The Community College Futures Assembly announced 10 finalist programs in each of 3 categories - Instructional Programs and Services, Planning, Governance and Finance, and Workforce Development - for the 2016 Bellwether Awards. Nearly 300 programs from across the country applied to be considered as Bellwether finalists. The 10 finalists in each category were selected based on their innovative programs that foster teaching and learning, improve community college efficiency and effectiveness, or promote community and economic development through strategic partnerships. The finalists will present their programs at the Assembly's annual meeting in January 2016, where winners from each category will be selected.
This is a sample of a type of presentation I often put together using forms of new media (in this case a podcast, combined with internet and print exposure) to help build awareness and business for the client and a new revenue stream for my employer.
The purpose of this presentation is to introduce a Relationship Building Program known as Operation HBCULinkUp between HBCU’S, local High Schools and community organizations.
Operation HBCULinkUp will be utilized to help address:
Reducing the High School Drop Out Rate
Increase college preparedness and college interest
Increase High School graduating classes
Increasing college enrollment
Provide financial support and education for students and families
Higher Visibility for HBCU’S
This is a sample of a type of presentation I often put together using forms of new media (in this case a podcast, combined with internet and print exposure) to help build awareness and business for the client and a new revenue stream for my employer.
The purpose of this presentation is to introduce a Relationship Building Program known as Operation HBCULinkUp between HBCU’S, local High Schools and community organizations.
Operation HBCULinkUp will be utilized to help address:
Reducing the High School Drop Out Rate
Increase college preparedness and college interest
Increase High School graduating classes
Increasing college enrollment
Provide financial support and education for students and families
Higher Visibility for HBCU’S
Fostering Diversity for the Next Generation of JournalistsLaurenLea
Both broadcast and print newsrooms have significant disparities in diversity. Fortunately, organizations such as the Freedom Forum afford aspiring minority journalists with hands-on courses and internship opportunities to promote multiculturalism.
This presentation was for a joint meeting of the deans of undergraduate colleges at the University of Kentucky, their associate deans of curriculum and instruction, the Directors of Undergraduate Studies from each of the undergraduate programs, the professional academic advising staff, the Provost and his senior administrative staff as well as the staff and faculty from the Office of Undergraduate Education.
"Quality of online doctoral education: cultural aspect case study of the USA"
Presentation at ITEA-2013, IRTC, Kyiv, Ukraine
http://itea-conf.org.ua/2013/
Case study: Instagram, presented by Lauren SalazarSocialMedia.org
In her Brands-Only Summit presentation, Weight Watchers' Lauren Salazar shares a case study on how they're leveraging Instagram.
She goes into detail about their Instagram strategy and talks about their top-performing video campaign, user-generated content, and more.
Fostering Diversity for the Next Generation of JournalistsLaurenLea
Both broadcast and print newsrooms have significant disparities in diversity. Fortunately, organizations such as the Freedom Forum afford aspiring minority journalists with hands-on courses and internship opportunities to promote multiculturalism.
This presentation was for a joint meeting of the deans of undergraduate colleges at the University of Kentucky, their associate deans of curriculum and instruction, the Directors of Undergraduate Studies from each of the undergraduate programs, the professional academic advising staff, the Provost and his senior administrative staff as well as the staff and faculty from the Office of Undergraduate Education.
"Quality of online doctoral education: cultural aspect case study of the USA"
Presentation at ITEA-2013, IRTC, Kyiv, Ukraine
http://itea-conf.org.ua/2013/
Case study: Instagram, presented by Lauren SalazarSocialMedia.org
In her Brands-Only Summit presentation, Weight Watchers' Lauren Salazar shares a case study on how they're leveraging Instagram.
She goes into detail about their Instagram strategy and talks about their top-performing video campaign, user-generated content, and more.
A draft of the new four-year strategic plan presented at the N.C. Community College System State Board's September meeting. A final version is expected to be approved in October.
CCCOER: Regional Models for OER ImplementationUna Daly
Join us to hear from a statewide and a regional consortium who are establishing open education policy and collaboration models to accelerate the creation and adoption of OER across disciplines and crossing the segments from K-20.
Affordable Learning Pennsylvania, a grant-funded project lead by the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI), is now entering its second year of supporting the creation of a robust OER community among higher education campuses throughout Pennsylvania and the region for the active development and use of open textbooks and related educational resources.
The Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) OER Policy and Implementation Summit in the fall of 2018 launched a regional effort to help Midwestern states to scale and expand their OER projects. Leadership teams from the 12 states are working with MHEC to develop and coordinate on action plans.
When: Wednesday, June 5, 12pm PT/ 3pm ET
Featured Speakers:
Bill Hemmig, Dean, Learning Resources and Online Learning, Bucks County Community College, Affordable Learning PA Steering Committee
Jenny Park, Director of Academic Leadership Initiatives, Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC)
Tanya Spilovoy, Director of Open Policy, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET)
Two hundred and fifty campus delegates met on February 27, 2015 to advance the "Big Three" college completion goals outlined in the 2014 Vision Project report, Degrees of Urgency: Why Massachusetts Needs More College Graduates Now. The conference marked the first time chief academic officers from every public campus in the Commonwealth met to develop a shared approach to the college completion agenda, and was keynote speaker Jim Peyser's first major higher education convening since being appointed Secretary of Education.
For more information, visit www.mass.edu/visionproject
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Education for All? 2-Year Colleges Struggle to Preserve Their Mission. (Cover story)
The open-door policy at community colleges is unique in American highereducation. It allows all comers--a retired grandmother, an Army veteran, a laid-off machinist--to learn a skill or get a credential. That broad access--the bedrock of the community-college system--has prepared hundreds of millions of people for transfer to four-year colleges or entry into the work force.
But these days, the sector finds itself in a fight to save that signature trademark. As budgets dwindle and the pressure to graduate more students grows, community-college educators from instructors to presidents worry about the future. Less state and local money is making its way to college coffers, prompting painful choices. And the clarion call for the sector to produce more graduates, part of a nationwide effort to boost education levels, has forced colleges to use scarce resources for degree programs rather than for remedial courses.
The focus now is on the best-prepared students, and not on those who may never graduate. Community colleges foresee a day when access to all is no longer the norm but the exception.
"Community colleges are being hammered to increase graduation rates," says Gary D. Rhoades, a professor of highereducation at the University of Arizona, who also works with the Center for the Future of HigherEducation, a research group. "One way to do that is to change the sort of student you serve." Such a shift would profoundly affect the millions of low-income and minority students who look to attend community colleges every year, many of whom need remedial education first.
In a report in February, the American Association of Community Colleges sounded the alarm on how the national completion agenda is starting to affect community colleges. "In policy conversations," it said, "there is a silent movement to redirect educational opportunity to those students deemed 'deserving.' "
That is an uncomfortable thought for a sector that prides itself on being all things to all people all the time: offering English-language classes for immigrants and enrichment programs for senior citizens. But early evidence suggests that some community colleges are already making judgment calls about whom they educate, and how.
Many of those decisions center on remedial education, long an obstacle to improving graduation rates. Academically unprepared students are usually required to enroll in a sequence of remedial courses to get ready for college-level work. More than 60 percent of students at two-year colleges are steered into developmentaleducation, according to the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College. Because a considerable number of students place into the bottom rung of those courses, it tends to take them a year or more to complete the sequence. Many fail, or do not progress, and just drop out.
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1. Community College Futures Assembly Box 117049, 229 Norman Hall
College of Education Gainesville, FL 32611-7049
School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education (352) 273-4293
Fax: (352) 846-2697
December 10, 2015
2016 Bellwether Award Finalists Announced
For immediate release
Gainesville, FL. The Community College Futures Assembly announced ten outstanding community
college programs (each from the usual three categories) as the Finalists to compete for the 2016
Bellwether Awards. The Assembly had issued a call for Bellwether Award nominations in the fall of 2015,
and 30 finalist colleges in three categories were competitively chosen from the applicants. The field of
Bellwether nominations was very competitive this year with nearly 300 Bellwether applications. Prior to
the application process, over 1,000 community college programs were nominated from a wide range of
agencies including peer institutions, conferences, and the media. The ten finalists were selected in each
category: Instructional Programs and Services, co-sponsored by the National Council of Instructional
Administrators; Planning, Governance and Finance, co-sponsored by the Council for Resource
Development; and Workforce Development, co-sponsored by the National Council for Continuing
Education and Training. All finalists will present at the Assembly on January 25th, 2016 in Orlando,
Florida, and one winner will then be selected from each category by a panel of national experts within
each category. The winners will be announced on Jan. 26th at the annual meeting in
Orlando.
The Community College Futures Assembly has the following programs as 2016 Bellwether Finalist
programs:
Instructional Programs & Services (IPS):
Programs or activities that have been designed and successfully implemented to foster or support
teaching and learning in the community college.
Austin Community College, FL
ACCelerator: ACCelerating Student Access and Success with the Ultrapersonalization of
Learning
Bossier Parish Community College, LA
Fast-Tracking Skills for Student Success: Open Sourcing at Bossier Parish Community College
Cañada College, CA
Developing an Intensive Math Preparation Program to Enhance the Success of
Underrepresented Students in STEM
Carroll Community College, MD
Re-Designing Transitional Education
Chipola College, FL
Creating a Pathway to Graduation
Community College of Baltimore County, MD
Accelerating Math to Get on Path
2. Gaston College, NC
It All Begins with a SPARC3: The Power of Inquiry and Undergraduate Research at the
Community College
Jackson State Community College, TN
Great Expectations for Brighter ‘Futures’: Navigating Unbounded Pathways
McHenry County College, IL
Breaking New Ground: An Integrative Approach to Reducing Dependency on Developmental
Math
Mt. San Antonio College, CA
Pathways to Transfer: Accelerating Students into Transfer-Level Courses
Planning, Governance & Finance (PGF):
Programs or activities that have been designed and successfully implemented to improve
efficiency and effectiveness in the community college.
Bellevue College, WA
OLS: A Replicable Associate Degree for Adults with Cognitive Disabilities-A Turn-Key Approach
Bergen Community College, NJ
“Don’t Let Your Graduates Die On the Vine”… A Community College Approach to Increase
Graduation Harvest
Central Community College, NE
GRADES - Guiding Reintegration and Directing Educational Success for Veterans and Military
Students through Faculty and Staff Professional Development
Community College of Beaver County, PA
Designing Academic Pathways: CCBC's High School Academy
Lone Star College - University Park, TX
The Education and Career Positioning System – Linking Students Pathways to Careers
North Lake College, TX
The One Stop Shop, Where Veterans Can Start a Successful Journey
Rhodes State College, OH
Saving Lives: Critical Incident Prevention and Response
St. Petersburg College, FL
The Evolution of the College Experience at St. Petersburg College
Tarrant County College District, TX
Critically Thinking about Student Success and Completion
Wake Technical Community College, NC
Scaling Applied Benchmarking Innovations for Learning
3. Workforce Development (WD):
Public and/or private strategic alliances and partnerships that promote community and economic
development.
Alamo Colleges, TX
Alamo Colleges I-BEST: The Student's Unique Journey
East Los Angeles College, CA
Great Outcomes for East Los Angeles (GO ELA) A Pathway for College and Career Success
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, with Berkshire, Greenfield and Holyoke Community
Colleges, MA
Achieving Regional Reach: The 413 STEM Ready Program
Meridian Community College, MS
Building Student Workforce Skills and Character Within the Community – Brick by Brick
Metropolitan Community College – Longview, MO
Missouri Innovation Campus: An Early College Approach to Future Workforce Demands
MiraCosta College. CA
To Protect and Serve – Putting Veterans to Work!
Moorpark College, CA
Moorpark College’s Biotechnology Program: No Ordinary Pathway - Only Extraordinary
Outcomes
Pueblo Community College, CO
Mobile Learning Labs – Paving New Pathways: Removing Excuses in Each Student’s Journey
South Mountain Community College, AZ
No Ordinary Pathway to Entrepreneurial Success
St. Louis Community College, MO
Building a Degree Pathway in Biotechnology from High School to Employment
The Community College Futures Assembly, celebrating the 22nd anniversary this year, convenes
annually as an independent national policy forum for key opinion leaders to serve as a think tank in
identifying critical issues facing the future of community colleges, and to recognize Bellwether Finalist
colleges as trendsetting institutions. For more information, consult the Community College Futures
Assembly website, http://education.ufl.edu/futures or email futures@coe.ufl.edu.