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Championing Technology Students: Annual Awards Presented at League's Innovations Conference
From the League March 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 3
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Jason Clinkscale, Cuyahoga Community College, Highland Hills, OH Jason is a Programming and Development student at Cuyahoga Community College where he is currently enrolled in IT Concepts for Programmers and Programming Logic. Jason is a former member of the United States Air Force where he trained and served in active duty status in the nuclear missile maintenance program learning the details of several Computer Science and Engineering concepts.
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Addressing Adjunct Faculty Needs at Anne Arundel Community College
LaTanya K. Eggleston, A. Lawrie Gardner, Lisa M. Starkey, Trish Casey-Whiteman February 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 2
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Through Anne Arundel Community College's (AACC) shared governance of faculty and administrative and professional staff, a faculty group supported by the manager of Institutional Professional Development comprises the Part-Time Faculty Affairs  Committee (PTFA) . This committee monitors factors impacting the welfare of our adjunct faculty. With its membership of both full-time and adjunct faculty, it also gives our adjunct colleagues a voice.
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The Campus Civility Video Project: Affirming an Implicit Societal Obligation of the Academy
Joseph Worth January 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 1
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Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.John Ruskin (1819-1900)
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Online Learning Today: What Works; What Doesn't
William Wade December 2011
Volume: 14 Issue: 12
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In today's world of virtual course delivery, we are finding that what works for students is both easy to use and free, or if not free, then easily affordable. We live in a time of $0.99 apps and $20.00 software, and we no longer tolerate products that are difficult to use, expensive, and quickly outdated. West Kentucky Community and Technical College has been in the online learning business since 1991, when the college introduced an English composition course with an enrollment of twelve students.
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SkillsUSA in the Community College: A Significant Workforce Development Partner
Ken Scott, Charlene B. Anderson, Rosa M. Miles November 2011
Volume: 14 Issue: 11
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SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers, and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce. SkillsUSA helps all students excel in their training programs and future technical, skilled, and service careers, including health occupations. Nationally, SkillsUSA serves more than 300,000 high school and college/postsecondary students and their chapter advisors who are professional members. (SkillsUSA, 2011)
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Border Crossings
Michael Daher October 2011
Volume: 14 Issue: 10
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Dearborn, Michigan, the home of Henry Ford Community College, hosts the largest contingent population of Arab immigrants in the United States. The Arab-American aura of Dearborn animates everyday life.
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Partnering for Student Success: A 2+2 Teacher Education Program
Erin Landers, Denise Derrick September 2011
Volume: 14 Issue: 9
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Greenville College, a four-year institution in southwestern Illinois, and three Illinois community colleges, Kaskaskia College (KC), Lewis and Clark Community College (LCCC), and Southwestern Illinois College (SWIC), share a mission and vision to provide access to high-quality education to a largely rural population.
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Monroe Community College's Civility Campaign
Rebecca Herzog August 2011
Volume: 14 Issue: 8
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The Enough is Enough campaign is a critical collaboration designed to create a new paradigm for peace and safety on the nation's campuses by addressing the societal hostility that has contributed to unprecedented violence in some of the very places our students should feel most safe (http://www.naspa.org/enough/default2.cfm).
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Engage and Learn with Next Generation Learning Challenges this Summer
Carie Page July 2011
Volume: 14 Issue: 7
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This summer, you're invited to join your colleagues and Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) for a "Summer Learning Series"--a schedule of webinars dedicated to the transformative role that technology can play in fostering student success and improving college completion. NGLC is a collaborative, multiyear initiative that was created to address the barriers to educational innovation and tap the potential of technology to dramatically improve college readiness and completion in the United States.
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The Learning Community: A Framework for Integrative STEM Education in the American Community College
Ashley J. Gess June 2011
Volume: 14 Issue: 6
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The American Community College finds itself in a unique position: to bridge the gap that exists for many students between high school and baccalaureate education. In the wake of recent findings that undergraduates are "drifting through college without a clear sense of purpose" (Arum, 2011) and evidence that American students exiting from high school are lacking in overall scientific literacy (Katehi, 2009), the community college must re-evaluate its effectiveness in facilitating student learning in the STEM disciplines.
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Bringing out the Best Results in the Most Challenged Students
Eric Sentell May 2011
Volume: 14 Issue: 5
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According to the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) Developmental Education Task Force (DETF), half of the system's entering students must enroll in at least one noncredit developmental course (4). Unsurprisingly, Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) identifies increasing noncredit developmental course completion as a crucial measurement of student success, the number one priority of its strategic vision (3). However, the DETF argues that developmental education has become a barrier to student success (4).
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The Classroom as a Center for Student Academic and Personal Development
Lisa DuRose, Laura Funke, Joan Costello April 2011
Volume: 14 Issue: 4
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The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System (MnSCU), like higher education nationally, has recognized the need to provide more students access to higher education while ensuring the opportunity to succeed. With its strategic focus on access and opportunity, MnSCU is providing resources to support this goal. Inver Hills Community College is the recipient of funding from MnSCU and several local foundations to help the college redesign the classroom environment for student success.
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Developing Skills and Expertise for Teaching Online: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips for Four Phases of a Course
Judith V. Boettcher March 2011
Volume: 14 Issue: 3
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When faculty are first assigned to teach an online course, they often have little knowledge regarding how to get started. Some novice online faculty may have the good fortune of first team-teaching an online course, teaching an online course that has already been developed, or completing an online training program.
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Title V Project ACE Program
Michelle Thomas January 2011
Volume: 24 Issue: 1
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Meeting the needs of immigrant students has always been an issue in education. A more recent higher education challenge has been to meet the educational needs of immigrants who arrive in this country with degrees in hand (Ingash, 2000). A new program at Miami Dade College is designed to do just that. Funded by a Title V grant from the U.S.
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Seamless Performance Alert and Intervention System
Alicia B. Harvey-Smith December 2010
Volume: 13 Issue: 12
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The issues of accountability and outcomes are critical to improving student success and retention in higher education. As a result of targeted efforts to address ongoing retention declines, Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) has a renewed optimism and is successfully reversing this trend through an innovative model, the Performance Alert and Intervention System (PAIS).
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