Preconference Seminars, $50 each

Sunday, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

	Women Leaders: Reflecting on the Past and Inspiring the Future Don’t miss NISOD’s first Women in Leadership preconference seminar! These women leaders will reflect on their own career path, provide advice for more junior women, and discuss challenges for future leaders. Hear from these panelists on the necessity of building alliances, courageous decision making, focusing on the “important,” implementing change, and balancing home and work life. Attendees will be encouraged to assess their present situation, explore the ideal future, and focus on strategic next steps. This interactive two-hour session is sure to provide new knowledge, creative insights, different perspectives, and a network of resources. Cindy Miles, President, Hialeah Campus, Miami Dade College (FL); Jerry Sue Thornton, President, Cuyahoga Community College (OH); Dorothy Duran, Vice President, Academic Affairs, Iowa Western Community College; Deanna R. Robinson, Professor, Mathematics, and Faculty Organization President, San Jacinto College North (TX); and Suanne D. Roueche, Editor, NISOD Publications, and Senior Lecturer, Department of Educational Administration, The University of Texas at Austin (Moderator)
	Middle College and Early Colleges: Does Your Community Need One? New! Listen to presenter Cecelia Cunningham's overview of this session! Middle College National Consortium’s (MCNC) 15th anniversary is being celebrated in 2008. As a pioneer and leader in the movement to establish and sustain dual enrollment as a viable and necessary educational model, MCNC focuses on the development of small schools in which high school students earn both a high school diploma and transferable college credits upon graduating. Committed particularly to the successful schooling of underserved high school students, MCNC is now positioned at the forefront of an educational trend whose vision, issues, and achievements are receiving timely notice in the media and government, and amidst funders and policymakers. Its membership totals 35 schools nationwide. After sharing outcome data, proven strategies and essential elements for partnerships between community colleges and school districts, participants will engage in a discussion to analyze community conditions necessary to start a middle college and identify the first steps of a successful planning process. Cecilia Cunningham, Director, Middle College National Consortium; Leicha Shaver, Principal, Middle College High School; Howard Finney, Executive Dean, Business/Public Service; and Suzanne Nicholson, Middle College High School Counselor, El Centro Community College (TX)
	Fundamentals of Good Assessment: Student Learning and Outcomes New! Listen to presenter Cathrael Kazin's overview of this session! This session will introduce participants to the fundamentals of good assessment, with a special focus on student learning outcomes. It will cover both multiple-choice and open-ended questions and include many of the guidelines and approaches used by ETS test development experts. By the end of the session, participants will have gained a better understanding of how to use both tests and question-writing to achieve their goals and will leave with some actual questions they have developed. Cathrael Kazin, Director of Strategic Relations, Higher Education Division, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Sunday, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
	Achieving the Dream: Lessons Learned in Fostering Institutional Transformation and Implementing Interventions Participants will have an opportunity to learn about the progress and barriers to implementation of interventions and institutional transformation to improve student success and equity at the 83 participating Achieving the Dream institutions. Observations will be shared that draw from over 500 coaches’ reports from work with participating institutions. Byron McClenney, Project Director, Achieving the Dream, and Fellow, Community College Leadership Endowment; and Margaretta Mathis, Associate Director, Achieving the Dream, and Senior Lecturer, Department of Educational Administration, The University of Texas at Austin
	Factors Affecting Student Performance—and How to Influence Them This session focuses on what the title suggests: an examination of all the factors affecting student performance followed by suggestions about actions that might influence them. The content is based on the presenter’s experience in working with faculty in colleges all over North America and from teaching hundreds of graduate students in a course entitled “Design and Evaluation of College Teaching.” A very down-to-earth, thought-provoking session—full of useful ideas. Jim Hammons, Professor, Higher Education, The University of Arkansas
	Enhancing Economic Prosperity and Sustainability via Innovation and Entrepreneurialism New! Listen to presenter Steven VanAusdle's overview of this session! Walla Walla Community College (WWCC) has received state and national recognition for its innovative and entrepreneurial strategies for helping transform a rural, natural-resource-based economy in decline, into a prospering high-amenity destination community known for producing some of the best red wines in the world. Learn about the creation and operation of the Center for Enology and Viticulture, which includes the operation of a commercial winery called College Cellars of Walla Walla and how this program clusters with a culinary program and the arts. Discover how WWCC created and operates 15 enterprises, including an automotive and equipment dealership (Foundation Equipment Sales) to strengthen technical programs and earn significant funds for scholarship and program support. Learn about innovative approaches to enhancing economic and environmental sustainability via the Water and Environmental Center, which has helped attract millions of dollars to the Walla Walla Watershed Basin for conservation, restoration, education, and development of innovative approaches to policy development and governance. WWCC and its surrounding neighborhood were recently designated as one of five Innovation Partnership Zones funded by the State of Washington, which enhances the college’s ability to acquire additional funds to support innovation. Steven VanAusdle, President, Walla Walla Community College (WA)
	Growing Your Own: How to Develop a World-Class Leadership Development Institute New! Listen to presenter Walter Bumphus' overview of this session! In recent years, due to the looming crisis in leadership, which includes impending retirements of CEOs and senior staff members, there has been heightened focus directed toward initiatives designed to “shore-up” the leadership pipeline. This session will provide a comprehensive overview of research conducted on successful leadership development programs. In addition, the presenters will provide practical information for “growing your own” programs at the statewide, district, and college levels.  Walter G. Bumphus, A.M. Aikin Regents Chair in Junior and Community College Education Leadership, The University of Texas at Austin; Angel Royal, Director Special Program and Initiatives, Best Associates (TX); Richard Rhodes, President, El Paso Community College (TX); Donald Cameron, President, Guilford Technical Community College (NC); and Phil Neal, Doctoral Student, Community College Leadership Program, The University of Texas at Austin
	Innovative Workforce Education Responses to Community Needs Come learn how the Austin Community College District (ACC) has responded to a wide range of both urban and rural workforce needs throughout its eight-county service area. This session will profile such things as the Clinical Education Partnership between Seton Family of Hospitals, ACC, and the UT System, as well as ACC’s Bellwether-nominated video gaming program. In addition, examples of programs that re-train displaced workers affected by fluctuations in the local economy, ACC's collaborative relationships with area chambers of commerce, WorkSource, and other non-profit organizations seeking to enhance workforce training and economic development in Central Texas will be shared. Steve Kinslow, President; and Mike Midgley, Vice President, Workforce Education and Business Development, Austin Community College (TX)
	Dual Enrollment Academy Programs New! Listen to an overview of this session! The Dual Enrollment Medical Science Academy (DEMSA) and Dual Enrollment Engineering Academy (DEEA) programs are two year-round dual enrollment programs developed for high school students who are seriously interested in pursuing a career in health care or engineering. The purpose of the DEMSA program is to increase the number of students committed to careers and service in medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health; whereas the purpose of the DEEA program is to increase the number of area students committed to careers in industrial, civil, petroleum, biomedical, mechanical, manufacturing and electrical engineering. The academies are designed to encourage students to explore careers in health care or engineering through college coursework that motivate, educate, and prepare students for higher education in the field of medicine or engineering while completing an Associate of Science (AS) degree in biology or engineering by the end of their senior year of high school. Nicolas Gonzalez, Director of High School Programs and Services; Lupe Chavez, Coordinator for Dual Enrollment Academies; and Shirley A. Reed, President, South Texas College

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