League Connections – August 2003
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FEMA’S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROJECT
One goal of FEMA is to encourage and support the dissemination of hazard, disaster,
and emergency management-related information to U.S. colleges and universities.
FEMA believes that future emergency managers in government, business, and
industry will have a degree in emergency management. Read more...
DISTANCE EDUCATION AT DEGREE-GRANTING INSTITUTIONS: 2000-2001
The National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) used the Postsecondary
Education Quick Information System (PEQIS) to provide current national estimates
on distance education at two- and four-year Title IV-eligible, degree-granting
institutions. In this latest report, distance education was defined as education or
training courses delivered to remote sites via audio, video, or computer technologies,
including both synchronous and asynchronous instruction. Read more...
INNOVATIONS 2004 CFP IS ANNOUNCED
A call for proposals has gone out! The deadline for all presentation proposals is
September 12, 2003 for the 2004 Innovations Conference, being held in
SanFrancisco, CA. Read more...
2003 CIT IS ON A FAST APPROACH!
Celebrating 19 years of excellence, the annual Conference on Information
Technology (CIT) is the largest community and technical college conference in the
nation and the premier instructional technology conference for two-year institutions.
CIT features the latest applications of information technology that improve teaching
and learning, student services, and institutional management in community and
technical colleges. Read more...
SPEAKERS AVAILABLE FOR FALL FACULTY-STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAYS
Need an experienced, dynamic, and interactive speaker to help make your fall
faculty-staff development day successful? Let League Services provide a recognized
expert to inform, inspire, and enthuse your back-to-school gathering. Read more...
WANT TO ENHANCE TEACHING AND LEARNING AT YOUR COLLEGE?
The League can provide your faculty with an energizing and informative presentation
or staff development workshop that will send your faculty back to the classroom
eager to use the many strategies for energizing and enhancing instruction that they
acquired. Facultywide participation can positively affect the academic, social, and
emotional climates on your campus. Read more...
REALISTIC ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING OUTCOMES
Interested in benefiting from over five years of collaborative thinking by hundreds of
faculty on many different campuses who have worked to identify learning outcomes
at the institution, program, and course levels; revise curriculum planning templates;
create capstone assessment tasks and assessment tools; and map programs to
establish stronger relationships between courses? Read more...
U OF M ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIO SOFTWARE NOW OPEN TO EVERYONE
Open Source Portfolio Initiative has announced the release of version 1.0, meaning
anyone can download the software and use it for any purpose at no cost. Open
Source Portfolio (OSP) lets students gather, store, and distribute personal
information selectively and electronically. Read more...
APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY FACILITATOR TRAINING
Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (AIFT) is an innovative leadership
development opportunity for leaders of change in community colleges-administrators, faculty, and support staff. Read more...
CALL FOR CAMPUS PARTICIPATION – INTEGRATIVE LEARNING
To identify campuses that have made significant progress in promoting integrative
learning and are committed to extending that work in new ways and contexts, The
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Association of
American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) announce a call for campus participation
in a new three-year collaborative project. Applications must be received by October
10, 2003. Read more...
QUESTIONMARK RELEASES BLACKBOARD RELEASE 6 CONNECTOR
Questionmark, providers of testing and assessment software, and Blackboard Inc.,
the leading software company for e-Education, have announced the release of a
software connector that links the Blackboard Learning System™ (Release 6) to the
Questionmark™ Perception™ assessment platform. Read more...
RIO SALADO E-LEARNING INSTRUCTOR RECEIVES LEADERSHIP AWARD
Laura Helminski, Faculty Chair for Communication and Reading at Rio Salado College
(AZ), recently won the Faculty Award from the Association of Community College
Trustees (ACCT) for the Pacific Region. Read more...
BARBARA VINIAR TO LEAD CORNELL-BASED GROUP
Barbara Viniar became active as the new executive director of the Institute for
Community College Development (ICCD) at Cornell University, School of Industrial
and Labor Relations (ILR), Extension Division, on July 21, 2003. Read more...