Innovations

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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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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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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  The 2021 League Awards Program honors 2020-2021 Innovation of the Year Award winners and 2021-2022 Excellence Award recipients, and includes congratulatory messages from their colleges. Please see the downloadable PDF below as well as the Flipbook here.
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September 28, 2021 Click here to access the webinar recording. Work and education are often disconnected. Many learners finish college or other programs with a skillset that no longer matches market demands and unprepared for the world of work. Colleges and universities are expected to be engines of economic mobility. And yet, postsecondary education doesn’t always deliver on its promise of a good job and rewarding career. Work-based learning, such as internships, apprenticeships, and employer projects, solves for that by helping students to develop career-relevant skills and apply their...
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November 16, 2023 Click here to access the webinar recording. Join the fifth of our monthly webinar series on Generative AI. During this "podcast style" session, we'll discuss the latest developments in AI and the impact it's having on the education community. We'll also highlight some amazing work that is coming from faculty, administration, and institutions as they navigate this new and rapidly changing technology. Our rotating panelists—experts in education and technology—will provide insight and advice during a dedicated Q&A. Panelists: Kelsey Behringer, Chief Executive Officer,...
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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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