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NISOD Conference
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Excellence Awards
 2012 Excellence Awards Recipients
We encourage 2012 recipients to submit a photo, quote and video. For details and deadlines, click here.
Publications
 This Week's Innovation Abstracts
“Leaving a Legacy” is a compelling thought piece about the critical need to affect the future, to leave behind something important when we step away from our teaching and leadership roles. Recommendations include taking personal responsibilities for actively stepping up to the challenges that a different and significantly more exciting future in higher education will offer.
Writing an Abstracts
If you are interested in submitting an article for possible publication as an Innovation Abstracts, please review the submission guidelines.
 Hook'Em Up
In the December issue of Hook'Em Up:
- Meet Tarrant County College Chancellor Erma Johnson Hadley who will provide Welcoming Remarks at the Sunday General Session to kick off the NISOD Conference.
- Discover how long-time NISOD member, Wallace State Community College (AL), created a tree-planting project to rebuild the campus after a natural disaster.
- NISOD conducted an interview with Sherry Zylka, Dean of Workforce Development and Continuing Education, at Schoolcraft College (MI). Sherry shares her thoughts and experiences about workforce education.
- Don’t miss TC Fusion, a faculty group from Temple College (TX), the featured performers at the Tuesday Luncheon and General Session at NISOD’s Conference.
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Webinar Series
 Sign up today to participate in "Using Dashboards and Business Intelligence for Performance-Based Funding, on Thursday, February 16, 2012.
Community College Completion Challenge
 To increase completion rates, everyone—administrators, faculty, and staff—must join forces. Watch a short video of NISOD Excellence Award recipients sharing real suggestions on how to ensure that students are successful.
Faculty and Staff College Completion Pledge
NISOD encourages community college faculty and staff to add their own voices and commit to this exciting and critical national college completion movement by signing the pledge today.
 Watch as Rod Risley, President, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, discusses how Phi Theta Kappa provides the student voice in the completion agenda.
Partners and Friends
 We invite NISOD Partners seeking additional marketing opportunities and increased visibility at the NISOD Conference to check out our available sponsorships. They are going fast!
Check out exclusive offers for NISOD members from our corporate partners, including reduced pricing on products and services, free and discounted subscriptions, and other special offers!
NISODcast
Watch as panelists discuss "Engaging Students, Faculty, and Communities with Service Learning."
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National Institute for Staff & Organizational Development (NISOD)
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Nazar Wright did not allow me to view myself as a failure, but rather a hidden achiever.
-John Alson, Guilford Technical Community College (NC)
[Dr. Lisa Uhlir] not only took an interest in my education, but even after my time in her class was over she has helped me find jobs and scholarships in order to afford to say in school.
-Jose Andino, Tarrant County College—Northeast (TX)
There have been times along my academic journey when [Dr. Carolyn Smith] gave me just the constructive criticism that I needed in order to reach the heights that I have today.
-Bobby Chelette, Baton Rouge Community College (LA)
To just choose one person is a disservice to the whole of [North Idaho College], as it takes each and every instructor, office worker, and student to make a college great.
-Charles Clemmons, North Idaho College
So, Jonathan Gardner, thank you for planting the seed of knowledge and cultivating confidence in my absolute value.
-Charity Griego, College of Southern Nevada
There was something about the compassion in [Nora Linskey’s] voice that gave me just an inkling of hope, that maybe, just maybe, I could do it.
-Fiona Logan, Middlesex Community College (MA)
I never imagined I would be graduating without parents there to congratulate me or support me along the way. But, I will always be grateful for the fact that I had a teacher who took the time and cared to help me become a better person and find a career of which I can be proud.
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[Ms. Kathy Malone] believed in me, invested in me, pushed me to do my best.
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A good professor energizes a student with her knowledge and enthusiasm, but a great professor unfolds the subject and journeys with the student enjoying each triumph and investigating each shortfall.
-Kimberly Ritchie, Collin College (TX)
My return to college as an adult was not easy; but the lesson that it has taught me extends further than any page in a textbook. That is; in life, it is never too late to make a better choice.
-Erica Santos-Buchanan, Middlesex County College (NJ)
[Brian Balman’s] encouragement and committed attitude were what kept me from dropping math.
-Sharon Smith, Johnson County Community College (KS)
Dr. Diane Allen has been so much more than just a professor.
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I know that when I feel like I am falling, [Mrs. Tina Sanchez] is there to grab me by the hand hold me and help me always.
-Jocelyn Valdez, San Jacinto College North (TX)
This has allowed us to relate to the teacher as another human being and form a connection that makes learning possible.
-Hewan Yitagesu, Montgomery College (MD)
