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Jump Down To: Friday, January 21 | Thursday, January 27 | Friday, January 28

Thursday, January 20 (Week 1)

7:00-8:30 pm ET / 6:00-7:30 pm CT / 5:00-6:30 pm MT / 4:00-5:30 pm PT

View the recording of Day 1 including the plenary by Dr. Pamela Eddy.

Motivating Change: Meeting People Where They Are

7:00 - 7:10pm: Welcome, workshop goals & overview & goals, Community expectations, breakout group guidelines

7:10 - 8:25pm: Motivating Change: Meeting People Where They Are (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 652kB Jan20 22) - Dr. Pamela Eddy, Professor of Higher Education at William & Mary, Editor-in-Chief of New Directions for Community Colleges, and author of multiple books on leadership in higher education.

  • Breakout groups to discuss insights relevant to their working for change
  • Case studies to be discussed (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 17kB Jan14 22)

8:25 - 8:30pm: Next day, questions, and roadcheck

Friday January 21 (Week 1)

Optional: Creativity Wellness Session - 10:30-11:15 am ET

12:00-4:00 pm ET / 11:00-3:00 CT / 10:00-2:00 MT / 9:00-1:00 PT

Strengthen partnerships: Community colleges and disciplinary societies?

12:00 - 12:15pm: Session Introduction - overview of the day, goals for the day, report back from Thursday roadcheck

12:15 - 1:15pm: Concurrent Sessions 1: Strategies for strengthening engagement and participation of community colleges and disciplinary societies sessions (mixed discipline groups)

1:15 - 1:30pm: Break

1:30 - 2:30pm: Concurrent Sessions 2: Strategies for strengthening engagement and participation of community colleges and disciplinary societies sessions (repeat of topical offerings from Session 1 with the addition of some affinity groups)

2:30 - 2:45pm: Break

2:45 - 3:50pm: Developing a draft action plan for your discipline - short plenary then breakout groups

  • Breakout groups by discipline. Develop draft action plan with shared document template. 

3:50 - 4:00pm: End of day wrap, looking ahead to next week, and roadcheck

Optional: Creativity Wellness Session - 4:15-5:15 pm ET

Asynchronous opportunities between Week 1 and 2 sessions

  • Disciplinary action plan - review draft of your action plan and continue to work on it, revising as necessary.  
  • Look at introduction slides again - those in your disciplinary group and beyond.  Use the comment feature to contribute to  conversations via the slides. 
  • Virtual open access session using google docs -
    • Look at the reports of interest to you from Week 1 breakout sessions and join the online conversation, asking questions, sharing ideas, responding to each other's comments
  • Post suggestions to Jamboard about possible looking-to-the-future across-discipline collaborative working groups for Week 2 

Thursday, January 27, 2022 (Week 2)

7:00-8:30 pm ET / 6:00-7:30 pm CT / 5:00-6:30 pm MT / 4:00-5:30 pm PT

View the recording of Day 3 including the plenary by Dr. David Levinson.

DEI, Disciplinary Societies, and Community Colleges: Partners in Progress

7:00 - 7:05pm: Welcome, session overview 

7:10 - 8:25pm: DEI, Disciplinary Societies, and Community Colleges: Partners in Progress - Dr. David Levinson is President Emeritus, Connecticut State Colleges and Universities. Dr. Levinson previously served as President of Norwalk Community College, Vice President of Community Colleges, and Interim President of Connecticut State Community College. He is the author of books and articles on community colleges and the sociology of education.

  • Breakout disciplinary groups to discuss insights relevant to their working for change 
  • Jamboard of report outs

8:25 - 8:30pm: Questions, organization for Friday's sessions, and roadcheck

Friday, January 28, 2022 (Week 2) 

Optional: Creativity Wellness Session - 10:30-11:30 am ET

12:00-4:00 pm ET / 11:00-3:00 CT / 10:00-2:00 MT / 9:00-1:00 PT / 5:00-9:00 am HT

Planning for the future: Action plans, next steps

12:00 - 12:10pm: Session Introduction - overview of the day, session goals, report back from the Thursday roadcheck

12:10 - 1:30pm: Disciplinary action plans / Vision for the Future

  • Disciplinary groups work on vision for the future 
  • Sharing and feedback

1:30 - 1:45pm: Break

1:45 - 2:45pm: Looking to the future: Discuss possible cross-discipline collaborative efforts; future partnerships that would enable sharing of scarce resources and allow for greater dissemination of evidence-based practices.

  • Small groups work on fleshing out ideas for collaborations
  • Reports back to the large group

2:45 - 3:00pm: Break

3:00 - 4:00pm: Reflections, next steps, concluding remarks, and end-of-workshop evaluation

  • Reflections and looking to the future 
  • Next steps
  • Concluding remarks and end-of-workshop evaluation