Community College for the 21st Century

This page has been created to augment the community college teaching experience.

Professional Organizations

• American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC)
• American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
• American Association for Health Education
• American Association for Higher Education (AAHE)
• American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
• American Council on Education (ACE)
• American Federation of Teachers in Higher Education (AFTHE)
• American Productivity and Quality Center Best Practices (APQC)
• Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU)
• Association of College and Research Libraries
• Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT)
• Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGBUC)
• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• The College Board Online
• Community College Foundation
• Community College Times
• Education Commission of the States (ECS)
• Education Week
• Higher Learning Commission of North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA)
• League for Innovation in the Community College (LICC)
• National Academic Advising Association
• National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS)
• National Education Association - Higher Education (NEA)
• New Teacher Center
• State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO)

Regulatory Agencies

• Career and Technical Act (Colorado)
• Colorado Commission on Higher Education Colorado Department of Higher Education
• Colorado Community College System (CCCS)
• Colorado Career and Technical Education Plan
• State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education (SBCCOE)

Issues in Higher Education --

--Accreditation

• Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP)
• Handbook of Accreditation - Higher Learning Commission
• Overview of Accreditation

-- Assessment/Student Services

• AAHE Assessment Forum AAHE Assessment
• Center for Lifelong Learning

-- Business and the Community College

• Powerful Partnerships - A Shared Responsibility for Learning
• National Alliance of Business

-- Educational Technologies and Distance Learning

• Bob Jensen's Technology in Education Web Pages
• Educause - Transforming Education through Information Technologies

-- Instructional Effectiveness/Student Learning

• AAHE Forum on Faculty Roles & Rewards
• Critical Thinking
• Peer Coaching: An Innovation in Teaching by Jona Meyer and Tara Gray
• Persistent Problems in Evaluating College Teaching by W. J. McKeachie and Matthew Kaplan

-- Leadership and Management

• Center for Institutional and International Initiatives - Center for Leadership Development

--Learning Centered College

• Learning Centered College
• Learning College Project
• The Search for the Learning Centered College
• Toward Becoming a Learner-Centered College System

-- Learning Communities

• Integrated Learning Communities
• Integrated Learning Garden
• National Learning Communities Directory

-Learning Object Repository, About

• Learning Object Repositories, Digital Repositories, and the Reusable Life of Course Content, Long, P., Syllabus Magazine
• The Instructional Uses of Learning Objects, Wiley, D.
• Learning Objects Portal, Learning Objects Group.

--Learning Object Repository, Samples

• Filamentality
• The Gateway to Educational Materials
• IDEAS
• Maricopa Learning Exchange (MLX)
• Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
• eScholarship, University of California
• Wisconsin Online Resource Center (Wisc-Online)
  
  
  

-- Purpose, Mission, Philosophy

• A Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
• Federal Issues Update
• NEA's Hot Topics NEA Focus on What Works
• New Expeditions: Charting the Second Century of Community Colleges AACC New Expeditions Issues
• Community Colleges in America: A Historical Perspective

-- Research

• Office of Community College Research and Leadership
• Rocky Mountain Association for Institutional Research Home Page