Innovations
October 15, 2025
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A persistent challenge for employers is identifying job candidates with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities for available jobs. Simultaneously, postsecondary education institutions are under increasing pressure to ensure that their graduates possess the skills valued by employers and have positive job outcomes. One strategy to achieve the goal of better aligning college programs with the skills in demand by employers is to integrate industry certifications into academic degree programs. Industry certifications can be...
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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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December 15, 2022
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Join EAB and the League for Innovation in the Community College as we share the latest data on community college staffing trends, impacts on students, and strategies for stabilizing campus teams. Since the start of the pandemic, community colleges in the U.S. have lost 12 percent of their workforce, and while staffing levels are beginning to stabilize, colleges are still responding to losing seasoned staff while also facing a workforce that is projected to shrink by millions over the next decade. This webinar will uncover staffing...
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2022-2023 Innovation of the Year Award and 2023-2024 League Excellence Award recipients were recognized at the 2024 Innovations Conference in Anaheim, California.
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October 21 and October 28, 2020
See recordings of this two-part webinar at the links below:
Part I: https://pages.eab.com/League-EAB-OctoberWebinarSeriesPartI-ArchivedWebinar.html
Part II: https://pages.eab.com/League-EAB-OctoberWebinarSeriesPartII-ArchivedWebinar.html
Challenges that have long affected community colleges have been amplified by the COVID-19 crisis. Communication from college leaders to faculty has been strained by physical distance and evolving priorities. But faculty must be involved in carrying out leadership’s vision for a student-centered campus. While administrative and...
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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
Application Checklist
Grant Application 1
Grant Application 2
Sign In Sheet
Section VIII
Project Publicity and Donor Recognition
FAQs
Flyer
Flyer - IBEST
Flyer - Scholarship
Press Release 1
Press Release 2
Scholarship
Section IX
Sample Sustainability Plan
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In this issue of Innovatus, the magazine of the League for Innovation in the Community College, readers will
Learn about new revenue streams for community colleges;
Consider how thinking like an entrepreneur can foster innovation;
Explore how to accelerate innovation at their college;
Learn about a model to increase student success through experiential learning;
And more …
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