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Rio Salado College: Expanding Services to Students in Prison
Annette Flores January 2021 Count all 202
Rio Salado College is one of 67 postsecondary institutions to be included in an expansion of the U.S. Department of Education’s Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative. One-hundred and thirty colleges in 42 states and the District of Columbia will now be involved in this initiative, which provides need-based Pell grants for people incarcerated in state and federal prisons to pursue higher learning.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Access, Inclusion, Learning Environments, Innovations
Dallas College: Reviving the Restaurant Industry During a Time of Crisis
Malcolm Hornsby December 2020 Count all 17
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the bars, cafés, and eateries we so casually take for granted have been forced to close or drastically alter the way they conduct business. Stories of restaurant employees being furloughed, or worse, laid off completely, have been too numerous to count. And then there is the bleak reality of what the future may hold for the restaurant and hospitality industry’s new normal. According to a recent study by the Independent Restaurant Coalition (Amel et al., 2020), 85 percent of independent restaurants could permanently close by the end of this year.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Community Relations, Corporate Training, Partnerships, Innovations
Rio Salado College: Founding Member of College Innovation Network Helps to Guide EdTech Student Success Pilot Program
Annette Flores November 2020 Count all 14
The College Innovation Network (CIN) announced on August 4, 2020, the names of higher education organizations which will serve as founding partners in its pilot year, including Rio Salado College. CIN was launched in the spring by WGU Labs, Inc., with support from the Charles Koch Foundation, and is designed to connect leaders from colleges and universities with educational technology (EdTech) innovators to advance students’ academic, career, and life outcomes.
Tags: Learning and Organization, Innovations
Community College of Allegheny County: Give Honors A Try! Program Expands Opportunity for Academic and Personal Enrichment
Margaret Anderson October 2020 Count all 12
The Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) Honors Council is offering a new pilot program called Give Honors A Try! The program permits non-honors students who meet certain criteria to take honors courses and engage in honors-related activities. Each year, CCAC’s Honors Program provides a myriad of opportunities for scholastically minded students to develop leadership skills and to participate in a variety of conferences and community service projects that foster academic and personal enrichment.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Diversity, Inclusion, Learning Environments, Innovations
Indian River State College: LASER-TEC Center Develops Photonics Education Kits to Support Remote Learning for Students Nationwide
Robert Lane September 2020 Count all 17
Founded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2013, the Center for Laser and Fiber Optics Education (LASER-TEC) faced a new challenge as the spread of COVID-19 impacted LASER-TEC institutions. Headquartered at Indian River State College (IRSC) in Fort Pierce, Florida, LASER-TEC is comprised of colleges, universities, high schools and technical centers, trade associations, and laser and fiber optics companies throughout the United States. The center’s mission is to develop and sustain a strong technical workforce in lasers and fiber optics nationwide.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Access, Learning Resources, Innovations
Northwest Arkansas Community College: Child Advocacy Studies Program Sends Students Into the Workforce as Seasoned Professionals
Stephanie Morris August 2020 Count all 12
Somewhere in the United States today, six-year-old Shelby musters enough courage to report physical abuse to a school counselor. The counselor, who has good intentions but is not well trained in best practices for responding to child maltreatment, calls Shelby’s parents to talk about the allegations. The parents promptly deny the child’s assertions and explain away Shelby’s bruises as a fall down the stairs.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Learning Environments, Teaching Strategies, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
Anne Arundel Community College: Student Success Course Improves Retention Rate
Marjorie Rawhouser and Pam Nussbaumer July 2020 Count all 20
Research suggests that student success, or first-year experience, classes are beneficial to new college students. A 2013 study by the Community College Research Center showed initial gains in credits earned and first-year retention (Karp and Stacey, 2013), although the same report found mixed results for long-term gains. Klinkenberg (2013) found higher rates of academic progress and persistence for students who completed a first-year experience course compared with those who did not enroll or did not successfully complete the course.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, College Readiness, Student Retention, Student Success, Innovations
Community College of Allegheny County: Electronics Engineering Technology Student Uses 3D Printer to Make Much-Needed Medical Supplies
Margaret Anderson June 2020 Count all 11
Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) was quick to modify college operations in response to the COVID­­–19 pandemic to ensure both academic continuity and the safety of students, faculty, and staff. With the closure of all facilities, hundreds of credit courses were converted from face-to-face to online or alternative delivery formats—an enormous undertaking and a collaborative effort by individuals across the college that was accomplished in a relatively short period of time.
Tags: Community Relations, Learning Environments, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
Bergen Community College: Reading, Writing, and Presenting in STEM Courses
Sara Mastellone May 2020 Count all 14
STEM teachers often lament the fact that their students struggle to read content for understanding, write in the vocabulary of STEM fields, and present their ideas well orally (RWP). In fall 2015, the STEM faculty at Bergen Community College identified RWP as the focus of its professional development initiative under a nationally funded STEM grant. At the beginning of this endeavor, a colleague provided a link to a National Council of Teachers of Mathematics article titled “Anticipation Guides: Reading for Mathematics Understanding” (Adams, Pegg, & Case, 2015).
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Madison College: Charting New Waters in the Micro-Credential Space
Turina Bakken April 2020 Count all 17
Digital badges, or micro-credentials, are portable, verifiable, data rich, digital representations of attained knowledge and skills that provide evidence of specific, tangible skills: cognitive, soft, and technical. Digital badges align training with the needs of the workforce, and provide Madison College the opportunity to award meaningful and recognized credentials that go beyond the traditional boundaries of our degrees.
Tags: Learning and Organization, Assessment and Evaluation, Learning Resources, Innovations
Arapahoe Community College: Innovative Educational Delivery Draws Panel to Sturm Collaboration Campus
Jeff Duggan March 2020 Count all 14
The Arapahoe Community College (ACC) Sturm Collaboration Campus hosted a panel discussion and facility tour with education, industry, government, and community leaders on January 21, 2020, in Castle Rock, Colorado, to showcase ACC’s dynamic work-based learning programs and postsecondary certificates connecting industry and education. Apprenticeships in the fields of health care, manufacturing, and automotive service technology were highlighted, and several current and former ACC students were on hand to speak about their career-focused educational experience. Attendees included U.S.
Tags: Economic Development, Teaching and Learning, Community Relations, Partnerships, Innovations
Mesa Community College: Embedded High School Advisors Provide Students With a Customized, One-Stop Enrollment Experience
Dawn Zimmer February 2020 Count all 12
Leadership at Mesa Community College (MCC) and Mesa Public Schools (MPS) worked together to strategize methods to increase persistence and college attendance for high school students, with an emphasis on populations facing the most challenges. The resulting Mesa Community College High School Advisor Program creates a one-stop enrollment experience and is increasing the number of Mesa public high school students enrolling at the college.
Tags: Student Services, Access, Community Relations, Enrollment Management, Enrollment Services, Partnerships, Innovations
Community College of Allegheny County: Radiation Therapy Students Enhance Skills With State-of-the-Art Technology
Margaret Anderson January 2020 Count all 22
Students in the Radiation Therapy Technology program at the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) are training on equipment just like that used at leading teaching hospitals around the world. In fall 2018, the college acquired a Virtual Environment in Radiotherapy Training (VERT) system that enables students to practice direct hands-on skills in a radiation-free virtual setting without risk to the patient.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Learning Environments, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
Mesa Community College: Immersive Patient Management Experience
Dawn Zimmer December 2019 Count all 16
Students at Mesa Community College receive hands-on learning experiences each semester with two days of simulated emergency medical scenarios. MCC’s Immersive Total Patient Management Experience (ITPME) is a multi-college, cross-disciplinary educational event exposing entry-level EMT, paramedic, nursing, psychology, and theatre/film arts students to potential real-life emergency scenarios and training.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Learning Environments, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
San Diego City College: Using Learning Culture to Increase Student Success in STEM
Rafael D. Alvarez November 2019 Count all 19
How can a first-generation Latina, a community college dropout, become a rising scholar in physics at UC Berkeley and a researcher at Switzerland’s CERN Laboratory? How can a first‑generation African American male, a university and community college dropout, become a UC Davis graduate in electrical engineering? How can a first-generation Latino, who commuted daily across the San Diego-Tijuana border to attend college, become a Georgia Tech graduate and a NASA Aerospace Engineer?
Tags: Innovations

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