Call for Webinar Facilitators!

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NISOD is seeking webinar facilitators for 2024 and invites you to submit a webinar proposal!

Benefits to Facilitating a Webinar

Amazing professional development opportunity.
Receive recognition for and feedback about your practice or program.
Expand your professional portfolio.
Be part of a dynamic community committed to student success.

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INNOVATION ABSTRACTS

Current Issue

In “Redefining Support in Online Learning: The Benefits of Embedded Learning Assistants,” April Crenshaw, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Chattanooga State Community College, explores the challenges students face in seeking academic help, and the strategies educators can use to encourage help-seeking behavior within academia.

Writing an Innovation Abstracts

NISOD maintains an open call for Innovation Abstracts articles. Community and technical college educators are invited to share their best ideas about programs, projects, and strategies that improve students’ higher education experiences.

Please review the Writing an Innovation Abstracts page if you are interested in authoring an Innovation Abstracts.

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NISOD’s International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence is the definitive gathering of community and technical college educators passionate about teaching and learning. Over the years, NISOD’s annual conference has provided faculty, administrators, and staff with the resources, ideas, and solutions that drive excellence in all areas of community and technical college campuses.

TOMORROW IS THE DEADLINE!

The deadline for the following programs is March 8!

Suanne Davis Roueche Faculty Scholarship. Faculty members at NISOD member colleges who would like to attend NISOD’s International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence, but lack the financial means to do so, are encouraged to apply.

Student Essay Contest. Students describe in a 500-word (or less) essay a faculty member, staff member, or administrator who encouraged them to complete a course, finish a semester, or graduate from college and how that encouragement helped them reach their goal(s).

Student Graphic Design Contest. Students design the official Conference Program front cover for NISOD’s 2025 International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence.

NISOD Excellence Awards. NISOD members are invited to submit the names of men and women each year who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment and contribution to their students and colleagues.

IN THE HEADLINES

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Community and technical colleges have helped shorten the time to obtain a degree for hundreds of thousands of secondary school students. The importance of these programs in terms of time to degree for the possibility of preparing baccalaureate degree teachers is paramount.

7 ways to scale up community college baccalaureates

In many parts of the country, the idea of community colleges awarding a bachelor's degree is not just novel, it's unthinkable. Since their beginning, two-year colleges have provided an "open door" to higher education with one big exception: Community colleges cannot award bachelor's degrees. The problem is many community college students aspire to get a...

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