Innovations
By Erin Bentrim, Ph.D.
Systems can provide structure for assessment and planning, but they cannot create commitment. Digital tools can organize outcomes, store reflections, or support annual cycles, yet they only mirror the choices people make. A sustained practice of evidence use develops when faculty and staff explore results, ask questions, and use information to improve learning. Questions to ask:
How are faculty and staff expected to engage with assessment results beyond submitting required entries?
Where do we see evidence being used to inform decisions or improvements, rather than...
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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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Generative Leadership
There is no question that we live in increasingly complicated and complex times. These volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environments require new and innovative leadership responses. There is a growing chorus that conventional ideas about leadership in our colleges and classrooms are not adequate for today’s challenges. We need new images of leadership that resonate throughout our colleges to drive innovation and imagination. This session explored what has been called Generative Leadership—leading with head, heart, and hand—and how it might be applied to...
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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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October 1, 2020
Our knowledge of how students learn has grown significantly over the last few decades. In keeping with this trend, the quality and sheer amount of research on instructional strategies has also grown, and active learning has emerged as an instructional method that can improve learning outcomes for all students, including students from marginalized backgrounds and populations.
In this webinar, participants will learn about active learning techniques that have been shown to improve student learning in the college classroom. They will also learn about the K. Patricia Cross Academy...
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The John & Suanne Roueche Excellence Awards Program provides a record of the names, titles, and colleges of the 2018 honorees as well as congratulatory messages from their colleagues. The 2018 award recipients were celebrated at the Innovations Conference held February 24-27, 2019, and those who attended received a copy of the Awards Program during the conference's closing ceremony.
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May 27, 2021
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How are innovative community colleges using data to become more student-centric? With community college enrollment down nationwide and the number of college-going high school graduates expected to decline in coming years, the need to enroll, retain, and graduate more students has never been greater.
Join EAB’s lead community college researcher, Christina Hubbard, and Rufus Glasper, President and CEO of the League for Innovation in the Community College, for the latest insights on why we saw enrollment numbers plunge and how...
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