Innovations
November 12, 2025
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The first year of college is often the most critical in determining student success and retention. EAB surveyed more than 1,500 first-year college students to better understand their experiences, needs, and expectations. Join this session, co-hosted with the League for Innovation in the Community College, to explore four key insights from this research that illuminate what helps (and hinders) students in their make-or-break year.
You’ll learn how to address students’ concerns about:
Bias and belonging: One in three students has...
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October 15, 2025
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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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February 1, 2024
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The League for Innovation in the Community College along with Rutgers Education and Employment Research Center invite you to a town hall discussion on noncredit quality. This discussion will pick up the conversation from our fall webinar, Demystifying the "Hidden College": New Research on Noncredit Quality. We invite you to bring your thoughts and questions to this open discussion. Feel free to invite others, including college faculty, advisors, and leaders connected to noncredit as well as your...
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May 12, 2020
Recognizing the fragility of former strategic plans, leaders are scrambling to rethink how to respond in areas like virtual preparedness, digital dexterity, access to campus insight, and student services. The League for Innovation and Beyond Academics are collaborating to present this webinar that will lead participants through a thoughtful discussion on how the COVID-19 pandemic will shape the future of work within campuses and the opportunities it presents us in the new normal.
In this session, Matthew Alex will speak to how the pandemic has accelerated the need to become more...
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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
Intake Form
Student Tracking
Section VIII
Project Publicity and Donor Recognition
Flyer
Information Card
Marketing Examples
Press Release
Section IX
Sample Sustainability Plan
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The John & Suanne Roueche Excellence Awards Program provides a record of the names, titles, and colleges of the 2017 honorees as well as congratulatory messages from their colleagues. The 2017 award recipients were celebrated at the Innovations Conference held March 18-21, 2018, and they received a copy of the Awards Program during the conference's closing ceremony.
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In this issue of Innovatus, the magazine of the League for Innovation in the Community College, readers will
Learn about new revenue streams for community colleges;
Consider how thinking like an entrepreneur can foster innovation;
Explore how to accelerate innovation at their college;
Learn about a model to increase student success through experiential learning;
And more …
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