Innovation Abstracts, NISOD's flagship teaching strategies publication, disseminates practitioner-written descriptions of successful teaching and learning practices and strategies, programs and initiatives each week of the academic year. Issues are available either in hard copy, mailed for dissemination to NISOD-member colleges, or electronically. The electronic issues will be emailed each Friday of the academic year with a link to the article. The articles will be posted on the members-only section of our website; therefore, readers will have to enter a username and password (given to each college contact) to view the article. Each issue of Innovation Abstracts is available in the fully searchable online archives.

Celebrations is a NISOD occasional publication, featuring written versions of special presentations at NISOD-sponsored events, periodic thought pieces, and abstracts of research conducted through the Community College Leadership Program (CCLP). Hard copies of each issue are mailed to each NISOD-member president in quantities sufficient for distribution to members of their boards of trustees and other college leadership teams. Digital versions are emailed to all NISOD contacts for distribution among their college campuses. The online archives of Celebrations are indexed and searchable like the Innovation Abstracts.

NISOD welcomes submissions to Innovation Abstracts from faculty, staff, and administrators from NISOD-member colleges. This popular newsletter continues to offer focused, succinct descriptions of best practices that keep practitioners well informed about successful strategies and initiatives being implemented at colleges committed to student success.

NISOD has launched its inaugural Webinar Series that includes leaders and specialists focusing on hot topics community colleges are facing. Don't miss any of these monthly professional development opportunities.

NISOD and Lulu have partnered to form the NISOD Community Press (NCP), a leading-edge program that allows individual schools to create, buy, sell, and share educational materials on the web quickly and efficiently. As a member of NISOD and the NCP, schools have the ability to manage all of their publishing needs from printing and distribution to the sale of materials to faculty, staff, and students. Program benefits include:

• Ability to publish all books and materials and make them available one copy at a time
• Retain control over access, price, and copyright
• Make all materials available for purchase on a completely branded school site available to faculty, staff, and students
• Set your own price on materials and earn money for your school
• Ability to share and shop for content with other member schools through the NISOD Marketplace
• Participate in forums with other schools

NISOD and Valencia Enterprises have partnered to bring you NISOD Learning Scenarios, a series of online professional development courses for faculty and staff. NISOD Learning Scenarios uses real-life scenarios in a web-based, asynchronous format, designed to maximize the learning experience. New, adjunct, and full-time faculty, as well as educational staff will find the courses both stimulating and engaging. As a NISOD member, your college has the ability to gain unlimited access to all of the courses at a discounted rate.

This new periodic publication is written by NISOD corporate partners that focus on community colleges. Each publication will outline new resources to help your college execute its mission.

Hook’Em Up, a recent addition to NISOD’s membership benefits, is designed to encourage a new way of engaging with NISOD. This monthly e-newsletter is emailed to each NISOD contact to provide an easy way to connect with innovations from The University of Texas at Austin’s Community College Leadership Program, the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, Achieving the Dream, the Metlife Foundations of Success Initiative, the Bridges to Opportunity Project, and more. Hook’Em Up keeps NISOD-members up-to-date on NISOD's annual conference happenings, Excellence Awards information, and other key activities and events. Moreover, each issue contains highlights of member and partner ideas, innovations, and insights. Monthly NISODcasts featuring interviews with thought leaders, faculty, presidents, and more bring key higher education professionals to your computers. Finally, The Learning Edge Blog will open the dialogue for members to discuss cutting-edge topics. Hook’Em Up brings the best of NISOD to our members’ fingertips!

NISOD’s International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence attracts more than 2,300 participants from around the world. Each annual conference features over 350+ sessions highlighting issues and practices of interest to everyone in higher education—faculty, staff, and administrators. In addition, the Exhibit Hall offers a unique meeting place for conference participants to explore tools and resources that enhance teaching and learning. Many of NISOD’s corporate partners showcase company products in a vibrant, informal, collegial atmosphere. Coffee breaks, refreshment breaks, prize drawings, and receptions make the Exhibit Hall an exciting, information-rich and fun-filled place to be. NISOD-member colleges receive a $100 discount off the registration fee.

The College Showcase is held during NISOD’s annual conference and is located in the Exhibit Hall. The College Showcase provides a venue for colleges to promote campus innovation, learn about the best practices of others, meet face-to-face with those who design and develop special programs that promote student success, and build awareness of the college’s employment opportunities.

NISOD-member colleges may choose to recognize their most outstanding faculty, staff, and administrators through the NISOD Excellence Awards program. Award recipients are presented with a NISOD Excellence Award medallion on the first day of the conference and recognized during the closing session of the conference—an inspiring conclusion to this annual celebration of excellence. NISOD Excellence Award recipients are encouraged to wear their medallions throughout the conference and on their college campuses at all special events. All recipients are featured in an awards booklet that is distributed at the conference and mailed to all award recipients who were unable to attend and to all NISOD-member college presidents after the event.

The NISOD Excellence Awards DVD, shown for the first time during the conference's closing session, features selected submissions by award recipients who answer questions about their work in creative ways. A NISOD Excellence Award DVD is mailed to each NISOD-member college president after the conference concludes. Many presidents report that they use this DVD as an instrumental part of faculty orientation sessions, welcome-back-to-school events, special recognition ceremonies and at other celebratory events, and in the first board of trustees meeting each new academic year.

NISOD corporate partners extend exclusive offers to NISOD members, including reduced pricing on products and services, free and discounted subscriptions, and other special offers. Details can be found by logging into the members-only section.

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• Exclusive offers from NISOD partners
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