2022 IACCT Awards!
A reminder that award nominations are due March 8. Instead of sending in nominations in pdf form like we have in the past, all nomination forms can be found and filled out here. The full timeline can be found here. We hope every College submits nominations as we all know our teams are stellar and deserve credit!
Trustee Education: Student Perspectives Panel
January 27 at 9:00 a.m. via Zoom
We have another trustee education opportunity for you coming up next week!
Join us at 9 a.m. on January 27 to engage with some Community College students as they talk about why they chose to attend a Community College, what has been the biggest help in succeeding, and what have been the biggest challenges.
Students on Panel include: Andrew Dowd (Computer Language at DMACC), Kat Aschekowski (Liberal Arts & Political Science at Hawkeye), Tara Craig (Social Work Program at NIACC), and MacKenna Otte (Associate of Science at Iowa Lakes).
To register, please fill out this Google Form which you can find here. A link will be sent to you after completing the form.
Industry 4.0 Webinar: Cyber Threats to Manufacturing on January 27 at 7:30 a.m.
Make sure you register for this free Industry 4.0 webinar on January 27 from 7:30-8 a.m. about cyber threats in manufacturing. Expect to learn important information about minimizing the impact of phishing incidents. Register here.
ACCT 2022 Community College National Legislative Summit
February 6-9 in Washington D.C.
Link: Preparing for NLS
Link: NLS Registration
Hospitality Event
We hope you can join us for our breakfast hospitality event! The breakfast will be at the Marriott Marquis Hotel (conference location) where you will have the chance to visit with fellow Iowa trustees. See you there!
Tuesday, February 8
7:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Marriott Marquis Hotel
Monument, Level 4
Student Legislative Seminar and Community College Day on the Hill - March 3
This year we are doing things a bit differently. Both SLS and CC Day on the Hill will be at the Capitol from 7:30 to noon on March 3, where groups are encouraged to set up meetings with legislators and each College can set up their booth in the Rotunda. Breakfast will be available for both groups (room yet to be determined). CC Day on the Hill will end at noon, but both groups are welcome to eat lunch at Curate where the SLS sessions will be held. The Seminar will begin at 12:30 p.m. and conclude at 3:30 p.m. The agenda for SLS can be found here. The agenda for CC Day on the hill can be found here.
ACCT Governance Leadership Institute: Strengthening the Leadership Team of the Board
March 23-25, 2022 in Philadelphia, PA
The ACCT Governance Leadership Institute (GLI) is an annual governance-development and educational program for trustees and CEOs of Community Colleges. The GLI provides an in-depth overview of fundamental and advanced topics and trends unique to Community College leaders. The GLI is an opportunity for new and experienced governing board members, as well as the college CEO, to collaborate and strengthen relationships as a team, and to come away with a common understanding of the roles and responsibilities of governing boards, as well as best practices for effective trustee-CEO relationships.
For more information, head here.
Aligning Credit and Non-Credit for Equity Workshop - March 28
Nationally, most Community Colleges offer non-credit workforce programs and credit-based programs that operate separately. While there are reasons for the separation of programs and some distinctions are in fact beneficial, other differences are simply default or arbitrary. And so, the two systems often exist separately, causing potential content duplication, lack of communication, and missed opportunities to collaborate and build pathways. Students enrolled in these programs are particularly impacted. Students in non-credit programs do not often have a direct pathway to continue their education on the credit side toward a degree. They are unlikely to receive credit for the learning that occurred in their non-credit program and unlikely to have access to financial aid or other means of funding for their education. The student experience in non-credit workforce programs is inequitable to that of students in credit programs in terms of their access to services, visibility, and representation across the institution. (From “A More Unified Community College,” ESG, 2020)
Iowa Community Colleges teams are invited to a special Zoom workshop on Friday, March 28th designed to help all Iowa Community Colleges identify a set of action steps or priorities to get started on aligning noncredit and credit programs on their campuses. The workshop, led by Education Strategy Group will include:
- Making the case for how aligning noncredit and credit programs is an equity issue;
- Aligning with current equity initiatives at the colleges and the association, among others; and
- Specific breakouts for those colleges that have begun aligning noncredit and credit and for those that aspire to, but have not yet started.
Register for this special session exclusively for Iowa Community College leaders today. Registration is free. Suggested attendees include presidents, vice presidents, academic deans or department heads, noncredit programs or department heads, registrar, advising, financial aid, institutional research, noncredit faculty, and credit faculty.
Zoom Registration Link
Education Strategy Group (ESG) is a mission-driven, national consulting firm specializing in K-12, higher education and workforce solutions. In 2020, ESG released, A More Unified Community College, a guide that details resources and best practices for community colleges to better align their noncredit and credit programs. ESG has a track record of presenting on this framework at national conferences and upon request to state systems and colleges. Past clients include the Association of Community College Trustees, Achieving the Dream, the National Council on Workforce Education, the Hawaii Community College System and the Texas Community College Association.