Innovations
Correction:
In the 2017 Survey Final Topline report, for QE21, item 21d was inadvertently omitted. The full item is provided below.
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Welcome back to Innovatus, the magazine of the League for Innovation in the Community College.
In this issue, readers will
Consider the capabilities approach as a way of enabling students to achieve their potential;
Reflect on the importance of clearly defining, promoting, and providing the resources to meet an organization’s vision;
Learn about an innovative intervention to address food insecurity as a barrier to student success;
Explore the implementation of competency-based education in STEM courses to improve learning;
And more …
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Reimagining the traditional face-to-face, lecture-based instructional model is at the heart of academic transformation in higher education, and faculty development is central to this change. Getting faculty to want to modify how they teach will enable grassroots experimentations to gain traction and inspire systemic change. Yet this process first requires faculty developers to recognize and support the affective dimension of teaching and learning and, in turn, experiment with more human-centered approaches. Expect it to be messy.
Recognizing Faculty Culture
Creativity and risk-taking in the...
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2021-2022 Innovation of the Year Award and 2022-2023 League Excellence Award recipients were recognized at the 2023 Innovations Conference in Tempe, Arizona.
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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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