on data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. We begin with a brief discussion of young adult attitudes and expectations for training opportunity and success, and their perceptions of local labor market opportunities, highlighting survey data collected in 2020-2021. We then present findings from a study of community college offerings and labor market alignment, providing data-driven insights into noncredit program coherence and quality...
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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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June 29, 2022 Click here to access the webinar recording. Over the past two years, Congress has provided $80 billion in Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) grants to help students and institutions of higher education weather the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. As those resources are expended and enrollment continues to decline, campuses will have to figure out how to move forward and balance support for students with the increasingly urgent need to generate revenue amid national enrollment declines. This webinar will discuss how institutions can reorient their...
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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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April 23, 2024 Click here to access the webinar recording. As high school students witness declining math scores, increased mental health needs, and changes to what they want from a college experience, community college educators must adapt enrollment and retention strategies to effectively support this evolving cohort of learners. While these are future students, how you prepare for this population now will determine your success in recruiting and retaining this growing student group. Join leaders from EAB and the League for Innovation to gain insights into the trends affecting high school...
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