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NWACC employees presenting AATYC sessions

            HOT SPRINGS (Monday, October 13, 2007) – NorthWest Arkansas Community College faculty and staff will deliver 10 workshop sessions at the Arkansas Association of Two-Year Colleges’ 19th annual Fall Conference here this week.

            Presented below are the topics, the NWACC presenters and topic introductions.

AQIP - The First 15 Months of the Journey

Gene Schneider, Steve Gates, Donna Wood, Diana Nagel, and Laura Cates

            NWACC officially began its AQIP journey in July 2006. Through the AQIP Leadership Team, Examiner Survey, Strategy Forum, Conversation Day, Action Project Designation, Assessment Workshop, and follow-up activities, we’ve learned some lessons and gained some insights which could help other colleges considering their own possible AQIP journeys. We’ll share

Carl Perkins Five-Year Plan Development

Lynda Lloyd and Monieca West, ADHE

            The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Improvement Act of 2006 requires state and local recipients to prepare a Five-Year Plan. This session will provide information on the requirements of the local plan, how to develop it, how to relate it to annual activity expenditures, and implementation guidelines.

Developing Ethical Leadership at a Community College

Steve Pelphrey

            Leaders of colleges need to learn to recognize possible ethical dilemmas, to make the correct ethical decisions and to develop an understanding of ethics and the role it plays in properly leading our colleges today. Attendees to this session will participate in a class ethics exercise and find out how one college took a pro-active stance and developed an ethics program for all its employees with emphasis on developing ethical leaders.

Grant Writing for Everyone: Taking the Fear out of Writing Grants

Ricky Tompkins

            In the current economic climate, more responsibility is being placed on community colleges to find funding other than state appropriations. One avenue for funding and implementation of new programs is through grants. This seminar will provide direction and tips for effective grant writing and mitigate the fear from proposal writing.

Marketing Analyst Program - A Model of Collaboration

Marshall McCall

            The Marketing Analyst Program at NWACC was created to meet the need in the local Retail community for trained Wal-Mart-familiar analysts. To create a source for such analysts, the vendor community, Wal-Mart and the College collaborated to create the Marketing Analyst Program.

Opening the Door for Non-Native English Speakers

Dale Montgomery, Gloria Mallow, and Raul Torres

Arkansas has the fastest growing Hispanic population in the country. What role do colleges have in providing educational opportunities for our new non-native speakers? This presentation will provide relevant data about this dynamic influx of people, discuss educational challenges, and share the model in place at NWACC.

Pathways: Improving Teacher Preparation Through Technology

Pat Kelly and Susan Holmes

            Our faculty team representing math, science, language arts, and educational technology will discuss our Pathways project experience. We’ve integrated Internet-based resources and “real world learning objects” to improve student engagement in both online and face-to-face instruction. Come see our projects and get ideas about integrating technology in your own curriculum.

Reel Roundtable: Take! Comm 1003: “Never Mention Citizen Kane on the first day of Film Arts class.”

Tina Kostelecky

            If you have ever taught Film Arts, if you are currently teaching Film Arts, or if you have ever dreamed of teaching Film Arts, then bring your syllabi, your semester film lists, your success stories, your almost success stories, your ideas and your questions (whew!) to this informal reel-off. Although Film Arts is a Fine Arts course, production people are encouraged to participate, and, of course, cinephiles are welcome as well. Reel good information, reel good time, reel “reel” moratorium.

Serving your National Corporate Training Accounts through the Global Corporate College

Becky Paneitz and Derek Crews

            Do you have corporations headquartered in your service area that have training needs at locations in other areas? Learn how your college can leverage the resources of the Global Corporate College to deliver your training and development programs on a large scale and meet the national or multi-national learning needs of your corporate customers.

Using Microsoft Project

Pat Kelly

            This session will focus on the basics of using Microsoft Project to facilitate on-time completion and tracking of resources needed to complete medium to large size campus projects. This session will demonstrate the product interface and include handouts on best practices and sample projects for analysis by participants.

For questions/comments on this content, please contact jhall@nwacc.edu