Community College for the 21st Century

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

Professional Organizations

• American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
• 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)
• Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU)
• Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT)
• Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGBUC)
• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• The College Board Online
• Education Commission of the States (ECS)
• American Productivity and Quality Center Best Practices (APQC)
• Higher Learning Commission of North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA)
• League for Innovation in the Community College (LICC)
• National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS)
• National Education Association - Higher Education (NEA)
• State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO)

Professional Publishers and Online Publications for Educators

• AACC Publications
• AAHE Publications
• Chronicle of Higher Education Authorization: kieferlib Username: aimscc
• Community College Times Online Edition
• International Journal: Continuous Improvement Monitor
• League for Innovation Online Bookstore
• NACADA Technology in Advising Commission - Academic Advising Resources on the Internet
• WebNet Journal - Internet Technologies, Applications & Issues

Regulatory Agencies

• Colorado Commission on Higher Education
• Colorado Community College System (CCCS)
• CCCS - Helpful Links for Educators
• CCCS - Helpful Links for Career and Technical Education
• State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education (SBCCOE)
• Rules of the SBCCOE under the Colorado Vocational Education Act 8 CRS 1504-2

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
• 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
• WebNet Journal--Internet Technologies, Applications & Issues

-- Instructional Effectiveness/Student Learning

• AAHE Forum on Faculty Roles & Rewards
• AAHE's Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines, Teacher Education Volume
• AAHE Teaching Initiatives
• Critical Thinking
• Making Teaching Community Property: A Menu for Peer Collaboration and Peer Review
• 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

-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

• Apple Learning Interchange - Learning Resources
• Blue Web'NEducational Software Components of Tomorrow
• EducaNext
• Filamentality
• The Gateway to Educational Materials
• IDEAS
• Maricopa Learning Exchange (MLX)
• Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
• Splash
• eScholarship, University of California
• Wisconsin Online Resource Center (Wisc-Online)

--Online Journals related to Teaching

• Academic Leader
• Online Learning
• Teaching Professor

-- Purpose, Mission, Philosophy

• A Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
• Federal Issues Update
• NEA's Hot Topics
• New Expeditions: Charting the Second Century of Community Colleges
• Significant Historical Events in the Development of the Public Community College

-- Research

• Libraries, Online References, Information Services Web Site Selections
• Office of Community College Research and Leadership
• Rocky Mountain Association for Institutional Research Home Page
• Selected World Wide Web Education Links