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Tulsa Community College: Collaboration Invigorates Faculty Development
Jennifer Campbell, Kristopher Copeland, and Cindy Shanks June 2021 Count all 157
Like other higher education institutions across the U.S. and beyond, Tulsa Community College (TCC) shifted to an online-only modality in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 48 percent of TCC’s faculty did not have previous online teaching training or certification. Not surprisingly, this quick pivot to remote teaching and learning created an immediate need for faculty training.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Kentucky Community and Technical College System: Boot Camp for Hybrid Course Design
Juli Gatling Book and Leah Parsons Simpson May 2021 Count all 14
The Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) Office of Online Learning developed a Boot Camp for hybrid course design meant to help faculty with little to no experience in an online setting to rapidly design hybrid courses. KCTCS Online shared an open access version of this training for use at other institutions for the first time at the department’s “Free PD: Come for the Free, Stay for the Why” session at the 2021 Innovations Conference.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Learning Environments, Learning Resources, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Johnson County Community College: Partnership Steers ESL Students Toward High-Demand Jobs in Trucking
Kristi Stanley April 2021 Count all 49
A unique partnership between Johnson County Community College’s (JCCC) Continuing Education Transportation program and Johnson County Adult Education’s (JCAE) Literacy program puts newly trained truck drivers on the road to success. The initiative helps non-native English speakers in Johnson County obtain workforce skills in truck driving. Chris Specht, former Program Coordinator of Accelerating Opportunity: Kansas at JCCC, began laying the groundwork in 2017. Thanks to the combined effort of many at the college, the program officially launched in summer 2020.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Diversity, Inclusion, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
Indian River State College: Campus Infrastructure Improvement Partnership to Reduce Water Use and Carbon Footprint
Suzanne Seldes March 2021 Count all 14
Indian River State College (IRSC) and Honeywell have launched a comprehensive infrastructure improvement project designed to increase energy efficiency across all five of IRSC’s campuses through a series of building upgrades.
Tags: Organizational Culture, Partnerships, Sustainability, Innovations
Hennepin Technical College: Research on Student Persistence Prompts Action
Jessica Lauritsen February 2021 Count all 8
If you ask faculty at Hennepin Technical College (HTC) to describe their students, most will use the word “resilient.” Many HTC students must overcome tremendous obstacles in their lives to pursue their education goals. The majority of the HTC student population is economically fragile, including students of color and low-income, first-generation, and adult students.
Tags: Innovations
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

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