Innovations
The Innovations Conference program draft above is provided as a courtesy and available for download. We will update the draft periodically to reflect changes in the program.
Please note: The information in this document is subject to change. The most up-to-date information will be found in the event app. Registered participants will receive an email with information about accessing the app a few weeks before the start of the conference. Hard copy schedules will not be provided by the League.
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Each of the 12 colleges/college districts participating in the Walmart Brighter Futures 2.0 Project is providing detailed information about the projects in an effort to disseminate promising and best practices. We hope that other colleges can benefit from the experiences of the Walmart Brighter Futures 2.0 colleges and college districts. Please note that the information posted in Toolkit and Resources is based on the 12 independent projects designed by each college/college district.
The Toolkit and Resources for each college/college district include the following: program summary; sample work...
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June 7, 2022
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Hear from community college leaders on the evolution of today’s digital transformation.
The history of EdTech has led us to the doorstep of a new era in which data plays a larger role than ever before. Join a panel of today’s leading community college voices for a tour through EdTech’s evolution to contextualize today’s digital transformation, and plan for what’s next.
In this new era, community college leaders are faced with solving for complex challenges that the pandemic has highlighted, including EdTech tools that don’t work well...
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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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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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