January 22, 2016 NTCCC Fred Hills, PhD Richard Leslie, MFA

 What is it?  Space  Resources  Time  Focus  For who?  Faculty, students, staff, community

 Engage students in their education  Awaken curiosity for teaching & learning  Develop career/professional skills  Build contacts and visibility at professional circles  Increase acceptance into competitive programs and universities

 Project/inquiry-based learning  Classroom projects, assignments, and presentations  Simulation Labs  Scholarly Communication  Poster presentations  Scholars Day – posters, prototypes, and presentations  Present and publish at local, state and national forums

 Highlander Undergraduate Research Institute  Started through the Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative (CCURI)  NSF grant through Finger Lakes College in NY  National effort, focused on Sciences  Student focuses research  Direct ties to Honors College

 Expand inquiry beyond the classroom  Provide local, national and international travel opportunities

 Varied workshops on Teaching Strategies  Problem/inquiry-based learning  Flipped Learning  Collaborative/Cooperative Learning  Teaching and learning in both F2F and Online classes  Faculty Learning Communities  Faculty Summer Institute  Lead to certification

 Teaching and Learning Book Club  Participants choose the topics and books  Metacognition  F2F and online cohorts  Develop implementation plan for incorporating metacognitive strategies into coursework  Great Teachers Seminar  Peer led retreat  Sharing of best practices in teaching and learning  LEAP Cohort  Part of QEP  Training and implementation of EI skills

 Topic focused faculty engagement  Variety of themes  Web 2.0  Cloud tools – Google Docs, One Note, One Drive  Adobe Creative Suite  Multiple Teaching Strategies – Collaboration  Inquiry-based Learning/Applied Learning

 Rapid growth of student participation in MCC Scholar Day  Increased use of project/inquiry based projects across campus/disciplines  Students placement in 4-year institutional research programs  Presentations at local, state & national professional conferences  Increased faculty sharing and collaboration cross discipline on campus  Increase cross discipline classroom collaboration  Technical Writing and Biology  Speech and Engineering  Marketing and Engineering

 Innovative pedagogy  project/inquiry based  cooperative and/or individual research projects  Ties to new State Core requirements  Complements College student success initiatives  Interdisciplinary  Rewards more engaged students and faculty

 Promoting applied learning in traditional community college mission with shrinking resources  Buy-in from faculty – time and effort  Promoting initiative with campus & community  Making it interdisciplinary  Building pathways with HS and 4-year partners  Long term sustainability

 Expanding creative spaces and inquiry opportunities for students and faculty  Building a Learning Commons  Digital Repository for Information Exchange  Building collaborative arrangements with HS  Expanding “Summer Camps” for students and faculty  Expanding pathways with 4-year college partners

 Administration buy-in key to success  Don't reinvent the wheel - find those doing similar projects and invite them to join  Knowing when to lead and when to step back and follow  Promote, promote, promote

Fred Hills, PhD Dean of Arts, Sciences & Business Richard Leslie Coordinator, Center for Teaching and Learning