A Campus-Wide Approach to Latino Student Recruitment and Enrollment
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Find out how Morton College continues to build enrollment, and especially Latino student enrollment, through innovative and culturally appropriate activities, and initiatives including all night and midnight registration events, bilingual signage, advertising, and staff, inclusive extended family-focused orientations and presentations, and most importantly, a campus wide leadership that embraces our Latino students

The Student Milestone Approach: A Student-Centered and Learning-Centered Model
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Moraine Valley Community College has developed a student success model. Come learn more about how the Student Milestone Approach, rooted in systems thinking, learning college principles and student development theory and best practices, is being used across the institution to promote student success.

Improving Service Delivery on our Campus: One Approach
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Learn how Moraine Valley Community College improved their student service delivery. By developing a core body of knowledge that all staff responding to student inquiries need to know, your institution can limit unnecessary transfer calls and provide accurate, high quality services to students.

Clearer College Connections for Better Student Outcomes
Presenters will share dynamic cross-departmental innovations that enhance at-risk students’ success. Participants will learn best practices that help students transition into credit classes or pick an appropriate career earlier in their college experience. The presentation will introduce a related career pathways project from Women Employed.

Planning, building, and supporting a centralized online education program
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This presentation will provide an overview of the strategic planning and program development efforts that Lincoln Land Community College has engaged in for the past two years in an effort to develop a centralized online education department.

Polling the Audience: Using Technology to Meet Institutional Assessment Needs
This interactive session will show how institutions can use instructional technology to get quick data for assessment at all levels as well as external stakeholders and advisory councils.

EAT: Employee Appreciation Taskforce (What We Are, Not Just What We Do)
A Continuous Improvement Process Team developed the framework for a Taskforce to recognize and celebrate Richland Community College employees. This presentation will explain the philosophy of the Taskforce, outline various activities, and showcase the Employee Recognition Awards.

The Best of Both Worlds: The Blended New Student Orientation Model
Tired of students falling asleep at your new student orientation program? Do students complain about waiting too long to meet with a counselor/advisor during new student orientation? Are you wondering how students can learn how to navigate the on-line registration process? If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, come learn how Illinois Valley Community College has restructured its New Student Orientation in light of a “Blended Format” that addresses some of the common issues that may arise at New Student Orientations.

Student Alumni Associations for Community Colleges: Offering Opportunity and Creating Affinity
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In October of 2006, Joliet Junior College chartered the JJC Student Alumni Association. What started out as a vehicle for infinity developed into so much more. Join Kelly Meyers as she explains how 15 bright, energetic students explored options for opportunity and made a difference on their campus, in their community and on their resumes.

Collaboration: It’s a state of mind
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Collaboration. Teamwork. Partnering. Whatever you call it, it works. Opportunities for collaboration abound. Come see and hear successful partnerships and get tips for building collaborative efforts on your campus.

Alignment, Engagement and Accountability: Organizational Learning and College-Wide Initiatives
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Learn about engaging your college community in issues of service, quality teaching and learning, employing core values, and improving responsibility. Participants will learn from Illinois Central College as they share their experiences with CCSSE scores, AQIP projects, Six Sigma processes and assessment. Participants will discover strategies to increase college engagement and improve organizational learning.

Assessment of Affective Variables: A key to student success and institutional effectiveness.
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Institutions of Higher Education are faced with low rates of student retention and success. This session will emphasize the assessment of non cognitive domains that will enable us to understand individual differences impacting academic achievement and success.

Females for Employment in Manufacturing (FEM) program overview
Learn how Joliet Junior College’s Workforce Development prepares and inspires females for entry into the field of manufacturing through collaboration with the Workforce Investment Board of Will County and the manufacturing industry.

Increasing Enrollment through Profit Sharing
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Rewarding community college employees with end-of-the-year profit-sharing bonuses is not part of the culture of public higher education. Yet one Illinois community college broke with tradition to use employee bonuses in an unprecedented way to reverse a downward trend in enrollment.

Employee Leadership training: An overview and perspective
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Recently, an employee leadership initiative was launched at Highland Community College. This presentation will provide an overview of this program, and a panel discussion featuring a small group of current leadership students will offer their perspective on this training.

Preparing Athletes for Success in the classroom and on the team – implementing an academic success program for student athletes
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Triton College has recognized this need to provide academic support for student athletes for the purpose of increasing the completion rates of student athletes enrolled in education programs. Presenters will outline the program components of the Triton College Student Athlete Academic Success Program and discuss the challenges and triumphs of providing a structured holistic support program for student athletes.

The Positive Impact of Collaborative Leadership
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and the Center for Academic Success have created a collaborative partnership to enhance and support student learning at Parkland College. This interactive session will highlight the behind-the-scenes processes that built these Centers.

Underrepresented Student Groups in Transition: Bridging the Academic & Student Development Gap
Underrepresented students in transition require not only academic support but student development resources to stay connected to the campus community. “Bridging the Gap” builds an infrastructure that will promote retention and matriculation. "Bridging the Gap" between Student Development and the classroom experience via programming, resources and curriculum that supports stewardship to a respective campus.

Revitalizing the Career and Technical Education Curriculum in Illinois: Building Community College / Secondary Education Interface.
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The recently reauthorized Perkins legislation emphasizes the interface between Secondary Career and Technical and post-secondary education. This interactive presentation will describe the CTE Curriculum Revitalization Initiative of the Illinois State Board of Education emphasizing secondary-post-secondary articulation.

Student-Centered Assessment Using Portfolios
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This presentation will give a background of Spoon River College’s assessment plan, which includes portfolios as a graduation requirement and a capstone class that uses student peer evaluation. After the introduction, we will open the session to discussion and several sample portfolios will be available to view.

The Role of A Title III Grant and Moraine Valley Community College in Establishing and Sustaining The College’s Center for Teaching and Learning
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The Center for Teaching and Learning was established through a Title III Grant with the goal of improving student retention and success. The college sustained the Center’s successful programs and services after the grant period ended.

Don’t Know Much About History and What We Are Doing About It
A study of college seniors showed that 40 percent could not place the Civil War in the correct half-century. Learn how Morton College is addressing the goal to graduate informed, educated citizens through the creation of rich, visual, immersive learning environments.

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