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04 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
06 WELCOME TO THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 06 Schedule of Conference Services 07 Stay Connected 07 Food at the Annual Conference 08 Parking at the Hyatt 09 Hyatt and Swissotel Maps 11 Attendee Resources 11 Connecting With Your HLC Staff Liaison
PEER CORPS PROGRAM APRIL 13 6
ACCREDITATION WORKSHOP APRIL 21 7
APRIL APRIL APRIL 29 GENERAL PROGRAM 8 9 10 29 Academy Presentations During the General Program 32 Tribal College Presentations During the General Program 33 Special Interest Group Meetings 35 Sunday 53 Monday 69 Tuesday 73 EXHIBIT HALL
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Table of Contents LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
WELCOME to the Higher Learning Commission 2018 Annual Conference, “Innovation and Transformation.” You will find a rich array of speakers and sessions, providing insight into our theme and the rapidly changing world of higher education. Increased pressure for accountability from the public, changing demographics and increased competition are among the many catalysts driving innovation at our colleges and universities. New ways of using data analytics and alternative business models are transforming teaching, learning and student success.
You will learn about the internal and external activities of Take the time to use our mobile app and plan out your the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and our strategic time during the conference to make your attendance directions of Value to Membership, Innovation, Student most productive. Visit the Exhibit Hall and network with Success, Thought Leadership and Advocacy (VISTA). The fellow attendees, as we often hear meeting new people Partners for Transformation group, a blue ribbon panel on and sharing ideas are among the most valuable takeaways accreditation for the 21st century, is looking at three areas: from the conference. Our Conference Committee worked Relationship to the Triad and Beyond, the Revolution of hard to provide you an excellent experience based on input Postsecondary Education: The Unbundling, and Student- from membership; you will see your suggestions were Focused Accrediting Agencies. Other groups are working invaluable and heard. on student success definitions and initiatives, helping HLC determine the best ways to assure accountability within I want to give a special “shout out” to the dedicated staff the context of a wide range of institutions. A final group of at HLC and our passionate, experienced and hard-working representative institutions is spending time on the critical Board members. As always, we are so grateful for our area of innovation. Thought papers are being developed Peer Corps, Academy mentors and others who willingly on several related topics. As to advocacy, HLC is actively give their valuable time and experience to assure and engaged in the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act advance quality for hundreds of thousands of students in and other pending or proposed legislation. the HLC region. Have a great experience this year at the conference, and thank you for your participation! Throughout the conference, you will no doubt hear some discussions about the salient social issues on campuses Barbara Gellman-Danley across the country and the possible intersect with President, Higher Learning Commission accreditation. We would be remiss not to engage in dialog about their impact on the overall educational experience of our students, the faculty and staff, and those holding higher education accountable. For better or worse, regardless of political affiliation, this is a disruptive moment for our member institutions. It is indeed a transformative period for higher learning, one during which actions will lead to a long-term imprimatur on how our colleges are proactive in finding solutions.
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THANK YOU SCHEDULE OF to the 2018 Annual Conference CONFERENCE SERVICES Program Planning Committee This selected group of faculty and administrative leaders at HLC member institutions played a key role in writing the HLC Registration Desk Call for Proposals, reviewing submissions and planning the General Program for this year’s conference. The committee GRAND BALLROOM FOYER was designed to represent the range of institutional types BALLROOM LEVEL / HYATT EAST TOWER included in HLC’s membership in order to ensure relevant Thurs, April 5 Sun, April 8 programming for all conference attendees. 3:00–7:00 pm 6:30am–5:00 pm HLC thanks the following committee members: Fri, April 6 Mon, April 9 7:00am–5:30 pm 7:00am–5:00 pm Community Colleges Leslie Bleskachek Minnesota State College Southeast Sat, April 7 Tues, April 10 Jill Carlson Santa Fe Community College 6:30am–5:00 pm 7:00–10:30 am Harry Faulk Mountwest Community and Technical College Phillip Garber Elgin Community College HLC Information Desks Jim Simpson Scottsdale Community College Donna Statzell Hennepin Technical College Need help with the mobile app? Have questions Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities about the conference? Visit an HLC Information Desk. Eric Bolger College of the Ozarks GRAND BALLROOM FOYER Caryn Chaden DePaul University BALLROOM LEVEL / HYATT EAST TOWER Mary Ann Danielson Creighton University Gayle Kearns Southwestern Christian University Fri, April 6 Mon, April 9 Kristin Stehouwer Northwood University Sun, April 2 7:00 am–5:30 pm 7:00 am–5:00 pm 6:30am–6:30pm Sat, April 7 Tues, April 10 Private, For-Profit Colleges and Universities 7:00 am–5:00 pm 7:00–10:30 am Sue Darby National American University Jan Garfield Walden University Sun, April 8 7:00 am–5:00 pm Regional Colleges and Universities Janet Smith Pittsburg State University REGENCY BALLROOM FOYER Becky Timmons University of Arkansas-Fort Smith BALLROOM LEVEL / HYATT WEST TOWER Mike Wilds Northeastern State University Sat, April 7 Mon, April 9 Research Institutions 7:00 am–5:00 pm 9:00 am–5:00 pm Kelly Funk Michigan State University Sun, April 8 Tues, April 10 Dev Venugopalan University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 9:00 am–5:00 pm 7:00–10:30 am Karen Zunkel Iowa State University Tribal Colleges and Universities ZURICH BALLROOM FOYER Koreen Ressler Sitting Bull College SWISSOTEL The 2019 Annual Conference Program Planning Committee, Sat, April 7 Mon, April 9 including some returning members from 2018, is already at 6:30 am–3:30 pm 10:00 am–5:00 pm work on developing the Call for Proposals for next year’s Sun, April 8 conference. 10:00 am–5:00 pm
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STAY CONNECTED FOOD AT THE Complimentary Wireless Internet ANNUAL CONFERENCE The 2018 annual conference features complimentary wireless internet access throughout the public spaces, meeting rooms and Exhibit Hall. Information on how to Sunday access the wireless internet will be posted on conference 7:00–8:00 AM signage and in the mobile app. Complimentary Continental Breakfast Conference Mobile App Exhibit Hall Enhance your conference experience by taking advantage 12:15–1:30 PM of the mobile app. With the mobile app, you can: Lunch Break • Download presentation slides and handouts. HLC-hosted buffet lunch: Exhibit Hall* • Create an account to take and save notes and access Market Chicago: Hyatt Lobby your schedule on multiple devices. American Craft Kitchen and Bar: Hyatt Lobby The Living Room: Skyway Level, West Tower • Create your own personalized schedule. *advance purchase required • Scan the list of attendees and add personal appointments to your schedule. Monday • Evaluate presentations. 7:00–8:30 AM • Look up the name of your HLC staff liaison. Complimentary Continental Breakfast • View the exhibitors and locate their booths. Exhibit Hall • View the hotel floor plans. 12:15–1:00 PM • Get important updates, presentation changes Lunch Break and more. Market Chicago: Hyatt Lobby Download the HLC conference app for free to an iPhone, American Craft Kitchen and Bar: Hyatt Lobby iPad or Android device by following these instructions: The Living Room: Skyway Level, West Tower Food Court: Illinois Center 1. In the iTunes or Google Play store: Search for “AttendeeHub,” an app by CrowdCompass. OR On your mobile device browser: Hotel and Area Restaurants Visit https://crowd.cc/s/1fgT2. For additional breakfast and lunch options, the Hyatt features 2. Download AttendeeHub, then search within the app a number of restaurant choices, including American Craft for the event “2018 HLC Annual Conference.” Kitchen and Bar, The Living Room and Market Chicago. Market Chicago on the main floor has offerings for those who 3. Enter the password HLC2018AC. Follow the instructions want to pick up a quick snack, a sandwich, breakfast items, to verify your account. Starbucks coffee and more. It’s a great option on Sunday, Social Media along with the HLC-hosted lunch in the Exhibit Hall, when Stay in touch with HLC and other attendees throughout the many of the restaurants at the Illinois Center are closed. conference on Twitter. Receive reminders about upcoming The Illinois Center features a wide variety of food options sessions, see pictures of conference highlights and share during the lunch hour. Accessible via indoor walkways, it’s a your own experiences. Follow HLC @hlcommission and use great option during inclement weather. It is open for lunch hashtag #HLC2018 to join the conversation. on Monday and Tuesday but closed on Sunday. For dinner, Stetson’s Modern Steak and Sushi and American Craft Kitchen and Bar are open at the Hyatt. In addition, Chicago offers an extensive range of restaurants for all i MARK YOUR CALENDAR budgets and tastes. Visit the mobile app for links to listings of restaurants and other attractions. for future HLC Annual Conference dates: 2019 April 5–9 2020 April 17–21
Welcome to the Annual Conference PARKING AT THE HYATT Access to the Exhibit Hall Parking is available in both towers of the Hyatt Regency The Exhibit Hall can be accessed from the Ballroom Level Chicago. Conference attendees are eligible for a 50 percent in the East Tower. Escalators to the Exhibit Hall are located discount on parking. near Columbus Hall as well as behind the Grand Ballroom. Hyatt guests Keynote Viewing Options The discounted rates should appear on your hotel bill. You To ease traffic into and out of the Grand Ballroom, the do not need a discount sticker. Please check with the hotel keynote presentations on Sunday and Monday mornings registration desk if the rate is not properly reflected on your will be simultaneously broadcast to Columbus Hall in the bill. Once you have paid for parking, you will have in–out East Tower and the Crystal Ballroom in the West Tower. privileges during the course of your stay. Non-Hyatt guests You will need to obtain a discount sticker to attach to your parking ticket on each day that you park to obtain the reduced rate. In the East Tower, you can pick up discount stickers at the Registration Desk or the Information Desk located in the Grand Ballroom Foyer; in the West Tower, pick up stickers at the Information Desk, located in the Regency Ballroom Foyer. Important note for non-Hyatt guests: Do not pay for parking upon arrival. You will not be able to use the discount if you Committed have prepaid your parking. to Education NAVIGATING THE HOTEL Sessions at the Swissotel Husch Blackwell is proud to The Presidents Program and some sessions in the General sponsor the 2018 Higher Learning Program will be held at the Swissotel Chicago, which is a Commission Annual Conference. short walk from the Hyatt. Husch Blackwell’s team of Education Outdoor Route: Walk east along Wacker Drive. Cross lawyers supports you in serving students Columbus Drive, and the Swissotel will be on your right about and achieving your mission through halfway down the block. Enter the lobby and follow signs to compliance, dispute resolution, and outside general counsel services. the HLC meeting rooms. Indoor Pedway Route: An entrance to the pedway is located on the Concourse Level of the Hyatt’s East Tower. Follow huschblackwell.com 816.983.8000 signs to the HLC meeting rooms. Arizona | California | Colorado | Illinois | Missouri Nebraska | Tennessee | Texas | Washington, D.C. | Wisconsin Walking Between Sessions The choice of a lawyer is an important decision and should not be based solely upon advertisements. Most breaks between sessions are 15 minutes long. If you are crossing between the East and West Towers of the Hyatt, or between the Hyatt and the Swissotel, be sure to leave promptly in order to arrive at the next session on time. Look for HLC signage throughout the hotels to indicate the best routes to meeting rooms.
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Lucerne II 1,920 178 64 MILLENNIUM PARK TO 20 30 9 13 4 110 140 100 50 180 50 Lucerne III 2,048 190 64 20 32 10 13 4 130 160 105 60 200 50 Alpine 2,560 238 80 24 32 10 18 6 180 220 145 75 250 70 Alpine I 1,024 95 32 10 32 10 18 6 50 80 40 30 80 28 Alpine II 1,536 143 48 15 32 10 18 6 110 150 72 50 150 39 St. Moritz 270 25 18 5 15 5 9 2 20 20 8 12 10 10 Grindelwald 270 25 18 5 15 5 9 2 20 20 8 12 10 10 Zermatt 270 25 18 5 15 5 9 2 20 20 8 12 Benton10 10 Gstaad 270 25 18 5 15 5 9 2 20 20 8 12 10 10 Verbier 270 25 18 5 15 5 9 2 20 20 8 12 10 10
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2nd Floor Arosa 391 36 23 7 17 5 11 4 20 20 12 – 30 15 Lugano 391 36 23 7 17 5 11 4 20 20 12 – 30 15 ATTENDEE RESOURCES
During your time at the conference, take advantage of these CONNECTING WITH YOUR resources to learn more about HLC programs and processes and to connect with the HLC staff and attendees. HLC STAFF LIAISON HLC staff liaisons will be available for brief meetings during ATTENDEE LOUNGE the following times. These meetings should be used for introductions and quick questions (typically no more than The Attendee Lounge is an area where conference five minutes) to enable the staff liaisons to meet as many participants can rest, refresh and access resources. The representatives from their institutions as possible. lounge includes charging stations, water, seating and small tables for working or networking. To reserve an appointment time, please leave your business card with the HLC staff member at the appointment desk The following HLC resources are located within the in the Attendee Lounge. The desk attendant will begin Attendee Lounge: accepting cards 30 minutes prior to the liaison’s arrival. • Assurance Lab Appointments will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis until slots are filled. • Accreditation Information Desk Don’t know the name of your staff liaison? Check your • Liaison Appointment Desk institution’s listing in the conference mobile app or at one of the iPad kiosks in the Hyatt. ASSURANCE LAB Sample Assurance System submissions from a variety of Tom Bordenkircher Eric Martin institutions are provided so attendees may see how others Sunday 11:00 am–12:00 pm Sunday 10:00–11:00 am have organized materials and provided evidence. In addition 4:00–5:00 pm Monday 3:00–4:00 pm to samples from Standard and Open Pathway institutions, Monday 1:00–3:00 pm a sample from a mock AQIP Pathway institution is provided Jeffrey Rosen as a resource to institutions that are transitioning to the Stephanie Brzuzy Sunday 3:00–5:00 pm Assurance System. Sunday 3:00–4:00 pm Monday 2:00–3:00 pm HLC staff members will be at the Accreditation Information Monday 1:00–2:00 pm Desk to assist with questions. These samples will be Karen Solomon available in the Attendee Lounge and will remain accessible A. Gigi Fansler Monday 10:00 am–12:00 pm online after the conference. Sunday 3:00–4:00 pm Monday 3:00–4:00 pm Linnea Stenson HLC thanks the institutions that have shared their Sunday 4:00–5:00 pm submissions for the benefit of others. The following sample Barbara Johnson Monday 10:00–11:00 am Assurance Arguments are available to view: Sunday 1:00–2:00 pm 1:00–2:00 pm • Blue Ridge Community and Technical College Monday 10:00–11:00 am (Standard Pathway) Mary Vanis Andrew Lootens-White • Marian University (Open Pathway) Sunday 2:00–3:00 pm Sunday 3:00–4:00 pm Monday 10:00–11:00 am • Marshall University (Open Pathway) Monday 11:00 am–12:00 pm New Mexico Junior College (Open Pathway) • John Marr • Ohio Christian University (Standard Pathway) Sunday 10:00–11:00 am 3:00–4:00 pm • Tohono O’odham Community College (Standard Monday 11:00 am–12:00 pm Pathway) 3:00–4:00 pm • Kansas State University (Open Pathway) • Talos Community and Technical College (AQIP Pathway mock institution)
Attendee Resources CONVERSATION AND CLOSING The Resource Guide in your conference bag includes more information on these institutions, including details on who QUESTIONS WITH HLC STAFF LIAISONS to contact for more information about their accreditation Attend an informal question-and-answer session with staff experiences. liaisons on Tuesday morning.
8:00–9:30 AM 9:45–11:15 AM ACADEMIES POSTER FAIR: Stephanie Brzuzy Tom Bordenkircher SHOWCASING THE JOURNEY TO Andrew Lootens-White Barbara Johnson INSTITUTIONAL IMPROVEMENT John Marr Linnea Stenson Monday, April 9, 10:00 am–12:00 pm | Exhibit Hall Jeffrey Rosen Columbus Hall E–F Columbus Hall E–F The HLC Academies Poster Fair is an opportunity for current and former Academy institutions to showcase their efforts. A. Gigi Fansler Posters will be displayed by institutions that are at various Eric Martin Karen Solomon stages of the Assessment Academy and the Persistence and Mary Vanis Completion Academy. Representatives from participating Columbus Hall I–J institutions will be in attendance to discuss their Academy experience and answer questions about their projects.
ACCREDITATION SHARE FAIR Sunday, April 8, 2:30–4:00 pm | Exhibit Hall SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS Sunday, April 8–Monday, April 9 | Exhibit Hall The Share Fair provides an opportunity for all conference attendees to learn from institutions that have successfully Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings are informal sessions completed an accreditation process. Representatives of facilitated by conference attendees that provide an institutions invited to discuss a designated process will opportunity for participants to share ideas in a small group. describe their experience and answer questions through For a full schedule of SIG meetings, see p. 33. informal discussion and displays in the Exhibit Hall.
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12 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book PEER CORPS PROGRAM FRIDAY, APRIL 6
SPECIAL SESSIONS Substantive Change Training Sessions marked “by invitation only” are open only to This comprehensive workshop qualifies peer attendees who have been directly invited by HLC prior reviewers to participate in substantive change to the conference. If you are interested in attending one visits and panels for HLC, and will feature a short of these sessions at next year’s conference, contact a case study for table discussion. Participant sign-in is member of the HLC staff for more information. required for each session in this series. Participant sign-in will be required for sessions that Substantive Change Chair Training provide prerequisite training for certain types of review, Change chairs, by invitation only, will be trained as indicated in the descriptions. during this session. Participant sign-in is required. Presidents as Peer Reviewers This session is for all presidents who are peer reviewers in the Standard and Open Pathways. Participant sign-in is required.
7:45–8:45 AM
GRAND BALLROOM FOYER COFFEE AND INFORMAL NETWORKING BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER
8:30–9:15 AM / OPENING PLENARY SESSION
GRAND BALLROOM C–F PATHWAYS IN PRACTICE: ADDRESSING CHALLENGES IN PEER REVIEW BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Jamie Stanesa, Higher Learning Commission Join this session to hear about the state of the Peer Corps at HLC, including progress on various initiatives and anticipated changes for the coming year. Target audience: All peer reviewers and IAC members 9:30 AM–12:00 PM / SPECIAL SESSION FOR PRESIDENTS SIGN-IN REQUIRED
RANDOLPH 2 PRESIDENTS AS PEER REVIEWERS CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER Michael Westerfield, William Woods University; Kathy Bijak, Higher Learning Commission Evaluation of board and institutional governance, planning, finance and oversight of the entire education enterprise often fall to college and university presidents on peer review teams. This session offers a condensed, intensive training on conducting accreditation evaluations across the board and the unique roles that presidents must fill.Target audience: Presidents who are new or experienced peer reviewers
Peer Corps Program 9:30 AM–12:15 PM / SPECIAL SESSIONS FOR IAC MEMBERS SIGN-IN REQUIRED 9:30–11:30 AM BY INVITATION ONLY INSTITUTIONAL ACTIONS COUNCIL ANNUAL MEETING COLUMBUS HALL G–H Pat Newton-Curran, Anthea Sweeney, Sharon Ulmer, Barbara Johnson, Kerry Lofton and BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Angela Sales, Higher Learning Commission Open to current and selected members of the Institutional Actions council (IAC), this session serves as the annual meeting of the IAC. The session includes presentations on the IAC’s role in decision making at HLC and on the legal aspects of the IAC’s work. The session will include time for questions and discussion. Target audience: New and returning IAC members 11:35 AM –12:15 PM BY INVITATION ONLY INSTITUTIONAL ACTIONS COUNCIL NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION COLUMBUS HALL G–H Pat Newton-Curran, Sharon Ulmer, Kerry Lofton and Angela Sales, Higher BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Learning Commission This session provides an overview of the assignment and review process for Institutional Actions Council (IAC) committees and hearings. New IAC members will also have time to ask questions of HLC staff members about the process, timing and logistics for these assignments. Target audience: New IAC members 9:30–10:45 AM / CONCURRENT SESSIONS
COLUMBUS HALL E–F AQIP PATHWAY SYSTEMS APPRAISALS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Carla Connor, Dunwoody College of Technology; Rob Spohr, Montcalm Community College This presentation provides an overview of the Systems Portfolio and Systems Appraisal processes and offers review strategies.Target audience: AQIP Pathway peer reviewers
GRAND BALLROOM A CONDUCTING OPEN PATHWAY YEAR 4 ASSURANCE REVIEWS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Jeffrey Rosen, Higher Learning Commission; Janet Smith, Pittsburg State University This presentation will focus on the Year 4 Assurance Review of the Open Pathway. The presentation will highlight differences between the Year 4 and Year 10 Assurance Reviews, with a focus on the format and challenges for reviewers conducting this type of review, and will introduce new guidance documents for peer reviewers to assist them in conducting these reviews. This presentation will be repeated at 2:45 p.m. Target audience: Standard and Open Pathway peer reviewers
COLUMBUS HALL I–J FOCUS ON EVIDENCE: CORE COMPONENT 4.C.—PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Tom Bordenkircher, Higher Learning Commission; Scott Safranski, St. Louis University This session will focus on writing evidence statements for Core Component 4.C., on student persistence and completion. Following a general presentation, peer reviewers will work in small groups to evaluate sample evidence statements and report their recommendations for improvement. Facilitators will also discuss various types of evidence that institutions might provide to meet Core Component 4.C. Target audience: All peer reviewers
COLUMBUS HALL K–L FOCUS ON EVIDENCE: CORE COMPONENT 5.A.—INSTITUTIONAL FINANCES BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER John Marr, Higher Learning Commission; William Tammone, Macomb Community College This session will focus on writing evidence statements for Core Component 5.A., on institutional finances. Following a general presentation, peer reviewers will work in small groups to evaluate sample evidence statements and report their recommendations for improvement. Facilitators will also discuss various types of evidence that institutions might provide to meet Core Component 5.A. Target audience: All peer reviewers
14 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book GRAND BALLROOM B INTERPRETING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS DURING PEER REVIEW BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER J. Lee Johnson, Siena Heights University; Jeffrey Slovak, Governors State University In this time of enormous change and financial pressures for higher education, peer reviewers should pay particular attention to an institution’s financial state when evaluating its capacity to sustain its mission. This presentation offers reviewers the opportunity to discuss how to interpret and evaluate financial data in order to formulate an assessment of an institution’s present and future financial condition.Target audience: All peer reviewers
COLUMBUS HALL C–D WORKSHOP: WRITING EFFECTIVE TEAM REPORTS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Steve Kapelke, Consultant to the Higher Learning Commission; Andrew Lootens-White, Higher Learning Commission This session will help team chairs understand the key characteristics of good team reports and some common pitfalls to avoid. By examining several examples, attendees will learn specific strategies to write stronger, more effective team reports. Target audience: Experienced team chairs 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
GRAND BALLROOM B EVALUATING FACULTY QUALIFICATIONS: THE CRITICAL ROLE OF PEER BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER REVIEWER JUDGMENT Eric Martin, Higher Learning Commission; Irene Kovala, Maricopa Community College District- Glendale Community College The revised Assumed Practice B.2.a. became effective on September 1, 2017. oT date, the steady application of sound peer reviewer judgment has worked! This presentation provides an update on the implementation of the revised Assumed Practice, offers advice for reviews and suggests limits. This presentation will be repeated at 1:30 p.m. Target audience: All peer reviewers
COLUMBUS HALL C–D GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE CRITERIA BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER FOR ACCREDITATION Sam Kerr, Lynn, Jackson, Shultz & Lebrun; David Wendler, Martin Luther College (retired) Governance structures in higher education institutions are becoming more and more diverse. This presentation will explore various issues related to institutional governance and methods through which teams can effectively address those issues.Target audience: Experienced team chairs
COLUMBUS HALL I–J PATHWAYS EVALUATION PROJECT BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Jeffrey Rosen and Jamie Stanesa, Higher Learning Commission In 2012–13, HLC introduced the Standard and Open Pathways, along with an online Assurance System that was designed to facilitate reviews. Over the past two years, HLC staff members embarked upon an evaluation of the pathways to better understand how well they were working for member institutions. Attend this presentation to learn the evaluation project’s key findings and recommendations.Target audience: All peer reviewers
GRAND BALLROOM A PEER REVIEW AND INTERIM MONITORING BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Steve Kapelke, Consultant to the Higher Learning Commission The purpose of interim monitoring is to evaluate the institution’s progress in addressing its challenges or changes or gather evidence pertaining to plans the institution has presented in previous documents. This presentation includes an overview of the types of interim monitoring, the evaluation team’s roles and responsibilities, and what topics teams should expect to see addressed by monitoring. Target audience: All peer reviewers
COLUMBUS HALL K–L REVIEWING INSTITUTIONS WITH EMBEDDED MONITORING BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Scott Safranski, St. Louis University Conducting reviews that include embedded monitoring can be challenging for teams, as they have to address monitoring concerns while conducting the rest of the visit. In this presentation, an experienced team chair will provide advice and tips for managing both aspects of a comprehensive evaluation with embedded monitoring. Target audience: All peer reviewers
Peer Corps Program 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
COLUMBUS HALL E–F USING THE ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR AQIP PATHWAY REVIEWS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Linnea Stenson and Jon Davenport, Higher Learning Commission This presentation will provide an overview of how to use the capabilities of the Assurance System to conduct AQIP Pathway Systems Appraisals and Comprehensive Quality Reviews. A question-and-answer period will follow the presentation. Target audience: AQIP Pathway peer reviewers 12:00–1:30 PM
GRAND BALLROOM C–F PEER CORPS RECOGNITION LUNCHEON BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Jamie Stanesa and Barbara Gellman-Danley, Higher Learning Commission Target audience: All peer reviewers and IAC members 1:30–5:15 PM / SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE TRAINING SIGN-IN REQUIRED FOR ALL SESSIONS 1:30–3:45 PM BY INVITATION ONLY SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE CHAIR TRAINING CRYSTAL BALLROOM C Tamas Horvath and Tom Bordenkircher, Higher Learning Commission LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER This presentation is intended to provide information to team chairs regarding HLC’s expectations and processes for evaluating program change applications and conducting change visits. Target audience: Experienced substantive change reviewers who have been selected as change chairs 1:30–2:30 PM CRYSTAL BALLROOM A SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE PROCESSES LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Pat Newton-Curran and Marisol Gomez, Higher Learning Commission This general session will provide an overview intended primarily for new change reviewers and for any change reviewers who want a refresher on the change process. Anyone completing this session will be able to participate in program change reviews. Target audience: Reviewers who wish to conduct substantive change reviews 2:45–4:00 PM CRYSTAL BALLROOM A CONDUCTING LOCATION, BRANCH CAMPUS, MULTI-LOCATION AND LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER MULTI-CAMPUS REVIEWS Vince Coraci, Marisol Gomez and Pat Newton-Curran, Higher Learning Commission This session will prepare peer reviewers to conduct location visits. HLC assures the quality of additional locations and campuses through its initial approval process and subsequently through multi-location and multi-campus visits. Target audience: Reviewers who wish to conduct substantive change reviews 4:15–5:15 PM CRYSTAL BALLROOM C COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION AND DIRECT ASSESSMENT LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Jeffrey Rosen, Higher Learning Commission The U.S. Department of Education regularly issues new regulations and guidelines affecting the review of both direct assessment and credit-based forms of competency-based education. Learn about the opportunities and challenges faced by institutions that wish to implement these programs, as well as HLC’s expectations with respect to reviewing these programs. Target audience: Reviewers who wish to conduct substantive change reviews
16 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book CRYSTAL BALLROOM A CONTRACTUAL REVIEWS LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Anthea Sweeney and Tamas Horvath, Higher Learning Commission This presentation will introduce contractual reviews and provide an overview of HLC’s approach to determining when contractual arrangements are permissible. The session will not include a discussion of HLC’s recently published Shared Services Guidelines, which relate to Change of Control transactions, rather than Institutional Change policy. Target audience: Reviewers who wish to conduct substantive change reviews 1:30–2:30 PM / CONCURRENT SESSIONS
COLUMBUS HALL K–L A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITATION AND THE BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER CORE COMPONENTS Sam Kerr, Lynn, Jackson, Shultz & Lebrun; David Wendler, Martin Luther College (retired) This session will provide a critical review of the Core Components in answer to the following questions: What are the Core Components really asking? What evidence could support what each Core Component is asking for? This session will prove helpful to both new and experienced peer reviewers. Target audience: All peer reviewers
COLUMBUS HALL I–J ANATOMY OF AN OPEN OR STANDARD PATHWAY VISIT BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Susan Murphy, National American University; Michael Westerfield, William Woods University For institutions on the Standard and Open Pathways, a team visit typically lasts a day and a half, with various interactions with the institution. This session will focus on setting the team’s agenda, review and discussion prior to the visit, activities during the visit, and post-visit deliberations and activities. Target audience: Standard and Open Pathways peer reviewers
COLUMBUS HALL E–F AQIP PATHWAY ACTION PROJECT REVIEWS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Jill Wright, Illinois Central College Action Projects are central to the continuous improvement process at AQIP Pathway institutions. During this presentation, peer reviewers will learn how to identify essential elements of good Action Projects and the metrics used to evaluate them. Target audience: AQIP Pathway peer reviewers
GRAND BALLROOM A EVALUATING DISTANCE EDUCATION BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Barbara Johnson, Higher Learning Commission; Mary Vanis, Higher Learning Commission This presentation will provide information on policies related to distance delivery and the protocol for reviewing distance-delivered programs, both distance and correspondence education, during accreditation visits. Target audience: All peer reviewers, IAC members
GRAND BALLROOM B EVALUATING FACULTY QUALIFICATIONS: THE CRITICAL ROLE OF PEER BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER REVIEWER JUDGMENT (REPEAT) Eric Martin, Higher Learning Commission; Irene Kovala, Maricopa Community College District-Glendale Community College The revised Assumed Practice B.2.a. became effective on September 1, 2017. oT date, the steady application of sound peer reviewer judgment has worked! This presentation provides an update on the implementation of the revised Assumed Practice, offers advice for reviews and suggests limits. Target audience: All peer reviewers, experienced team chairs
COLUMBUS HALL G–H HLC’S DIVERSITY INITIATIVE: RECRUITING AND RETAINING A DIVERSE PEER CORPS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Jo Lynn Autry Digranes, Oklahoma City University; Pat Dolly, Oakland University (retired); Benjamin Young, Ivy Tech Community College (retired) The HLC Peer Corps’ Diversity Committee launched new efforts this year in the areas of peer reviewer recruitment and retention. Join this session to learn more about these initiatives and about how every peer reviewer can contribute to this important effort.Target audience: All peer reviewers
Peer Corps Program 2:45–4:00 PM
COLUMBUS HALL E–F AQIP PATHWAY COMPREHENSIVE QUALITY REVIEWS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Karen Stewart, Consultant and HLC Peer Reviewer The Comprehensive Quality Review (CQR), part of a broader evaluation, assures the higher education community and the public that the institution continues to meet the Criteria for Accreditation and the Federal Compliance requirements, and also determines whether the institution demonstrates advancing organizational maturity in relation to the AQIP Pathway Categories. Attend this presentation to learn more about the expectations and logistics of the CQR. Target audience: AQIP Pathway peer reviewers GRAND BALLROOM B ASSIGNING SANCTIONS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Anthea Sweeney and Mary Vanis, Higher Learning Commission How do peer reviewers and team chairs determine when to recommend a sanction during a comprehensive evaluation visit? In this presentation, HLC staff members will explain each of the sanctions, including Notice and Probation, and will describe the situations in which each is warranted. Target audience: All team chairs, IAC members
GRAND BALLROOM A CONDUCTING OPEN PATHWAY YEAR 4 ASSURANCE REVIEWS (REPEAT) BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Jeffrey Rosen, Higher Learning Commission; Janet Smith, Pittsburg State University This session will focus on the Year 4 Assurance Review of the Open Pathway. The presentation will highlight differences between the Year 4 and Year 10 Assurance Reviews, with a focus on the format and challenges for reviewers conducting this type of review, and will introduce new guidance documents for peer reviewers to assist them in conducting these reviews. Target audience: Standard and Open Pathways reviewers
GRAND BALLROOM C–F FEDERAL COMPLIANCE: 2018 UPDATE FOR PEER REVIEWERS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Andrew Lootens-White, Higher Learning Commission; David Wendler, Martin Luther College (retired) Presenters will provide a general update on HLC’s Federal Compliance program, followed by a listening session about what is working well and what might be improved from a peer reviewer standpoint. Target audience: All peer reviewers
COLUMBUS HALL I–J FOCUS ON EVIDENCE: CORE COMPONENT 4.B.—ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Susan Murphy, National American University; Michael Westerfield, William Woods University This session will focus on writing evidence statements for Core Component 4.B., on assessment of student learning. Following a general presentation, peer reviewers will work in small groups to evaluate sample evidence statements and report their recommendations for improvement. Facilitators will also discuss various types of evidence that institutions might provide to meet Core Component 4.B. Target audience: All peer reviewers
COLUMBUS HALL K–L FOCUS ON EVIDENCE: CRITERION 5 BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Ingrid Gould, University of Chicago; Barbara Johnson, Higher Learning Commission Building upon recent pathways training, this session will focus on writing evidence statements for Criterion 5 and will include a discussion of the intersecting pieces among the Core Components. Target audience: All peer reviewers
COLUMBUS HALL C–D THE ROLE OF THE FINANCIAL REVIEWER ON PEER REVIEW TEAMS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Irene Kovala, Maricopa Community College District-Glendale Community College; Matt Fowler, Illinois Eastern Community Colleges What should peer reviewers be looking for when evaluating an institution’s finances? If a team doesn’t include a CFO, how does the chair guide the other reviewers on Criterion 5, and its relationship to the rest of the Criteria? Join this session to learn more about the role of the financial reviewer on the evaluation team from two seasoned reviewers and college presidents. Target audience: All team chairs
18 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book 4:15–5:15 PM
COLUMBUS HALL E–F CHANGES IN THE TRAVEL EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT PROCESS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Susan Pyne-Torres and Eva Sitek, Higher Learning Commission In summer 2018, HLC will introduce a new online travel booking system for peer reviewers. Making reservations, capturing receipts and submitting expense reports will all happen virtually at the click of a few buttons. Attend this presentation to learn more about the new process. Training will also be offered by webinar after the conference.Target audience: All peer reviewers
COLUMBUS HALL C–D DEALING WITH DIFFICULT TEAM MEMBERS AND INSTITUTIONAL LEADERS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER DURING PEER REVIEW Karen Kirkendall, University of Illinois at Springfield (retired); A. Gigi Fansler, Higher Learning Commission How do team chairs manage a team member who refuses to participate productively in the team deliberations, or who talks too much about their own institution during the visit? How do chairs work with a college president who wants to linger in all of the team’s meetings with faculty and staff? Experienced reviewers will offer their insights about managing such challenges, and then open a discussion. Target audience: All team chairs
GRAND BALLROOM B IMPLEMENTING THE CRITERIA: KEY INSIGHTS FOR PEER REVIEWERS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Barbara Johnson, Higher Learning Commission An analysis of institutional outcomes will be shared for comprehensive evaluations completed since the implementation of the Criteria for Accreditation in 2013. This presentation will outline the primary Core Components requiring additional institutional attention. Target audience: All peer reviewers
COLUMBUS HALL K–L LISTENING SESSION ON THE CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITATION BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Andrew Lootens-White, Higher Learning Commission In this session, HLC staff members will discuss the efforts underway to review and update the Criteria for Accreditation, providing a synopsis of survey results and other data that resulted in the alpha version of the Criteria revision. Participants’ comments will help guide the forthcoming beta version. Target audience: All peer reviewers
GRAND BALLROOM A REVIEWING NON-FINANCIAL INDICATORS: FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Stephanie Brzuzy, Higher Learning Commission The non-financial indicators were implemented by HLC approximately four years ago. This presentation will discuss recent trends in the areas of persistence and graduation rates along with current expectations for reviewers on indicator 7. Target audience: All peer reviewers
COLUMBUS HALL G–H THE WORK OF THE TEAM CHAIR: INFORMATION FOR EXPERIENCED REVIEWERS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER CONSIDERING THE ROLE Eric Martin and John Marr, Higher Learning Commission Ever considered becoming a team chair, or just wondered what the role requires? Join this session to learn more about the roles and responsibilities of the team chair, as well as HLC’s annual nomination and selection process. Target audience: Experienced peer reviewers COLUMBUS HALL I–J WHEN A CASE GOES TO AN IAC HEARING: INFORMATION FOR TEAM CHAIRS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER AND IAC MEMBERS Linnea Stenson, Higher Learning Commission; David Wendler, Martin Luther College (retired) This presentation will explain the IAC Hearing process and how a team chair can best prepare for a hearing. Topics will include the team chair’s responsibilities before, during and after the hearing. IAC members will benefit from this session by learning more about the hearing format and process. Target audience: New team chairs, IAC members
Peer Corps Program USE YOUR JUDGMENT
SERVE ON THE HLC PEER CORPS HLC’s Peer Corps is now accepting applications. Peer reviewers use their professional judgment, knowledge and experience in higher education to assure that institutions in HLC’s 19-state region comply with the Criteria for Accreditation and to help advance institutional quality. In order to form teams that represent the full range of its member institutions, HLC is particularly seeking the following types of applicants:
• Chief financial officers, budget directors and those • Full-time faculty, especially those in the fine and in related roles performing arts, health professions and STEM • Faculty and administrators from medical schools, fields especially those who are M.D.s • Members of the following racial or ethnic • Student affairs and senior enrollment groups: American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian management officers and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; Black or African-American; Hispanic or Latino • Faculty and administrators from Tribal Colleges and Universities
LEARN MORE AND APPLY AT HLCOMMISSION.ORG/PEER. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE APRIL 30, 2018. ACCREDITATION WORKSHOP SATURDAY, APRIL 7
FIND SESSIONS BY EXPERIENCE LEVEL The PREPARATION track is designed for institutions AND PATHWAY already preparing their Assurance Argument or Systems Portfolio for an upcoming review. This Presentations in the Accreditation Workshop are track offers practical information and guidance labeled by experience level and pathway to help each on preparing for the review, working with staff attendee create the experience best suited to their liaisons and team chairs, and assembling and guiding knowledge and needs. All sessions are open to all institutional teams. attendees. In the presentations on the Criteria for Accreditation, The ORIENTATION track is designed for attendees HLC staff liaisons and experienced peer reviewers will who are new to accreditation and for ALOs who are walk through each of the Criteria in detail, discussing new to the role. Presentations in this track provide their content, context and intent. Each presentation is core information, delivered primarily by members offered three times. of the HLC staff, about regional accreditation and pathways processes at HLC, and feature a nuts-and- bolts introduction to the Assurance System.
7:00–8:30 AM
GRAND BALLROOM FOYER COFFEE AND INFORMAL NETWORKING BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER 7:15–7:45 AM
ORIENTATION / PREPARATION ACCREDITATION 101 FOR FIRST-TIME ATTENDEES GRAND BALLROOM E–F Andrew Lootens-White, Higher Learning Commission BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation will provide first-time attendees with a basic overview of accreditation in higher education and HLC’s role in that landscape. The presentation also will include a brief overview of the annual conference itself and provide tips about how to make the most of the available opportunities. All Pathways and Candidacy 8:00–8:45 AM
ORIENTATION HLC PATHWAYS AND CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITATION GRAND BALLROOM E–F Karen J. Solomon, Jeffrey Rosen and Linnea Stenson, Higher Learning Commission BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation provides an overview of each accreditation process that leads to Reaffirmation of Accreditation. A review of all of the Criteria for Accreditation will help attendees determine where they may need additional in-depth work on specific Criteria during the day. All Pathways and Candidacy PREPARATION PREPARING FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION GRAND BALLROOM C–D Andrew Lootens-White, Higher Learning Commission; Benjamin Young, Ivy Tech Community BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER College (retired); Larry Sanderson, New Mexico Junior College In this presentation, an Accreditation Liaison Officer, team chair and HLC staff liaison will discuss how to prepare for a successful comprehensive evaluation and site visit. Topics will include working successfully with HLC liaisons, crafting a visit agenda, providing information for the student survey, arranging site logistics and using resources available on HLC’s website. All Pathways and Candidacy
Accreditation Workshop 9:00–10:00 AM
PREPARATION ASSURANCE ARGUMENT EVIDENCE: NO MORE HIDE AND SEEK! CRYSTAL BALLROOM B Jeanette McGreevy, Mercy College of Health Sciences LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER This presentation will help institutions eliminate the hunt for Assurance Argument evidence by assigning responsibilities to every academic program and administrative office as appropriate to their roles and functions. This cost-free, efficient system tells the institution exactly where the evidence should be and monitors submissions by individual offices or programs and by individual Core Components. All Pathways and Candidacy
ORIENTATION / PREPARATION INTEGRATING STRATEGIC PRIORITIES AND COLLEGE ACTIVITIES WITH THE COLUMBUS HALL G–H CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITATION BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Susan Tarnowski, Narren Brown and Renee Guyer, South Central College This presentation describes South Central College’s process for intentionally aligning its strategic priorities and activities with HLC’s Criteria for Accreditation. The presenters will demonstrate how aligning the college’s Strategic Enrollment Management and Master Academic Plans and the goals of Achieving the Dream participation with the Criteria informs the work of the college. AQIP Pathway
ORIENTATION MULTI-CAMPUS REVIEWS CRYSTAL BALLROOM A Mary Sue Marz, Eastern Michigan University LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER A multi-campus visit is included as part of the comprehensive evaluation for institutions with one or more branch campuses. Learn how to prepare for these visits, including working with the peer review team and the HLC staff, submitting campus data to HLC and preparing campus-based staff members for meetings with peer reviewers.All Pathways and Candidacy
ORIENTATION ON CAMPUS AND IN THE FIELD: THE ROLE OF PEER REVIEWERS IN THE GRAND BALLROOM E–F ACCREDITATION PROCESS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Jamie Stanesa, Higher Learning Commission; Michael Westerfield, William Woods University The presenters will provide an overview of the role of peer review in the accreditation process, then discuss the role that peer reviewers often play in the preparation of their own institution’s Assurance Arguments and Systems Portfolios. All Pathways and Candidacy
PREPARATION REVIEWERS AND NEIGHBORS: MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN DEVELOPING CRYSTAL BALLROOM C ASSURANCE ARGUMENTS LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Luis Montes, University of Central Oklahoma; Lee Anne Paris, Oklahoma Christian University; Gary Steward, University of Central Oklahoma Neighboring institutions can serve as resources to an institution preparing for an HLC review process. Peer reviewers within an institution also provide valuable experience in preparing for these processes. The presenters will describe the steps taken to prepare for HLC reviews, as well as how institutional members interact to guide each other’s practice. Standard Pathway, Open Pathway
ORIENTATION / PREPARATION WRITING THE SYSTEMS PORTFOLIO: FOCUS ON CATEGORIES 1 AND 6 COLUMBUS HALL E–F Rob Spohr, Montcalm Community College; Carla Connor, Dunwoody College of Technology BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER The Writing the Systems Portfolio series is meant for institutions who are writing their Systems Portfolio, or will be doing so soon. This presentation will focus on strategies to employ when writing to AQIP Categories 1 and 6. AQIP Pathway THE CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITATION These sessions will walk participants through the Criteria in detail, discussing their content, context and intent. All Pathways and Candidacy
ORIENTATION / PREPARATION CRITERIA 1 AND 2 COLUMBUS HALL I–L Mary Vanis, Higher Learning Commission; Jo Beth Cup, Adler University BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation will be repeated at 10:15 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. ORIENTATION / PREPARATION CRITERION 3 GRAND BALLROOM A A. Gigi Fansler, Higher Learning Commission; Monica Varner, University of Tulsa BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation will be repeated at 10:15 a.m. and 1:45 p.m.
ORIENTATION / PREPARATION CRITERION 4 GRAND BALLROOM C–D Barbara Johnson, Higher Learning Commission; Rex Ramsier, University of Akron BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation will be repeated at 11:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
ORIENTATION / PREPARATION CRITERION 5 GRAND BALLROOM B John Marr, Higher Learning Commission; William Tammone, Macomb Community College BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation will be repeated at 11:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. 10:15–11:15 AM
ORIENTATION ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: ENLIGHTENMENT FROM THE SUBSTANTIVE GRAND BALLROOM B CHANGE PROCESS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Constance Thurman and Michelle Johnson, Carl Sandburg College This presentation will discuss Carl Sandburg College’s experience with the HLC substantive change process for adding a location. The presenters will share the critical components of a positive outcome for the application, documentation and site visit, including alignment of the substantive change process with the comprehensive evaluation and embedding a culture of assessment within the college. All Pathways and Candidacy
ORIENTATION BOARD ACTIONS, INSTITUTIONAL UPDATES AND POLICY CHANGES: ADDITIONAL GRAND BALLROOM E–F INFORMATION FOR ALOs BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Stephanie Brzuzy and Linnea Stenson, Higher Learning Commission This session, especially for institutional Accreditation Liaison Officers (ALOs), provides an overview of additional responsibilities for ALOs with respect to the institution’s relationship with HLC, including the annual Institutional Update, Board actions, changes to HLC policies, reporting requirements, surveys and email communications. All Pathways and Candidacy
ORIENTATION / PREPARATION HOW TO ENSURE YOUR SYSTEMS PORTFOLIO RESULTS MEASURE YOUR PROCESSES COLUMBUS HALL G–H Tracy Noldner, Southeast Technical Institute BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Ever had a peer reviewer comment that your institution’s results are great, but the data don’t measure the process? Do you have lots of data in your Systems Portfolio, but you don’t know what it really means? This presentation will help take the mystery out of the Systems Portfolio’s results sections. AQIP Pathway
PREPARATION INCORPORATING STUDENT AFFAIRS INTO ACCREDITATION CRYSTAL BALLROOM C Jodi Koslow Martin, North Park University; Renee Hill, Columbus State Community College; LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Andy Chambers, Missouri Baptist University Student affairs professionals are experts in student retention and success. In this presentation, senior-level student affairs administrators who are peer reviewers will discuss the role of student affairs in the accreditation process and encourage fellow practitioners to consider becoming peer reviewers. All Pathways and Candidacy
ORIENTATION THE QUALITY INITIATIVE GRAND BALLROOM C–D Jeffrey Rosen, Higher Learning Commission BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation covers the process of the Quality Initiative Proposal and Report and discusses the most common approaches and topics for the Quality Initiatives to date. The Director of the Open Pathway will discuss the different ways institutions might customize the Quality Initiative experience to their greatest benefit. A practical set of tips and steps concludes the presentation. Open Pathway
Accreditation Workshop 10:15–11:15 AM
ORIENTATION / PREPARATION WRITING THE SYSTEMS PORTFOLIO: FOCUS ON CATEGORIES 2 AND 3 COLUMBUS HALL E–F Rob Spohr, Montcalm Community College; Carla Connor, Dunwoody College of Technology BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER The Writing the Systems Portfolio series is meant for institutions who are writing their Systems Portfolio, or will be doing so soon. This presentation will focus on strategies to employ when writing to AQIP Categories 2 and 3. AQIP Pathway THE CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITATION ORIENTATION / PREPARATION CRITERIA 1 AND 2 (REPEAT) COLUMBUS HALL I–L Mary Vanis, Higher Learning Commission; Jo Beth Cup, Adler University BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation will be repeated at 1:45 p.m. ORIENTATION / PREPARATION CRITERION 3 (REPEAT) GRAND BALLROOM A A. Gigi Fansler, Higher Learning Commission; Monica Varner, University of Tulsa BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation will be repeated at 1:45 p.m. 11:30 AM–12:30 PM
PREPARATION BOTTOM UP: A MOLECULAR APPROACH TO EVIDENCE CRYSTAL BALLROOM B Alan Heisel and Bonnie Unal, University of Missouri-Saint Louis LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Organizing information and coordinating people are essential steps in creating the foundation for a strong Assurance Argument. In this presentation, the Accreditation Liaison Officer and Assurance System Coordinator of the University of Missouri–St. Louis discuss tools and strategies for organizing a large group of stakeholders during the evidence collection and writing process. All Pathways and Candidacy ORIENTATION / PREPARATION FROM CHALLENGE TO CHANGE CRYSTAL BALLROOM A Joyce Hill, Gregory Hillis and Sherrell Wheeler, New Mexico State University Alamogordo LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER This presentation recounts deficiencies identified following an accreditation visit and the institution’s response in the areas of assessment, online instruction and evidence documentation. The presenters will share ideas to help attendees convert perceived shortcomings into positive and enduring change. Standard Pathway PREPARATION PREPARING INSTITUTIONAL FINANCES FOR EVALUATION GRAND BALLROOM E–F J. Lee Johnson, Siena Heights University; Jeffrey Slovak, Governors State University BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER During this time of enormous change and financial pressures in higher education, peer reviewers will pay particular attention to an institution’s financial state when evaluating its capacity to sustain new initiatives, partnerships or construction. This presentation will assist attendees in preparing their institution’s finances for such an evaluation. This presentation will be repeated at 1:45 p.m. All Pathways and Candidacy PREPARATION SELECTING AND IMPLEMENTING A TIMELY, MANAGEABLE AND MEANINGFUL CRYSTAL BALLROOM C QUALITY INITIATIVE LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Barbara Andereck, Ashley Biser and Andrea Colvin, Ohio Wesleyan University This presentation will describe how Ohio Wesleyan University developed a Quality Initiative that built upon an upcoming project (an AAC&U VALUE project) that included funding and that would involve other institutions and relate to accreditation, to maximize impact and minimize extra commitments. Open Pathway ORIENTATION / PREPARATION THE YEAR 4 ASSURANCE ARGUMENT: PROCESS, EVIDENCE AND REVIEW GRAND BALLROOM C–D Jeffrey Rosen, Higher Learning Commission; Janet Smith, Pittsburg State University BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation will focus on the Year 4 Assurance Review of the Open Pathway, highlighting differences between the Year 4 and Year 10 reviews and offering concrete strategies for preparing for this “mid-cycle” review on the Open Pathway. Open Pathway
24 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book ORIENTATION / PREPARATION TRANSFORMING AQIP PATHWAY PROCESSES: PEER REVIEWERS SHARE FATAL COLUMBUS HALL G–H MISTAKES INSTITUTIONS MAKE BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Jill Carlson, Santa Fe Community College; Jim Perry, Owens Community College; Lisa Schlotterhausen, Riverland Community College; Michael Seward, Minnesota State Community and Technical College Experienced peer reviewers share the eight fatal flaws they have observed that impact institutions’ ability to function successfully on the AQIP Pathway. Join this interactive seminar and learn how to avoid having peer reviewers identify failure to understand the basics of continuous quality improvement as a strategic issue. AQIP Pathway ORIENTATION / PREPARATION WRITING THE SYSTEMS PORTFOLIO: FOCUS ON CATEGORIES 4 AND 5 COLUMBUS HALL E–F Rob Spohr, Montcalm Community College; Carla Connor, Dunwoody College of Technology BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER The Writing the Systems Portfolio series is meant for institutions who are writing their Systems Portfolio, or will be doing so soon. This presentation will focus on strategies to employ when writing to AQIP Categories 4 and 5. AQIP Pathway THE CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITATION ORIENTATION / PREPARATION CRITERION 4 (REPEAT) GRAND BALLROOM A Barbara Johnson, Higher Learning Commission; Rex Ramsier, University of Akron BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation will be repeated at 3:00 p.m. ORIENTATION / PREPARATION CRITERION 5 (REPEAT) GRAND BALLROOM B John Marr, Higher Learning Commission; William Tammone, Macomb Community College BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation will be repeated at 3:00 p.m. 12:15–1:45 PM
RIVERSIDE EXHIBIT HALL BUFFET LUNCH EXHIBIT LEVEL / EAST TOWER A complimentary buffet lunch for all registered attendees will be served in the Exhibit Hall. Attendee badge required. 1:45–2:45 PM
ORIENTATION DON’T SWEAT THE COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION: BUILDING FUN INTO THE CRYSTAL BALLROOM C ASSURANCE ARGUMENT PROCESS LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Thomas Paradis, Rose Campbell and Nandini Ramaswamy, Butler University A comprehensive self-study process needn’t be intimidating. Butler University incorporated existing committees and traditional Criteria teams to move efficiently through the inclusive process. The institution focused on fun and educational ways, including charrettes, to increase stakeholder involvement and ensure institutional transparency, while eliminating the mystery of the comprehensive evaluation. Standard Pathway ORIENTATION / PREPARATION PREPARING FOR MANDATED FOCUSED VISITS CRYSTAL BALLROOM A Marc Willis, Carl Albert State College; Billie Unger, Blue Ridge Community and LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Technical College This presentation is geared toward institutions that have a focused visit scheduled for the future. What will the report look like? How is the team visit organized? Learn from institutions that have recently (and successfully) completed this form of HLC monitoring. Standard Pathway, AQIP Pathway PREPARATION PREPARING INSTITUTIONAL FINANCES FOR EVALUATION (REPEAT) GRAND BALLROOM E–F J. Lee Johnson, Siena Heights University; Jeffrey Slovak, Governors State University BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER During this time of enormous change and financial pressures in higher education, peer reviewers will pay particular attention to an institution’s financial state when evaluating its capacity to sustain new initiatives, partnerships or construction. This presentation will assist attendees in preparing their institution’s finances for evaluation.All Pathways and Candidacy
Accreditation Workshop 1:45–2:45 PM
ORIENTATION REAFFIRMATION OF ACCREDITATION: LESSONS LEARNED FROM TWO LARGE CRYSTAL BALLROOM B PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Judith Ouimet, Indiana University Bloomington; Laurie Bellows, University of Nebraska- Lincoln; Dennis Groth, Indiana University Bloomington This presentation will focus on Indiana University Bloomington’s and University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s recent experiences and lessons learned in the Reaffirmation of Accreditation process. Specifically, the presenters will compare and contrast how they organized their reaccreditation committees, collected and assembled evidence, and developed their Assurance Arguments. Open Pathway
ORIENTATION / PREPARATION THE AQIP PATHWAY’S COMPREHENSIVE QUALITY REVIEW COLUMBUS HALL E–F Karen Stewart, Consultant and HLC Peer Reviewer BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER The Comprehensive Quality Review (CQR), part of a broader comprehensive evaluation, assures the higher education community and the public that an institution continues to meet the Criteria for Accreditation and the Federal Compliance Requirements, and also determines whether the institution demonstrates advancing organizational maturity in relation to the AQIP Pathway Categories. Attend this presentation to learn more about the expectations and logistics of the CQR. AQIP Pathway
ORIENTATION USING THE ASSURANCE SYSTEM GRAND BALLROOM B Janet Smith, Pittsburg State University BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation provides an overview of how to use HLC’s Assurance System to prepare for a comprehensive evaluation visit, including assigning login information, managing text and attachments, identifying gaps in the Assurance Argument and using the system’s many features for maximum benefit. Standard Pathway, Open Pathway THE CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITATION ORIENTATION / PREPARATION CRITERIA 1 AND 2 (REPEAT) COLUMBUS HALL I–L Mary Vanis, Higher Learning Commission; Jo Beth Cup, Adler University BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER ORIENTATION / PREPARATION CRITERION 3 (REPEAT) GRAND BALLROOM A A. Gigi Fansler, Higher Learning Commission; Monica Varner, University of Tulsa BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER 3:00–4:00 PM
PREPARATION ADVICE FROM A SALTY DOG: USING EVIDENCE TO SUCCESSFULLY SUPPORT AN CRYSTAL BALLROOM C ASSURANCE ARGUMENT LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Roberta Derlin, New Mexico State University This interactive session will help institutions pick and choose evidence to successfully support Assurance Arguments. The strategies will include using existing accreditation information and institutional reports in meaningful ways and deciding when enough is enough. The “salty dog” is an experienced peer reviewer who will guide the discussion and activities. All Pathways and Candidacy PREPARATION FROM QUALITY INITIATIVE TO MEANINGFUL INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE: CRYSTAL BALLROOM A FOUNDATIONS OF EXCELLENCE LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Suzanne Walker, Janet Bland and Nicole Livengood, Marietta College Sustaining institutional momentum to create lasting change after an accreditation cycle is complete can be challenging. In this session, members of Marietta College will share how four years later they continue to use the results of their Quality Initiative with Foundations of Excellence to shape campus culture, policy and curriculum. Open Pathway
26 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book PREPARATION I-WE-YOU: CRAFTING A TRANSFORMATIVE ASSURANCE ARGUMENT AND SITE VISIT GRAND BALLROOM B Holly Baumgartner, Ohio Northern University; Karen Mohar, Lourdes University; Kevin Cole, BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER University of Sioux Falls University Assurance Argument writers and their site visit team chair share insights on crafting a successful comprehensive evaluation experience through campus engagement and peer reviewer collaboration. Assurance work transformed tensions, reminding the campus of its mission to serve the individual, the community and future students. Standard Pathway, Open Pathway
ORIENTATION INSIGHTS ON EMBEDDED MONITORING GRAND BALLROOM E–F Scott Safranski, St. Louis University; Jane Wood, Mount Marty College BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER An institutional representative will offer different models of how to address HLC-assigned monitoring within an Assurance Argument, and a peer review team chair will provide additional insight about how the team identifies and writes to the issues. Attendees will gain ideas about potential ways their institution can address embedded monitoring. Standard Pathway, AQIP Pathway
ORIENTATION / PREPARATION THE AQIP PATHWAY AND THE ASSURANCE SYSTEM COLUMBUS HALL E–F Stephanie Kramer and Andrew Lootens-White, Higher Learning Commission BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation provides a quick look at the new Assurance System for AQIP Pathway comprehensive evaluations. The presenters will give a live demonstration and answer questions about the system as well as next steps for use in the AQIP Pathway. AQIP Pathway
PREPARATION USING THE ASSURANCE SYSTEM: BEYOND THE BASICS COLUMBUS HALL I–L Janet Smith, Pittsburg State University BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This session provides a 20-minute demonstration of some of the Assurance System’s more advanced, or lesser known, features, and then provides time for participants to ask questions about the system and its capabilities. Standard Pathway, Open Pathway THE CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITATION ORIENTATION / PREPARATION CRITERION 4 (REPEAT) GRAND BALLROOM A Barbara Johnson, Higher Learning Commission; Rex Ramsier, University of Akron BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER
ORIENTATION / PREPARATION CRITERION 5 (REPEAT) GRAND BALLROOM C–D John Marr, Higher Learning Commission; William Tammone, Macomb Community College BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER
4:15–5:15 PM
ORIENTATION / PREPARATION THE FEDERAL COMPLIANCE PROGRAM: OVERVIEW GRAND BALLROOM C–D A. Gigi Fansler and Cecilia Torres, Higher Learning Commission; Mona Walters, Edison State BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Community College Learn about the components of HLC’s Standard, AQIP and Open Pathway evaluations that satisfy the requirements of the U.S. Department of Education and other regulatory agencies. Addressing the Federal Compliance Program should be built into institutions’ timeline and planning when preparing for HLC evaluation. This presentation will also provide an in-depth look at the document institutions file with HLC and how to complete it successfully. All Pathways and Candidacy
Accreditation Workshop 4:15–5:15 PM
ORIENTATION / PREPARATION THE ROLE OF HLC STAFF LIAISONS IN THE ACCREDITATION PROCESS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Attend one of these final sessions to learn more about the role of the HLC staff liaison and have an open-ended discussion with liaisons on issues related to accreditation at HLC. All Pathways and Candidacy COLUMBUS HALL E–F Karen Solomon and Jeffrey Rosen COLUMBUS HALL G–H Andrew Lootens-White and Stephanie Brzuzy COLUMBUS HALL I–L Tom Bordenkircher and Mary Vanis GRAND BALLROOM A Barbara Johnson and Linnea Stenson GRAND BALLROOM B Eric Martin and John Marr
ACCREDITATION SHARE FAIR
Representatives of the following institutions have been invited by HLC to discuss their successful completion of designated accreditation processes:
STANDARD PATHWAY OPEN PATHWAY Comprehensive Evaluation Comprehensive Evaluation Year 4 Assurance Review Little Priest Tribal College Arapahoe Community College Adler University Newman University Chadron State College Barton County United Theological Seminary Creighton University Community College Eastern New Mexico University Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis University of Illinois at Chicago Southeast Community University of Nebraska-Lincoln AQIP PATHWAY College Area University of Wisconsin-Platteville Comprehensive Evaluation With University of Mary Comprehensive Quality Review Quality Initiative Report Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health Indiana University Bloomington West Liberty University Systems Portfolio Northwood University
The Resource Guide in your conference bag includes more information on these institutions, including details on who to contact throughout the year to discuss their accreditation experiences.
SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 2:30–4:00 PM | EXHIBIT HALL
28 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book ACADEMY PRESENTATIONS DURING THE GENERAL PROGRAM
HLC’S ACADEMIES are multi-year, structured programs aimed at assisting institutions to define, develop and implement comprehensive strategies for institutional improvement. A variety of sessions in the General Program have been designed for attendees who are current Academy participants or interested in learning more about the Academies. NOTE: For full details on all presentations, refer to the General Program schedule.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ACADEMIES MONDAY CRYSTAL BALLROOM A 1:30–2:30 PM / HELPING INSTITUTIONS IMPROVE: HLC’S ACADEMIES LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER AND WORKSHOPS Destiny M. Quintero, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL PRESENTATIONS BY ACADEMY SENIOR SCHOLARS
These presentations, by the subject-matter experts who design the curriculum and activities for all Academy events, expand on the theories and strategies shared during the Academies. SUNDAY GRAND BALLROOM E–F 1:30–2:30 PM / SEEING THE WHOLE ELEPHANT: AN INTEGRATED, CULTURAL BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER APPROACH TO STUDENT SUCCESS Susan Hatfield, Higher Learning Commission MONDAY GRAND BALLROOM E–F 3:00–4:00 PM / LEARNING AS THE IMPETUS FOR ASSESSMENT BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Gloria Rogers, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL PRESENTATIONS BY ACADEMY INSTITUTIONS SUNDAY REGENCY BALLROOM B 11:15 AM–12:15 PM / FROM DATA TO INSIGHT: BUILDING INFORMATION SYSTEMS BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER TO BETTER SERVE STUDENTS Persistence and Completion Academy
ACAPULCO 3:00–4:00 PM / CREATING A SUSTAINABLE, CULTURALLY INFORMED GENERAL BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER EDUCATION FRAMEWORK Assessment Academy
REGENCY BALLROOM D 3:00–4:00 PM / PERSISTENT PATHWAYS: INTEGRATING HLC ACADEMY AND BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER NATIONAL REFORM EFFORTS Persistence and Completion Academy
General Program: Academy Presentations MONDAY CRYSTAL BALLROOM B 1:30–2:30 PM / MAINTAINING QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING IN LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER FISCALLY CHALLENGING TIMES Assessment Academy
CRYSTAL BALLROOM C 3:00–4:00 PM / ACCUMULATING SUCCESS: THE THREE-BUCKET APPROACH TO LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER STUDENT PERSISTENCE Persistence and Completion Academy
CRYSTAL BALLROOM C 4:15–5:15 PM / SUPPORTING CRITERION 4 WITH INSTITUTIONAL OUTCOMES LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Assessment Academy SHOWCASE OF ACADEMY PROJECTS MONDAY RIVERSIDE EXHIBIT HALL 10:00 AM–12:00 PM / ACADEMIES POSTER FAIR EXHIBIT LEVEL / EAST TOWER ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS FOR ACADEMY MEMBERS
These mentor-facilitated sessions provide an opportunity for current Academy participants to discuss emerging trends and common issues in assessment and persistence and completion work. SUNDAY MICHIGAN 2 1:30–2:30 PM / ASSESSMENT ACADEMY ROUNDTABLE: LEADING THE ASSESSMENT CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER PROCESS Facilitators: Joan Hawthorne, University of North Dakota; Roberta Teahen, Ferris State University
RANDOLPH 3 1:30–2:30 PM / PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION ACADEMY ROUNDTABLE: TURNING CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER DATA INTO INFORMATION Facilitators: Robert (Bob) Haas, Marion Technical College; Fnu Mihir, Arkansas State University
MICHIGAN 2 4:15–5:15 PM / ASSESSMENT ACADEMY ROUNDTABLE: ASSESSING CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER COCURRICULAR LEARNING Facilitators: Bertha Avila, Arizona Western College; Mary Ann Danielson, Creighton University
RANDOLPH 3 4:15–5:15 PM / PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION ACADEMY ROUNDTABLE: CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER FROM ACCESS TO SUCCESS Facilitators: Rhoda Wolle, Wisconsin Lutheran College; Tracy Morris, Illinois Central College MONDAY ROOSEVELT 3 4:15–5:15 PM / ASSESSMENT ACADEMY ROUNDTABLE: CONNECTING ASSESSMENT CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER AND STRATEGIC PLANNING Facilitators: Jonathan Keiser, City Colleges of Chicago; Ranfen Li, University of Illinois at Chicago
MICHIGAN 3 4:15–5:15 PM / PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION ACADEMY ROUNDTABLE: CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER SUPPORTING THE NON-TRADITIONAL LEARNER Facilitators: Peter Wielinski, Minnesota State Community and Technical College; Joseph Rives, Western Illinois University
30 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book ACADEMIES POSTER FAIR
SHOWCASING THE JOURNEY TO INSTITUTIONAL IMPROVEMENT The HLC Academies Poster Fair is an opportunity for current and former Academy institutions to showcase their efforts. Posters will be displayed from institutions that are at various stages of the Assessment Academy and the Persistence and Completion Academy. Representatives from participating institutions will be in attendance to discuss their Academy experience and answer questions about their projects.
PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS
ASSESSMENT ACADEMY South Mountain Community College: Finding Success Coconino County Community College: … After the Academy Critical Thinking Facets of General Education Southwest Minnesota State University: Charting a Path College of the Ouachitas: Assessing Institutional to Assess Student Outcomes: Moving From Frustration Student Learning Outcomes—Year 2 to Fruition DeVry University: Retooling DeVry University’s Three Rivers College: Assessment and Program Review Common Learning Outcomes for Improved Learning (APRIL) Grand Canyon University: #WeAreGenEd University of Phoenix: Faculty Engagement and Assessment Planning Grand Rapids Community College: College Action Project: Strengthening GRCC Systems for the University of the Rockies: Evolving Systems of Assessment of General Education Evidence-Led Improvement: A Marriage of Data and Organizational Systems Hocking College: Embedded Assessment Washtenaw Community College: Shifting Culture Purdue University Fort Wayne: Integrating Assessment Through Assessment and Curricular Renewal to Bring Coherence in a State-Mandated General Education Program PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION ACADEMY Maricopa Community Colleges-GateWay Community Casper College: Casper College Data Quality College: GLO: GateWay Learning Outcomes Evolution 2014–18 Northwestern Health Sciences University: Northeastern State University: Improving Persistence Spillover—Celebrate Unexpected Benefits Through Co-requisite Developmental Education and Phillips Community College of The University of Understanding Student Definitions of Success Arkansas: Access With Success Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College: Don’t Just Pima Community College: General Education Survive—THRIVE Assessment at Pima Community College: A Grassroots Walden University: Preparation + Opportunity = Success Approach to Transformation Wayne State College: Data Analysis and Strategy Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science: Refinement Interprofessional Learning Outcomes for All Graduates Western Nebraska Community College: Designing an South Dakota State University: Academic Quality Engaging Advising Process Assurance and Improvement: An Update
MONDAY, APRIL 9, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM | EXHIBIT HALL
General Program: Academy Presentations TRIBAL COLLEGE PRESENTATIONS DURING THE GENERAL PROGRAM
NOTE: For full details on all presentations, refer to the General Program schedule.
WISDOM SHARING SESSIONS FOR TRIBAL COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVES
Except as noted, these sessions are all located in the Tribal College Learning Center, housed in the Michigan 1 meeting room, Concourse Level, East Tower. SUNDAY INFORMATIONAL 10:00–11:00 AM / UTILIZING CAMPUS KAIZEN EVENTS FOR INSTITUTIONAL IMPROVEMENT Stacey Mortensen and Lori Nelson, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College
PANEL 1:30–2:30 PM / REAL PEERS TRANSFORM ACCREDITATION PROCESSES INTO MEANINGFUL PRACTICE Koreen Ressler, Sitting Bull College; Waylon Baker, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College; Betty Redleaf, Little Priest Tribal College; Babatunde Alokolaro, Higher Learning Commission
ROUNDTABLE 4:15–5:15 PM / ACHIEVING THE DREAM ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Facilitator: Koreen Ressler, Sitting Bull College MONDAY INFORMATIONAL 10:00–11:00 AM / SPECIALIZED ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION FOR INDIGENOUS EDUCATION Anna Fellegy and Roxanne DeLille, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College ROUNDTABLE 12:15–1:30 PM / LUNCH AND DISCUSSION WITH TRIBAL COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVES GRAND BALLROOM A Facilitator: Barbara Gellman-Danley, Higher Learning Commission BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER
INFORMATIONAL 1:30–2:30 PM / ACCREDITATION PROCESSES GRAND BALLROOM A Pat Newton-Curran and Mary Vanis, Higher Learning Commission BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER
INFORMATIONAL 3:00–4:00 PM / DEVELOPMENT OF THE CENTER FOR DINÉ STUDIES B.A. PROGRAM James Mckenzie, Diné College INFORMATIONAL 4:15–5:15 PM / EFFECTIVE PRACTICES FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION AT A TRIBAL COLLEGE Lisa Azure and Leah Hamann, United Tribes Technical College
TRIBAL COLLEGE LEARNING CENTER
CONNECT • SHARE • LEARN HLC hosts the Learning Center as a place for representatives of Tribal Colleges and Universities to gather and exchange ideas, featuring informational presentations and roundtable discussions designed for and led by members of these institutions.
SUNDAY, APRIL 8–MONDAY, APRIL 9 | MICHIGAN 1, CONCOURSE LEVEL, EAST TOWER
32 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) MEETINGS meetings are informal sessions facilitated by conference attendees. SIG meetings provide an opportunity for participants to share ideas in a small group and to network with colleagues who share interest in a specific topic, come from similar institutions or serve in similar roles. All meetings take place in the Riverside Exhibit Hall, Exhibit Level, East Tower, except as noted.
SUNDAY, APRIL 8 MONDAY, APRIL 9 11:15 AM–12:15 PM 10:00–11:00 AM SIG AREA 1 Branch Campus Issues and Accreditation SIG AREA 1 Best Practices for Developing an Institutional Joseph Rives, Western Illinois University Assessment Plan Fiorella Penaloza, Cleveland University-Kansas City SIG AREA 2 Program Review, Faculty Qualifications and Lessons Learned From Preparing for a Site Visit SIG AREA 3 The Role of Curriculum and Assessment in Melanie Davis, A. T. Still University of Health Sciences Implementing Guided Pathways Bruce Moses, Pima County Community College District SIG AREA 3 Accreditation and Faith-Based Institutions Rodney Harrison, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Lisa SIG AREA 4 Faculty-Driven Development Models to Foster Beatty, Emmaus Bible College; Andrew Keck, Luther Seminary Student Outcomes Lynn Marie Burks, DeVry University SIG AREA 4 Developing a Growth Mindset in Students (GRIT, Resilience) 11:15 AM–12:15 PM Peter Wielinski, Minnesota State Community and Technical College SIG AREA 2 Faculty Qualifications Policies and 1:30–2:30 PM Your Institution David Callejo Perez, Saginaw Valley State University SIG AREA 1 Selecting and Implementing a New ERP System: Tips and Experiences SIG AREA 3 Association for Assessment in Higher Michelle Johnston, University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Education (AALHE) Community College Jonathan Keiser, City College of Chicago; Kathleen Gorski, Waubonsee Community College SIG AREA 2 Faculty Recruiting John Johnson, Indiana Wesleyan University SIG AREA 4 Institutional Disclosures for Distance or Correspondence Programs SIG AREA 3 Applying HLC Criteria to University of Wisconsin System Institutions Ronald Brownie, Northern State University Carleen Vande Zande, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh 1:30–2:30 PM SIG AREA 4 Shared Governance SIG AREA 1 Association of Independent Colleges of Art Trevor Bates, Mercy College of Ohio and Design (AICAD) Melissa Rands, Minneapolis College of Art and Design 3:00–4:00 PM Advancing Interdisciplinarity Within Regional SIG AREA 1 Understanding and Improving Persistence SIG AREA 2 and Completion in Colleges and Universities and Professional Accreditation Randall Stiles, Grinnell College Paul Burkhardt, Prescott College Rethinking Developmental Education Using SIG AREA 2 Ohio AQIP Coalition Meeting SIG AREA 3 Online Learning and Data Analytics Bruce Massis, Columbus State Community College Patrick Bennett, Franklin University SIG AREA 3 Accreditation Roadshow Faculty Professional Development Strategies Lisa Ncube and Angela Gibas, University of Phoenix SIG AREA 4 for Online Teaching ATLANTA: BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER Steven Vanden Avond, Northern Michigan University The Changing Landscape in Higher Education in Arkansas Martin Eggensperger, Arkansas State University-Mountain Home
General Program: Special Interest Group Meetings SUPPORT STUDENT LEARNING Jump-Start Improvement With an HLC Assessment Workshop June 2018 | Oak Brook, Illinois
EMERGING LEADERS IN ASSESSMENT INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOP | JUNE 18–19 New assessment professionals learn terminology and processes that are fundamental to assessing and improving student learning outcomes.
STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT TEAM WORKSHOP | JUNE 20–21 Teammates collaborate to develop assessment plans aimed at producing evidence of student learning that can be used for continuous improvement.
Learn more at hlcommission.org/workshops. Early bird pricing available until April 23. GENERAL PROGRAM SUNDAY, APRIL 8
NAVIGATING THE GENERAL PROGRAM Panel presentations include multiple speakers The following details are included in the General engaging in dialogue on their respective experiences Program schedule to help attendees choose around a common topic. Time for questions will be presentations that fit their interests. included at the end of each session. PRESENTATION TYPE labels indicate who is Interactive sessions are 90 minutes and invite presenting: extensive discussion or hands-on work by attendees. Keynote and Featured Presentations: Invited Roundtable sessions provide facilitated forums for researchers and thought leaders in higher education. institutions that are of a similar type or are engaged in similar work to share ideas. HLC Presentations: HLC staff members, experienced peer reviewers or HLC consultants. TARGET AUDIENCE labels designate the types of institutions that may benefit most from the Academy Presentations: Participants or leaders in presentation, chosen from the following list: HLC’s Academies. • Community Colleges Institutional Presentations: Representatives of HLC member institutions. • Faith-Based Colleges and Universities Viewpoint Presentations: Higher education experts • Large Universities from outside HLC’s institutional membership. • Mid-size Colleges and Universities Exhibitor Presentations: Vendors of higher education • Private, For-Profit Colleges and Universities support services and technologies. • Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities New SESSION FORMAT labels indicate how the • Public Colleges and Universities content will be delivered: • Small Colleges and Universities Informational presentations feature an HLC • Tribal Colleges and Universities staff member, a keynote or featured speaker, or institutional representatives presenting policy, Presentations with no target audience listed are research or promising practices. Time for questions will suitable for all institutional types. be included at the end of each session.
7:00–8:00 AM
SOCIAL/NETWORKING FUNCTION COMPLIMENTARY CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Start your day with a complimentary continental breakfast in the Exhibit Hall. Visit with the RIVERSIDE EXHIBIT HALL exhibitors and network with your colleagues. EXHIBIT LEVEL / EAST TOWER 8:00–8:30 AM
HLC PRESENTATION HLC WELCOME ADDRESS Barbara Gellman-Danley, Higher Learning Commission GRAND BALLROOM A–F HLC President Barbara Gellman-Danley kicks off the General Program with an update on the BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER organization’s strategic plan and a discussion on the state of HLC in light of a fast-changing national landscape.
General Program: Sunday INFORMATIONAL 8:30–9:30 AM GRAND BALLROOM A–F BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER KEYNOTE PRESENTATION / TECHNOLOGY, THE LIBERAL ARTS AND THE NEW LEARNING ECONOMY José Bowen, Goucher College No one can teach information not yet discovered for jobs not yet invented, but we know what skills employers want: complex problem solving in diverse groups. Colleges need to transform for the new learning economy, where employees are valued not by how much they know, but by how much they can learn. The speaker will sign books in the Exhibit Hall from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
José Bowen 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
HLC PRESENTATION ACCREDITATION LIAISON OFFICERS (ALOs): AN OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE AND WHAT’S NEW AT HLC INTENSIVE Pat Newton-Curran and Mary Vanis, Higher Learning Commission ZURICH BALLROOM A–D This two-hour workshop will provide an overview of the role of the ALO for both new and SWISSOTEL continuing ALOs. A variety of topics will be addressed, including HLC’s decision-making processes and recent changes to HLC policy. Come prepared with questions. 10:00–11:30 AM
VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION ASSESSMENT AS STRATEGY José Bowen, Goucher College INTERACTIVE In this workshop with the Sunday keynote speaker, participants will think how to assess big ZURICH BALLROOM E–G outcomes that may be difficult to measure, rather than assessing those that may be easy to SWISSOTEL measure but have little bearing on strategy. Participants will talk about what’s important in their unique contexts, and then determine how to begin assessing those things that are crucial to the institution, program, classroom and students. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities 10:00–11:00 AM THE AQIP PATHWAY HLC PRESENTATION Linnea Stenson and Stephanie Kramer, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL This presentation will provide an overview of the AQIP Pathway, including its eight-year COLUMBUS HALL G–H cycle activities and the continuous quality improvement (CQI) principles that provide the BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER foundation for those activities. THE OPEN PATHWAY HLC PRESENTATION Jeffrey Rosen, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL This presentation will review the activities and events that take place on the Open Pathway, COLUMBUS HALL E–F addressing the eligibility factors that permit institutions to participate in this pathway, the BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Quality Initiative process, the unique qualities of the Year 4 Assurance Review and the Year 10 comprehensive evaluation. A TRANSFORMATIONAL NEW FACULTY ORIENTATION PROGRAM INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Gary Meyer, Marquette University INFORMATIONAL This presentation focuses on the development and implementation of an innovative and TORONTO transformative new faculty orientation program. Lessons from two years of implementation BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER will be shared, along with specific instructions that can be used to create a similarly meaningful experience at attendees’ own institutions. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities
36 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION BUILDING AN INTENTIONAL CAMPUS-WIDE COMMITMENT TO PERSISTENCE Facilitator: Philip Garber, Elgin Community College; Jessica Lauritsen, Hennepin Technical PANEL College; Matt Fowler, Illinois Eastern Community Colleges REGENCY BALLROOM C How do institutions reorganize themselves operationally to ensure students remain BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER successful? This presentation will discuss high-impact practices that matter across all institutions. A technical and a community college will compare and contrast the strategies they undertake through affiliations with HLC and other organizations to achieve impressive gains in persistence. Target audience: Community Colleges, Public Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION CREATING A TRANSPARENT BUDGET ALLOCATION PROCESS FOR ACADEMIC COLLEGES Gary Wood, Robert Ducoffe and Scott Menke, University of Wisconsin-Parkside INFORMATIONAL This presentation will describe the development and implementation of a rational and COLUMBUS HALL I–J transparent budget allocation formula used to distribute resources across the four academic BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER colleges at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION DEVELOPING A COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION PROGRAM: THE JOURNEY, THE CHALLENGES INFORMATIONAL Charles Komp, Richard Nelson and Kate Ferrel, Nicolet Area Technical College REGENCY BALLROOM A Development of a competency-based education (CBE) model in a rural district poses BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER unique challenges and opportunities. This presentation will describe the path to CBE followed by Nicolet College as it endeavors to expand access for non-traditional adult learners to high-quality credentials in high-demand occupations. Target audience: Community Colleges, Public Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION EFFECTIVE USE OF ePORTFOLIO AND BADGING TO ASSESS COCURRICULAR LEARNING Sandra Bowles, The University of Charleston INFORMATIONAL The presenter will share the design and implementation of a series of ePortfolio courses CRYSTAL BALLROOM C developed to document and assess cocurricular learning in a professional program as LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER required for both HLC and specialized accreditation. Sample assignments, reflection prompts, reflections, badging requirements and the faculty’s handling of the evaluation process will be covered. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION HARNESSING THE CARNEGIE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CLASSIFICATION FOR STUDENT-COMMUNITY CONNECTION INFORMATIONAL Heidi Keeler and Ronald Shope, University of Nebraska Medical Center; Sharon Neu Young, ACAPULCO Medical College of Wisconsin BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER This presentation will focus on how the self-assessment process required by the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification can drive development of student and community-focused infrastructure to include centralized resources, cocurricular tracking and metrics. Two medical colleges will address unique needs of post-graduate institutions in linking specialized education with community engagement. Target audience: Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION HOSTING A PEER REVIEW TEAM Steven Lewis, Three Rivers College; Susan Murphy, National American University PANEL Institutions are sometimes uncertain how to prepare for and host peer reviewers on their CRYSTAL BALLROOM B campus. Seasoned peer reviewers will discuss the role of peer review, how peer reviewers LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER evaluate an institution, what to expect from a visiting peer review team and how to effectively host and accommodate the team.Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
General Program: Sunday 10:00–11:00 AM
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION INNOVATING GATEWAY COURSE INTERVENTIONS: THE PLUS EFFECT ON STUDENT LEARNING INFORMATIONAL Stephanie Preschel and Mirra Anson, University of Iowa REGENCY BALLROOM D Peer Led Undergraduate Study (PLUS) is an academic support intervention, created by BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER examining institutional data and course assessments, that seeks to enhance student proficiency needed for both a math and a science gateway course. This session will share information about PLUS and outcomes, and facilitate discussion for implementation at other institutions. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO A SUCCESSFUL ASSURANCE ARGUMENT INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Lyn Sabino and Shannon Helfinstine, Aultman College of Nursing and Health Sciences INFORMATIONAL This presentation will reflect on one college’s past, present and future approaches to CRYSTAL BALLROOM A preparing the Standard Pathway Assurance Argument. Two different approaches will LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER be shared, noting the advantages and disadvantages and the results achieved in each experience. Audience participation will engage attendees both with and without experience and encourage sharing of accreditation plans and processes. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities INTEGRATING FAITH-BASED MISSION INTO ACADEMIC PROGRAM LAUNCH AND INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION REVIEW PROCESSES PANEL James Mello, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Joseph Friona, University of Saint Francis MICHIGAN 3 This presentation focuses on the integration of key aspects of faith-based higher education CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER into institutional processes that consider, launch, approve and evaluate academic programs. The integration of mission and values into the process, criteria and standards of program approval and review are vital to securing proper institutional approval and commitment. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION STRATEGIES FROM THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Suzanne Sydow, Wayne State College; Jill Russell, University of Nebraska at Omaha; Andreia PANEL Nebel, Clarkson College REGENCY BALLROOM B Discover how three institutions are meeting Core Component 4.C. through an Open Pathway BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER Quality Initiative, a Persistence and Completion Academy project, and an analytics project with tools to share. The presenters will provide examples and discuss the challenges they faced and strategies they developed as their initiatives were completed. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION PROGRAM REVIEW: FRAMEWORK, PROCESS AND LESSONS LEARNED 10 YEARS LATER Deborah Hardy, Kathleen Gravens and Lynne Gabriel, Lakeland Community College INFORMATIONAL This presentation will identify the role and importance of department and program review. COLUMBUS HALL K–L Lakeland Community College’s initial department and program review framework and BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER components will be reviewed. The presenters will discuss modifications to the process along with the current framework and components to ensure continuous improvement. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities TRIBAL COLLEGE WISDOM SHARING: UTILIZING CAMPUS KAIZEN EVENTS FOR INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION INSTITUTIONAL IMPROVEMENT INFORMATIONAL Stacey Mortensen and Lori Nelson, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College MICHIGAN 1 This presentation will focus on explaining how institutions can use a Kaizen Event with CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER process mapping, a continuous improvement tool previously used in manufacturing and industry, to lead an effort in institutional improvement. The presenters will teach participants how to utilize this process at their own schools. Target audience: Community Colleges, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
38 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION GREAT JOBS AND GREAT LIVES: MEASURING IMPORTANT GRADUATE OUTCOMES Jessi Gordon, The Gallup Organization INFORMATIONAL This presentation will focus on the findings from the Gallup-Purdue Index, the only nationally LUCERNE BALLROOM representative survey of college graduates. The Gallup-Purdue Index evaluates the long-term SWISSOTEL success of graduates in their pursuit of great jobs and great lives, as measured by the Gallup Employee Engagement Index and Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION OPTIMIZING STUDENT PROGRESSION: WHY PERSONALIZATION IS KEY FOR COMPLETION PLAZA BALLROOM A–B Dan Webb, Civitas Learning LOBBY LEVEL / EAST TOWER Institutions can improve persistence and completion rates with enhanced registration services, increased advising bandwidth, and visibility into demand, fill rates and degree progression. See how students can effectively plan to achieve their goals with full context for essential academic decisions and then confidently register with conflict-free schedules that maximize credit hours while balancing life’s obligations.
INFORMATIONAL 11:15 AM–12:15 PM GRAND BALLROOM C–D BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER FEATURED PRESENTATION / UNDERSTANDING THE FEDERAL LANDSCAPE Terry Hartle, American Council on Education Terry Hartle will provide an update on the federal agenda for higher education and accreditation. Providing perspective on the current political environment, Hartle will address questions like: What could be the results of the renegotiation on rules such as borrower defense to repayment and gainful employment? When will Congress tackle the Higher Education Act re-authorization? And what outcomes could result from the U.S. Department of Education’s support for apprenticeship and worker training programs?
Terry Hartle
HLC PRESENTATION AN OVERVIEW OF HLC’S TEACH-OUT POLICY AND PROCEDURE Anthea Sweeney, Higher Learning Commission; Sam Kerr, Lynn, Jackson, Shultz & Lebrun INFORMATIONAL Institutions suspending or ceasing operations must submit to HLC a provisional plan that CRYSTAL BALLROOM A ensures enrolled students can complete their studies within a reasonable time frame. When LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER the assistance of teach-out receiving institutions is required, additional expectations apply. This presentation will provide a detailed overview and clarifications of HLC’s teach-out policy and procedure. HLC’S APPROVAL PROTOCOL FOR DIRECT ASSESSMENT AND CREDIT-BASED HLC PRESENTATION COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION INFORMATIONAL Jeffrey Rosen, Higher Learning Commission GRAND BALLROOM A Each year, HLC refines its approval protocol for competency-based education in order BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER to keep in step with federal priorities. This presentation will review HLC’s approach to approving both credit-based programs and direct assessment programs, review how the two forms differ and address best practices for submitting an application. KEY INSIGHTS: TEAM DETERMINATIONS FOR COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATIONS HLC PRESENTATION Barbara Johnson, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL This presentation provides an overview of the Core Components most frequently cited by GRAND BALLROOM E–F teams in comprehensive evaluations and highlights the reasons teams determined institutions BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER did not fully meet a Core Component. This presentation will be repeated Monday at 1:30 p.m. THE STANDARD PATHWAY HLC PRESENTATION Karen Solomon, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL This presentation will discuss the elements of the Standard Pathway cycle and share insights COLUMBUS HALL E–F on how to demonstrate quality assurance and quality improvement in an Assurance Filing. BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER More than half of the session will be focused on audience questions and concerns about the pathway, elements of the technology and other issues attendees may want to explore.
General Program: Sunday 11:15 AM–12:15 PM
ACADEMY PRESENTATION FROM DATA TO INSIGHT: BUILDING INFORMATION SYSTEMS TO BETTER SERVE STUDENTS INFORMATIONAL Kevin McNamara, Colorado Christian University REGENCY BALLROOM B This presentation will explore how to extract valuable insight from data that institutions BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER possess. The presenter will discuss the purpose and creation of a data warehouse as well as methods to encourage data-influenced decision making. Emphasis will be placed on how to accomplish these goals with limited resources or experience. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ASSESSING GENERAL EDUCATION WITH PERFORMANCE TASKS: TALES FROM TWO (CONTRASTING) INSTITUTIONS PANEL Joan Hawthorne, University of North Dakota; Cari Lott, McPherson College REGENCY BALLROOM D This presentation will describe performance tasks as a flexible, effective strategy for general BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER education outcomes assessment. The presenters will explain the rationale, development and implementation in both a large, public institution where tasks are in their fifth year of use and a small, private institution just beginning use. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ASSESSMENT BEYOND: HIGHLIGHTING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF STUDENT AFFAIRS Kristen Salomonson, Nicholas Campau and Joy Pufhal, Ferris State University INFORMATIONAL This presentation shares Ferris State University’s efforts to establish and sustain a REGENCY BALLROOM C comprehensive program of assessment in student affairs. The discussion will provide BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER real-world advice on starting and maintaining a robust assessment program. Content includes specific strategies, an overview of yearly assessment activities and how this work supports accreditation efforts.Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION CHICAGOLAND HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS: REGIONAL COLLABORATION ACROSS SECTORS PANEL David Potash, City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College; Kyle Westbrook, Partnership TORONTO for College Completion BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER This panel will present the progress made by Chicagoland’s 16 Hispanic-Serving Institutions as part of a larger collaborative effort to improve the student success pipeline, increase Hispanic professional roles in the academy, and facilitate inter- and intra-institutional cooperation. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION COMPLIANCE: IMPLEMENTING PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION DISCLOSURES INFORMATIONAL Ronald Brownie, Northern State University; Kenny Heard, University of Mississippi Medical Center COLUMBUS HALL K–L This presentation will focus on guiding principles for developing policies, processes and BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER procedures to comply with federal Professional Licensure/Certification (PLC) pre-education requirement disclosures for the public and individual students. The presenters will describe the steps taken to implement PLC disclosures at two public institutions. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION DIGITAL BADGES FOR WORKFORCE TRAINING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION Kathleen Radionoff, Madison Area Technical College INFORMATIONAL This presentation will introduce the concept of digital badges and demonstrate how badges REGENCY BALLROOM A can be used to document both technical and soft skills attainment for credit and non-credit BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER students. The presenter will discuss a case study from Madison Area Technical College’s School of Professional and Continuing Education. Target audience: Community Colleges, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
40 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book IMPROVING PROGRAM REVIEW WITH TEMPLATES, DATA AND INTERPRETIVE REPORTS INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Leah Zuidema, Jim Bos and Ryan Zonnefeld, Dordt College INFORMATIONAL This presentation shares how Dordt College is continuously improving a new reporting CRYSTAL BALLROOM C template and process for assessment and program review. The template is populated with LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER program-specific data from Institutional Research and leads programs through a guided process of data analysis and interpretation. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION LAUNCHING A HYBRID, PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE DOCTORAL PROGRAM Jennifer Douglas, Vernon Smith and Lori Woeste, American Public University System INFORMATIONAL This presentation will focus on the institutional process for launching two hybrid, MICHIGAN 3 professional practice doctoral programs. After discussing the accreditation process, the CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER presenters will then outline the project plan for building curriculum, developing systems infrastructure and mapping the student experience. The presenters will include lessons learned and resources for project management. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities NON-ACADEMIC PROGRAM REVIEW: EVALUATING STUDENT SERVICES AND INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS INFORMATIONAL Edward Hummingbird, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute COLUMBUS HALL I–J This presentation will detail a framework for formally evaluating non-academic units BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER (administrative departments and student services). The framework is based on six fundamental pillars used to ensure departmental sustainability and promote institutional vitality. The presenter will identify the data indicators used to support those pillars for a comprehensive departmental evaluation. Target audience: Community Colleges, Public Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS: ARE YOU READY? David Rudden, Elgin Community College; John Bollweg, College of DuPage; Maya Evans, PANEL Oakton Community College; Amy Humke, McHenry County College CRYSTAL BALLROOM B This panel presentation will share four institutions’ experiences of introducing predictive LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER analytics into the institutional decision-making process, with a focus on how the initial experiences were shaped by the institutions’ readiness for technology adoption. The presenters will share opportunities and challenges related to discussions around predictive analytics from their respective institutions’ experiences. Target audience: Community Colleges, Public Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities PREPARING FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION AND SITE VISIT ON THE INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION AQIP PATHWAY INFORMATIONAL Heather Albinger, Brenda Wolfe and Chris Daood, Waukesha County Technical College COLUMBUS HALL G–H This presentation focuses on activities and tools used to prepare for the AQIP Pathway BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER comprehensive evaluation and site visit. The presenters will highlight Waukesha County Technical College’s use of its learning management system to organize the process and facilitate teaching, in order to create a shared understanding of the AQIP Pathway and readiness for the visit. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities STARTING FROM SCRATCH: PREPARING FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION VISIT INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Gerri Pavone and William Tammone, Macomb Community College INFORMATIONAL This presentation describes the process and preparation efforts that led to a successful GRAND BALLROOM B comprehensive evaluation visit. A newbie to accreditation and an experienced peer reviewer BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER team up to share best practices and lessons learned for collecting evidence, writing the Assurance Argument, engaging the campus community and preparing for the visit. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
General Program: Sunday 11:15 AM–12:15 PM
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION USING CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES TO PROMOTE COLLEGE STUDENT SUCCESS AND RETENTION INFORMATIONAL Molly Beauregard and Valerie Weiss, College for Creative Studies ACAPULCO This presentation will introduce and discuss a consciousness-based, integrated education BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER model, implemented at the College for Creative Studies (Detroit). The presenters will remark upon the feasibility and acceptability of meditation programming in the college setting, as a method to activate institutional change and promote student learning, creativity and lasting success. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION NACUBO ECONOMIC MODELS PROJECT Jacalyn Askin, NACUBO; Beth Reissenweber, Augsburg University INFORMATIONAL Institutions face an abundance of economic challenges, including the need for high tuition LUCERNE BALLROOM and discount rates, decreased public funding and escalating costs. Using the work of the SWISSOTEL National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) Economic Models Project, the session will help participants identify a path that is guided by their institutions’ mission and the value that it provides. Target audience: Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION DEFINING, DOCUMENTING AND REPORTING ON FACULTY QUALIFICATIONS AND TESTED EXPERIENCE PLAZA BALLROOM A–B Stacy Becker, Digital Measures; Mark Smith, University of Northern Colorado LOBBY LEVEL / EAST TOWER As a result of HLC’s 2015 clarification of faculty qualifications, many institutions have worked rigorously to define policies, procedures and documentation around the concept of tested experience. Learn how to create a centralized location for documenting and monitoring these qualifications, along with tables and reports that can be used back on campus. 12:15–1:30 PM
SOCIAL/NETWORKING FUNCTION LUNCH (PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED) A luncheon for pre-registered attendees will be served in the Exhibit Hall. Ticket required. RIVERSIDE EXHIBIT HALL EXHIBIT LEVEL / EAST TOWER
INFORMATIONAL 1:30–2:30 PM GRAND BALLROOM C–D BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER FEATURED PRESENTATION / LIVING-LEARNING COMMUNITIES (LLCs) THAT WORK: A BEST PRACTICES MODEL Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas, University of Virginia This presentation will review the major findings of the National Study of Living-Learning Programs, a nearly two-decade study of academic programs based in college residence halls. In addition to summarizing the effects of LLCs on student success, the presenter will introduce the empirically developed LLC Best Practices Model, designed to inform institutions on how to design and sustain effective LLCs.
Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas
HLC PRESENTATION AQIP PATHWAY SYSTEMS PORTFOLIOS: PROVIDING EVIDENCE FOR THE CRITERIA Rob Spohr, Montcalm Community College; Stephanie Kramer, Higher Learning Commission; INFORMATIONAL Carla Connor, Dunwoody College of Technology COLUMBUS HALL G–H Even though much of the work within the AQIP Pathway is guided by the AQIP Pathway BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Categories, HLC expects that all member institutions demonstrate that they meet the Criteria for Accreditation. With an eye to what evidence peer reviewers will be looking for, this presentation will cover how institutions can be mindful of the Criteria and Core Components as they are developing Systems Portfolios.
42 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book HLC PRESENTATION PREPARING FINANCES FOR HLC REVIEW Jeffrey Slovak, Governors State University; J. Lee Johnson, Siena Heights University INFORMATIONAL HLC expects that institutions are able to document evidence of their financial stability ZURICH BALLROOM E–G (or plans to develop a stronger footing, if there are challenges). What are HLC’s expectations SWISSOTEL in this regard, and what information is most helpful to peer reviewers? How can institutions best demonstrate that they meet HLC’s expectations and be forthcoming about financial challenges when they exist? REVIEWING FACULTY QUALIFICATIONS: INSIGHTS FOR INSTITUTIONS ON WHAT HLC PRESENTATION PEER REVIEW TEAMS WILL DO INFORMATIONAL Eric Martin, Higher Learning Commission; Irene Kovala, Maricopa Community College ZURICH BALLROOM A–D District-Glendale Community College SWISSOTEL This presentation will share information on how HLC peer reviewers are trained to review faculty qualifications. HLC institutions may find the training and guidance provided to peer reviewers helpful in their own preparation for visits with HLC’s revised Assumed Practice B.2.a. now in effect.
HLC PRESENTATION THE OPEN PATHWAY YEAR 4 ASSURANCE ARGUMENT: PROCESS, EVIDENCE AND REVIEW INFORMATIONAL Jeffrey Rosen, Higher Learning Commission; Janet Smith, Pittsburg State University GRAND BALLROOM A This presentation is designed for institutions preparing for their Year 4 Assurance Review in BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER the Open Pathway. An experienced peer review team chair and the Open Pathway director will address common misperceptions and focus on how best to position an institution to update HLC about its activities. This presentation will be repeated Monday at 3:00 p.m.
HLC PRESENTATION WHAT INSTITUTIONS SHOULD CONSIDER WHEN SUBMITTING INTERIM REPORTS Steve Kapelke, Consultant to the Higher Learning Commission; Tom Bordenkircher, Higher INFORMATIONAL Learning Commission CRYSTAL BALLROOM A This presentation will include an overview of the process involved in submitting an interim LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER report and how the analysis is done, a discussion of the most common topics assigned to institutions and what types of evidence are typically most helpful, and suggestions about how institutions can respond effectively to ensure they are meeting HLC’s expectations. ASSESSMENT ACADEMY ROUNDTABLE: LEADING THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS ACADEMY PRESENTATION Facilitators: Joan Hawthorne, University of North Dakota; Roberta Teahen, Ferris State ROUNDTABLE University MICHIGAN 2 This session offers Academy members engaged in similar work a chance to share their CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER perspectives and practices. Academy mentors will be on hand to facilitate the conversation. Interested participants are invited to bring their team’s stories, challenges and promising practices to the table. Target audience: Academy Participants PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION ACADEMY ROUNDTABLE: TURNING DATA ACADEMY PRESENTATION INTO INFORMATION ROUNDTABLE Facilitators: Robert (Bob) Haas, Marion Technical College; Fnu Mihir, Arkansas State University RANDOLPH 3 This session offers Academy members engaged in similar work a chance to share their CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER perspectives and practices. Academy mentors will be on hand to facilitate the conversation. Interested participants are invited to bring their team’s stories, challenges and promising practices to the table. Target audience: Academy Participants
ACADEMY PRESENTATION SEEING THE WHOLE ELEPHANT: AN INTEGRATED, CULTURAL APPROACH TO STUDENT SUCCESS INFORMATIONAL Susan Hatfield, Higher Learning Commission GRAND BALLROOM E–F Schools often address HLC’s standards on general education, assessment and persistence BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER and completion in isolation. This fragmented approach yields sterile data, instead of information that offers genuine utility for improvement. This presentation explores an integrated approach to promoting student success that can frame and contextualize standards related to student learning and retention.
General Program: Sunday 1:30–2:30 PM
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION A BOARD’S ROLE UNDER ACCREDITATION SANCTIONS Lee Lambert, Mark Hanna and Sylvia Lee, Pima County Community College District INFORMATIONAL Pima Community College (PCC) experienced massive change in the period between MICHIGAN 3 being placed on Probation in 2013 and removal of sanction in 2017. The entire college CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER leadership has changed, including a new board. PCC’s model of strengthening governance is a case study of the board’s role in self-assessment, internal policy review and improved accountability. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION A CURRICULUM INNOVATION FOR INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION Janice Odiaga, Rosemarie Suhayda and Joanne Miller, Rush University INFORMATIONAL This presentation focuses on how Rush University aligned with HLC’s Core Component 4.B. ACAPULCO to develop a quality improvement project. The presenters will explain how assessment of BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER student learning outcomes and evaluation of quantitative and qualitative data accelerated change to improve the original project design and implementation process. Target audience: Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities ACCREDITATION LIFE CYCLE: STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINING MOMENTUM INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Mary Ann Danielson and Gail Jensen, Creighton University; William Mangan, College of Saint Mary PANEL Accreditation is no longer a once-every-10-years event, and institutions often find themselves GRAND BALLROOM B challenged with ensuring a sustained approach to continuous improvement. This presentation BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER addresses both the challenges and successful strategies that two institutions are implementing to sustain the momentum. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities BASE CAMP: EQUIPPING STUDENTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE JOURNEY INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Sheryl Haile, Craig Haile and Eric Bolger, College of the Ozarks INFORMATIONAL This presentation will discuss a summer bridge program created to bolster student CRYSTAL BALLROOM C development, success and retention among high-risk students. The presenters will LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER share the BASE CAMP program model and pedagogical approach, the collaborative contributions of administrators, faculty, staff and student peers, the impact on persistence and retention, and discussion of program expansion. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities GET MEANINGFUL PROGRAM ADVICE FROM A BUSINESS/INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP TEAM INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Laura Berry, North Arkansas College INFORMATIONAL Want more than once-a-year advice from your academic program’s Advisory Committee? COLUMBUS HALL I–J North Arkansas College’s informed and engaged Business/Industry Leadership Team (BILT) BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER for the Networking/IT program clearly identifies course outcomes annually, informs about regional industry changes and needs, and even helped the college successfully apply for a National Science Foundation grant. Target audience: Community Colleges, Small Colleges and Universities HOW TO REVITALIZE AND ADVANCE ASSESSMENT PRACTICES INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Joseph Levy, National Louis University; Renee Aitken, Wright State University; Kathleen Gorski, PANEL Waubonsee Community College REGENCY BALLROOM B Institutions face the challenge of enhancing or creating systematic and meaningful BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER processes for assessment that promote continuous improvement of student learning. This panel presentation will include contextual information on assessment, discuss expanding and advancing assessment practice at multiple institutions, and share advice and helpful resources for this work. Target audience: Community Colleges, Large Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities
44 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION MEASURABLE STRATEGIC PLANNING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION Michael Chipps, John Blaylock and Derek Bierman, Northeast Community College INFORMATIONAL The presenters will share the integrated approach to Northeast Community College’s Vision COLUMBUS HALL K–L 2020 Strategic Plan, which was supported by ongoing evaluation, project-based milestone BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER accountability and effective resource allocation efforts. Innovative practices have been designed to balance the strategic plan objectives and operational needs to achieve 20 key performance indicators by the year 2020. Target audience: Community Colleges, Tribal Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION REALIGNING WITH THE 21ST-CENTURY WORKFORCE Amanda Seidenzahl and Ken Warden, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith; Maria Markham, PANEL Arkansas Department of Higher Education CRYSTAL BALLROOM B This presentation will focus on innovative programming to engage the next generation LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER in high-demand opportunities in the regional workforce. The presenters will share how collaborative partnerships with the state, postsecondary, and secondary education, as well as industry, have created multiple pathways for student success. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION THE WHY AND HOW OF IMPLEMENTING AN OPEN TEXTBOOK INITIATIVE David Ernst, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Tanya Grosz and Joel Johnson, University of INFORMATIONAL Northwestern–St. Paul REGENCY BALLROOM D This presentation will explain what open textbooks are, why they provide a practical and BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER innovative solution to the student debt crisis, and how the Open Textbook Network helped the University of Northwestern–St. Paul grow its open textbook initiative. The presenters will provide strategies for beginning open textbook initiatives. Target audience: Community Colleges, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities TRANSFORMING FACULTY PERFORMANCE IN COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION WITH INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE INFORMATIONAL Kathe Kacheroski and Amanda Tanner, Capella University REGENCY BALLROOM A This presentation will discuss Capella University’s 2016 AQIP Pathway Action Project, a BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER faculty community of practice designed to enhance the quality of assessment feedback in the FlexPath direct assessment competency-based education option. The structure and results of the initiative will be shared. Participants will consider applications for communities of practice at their campuses. Target audience: Private, For-Profit Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION TRIBAL COLLEGE WISDOM SHARING: REAL PEERS TRANSFORM ACCREDITATION PROCESSES INTO MEANINGFUL PRACTICE PANEL Koreen Ressler, Sitting Bull College; Waylon Baker, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College; Betty Redleaf, MICHIGAN 1 Little Priest Tribal College; Babatunde Alokolaro, Higher Learning Commission CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER The goals of this presentation are to encourage Tribal College and University (TCU) administrators and faculty to become peer reviewers or support colleagues in doing so and to prompt discussion of ways that TCUs can make accreditation and assessment processes their own and make them meaningful in the cultural context of the tribal communities they serve. Target audience: Tribal Colleges and Universities BEST PRACTICES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT AND NEW PROGRAMS EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION Robert Atkins, Gray Associates, Inc.; Lance Bolton, Pikes Peak Community College; DeWayne PLAZA BALLROOM A–B Frazier, Iowa Wesleyan University LOBBY LEVEL / EAST TOWER Participants will learn how to assess the fit between an institution’s programs and external markets. This presentation will identify sources for data on student demand, employment opportunities, competition and degree fit. Institutional leaders will describe a process that enables better and faster decisions while building consensus among faculty and administrators.
General Program: Sunday 1:30–2:30 PM
EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION BETTER PLANNING. BETTER DATA. BETTER LEARNING FOR ALL John McGrath, Watermark LUCERNE BALLROOM Taskstream, Tk20 and LiveText are now united under a new name: Watermark. Learn how SWISSOTEL Watermark empowers institutions to engage educators and students with better data for learning. Watermark’s solutions for assessment and accreditation planning, learning outcomes measurement and ePortfolios can help advance institutional effectiveness, improve program quality and enrich student learning across the institution. K–14 STUDENT SUCCESS: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP, ALIGNMENT AND INNOVATION EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION Maria Moten and Chad Taylor, Harper College TORONTO The Northwest Educational Council on Student Success (NECSS) is a partnership between BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER high school superintendents and the local community college president. This presentation will share insights on K–14 student success initiatives that ensure all high school and college graduates have the opportunity for post-secondary and career readiness and success. OUTCOMES-BASED DATA AND THE ASSESSMENT OF NON-ACADEMIC UNITS EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION Bruce Kelley, University of South Dakota; Jake Glover, IDEA COLUMBUS HALL E–F How can non-academic units better identify and leverage information they already possess BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER to assess and improve programs and initiatives across campus? This presentation will describe how student ratings data are being used to assess and improve the impact of a center for teaching and learning. 2:30–4:00 PM ACCREDITATION SHARE FAIR HLC PRESENTATION Learn about the distinctive processes and requirements associated with HLC’s Pathways for RIVERSIDE EXHIBIT HALL Reaffirmation of Accreditation. Institutions that have recently completed an accreditation EXHIBIT LEVEL / EAST TOWER process will discuss their experience with the process and answer questions. A full listing of participating institutions is provided on p. 28. 3:00–4:30 PM
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ASSESSING GRADUATE PROGRAMS: PRACTICAL AND INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES Felix Wao, University of Oklahoma INTERACTIVE This session will center on innovative and practical strategies for assessing student learning ALPINE BALLROOM at the graduate level. The session facilitator will share lessons learned from case studies of SWISSOTEL several graduate programs that have successfully implemented assessment processes from articulating student learning outcomes to making concrete curricular adjustments. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Large Universities, Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IMPACTING TOMORROW’S STUDENTS Vickie Cook and Ray Schroeder, University of Illinois at Springfield INTERACTIVE This presentation will focus on teaching and learning in the 21st century, addressing the LUCERNE BALLROOM need to utilize technologies to more effectively connect students to their future work and SWISSOTEL careers. The presenters will use engaged discussion to critically review technology trends in relation to preparing students for the future. Target audience: Community Colleges, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION LEARNING TO CHANGE OUR BRAINS: THE VIEW FROM NEUROSCIENCE Catherine Marienau, DePaul University; Kathleen Taylor, Saint Marys College of California INTERACTIVE Disruptive ideas require major shifts in our beliefs and patterns, yet most brains tend to ZURICH BALLROOM E–G rely on what they already know. Neuroscience illuminates the key role of emotions in SWISSOTEL learning to change our brains, and therefore our minds. This session will engage participants in “brain-aware” approaches to facilitating such learning. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities
46 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book INFORMATIONAL 3:00–4:00 PM GRAND BALLROOM C–D BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER FEATURED PRESENTATION / PAYING THE PRICE—COLLEGE COSTS, FINANCIAL AID AND THE BETRAYAL OF THE AMERICAN DREAM Sara Goldrick-Rab, Temple University One of the most sustained and vigorous public debates today is about the value—and, crucially, the price—of college. But an unspoken, outdated assumption underlies all sides of this debate: If a young person works hard enough, they’ll be able to get a college degree and be on the path to a good life. This presentation explains why that’s simply not true anymore and shows in detail exactly why. Following the presentation, the speaker will sign books in the Exhibit Hall from 4:15 to 5:00 p.m. Sara Goldrick-Rab
BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS IN INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE HLC PRESENTATION Tamas Horvath, Tom Bordenkircher and Marisol Gomez, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL This presentation will offer a basic overview of the substantive change process, covering GRAND BALLROOM A different types of change requests, reviews and recommendations; requirements for prior BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER approval or notification; approval processes and timelines; opportunities for institutional response; the role of decision making; and more. The presentation is intended for institutional representatives who are new to institutional change. PARTNERS FOR TRANSFORMATION: PANEL DISCUSSION HLC PRESENTATION Karen Solomon, Higher Learning Commission; Jeanie Webb, Rose State College; Larry Skogen, PANEL Bismarck State College; Robert Stein, Missouri Higher Education Coordinating Board and GRAND BALLROOM E–F Consultant, Educational Partnerships BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER HLC’s 2020 strategic plan called for the development of a think tank to identify innovative ideas on the transformational role of quality assurance in higher education. This group, Partners for Transformation, is exploring how accreditation can be re-framed for the 21st century. Members will share their perspectives on key issues as the group’s subcommittees develop thought papers for consideration by the HLC membership. WRITING TO THE CRITERIA: CRITERION 5 HLC PRESENTATION Barbara Johnson, Higher Learning Commission; Ingrid Gould, University of Chicago INFORMATIONAL This presentation will focus on helping institutions develop material that addresses Criterion 5. ZURICH BALLROOM A–D Following a general review of HLC’s expectations, the facilitators will discuss various types SWISSOTEL of evidence institutions may provide to meet Criterion 5.
ACADEMY PRESENTATION CREATING A SUSTAINABLE, CULTURALLY INFORMED GENERAL EDUCATION FRAMEWORK INFORMATIONAL Susanne Auer and Dawn Frank, Oglala Lakota College ACAPULCO This presentation focuses on how a Tribal College transformed its general education BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER framework to align it with the institution’s vision, mission and strategic plan and the community’s culture. The presenters will share how they use student learning outcome data to improve the performance of students, courses, programs, the assessment system and the institution. Target audience: Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities PERSISTENT PATHWAYS: INTEGRATING HLC ACADEMY AND NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESENTATION REFORM EFFORTS INFORMATIONAL Jenny Schanker, Michigan Community College Association; Timothy Sherwood and Kelly Perez- REGENCY BALLROOM D Vergara, Oakland Community College BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER Oakland Community College is intentionally aligning its work in HLC’s Persistence and Completion Academy with participation in the Michigan Guided Pathways Institute. These initiatives both focus on institutional transformation supporting increased student success. Presenters will explain the synergy between the initiatives and provide examples of crossover projects applicable to both. Target audience: Community Colleges, Public Colleges and Universities
General Program: Sunday 3:00–4:00 PM
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO INFORMATION ACCESSIBILITY USING AN OPEN-SOURCE FRAMEWORK INFORMATIONAL Charlene Widener and Loren Morris, Hutchinson Community College CRYSTAL BALLROOM A This presentation will focus on how Hutchinson Community College used open-source LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER software to develop an accessible information system that integrates the student information system and the learning management system. The presenters will discuss how the interface is being used and plans for its future use. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ADDRESSING THE NEW MAJORITY: SERVING NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS Becky Takeda-Tinker, Karen Ferguson and Pamela Toney, Colorado State University-Global Campus PANEL This presentation will provide tips on engaging, retaining and moving non-traditional students CRYSTAL BALLROOM B toward academic and workplace success. The panel features members of the university’s LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER student enrollment, advising, financial services and academic departments, who will share key concepts based on data and experience. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ASSESSING ART PROGRAMS Facilitator: Becky Timmons, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith; Peter Schade, Oakland PANEL Community College; Lyle Salmi, Millikin University COLUMBUS HALL K–L Measuring student learning for ambiguous outcomes in performance learning and art and BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER design is a challenge. Moreover, it is difficult to make improvements in student learning. In this presentation, faculty from two institutions share good practice for assessing and improving learning in art. Target audience: Community Colleges, Private Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COCURRICULARS IN SUPPORT OF STUDENT LEARNING INFORMATIONAL Sandra Yang, Jeffrey Reep and Brian Burns, Cedarville University REGENCY BALLROOM B This presentation focuses on the effectiveness of cocurricular experiences in improving BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER student learning and how one university developed processes for assessing student learning. After an introduction showing the relationship between cocurricular experiences and the Criteria for Accreditation, professionals in this area will present the means and processes they have developed. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION BUILDING CAMPUS-WIDE APPROACHES TO TARGETED ASSESSMENT Facilitator: Caryn Chaden, DePaul University; Katherine Reichley, Otterbein University; Timothy PANEL Delicath, Missouri Baptist University CRYSTAL BALLROOM C This presentation will discuss the way two institutions approached the challenge of creating LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER a consistent process for assessing very different aspects of their enterprise: In reimagining program review across the campus, Otterbein University developed a process for regularly assessing administrative units, while Missouri Baptist University created a campus-wide approach to measuring student learning from a variety of collection points and hence developing a more complete evaluation of student outcomes. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities CAMPUS CONNECT: THE STUDENT, FACULTY AND COLLEGE EXPERIENCE INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Lynette Barcewicz and Robert Neuteboom, Rasmussen College INFORMATIONAL Academic deans from Rasmussen College share the benefits of Campus Connect, a COLUMBUS HALL I–J telepresence platform that creates a synchronous, multi-location learning environment, for BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER students, faculty and the overall college experience. Innovative practice, student perception and positive outcomes illustrate the value this technology offers distance learners as an alternative to fully online instruction. Target audience: Community Colleges, Private, For-Profit Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities
48 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION DEMYSTIFYING PROGRAM REVIEW: BEST PRACTICES AND MODEL PROGRAMS Lee Bash and Kathleen Bash, Graceland University INFORMATIONAL This presentation will provide an overview of best practices associated with program review, GRAND BALLROOM B particularly relating to prioritization and continuous quality improvement. This will be BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER followed by an in-depth review of model programs, and in particular, a model that received a positive citation in a recent comprehensive evaluation visit. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION RAISING RETENTION AND ACHIEVEMENT: COMPELLING SUCCESS WITH STUDENT TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING RECORD INFORMATIONAL Jeff King, University of Central Oklahoma REGENCY BALLROOM C Student Transformative Learning Record (STLR) is an all-campus, curricular and cocurricular BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER initiative developing students’ beyond-disciplinary skills, readying them for employment and society. In place at the University of Central Oklahoma for four years, STLR is producing compelling retention and student success gains via evidence-based learning assessed by faculty and staff using AAC&U VALUE rubrics, badging and a mobile app. Target audience: Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION USING FACULTY WORKLOAD REPORTS FOR RESOURCE EFFICIENCY: AN AQIP PATHWAY ACTION PROJECT INFORMATIONAL Karl Kunkel, Sue Wilde and Charles McAllister, Southeast Missouri State University COLUMBUS HALL G–H An AQIP Pathway Action Project at Southeast Missouri State University involved creating BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER faculty workload reports, with a partnership emerging between the Budget Office and Academic Affairs. These reports are now used to monitor faculty workload assignments, address discrepancies, determine overload compensation, ensure workloads reflect accepted guidelines and allocate faculty resources in an equitable and efficient manner. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDIES FOR HLC ASSURANCE MODELS Sam Paul, Emsi; Laura Busey, Blue Ridge Community and Technical College TORONTO Blue Ridge Community and Technical College has partnered with Emsi to conduct an BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER economic impact study. This study quantifies the impact of Blue Ridge and its alumni on their regional economy, and the return to students and taxpayers. The study will inform the college’s evidence statements for HLC regarding institutional effectiveness, its Federal Compliance filing and its grant-writing work.
EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION PROGRAM REVIEW, STRATEGIC PLANNING AND BUDGETING: DATA TOOLS TO IMPROVE STUDENT SUCCESS COLUMBUS HALL E–F Jim Moran and Lisa Bonneau, University of South Dakota; David Raney, Nuventive BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Student success drives institutional decision making at the University of South Dakota (USD). Linking analytics to strategic planning and program review at the department level better informs decisions and leads to more effective resource allocations across the university. Hear how USD is improving institutional effectiveness and student success by using the Nuventive Improvement Platform.
EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION THE INTERSECTION OF FREE SPEECH, ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND DISCRIMINATORY MISCONDUCT REGENCY BALLROOM A Hayley Hanson, Husch Blackwell BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER Institutions strive to support free expression while protecting the rights and safety of all community members. The presenter will discuss legal obligations surrounding free speech and academic freedom, and offer practical considerations for identifying, planning for and responding to expressive conduct that may cross into infringing others’ rights or violating law.
General Program: Sunday 3:00–4:00 PM
EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION WIDS CURRICULUM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HELPS WITH ACCREDITATION REVIEW Melinda Schroepfer, Worldwide Instructional Design System (WIDS)—Wisconsin Technical College MICHIGAN 3 System Foundation; Lynn Neitzel, Blackhawk Technical College CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER Defining outcomes and student success curriculum measures for continuous improvement is essential to accreditation success and critical for meeting ongoing AQIP Pathway requirements. Learn how one college uses WIDS Outcome Assessment Planning to efficiently plan, analyze and close the assessment loop while maintaining a historical archive of improvement data.
4:15–5:15 PM
HLC PRESENTATION BECOMING A PEER REVIEWER AT HLC Babatunde Alokolaro, Krystan Cannon and Christine Engel, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL HLC peer reviewers learn about best practices and institutional challenges, contribute REGENCY BALLROOM B expertise and become better equipped to help their own institutions. Attend this BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER presentation to find out about requirements, expectations, the application process and training for peer reviewers. EVALUATING DISTANCE EDUCATION: ARE YOU READY? HLC PRESENTATION Mary Vanis, Higher Learning Commission; Cheryl Ann Murphy, University of Arkansas, INFORMATIONAL Fayetteville GRAND BALLROOM E–F This presentation will provide information on key aspects of an institution’s readiness for BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER an evaluation of distance education. Guidelines established by the Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions (C-RAC) will serve as a resource for institutions preparing for the review of distance education.
HLC PRESENTATION HLC AND LUMINA FOUNDATION Karen Solomon, Higher Learning Commission; Debra Humphreys, Lumina Foundation INFORMATIONAL In the past year, HLC has launched several exciting initiatives, funded in part by Lumina ACAPULCO Foundation. This presentation will outline HLC’s efforts to better understand and set BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER expectations regarding student success, as well as its focus on institutional innovation and the conceptualization of a 21st-century accreditation agency. A timeline of opportunities for the membership to respond to the recommendations being developed will be shared.
HLC PRESENTATION HLC’S STUDENT OPINION SURVEY Stephanie Brzuzy and Vince Coraci, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL For all comprehensive evaluations, HLC conducts a student opinion survey to be used GRAND BALLROOM B by the visiting peer review team. This presentation will address the policy, its current BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER implementation and lessons learned since its introduction.
HLC PRESENTATION LISTENING SESSION ON THE CRITERIA FOR ACCREDITATION Eric Martin and Andrew Lootens-White, Higher Learning Commission COLUMBUS HALL I–J In this session, HLC staff members will discuss the efforts underway to review and update BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER the Criteria for Accreditation, providing a synopsis of survey results and other data that resulted in the alpha version of the Criteria revision. Participants will be asked to comment on that version to help guide the forthcoming beta version.
ACADEMY PRESENTATION ASSESSMENT ACADEMY ROUNDTABLE: ASSESSING COCURRICULAR LEARNING Facilitators: Bertha Avila, Arizona Western College; Mary Ann Danielson, Creighton University ROUNDTABLE This session offers Academy members engaged in similar work a chance to share their MICHIGAN 2 perspectives and practices. Academy mentors will be on hand to facilitate the conversation. CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER Interested participants are invited to bring their team’s stories, challenges and promising practices to the table. Target audience: Academy Participants
50 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book ACADEMY PRESENTATION PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION ACADEMY ROUNDTABLE: FROM ACCESS TO SUCCESS Facilitators: Rhoda Wolle, Wisconsin Lutheran College; Tracy Morris, Illinois Central College ROUNDTABLE This session offers Academy members engaged in similar work a chance to share their RANDOLPH 3 perspectives and practices. Academy mentors will be on hand to facilitate the conversation. CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER Interested participants are invited to bring their team’s stories, challenges and promising practices to the table. Target audience: Academy Participants
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION A COMMUNITY COLLEGE’S TRANSFORMATION OF ONLINE EDUCATION: JEOPARDY TO EXCELLENCE INFORMATIONAL Sherrell Wheeler, New Mexico State University Alamogordo CRYSTAL BALLROOM C This presentation describes issues surrounding a community college’s substantive change in LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER distance education and how the radical changes led to a strong program that ensures true quality in students’ online education. This presentation will include processes and policy changes that ensure the quality of course design, course delivery and student support services. Target audience: Community Colleges, Small Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ACCREDITATION VISITS: PERSPECTIVES FROM PRESIDENTS, A PEER REVIEWER AND AN ALO PANEL Robert (Bob) Haas and Ryan McCall, Marion Technical College; Jane Vangsness Frisch, North GRAND BALLROOM A Dakota State College of Science BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Preparing for a comprehensive evaluation site visit can be challenging. The presenters will provide practical suggestions to create the reports and prepare for the visit from the perspective of college presidents, a peer reviewer and an Accreditation Liaison Officer (ALO) from two community colleges that recently completed successful visits. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities BUILDING BRIDGES, NOT WALLS: CONTINUING CONSTRUCTION INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Jonah Rice, Southeastern Illinois College; Terry Wilkerson, Rend Lake College INFORMATIONAL This presentation continues discussion of the partnerships among three community COLUMBUS HALL E–F colleges presented at last year’s conference. The participating colleges have extended their BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER collaborative work to transform each institution as co-providers for programs as well as services. Broader policies have been developed to allow campus leaders to bridge programs and services faster to serve constituents. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION “COPE”: A BUDGET-NEUTRAL QUALITY INITIATIVE TO HARNESS TIME AND RESOURCES Judy Shackelford and Cheryl Huffman, St. John’s College INFORMATIONAL This presentation will focus on a Course Outcome Plan and Evaluation (COPE) as a Quality COLUMBUS HALL G–H Initiative that is budget neutral and harnesses faculty and leadership committee time and BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER resources to enhance course outcomes. The COPE assesses the congruence and impact of course activities toward meeting course outcomes. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities LINKING ASSESSMENT, PLANNING AND BUDGETING FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION DECISIONS INFORMATIONAL Brett Powell and Wrenette Tedder, Henderson State University REGENCY BALLROOM A Strategic planning goals must be supported by a thoughtful resource allocation process to BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER ensure that university resources are directed toward achievement of the goals. Henderson State University has adopted a resource allocation process that connects the primary functions of planning, budgeting and assessment of institutional effectiveness, along with alignment with mission. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
General Program: Sunday 4:15–5:15 PM
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION PASSING THE TEST: DEVELOPING, IMPLEMENTING AND IMPROVING GUIDED SELF-PLACEMENT INFORMATIONAL Matthew Simpson, Hal Higdon and Vivian Elder, Ozarks Technical Community College COLUMBUS HALL K–L This presentation describes the development and implementation of guided self-placement BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER as a replacement for traditional placement exams. The presenters will detail the creation of an ongoing collaborative system for assessment, using both qualitative and quantitative evidence, and the use of results for continuous improvement to promote student success. Target audience: Community Colleges TRIBAL COLLEGE WISDOM SHARING: ACHIEVING THE DREAM ROUNDTABLE INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION DISCUSSION ROUNDTABLE Facilitator: Koreen Ressler, Sitting Bull College MICHIGAN 1 Join other Tribal College representatives for a roundtable discussion on Achieving the Dream CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER progress and projects. Target audience: Tribal Colleges and Universities CHANGING HISTORY: REDESIGNING TEACHING AND LEARNING IN INTRODUCTORY VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION HISTORY CLASSES INFORMATIONAL Andrew Koch, John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education; Kevin CRYSTAL BALLROOM A Brown, Lansing Community College; James Grossman, American Historical Association LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER This presentation will focus on the presenters’ analysis of unacceptably high failure rates in one of higher education’s highest-enrollment courses, Introductory U.S. History. It will also explore why this issue matters to both the discipline and postsecondary education at large, and how course redesign can and should be connected with HLC quality improvement efforts.Target audience: Community Colleges
EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION BEYOND COMPLIANCE: TURNING DATA INTO ACTION Shannon LaCount, Campus Labs PLAZA BALLROOM A–B Join this presentation to learn how an enterprise-wide approach to data management LOBBY LEVEL / EAST TOWER can lead to more informed decisions and drive better results for the institution. From accreditation and planning to faculty development and learning outcomes, see how the Campus Labs platform brings everything together for a holistic solution.
EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION STUDENT ID VERIFICATION: CHEATERS BEWARE! WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE Jeff Maynard and Mark Sarver, Biometric Signature ID MICHIGAN 3 This presentation will look beyond current technologies to assure academic integrity and CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER prevention of financial aid fraud. BioSig-ID, a software-only biometric technology, has been successfully implemented with 70,000 students. BioSig-ID has reduced proctoring costs, deterred cheating and caught cheaters. BioSig-ID has allowed schools to achieve their academic integrity and accreditation goals.
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52 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book GENERAL PROGRAM MONDAY, APRIL 9
7:00–8:30 AM COMPLIMENTARY CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST SOCIAL/NETWORKING FUNCTION Start your day with a complimentary continental breakfast in the Exhibit Hall. Visit with the RIVERSIDE EXHIBIT HALL exhibitors and network with your colleagues. EXHIBIT LEVEL / EAST TOWER INFORMATIONAL 8:30–9:30 AM GRAND BALLROOM A–F BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER KEYNOTE PRESENTATION / THE NEUROSCIENCE OF INNOVATION Helen Fisher, Rutgers University Innovators can be categorized into four basic groups according to their style of thinking and behaving: explorers, builders, directors and negotiators. This presentation explores how each type is predisposed to innovate and how individuals can capitalize on their own style of creativity and reach into the minds of others—to work effectively together and stimulate innovation. Following the presentation, the speaker will sign books in the Exhibit Hall from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m.
Helen Fisher 10:00 AM–12:00 PM FEDERAL COMPLIANCE OVERVIEW HLC PRESENTATION A. Gigi Fansler and Cecilia Torres, Higher Learning Commission; Mona Walters, Edison State INTENSIVE Community College ZURICH BALLROOM A–D This in-depth workshop will provide an overview of HLC’s Federal Compliance Program, SWISSOTEL its history and the topics it covers.
ACADEMY PRESENTATION ACADEMIES POSTER FAIR The HLC Academies Poster Fair is an opportunity for current and former Academy RIVERSIDE EXHIBIT HALL institutions to showcase their efforts. Posters will be displayed from institutions that EXHIBIT LEVEL / EAST TOWER are at various stages of the Assessment Academy and the Persistence and Completion Academy. Representatives from participating institutions will be in attendance to discuss their Academy experience and answer questions about their projects. See p. 31 for a list of participating institutions. 10:00–11:00 AM EFFECTS ON AND FROM THE COMPOSITE FINANCIAL INDEX (CFI) HLC PRESENTATION Jeffrey Slovak, Governors State University; Jeffrey Rosen, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL This presentation reports on research on the role of college financial health, as measured by CRYSTAL BALLROOM C the CFI, in college operations and outcomes. The effort examines the effects of measures of a LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER college’s organizational structure on its CFI, as well as the effects of both structure and CFI on outcome variables, including graduation rates, post-graduation earnings and loan default rates. FACULTY QUALIFICATIONS: IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR SUCCESS HLC PRESENTATION AT TWO HLC INSTITUTIONS PANEL Eric Martin, Higher Learning Commission; Carolinda Douglass, Northern Illinois University; LUCERNE BALLROOM Michael Wood, Delta College SWISSOTEL In this presentation, two distinctly different HLC institutions will share insights and offer practical advice on the steps they have taken to comply with HLC’s revised faculty qualifications requirement. Internally developed reporting tools will also be featured.
General Program: Monday 10:00–11:00 AM
HLC PRESENTATION PATHWAYS EVALUATION PROJECT Jamie Stanesa, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL In 2012–13, HLC introduced the Standard and Open Pathways, along with an online CRYSTAL BALLROOM A Assurance System that was designed to facilitate reviews. Over the past two years, HLC staff LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER members embarked upon an evaluation of the pathways to better understand how well they were working for member institutions. Attend this presentation to learn the evaluation project’s key findings and recommendations. WRITING TO THE CRITERIA: CRITERION 4 HLC PRESENTATION Andrew Lootens-White, Higher Learning Commission; David Wendler, Martin Luther INFORMATIONAL College (retired) ZURICH BALLROOM E–G This presentation will focus on helping institutions develop material that addresses Criterion 4. SWISSOTEL Following a general review of HLC’s expectations, the facilitators will discuss various types of evidence institutions may provide to meet Criterion 4.
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION A 21ST-CENTURY APPROACH TO URBAN CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Sumie Song, Gregor Thuswaldner and Richard Kohng, North Park University INFORMATIONAL This presentation will examine a Quality Initiative that anticipates trends of the 21st-century COLUMBUS HALL E–F work environment by seeking to prepare civically engaged citizens. Program development and BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER assessment will show how the initiative has sought to leverage the surrounding city as both the subject of and context for students’ learning. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Private, For-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ACADEMIC ADVISING AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES Facilitator: Leslie Bleskachek, Minnesota State College - Southeast; Erin Landers, Kaskaskia PANEL College; Shelley Lammers, Northeast Community College COLUMBUS HALL K–L Two community colleges will share their experience as they set out to transform academic BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER advising. Target audience: Community Colleges, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION BUILDING INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY TO USE DATA EFFECTIVELY Susan Wood and Monica Torres, New Mexico State University-Dona Ana Community College INFORMATIONAL This presentation will focus on how an institution can build its capacity to use data routinely REGENCY BALLROOM B and effectively. The presenters will guide participants through an activity to develop a BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER framework to analyze, report and use data to make decisions that impact student success. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities COMMUNITY COLLEGE BENCHMARKING BUILDS EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION HLC’S CRITERIA PANEL Lou Guthrie, Johnson County Community College; Joe DeHart, Des Moines Area Community CRYSTAL BALLROOM B College; Melissa Giese, Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER How does an institution measure the impact of Quality Initiatives? What evidence is used to show the college is supporting its mission? Presenters from three community colleges will share how they are using benchmarking data to provide evidence in support of the Criteria for Accreditation using innovative metrics and data visualizations. Target audience: Community Colleges
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ENHANCING ACADEMIC FISCAL VIABILITY THROUGH FACULTY INVOLVEMENT AND SHARED GOVERNANCE INFORMATIONAL Paul Koch, Michael Poster and Alan Sivell, St. Ambrose University REGENCY BALLROOM A This presentation will focus on how St. Ambrose University has engaged faculty through BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER the Faculty Finance Committee (FFC), a faculty governance committee, in reviewing the fiscal viability of academic programs. The CAO, CFO and chair of the FFC will describe the process and the data used to further this initiative. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities
54 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO DUAL CREDIT INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Facilitator: Jill Carlson, Santa Fe Community College; Julie Furst-Bowe, Chippewa Valley PANEL Technical College; Beth Williams, Stark State College COLUMBUS HALL G–H This presentation will cover two models for helping high school students succeed in dual credit BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER programs. Stark State’s program was designed to offer students who did not meet dual credit enrollment standards for admission the opportunity to become college ready and earn college credit while completing high school. At Chippewa Valley Technical College, dual enrollment has become a major strategy for recruiting and retaining students. Target audience: Community Colleges, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION INTRODUCTION TO BRAIN-BASED LEARNING, LEADERSHIP AND LAUGHTER FOR REAFFIRMATION OF ACCREDITATION INFORMATIONAL Peter Jonas, Cardinal Stritch University REGENCY BALLROOM C A variety of studies show that humor not only increases leadership skills, but also enhances BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER the learning environment and increases the effectiveness of organizations. This presentation provides a synthesis of brain research on using humor to improve leadership and learning for the comprehensive evaluation process. A related presentation focusing on practical applications will be offered Tuesday at 9:45 a.m.Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION REDESIGNING A COLLEGE-WIDE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM Angela Landt, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College; Steve Miller, Wisconsin Indianhead PANEL Technical College PLAZA BALLROOM A–B Two technical colleges in Wisconsin recently revised their college-wide academic assessment LOBBY LEVEL / EAST TOWER process. In this panel discussion, the speakers will describe the changes that were made, the tools that are now in use and the impacts they have seen from these changes. Target audience: Community Colleges
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION STARTING FROM SCRATCH: DESIGNING A NEW SERVICE LEARNING CLASS Benjamin Drury, Morton College INFORMATIONAL Developing a service learning class can absolutely benefit students—but what do they want MICHIGAN 2 to do? In this presentation, participants will see assessment evidence used to create a case CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER for a successful service learning course related to sociology, as well as tools to measure student outcomes. Target audience: Community Colleges, Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION THE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICERS (ACAO) DIGITAL FELLOWS PROGRAM AND STUDENT PERSISTENCE PANEL Constance Johnson, Colorado Technical University; Kathy Johnson, Indiana University-Purdue REGENCY BALLROOM D University Indianapolis; Patricia Rogers, Winona State University BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER This presentation will focus on the experience of three chief academic officers participating in the ACAO Digital Fellows program. The goal of this program is to explore ways to use digital technology to increase retention, persistence and graduation among undergraduates, especially those who are first generation, low income or students of color. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION TRIBAL COLLEGE WISDOM SHARING: SPECIALIZED ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION FOR INDIGENOUS EDUCATION INFORMATIONAL Anna Fellegy and Roxanne DeLille, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College MICHIGAN 1 Indigenous education does not stem from the same philosophical roots as Western CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER education. Indigenous programming benefits from evaluation processes that share an indigenous perspective. This presentation will examine indigenous evaluation practices from institutional accreditation to classroom-level assessment. Target audience: Community Colleges, Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities
General Program: Monday 10:00–11:00 AM
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION VITA (VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE) SUPPORTING THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE MISSION INFORMATIONAL Jim Simpson, Maricopa Community Colleges-Scottsdale Community College; Amelia Dalton, COLUMBUS HALL I–J Internal Revenue Service BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation will demonstrate how to use the IRS-sponsored VITA program to improve the quality of life in an institution’s community by providing service learning experiences while helping those in need. VITA offers high-quality, collaborative, affordable and accessible opportunities that enable learners to achieve lifelong educational, professional and personal goals. Target audience: Community Colleges, Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities
VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION TRAINING GOVERNING BOARDS ON THEIR ROLE IN THE ACCREDITATION PROCESS Kenneth Urban, Urban Ingenuity, LLC INFORMATIONAL Many trustees come to board service at two- and four-year institutions with little if any ALPINE BALLROOM experience related to the accreditation process. This presentation lays out important SWISSOTEL considerations around training current and new trustees on the process and purpose of accreditation, and the board’s role in the process. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION CURRICULUM AND CATALOG: ACCURATE, ENGAGING AND EFFICIENT Jake Morrow, DIGARC ACAPULCO Can an institution keep up with changing accreditation requirements and competition for BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER students and also increase efficiency? Over 550 colleges and universities have partnered with Digarc to eliminate chaos from the management of curriculum and catalogs. See how Curriculog and Acalog produce consistent data across curriculum, catalog, web and student information systems.
INFORMATIONAL 11:15 AM–12:15 PM GRAND BALLROOM C–D BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER FEATURED PRESENTATION / WORKFORCE NEEDS AND THE T-SHAPED INDIVIDUAL Phil Gardner, Michigan State University Disruption lies ahead in many guises, whether in the workplace, social connections or political processes. Handling disruption requires skills, competencies, attitudes and behaviors beyond what students typically receive through their higher education experience. How do institutions prepare students for their future? Can the T-professional model serve as a lens to transform learning experiences?
Phil Gardner
HLC PRESENTATION ADVANCED UNDERSTANDINGS IN INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE Tamas Horvath, Tom Bordenkircher and Marisol Gomez, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL This presentation will offer an understanding of how to navigate through complex CRYSTAL BALLROOM A substantive change processes, such as program and certificate applications; the LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER Notification Program for Additional Locations; combining change requests, including embedded changes; specialized change requests; and institutional responses, especially in cases of denial recommendations. COMPOSITE FINANCIAL INDEX SCORE TRENDS HLC PRESENTATION J. Lee Johnson, Siena Heights University; Mike Seuring, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL The U.S. Department of Education requires institutions to submit information annually REGENCY BALLROOM A to demonstrate they are maintaining the standards of financial responsibility necessary BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER to participate in Title IV programs. HLC also uses the Department’s standard, which is a composite score of three ratios derived from an institution’s audited financial statements. This presentation provides an understanding of composite score trends within the HLC region.
56 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR EVIDENCE HLC PRESENTATION Anthea Sweeney, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL This presentation will review and explore how institutions can maximize the impact of their GRAND BALLROOM E–F evidence as they prepare to successfully meet HLC expectations in a variety of contexts, BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER including comprehensive evaluations, focused visits and interim reports.
HLC PRESENTATION QUALITY INITIATIVE PROCESS: GOOD PRACTICE PANEL Jeffrey Rosen, Higher Learning Commission; Wes Chapin, University of Wisconsin-River Falls; PANEL Shawn Bina, Vermilion Community College; Susan Warner Taylor, Baldwin Wallace University GRAND BALLROOM B This presentation will review the approaches taken by three institutions to developing BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER their Quality Initiative Proposals, assigning personnel and executing tasks associated with the project, and completing their final report to HLC; it will address best practices for organizing and executing a successful project.
HLC PRESENTATION THE AQIP PATHWAY’S COMPREHENSIVE QUALITY REVIEW Karen Stewart, Consultant and HLC Peer Reviewer INFORMATIONAL The Comprehensive Quality Review (CQR), part of a broader comprehensive evaluation, COLUMBUS HALL G–H assures the higher education community and the public that an institution continues to BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER meet the Criteria for Accreditation and the Federal Compliance Requirements, and also determines whether the institution demonstrates advancing organizational maturity in relation to the AQIP Pathway Categories. Attend this presentation to learn more about the expectations and logistics of the CQR.
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION A CULTURALLY GROUNDED, STUDENT-LED APPROACH TO PEER MENTORING PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT INFORMATIONAL Reeverson Descheny, Barbara Harvey, Ashley Lee and Kristin Mitchell, Diné College COLUMBUS HALL I–J The Diné College Peer Mentor Program is an innovative, student-led approach to helping BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER students in a culturally grounded way that is unique and draws from the strengths of Diné philosophy and cultural teachings. The Peer Mentors aim to impact, improve and transform interactions within the Diné College community. Target audience: Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities ASSESSMENT AND THE “GOOD LIFE”: TELEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS INFORMATIONAL John Lommel, Grace College and Seminary MICHIGAN 2 This presentation will describe how developing a teleological foundation for assessment CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER engages faculty members by changing discussions about assessment to center on the flourishing of faculty members and students. The presenter will critique current assessment discussions and share how connecting assessment to the “good life” changes the culture of assessment. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities CONNECTING CONTINUOUS PLANNING, BUDGETING AND INSTITUTIONAL INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ASSESSMENT INFORMATIONAL Randall Stiles, Angela Voos and Michael Latham, Grinnell College REGENCY BALLROOM B In 2011, Grinnell College adopted a continuous planning model designed with both BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER institutional agility and adaptive capacity in mind. This presentation will focus on the linkage between the continuous planning process with its six overarching strategies, the college’s institutional learning outcomes, its measures of institutional effectiveness, and budgeting. Target audience: Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
General Program: Monday 11:15 AM–12:15 PM DEFINING QUALITY: A NEW QUALITY FRAMEWORK FOR COMPETENCY-BASED INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION EDUCATION PANEL Deb Bushway, Northwestern Health Sciences University; Charla Long, Competency-Based COLUMBUS HALL K–L Education Network BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER In response to questions regarding the quality of competency-based education (CBE), the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) gathered a group of leading CBE and accreditation experts to create the Quality Framework for Competency-Based Programs. In this session, attendees will use the new framework to review a fictional program. Target audience: Private, For-Profit Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities DISCUSSION OF A COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION VISIT BY THE ACCREDITATION INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION LIAISON OFFICER AND TEAM CHAIR PANEL Jean Deller, Trine University; David Wendler, Martin Luther College (retired) ZURICH BALLROOM E–G Do you have a comprehensive evaluation visit looming in your future? Join this lively SWISSOTEL discussion between an Accreditation Liaison Officer and an HLC team chair, in which they share what was done well and what could have been improved upon when HLC recently visited Trine University. Target audience: Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities MAPPING INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY EFFORTS TO HLC’S CRITERIA FOR INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ACCREDITATION PANEL Jeanetta Sims, University of Central Oklahoma; Chaunda Scott, Oakland University; REGENCY BALLROOM D E. Paulette Isaac-Savage, University of Missouri-Saint Louis BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER This presentation assists institutions in demonstrating their institutional diversity efforts in Assurance Arguments from the perspectives of two HLC peer reviewers. The presenters will offer attendees a matrix that maps various types of diversity-related evidence directly to HLC’s Criteria for Accreditation. Target audience: Community Colleges, Large Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION MEETING STUDENTS WHERE THEY ARE: BUILDING STUDENT SUCCESS PATHWAYS Alan Bearman and JuliAnn Mazachek, Washburn University of Topeka INFORMATIONAL This presentation focuses on how Washburn University, an urban public university, faces CRYSTAL BALLROOM B multiple challenges in improving student success due to changing demographics. In LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER particular, it will demonstrate how institutions can raise their retention rates as students from underrepresented groups increase in number by meeting students where they are on the preparation scale. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION THE AUGGIE PLAN: INNOVATING HOW WE THINK ABOUT TRANSFER Derrick Lindstrom, Minneapolis Community and Technical College; Ron Blankenship, PANEL Augsburg College COLUMBUS HALL E–F This presentation focuses on an innovative transfer partnership between public and private BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER institutions, grounded in student development theory and equity and inclusion work. Learn how an innovative approach has transformed the transfer conversations in Minnesota, helping students make the transition from undecided to an associate’s degree and into over 50 bachelor’s degrees. Target audience: Community Colleges, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities USING ASYNCHRONOUS FORUMS TO ENGAGE FACULTY, INCLUDING ADJUNCTS, INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION IN ASSESSMENT INFORMATIONAL Richard Ansson, Lisa Mitchell and Kathleen Schnier, University of Phoenix CRYSTAL BALLROOM C This presentation addresses an institutional approach for engaging adjunct faculty in LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER assessment of student learning through data sharing and reporting mechanisms. An asynchronous meeting space affords participants flexible attendance times. Faculty members review curriculum maps, course syllabi and student learning assessment results and provide feedback and recommendations through templated reports. Target audience: Large Universities, Private, For-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
58 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION ADVISING BY RE-DESIGN: MOVE ADVISING TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF IMPACT John Gardner, John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education; Kathy PANEL Stockwell, Fox Valley Technical College; Charlie Nutt, NACADA: The Global Community for PLAZA BALLROOM A–B Academic Advising; Casey Self, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts LOBBY LEVEL / EAST TOWER This session will profile several HLC institutions that have joined the initial rollout of a national project focused on evidence to evaluate and the redesign the entirety of their academic advising experience. Called the Academic Advising Excellence Process, the effort is designed to help institutions generate and implement comprehensive evidence and assessment recommendations to improve their academic advising efforts.Target audience: Community Colleges ACCREDITATION LIKE A BOSS! TIPS FOR CONNECTING ASSESSMENT AND EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION ACCREDITATION ACAPULCO Bonni Graham, Scantron BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER Does your institution struggle to show how its course and program assessments help demonstrate compliance with accreditation criteria? This session provides how-to tips from Scantron’s assessment experts, including deconstructing accreditation requirements into accessible concepts, writing reliable and valid items, and analyzing test and item statistics to drive continuous improvement.
EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION EMERGING STUDENT SUCCESS TRENDS AND COMMUNITY INSIGHTS: WHAT DO THE DATA SAY? ALPINE BALLROOM Laura Malcolm, Civitas Learning SWISSOTEL Higher education long relied on cohort-level data and national best practices to accelerate degree completion and help more low-income and first-generation students achieve college success. This presentation will explore the surprising realities behind higher education’s “campfire wisdom” and take a closer look at what the data really say about why students succeed or struggle—and what we can do about it. TURNING AN INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE INTO AN OPPORTUNITY TO RADICALLY EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION IMPROVE USE OF DATA LUCERNE BALLROOM John Van Weeren, ASR Analytics; Nicola Richmond, Pima Community College SWISSOTEL Pima Community College teamed with ASR Analytics to implement a data-informed decision-making framework that addressed accreditation shortcomings. A comprehensive data warehouse and business intelligence system support this environment. Focusing on the mission and strategic plan informed solution requirements and improved collegewide access to data, technology, reports and visualization design. 12:15–1:30 PM LUNCH AND DISCUSSION WITH TRIBAL COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVES HLC PRESENTATION Facilitator: Barbara Gellman-Danley, Higher Learning Commission ROUNDTABLE This roundtable with the HLC president will provide an opportunity to discuss issues and GRAND BALLROOM A challenges facing Tribal Colleges, as well as changes within HLC and their impact on Tribal BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Colleges. Open to all attendees from Tribal Colleges and Universities. Lunch will be provided. Target audience: Tribal Colleges and Universities
INFORMATIONAL 1:30–2:30 PM GRAND BALLROOM C–D BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER FEATURED PRESENTATION / DISRUPTIVE FORCES CHANGING THE HIGHER EDUCATION LANDSCAPE Alana Dunagan, Clayton Christensen Institute Do boot camps, badges and alternative credentials have the potential to disrupt higher education—or the degree itself? How can traditional institutions learn from these models while maintaining their missions and commitment to quality? This presentation provides new research from the Clayton Christensen Institute on these important questions.
Alana Dunagan
General Program: Monday 1:30–2:30 PM
HLC PRESENTATION CHANGE OF CONTROL, STRUCTURE OR ORGANIZATION: A KEY HLC POLICY IN A TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE INFORMATIONAL Eric Martin, Higher Learning Commission; Sam Kerr, Lynn, Jackson, Shultz & Lebrun CRYSTAL BALLROOM C HLC’s Change of Control reviews are increasing in frequency and complexity as higher LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER education transforms through mergers and acquisitions, as well as significant changes in governance, legal control and administrative components. This presentation will convey trends regarding Change of Control, along with the circumstances that require HLC review, and will explain the unique timeline, process and strategies for success. HELPING INSTITUTIONS IMPROVE: HLC’S ACADEMIES AND WORKSHOPS HLC PRESENTATION Destiny Quintero, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL HLC offers elective programs and services to aid its members in strategically addressing CRYSTAL BALLROOM A some of the leading concerns in higher education. Providing attendees with valuable LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER information to evaluate when considering participating in HLC’s programming, this presentation will explore the structure and goals of these programs, including the Academies and HLC’s workshops on assessment and supporting student success, and how they can help in the pursuit of institutional improvement. KEY INSIGHTS: TEAM DETERMINATIONS FOR COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATIONS HLC PRESENTATION (REPEAT) INFORMATIONAL Barbara Johnson, Higher Learning Commission GRAND BALLROOM E–F This presentation provides an overview of the Core Components most frequently cited BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER by teams in comprehensive evaluations and highlights the reasons teams determined institutions did not fully meet a Core Component. TRIBAL COLLEGE WISDOM SHARING: ACCREDITATION PROCESSES HLC PRESENTATION Pat Newton-Curran and Mary Vanis, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL This presentation will cover recent updates at HLC regarding policy and processes. There will GRAND BALLROOM A be a brief review and update on recent topics related to institutional change. Attendees may BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER bring questions for a Q&A period at the end of the session. Target audience: Tribal Colleges and Universities MAINTAINING QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING IN FISCALLY ACADEMY PRESENTATION CHALLENGING TIMES INFORMATIONAL Lori Baker-Sperry and Nancy Parsons, Western Illinois University CRYSTAL BALLROOM B With serious budget constraints and concerns about enrollment, Western Illinois University LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER anticipates that fiscal challenges are the “new reality.” The university’s assessment model has adapted and evolved to accommodate these fiscal challenges while embracing robust assessment. The presenters will offer some practical solutions to create lean, efficient and meaningful assessment practices. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ASSESSING SUMMER BRIDGE AND FIRST-YEAR STUDENT SUCCESS PROGRAMS Leah Adams-Curtis, Knox College; Polly Albright, Earlham College; Laura Behling, Knox College PANEL Knox College and Earlham College, two selective liberal arts colleges, have developed REGENCY BALLROOM D programs for new students facing challenges in higher education (first generation, low BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER income and students of color). The presenters will describe these programs and their assessment and show how the results guide improvement of Knox’s summer bridge and Earlham’s Library Immersion Fellows program. Target audience: Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities ASSESSMENT UPGRADE: USING TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL MEDIA TO INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION IMPROVE ASSESSMENT INFORMATIONAL Lisa Bonneau, University of South Dakota REGENCY BALLROOM A The implementation of assessment software can lead to a concomitant update of assessment BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER strategies on a campus. This presentation outlines the strategies used during the software implementation process at the University of South Dakota and describes subsequent initiatives that have been developed to move the institution forward in improving the assessment of student learning. Target audience: Public Colleges and Universities 60 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION DOUBLING GRADUATION RATES IN THREE YEARS AND AWARDS IN FIVE Yash Morimoto and Julie Gallegos, Santa Fe Community College INFORMATIONAL Helping students graduate is what Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) decided to focus on PLAZA BALLROOM A–B five years ago when it created its strategic plan. Since then SFCC has used data and integrated LOBBY LEVEL / EAST TOWER strategic planning to double its number of awards and its graduation rate. This presentation will focus on the college’s challenges and successes. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM REVIEW: A MODEL FOR EFFECTIVE COLLABORATION Sherman Elliott, Rebecca Foy and Laura Terry, Grand Canyon University INFORMATIONAL This presentation will focus on the methodology and outcomes of one institution’s program REGENCY BALLROOM B review of its general education program. The presenters will share how this design encourages BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER collaboration and engagement among faculty across the institution and provides actionable data demonstrably aligned to mission-based learning outcomes and assessment. Target audience: Community Colleges, Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Large Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION I-WE-YOU: CRAFTING A TRANSFORMATIVE ASSURANCE ARGUMENT AND SITE VISIT Holly Baumgartner, Ohio Northern University; Karen Mohar, Lourdes University; Kevin Cole, PANEL University of Sioux Falls GRAND BALLROOM B University Assurance Argument writers and their site visit team chair share insights on BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER crafting a successful comprehensive evaluation experience through campus engagement and peer reviewer collaboration. Assurance work transformed tensions, reminding the campus of its mission to serve the individual, the community and future students. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities MAINTAINING MOMENTUM BETWEEN HLC EVALUATION VISITS INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Karen Zunkel, Iowa State University; Robert McMaster and Joseph Shultz, University of PANEL Minnesota-Twin Cities COLUMBUS HALL E–F This presentation will highlight enhancements and processes two institutions introduced to BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER maintain accreditation-related momentum between HLC evaluations. Target audience: Large Universities, Public Colleges and Universities PIEs AND SPIs: DELICIOUS, SNEAKY CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION STRATEGIC PLANNING INFORMATIONAL Sharon Katterman and Sadya Khan, Moraine Valley Community College COLUMBUS HALL G–H Learn how one community college has aligned its AQIP Pathway processes with its strategic BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER planning. Moraine Valley’s newly developed PIE (Plan, Improve and Evaluate) principles and SPIs (Strategic Planning Indicators) are tools being used to manage processes and increase the institution’s awareness of and engagement with data usage for continuous improvement. Target audience: Community Colleges
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION QUARTERBACKING THE COCURRICULAR ASSESSMENT PROCESS: WINNING TEAMWORK INFORMATIONAL Paula Kinney, Kelly Danaher and Wesley Brooks, Iowa Wesleyan University REGENCY BALLROOM C Assessment of student learning in cocurricular programs is an important component of BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER student learning. However, cocurricular assessment lags behind curricular assessment. This presentation discusses the process of developing cocurricular assessment strategies using athletics as a case study. Target audience: Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION USING TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT Facilitator: Michael Wilds, Northeastern State University; Elise Fisher, William Jewell College; PANEL Ben Schears, Northwest Kansas Technical College; Evangeline Varonis, Hiram College COLUMBUS HALL K–L This presentation will discuss recent advancements in technology designed to improve BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER student engagement. The panelists will focus on the use of mobile applications to collect feedback from students and push campus event notifications, as well as faculty and staff development, marketing, student support, and learning assessment design when implementing and supporting a one-to-one Apple iPad initiative. Target audience: Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities
General Program: Monday 1:30–2:30 PM WIN-WIN-WIN: WHEN A BUSINESS, A HOSPITAL AND A COLLEGE COLLABORATE INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Michael McLaughlin, Nichelle Cline and Jana Pownell, Kirkwood Community College INFORMATIONAL This presentation will focus on a partnership that a hospital, a community college and a COLUMBUS HALL I–J health records vendor undertook to provide a realistic learning environment. The presenters BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER will discuss how the partnership was created and how the system is utilized to assess student performance in the simulated clinical environment. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
ENHANCED ACADEMIC OVERSIGHT OVER DUAL CREDIT: NACEP’S NEWLY VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION REVISED STANDARDS PANEL Adam Lowe, National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships; Deanna Jessup, Indiana LUCERNE BALLROOM University Bloomington; Kent Scheffel, Lewis and Clark Community College SWISSOTEL The National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships’ (NACEP’s) newly revised national standards and HLC’s Assumed Practices ensure that college courses offered by high school instructors are as rigorous as courses offered on the sponsoring college campus. Learn how NACEP’s standards provide specific strategies an institution can follow to align its coursework with HLC’s expectations. Target audience: Community Colleges, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities SHIFTING PROCESSES: MOVING FROM CONTENT TAUGHT TO KNOWLEDGE LEARNED EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION Patricia Borchert, Metropolitan State University; Donna Jones, eLumen ACAPULCO Meaningful program assessment requires a shift in focus to emphasize what graduates should BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER be able to do, not just topics covered—requiring faculty to embrace new assessment methods, measures and language. Join Metropolitan State University and eLumen as they discuss ways these challenges can be addressed by adopting systematic and meaningful processes. STUDENT SUCCESS AND MINDSET: SOLUTIONS FOR THE NOW GENERATION EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION Jahmad Canley, LAUNCH Student Success; Colton Woo, Klass App ALPINE BALLROOM Success—it’s what we want for all students. The question that always remains is how to SWISSOTEL teach it in a way that sticks. This interactive presentation explores and demonstrates the success of combining mindset, skill set and technology to increase student success during the critical first three weeks, months and terms. 2:30–3:00 PM ICE CREAM SOCIAL SOCIAL/NETWORKING FUNCTION Attendees are invited to the Exhibit Hall to network with colleagues, enjoy ice cream and RIVERSIDE EXHIBIT HALL meet the exhibitors one last time. For those attending sessions in the West Tower, ice cream EXHIBIT LEVEL / EAST TOWER will be also be served in the Regency Ballroom Foyer during the same time. 3:00–4:30 PM
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION CULTURE CHANGE IN TEACHING THROUGH TRANSFORMED CLASSROOMS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERACTIVE Gail Burd and Jane Hunter, University of Arizona LUCERNE BALLROOM Teaching approaches that use evidence-based, active learning and student-centered SWISSOTEL instruction have been shown to improve student learning. The University of Arizona is beginning to change faculty culture through peer-led faculty learning communities and teaching in collaborative learning spaces designed for student engagement. Target audience: Large Universities, Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
62 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION MAPPING REASONING FOR CRITICAL THINKING INSTRUCTION ACROSS DISCIPLINES AND INSTITUTIONS INTERACTIVE Dona Warren and Vera Klekovkina, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Jeanne Ryan, ZURICH BALLROOM E–G Mid-State Technical College SWISSOTEL Concept, argument and dialog maps provide a platform for more efficient instruction, assessment and collaboration across disciplines and institutions. This presentation will demonstrate how graphical representations of reasoning have improved critical thinking instruction across the curriculum at both a four-year regional comprehensive university and a two-year technical college. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION TRANSFORMING AQIP PATHWAY PROCESSES: PEER REVIEWERS SHARE FATAL MISTAKES INSTITUTIONS MAKE INTERACTIVE Jill Carlson, Santa Fe Community College; Janna Oakes, Regis University; Janet Fontenot, ALPINE BALLROOM Southwestern Illinois College SWISSOTEL Experienced peer reviewers share the eight fatal flaws they have observed that impact institutions’ ability to function successfully on the AQIP Pathway. Join this interactive seminar and learn how to avoid having peer reviewers identify failure to understand the basics of continuous quality improvement as a strategic issue. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities 3:00–4:00 PM
HLC PRESENTATION HLC’S STUDENT SUCCESS INITIATIVES Karen Solomon, Stephanie Brzuzy and Anthea Sweeney, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL With funding from Lumina Foundation, HLC launched two groups focused on student GRAND BALLROOM C–D success in 2016. The Testing Student Success Data group is researching critical macro and BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER micro characteristics and variables that measure why students succeed, and the Defining Student Success Data group is developing a glossary of terms and exploratory thought papers. This presentation will provide an update on their work.
HLC PRESENTATION THE HLC COMPLAINTS PROCESS FOR INSTITUTIONAL STAKEHOLDERS Zach Waymer, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL The presentation provides an overview of the HLC complaints process used by students, CRYSTAL BALLROOM A faculty, staff and other institutional stakeholders to submit complaints about accredited LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER institutions’ compliance with the Criteria for Accreditation. The presentation includes information about how the process works, who is involved, expected outcomes, and data and insights.
HLC PRESENTATION THE OPEN PATHWAY YEAR 4 ASSURANCE ARGUMENT: PROCESS, EVIDENCE AND REVIEW (REPEAT) INFORMATIONAL Jeffrey Rosen, Higher Learning Commission; Janet Smith, Pittsburg State University GRAND BALLROOM B This presentation is designed for institutions preparing for their Year 4 Assurance Review in BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER the Open Pathway. An experienced peer review team chair and the Open Pathway director will address common misperceptions and focus on how best to position an institution to update HLC about its activities.
HLC PRESENTATION WRITING TO THE CRITERIA: CRITERION 3 Linnea Stenson, Higher Learning Commission; Monica Varner, University of Tulsa INFORMATIONAL This presentation will focus on helping institutions develop material that addresses ZURICH BALLROOM A–D Criterion 3. Following a general review of HLC’s expectations, facilitators will discuss various SWISSOTEL types of evidence institutions may provide to meet Criterion 3.
ACADEMY PRESENTATION ACCUMULATING SUCCESS: THE THREE-BUCKET APPROACH TO STUDENT PERSISTENCE Christine Austin and Hanna Norton, Arkansas Tech University INFORMATIONAL This interactive session recounts one institution’s progress in HLC’s Persistence and CRYSTAL BALLROOM C Completion Academy. Use Arkansas Tech University’s bucket approach to learn about the LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER value, process and preliminary outcomes of the Academy. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
General Program: Monday 3:00–4:00 PM LEARNING AS THE IMPETUS FOR ASSESSMENT ACADEMY PRESENTATION Gloria Rogers, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL In the crush to satisfy both external and internal demands to produce evidence of “closing GRAND BALLROOM E–F the loop,” educators have lost sight of the value assessment can bring to both students and BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER faculty. This presentation will focus on the proper roles of students and faculty by making them central to the assessment process. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities EMBRACING COLLABORATION AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE TO SUPPORT THE INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION MILITARY-CONNECTED STUDENT PANEL Robert James, Henry Ford College; Katherine Giardello, Michigan Community College COLUMBUS HALL E–F Association; Rebecca Myszenski, Mott Community College BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This presentation will share insights and promising practices in the field from the collaborative efforts of the Consortium of Military Veteran Educators, the Midwestern Higher Education Compact and the Multi-state Collaborative on Military Credit, in addition to connecting insights to individual institutional change efforts supporting the military-connected student. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities EVIDENCE-BASED EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: TRANSFORMING THEORY AND INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION PRACTICE OF FACULTY DEVELOPMENT INFORMATIONAL Eric Kyle and Larry Hughes, Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health COLUMBUS HALL G–H This presentation will share the results of an AQIP Pathway Action Project intended to establish BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER an evidence-based teaching and learning center. The presenters will provide an overview of evidence-based educational system guidelines being used to direct educational development initiatives and assessment measurements. Target audience: Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities EXECUTING A DYNAMIC ENROLLMENT MODEL INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Jessica Daniels, Randy Bergen and Ryan Gunderson, Bethel University INFORMATIONAL This presentation will describe the strategy and execution of a shift from a cohort model REGENCY BALLROOM B to rolling entry or “dynamic enrollment” for nontraditional and graduate programs offered BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER in face-to-face and online modalities. The changes and challenges related to operations, curriculum, student support, academic advising, enrollment and technology will be addressed. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities FOCUS ON IMPROVEMENT: ALIGNING ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO MISSION AND INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION HLC CRITERIA INFORMATIONAL Alison Witherspoon and Tiffany Hamlett, American College of Education COLUMBUS HALL I–J This presentation will share a model for encouraging, documenting and sharing BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER improvements, aligned to the institutional mission and HLC’s Criteria for Accreditation, that can be implemented at any type of institution. The process utilizes technology to improve record keeping and collaboration while organically promoting continuous improvement. Target audience: Private, For-Profit Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities INTEGRATING WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT WITH ACADEMICS INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Mona Walters, Edison State Community College INFORMATIONAL The integration of workforce development with academics is critical to the success of REGENCY BALLROOM C students, academic programs, and business and industry partners. This presentation BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER focuses on using strategic visioning to plan for the integration and partnering of a new, innovative center for workforce development with students, faculty, business and industry. Target audience: Community Colleges
64 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION LESS IS MORE: INCREMENTAL CHANGES CAN IMPACT LARGER OUTCOMES Philip Garber, Elgin Community College; Ileo Lott, Oakton Community College; Ricardo PANEL Segovia, Triton College CRYSTAL BALLROOM B This presentation focuses on how incremental changes in the behaviors of students or LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER faculty impact larger institutional outcomes like persistence or completion. The presenters will share student-level data from community colleges involved in the Achieving the Dream network. Target audience: Community Colleges
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION ON PROBATION—NOW WHAT? Bradley Bennett and Seth Carter, Colby Community College INFORMATIONAL This presentation will focus on how to handle the rough waters of Probation. The presenters MICHIGAN 2 will provide insight on how one institution was able to successfully navigate being placed on CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER Probation by HLC. Target audience: Community Colleges, Small Colleges and Universities POLYSYNCHRONOUS DELIVERY: INCREASING STUDENT SATISFACTION WITH INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION FLEXIBLE TEACHING AND LEARNING INFORMATIONAL W. Robert Smith, Missy Skurzewski-Servant and Lea Ann Turner, Mid-State Technical College REGENCY BALLROOM A This presentation will focus on polysynchronous course delivery that enables students BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER to attend classes on or off campus, in real time or after the scheduled class time. The presenters are an administrator, an institutional technology specialist and an instructor. Polysycnhronous delivery enables students to learn when and where it is best for them. Target audience: Community Colleges, Faith-Based Colleges and Universities, Minority- Serving Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION TRIBAL COLLEGE WISDOM SHARING: DEVELOPMENT OF THE CENTER FOR DINÉ STUDIES B.A. PROGRAM INFORMATIONAL James Mckenzie, Diné College MICHIGAN 1 This presentation will focus on the development of an indigenous culturally-based B.A. CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER program at a Tribal College. Presenters will discuss the unique nature of this initiative, data collected from the college and outside community, and the challenges and opportunities in finding a balance between community, cultural identity and considerations for accreditation. Target audience: Community Colleges, Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities
VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION SARA: WE’RE PAST THE “EASY STUFF” Jennifer Parks, Midwestern Higher Education Compact; John Lopez, Western Interstate INFORMATIONAL Commission for Higher Education COLUMBUS HALL K–L This presentation will review several topics related to SARA (State Authorization Reciprocity BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Agreements), including data on state members and participating institutions, recent state authorization policy developments and strategic directions for SARA. Target audience: Large Universities, Small Colleges and Universities ENGAGING INSIGHTS FROM THE NATIONAL SURVEY OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION Jillian Kinzie, Indiana University PLAZA BALLROOM A–B Results from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) offer institutions helpful LOBBY LEVEL / EAST TOWER diagnostics about strengths and shortcomings in the undergraduate student experience. This presentation will highlight recent findings on student persistence, high-impact practices and diversity education and demonstrate effective uses of NSSE results in accreditation self-studies and quality improvement plans. RETHINKING GENERAL EDUCATION ASSESSMENT: ALIGNING TOOLS WITH METHODS EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION Brandon Combs, University of Central Arkansas ACAPULCO This session explores the use of Taskstream and Aqua by Watermark to support institutional BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER and competency-based general education assessment. The presenter will share his experiences implementing the products at two institutions, the functionality and purpose of each system, and how they are used to meet institutional and regional accreditation needs.
General Program: Monday 4:15–5:15 PM
HLC PRESENTATION CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS REVISITED Anthea Sweeney and Tom Bordenkircher, Higher Learning Commission INFORMATIONAL This presentation will provide a general introduction to basic third-party arrangements and GRAND BALLROOM A will differentiate among the scenarios requiring notification versus HLC approval, with an BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER emphasis on the institution’s ongoing accountability for the success of such arrangements.
HLC PRESENTATION CREDIT HOUR REVIEW: EXPECTATIONS, CONSIDERATIONS AND PROCESS Jeffrey Rosen and Cecilia Torres, Higher Learning Commission; Mona Walters, Edison State INFORMATIONAL Community College GRAND BALLROOM E–F This presentation will review HLC’s expectations related to documenting institutional BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER compliance with policies related to the credit hour in the Federal Compliance Review. It will also include some examples of best practices to help institutions document appropriate credit hour allocations for institutional courses and programs.
HLC PRESENTATION LISTENING SESSION ON ACCREDITATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY David Wendler, Martin Luther College (retired) GRAND BALLROOM B Given the changing nature of HLC institutions, it is time for the membership to have BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER conversations about the evolution of accrediting agencies. As part of the work of its Partners for Transformation think tank, HLC is looking for thoughts and suggestions regarding the future of accreditation. This will be an opportunity to share your ideas.
HLC PRESENTATION LISTENING SESSION ON MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS A. Gigi Fansler and John Marr, Higher Learning Commission CRYSTAL BALLROOM A This listening session is an opportunity for Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) representatives LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER to discuss issues and challenges facing MSIs as well to provide feedback related to accreditation and institutional needs.
ACADEMY PRESENTATION ASSESSMENT ACADEMY ROUNDTABLE: CONNECTING ASSESSMENT AND STRATEGIC PLANNING ROUNDTABLE Facilitators: Jonathan Keiser, City Colleges of Chicago; Ranfen Li, University of Illinois at Chicago ROOSEVELT 3 This session offers Academy members engaged in similar work a chance to share their CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER perspectives and practices. Academy mentors will be on hand to facilitate the conversation. Interested participants are invited to bring their team’s stories, challenges and promising practices to the table. Target audience: Academy Participants
ACADEMY PRESENTATION PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION ACADEMY ROUNDTABLE: SUPPORTING THE NON-TRADITIONAL LEARNER ROUNDTABLE Facilitators: Peter Wielinski, Minnesota State Community and Technical College; Joseph Rives, MICHIGAN 3 Western Illinois University CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER This session offers Academy members engaged in similar work a chance to share their perspectives and practices. Academy mentors will be on hand to facilitate the conversation. Interested participants are invited to bring their team’s stories, challenges and promising practices to the table. Target audience: Academy Participants
ACADEMY PRESENTATION SUPPORTING CRITERION 4 WITH INSTITUTIONAL OUTCOMES Melanie Davis, Jane Hawthorne and Forrest Bollow, A. T. Still University of Health Sciences INFORMATIONAL HLC’s Criterion 4 specifically requires the institution to demonstrate responsibility for, and CRYSTAL BALLROOM C evaluation of, the quality and effectiveness of its educational programs and processes. LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER This presentation will focus on how A.T. Still University successfully developed institutional outcomes and processes for institutional review of discipline-focused curriculum. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
66 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book ADVISING AT PRIVATE, NOT-FOR-PROFIT INSTITUTIONS INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Facilitator: Eric Bolger, College of the Ozarks; Tisha Hess, Millikin University; Sue Rattin, Olivet PANEL Nazarene University REGENCY BALLROOM B Academic advising is a critical tool for student retention and success. Two institutions will BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER share models for implementing and assessing academic advising in order to support student success. Target audience: Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION DEBRIEFING VIRTUAL SIMULATION: BEST PRACTICE RECOMMENDATIONS Randy Gordon, Dee McGonigle and Rebecca Sisk, Chamberlain University INFORMATIONAL This presentation will discuss how the Debriefing for Meaningful Learning and the Plus- COLUMBUS HALL I–J Delta debriefing methods were used to conduct debriefing sessions following immersion BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER in synchronous and asynchronous virtual learning environments in two graduate nursing programs. The lessons learned and best practice recommendations are generalizable for all simulation populations. Target audience: Community Colleges, Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING AND RESEARCH: LEADING UP, DOWN, ACROSS AND OUT Erica Holmes, Charles Stewart Mott Community College INFORMATIONAL This presentation focuses on effective strategies for planning and research professionals to REGENCY BALLROOM C implement college-wide programs by leading up to senior executives, leading down, leading BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER across and leading out to the external college community. Attendees will learn how to meet the challenges of leading people who are not supervisees and get results. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION LEARNING TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE BEYOND ACTION PROJECTS Renee Guyer and Susan Tarnowski, South Central College INFORMATIONAL Originally, South Central College associated AQIP Pathway participation with Action Projects. COLUMBUS HALL G–H As the college has matured, it has recognized that there are many means of continuous BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER improvement beyond those provided by Action Projects. The presenters will describe the college’s expansion into process mapping and the use of A3 problem solving and how this has increased participation in accreditation efforts.Target audience: Community Colleges, Public Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities MAINTAINING A POSITIVE INSTITUTIONAL CULTURE ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Facilitator: Gayle Kearns, Southwestern Christian University; Allison Langford, Southwest PANEL Baptist University; Adrian Hinkle, Southwestern Christian University COLUMBUS HALL E–F With the impact of decreasing budgets across all higher education, small not-for-profit, BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER faith-based institutions are doing more with less. Learn a conceptual framework from two small faith-based institutions for building campus morale, capacity, professional development and flexible revenue through key initiatives.Target audience: Small Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-For-Profit Colleges and Universities SELF-SERVICE METRIC MONITORING: EMPOWERING STAFF TO IMPROVE INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION STUDENT OUTCOMES INFORMATIONAL Brittany Jackson Kairis and Christian Collins, City Colleges of Chicago District Office COLUMBUS HALL K–L This presentation highlights City Colleges of Chicago’s efforts to facilitate large-scale, aligned BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER organizational change by providing administrators, faculty and staff with direct access to data. The OpenBook tool and built-in Strategic Dashboard empower employees to monitor progress toward key goals and take action to improve institutional and student outcomes. Target audience: Community Colleges, Large Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION STUDENT SUCCESS: SUCCESSES, FAILURES AND FUTURE PLANS Chris Crawford, Black Hills State University; Lynette Olson, Pittsburg State University; PANEL Charles Snare, Chadron State College CRYSTAL BALLROOM B Student success at the state comprehensive university involves complex multi-divisional LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER collaborations. These approaches are generally strategic, but execution of these solutions only sometimes achieves goals. This presentation focuses on the student success journey of three regional comprehensive universities. Target audience: Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
General Program: Sunday TRIBAL COLLEGE WISDOM SHARING: EFFECTIVE PRACTICES FOR DISTANCE INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION EDUCATION AT A TRIBAL COLLEGE INFORMATIONAL Lisa Azure and Leah Hamann, United Tribes Technical College MICHIGAN 1 This presentation will provide an overview of four strategies that have been implemented CONCOURSE LEVEL / EAST TOWER successfully to increase the success and completion of students in online courses. The presenters will share specific information and examples of practices they have used during years of experience. Target audience: Community Colleges, Small Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities
EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS WITH COURSELEAF Shari Friedman, CourseLeaf from Leepfrog Technologies ACAPULCO An institution’s catalog is an important source of evidence during an accreditation review. BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER Come learn how CourseLeaf helps institutions effectively manage and communicate their education programs, curricula, learning outcomes and general education competencies.
EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION USING FACULTY DATA TO PROMOTE STUDENT SUCCESS Kathleen Gibson, APL nextED PLAZA BALLROOM A–B Over 60 years of research shows that faculty are the single most important factor in LOBBY LEVEL / EAST TOWER ensuring student success. Explore how innovative solutions can help you use data to support faculty, build efficiencies, inform planning and report performance—all to promote greater student success.
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FOCUS ON STUDENT LEARNING HELP STUDENTS ACHIEVE THEIR POTENTIAL WITH THE ASSESSMENT ACADEMY WITH THE NEW STUDENT SUCCESS ACADEMY Gain access to new ideas and techniques to: Learn about research findings on best practices to: • Document effective practices in assessing • Design an integrated approach to student and improving student learning success that is sensitive to the institution’s • Develop assessment leaders and mentors resources and realities within the institution • Create campus-wide engagement in supporting • Establish a sustainable institutional student success commitment to assessing and improving • Embed student success into the institution’s student learning values and practices Applications for the fall 2018 cohort are Applications for the fall 2018 cohort are due May 31. due May 4.
HLC’s Academies are multi-year, structured programs that help institutions develop customized projects aimed at institutional improvement. Learn more and apply at hlcommission.org/academies.
68 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book GENERAL PROGRAM TUESDAY, APRIL 10
HLC PRESENTATION CONVERSATION AND CLOSING QUESTIONS WITH HLC STAFF LIAISONS BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER Join fellow attendees and HLC staff liaisons for this informal question-and-answer session. 8:00–9:30 AM
COLUMBUS HALL E–F Stephanie Brzuzy, Andrew Lootens-White, John Marr and Jeffrey Rosen COLUMBUS HALL I–J A. Gigi Fansler, Eric Martin, Karen Solomon and Mary Vanis
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COLUMBUS HALL E–F Tom Bordenkircher, Barbara Johnson and Linnea Stenson
SEMINARS ON QUALITY IMPROVEMENT The final day of the General Program features 90-minute professional development seminars. In these interactive sessions, attendees will engage in discussion and hands-on learning guided by experienced practitioners from a variety of organizations and fields. 8:00–9:30 AM DRAMATICALLY INCREASING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT WITH “REAL TALK” INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Jodi Breithart, Lansing Community College REGENCY BALLROOM C Real Talk is a method to build rapport with students while creating relevant and life-changing BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER learning experiences. The presenter will share her experience with using Real Talk in both the classroom and online settings, and the strength it has created, not only in student success rates, but also in the personal and professional satisfaction of the instructor. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION INNOVATION FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT: A DESIGN THINKING WORKSHOP Bryan Kujawski and Kathe Kacheroski, Capella University GRAND BALLROOM A This seminar will engage participants in the process of applying Design Thinking as a method BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER for innovating in higher education. The presenters will share a case study to show a concrete example of this method at work and will facilitate an interactive workshop of the Design Thinking experience. Target audience: Private, For-Profit Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION SHARING OUR STORIES: NARRATIVES OF ASSESSING STUDENT LEARNING Natasha Jankowski and Gianina Baker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (NILOA) REGENCY BALLROOM D This seminar focuses on how to effectively communicate institutional assessment of student BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER learning to external audiences. Participants will explore the Excellence in Assessment designation resources, national views of student learning and various perspectives on developing narratives. Participants will leave with a peer-reviewed narrative on student learning outcomes assessment work. Target audience: Community Colleges, Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
General Program: Tuesday 8:00–9:30 AM
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION SUPPORTING PERSONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL WELLNESS WITH MINDFULNESS Ed Cunliff, University of Central Oklahoma; Ashley Harness, Oklahoma City University CRYSTAL BALLROOM A This seminar will focus on research-based models for assisting institutions and individuals LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER to maintain balance in environments that are unstable. This experiential workshop exposes participants to research and practice of mindfulness and ways of integrating it in their institutions. The facilitators share over 60 years of practice in various forms of mindfulness. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION THE CHANGE MAKER’S TOOLKIT: CREATING SHARED VISION AND SUSTAINING MEANINGFUL CHANGE GRAND BALLROOM E–F Julia Williams and Matthew Lovell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER This seminar will focus on two specific skills that faculty and administrators need to develop as change leaders on their campuses. In this interactive session, campus leaders will explore strategies for creating a shared vision and sustaining meaningful change initiatives. Target audience: Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities CONNECTING MORE INCLUSIVELY: CREATING A USER-FRIENDLY WORKPLACE FOR VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION STAFF AND STUDENTS GRAND BALLROOM B Ralph Brandt, RDR Group BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER The importance of connecting has everything to do with successful outcomes. Although issues of race and gender are not neglected in this workshop, the material will consider diversity as “any difference that makes a difference.” Participants will consider what differences might be causing disconnects for them in their work with students or colleagues on campus. This session is a stand-alone program, though participants may benefit from also attending “Connecting Competencies” at 9:45 a.m. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION GETTING STARTED WITH STRATEGIC PLANNING Kim Silver, The Silver Line REGENCY BALLROOM A–B This seminar is designed to engage institutional representatives in the key practices to BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER support good strategic planning. The session will present core concepts and case examples and provide tools and small moments of interactive discussion opportunities to support organizational leaders as they think about starting a strategic planning process. This presentation will be repeated at 9:45 a.m. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION THE NEUROSCIENCE OF TEACHING AND LEARNING Helen Fisher, Rutgers University GRAND BALLROOM C–D Anthropologist Helen Fisher, the Monday keynote speaker, shows how to use her data on BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER four basic inherited styles of thinking and behaving to build better teams in class, research and management, as well as to create more effective communication between colleagues and between teachers and students. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities 9:45–11:15 AM A STRUCTURED APPROACH FOR EVALUATING PROCESSES: PROCESS MAPPING INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Bonnie Slykhuis and Machelle Sabin, Des Moines Area Community College CRYSTAL BALLROOM C Having a standard method to effectively evaluate, design and implement process changes LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER can save time and money, enhance service to students, improve employee morale and help meet accreditation requirements. This seminar will teach participants a structured approach to evaluating and improving work processes. Target audience: Community Colleges, Private, For-Profit Colleges and Universities, Public Colleges and Universities
70 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION CULTIVATING REFLECTIVE TEACHING FOR INTEGRATIVE LEARNING Mays Imad and Brooke Anderson, Pima County Community College CRYSTAL BALLROOM A This seminar will share research that suggests that although times have changed, Gen Z LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER seeks the same thing that our ancestors sought: a holistic education. Such an education integrates the professional and the personal, the effective and the academic. Integrative education is neither novel nor formidable, and its real importance lies at the individual level. Target audience: Community Colleges, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF BRAIN-BASED LEARNING, LEADERSHIP AND INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION LAUGHTER FOR REAFFIRMATION OF ACCREDITATION GRAND BALLROOM A Peter Jonas, Cardinal Stritch University BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER The presenter will utilize a hands-on approach and interactive style to help participants further develop their leadership skills, in order to enhance the learning environment and increase the effectiveness of organizations. The integration of humor as a tool for leadership and as a change agent will be emphasized. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities PROTECTING AND PURSUING THE TRUTH IN THE POST-TRUTH ERA INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Mark Canada, Indiana University Kokomo REGENCY BALLROOM D Truth is under siege. In this seminar, participants will consider the role that educators can BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER play to preserve a respect for fact and sound theory, teach information literacy and critical thinking, and inspire a passion for truth-seeking among students and the general public. Topics include “fake news” (past and present), conceptions of and approaches to truth, and pedagogy in a variety of disciplines. Target audience: Private, Not-for-Profit Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities, Mid-sized Colleges and Universities STUDENT VOICES ON STUDENT SUCCESS INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION Wendy Paszkiewicz, Adler University CRYSTAL BALLROOM B This workshop, delivered in a fishbowl format, will feature students from HLC member LOBBY LEVEL / WEST TOWER institutions in a moderated discussion about self-care and wellness as they pertain to student persistence and success. Students will share their thoughts on what factors contribute to their ability to succeed, as well as barriers academic institutions create that cause stress and distract students from focusing on the attainment of a degree. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities ASSESSING THE HARD-TO-ASSESS VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION Linda Suskie, Assessment and Accreditation Consultant GRAND BALLROOM E–F Some curricular and cocurricular learning goals are especially hard to assess. Some are BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER promises that can’t be kept; some can’t be assessed with graded assignments; learned processes are harder to assess than products; and we can’t see into the soul. Come explore how to address each of these challenges. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities CONNECTING COMPETENCIES: CREATING CULTURE CHANGE AROUND INCLUSION VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION AND DIVERSITY GRAND BALLROOM B Ralph Brandt, RDR Group BALLROOM LEVEL / EAST TOWER The session looks at five strategic skills that are necessary to connect with a wider scope of individuals—causing a marked improvement in employee engagement, student satisfaction and overall institutional performance. Participants will work with the facilitator to analyze situations in which they could afford to connect better with a person or group of people, and develop concrete ideas for strengthening that connection. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
General Program: Tuesday VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION GETTING STARTED WITH STRATEGIC PLANNING (REPEAT) Kim Silver, The Silver Line REGENCY BALLROOM A–B This seminar is designed to engage institutional representatives in the key practices BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER to support good strategic planning. The session will present core concepts and case examples and provide tools and small moments of interactive discussion opportunities to support organizational leaders as they think about starting a strategic planning process. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Small Colleges and Universities
VIEWPOINT PRESENTATION STUDENT SUCCESS: INCREASING FIRST-YEAR STUDENT ENGAGEMENT FOR MALES OF COLOR REGENCY BALLROOM C Jà Hon Vance, JV Educational Consultants; Said Sewell, Lincoln University BALLROOM LEVEL / WEST TOWER This workshop is designed to help higher education institutions address the challenges of student success and completion by strengthening their first-year and second-year student success programs while creating innovative techniques that will engage students to improve retention as well as increase enrollment and graduation rates. Target audience: Large Universities, Mid-size Colleges and Universities, Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
HLC invites presentation proposals for its 2019 annual conference, taking place April 5–9 in Chicago. The 2019 conference will focus on how institutions of higher learning can work with students to create roadmaps for student success. The conference will provide forums for discussion of innovative programming and support services that meet students where they are and help them achieve success. In addition, presenters and attendees will explore how accreditors can establish realistic definitions and measurements of success, reflecting students’ goalsor f their education and institutions’ unique missions while still ensuring accountability and educational quality.
HLC INVITES PROPOSALS ON INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS, SERVICES OR INITIATIVES THAT SUPPORT STUDENT SUCCESS, SUCH AS: • New classroom approaches that foster student • Delivery formats and technologies that transform engagement and learning the way students learn or reach non-traditional • Student support models that reach at-risk students students and promote increased belonging • Programs for a changing economy, including and inclusion creative community partnerships to enhance • Administrative innovations that help students student learning and career development navigate institutional structures and processes • Living-learning communities that promote student success and retention
HLC encourages proposals with presenters from two or more institutions discussing similar innovative programs or practices, as well as those that demonstrate a connection with HLC processes and the Criteria for Accreditation.
PROPOSALS WILL BE ACCEPTED STARTING JUNE 18, 2018. MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT HLCOMMISSION.ORG/CONFERENCE.
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74 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book AVISO RETENTION 220 EXHIBIT HALL SCHEDULE 1275 Kinnear Rd., Columbus, OH 43212 Aviso Retention is a student retention solution that helps institutions solve some of the biggest challenges in higher Saturday, April 7 education: keeping students engaged, optimizing the chances of student success and avoiding attrition. Aviso drives student 11:30 am–4:00 pm retention by combining and applying three key tools: Aviso Exhibit Hall Open Connect, Aviso Engage and Aviso Predict. avisoretention.com 12:00–1:45 pm BIOMETRIC SIGNATURE ID 315 Accreditation, Eligibility and Student Success 708 Valley Ridge Circle, Ste. 8, Lewisville, TX 75057 Workshop Luncheon (registration required) Biometric Signature ID has created BioSig-ID: a NO hardware biometric password that captures a student’s Sunday, April 8 Monday, April 9 gestures as they draw their password. The strongest form of authentication, this password provides positive proof 7:00 am–5:00 pm 7:00 am–3:00 pm of student identity. “Real” time forensic reports unique to Exhibit Hall Open Exhibit Hall Open BioSig-ID uncover and stop imposters and fraud. Meets all 7:00–8:00 am 7:00–8:30 am compliance requirements. biosig-id.com Complimentary Complimentary Showcase presentation: Student ID Verification: Cheaters Continental Breakfast Continental Breakfast Beware! We Know Who You Are (Sunday, 4:15 p.m.) 11:15 am–4:00 pm 10:00 am–2:30 pm BLACKBOARD, INC. 316 Special Interest Group Special Interest Group 1111 19th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036 Meetings Meetings Blackboard is the world’s leading education technology 12:15–1:30 pm 10:00 am–12:00 pm company. We challenge conventional thinking and advance Buffet Lunch (advance Academies Poster Fair new models of learning in order to reimagine education purchase required) 2:30–3:00 pm and make it more accessible, engaging and relevant to the 2:30–4:00 pm Ice Cream Social modern-day learner and the institutions that serve them. Accreditation Share Fair blackboard.com CAMPUS LABS 309–11 298 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14202 APL nextED provides all stakeholders involved in the faculty Campus Labs empowers institutions to make valuable life cycle with a solution to manage workflows for course connections with their data. We offer a complete set of staffing, activity tracking, evaluation, tenure and promotion, integrated solutions for areas such as assessment, retention, accreditation preparation, professional development and teaching and learning, student engagement and institutional recruiting. www.aplnexted.com effectiveness. We’re proud to serve more than 1,100 public Showcase presentation: Using Faculty Data to Promote and private colleges and universities. campuslabs.com Student Success (Monday, 4:15 p.m.) Showcase presentation: Beyond Compliance: Turning Data APPERSON 304 Into Action (Sunday, 4:15 p.m.) 17315 Studebaker Rd., Cerritos, CA 90703 CHALK & WIRE LEARNING ASSESSMENT, INC. 400 DataLink Ascend is an assessment management solution that 1565 Pt. Abino Rd. South, Ridgeway, ON L0S 1N0, Canada combines high-speed scanning and best-in-class support with Chalk & Wire’s award-winning assessment platform, CWPro, a cloud-based platform for exam scoring, reporting, analysis, provides comprehensive solutions for robust reporting, communication and online testing. apperson.com ePortfolios for faculty and students, experiential learning ASR ANALYTICS, LLC 320 and accreditation management tools. Our process-based 1389 Canterbury Way, Potomac, MD 20854 approach makes start-up painless and gets you the data you need quickly. Build your badging or micro-credentialing ASR is the leading independent, technology-agnostic program with MyMantl™ and make your institution stand out analytics provider in higher education. Our Student Success from the competition! chalkandwire.com Analytics (SSA) solution provides the data models and visualizations tailored to meet an institution’s specific CHIPPER 303 requirements. SSA provides comparative, longitudinal 281 Summer St., 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02210 analysis at consistent points in time across the student life Chipper is a study planning and productivity tool which cycle. asranalytics.com/products/higher-education optimizes students’ most valuable asset: time. Chipper Showcase presentation: Turning an Institutional Challenge provides intelligent suggestions to help students overcome Into an Opportunity to Radically Improve Use of Data procrastination, empowering them by showing exactly what (Monday, 11:15 a.m.) to do to successfully complete their coursework, stay on track and graduate on time. getchipper.com
Exhibit Hall CIVITAS LEARNING 204 CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER 212 100 Congress Ave., Ste. 300, Austin, TX 78701 678 Front Ave. NW, Ste. 340, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 Civitas Learning is a student success company delivering the The Cultural Intelligence Center provides research-based, clearest path to improved higher education outcomes. The innovative solutions for assessing, predicting and improving company’s Student Success Intelligence Platform leverages cultural intelligence (CQ). CQ measures and predicts each institution’s unique data to find and distribute the students’ capability to relate and work effectively in strongest signals across the student life cycle. culturally diverse situations. The CQ Assessment is the only civitaslearning.com academically validated tool in the world that measures Showcase presentations: Optimizing Student Progression: cultural intelligence. culturalq.com Why Personalization Is Key for Completion (Sunday, 10:00 a.m.) DIGARC 317 Emerging Student Success Trends and Community Insights: 5015 South Florida Ave., 3rd Floor, Lakeland, FL 33813 What Do the Data Say? (Monday, 11:15 a.m.) Digarc provides academic catalog and curriculum CLA+ 102 management solutions to more than 550 clients of all sizes. 215 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10016 Curriculog, our curriculum management solution, liberates CLA+ measures college students’ critical thinking and writing faculty and committees from broken curriculum approval skills. Institutions use CLA+ to estimate institutional and processes. Gain control of forms, steps, and agendas, and individual growth, research the efficacy of general education shorten approval cycles. Acalog showcases your catalog with programs and curriculum changes, and demonstrate complete, accurate information and reduces administrative individual, class and institutional proficiency.cae.org/cla production cycles. digarc.com Showcase presentation: Curriculum and Catalog: Accurate, COLLEGIATE SUPPORT SERVICES/GLOBAL FINANCIAL Engaging and Efficient (Monday, 10:00 a.m.) AID SERVICES, INC. 301 10467 Corporate Dr., Gulfport, MS 39503 DIGITAL MEASURES 219–21 Collegiate Support Services tailors consulting solutions to fit 220 E. Buffalo St., Floor 5, Milwaukee, WI 53202 the challenges and strategic goals of our clients. Colleges and Digital Measures focuses exclusively on web-based data universities look to us for best practice recommendations management, reporting and digital workflows for higher to improve student service, maintain compliance and grow education. Gain fast, accurate access into your faculty’s and maintain enrollment in the most efficient manner. teaching, research and service accomplishments to collegiatesupportservices.com streamline HLC accreditation. Three out of five of the leading U.S. universities trust Activity Insight, with more CONCORD USA, INC. 406 than 400,000 faculty members sharing stories of personal 1 Dunwoody Park, Atlanta, GA 30338 and institutional success. digitalmeasures.com Xitracs allows you to manage strategic planning, goal Showcase presentation: alignment, program assessment, learning outcomes Defining, Documenting and assessment, credentials management and accreditation Reporting on Faculty Qualifications and Tested Experience compliance reporting to regional and program agencies. (Sunday, 11:15 a.m.) We can host a Xitracs system for you and have you up and DMACC BUSINESS RESOURCES—WORKPLACELEAN 302 running securely, quickly and easily. xitracs.com 1111 E. 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Its CourseLeaf® Suite provides dynamic, that integrates curriculum and catalog management, web-based solutions that deliver efficiency and a seamless program planning, outcomes assessment, accreditation, user experience to promote student and faculty success from student engagement, ePortfolios, badging, degree audits course inception to registration. courseleaf.com and extended transcripts. elumenconnect.com Showcase presentation: Supporting Institutional Showcase presentation: Shifting Processes: Moving From Effectiveness With CourseLeaf (Monday, 4:15 p.m.) Content Taught to Knowledge Learned (Monday, 1:30 p.m.)
76 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book EMSI 314 HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE 413 409 S. Jackson St., Moscow, ID 83843 457 Portola Plaza, 3005 Moore Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Emsi is a labor market analytics firm that helps colleges and The Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA, an universities articulate their regional economic impact, align interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, programs with local industry, give students a career vision, policy studies and research training in postsecondary and track alumni outcomes. Emsi data include labor market education, administers the Cooperative Institutional data, job postings and résumés. economicmodeling.com Research Program: CIRP Freshman Survey, the Your First Showcase presentation: Economic Impact Studies for HLC College Year survey, the Diverse Learning Environments Assurance Models (Sunday, 3:00 p.m.) survey, the College Senior Survey and the triennial HERI Faculty Survey. heri.ucla.edu eSCIENCE LABS 319 1500 W. Hampden Ave., Sheridan, CO 80110 HUSCH BLACKWELL LLP 205 eScience Labs collaborates with hundreds of higher education Offices nationwide institutions to provide a practical laboratory experience to With offices throughout the U.S., Husch Blackwell’s team of students engaged in online and blended learning.Through education lawyers is here to support you in serving students a combination of hands-on science lab kits, virtual learning and mission through compliance, accreditation, student tools and customized digital curriculum, eScience Labs helps aid, data privacy and security, nondiscrimination, Clery Act, higher education institutions expand and strengthen science employment, administrative action, litigation counsel, legal comprehension. eSciencelabs.com audit and training services—many offered at predictable, flat fees to meet the unique needs of your institution. 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IDEAedu.org Fit Faculty is a targeted, affordable, easy-to-learn data Showcase presentation: management system designed to aid colleges in the storage Outcomes-Based Data and the and management of faculty qualification information. Assessment of Non-academic Units (Sunday, 1:30 p.m.) Designed by educators, for educators, it will aid in course INDIANA UNIVERSITY—NATIONAL SURVEY OF STUDENT assignments and confirmation of qualifications.fitfaculty.com ENGAGEMENT 408 1900 E. 10th St., Eigenmann Hall, Ste. 419S, Bloomington, IN 47406 GARDNER INSTITUTE 208 123 E. Main St., Ste. 201, Brevard, NC 28712 The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and its The Gardner Institute partners with postsecondary affiliated surveys, FSSE and BCSSE, help institutions assess institutions to improve teaching, learning, retention and quality in undergraduate education and strengthen the completion. The Institute guides the development and learning environment. 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Recently, we have to support every stage in the faculty lifecycle, from hiring helped institutions across the country select the best through tenure. interfolio.com programs to Start, Stop, Sustain or Grow at their campus LAUNCH STUDENT SUCCESS 306 GrayAssociates.com locations and online. 9008 S. K St., Tacoma, WA 98444 Showcase presentation: Best Practices in the Assessment LAUNCH provides a student success curriculum and program of Current and New Programs (Sunday, 1:30 p.m.) for students, faculty and staff.launchstudentsuccess.com Showcase presentation: Student Success and Mindset: Solutions for the Now Generation (Monday, 1:30 p.m.)
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Exhibit Hall KEYWORD INDEX OF GENERAL PROGRAM PRESENTATIONS
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS 36...... The AQIP Pathway 51...... “COPE”: A Budget-Neutral Quality ADMINISTRATION 57...... The AQIP Pathway’s Comprehensive Initiative to Harness Time and 59...... Advising by Re-design: Move Quality Review Resources Advising to the Next Level of Impact 63...... Transforming AQIP Pathway 47...... Creating a Sustainable, Culturally 37...... Creating a Transparent Budget Processes: Peer Reviewers Share Informed General Education Allocation Process for Academic Fatal Mistakes Institutions Make Framework Colleges 49...... Using Faculty Workload Reports 67...... Debriefing Virtual Simulation: Best 62...... Enhanced Academic Oversight Over for Resource Efficiency: An AQIP Practice Recommendations Dual Credit: NACEP’s Newly Revised Pathway Action Project 37...... Effective Use of ePortfolio and Standards Badging to Assess Cocurricular ASSESSMENT ACADEMY PROJECT 64...... Executing a Dynamic Enrollment Learning 53...... Academies Poster Fair Model 61...... General Education Program Review: 44...... Get Meaningful Program Advice 47...... Creating a Sustainable, Culturally A Model for Effective Collaboration Informed General Education From a Business/Industry 37...... Harnessing the Carnegie Community Framework Leadership Team Engagement Classification for 67...... Student Success: Successes, Failures 60...... Maintaining Quality Assessment Student-Community Connection of Student Learning in Fiscally and Future Plans 60...... Helping Institutions Improve: HLC’s Challenging Times 71...... Student Voices on Student Success Academies and Workshops 66...... Supporting Criterion 4 With 44...... How to Revitalize and Advance 49...... Using Faculty Workload Reports Institutional Outcomes for Resource Efficiency: An AQIP Assessment Practices Pathway Action Project ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT 38...... Innovating Gateway Course LEARNING Interventions: The PLUS Effect on ACCOUNTABILITY/INTEGRITY 48...... Assessing Art Programs Student Learning 44...... A Board’s Role Under Accreditation 64...... Learning as the Impetus for Sanctions 40...... Assessing General Education With Performance Tasks: Tales From Two Assessment 37...... Hosting a Peer Review Team (Contrasting) Institutions 38...... Program Review: Framework, 65...... On Probation—Now What? 46...... Assessing Graduate Programs: Process and Lessons Learned 10 61...... PIEs and SPIs: Delicious, Sneaky Practical and Innovative Strategies Years Later Continuous Improvement and 48...... Assessing the Effectiveness of 61...... Quarterbacking the Cocurricular Strategic Planning Cocurriculars in Support of Student Assessment Process: Winning 41...... Predictive Analytics: Are You Ready? Learning Teamwork 71...... Protecting and Pursuing the Truth in 71...... Assessing the Hard-to-Assess 43...... Seeing the Whole Elephant: An Integrated, Cultural Approach to the Post-truth Era 50...... Assessment Academy Roundtable: Student Success 55...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: Assessing Cocurricular Learning 69...... Sharing Our Stories: Narratives of Specialized Assessment and 66...... Assessment Academy Roundtable: Assessing Student Learning Accreditation for Indigenous Connecting Assessment and Education Strategic Planning 55...... Starting From Scratch: Designing a New Service Learning Class AQIP PATHWAY 43...... Assessment Academy Roundtable: Leading the Assessment Process 58...... Using Asynchronous Forums to 46...... Accreditation Share Fair Engage Faculty, Including Adjuncts, 57...... Assessment and the “Good Life”: 51...... Accreditation Visits: Perspectives in Assessment Teleological Foundations for From Presidents, a Peer Reviewer and an ALO Institutional Effectiveness COLLABORATIONS/ 36...... Assessment as Strategy PARTNERSHIPS/COMMUNITY 42...... AQIP Pathway Systems Portfolios: ENGAGEMENT Providing Evidence for the Criteria 40...... Assessment Beyond: Highlighting the Contributions of Student Affairs 54...... A 21st-Century Approach to Urban 64...... Evidence-Based Educational Civic Engagement Development: Transforming 60...... Assessment Upgrade: Using Theory and Practice of Faculty Technology and Social Media to 36...... A Transformational New Faculty Development Improve Assessment Orientation Program 67...... Learning to Continuously Improve 48...... Building Campus-wide Approaches 54...... Academic Advising at Community Beyond Action Projects to Targeted Assessment Colleges 54...... Pathways Evaluation Project 57...... Connecting Continuous Planning, 59...... Advising by Re-design: Move Budgeting and Institutional Advising to the Next Level of Impact 41...... Preparing for the Comprehensive Evaluation and Site Visit on the Assessment 51...... Building Bridges, Not Walls: AQIP Pathway Continuing Construction
80 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book 40...... Chicagoland Hispanic-Serving 45...... Transforming Faculty Performance 46...... Emerging Technologies Impacting Institutions: Regional Collaboration in Competency-Based Education Tomorrow’s Students Across Sectors With a Community of Practice 64...... Evidence-Based Educational 64...... Embracing Collaboration and CRITERION 1 Development: Transforming Theory Structural Change to Support the and Practice of Faculty Development 54...... A 21st-Century Approach to Urban Military-Connected Student Civic Engagement 61...... General Education Program Review: 62...... Enhanced Academic Oversight Over A Model for Effective Collaboration 48...... Addressing the New Majority: Dual Credit: NACEP’s Newly Revised Serving Non-traditional Students 69...... Innovation for Quality Improvement: Standards A Design Thinking Workshop 40...... Digital Badges for Workforce 44...... Get Meaningful Program Advice Training and Continuing Education 41...... Launching a Hybrid, Professional From a Business/Industry Practice Doctoral Program Leadership Team 44...... Get Meaningful Program Advice From a Business/Industry 46...... Learning to Change Our Brains: The 37...... Harnessing the Carnegie Community Leadership Team View From Neuroscience Engagement Classification for 63...... Mapping Reasoning for Critical Student-Community Connection 61...... I-We-You: Crafting a Transformative Assurance Argument and Site Visit Thinking Instruction Across 61...... I-We-You: Crafting a Transformative Disciplines and Institutions Assurance Argument and Site Visit 58...... Mapping Institutional Diversity Efforts to HLC’s Criteria for 49...... Raising Retention and Achievement: 55...... Innovative Approaches to Dual Accreditation Compelling Success With Student Credit Transformative Learning Record 72...... Student Success: Increasing First- 64...... Integrating Workforce Year Student Engagement for Males 55...... Starting From Scratch: Designing a Development With Academics of Color New Service Learning Class 63...... Mapping Reasoning for Critical 56...... Training Governing Boards on Their 67...... Student Success: Successes, Failures Thinking Instruction Across Role in the Accreditation Process and Future Plans Disciplines and Institutions 56...... VITA (Volunteer Income Tax 45...... Transforming Faculty Performance 61...... Quarterbacking the Cocurricular Assistance) Supporting the in Competency-Based Education Assessment Process: Winning Community College Mission With a Community of Practice Teamwork 68...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: 45...... Realigning With the 21st-Century CRITERION 2 Effective Practices for Distance Workforce 44...... A Board’s Role Under Accreditation Education at a Tribal College 55...... Starting From Scratch: Designing a Sanctions 62...... Win-Win-Win: When a Business, a New Service Learning Class 40...... Chicagoland Hispanic-Serving Hospital and a College Collaborate 58...... The Auggie Plan: Innovating How Institutions: Regional Collaboration CRITERION 4 We Think About Transfer Across Sectors 40...... Assessing General Education With 52...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: 40...... Compliance: Implementing Performance Tasks: Tales From Two Achieving the Dream Roundtable Professional Licensure and (Contrasting) Institutions Discussion Certification Disclosures 60...... Assessing Summer Bridge and First- 65...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: 45...... The Why and How of Implementing Year Student Success Programs Development of the Center for Diné an Open Textbook Initiative 71...... Assessing the Hard-to-Assess Studies B.A. Program CRITERION 3 57...... Assessment and the “Good Life”: 55...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: 51...... A Community College’s Specialized Assessment and Teleological Foundations for Transformation of Online Education: Institutional Effectiveness Accreditation for Indigenous Jeopardy to Excellence Education 54...... Building Institutional Capacity to 36...... A Transformational New Faculty Use Data Effectively 56...... VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Orientation Program Assistance) Supporting the 51...... “COPE”: A Budget-Neutral Quality 63...... Accumulating Success: The Three- Community College Mission Initiative to Harness Time and Bucket Approach to Student Resources 62...... Win-Win-Win: When a Business, a Persistence Hospital and a College Collaborate 67...... Debriefing Virtual Simulation: Best 44...... Base Camp: Equipping Students for Practice Recommendations COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION a Successful College Journey 58...... Defining Quality: A New Quality 58...... Defining Quality: A New Quality 48...... Campus Connect: The Student, Framework for Competency-Based Framework for Competency-Based Faculty and College Experience Education Education 54...... Community College Benchmarking 49...... Demystifying Program Review: Best 37...... Developing a Competency-Based Builds Evidence to Support HLC’s Practices and Model Programs Education Program: The Journey, Criteria the Challenges 69...... Dramatically Increasing Student 47...... Creating a Sustainable, Culturally Engagement With “Real Talk” 40...... Digital Badges for Workforce Informed General Education Training and Continuing Education Framework 37...... Effective Use of ePortfolio and Badging to Assess Cocurricular 39...... HLC’s Approval Protocol for Direct 62...... Culture Change in Teaching Through Learning Assessment and Credit-Based Transformed Classrooms and Competency-Based Education Professional Development 64...... Embracing Collaboration and Structural Change to Support the 69...... Innovation for Quality Improvement: 37...... Developing a Competency-Based Military-Connected Student A Design Thinking Workshop Education Program: The Journey, the Challenges
Keyword Index 62...... Enhanced Academic Oversight Over 37...... Creating a Transparent Budget 40...... From Data to Insight: Building Dual Credit: NACEP’s Newly Revised Allocation Process for Academic Information Systems to Better Standards Colleges Serve Students 64...... Focus on Improvement: Aligning 61...... Doubling Graduation Rates in Three 67...... Institutional Planning and Research: Accomplishments to Mission and Years and Awards in Five Leading Up, Down, Across and Out HLC Criteria 55...... Enhancing Academic Fiscal Viability 58...... Meeting Students Where They Are: 40...... From Data to Insight: Building Through Faculty Involvement and Building Student Success Pathways Information Systems to Better Shared Governance 41...... Non-academic Program Review: Serve Students 39...... Great Jobs and Great Lives: Evaluating Student Services and 44...... How to Revitalize and Advance Measuring Important Graduate Administrative Departments Assessment Practices Outcomes 38...... Persistence and Completion 41...... Improving Program Review With 67...... Institutional Planning and Research: Strategies From the Heartland Templates, Data and Interpretive Leading Up, Down, Across and Out 67...... Self-Service Metric Monitoring: Reports 38...... Integrating Faith-Based Mission Empowering Staff to Improve 38...... Innovating Gateway Course Into Academic Program Launch and Student Outcomes Interventions: The PLUS Effect on Review Processes 49...... Using Faculty Workload Reports Student Learning 64...... Integrating Workforce for Resource Efficiency: An AQIP 65...... Less Is More: Incremental Changes Development With Academics Pathway Action Project Can Impact Larger Outcomes 67...... Learning to Continuously Improve DIVERSE/INCLUSIVE/GLOBAL 60...... Maintaining Quality Assessment Beyond Action Projects LEARNERS of Student Learning in Fiscally 51...... Linking Assessment, Planning and Challenging Times 60...... Assessing Summer Bridge and First- Budgeting for Resource Allocation Year Student Success Programs 58...... Meeting Students Where They Are: Decisions Building Student Success Pathways 69...... Dramatically Increasing Student 45...... Measurable Strategic Planning and Engagement With “Real Talk” 52...... Passing the Test: Developing, Resource Allocation Implementing and Improving 66...... Listening Session on Minority- 41...... Non-academic Program Review: Serving Institutions Guided Self-Placement Evaluating Student Services and 38...... Persistence and Completion Administrative Departments 72...... Student Success: Increasing First- Strategies From the Heartland Year Student Engagement for Males 65...... On Probation—Now What? of Color 47...... Persistent Pathways: Integrating 61...... PIEs and SPIs: Delicious, Sneaky 65...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: HLC Academy and National Reform Continuous Improvement and Efforts Development of the Center for Diné Strategic Planning Studies B.A. Program 38...... Program Review: Framework, 71...... Practical Applications of Brain- Process and Lessons Learned 10 Based Learning, Leadership and EXHIBITOR PRESENTATION Years Later Laughter for Reaffirmation of 59...... Accreditation Like a Boss! Tips 69...... Sharing Our Stories: Narratives of Accreditation for Connecting Assessment and Assessing Student Learning 41...... Predictive Analytics: Are You Ready? Accreditation 66...... Supporting Criterion 4 With 67...... Self-Service Metric Monitoring: 45...... Best Practices in the Assessment of Institutional Outcomes Empowering Staff to Improve Current and New Programs 55...... The Association of Chief Academic Student Outcomes 46...... Better Planning. Better Data. Better Officers (ACAO) Digital Fellows 70...... The Change Maker’s Toolkit: Learning for All Program and Student Persistence Creating Shared Vision and 52...... Beyond Compliance: Turning Data 63...... Transforming AQIP Pathway Sustaining Meaningful Change Into Action Processes: Peer Reviewers Share 38...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: 56...... Curriculum and Catalog: Accurate, Fatal Mistakes Institutions Make Utilizing Campus Kaizen Events for Engaging and Efficient 58...... Using Asynchronous Forums to Institutional Improvement 42...... Defining, Documenting and Engage Faculty, Including Adjuncts, Reporting on Faculty Qualifications in Assessment DATA COLLECTION/ DATA MANAGEMENT and Tested Experience 42...... Using Contemplative Practices to 48...... A Holistic Approach to Information 49...... Economic Impact Studies for HLC Promote College Student Success Assurance Models and Retention Accessibility Using an Open-Source Framework 59...... Emerging Student Success Trends CRITERION 5 48...... Building Campus-wide Approaches and Community Insights: What Do 70...... A Structured Approach for to Targeted Assessment the Data Say? Evaluating Processes: Process 54...... Building Institutional Capacity to 65...... Engaging Insights From the National Mapping Use Data Effectively Survey of Student Engagement 44...... Accreditation Life Cycle: Strategies 54...... Community College Benchmarking 46...... K–14 Student Success: Strategic for Sustaining Momentum Builds Evidence to Support HLC’s Partnership, Alignment and 51...... Building Bridges, Not Walls: Criteria Innovation Continuing Construction 40...... Compliance: Implementing 39...... Optimizing Student Progression: 57...... Connecting Continuous Planning, Professional Licensure and Why Personalization Is Key for Budgeting and Institutional Certification Disclosures Completion Assessment 46...... Outcomes-Based Data and the Assessment of Non-academic Units
82 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book 49...... Program Review, Strategic Planning 56...... Composite Financial Index Score 65...... Less Is More: Incremental Changes and Budgeting: Data Tools to Trends Can Impact Larger Outcomes Improve Student Success 37...... Creating a Transparent Budget 47...... Persistent Pathways: Integrating 65...... Rethinking General Education Allocation Process for Academic HLC Academy and National Reform Assessment: Aligning Tools With Colleges Efforts Methods 55...... Enhancing Academic Fiscal Viability 71...... Practical Applications of Brain-Based 62...... Shifting Processes: Moving From Through Faculty Involvement and Learning, Leadership and Laughter Content Taught to Knowledge Shared Governance for Reaffirmation of Accreditation Learned 67...... Maintaining a Positive Institutional 41...... Preparing for the Comprehensive 52...... Student ID Verification: Cheaters Culture on a Shoestring Budget Evaluation and Site Visit on the Beware! We Know Who You Are 45...... Measurable Strategic Planning and AQIP Pathway 68...... Supporting Institutional Resource Allocation 49...... Raising Retention and Achievement: Effectiveness With CourseLeaf 42...... NACUBO Economic Models Project Compelling Success With Student Transformative Learning Record 49...... The Intersection of Free 43...... Preparing Finances for HLC Review Speech, Academic Freedom and 72...... Student Success: Increasing First- Discriminatory Misconduct GENERAL EDUCATION Year Student Engagement for Males 59...... Turning an Institutional Challenge 40...... Assessing General Education With of Color Into an Opportunity to Radically Performance Tasks: Tales From Two 55...... The Association of Chief Academic Improve Use of Data (Contrasting) Institutions Officers (ACAO) Digital Fellows 50...... WIDS Curriculum Management 47...... Creating a Sustainable, Culturally Program and Student Persistence System Helps With Accreditation Informed General Education 45...... The Why and How of Implementing Review Framework an Open Textbook Initiative FACULTY DEVELOPMENT AND 71...... Cultivating Reflective Teaching for 63...... Transforming AQIP Pathway EVALUATION Integrative Learning Processes: Peer Reviewers Share Fatal Mistakes Institutions Make 36...... A Transformational New Faculty 61...... General Education Program Review: Orientation Program A Model for Effective Collaboration 55...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: Specialized Assessment and 71...... Cultivating Reflective Teaching for 46...... Learning to Change Our Brains: The View From Neuroscience Accreditation for Indigenous Integrative Learning Education 62...... Culture Change in Teaching Through 60...... Maintaining Quality Assessment Transformed Classrooms and of Student Learning in Fiscally HLC CRITERIA Challenging Times Professional Development 36...... Accreditation Liaison Officers 69...... Dramatically Increasing Student 65...... Polysynchronous Delivery: (ALOs): An Overview of the Role Engagement With “Real Talk” Increasing Student Satisfaction With and What’s New at HLC Flexible Teaching and Learning 64...... Evidence-Based Educational 51...... Accreditation Visits: Perspectives Development: Transforming Theory 43...... Seeing the Whole Elephant: An From Presidents, a Peer Reviewer and Practice of Faculty Development Integrated, Cultural Approach to and an ALO Student Success 53...... Faculty Qualifications: 42...... AQIP Pathway Systems Portfolios: Implementation Strategies and Tools 55...... Starting From Scratch: Preparing for Providing Evidence for the Criteria the Comprehensive Evaluation Visit for Success at Two HLC Institutions 46...... Assessing Graduate Programs: 69...... Innovation for Quality HIGH-IMPACT PRACTICES Practical and Innovative Strategies Improvement: A Design Thinking 71...... Cultivating Reflective Teaching for 54...... Community College Benchmarking Workshop Integrative Learning Builds Evidence to Support HLC’s Criteria 45...... Transforming Faculty Performance 40...... Digital Badges for Workforce in Competency-Based Education Training and Continuing Education 40...... Compliance: Implementing With a Community of Practice Professional Licensure and 61...... Doubling Graduation Rates in Three Certification Disclosures FEATURED PRESENTATION Years and Awards in Five 57...... Connecting Continuous Planning, 59...... Disruptive Forces Changing the 69...... Dramatically Increasing Student Budgeting and Institutional Engagement With “Real Talk” Higher Education Landscape Assessment 42...... Living-Learning Communities (LLCs) 37...... Effective Use of ePortfolio and 37...... Effective Use of ePortfolio and That Work: A Best Practices Model Badging to Assess Cocurricular Badging to Assess Cocurricular Learning 47...... Paying the Price—College Costs, Learning Financial Aid and the Betrayal of the 44...... Get Meaningful Program Advice 64...... Focus on Improvement: Aligning American Dream From a Business/Industry Accomplishments to Mission and Leadership Team 39...... Understanding the Federal HLC Criteria Landscape 37...... Harnessing the Carnegie Community 37...... Harnessing the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification for 56...... Workforce Needs and the T-Shaped Engagement Classification for Student-Community Connection Individual Student-Community Connection 38...... Innovating Gateway Course 61...... I-We-You: Crafting a Transformative FINANCE/RESOURCE Interventions: The PLUS Effect on Assurance Argument and Site Visit ALLOCATION Student Learning 41...... Improving Program Review With 51...... Building Bridges, Not Walls: 55...... Introduction to Brain-Based Templates, Data and Interpretive Continuing Construction Learning, Leadership, and Laughter Reports for Reaffirmation of Accreditation
Keyword Index 39, 60... Key Insights: Team Determinations 43...... Reviewing Faculty Qualifications: 51...... Linking Assessment, Planning and for Comprehensive Evaluations Insights for Institutions on What Budgeting for Resource Allocation 50...... Listening Session on the Criteria for Peer Review Teams Will Do Decisions Accreditation 36...... The AQIP Pathway 41...... Non-academic Program Review: 61...... Maintaining Momentum Between 57...... The AQIP Pathway’s Comprehensive Evaluating Student Services and HLC Evaluation Visits Quality Review Administrative Departments 60...... Maintaining Quality Assessment 63...... The HLC Complaints Process for 61...... PIEs and SPIs: Delicious, Sneaky of Student Learning in Fiscally Institutional Stakeholders Continuous Improvement and Strategic Planning Challenging Times 36...... The Open Pathway 57...... Making the Most of Your Evidence 71...... Practical Applications of Brain-Based 43, 63... The Open Pathway Year 4 Learning, Leadership and Laughter 58...... Mapping Institutional Diversity Assurance Argument: Process, for Reaffirmation of Accreditation Efforts to HLC’s Criteria for Evidence and Review Accreditation 49...... Raising Retention and Achievement: 39...... The Standard Pathway Compelling Success With Student 43...... Preparing Finances for HLC Review 60...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: Transformative Learning Record 66...... Supporting Criterion 4 With Accreditation Processes 67...... Self-Service Metric Monitoring: Institutional Outcomes 43...... What Institutions Should Consider Empowering Staff to Improve 65...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: When Submitting Interim Reports Student Outcomes Development of the Center for Diné 63...... Writing to the Criteria: Criterion 3 70...... The Change Maker’s Toolkit: Studies B.A. Program 54...... Writing to the Criteria: Criterion 4 Creating Shared Vision and 63...... Writing to the Criteria: Criterion 3 Sustaining Meaningful Change 47...... Writing to the Criteria: Criterion 5 54...... Writing to the Criteria: Criterion 4 56...... Training Governing Boards on Their 47...... Writing to the Criteria: Criterion 5 INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS Role in the Accreditation Process 48...... A Holistic Approach to Information 55...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: HLC PROCESSES Accessibility Using an Open-Source Specialized Assessment and 36...... Accreditation Liaison Officers Framework Accreditation for Indigenous (ALOs): An Overview of the Role 70...... A Structured Approach for Education and What’s New at HLC Evaluating Processes: Process 38...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: 56...... Advanced Understandings in Mapping Utilizing Campus Kaizen Events for Institutional Change 44...... Accreditation Life Cycle: Strategies Institutional Improvement 39...... An Overview of HLC’s Teach-Out for Sustaining Momentum INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH Policy and Procedure 46...... Assessing Graduate Programs: 54...... Building Institutional Capacity to 47...... Basic Understandings in Practical and Innovative Strategies Use Data Effectively Institutional Change 57...... Assessment and the “Good Life”: 40...... From Data to Insight: Building 50...... Becoming a Peer Reviewer at HLC Teleological Foundations for Information Systems to Better Serve Institutional Effectiveness 60...... Change of Control, Structure or Students Organization: A Key HLC Policy in a 40...... Assessment Beyond: Highlighting 39...... Great Jobs and Great Lives: Transforming Landscape the Contributions of Student Affairs Measuring Important Graduate 56...... Composite Financial Index Score 51...... Building Bridges, Not Walls: Outcomes Trends Continuing Construction 67...... Institutional Planning and Research: 66...... Contractual Arrangements 48...... Building Campus-wide Approaches Leading Up, Down, Across and Out Revisited to Targeted Assessment 52...... Passing the Test: Developing, 69...... Conversation and Closing Questions 40...... Chicagoland Hispanic-Serving Implementing and Improving With HLC Staff Liaisons Institutions: Regional Collaboration Guided Self-Placement Across Sectors 66...... Credit Hour Review: Expectations, 41...... Predictive Analytics: Are You Ready? Considerations and Process 54...... Community College Benchmarking KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 53...... Effects On and From the Composite Builds Evidence to Support HLC’s Financial Index (CFI) Criteria 36...... Technology, the Liberal Arts and the New Learning Economy 50...... Evaluating Distance Education: Are 71...... Cultivating Reflective Teaching for You Ready? Integrative Learning 53...... The Neuroscience of Innovation 53...... Faculty Qualifications: 55...... Enhancing Academic Fiscal Viability MISSION/VISION/VALUES Implementation Strategies and Through Faculty Involvement and Shared Governance 54...... A 21st-Century Approach to Urban Tools for Success at Two HLC Civic Engagement Institutions 37...... Hosting a Peer Review Team 36...... A Transformational New Faculty 53...... Federal Compliance Overview 38...... Integrating Faith-Based Mission Orientation Program 39...... HLC’s Approval Protocol for Direct Into Academic Program Launch and Review Processes 44...... Base Camp: Equipping Students for Assessment and Credit-Based a Successful College Journey Competency-Based Education 55...... Introduction to Brain-Based 50...... Becoming a Peer Reviewer at HLC 50...... HLC’s Student Opinion Survey Learning, Leadership and Laughter for Reaffirmation of Accreditation 71...... Connecting Competencies: Creating 57...... Making the Most of Your Evidence 67...... Learning to Continuously Improve Culture Change Around Inclusion 54...... Pathways Evaluation Project Beyond Action Projects and Diversity 57...... Quality Initiative Process: Good Practice Panel
84 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book 70...... Connecting More Inclusively: 58...... Using Asynchronous Forums to 38...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: Creating a User-Friendly Workplace Engage Faculty, Including Adjuncts, Utilizing Campus Kaizen Events for for Staff and Students in Assessment Institutional Improvement 70...... Cultivating Reflective Teaching for OPEN PATHWAY PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION Integrative Learning 46...... Accreditation Share Fair ACADEMY PROJECT 39...... Great Jobs and Great Lives: 53...... Academies Poster Fair Measuring Important Graduate 51...... Accreditation Visits: Perspectives Outcomes From Presidents, a Peer Reviewer 63...... Accumulating Success: The Three- and an ALO Bucket Approach to Student 37...... Harnessing the Carnegie Community Persistence Engagement Classification for 60...... Assessing Summer Bridge and First- Student-Community Connection Year Student Success Programs 40...... From Data to Insight: Building 51...... “COPE”: A Budget-Neutral Quality Information Systems to Better 38...... Integrating Faith-Based Mission Serve Students Into Academic Program Launch and Initiative to Harness Time and Review Processes Resources 47...... Persistent Pathways: Integrating 58...... Discussion of a Comprehensive HLC Academy and National Reform 66...... Listening Session on Accreditation Efforts for the 21st Century Evaluation Visit by the Accreditation Liaison Officer and Team Chair 59...... Lunch and Discussion With Tribal PLANNING/STRATEGIC PLANNING College Representatives 61...... I-We-You: Crafting a Transformative 57...... A Culturally Grounded, Student- Assurance Argument and Site Visit 47...... Partners for Transformation: Panel Led Approach to Peer Mentoring Discussion 58...... Mapping Institutional Diversity Program Development Efforts to HLC’s Criteria for 57...... Assessment and the “Good Life”: 70...... Supporting Personal and Institutional Accreditation Wellness With Mindfulness Teleological Foundations for 54...... Pathways Evaluation Project Institutional Effectiveness 56...... Training Governing Boards on Their Role in the Accreditation Process 47...... Persistent Pathways: Integrating 57...... Connecting Continuous Planning, HLC Academy and National Reform Budgeting and Institutional 65...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: Efforts Assessment Development of the Center for Diné Studies B.A. Program 57...... Quality Initiative Process: Good 37...... Creating a Transparent Budget Practice Panel Allocation Process for Academic 45...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: Colleges Real Peers Transform Accreditation 55...... Starting From Scratch: Preparing for Processes Into Meaningful Practice the Comprehensive Evaluation Visit 61...... Doubling Graduation Rates in Three Years and Awards in Five 42...... Using Contemplative Practices to 36...... The Open Pathway Promote College Student Success 43, 63... The Open Pathway Year 4 70, 72... Getting Started With Strategic and Retention Assurance Argument: Process, Planning 56...... VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Evidence and Review 37...... Hosting a Peer Review Team Assistance) Supporting the ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE 44...... How to Revitalize and Advance Community College Mission Assessment Practices 44...... A Board’s Role Under Accreditation ONLINE LEARNING/ Sanctions 67...... Institutional Planning and Research: Leading Up, Down, Across and Out DISTANCE LEARNING 44...... Accreditation Life Cycle: Strategies 51...... A Community College’s for Sustaining Momentum 51...... Linking Assessment, Planning and Transformation of Online Education: Budgeting for Resource Allocation 71...... Connecting Competencies: Creating Decisions Jeopardy to Excellence Culture Change Around Inclusion 48...... Addressing the New Majority: and Diversity 45...... Measurable Strategic Planning and Resource Allocation Serving Non-traditional Students 70...... Connecting More Inclusively: 48...... Campus Connect: The Student, Creating a User-Friendly Workplace 58...... Meeting Students Where They Are: Faculty and College Experience for Staff and Students Building Student Success Pathways 40...... Compliance: Implementing 62...... Culture Change in Teaching Through 61...... PIEs and SPIs: Delicious, Sneaky Professional Licensure and Transformed Classrooms and Continuous Improvement and Certification Disclosures Professional Development Strategic Planning 67...... Debriefing Virtual Simulation: Best 37...... Developing a Competency-Based 62...... Win-Win-Win: When a Business, a Practice Recommendations Education Program: The Journey, Hospital and a College Collaborate 50...... Evaluating Distance Education: Are the Challenges PROGRAM REVIEW/ You Ready? 41...... Improving Program Review With PROGRAM EVALUATION 64...... Executing a Dynamic Enrollment Templates, Data and Interpretive 46...... Assessing Graduate Programs: Model Reports Practical and Innovative Strategies 41...... Launching a Hybrid, Professional 64...... Integrating Workforce 49...... Demystifying Program Review: Best Practice Doctoral Program Development With Academics Practices and Model Programs 65...... Polysynchronous Delivery: 65...... On Probation—Now What? 55...... Enhancing Academic Fiscal Viability Increasing Student Satisfaction With 70...... Supporting Personal and Through Faculty Involvement and Flexible Teaching and Learning Institutional Wellness With Shared Governance 65...... SARA: We’re Past the “Easy Stuff” Mindfulness 61...... General Education Program Review: 68...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: 70...... The Change Maker’s Toolkit: A Model for Effective Collaboration Effective Practices for Distance Creating Shared Vision and Education at a Tribal College Sustaining Meaningful Change
Keyword Index 41...... Improving Program Review With 61...... Maintaining Momentum Between 67...... Student Success: Successes, Failures Templates, Data and Interpretive HLC Evaluation Visits and Future Plans Reports 63...... Mapping Reasoning for Critical 71...... Student Voices on Student Success 38...... Integrating Faith-Based Mission Thinking Instruction Across Into Academic Program Launch and Disciplines and Institutions STUDENT SUCCESS (PERSISTENCE/ RETENTION/COMPLETION) Review Processes 65...... On Probation—Now What? 57...... A Culturally Grounded, Student- 51...... Linking Assessment, Planning and 47...... Partners for Transformation: Panel Led Approach to Peer Mentoring Budgeting for Resource Allocation Discussion Decisions Program Development 38...... Persistence and Completion 54...... Academic Advising at Community 41...... Non-academic Program Review: Strategies From the Heartland Evaluating Student Services and Colleges 41...... Predictive Analytics: Are You Ready? Administrative Departments 63...... Accumulating Success: The Three- 38...... Program Review: Framework, 70...... The Change Maker’s Toolkit: Bucket Approach to Student Process and Lessons Learned 10 Creating Shared Vision and Persistence Sustaining Meaningful Change Years Later 48...... Addressing the New Majority: 66...... Supporting Criterion 4 With 63...... Transforming AQIP Pathway Serving Non-traditional Students Processes: Peer Reviewers Share Institutional Outcomes 67...... Advising at Private, Not-for-Profit Fatal Mistakes Institutions Make Institutions QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 45...... Transforming Faculty Performance 60...... Assessing Summer Bridge and First- 54...... A 21st-Century Approach to Urban in Competency-Based Education Year Student Success Programs Civic Engagement With a Community of Practice 48...... Assessing the Effectiveness of 44...... A Board’s Role Under Accreditation 38...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: Cocurriculars in Support of Student Sanctions Utilizing Campus Kaizen Events for Learning 51...... A Community College’s Institutional Improvement 44...... Base Camp: Equipping Students for Transformation of Online SOCIAL/NETWORKING FUNCTION a Successful College Journey Education: Jeopardy to Excellence 35, 53... Complimentary Continental 37...... Building an Intentional Campus-wide 44...... A Curriculum Innovation for Breakfast Commitment to Persistence Interprofessional Education 62...... Ice Cream Social 54...... Building Institutional Capacity to 48...... A Holistic Approach to Information Use Data Effectively Accessibility Using an Open-Source 42...... Lunch (Pre-registration Required) Framework 48...... Campus Connect: The Student, STANDARD PATHWAY Faculty and College Experience 70...... A Structured Approach for 46...... Accreditation Share Fair Evaluating Processes: Process 61...... Doubling Graduation Rates in Three Mapping 58...... Discussion of a Comprehensive Years and Awards in Five Evaluation Visit by the Accreditation 64...... Embracing Collaboration and 44...... Accreditation Life Cycle: Strategies Liaison Officer and Team Chair for Sustaining Momentum Structural Change to Support the 55...... Innovative Approaches to a Military-Connected Student 63...... Accumulating Success: The Three- Successful Assurance Argument Bucket Approach to Student 39...... Great Jobs and Great Lives: Persistence 58...... Mapping Institutional Diversity Measuring Important Graduate Efforts to HLC’s Criteria for Outcomes 67...... Advising at Private, Not-for-Profit Accreditation Institutions 60...... Helping Institutions Improve: HLC’s 54...... Pathways Evaluation Project Academies and Workshops 51...... “COPE”: A Budget-Neutral Quality Initiative to Harness Time and 39...... The Standard Pathway 50...... HLC and Lumina Foundation Resources STUDENT SERVICES/ 63...... HLC’s Student Success Initiatives 58...... Defining Quality: A New Quality STUDENT AFFAIRS 65...... Less Is More: Incremental Changes Framework for Competency-Based 57...... A Culturally Grounded, Student- Can Impact Larger Outcomes Education Led Approach to Peer Mentoring 58...... Meeting Students Where They Are: 49...... Demystifying Program Review: Best Program Development Building Student Success Pathways Practices and Model Programs 48...... Assessing the Effectiveness of 52...... Passing the Test: Developing, 53...... Faculty Qualifications: Cocurriculars in Support of Student Implementing and Improving Implementation Strategies and Tools Learning Guided Self-Placement for Success at Two HLC Institutions 71...... Assessing the Hard-to-Assess 51...... Persistence and Completion 64...... Focus on Improvement: Aligning 40...... Assessment Beyond: Highlighting Academy Roundtable: From Access Accomplishments to Mission and the Contributions of Student Affairs to Success HLC Criteria 37...... Building an Intentional Campus- 66...... Persistence and Completion 60...... Helping Institutions Improve: HLC’s wide Commitment to Persistence Academy Roundtable: Supporting Academies and Workshops the Non-traditional Learner 61...... Quarterbacking the Cocurricular 69...... Innovation for Quality Improvement: Assessment Process: Winning 43...... Persistence and Completion A Design Thinking Workshop Teamwork Academy Roundtable: Turning Data 67...... Learning to Continuously Improve Into Information 72...... Student Success: Increasing First- Beyond Action Projects Year Student Engagement for Males 38...... Persistence and Completion 67...... Maintaining a Positive Institutional of Color Strategies From the Heartland Culture on a Shoestring Budget
86 2018 HLC Annual Conference Program Book 65...... Polysynchronous Delivery: 52...... Changing History: Redesigning 42...... Using Contemplative Practices to Increasing Student Satisfaction With Teaching and Learning in Promote College Student Success Flexible Teaching and Learning Introductory History Classes and Retention 49...... Raising Retention and Achievement: 62...... Culture Change in Teaching Through TECHNOLOGY/ Compelling Success With Student Transformed Classrooms and TECHNOLOGY TOOLS Transformative Learning Record Professional Development 60...... Assessment Upgrade: Using 43...... Seeing the Whole Elephant: An 58...... Defining Quality: A New Quality Technology and Social Media to Integrated, Cultural Approach to Framework for Competency-Based Improve Assessment Student Success Education 48...... Campus Connect: The Student, 72...... Student Success: Increasing First- 64...... Embracing Collaboration and Faculty and College Experience Year Student Engagement for Males Structural Change to Support the of Color Military-Connected Student 67...... Debriefing Virtual Simulation: Best Practice Recommendations 67...... Student Success: Successes, Failures 46...... Emerging Technologies Impacting and Future Plans Tomorrow’s Students 40...... Digital Badges for Workforce Training and Continuing Education 71...... Student Voices on Student Success 64...... Evidence-Based Educational Development: Transforming 46...... Emerging Technologies Impacting 45...... The Why and How of Implementing Tomorrow’s Students an Open Textbook Initiative Theory and Practice of Faculty Development 64...... Focus on Improvement: Aligning 52...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: 55...... Innovative Approaches to Dual Accomplishments to Mission and Achieving the Dream Roundtable HLC Criteria Discussion Credit 55...... Introduction to Brain-Based 41...... Launching a Hybrid, Professional 68...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: Practice Doctoral Program Effective Practices for Distance Learning, Leadership and Laughter Education at a Tribal College for Reaffirmation of Accreditation 45...... Measurable Strategic Planning and Resource Allocation 42...... Using Contemplative Practices to 41...... Launching a Hybrid, Professional Promote College Student Success Practice Doctoral Program 52...... Passing the Test: Developing, and Retention 46...... Learning to Change Our Brains: The Implementing and Improving Guided Self-Placement 56...... VITA (Volunteer Income Tax View From Neuroscience Assistance) Supporting the 63...... Mapping Reasoning for Critical 65...... Polysynchronous Delivery: Increasing Student Satisfaction With Community College Mission Thinking Instruction Across Disciplines and Institutions Flexible Teaching and Learning TEACHING/PEDAGOGY/ 45...... Realigning With the 21st-Century CURRICULUM 71...... Protecting and Pursuing the Truth in the Post-truth Era Workforce 44...... A Curriculum Innovation for 67...... Self-Service Metric Monitoring: Interprofessional Education 69...... Sharing Our Stories: Narratives of Assessing Student Learning Empowering Staff to Improve 54...... Academic Advising at Community Student Outcomes Colleges 55...... Starting From Scratch: Designing a New Service Learning Class 55...... The Association of Chief Academic 48...... Assessing Art Programs Officers (ACAO) Digital Fellows 55...... The Association of Chief Academic Program and Student Persistence 40...... Assessing General Education With Officers (ACAO) Digital Fellows Performance Tasks: Tales From Two Program and Student Persistence 45...... The Why and How of Implementing (Contrasting) Institutions an Open Textbook Initiative 70...... The Neuroscience of Teaching and 46...... Assessing Graduate Programs: Learning 61...... Using Technology to Improve Practical and Innovative Strategies Student Engagement 65...... Tribal College Wisdom Sharing: 44...... Get Meaningful Program Advice Development of the Center for Diné 62...... Win-Win-Win: When a Business, a From a Business/Industry Studies B.A. Program Hospital and a College Collaborate Leadership Team
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