Coping With COVID: A Snapshot of Faculty Skills, Challenges, and Lessons Learned  In spring 2020, the world shifted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this webinar, the facilitators share the results of an investigation into what their two-year colleagues have done to cope with the stress of teaching, research, and service at their colleges since the online transition. Hear about the skills found to be successful, the challenges faced, [...]

Supervising and Supporting Staff and Faculty in a Virtual World The current pandemic has some institutions mandating that staff and faculty work 100 percent remotely. This is a significant adjustment to the way we operate as a team and support one another and our students. This interactive webinar addresses the challenges and opportunities of the virtual work environment. The presenters focus on three specific areas: Communication, compassion, and community. Participants learn [...]

The Scope of Colleges This webinar explores why and how faculty must align and connect course objectives, course learning outcomes, and program learning outcomes with syllabi, class lessons, and assessment plans. The facilitator explains curriculum mapping and how it affects student success. Participants learn to identify the disconnect between instructor, student, and employers, and how [...]

Guided Pathways: A First Look at Student Experiences and the Role of Faculty Across the country, colleges are redesigning guided pathways. How are students experiencing this change? This webinar discusses a national report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement that takes a first look at how students are experiencing this transformational reform. Participants also [...]

A Syrian Immigrant's Perspective on Teaching English to Non-Native Speakers This webinar presents an activity that teaches English to international and immigrant students. The presented activity includes three procedures that shore up students' confidence and build their prowess in a college writing course. First, participants use a candy-based exercise, including the well-known Hershey’s Kisses, to stimulate the five senses and generate descriptive words. Next, participants focus [...]

Questions That Create Connections: Fostering Deep Learning in Person and Online With Polling and Quizzing  Whether online, in-person, or any imaginable combination of the two, student engagement matters now more than ever. In this webinar, participants learn how to get started quickly using polling and asynchronous quizzes to facilitate active learning, gather timely student feedback, [...]

Supporting Students: Pause, Plan, Persist The experience of a global pandemic and the shift to online learning has brought with it new challenges for students and the staff who support them. This webinar presents a three-step approach to supporting your students with a focus on pausing, planning, and persisting during uncertain times. Participants review the key attributes of a successful online student and discuss techniques to help struggling students see a [...]

Shared Governance: Stronger Together Shared governance is a stakeholder-driven system founded on principles of openness, transparency, and inclusiveness. It requires partners to take ownership and contribute to accountability-based decisions. This session walks through the steps taken by Madison College to create and foster a successful shared governance experience. Learning Outcomes: Learn five best practices in [...]

The Community College Baccalaureate and Its Role in the Higher Education System This webinar focuses on the role of the Community College Baccalaureate (CCB) in helping community colleges fulfill their mission of providing student pathways toward economic mobility. Students voice why they chose the CCB degree to create an understanding of why this higher [...]

Bridging the Gap: F2F to Online Teaching Skills Many instructors skilled at teaching face-to-face classes are hesitant to teach or develop an online class because they feel it's so different from in-person instruction. Others worry that their specific subject area can't be taught online. With guidance and encouragement, these same instructors can become [...]