Innovations
The 2020 League Awards Program honors 2019-2020 Innovation of the Year Award winners and 2020-2021 Excellence Award recipients, and includes congratulatory messages from their colleges.
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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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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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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
Decision Tree
Fact Sheet
Flyer
Intake Form
Tokens
Section VIII
Project Publicity and Donor Recognition
Letter of Support
Participant Experience
Press Release
Section IX
Sample Sustainability Plan
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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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June 22, 2022
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Please join us as Flinn-Brown Fellow Erin Carr-Jordan (Chandler) 2013, Managing Director, Digital Equity Institute, hosts a deep dive into Arizona’s focused approach to achieving digital equity, including leveraging technology to connect the under and unconnected and improve process efficiencies. Carr-Jordan will be joined by a panel representing state and national organizations engaged in strategic initiatives to expand access and value and participation through increased connectivity.
Panel members: Mignonne Hollis, Flinn-Brown...
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