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COMMUNITY COLLEGES
TAKE CENTER STAGE
PROGRAM GUIDE
TA B L E O F
CONTENTS
2 16
WELCOME AWARDS
MESSAGE
27
5 SCHEDULE
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS 82
8 SPONSOR
THANK YOU
KEYNOTE
SPEAKERS 84
12 EXHIBITOR
DIRECTORY
LECTURES
Thank you to our conference sponsors:
RICHARD M. RHODES
CHAIR,
AACC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
AND
CHANCELLOR,
AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT (TX)
2 AACC ANNUAL CONVENTION
WELCOME TO
NEW
YORK
WELCOME TO THE 2022 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES
ANNUAL CONVENTION. As chair of the AACC Board of Directors and on behalf of
the AACC, its entire board, and staff, it is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to the
bright lights of New York. We gather to collaborate and innovate to transform the
landscape of higher education. The time may have never been more important.
This year’s theme is Community Colleges Take Center Stage. Eyes are on us to
understand the new normals in our communities and evolve. The types of support
students need today reach beyond the classroom and the skills and experience
employers seek have shifted. As community colleges, our communities look to us for
guidance, and we are uniquely positioned to respond.
We all share a vision to help all students succeed. This conference offers an
opportunity for us to learn from one another. Here, we will examine programming
that focuses on innovation and explore evidence-based strategies designed to
improve student outcomes.
Understanding challenges directly from those we serve is a powerful opportunity.
This year, we welcome Stephanie Land — author of the bestselling memoir Maid:
Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. As a single mother, Land
dreamed of going to college, but she faced obstacles in life from homelessness
and underemployment to access and flexibility. Her story resonates with many of
our students. I encourage you to join her session to learn about how she overcame
barriers.
We also will hear from a father-son duo who represent the very families we serve
— from Gen X to Gen Z. They’ll share what drives our youngest students — the
experience they seek, the expectations they demand, and what we can do to help
them succeed.
I hope you find these sessions, our other speakers, and all of the exhibits to be
enlightening and inspiring. As you listen and learn, I also urge you to connect and
share. You are surrounded by brilliant and like minds here. Use this opportunity to
build relationships. Our learning doesn’t end at the conclusion of this conference.
Together, we can carry our ideas forward and impact purposeful change at our
colleges that will help more students connect with their future and achieve the
success and future they deserve.
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 3
SAVE THE DATE 103rd AACC ANNUAL APRIL 1 – 4, 2023 | DENVER, CO
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
RICHARD RHODES JOSEPH SCHAFFER WILLIAM SERRATA AVA PARKER
Chair Chair – Elect Past Chair Chair, Committee on
President, Austin Community President, Laramie County President, El Paso Community Audit and Finance
College, TX Community College, WY College, TX President, Palm Beach State
2018 – 2023 2019 – 2024 2017 – 2022 College, FL
2020 – 2023
CHRISTY PONCE SUNNY COOKE STEVEN R. PHIL NEAL
Chair, Committee on Chair, Committee GONZALES Chair, Committee
Community College on Directors and Chair, Committee on on Public Policy and
Advancement Membership Services Program Initiatives and Government Relations
President, Temple College Superintendent/President, Workforce Training President, Southcentral
2020 – 2023 MiraCosta College, CA Interim Chancellor, Maricopa Kentucky Community &
2021 – 2024 Community Colleges, AZ Technical College
2021 – 2024 2019 – 2022
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 5
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BOARD MEMBERS
JAY ALLEN MICHAEL BASTON KIMBERLY BEATTY JOY GATES BLACK
President, Itawamba President, Rockland Chancellor, Metropolitan President, Delaware County
Community College, MS Community College, NY Community College, MO Community College, PA
2021 – 2024 2021 – 2024 2020 – 2023 2019 – 2022
ZARINA MARY S. GRAHAM MICHAEL DAVID HARRISON
BLANKENBAKER President, Mississippi Gulf GUTIERREZ President, Columbus State
President, Tarrant County Coast Community College President, Sacramento City Community College, OH
College – Northwest 2021 – 2024 College, CA 2020 – 2022
Campus, TX 2021 – 2024
2020 – 2023
STEVE HEAD VICKI ANNE KRESS TONI HOPPER
Chancellor, Lone Star KAROLEWICS President, Northern Virginia PENDERGRASS
College, TX President, Wallace State Community College President, San Juan
2020 – 2023 Community College, AL 2019 – 2022 College, NM
2021 – 2024 2020 – 2023
6 AACC ANNUAL CONVENTION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BOARD MEMBERS
BILL PINK JOHN RAINONE RACHEL LORI SUNDBERG
President, Grand Rapids President, Dabney S. Lancaster SOLEMSAAS President, Kirkwood
Community College, MI Community College, VA Chancellor, Hawai’i Community College, IA
2020 – 2023 2020 – 2022 Community College 2020 – 2023
2021 – 2024
JOHN J. SYLGIESKI SHEREE UTASH CHARLOTTE TONJUA
President, HACC, President, WSU Tech, KS WARREN WILLIAMS
Pennsylvania’s Community 2019 – 2022 President, Lincoln Land President, St. Petersburg
College Community College, IL College, FL
2020 – 2023 2019 – 2022 2021 – 2024
EMILY YIM ALISSA YOUNG KRIS YOUNG FEDERICO
Executive Director, President, Hopkinsville President, Orange County ZARAGOZA
Washington Alliance for Better Community College, KY Community College, NY President, College of Southern
Schools 2020 – 2022 2019 – 2022 Nevada
2021 – 2023 2021 – 2024
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 7
KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
LISA BODELL
FutureThink CEO; Global
Innovation and Change Expert;
Best-Selling Author, Kill the
Company and Why Simple Wins
FutureThink CEO LISA BODELL ranks among Bodell has contributed her expertise to a wide
the Top 50 Speakers Worldwide and is the variety of media. She is a monthly contributor
best-selling author of Kill the Company and to Forbes and has frequently appeared
Why Simple Wins. She’s a global leader on in other media including: Fast Company,
simplification, productivity and innovation, WIRED, The New York Times, Inc., Bloomberg
whose keynotes leave audiences inspired to Businessweek, Harvard Business Review, The
change and arms them with radically simple Huffington Post, FOX News, and CNN. She has
tools to get to the work that matters. also been featured in many major books such
as Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question,
Bodell brings a compelling perspective to Adam Grant’s Originals, and After Shock,
the sought-after topics of simplification and the upcoming 50-year celebration based on
innovation to over 100,000 people each year. futurist Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock.
A thought leader and serial entrepreneur,
her transformational message has inspired Bodell has taught innovation at both American
executives at top-ranked organizations such University and Fordham University, and has a
as Google, Cisco, Citigroup, and the U.S. Navy TED talk on the topic. She has served on the
War College. board of advisors of several organizations,
including the Global Agenda Council for the
Based on her best-selling books, Kill the World Economic Forum, the United States
Company and Why Simple Wins, Lisa provides National Security Agency, the Association of
a provocative yet practical approach that Professional Futurists, and the Novartis board
enables organizations and individuals to of Diversity & Inclusion.
eradicate the unnecessary complexity and
time-sucks that hold them back from more
meaningful work, and allow simplicity to
become their new operating system.
8 AACC ANNUAL CONVENTIONKEYNOTE
SPEAKERS
JONAH & DAVID
STILLMAN
Father & Son Gen X / Gen Z
Speaking Team
DAVID STILLMAN is not new to the JONAH STILLMAN graduated from high
generational conversation. For almost twenty school in 2017 and is pursuing a life as an
years he has been called on by business entrepreneur. Growing up, for 10-years
executives, politicians and the media to Jonah competed on the national US circuit in
share his expertise on how best to bridge snowboarding. He was ranked in the top 5 in
generational gaps. David has appeared on the US before hanging up his helmet to pursue
CNN, CNBC, and the TODAY Show as well working with his Dad in the generational
as NPR and in Fast Company, The New York field. Jonah and a team of peers conducted
Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. one of the first national surveys about Gen
Z’s workplace attitudes. The eye-opening
His creative communications work have results ignited Jonah’s interest in keeping the
earned him numerous accolades including dialogue going. After growing up watching his
gold medals at the NY Film Festival, the much dad - David - be the voice of his generation,
coveted CLIO Award, and most recently was Jonah is excited to be a voice of Gen Z. He
named as one of 200 People to Watch by the is the youngest speaker on the circuit and
Business Journal as well as one of the Power50 has already shared his insights on Gen Z with
in the state of MN. CNBC, MSNBC, and CBS and was recently
featured in Fast Company, TIME, INC, Forbes
In addition to being an internationally and the NY Times.
acclaimed speaker on the generations, David
is also the co-author of two best-selling books Success Magazine voted David and Jonah
including When Generations Collide and The in the top 25 most influential speakers and
M-Factor: How the Millennial Generation Is authors for 2018.
Rocking the Workplace.
David’s latest book Gen Z @ Work published
by HarperCollins describes the 7 key traits of
Gen Z. He has coauthored this book with his
Gen Z son, Jonah.
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 9KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
STEPHANIE LAND
Stephanie Land, Author of New York
Times bestseller MAID (on Netflix) &
forthcoming CLASS
STEPHANIE LAND’s bestselling debut memoir barriers and inequalities, dispelling the myth
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will that poor people are responsible for their own
to Survive recounts her harrowing saga as a predicament and just need to try harder.
single mom navigating the poverty trap. Her
unflinching and inspiring testimony exposes Land is currently at work on her next book,
the physical, economic, and social brutality that Class, about the hard truths surrounding
domestic workers face, all while radiating a college education in America. Combining
parent’s hope and resilience. personal experience and reporting, the book
exposes the high costs, predatory practices,
At age 28, Land’s dream of attending college and discriminatory policies faced by Americans
and becoming a writer is deferred when she who hope education will lead to security
and her seven month-old have to move into a and prosperity. With socioeconomic mobility
homeless shelter, fleeing a violent home and approaching record lows and labor forces
lacking any form of reliable safety net. She hollowing out the country’s middle class,
begins the bureaucratic nightmare of applying education has been seen as a way out for those
for food stamps and subsidized housing, and seeking to reach the American Dream. “When
starts cleaning houses for $9/hour. Mired we think of economic insecurity we often think
in patronizing government processes and of the down and out,” Land explains. “The reality
paltry wages, she illustrates the trauma of is the way we go about educating our country
grasping for stability from a rigged system, leaves millions stretched to their limits, with
and demonstrates how hard work doesn’t almost of half of students wondering how they’ll
always pay off. In a constant state of scarcity, find their next meal and even more than that
a single unexpected cost–as simple as a car drowning in debts they’ll owe for a lifetime.”
repair–jeopardizes Land’s carefully calculated
budget, and shows the impossible slipperiness After years of barely scraping by, Land
of escaping poverty. graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English
from the University of Montana in 2014, and
Land’s memoir offers a unique and essential started a career as a freelance writer. She writes
perspective from the frontlines of struggle, but about economic and social justice, domestic
the deeply personal, intimate details of her story abuse, chronic illness, and motherhood, and
paint a larger picture. The physical pain of her has been published in The New York Times, The
own poverty–like the mold in her apartment, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic,
and the “constant burn” and “shooting pain” and The New York Review of Books, among
from cleaning houses–clarifies systemic class many other outlets.
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EDMUND J.
GLEAZER, JR.
OPENING LECTURE
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Keynote Speaker:
Lisa Bodell, FutureThink CEO;
Global Innovation and Change
Expert; Best-Selling Author,
Kill the Company and Why
Simple Wins
EDMUND J. GLEAZER, JR. led the American Over nearly a quarter of a century as CEO of
Association of Community Colleges (AACC) AACC, Gleazer become known for promoting
during a time of rapid change and expansion lifelong learning, focusing on a diverse student
in the field. He took the helm of AACC—then population (including military veterans)
called the American Association of Junior and partnering with four-year colleges and
Colleges (AAJC)—in 1958 as its executive universities. Developing leaders to manage
director (a position later renamed as president) community colleges and to advocate for the
and led it through 1981, when he retired. growing movement was also a passion of his.
That 23-year span saw many changes not only
in colleges, but in the country overall. Many Gleazer garnered many awards and accolades,
of those movements—from civil rights and including the AACC Leadership Award, the
women’s rights, to the Vietnam War—had a B. Lamar Johnson Leadership Award from
tremendous effect on the country’s community the League for Innovation in the Community
colleges. Gleazer was in the forefront, steering College, and the Outstanding Lifetime
the movement into a new era. Contribution to Higher Education Award from
the American Council on Education, among
A native of Philadelphia, Gleazer served as others.
president of then Graceland College (Iowa)
from 1946 to 1957. He was vacationing in Dr. Gleazer passed away on July 31, 2016 at 99
Europe when he received a cablegram inviting years old. In honor of his many contributions
him to take a one-year leave of absence from as the “father” of the Community College
his post at Graceland to head up a national Movement, AACC has renamed the opening
information program for AAJC, according to session of its convention in his honor.
IAGenWeb, a genealogical research site. He
did so, but upon starting at the Washington,
D.C.-based association he resigned his
presidency to become executive director of
AAJC, which at the time represented about
635 junior colleges with roughly 766,000
students.
12 AACC ANNUAL CONVENTIONDALE P.
PARNELL
DISTINGUISHED
FACULTY
RECEPTION (BY INVITATION)
SUNDAY, MAY 1
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
DALE P. PARNELL led the American Association regarding the future of community colleges,
of Community Colleges as president and CEO addressing issues such as partnerships,
from 1981 to 1991. Many of today’s foundational curriculum, the classroom as community and
concepts for community colleges were the college as community.
established during Parnell’s tenure as president:
the associate degree was defined and created; Parnell was born and raised in Oregon, and spent
community colleges were recognized for their most of his career in the state helping to seed
importance to workforce development; and the the community college movement there. His
2+2 concept was established. career included all aspects of education: teacher,
coach, high school principal, and school district
Parnell had a passion for helping students. He superintendent. It was his time as Lane County
had a vision of community colleges providing Superintendent of Schools when he began
opportunity and a quality education for all advocating for community colleges, becoming
students. Parnell championed the need to the founding president of Lane Community
make smoother the transition for students College in 1964.
from high school to college to career. It was
this passion that fueled his 1985 book The In 1968, Parnell was appointed by the governor
Neglected Majority, in which he outlined a to serve as state superintendent of public
plan for educating “ordinary” people who instruction, where he served for six years. In
weren’t pursuing a postsecondary education. 1974, Parnell became chancellor of San Diego
The book provided a framework for AACC to Community College and later president of San
develop legislative language for a tech prep Joaquin Delta Community College in 1976. He
associate degree program that would build was named president of AACC (then called the
stronger relationships between high schools American Association of Community and Junior
and community colleges. Colleges) in 1981.
Another key accomplishment for Parnell at Dale Parnell passed away April 20, 2017 at the
AACC was the association’s work in helping to age of 88. Because of his work as a champion
create a blueprint for the future. In 1988, AACC of community colleges and the students they
published Building Communities: A Vision for serve, AACC’s faculty recognition was named
a New Century, a report that culminated from in his honor.
18 months of discussions and campus visits
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 13DISTINGUISHED FACULTY
JOHN ASH STEPHEN BARTELL SARAH MICHAEL BOYKO JUDITH COGGIN JOHN FRAZIER
Department Chair, Biology Instructor BORNEMANN Professor Coordinator of PCT/ Senior Associate
Visual and Performing Normandale IT Web and Software Cuyahoga Community Adv Instructor of Professor
Arts Community College Developer Instructor College (OH) Nursing and Allied Miami Dade
College of Central Health College (FL)
(MN) Lakeshore Technical
Florida College (WI) Arkansas State
University – Newport
MEGHAN GILBERT- LAUREN GILLESPIE ANDREA JENNIFER HAZEL RHIANNON BRADLEY
HICKEY Instructor HARTRANFT Professor, English HOLLEY JOHNSON
Assistant Professor of Central Community Associate Professor Owens Community Instructor-IT/Systems Faculty Medical
English College (NE) Harrisburg Area College (OH) Security & Analysis Radiography
Stella and Charles Community Fayetteville Technical GateWay Community
Guttman Community College (PA) Community College (AZ)
College, CUNY (NY) College (NC)
TAMEKA CONNIE JILL KEATON DEAN LAWSON JONATHON LITTLE JULIE OLANDER
JOHNSON- JORGENSEN Program Coordinator Lead History Instructor Associate Professor Chemistry Faculty
TILLMAN Assistant Professor of Big Sandy Community Wayne Community Monroe Community Paradise Valley
Associate Professor Political Science & Technical College (NC) College (NY) Community
English Piedmont Virginia College (KY) College (AZ)
Lincoln Land Community College
Community
College (IL)
14 AACC ANNUAL CONVENTIONDISTINGUISHED FACULTY
JOHN O’LEARY JEFF PETERSON JENNIFER JILL SALAS MAHA SWEIS DAVID VOORHEES
Professor Business Faculty ROMERO Assistant Professor DABABNEH Professor of Earth
Community College of Hennepin Technical Associate Professor of Developmental Associate Professor Science/Geology
Denver (CO) College (MN) English Waubonsee
Sinclair Community Moraine Valley
College (OH) College of DuPage (IL) Community Community
College (IL) College (IL)
NOT PICTURED
ADRIANNE WILLIAM ROBYN SCOTT MOLLER
WASHINGTON WEPPNER WORTHINGTON Professor
Assistant Professor of Associate Professor Associate Professor of Miramar College –
Sociology Southwest Tennessee History San Diego (CA)
Community College of Community College Bristol Community
Baltimore College (MA)
County (MD)
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 15LEADERSHIP
AWARD
CONSTANCE M.
CARROLL
President, California Community
College Baccalaureate
Association and Chancellor
Emerita, San Diego Community
College District (CA)
In July 2021, following her 17 years of service Dr. Carroll also has served on the boards of the
as the chancellor of the San Diego Community American Council on Education, the American
College District, CONSTANCE M. CARROLL Association of Community Colleges, and the
retired from the position. She then founded the League for Innovation, to name a few. She
California Community Colleges Baccalaureate served as a commissioner and chair of the
Association (CCCBA) and serves as president Western Association of Schools and Colleges
and CEO of the organization. Accrediting Commission for Community and
Junior Colleges, and has served on the Council
Prior to serving as chancellor of the San Diego on Higher Education Accreditation Committee
Community College District, she spent 11 years on Transfer and the Public Interest.
as president of San Diego Mesa College. She
also has been president of Saddleback College She has received numerous awards for her
and Indian Valley Colleges in Marin County, work. Some of the most recent awards include
where she also spent one year as interim the Pioneer Award from the Community
chancellor of the Marin Community College College Baccalaureate Association in 2017
District. During her presidencies, she taught and, in 2019, the Lifetime Achievement Award
courses and offered lectures in the classics and from the National Association for Community
humanities. College Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Carroll’s professional history includes
service on national boards, numerous awards,
and publications. In 2011, she was nominated
by President Barack Obama and confirmed
by the United States Senate to serve on the
National Council on the Humanities. In 2020,
she was appointed to serve on the College
Promise National Advisory Board. She is
also a member of the board of the national
Community College Baccalaureate Association.
16 AACC ANNUAL CONVENTIONLEADERSHIP
AWARD
GERARDO E.
DE LOS SANTOS
National Director for
Community College
Partnerships, Western
Governors University (UT)
GERARDO E. DE LOS SANTOS serves the As a thought leader, speaker, and writer
higher education sector in multiple ways. He in higher education, Dr. De los Santos has
is director for community college partnerships authored more than 50 publications, most
at Western Governors University. He also is recently “Covid-19 Shines a Bright Light on
faculty in residence for the Executive Ed.D. in the Digital Divide” for Change: The Magazine
Higher Education Leadership program at the of Higher Learning. He has represented
University of Texas at Austin, and a professor community colleges at the White House via
for the Community College Leadership summits and symposia focusing on innovation,
Program in the College of Education at Kansas leadership, and student success on multiple
State University. occasions. He is the recipient of numerous
awards, including the prestigious ETS
Dr. De los Santos previously served as senior O’Banion Prize in Education for his significant
fellow for Civitas Learning and continues to contributions to teaching and learning.
serve on its national advisory board. Prior to
Civitas, he presided as president and CEO of
the League for Innovation in the Community
College – a role he held for nearly 17 years.
He has served on numerous national advisory
boards, including the Community College
Research Center National Advisory Board, the
Education Testing Service National Advisory
Board, and the National Hispanic University
Advisory Board.
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 17LEADERSHIP
AWARD
GREG HAMANN
President Emeritus,
Linn-Benton Community
College (OR)
After a run as one of the longest-serving Dr. Hamann has served on many boards,
community college presidents in Oregon, including the American Association of
GREG HAMANN retired from the position of Community Colleges’ board of directors, the
president of Linn-Benton Community College oversight board for the Voluntary Framework
on June 30, 2020, at which time the LBCC for Accountability, and the President’s Advisory
Board of Trustees granted him the title of Council to the Association of Community
president emeritus. College Trustees. He is past chair of the board
for the National Coalition of Certification
Dr. Hamann joined Linn-Benton Community Centers. Even in “retirement,” Dr. Hamann
College as its sixth president in 2010 and continues to serve with many organizations,
led the college in its commitment to student including as a commissioner on Oregon’s
success and completion. Hamann is a Higher Education Coordinating Commission,
champion of community collaboration and on Oregon’s Corrections Reentry Council, and
brought the college together with local as a facilitator for AACC’s Future President’s
chambers of commerce, industry leaders, Institute.
school superintendents, service clubs, and
more to create unique solutions to local
challenges.
Prior to LBCC, Dr. Hamann was president at
Clatsop Community College in Oregon for
seven years, and as the chief finance and
operations officer at Northwest College in
Wyoming. He also served in a variety of
administrative roles at two private four-year
institutions, and he taught middle school.
18 AACC ANNUAL CONVENTIONLEADERSHIP
AWARD
KATHERINE M.
JOHNSON
President Emerita,
Pasco-Hernando
State College (FL)
KATHERINE M. JOHNSON became president She is also a former board member of
emerita of Pasco-Hernando State College upon SACSCOC and AACC, former Chair of the
her retirement in 2015. She had served as Executive Committee of the President’s
PHSC’s president since 2005 and had brought Academy of AACC, plus held memberships
a wealth of experience to that position. in the American Association of University
Women (AAUW) and the American Association
During her career in higher education, Dr. of Women in Community Colleges (AAWCC.)
Johnson served five years as president of Nash In Florida, she is the former President of
Community College and in multiple positions the Florida Association of Colleges and
over 16 years at Indian River State College. Universities (FAC&U), former chair of the
Earlier in her career, she was a high school Florida College System Council of Presidents
history teacher and a middle school social (COP) and former policy and advocacy chair
studies teacher. for the COP, appointed member of the Florida
College System Task Force, and is a graduate
Nationally, Dr. Johnson’s current professional of Leadership Florida, Class of 2006-2007.
involvement includes membership in the
Registry for College and University Presidents.
She recently completed her responsibilities as
a member of the Peer Review Advisory Board
for the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools Commission on Colleges. She’s also
served as a facilitator for the Future President’s
Institute for the American Association of
Community Colleges and an executive coach
for the Virginia Community College System.
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 19LEADERSHIP
AWARD
BRENT KNIGHT
President Emeritus, Lansing
Community College (MI)
BRENT KNIGHT retired from Lansing In 2015, Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero
Community College in 2020 after serving 12 recognized Dr. Knight for his visionary
years as president. He was awarded the title leadership by awarding him with the Mayor’s
“president emeritus” upon his retirement. As Cup for Civic Excellence. In 2014, he received
LCC’s president, he was responsible for several the Exemplary CEO/Board Award from the
programs that boosted student success, American Association of Community Colleges.
including the “Get a Skill, Get a Job or Your Dr. Knight has also been recognized by
Money Back” job-training program, which People Magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, the
was featured nationally on CNN and in Time Chicago Tribune, and the American Council
magazine. on Education as “a national leader in higher
education.”
Prior to LCC, Dr. Knight was president of
Morton College and vice chancellor of Baton
Rouge Community College. He also has led
Pierce College and Austin Community College.
In 1976, at the age of 29, he was named
president of Triton College, becoming one of
the youngest college presidents in the nation.
Dr. Knight has worked in the private sector as
president of Investment Resources Co. and
vice president of Meijer, Inc.
20 AACC ANNUAL CONVENTIONLEADERSHIP
AWARD
KAREN
A. STOUT
President & CEO,
Achieving the Dream (MD)
KAREN A. STOUT has served as president from 2001 to 2015, where she led the college
and CEO of Achieving the Dream since 2015, through a transformation process to improve
leading a network of over 300 community student success. For her achievements,
colleges working to become profoundly Dr. Stout was recognized as the American
accessible hubs of learning, credentialing, and Community College Trustees CEO of the Year
economic mobility that eliminate inequities in Northeast Region Award and the American
educational and workforce outcomes. To date, Student Association of Community Colleges
her leadership has resulted in a doubling in President of the Year.
Network colleges working on transformative
student-centered change at their institutions. Prior to Montgomery County Community
College, Dr. Stout held leadership positions at
Dr. Stout has received national recognition for Camden County College from 1994 to 2001.
her accomplishments at ATD, including Diverse:
Issues in Higher Education’s Leading Women in Dr. Stout currently serves on several boards,
2018, and honorary degrees from Miami Dade including as chair of the Belk Center for
College and Montgomery County Community Community College Leadership and Research
College. She also was named American Advisory Board at North Carolina State
Association for Women in Community College’s University and as co-chair of the University
Woman of the Year in 2017. of Maryland Global Campus Doctorate of
Management in Community College Policy and
Dr. Stout previously held the role of president Administration Advisory Board.
of Montgomery County Community College
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LECTURE HONORING
OUTSTANDING ALUMNI
TUESDAY, MAY 3
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Keynote Speaker:
Stephanie Land, Author of
New York Times bestseller
MAID (on Netflix) & forth-
coming CLASS
DAVID R. PIERCE served as the seventh Pierce also successfully ushered the association
president and CEO of the American through major change, including financial
Association of Community Colleges. During restructuring, staff reorganization, program
his tenure, from 1991 to 2000, he worked restructuring, and a change to the commission
to strengthen ties and collaboration within structure. As a young man, Pierce served in the
higher education and beyond, and he worked U.S. Marine Corp before starting on his goal of
with other associations to augment student becoming an educator, earning an associate
aid programs, particularly Pell Grants. Pierce degree at Fullerton College in California and
also steered community colleges through a baccalaureate, two master’s degrees and a
two reauthorizations of the Higher Education doctorate in education and math.
Act and consolidation of federal job training
programs under the Workforce Investment Act. During more than four decades in higher
education, Pierce’s professional career
A focus during Pierce’s presidency was to comprised every major level of campus activity,
raise national awareness of the contributions from math instructor to division chair to dean
and unique role of community colleges. At of instruction to college president. From 1980
the time, his leadership brought unparalleled to 1990, he served as executive director of the
attention to public two-year institutions, Illinois Community College Board, and from
which led to growing federal, corporate, and 1990 to 1991 as chancellor of the Virginia
philanthropic support for AACC. Funding for Community College System.
community colleges from the National Science
Foundation increased from $1 million in 1989 Pierce passed away on January 16, 2014. He
to $50 million in 1999. A $7 million grant from was 78. In honor of his service to AACC and
Microsoft helped create model programs in to the community college sector, AACC has
information technology training at community named the closing session in his honor.
colleges. The intent was to match curricula and
resources with employer needs within local
business communities.
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 232022 AACC
OUTSTANDING
ALUMNI AWARDS
MAY 3, 2022
KARLA
IVANKOVICH
Counselor, Educator, and CEO
OnePatient Global Health
Initiative
Alumna
Lincoln Land Community
College (IL)
ALFREDO
SALAS
Founder and President
Koning Restaurants
Alumnus
Miami Dade College (FL)
INDIGO
TRIPLETT
Entrepreneur, Author, and
Speaker
Alumna
Waubonsee Community
College (IL)
24 AACC ANNUAL CONVENTIONAWARDS OF
EXCELLENCE
2022 FINALISTS
ADVANCING DIVERSITY
Clark State College (OH)
Cuyahoga Community College (OH)
Hudson County Community College (NJ)
Piedmont Virginia Community College
Sinclair Community College (OH)
FACULTY INNOVATION
Karla Fuller, Professor of Biology
Stella & Charles Guttman Community College (NY)
Michele Hampton, Professor, Business
Cuyahoga Community College (OH)
Stephanie Whalen, Chair, The Academy for Teaching Excellence and
Professor, English and Interdisciplinary Studies
William Rainey Harper College (IL)
OUTSTANDING COLLEGE/
CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP
Columbia State Community College (TN)
Miami Dade College (FL)
Piedmont Virginia Community College
Schoolcraft College (MI)
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 25AWARDS OF
EXCELLENCE
2022 FINALISTS
STUDENT SUCCESS
Alamo Colleges District (TX)
Cuyahoga Community College (OH)
TRUSTEE OF THE YEAR
Amy Lockhart, Seminole State College of Florida (FL)
Trent Skaggs, Metropolitan Community College (MO)
Nicole Washington, Miami Dade College (FL)
FACULTY MEMBER OF THE YEAR
Mara Fulmer, Professor, Mott Community College (MI)
James Hamilton, Associate Professor, Ivy Tech Community College (IN)
Robert Johnson, Professor, Cuyahoga Community College (OH)
David Voorhees, Professor, Waubonsee Community College (IL)
CEO OF THE YEAR
Gregory Haile, Broward Community College (FL)
Curtis Ivery, Wayne County Community College District (MI)
Alex Johnson, Cuyahoga Community College (OH)
Sandra Kurtinitis, Community College of Baltimore County (MD)
William Seymour, Cleveland Community College (TN)
Christine Sobek, Waubonsee Community College (IL)
26 AACC ANNUAL CONVENTIONSCHEDULE
A P R I L 2 8 – M AY 3 , 2 0 2 2
THURSDAY, APRIL 28
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM 1:00 – 4:00 PM
NEW CEO ACADEMY ENROLLMENT DECLINES IN
(TICKET REQUIRED) COMMUNITY COLLEGES
(TICKET REQUIRED)
Î Location: Rendezvous Trianon
Î Location: Morgan
This three-day professional development
opportunity for CEOs in their first two years on This session will focus on identifying some of the
the job will cover the most pressing trends and primary drivers impacting enrollment on community
issues impacting our sector. Participate with your college campuses, and will provide communications
peers and hear from experts on topics like equity, strategies to address these challenges.
enrollment management, and college operations,
among others. Case studies and other hands-on
activities will be included in this session. (Breakfast
and lunch included, as well as a closing reception.)
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 27FRIDAY,
APRIL 29
7:00 AM – 5:00 PM AACC COMMISSION ON SMALL AND
RURAL COLLEGES
(BY INVITATION)
CONVENTION REGISTRATION OPEN
Î Location: Beekman
Î Location: East and West Promenade – 2nd
Floor
AACC COMMISSION ON STUDENT
SUCCESS
8:00 – 11:00 AM (BY INVITATION)
Î Location: Gibson
AACC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
(BY INVITATION)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Î Location: Hilton Board Room
AACC COMMISSION ON DIVERSITY, NEW CEO ACADEMY
EQUITY AND INCLUSION (TICKET REQUIRED)
(BY INVITATION) Î Location: Rendezvous Trianon
Î Location: Clinton
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
AACC COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC
AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
FOCUS GROUP – COURSEDOG
(BY INVITATION)
(BY INVITATION)
Î Location: Sutton Center
Î Location: Bryant
AACC COMMISSION ON
INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
TRANSFORMATION
(BY INVITATION) AACC BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ LUNCH
Î Location: Sutton North (BY INVITATION)
Î Location: Petit Trianon
AACC COMMISSION ON PUBLIC
RELATIONS ADVOCACY AND
ADVANCEMENT 12:15 – 2:00 PM
(BY INVITATION)
AACC BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING
Î Location: Morgan
Location: Trianon Ballroom
AACC COMMISSION ON RESEARCH
AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRENDS
AND ISSUES 1:00 – 2:30 PM
(BY INVITATION)
Î Location: Holland FOCUS GROUP – GRAY ASSOCIATES
(BY INVITATION)
Î Location: Clinton
28 AACC ANNUAL CONVENTIONFOCUS GROUP – ELLUCIAN BOARD COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC POLICY
(BY INVITATION) AND GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
(BY INVITATION)
Î Location: Lincoln
Î Location: Hilton Board Room
2:15 – 5:00 PM
2:30 – 4:30 PM
OR UPON ADJOURNMENT OF AACC
BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING
NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER
COUNCIL (NAPIC) BUSINESS MEETING
BOARD COMMITTEE ON AUDIT AND
FINANCE Î Location: Bryant
(BY INVITATION)
Î Location: Holland 3:00 – 4:30 PM
BOARD COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY FOCUS GROUP – BIBLIU
COLLEGE ADVANCEMENT (BY INVITATION)
(BY INVITATION)
Î Location: Clinton
Î Location: Harlem
BOARD COMMITTEE ON DIRECTORS 5:15 – 6:15 PM
AND MEMBERSHIP SERVICES
(BY INVITATION) NEW CEO ACADEMY RECEPTION
(BY INVITATION)
Î Location: Midtown
Î Location: Rhinelander Gallery – North
BOARD COMMITTEE ON PROGRAM
INITIATIVES AND WORKFORCE 6:00 – 8:00 PM
TRAINING
(BY INVITATION)
AACC OUTGOING BOARD MEMBER
Î Location: East DINNER
(BY INVITATION)
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 29SATURDAY,
APRIL 30
7:30 – 8:30 AM 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM
AACC BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ NEW CEO ACADEMY
BREAKFAST (TICKET REQUIRED)
(BY INVITATION)
Î Location: Rendezvous Trianon
Î Location: Petit Trianon
8:45 AM – 12:00 PM
7:30 AM – 7:30 PM
AACC BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING
CONVENTION REGISTRATION OPEN
Î Location: Trianon Ballroom
Î Location: East and West Promenade – 2nd
Floor
12:00 – 3:00 PM
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM ACCT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
(BY INVITATION)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN
IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES (AAWCC) Î Location: Holland
BOARD MEETING
NATIONAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Î Location: Clinton HISPANIC COUNCIL (NCCHC) BOARD
MEETING
8:00 AM – 2:00 PM Î Location: Hilton Board Room
EQUITY IN CTE 12:15 – 2:00 PM
(TICKET REQUIRED)
Î Location: Rhinelander Gallery Center AACC PRESIDENTS ACADEMY
This session will include a deep dive into your
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
(BY INVITATION)
existing data and programs to examine attainment
gaps and will highlight strategies that you can use Î Location: Concourse A
to ensure the Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students
have access to, and understanding of, the workforce
programs that lead to high-wage jobs. 12:15 – 3:15 PM
AACC COMMISSION ON COLLEGE
8:00 AM – 03:00 PM READINESS
(BY INVITATION)
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE Î Location: Morgan
DIRECTORS OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES
SPRING MEETING
Î Location: Mercury Ballroom
30 AACC ANNUAL CONVENTION3:00 – 3:45 PM CASA: HOW HISPANIC STUDENTS
CONNECT, ACCLIMATE, SUCCEED, &
ACHIEVE
A FLOOD, A DEEP FREEZE, A PANDEMIC:
THE MAKING OF GENERATION R Î Focus Area: Closing Equity and Achievement
Gaps
Î Focus Area: Student Success
Î Location: Gramercy Hill West
Î Location: Sutton North
Through funding from the U.S. Department of
What can we learn from students who have Education, Lone Star College – North Harris is
persisted despite life-changing challenges? This empowering Hispanic students to Connect to the
presentation will outline the strategies undertaken campus community, Acclimate to the rigors of
by Lone Star College (LSC) campuses to address academic life, Succeed and self-improve for the
mental health, economic hardship, and academic duration of their academic career, and Achieve
challenges during and after Hurricane Harvey, and compete in college and beyond (CASA).
“Snowmageddon,” and the COVID-19 pandemic. This presentation will guide participants through
Using both quantitative and qualitative data, a best-fit instructional initiative that is having a
the narrative of students’ discovery of their own positive impact on improving preparedness and
“Generation R – Resilience” will be explored through engagement of Hispanic students and increasing
the voices of students themselves. their persistence, graduation, and transfer rates.
Shah Ardalan, President, Lone Star College – Anne Albarelli, Dean, Academic Affairs, Lone Star
University Park (TX) College – North Harris (TX)
Rebecca Riley, President, Lone Star College – Magdalena Mendoza-Starck, Interim Vice President,
Montgomery (TX) Student Success, Lone Star College – North Harris
(TX)
A NEW DAY ONE: REIMAGINING THE
COMMUNITY COLLEGE POST-PANDEMIC DISABILITY-INCLUSIVE CAREER AND
Î Focus Area: Institutional Operations APPRENTICESHIP RESOURCES
Î Location: Nassau East Î Focus Area: Closing Equity and Achievement
Gaps
The pandemic brought unprecedented
disruption to community colleges, challenging Î Location: Murray Hill East
institutional leaders to not only respond to the During this session, staff from the Office of Disability
crisis, but develop an expanded vision to lead Employment Policy and the Center for Advancing
our communities in the recovery and regrowth. Policy on Employment for Youth will highlight
Recognizing this reset, Lorain County Community resources to support inclusive career pathways.
College turned disruption into innovation by We will share a recent brief on career and technical
refreshing its strategic plan, “Vision 2025 – 10,000 education and disability inclusion; a blog series on
Degrees of Impact,” during the height of the inclusive community colleges pathways to careers;
pandemic. The appreciative-inquiry process and policy and practice briefs and other inclusive
engaged hundreds of campus and community apprenticeship resources.
leaders to create a blueprint for a new day one
rooted in equity for all and student success. Janet Brown, Policy Advisor, Youth Team, U.S.
Department of Labor (DC)
Marcia Ballinger, President, Lorain County Elise Gurney, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for
Community College (OH) Advancing Policy on Employment for Youth, U.S.
Tracy Green, Vice President, Strategic & Institutional Department of Labor (DC)
Development, Lorain County Community College
(OH)
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 31EXPANDING PATHWAYS TO OCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE’S UNIQUE
CREDENTIALS ONE-STOP DRIVES ENROLLMENT
Î Focus Area: Closing Equity and Achievement Î Focus Area: Recruitment and Retention
Gaps
Î Location: Beekman
Î Location: Murray Hill West
Ocean County College outperformed average
Efforts of postsecondary institutions to embed community college new student enrollment by 20%
“stackable” credentials aligned with industry for fall 2020 and 4% in fall 2021. Readmit enrollment
requirements into certificate and degree programs increased 22% for fall 2021. These results were
are helping students progress along the education driven by Ocean’s unique one stop, The HUB—a
continuum while earning credentials with labor combination of programs, systems and services
market value. Learn more about the Office of that expedite front-end enrollment tasks while
Career, Technical, and Adult Education’s national proactively engaging prospective students through
initiative and the resources available to align your email, text, and phone calls as well as in-person.
CTE programs of study with pathways to credentials. The HUB also drove significant increases in student
Erin Berg, Community College Program Specialist, satisfaction on college-wide surveys. Come learn
U.S. Department of Education (DC) how these results were achieved at Ocean.
J. Noah Brown, Senior Advisor, U. S. Department of Sheenah Hartigan, Executive Director of Enrollment
Education (DC) Services, Ocean County College (NJ)
Gerald Racioppi, Vice President of Student Affairs,
FINDING MONEY WHEN THERE IS NONE Ocean County College (NJ)
Î Focus Area: Institutional Operations
POLITICS AND PHOTOGRAPHY: THE
Î Location: Regent LIBERAL ARTS IN DIGITAL SPACES
Lakeshore Technical College created the Grant
Î Focus Area: Teaching and Learning
Council to facilitate the strategic direction of the
college on applying for grant opportunities. The Î Location: Gramercy Hill East
Grant Council is a decision-making authority on Presenters demonstrate the value and effectiveness
grant prospecting for both short-term and long- of interdisciplinary collaboration in digital
term planning that aligns with the college’s vision spaces. In spring 2021, Monroe Community
and strategic direction. Through the planning, the College professors brought photography and
college has been able to secure diversification of political science students together to explore the
funding and increase external funding to support concept of community through images and text.
new initiatives. Photography students curated, digitally projected,
Paul Carlsen, President, Lakeshore Technical College and photographed archival images onto spaces
(WI) linked to local historical figures and movements.
Political science students conducted research and
Shauna Nischik, Executive Director of Grants,
composed essays accompanying the photographs.
Lakeshore Technical College (WI)
The project engaged the local community,
Tanya Wasmer, Vice President of Strategy and connected to High Impact Educational Practices
Outreach, Lakeshore Technical College (WI) through collaboration, and promoted the liberal arts
programming at the college.
Jasna Bogdanovska, Associate Professor of
Photography, Monroe Community College (NY)
Joseph Scanlon, Assistant Professor of Political
Science, Monroe Community College (NY)TRANSFORMING DIFFICULT 4:00 – 4:45 PM
CONVERSATIONS: LEADING WITH
EQUITY IN MIND
RESEARCH HOT-TAKE
Î Focus Area: Campus Climate and Crisis BREAKING THE STALEMATE: HOW
Management INSTITUTIONS ARE OVERCOMING
Î Location: Sutton South OUTDATED ADVISING MODELS
Empathy, connection, and courage are essential to Î Focus Area: Student Success
becoming an effective leader. Similar leadership Î Location: Gramercy East
values are helpful to promote diversity, equity, and
As community colleges scale student-centric
inclusion (DEI) initiatives as well as to recognize and
support models, they often discover “untouchable”
remove barriers that get in the way. The Adjunct
policies and procedures that prevent progress
Faculty Support Office at College of DuPage
toward an ideal student experience. Optimizing
facilitates honest and difficult conversations related
faculty and staff roles to achieve holistic student
to diversity, equity, and inclusion through book talks,
support often means redefining responsibilities
teaching circles, and workshops. Join us as we tell
and processes, but inflexible cultural norms and
our story of support for one individual to campus-
entrenched administrative silos can stall momentum
wide and community collaboration.
on even the best strategy. Join this session to
Nathania Montes, Dean of Student Affairs, College learn how schools are working to overcome these
of DuPage (IL) stall points through cross-unit collaboration and
Sonia Watson, Interim Assistant Dean, Adjunct innovation to build a truly student-centric advising
Faculty Support, College of DuPage (IL) infrastructure for today’s students.
Christina Hubbard, Senior Director, Strategic
3:00 – 4:30 PM Research, EAB (VA)
SPEED NETWORKING AND CUSTOM
RAY-BAN SUNGLASS FITTING
(PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
Î Location: Rhinelander Gallery South
Speed networking brings together leaders and
companies in an environment where a series of 5- to
7-minute mini-meetings take place. Participating
CEOs and vice presidents will receive a custom Ray-
Ban fitting and free sunglasses.
3:30 – 4:30 PM
AACC PRESIDENT AND CEO’S
RECEPTION FOR 2022 LEADERSHIP
AWARD RECIPIENTS
(BY INVITATION)
Î Location: Conrad Hilton Suite
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 33 RESEARCH HOT-TAKE RESEARCH HOT-TAKE
HOW DID BROWARD COLLEGE SOLVE RESEARCH & INSIGHTS: WHAT
FOR EQUITY GAPS IN STUDENT COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS
ACHIEVEMENT? SAY THEY NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL
Î Focus Area: Closing Equity and Achievement IN 2022
Gaps Î Focus Area: Student Success
Î Location: Bryant Î Location: Gramercy Hill West
In a three-year study designed to measure the In this session, Barnes & Noble College (BNC)
effectiveness of evidence-based teaching on experts will share the latest data, insights, and
student outcomes, Broward College found that trends related to community college students.
the passing gap between Pell-eligible and non- The discussion will center on evolving student
Pell-eligible students was eliminated, and the demographics and needs, with a particular focus
completion gap was closed for Black students in on value and what they are looking for from their
courses taught by faculty who were certified in institution to be successful. Join us for this deep
Effective College Instruction. Leaders from Broward dive, which will cover timely topics such as top
will walk through the equity outcomes research, causes of stress and anxiety; ability and willingness
share the steps they took to engage faculty in the to access college resources for mental health and
impactful work, and provide a look into their future wellbeing; academic concerns and the desire
path toward student success and equity. for academic services support; the increasing
Lisa Burgess, Associate Professor, Broward College importance of career planning.
(FL) Ken Wincko, Vice President of Marketing, Insights &
Jeffrey Nasse, Provost and Senior Vice President, Brand Partnership, Barnes and Noble College (NY)
Academic Affairs, Broward College (FL)
34 AACC ANNUAL CONVENTIONA NEW PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE: LEAD…LEARN…INNOVATE “FLEX TO
LEADERSHIP LESSONS IN URGENT THE FUTURE”
TIMES
Î Focus Area: Teaching and Learning
Î Focus Area: Campus Climate and Crisis Î Location: Murray Hill East
Management
Ocean County College has taken the
Î Location: Murray Hill West
unprecedented circumstances of the pandemic
In the first 18 months of her presidency, Dr. Kristie to re-imagine higher education and transition to
Fisher led her institution through two dorm fires, HyFlex where content is delivered in both virtual
a bond referendum election, COVID-19, an inland and in-person environments simultaneously. We
hurricane and more. With each new crisis, she took began a phased-in approach to support a longer
a deep breath and kept moving, she also learned term learning journey gathering critical feedback
lessons in leadership and resiliency along the way. to ensure success. This approach has created the
Kristie Fisher, Chancellor, Iowa Valley Community opportunity for us to reflect on lessons learned and
College District move forward with best practices. The HyFlex model
will serve as our guide to incorporate multiple
CATCHING UP WITH CAPITOL HILL: A modality choices for our students.
FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE UPDATE Sylvia Riviello, Dean, Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics, Ocean County
Î Focus Area: Student Success
College (NJ)
Î Location: Regent
Amir Sadrian, Associate Vice President, Academic
Join the federal advocates for community colleges Affairs, Ocean County College (NJ)
as they bring you up to speed on the latest
developments in Washington, D.C., that affect STUDENT IN CENTER STAGE:
your institution. The session will cover important ONE PORTAL WITH 2 HIGHER ED.
legislation in the areas of higher education, INSTITUTIONS
workforce development, federal funding,
Î Focus Area: Recruitment and Retention
immigration, and more. Important, new Dept. of
Education regulations will also be covered. Î Location: Beekman
David Baime, Senior Vice President for Government Institutions of higher education produce volumes
Relations, American Association of Community of transfer and articulation agreements. Activation
Colleges (DC) of these agreements relies heavily on student
Jim Hermes, Associate Vice President, Government initiative and research, often with less than optimum
Relations, American Association of Community results. In Ohio, Franklin University and Edison State
Colleges (DC) Community College partnered to develop a transfer
portal that removes transfer barriers and shifts the
Carrie Warick-Smith, Vice President, Public Policy,
research, course details, and cost analysis from
Association of Community College Trustees (DC)
the student to the colleges. The portal functions
in a new dimension of real-time, concurrent,
and individualized feedback to the student
simultaneously from two institutions.
Bill Chan, Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances,
Franklin University (OH)
Doreen Larson, President, Edison State Community
College (OH)
COMMUNITY COLLEGES TAKE CENTER STAGE 35THE COLLEGE PAY OFF: IS COLLEGE VIRTUAL WELDING AND ITS IMPACT ON
REALLY WORTH IT? HANDS-ON LEARNING ACHIEVEMENTS
Î Focus Area: Student Success Î Focus Area: Institutional Operations
Î Location: Sutton North Î Location: Nassau East
Attendees will have a quick review of the current Hear Kansas State University and WSU Tech
data related to the value of a college education discuss how they teamed up to understand and
viewed through the lens of cost versus the value not implement a new approach to welding education
only in monetary terms but also lifestyle and intrinsic that impacted not only WSU Tech’s students but also
rewards. Currently, enrollments at all levels of higher their recruitment and enrollment. This session will
education are dropping and it seems that the public showcase a case study designed to measure the
is no longer convinced that a college education quantifiable impact of this new approach on overall
is the yellow brick road to success. The ways to programs, why they felt changes were needed, the
counteract this trend will be presented in terms of importance of integrating technology into CTE and
student success. welding labs, and how other schools can use their
data to replicate these successes.
David Devier, President, Glen Oaks Community
College (MI) Jason Scales, Business Manager, Education, Lincoln
Electric (OH)
TRANSFORMING DEI IN COMMUNITY Jonathan Ulmer, Professor, Kansas State University
COLLEGES: A NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE (KS)
Î Focus Area: Closing Equity and Achievement Sheree Utash, President, Wichita State University
Gaps Campus of Applied Sciences & Technology (KS)
Î Location: Nassau West
Over the past year a number of community colleges 5:00 – 6:30 PM
have committed to ensuring diversity, equity, and
inclusion (DEI) are fundamental components of their EDMUND J. GLEAZER, JR. OPENING
institutional policies and procedures. Community LECTURE
college leaders also have acknowledged that
Î Location: Grand Ballroom
strategic reform is needed to address inequities
in higher education. AACC’s director of diversity,
equity and inclusion will present an overview of 6:30 – 7:30 PM
what the association learned from its member
colleges while focusing on opportunities for DEI EXCLUSIVE EXHIBIT HOUR AND AACC
strategies and institutional reform. ANNUAL OPENING RECEPTION
Kevin Christian, Director, Diversity, Equity and Î Location: Promenade and 2nd Floor East and
Inclusion, American Association of Community South Corridors
Colleges (DC)
TURNING A WHALE IN A BATHTUB: A 7:30 – 8:30 PM
STRATEGIC FOCUS ON RETENTION
PRESIDENTS WELCOME RECEPTION
Î Focus Area: Student Success
HOSTED BY THE NATIONAL JUNIOR COLLEGE ATHLETIC
Î Location: Sutton South ASSOCIATION (NJCAA)
Improving retention for two-year colleges is like Î Location: Americas Hall II
turning a whale in a bathtub. It seems impossible, it
seems messy, and it requires a collaborative effort.
Learn how Hennepin Technical College (HTC) has
made incremental changes to start turning the
whale by changing the culture to focus on equity-
minded practices resulting in a 4% increase in
retention.
Mark Johnson, Academic Dean, Hennepin Technical
College (MN)
Jessica Lauritsen, Vice President of Student Affairs,
Hennepin Technical College (MN)
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