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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
Community College of Allegheny County: State-of-the-Art Film Technician Center Opens on South Campus
Margaret Anderson October 2019 Count all 28
The Community College of Allegheny County’s South Campus held a ribbon cutting ceremony in April 2019 to celebrate the opening of its new Film Center. Local dignitaries, administrators, faculty, staff, and students were in attendance to share in the festivities and view the space, which has been transformed to house the campus’s highly successful Film Technician program.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Learning Environments, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
Chandler-Gilbert Community College: Innovative Food Waste Recycling Project
Tyler Perrino September 2019 Count all 111
Chandler-Gilbert Community College’s (CGCC) Food and Green Waste Recycling Project is a collaborative grant-funded effort that offers cross-disciplinary and experiential student learning through the launch of an innovative solution for food and green waste recycling needs. The project evolved from a passionate idea inspired by student projects showcased during CGCC’s Sustainability Day in 2017 to a campuswide initiative in the span of just one year. In 2019, CGCC won the Maricopa Community Colleges Innovation of the Year Award for this project.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Sustainability, Innovations
Rio Salado College: New Pathway Program Helps GED Graduates Transition to College
Annette Flores August 2019 Count all 24
Made possible through a new partnership between the Maricopa County Community College District and GED Testing Service, Rio Salado College students can now use their GED scores to demonstrate college readiness and college-level skills.
Tags: Access, Partnerships, Innovations
Mesa Community College: Innovation Sparks Free RISE App
Dawn Zimmer July 2019 Count all 201
Students in the Mesa Community College (MCC) Everyone Can Code iOS Apple App Development program decided that a joint project was a perfect opportunity to put their knowledge to use. The outcome? The Resource Information Services for Everyone (RISE) app.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Access, Learning Environments, Partnerships, Technology Systems, Innovations
Jackson State Community College: Leading in Computer Information Technology and Cyber Defense
John McCommon June 2019 Count all 9
The Cyber Defense Program at Jackson State Community College is the only community college program in Tennessee to be certified as a National Center of Academic Excellence by the U.S. National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security. The designation puts Jackson State among an elite group of institutions across the country offering computer information technology courses that meet rigorous federal standards and setting graduating students apart from others, said Dr. Tom Pigg, Jackson State's Dean of Health Sciences and Computer Information Technology.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Partnerships, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
Arapahoe Community College: Open Education Week Celebrated With Outreach Initiatives
Jeff Duggan May 2019 Count all 18
Several years ago, Arapahoe Community College’s Library and Learning Commons developed an Open Educational Resources (OER) Research Guide to expand access to learning materials. The ever-evolving wealth of resources and information includes textbooks, images and photos, videos, journal articles, and open courses. OER are high-quality teaching, learning and research resources that permit free use—or repurposing—and are legally available to students for free, or at a very low cost.
Tags: Resource Development, Learning Resources, Innovations

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