Webinar Series Archive
Supporting Students: Pause, Plan, Persist
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 [...]
Shared Governance: Stronger Together
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 [...]
The Community College Baccalaureate and Its Role in the Higher Education System
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 [...]
Bridging the Gap: F2F to Online Teaching Skills
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. [...]
Three Student Engagement Strategies for Our New World: Lessons From Community College Leaders and a Behavioral Scientist
Three Student Engagement Strategies for Our New World: Lessons From Community College Leaders and a Behavioral Scientist Effective communication over different channels is now necessary to engage students who will remain distanced from their classrooms [...]
Equity Insight Metrics for Faculty: Moving Beyond Buzzwords
Equity Insight Metrics for Faculty: Moving Beyond Buzzwords Equity Insight Metrics for Faculty: Moving Beyond Buzzwords Too often, institutions rely on lagging performance indicators that analyze students’ past performance, such as graduation rates. [...]
Increasing Equity in STEM and Career Technical Education With Open Educational Resources
Increasing Equity in STEM and Career Technical Education With Open Educational Resources With the cost of college steadily increasing, many students struggle to afford the materials necessary for success in their courses. River Parishes Community [...]
Five Simple Ways to Improve Engagement in College Success Courses for Better Outcomes
Five Simple Ways to Improve Engagement in College Success Courses for Better Outcomes In October 2018, EdSurge released the research study "Measuring Up: How Community Colleges Define, Measure and Support Student Success." This [...]
Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning: How Do We Help Our Students Recognize and Mitigate the Impact of Stress and Traumatic Experiences
Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning: How Do We Help Our Students Recognize and Mitigate the Impact of Stress and Traumatic Experiences In times of uncertainty, we look to our leaders–at home, at school, and [...]
Mindful Course Design for Student Success
Mindful Course Design for Student Success How did you develop a heart for the mission of community colleges? With a focus on student-centered online engagement strategies, this webinar describes course designs that enable [...]
Alternative Avenues for Non-Traditional Students: Finding Value in Prior Learning Assessment as a Faculty Member
Alternative Avenues for Non-Traditional Students: Finding Value in Prior Learning Assessment as a Faculty Member Prior learning assessment (PLA) is a powerful tool for engaging non-traditional students. The task of evaluating requests for prior learning [...]
Supporting Faculty Across Higher Education with Best Practices for Teaching Online
Supporting Faculty Across Higher Education with Best Practices for Teaching Online Is your institution struggling to support faculty as they transition to online modalities? Now more than ever, being prepared to teach online [...]
Shifting Entrepreneurship From the Perimeter to the Core
Shifting Entrepreneurship From the Perimeter to the Core An entrepreneurial mindset can empower ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things. And it’s not only for students. When faculty and administrators are empowered to identify and [...]
Ensuring Equity and Success in Community Colleges: Using iClicker for Active Learning
Ensuring Equity and Success in Community Colleges: Using iClicker for Active Learning Active learning transforms classrooms, giving every student a voice and helping improve course outcomes. Join Dr. Brandon Tenn, veteran student engagement [...]
Writing the World
Writing the World This webinar explores how a student-managed daily writing practice, within and beyond the classroom, transforms teaching and learning in composition and literature classes. Learn how daily writing can help students [...]
Dante Meets Einstein at Café Paradiso: Renewing the Vows Between Humanities and Science
Dante Meets Einstein at Café Paradiso: Renewing the Vows Between Humanities and Science Dante’s narrative poem The Divine Comedy and Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity were both inspired by the octagonal mosaic ceiling of the [...]
White Privilege: What is It Really? How Can It Be Used to Help Others Who Lack That Privilege?
White Privilege: What is It Really? How Can It Be Used to Help Others Who Lack That Privilege? In this webinar, Dr. Fuller explains the term “white privilege”—who has it and why. Anthropologists [...]
At the Heart of Retention Programs and Practices: Creating an Environment of Mattering and Validation for Community College Students
At the Heart of Retention Programs and Practices: Creating an Environment of Mattering and Validation for Community College Students This webinar presents the connection between community college student persistence and the important roles [...]
60 Free Software Tools in 60 Minutes
60 Free Software Tools in 60 Minutes During this webinar, discover free, but little-known, technology tools available for faculty, staff, administrators, and students to use for improving student engagement in the classroom, as well [...]
Five Breakout Moves to Build a Community of Powerful Learners
Five Breakout Moves to Build a Community of Powerful Learners Active-learning environments run the risk of devolving into chaos or replicating larger systems of inequity that exist outside the classroom. This webinar includes research-based strategies [...]
Building the Capacity for Campuswide Resiliency and Reform
Building the Capacity for Campuswide Resiliency and Reform By leveraging its Achieving the Dream membership, Harford Community College (HCC) is becoming more resilient as an institution. Webinar participants learn how HCC is using [...]
How to Make Getting Published a Piece of Cake
How to Make Getting Published a Piece of Cake This webinar explores and explains several free tools that aid authors in getting published across modern mediums, including how to start a blog, record [...]
It’s All Fun and Games: Gamification in the Community College Classroom
It's All Fun and Games: Gamification in the Community College Classroom Learning is serious business, but that doesn't mean it can't be fun! We all know students who play difficult video games for [...]
Two Heads Are Better Than One: Collaborating for Undergraduate Research
Two Heads Are Better Than One: Collaborating for Undergraduate Research For several years, the facilitators have collaborated across institutions to bring actual psychological research to community college undergraduate students. This webinar begins with [...]
Working Collaboratively With Faculty and Staff
Working Collaboratively With Faculty and Staff Working in today's community colleges is complicated. Full-time, part-time, and contingent faculty teach on campus or remotely, or a hybrid of the two. As roles shift and [...]