Innovations

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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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

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