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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Resources from the Walmart Brighter Futures 2.0 Project
Section I
Program Summary
Section II
Sample Work Plan
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Impact on Individual and Community
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Success Stories
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Challenges and Lessons Learned
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Collaborative Partnerships
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Project Forms, Documents and Other Materials
Decision Tree
Fact Sheet
Flyer
Intake Form
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Section VIII
Project Publicity and Donor Recognition
Letter of Support
Participant Experience
Press Release
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Sample Sustainability Plan
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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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April 18, 2023
Do you need to identify which academic programs to start, stop, or grow? In this webinar, the presenters will help you understand the economic and market data you will need and describe an efficient decision-making process for your use.
Learn how to operationalize your program economics—revenue, instructional cost, and margins—to optimize program mix, course scheduling, and resource allocations and discuss how to build a shared understanding of the data, increase transparency, speed up the program evaluation, and build agreement among decision-makers.
The presenters will...
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April 3, 2025
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Plagiarism detection alone is no longer enough—and in some cases, it’s actively harming institutions. With student enrollment more competitive than ever, punitive approaches to academic integrity risk driving students away. Instead of focusing on catching misconduct, how can institutions create a culture that encourages originality and ethical writing from the start?
Join Packback and the League for a discussion on the future of academic integrity, where we’ll explore:
The risks of a detection-first approach, including legal...
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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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