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March 16, 2023 Click here to access the webinar recording. Part 1 of our webinar series, ChatGPT and AI's Effect on Community Colleges, was facilitated last week (the link to the recording is here if you missed it). The next webinar in this series will focus on responsible student use cases of Generative AI in the classroom, which is necessary for students to persist through their education and into their careers.  This webinar will cover: (1) how we can help students become responsible and skillful users of Generative AI, (2) new assignment types incorporating the use of Generative AI, (3)...
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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 Business Card - Employer Business Card - Student Curriculum Section VIII Project Publicity and Donor Recognition Facebook and News Press Release Web Page Section IX Sample Sustainability Plan
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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  The Faculty Resource Guide Appendix A, Curriculum Map Template, is provided here as a fillable form for download.
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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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October 15, 2025 Click here to access the webinar recording. 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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