Innovations
After a challenging few years, community colleges celebrated a comeback in 2024 with notable gains in enrollment, retention, and persistence rates. Enrollment has increased by over 4 percent, freshman enrollment is up over 6 percent, and dual enrollment continues to grow (National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 2024). Retention and persistence rates are back to pre-pandemic levels, with students under the age of 24 showing modest increases in these areas (National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 2024).
These successes are worth celebrating, especially as students and...
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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
Disclosure
Referral Card
Section VIII
Project Publicity and Donor Recognition
Flyer
Flyer - Call Center
Snapshot
Section IX
Sample Sustainability Plan
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Each of the 12 colleges/college districts participating in the Walmart Brighter Futures 2.0 Project is providing detailed information about the projects in an effort to disseminate promising and best practices. We hope that other colleges can benefit from the experiences of the Walmart Brighter Futures 2.0 colleges and college districts. Please note that the information posted in Toolkit and Resources is based on the 12 independent projects designed by each college/college district.
The Toolkit and Resources for each college/college district include the following: program summary; sample work...
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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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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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March 16, 2023
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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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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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September 28, 2021
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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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