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Industrial-Strength Partnership at Del Mar College
Michael Bratten September 2017
Volume: 12 Issue: 9
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At 19, Dalton Sasin’s wizardry with a welding wand is taking him places. In July, he began a 20-week specialized welding training program in Port Arthur with Cheniere Energy, who recruited him right out of high school. “It’s extra training that’s going to help me down the road, so I’m looking forward to it,” said Sasin, who learned to weld in classes at Ingleside High School. “I’m glad I went into the program. Now I’m getting a career out of it.”
Tags: Economic Development, Partnerships, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
Is It Time for a New Degree?
David L James and Marc Sheehan August 2017
Volume: 20 Issue: 8
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Since the launch of the American Graduation Initiative in 2009, the call to increase college graduation rates and to create a better educated workforce for the jobs of the future has become nearly universal. According to Former President Obama, speaking at the University of Texas on August 9, 2010, “in a single generation, [the U.S. has] fallen from first place to 12th place in college graduation rates for young adults" (as cited in de Nies, 2010, para. 3).
Tags: Learning and Organization, Policy and Practice, Programs and Practices, Student Completion, Student Success, Innovations
Preparing Students and Faculty for Online Learning Success
Carrie Bartek and Alison Consol July 2017
Volume: 12 Issue: 7
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As part of the reaffirmation process of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, Wake Technical Community College launched a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) initiative based on best practices in eLearning. The goal of the eLearning Preparedness Initiative across the College (EPIC) is to remove learning barriers and better support online student learning, persistence, and success.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, College Readiness, Enrollment Management, Learning Environments, Technology Services, Innovations
In Our Words: Creating a Space for Student Voices in Times of Social Change
Angela Hughes and Donnell King June 2017
Volume: 12 Issue: 6
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Communication faculty often have a unique opportunity to hear students’ own stories. These stories permeate the work of learning public speaking. Faculty members at Pellissippi State Community College recently launched In Our Words, a public forum in which students share their stories with audiences beyond the public speaking classroom. Public speaking generally benefits both speaker and audience, and In Our Words certainly does that. Benefits also extend to the Communication Studies department and other areas of the college.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Inclusion, Learning Environments, Programs and Disciplines, Innovations
League for Innovation Celebrates Excellence at Community Colleges
Sherry Sklar May 2017
Volume: 12 Issue: 5
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In 2012, the League established the John & Suanne Roueche Excellence Awards to celebrate outstanding contributions and leadership by community college faculty and staff. These awards are open to League Board and Alliance member institutions, and each year’s recipients are recognized in a series of activities and promotions, and honored at special events at the League's Innovations Conference each spring.
Tags: Leadership and Organization, Teaching and Learning, Innovations
Guided Pathways to Success: A Game Changer for Midland College
Rebecca C. Bell April 2017
Volume: 12 Issue: 4
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Midland College (MC) has been named as a Cadre 1 community college to participate in an integrated statewide approach to student success. For the past two years, MC has been designing and implementing a pathways model with clear, educationally coherent program maps that are aligned for program completion, quality credentials, workforce skills, and transferability for baccalaureate and graduate degrees.
Tags: Learning and Organization, Organizational Culture, Student Completion, Student Success, Innovations
Architecture of a Successful Program
Michael Bratten March 2017
Volume: 12 Issue: 3
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A U.S. Navy veteran with 25 years of service, Angela Muhammad is working toward a new career that’s close to her heart: building affordable homes for single parents and the elderly. “I’ve done missionary work and I’ve seen how we have a deficiency in clean, safe, affordable housing,” said Muhammad, 50, a second-year student in Del Mar College’s Architecture/Drafting Technology program. “I’ve always had an interest in how things are built.”
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
Celebrating Innovation at the Community College With Innovation of the Year Awards
Sherry Sklar February 2017
Volume: 12 Issue: 2
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Congratulations to the 2016 recipients of the League's Innovation of the Year Award!
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Innovations
Need Professional Development, But Have No Money?
Shantell Strickland-Davis and Karen Merriman January 2017
Volume: 12 Issue: 1
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Meeting the demand for quality professional development programming in times of constrained resources created an opportunity for innovative and creative thinking at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Over 1,200 full-time employees at CPCC are required to complete 20 hours of professional development credit annually, and all full- and part-time employees—more than 1,800—must complete a series of three required annual trainings, thus creating a demand for over 60,000 hours of professional development opportunities annually.
Tags: Learning and Organization, Learning Resources, Organizational Culture, Policy and Practice, Innovations
Thinking Outside the Box, Literally
Michael Bratten December 2016
Volume: 11 Issue: 12
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Bob Klepac is breaking down the notion that architecture means four walls and a roof. For example, he told a Del Mar College class one morning last summer that one of his former students is designing a meal tray for passenger jets at Boeing. “He’s making over $120,000 a year doing that,” he said.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Community Relations, Learning Environments, Partnerships, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
Dual Enrollment in Science: Paving the Way for College STEM Degrees
David May, Christine Barrow, Michelle Klein, and Felicia Martin Latief November 2016
Volume: 11 Issue: 11
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To address the representation gap in the sciences, a partnership of institutions implemented two different early college/dual enrollment courses for high school students as part of a larger project. One program was a concurrent (in-school) enrollment program, and the other was a summer residential program. Each program ran for five years, and all of them successfully prepared students for college STEM. Many students entered STEM programs in college, and 80 percent of them are still there today.
Tags: Learning and Organization, Access, College Readiness, Diversity, Partnerships, Student Retention, Innovations
Nashville Area College Launches Cyber Defense Degree Program
Eric Melcher October 2016
Volume: 11 Issue: 10
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The computer hacking of major corporations, government offices, and banks is a growing threat. Dozens of high profile cases in the news recently highlight the issue, but there is a solution: cyber defense. Companies across the world are expanding and refining their security systems. Volunteer State Community College (Vol State) in Gallatin, Tennessee, is responding to the need for cyber defense expertise with a new degree concentration as part of a rapidly growing realm of information technology education being offered at the college.
Tags: Economic Development, Learning Environments, Student Success, Technology Systems, Workforce Preparation, Innovations
Supporting Student Engagement and Recognizing Learning With Digital Badges
Veronica Diaz September 2016
Volume: 11 Issue: 9
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As higher education evolves to accommodate new forms of learning and new workforce needs, skills are being assessed across an ever-widening range of activities within the learning landscape. Campus-based and online degree programs; professional certificates; competency-based education; open online courses; professional development initiatives; cocurricular and extracurricular activities; and programs in service learning, information literacy, and entrepreneurship are just some of the higher education settings in which competencies worth recognizing are demonstrated or observed.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Assessment and Evaluation, Programs and Practices, Innovations
SnowFit: An Innovative Approach to Employee Health and Wellness
Lurlynn L. Potter and MarKay Gold August 2016
Volume: 11 Issue: 8
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Many studies have shown over the years, and leave little room for doubt, that increases in risk factors such as negative personal health practices (e.g., unhealthy eating, lack of exercise, sleep deprivation, drinking, smoking, coping with high levels of stress) have a direct correlation on workplace environment, productivity, absenteeism, and associated health care costs to a company (Shane & Kramer, 2004).
Tags: Community Relations, Organizational Culture, Innovations
Next-Level Benchmarking: How Do You Measure Up?
Leah Lang July 2016
Volume: 11 Issue: 7
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How can a college or university apply the tools in the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service and EDUCAUSE Benchmarking Service to achieve its goals? One example steps through a college CIO's process in using analytics to evaluate their context and support a new initiative to improve their standing among peer institutions.
Tags: Institutional Research, Technology Services, Technology Systems, Innovations

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