2025 Tuesday General Session Keynote Dr. Mike Flores Chancellor, Alamo Colleges A Journey to Excellence In 2024, the Alamo Colleges District became the only community college system in the nation to be awarded the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award twice in award history, after previously winning the award in 2018. The Alamo [...]

2024 Excellence Awards Dinner and Celebration Video

2024 Monday General Session Keynote Navigating 2024: Striving for Excellence in Leadership Leadership excellence is a verb and a noun. As we journey through 2024, our unwavering focus must be on achieving excellence. Whether we lead, innovate or mentor, our commitment to excellence remains paramount. Each individual’s pursuit of excellence involves continuous [...]

2024 Tuesday General Session Higher Education Today: Reigniting Your Passion to Teach, Engage, and Grow! Disruption in higher education is happening at an unprecedented pace. The traditional approach to teaching and learning is being challenged, as well as how we enroll and engage students. These conditions present an opportunity to explore new [...]

2023 Tuesday General Session Keynote The Art and Science of Engaged Teaching: A Framework for Transformative Instruction Join Dr. Claire H. Major as she explores the crucial role of engaged teaching in higher education. Discover how passionate, committed teachers can ignite the joy of learning, inspire intellectual growth, and create a vibrant [...]

2023 Monday General Session Keynote A Culture of Caring: Moving From Transformational Initiatives to a Transformational Institution The fundamentals of higher education are broken. The higher education structures for learning, finances, and employment place colleges and universities at risk of losing the political and social support necessary to survive. Companies are creating [...]

2022 Tuesday General Session Keynote Play to Win! Leveraging the Unique and Valuable Roles of Community and Technical Colleges to Enable College Completion Dr. Watson Spiva addresses the special roles community and technical colleges play in the college completion movement. She also identifies barriers and solutions to ensuring positive, postsecondary outcomes for [...]

2022 Monday General Session Keynote Making Good on the Promise of the Open Door While we know hard work and persistence are essential to success, we also know opportunity and access are the true keys to student persistence and achievement. The 1960s saw the creation of more than 500 “open-door community colleges,” [...]

Patrick Methvin The Fierce Urgency of Now: Transforming Higher Education Through Equity, Innovation, and Value

Dr. Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher Equity Consciousness in Community Colleges: The Call for Advancing Racially Just Student Experiences and Outcomes