SEPTEMBER 2026

What's In This Issue

Fall Virtual Conference
Excellence Awards 2027
September Events
Innovation Abstracts
Schedule a 30-minute Liaison Orientation or Membership Refresher

FALL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Conference Update

As the complex work of integrating NISOD and CCCSE continues, we are unable to offer the Virtual Conference this fall, but plan to resume the conference in fall 2027.

Archived Sessions for Members

In place of the conference this fall, we are pleased to offer, for the first time ever at no charge, access to archived 2024 and 2025 Virtual Conference sessions for faculty, staff, and administrators at current member colleges throughout the 2026–2027 membership year. Access to conference sessions after the event is typically available to conference registrants for six months.

The archive sessions are already available in the NISOD Resource Library! Here is how to help your colleagues find this content:

Log in to the nisod.org website.
Click on the “Resource Library” link on the home page.
On the Resource Library page, click “Virtual Conference Archive” headline or “click here” in the description.

Please remind your team: Every employee needs their own individual account under the college's institutional membership and to be logged in when accessing NISOD resources. Individual accounts are free and easy to create (using their employee email) in the upper right corner of the nisod.org webpage.

Questions? Email us at membership@nisod.org!

EXCELLENCE AWARDS

2026-2027 Dates to Know

The time honored Excellence Awards program gives member colleges the opportunity to recognize the outstanding faculty, staff and administrators who make a lasting impact on student success and institutional excellence. Click this link to learn more about this popular recognition benefit.

Each college determines its own award recipient selection criteria and process. All recipients must be approved by the college president or chancellor.

The Submission portal opens next month, but colleges planning to participate can start planning now to honor the educators and leaders shaping the future of community and technical college education!

October 2026: The submissions portal opens for Excellence Award recipient names.
February 2027: The deadline to submit names.

Please share these dates with others involved with organizing Excellence Awards at your college. Email questions about the Excellence Awards to membership@nisod.org

EVENTS

Webinar

September 3,1:00-2:00 pm CT

Lean into the Literature: Leverage the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to Chart Your Own Course of Development (free)

Webinar

September 24,2:00-3:00 pm CT

Utilizing High Impact Practices to Embed Civic Engagement into the Curriculum (free)

INNOVATION ABSTRACTS

From Apathy to Engagement: Using AI Personas to Humanize Asynchronous Government

Mind Over Machine! Why Computer Science Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever in the Age of AI

A Big Change this Fall

Summer is ending, the fall term is here and with it, another opportunity from NISOD, especially for those who have not experienced past conferences due to budget, bandwidth, or other reasons.

This season will look a little different without our virtual conference, but we hope everyone with a NISOD account will check out nearly 100 previously archived sessions from the past two virtual events!

Established during the COVID pandemic to give community and technical college professionals continued networking and learning, the fall virtual conference quickly became a reliable go-to for accessible professional development and connection minus travel expense. It is gratifying that many members look forward to the fall event for a high quality, affordable and convenient conference; we are pleased to support professional development goals with more resources.

We look forward to the return of the virtual conference in fall 2027. If I can help with questions about that or anything else, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Wishing you and your colleagues a great fall term!

Victoria Rios

Memberships and Partnership Manager

512-471-4054 | victoria@nisod.org

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