
10:30 AM - 10:45AM EST
Opening Remarks:
Welcome to the 2021 Community College National Legislative Summit
10:45AM - 11:45AM EST
General Session Featuring Amy Walter
12:00PM -1:00PM EST
General Session:
A Look at the New Lay of the Land on Capitol Hill and its Impact on Higher Education
1:15PM - 2:45PM EST
General Session:
Overview of the 2021 Community College Priorities
3:00PM - 3:45PM EST
Policy Focus Session:
Federal Stimulus Funding for Colleges and Students
4:00PM - 4:45PM EST
Policy Focus Session:
A Path Forward for College Promise Programs
5:00PM - 5:45PM EST
Policy Focus Session:
The Role of Education and Training in a Federal Infrastructure Package
10:30AM - 11:30AM EST
General Session:
Higher Education and the Future of Our Economy
1:15PM - 2:15PM EST
General Session:
Speakers from Capitol Hill
2:45PM - 3:45PM EST
Policy Focus Session:
Connecting Basic Needs Services with Workforce Education and Training
4:15PM - 5:15PM EST
General Session:
Speakers from Capitol Hill
10:30AM - 11:30AM EST
Policy Focus Session:
Strengthening Rural Community Colleges
11:45AM - 12:45PM EST
General Session:
Speakers from Capitol Hill
1:00PM - 2:00PM EST
Closing Session
Upcoming Live Events
There are currently no live events.
Past Live Events
Wed 10:30 AM EST
National Legislative Summit - Day 3 - February 10, 2021
Tue 5:30 PM EST
National Legislative Summit - Day 2 - Networking Reception - February 9, 2021
Tue 10:30 AM EST
National Legislative Summit - Day 2 - February 9, 2021
Mon 6:00 PM EST
National Legislative Summit - Day 1 - Networking Reception - February 8, 2021
Mon 10:30 AM EST
National Legislative Summit - Day 1- February 8, 2021
Thu 4:30 PM EDT
Enrollment Lessons Learned During COVID-19: Useful In Post COVID
Community colleges were forced to make major changes in educational delivery, communications, and systems within a week or two due to the onset of the COVID pandemic –...
Thu 4:30 PM EDT
From Industry Needs to College Policy: A Board's Role in Strengthening Partnerships
Del Mar College Board Chair Carol Scott and EVP/COO Lenora Keas will discuss the $10 billion of industry growth in South Texas in the past decade and how the college...
Thu 4:30 PM EDT
Creating a More Unified Community College: Aligning Non-Credit and Credit Programs
Education Strategy Group will share a new framework on how to align non-credit and credit programs at community colleges and how to promote these offerings as the...
Thu 3:15 PM EDT
How to Drive Positive Change During The Pandemic
This session is focused on two stories of leadership innovation. Community college leaders work hard to support their students and provide access to affordable,...
Thu 3:15 PM EDT
Conducting an Effective CEO Search
Because nearly one in four community colleges is experiencing a transition in executive leadership, it’s critical that your board understands today’s rapidly changing...
Thu 2:00 PM EDT
Guardian Life Community College Innovation Challenge
What if every student graduated? Guardian partners with UDC Community College to bring students a competition to tackle financial obstacles stopping students from...
Thu 2:00 PM EDT
Rural Community College and Mental Health Challenges
College students’ basic needs are often discussed with regard to an urban environment, but rural students face similar and unique needs when it comes to mental health...
Thu 2:00 PM EDT
Maintaining Core Commitments to Our Students, Employees, and Communities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
New Jersey was hit early and hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mercer County Community College responded quickly, collectively, and passionately while maintaining its...
Thu 12:30 PM EDT
CLOSING GENERAL SESSION/ASSOCIATION AWARDS
CLOSING GENERAL SESSION/ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Thu 11:15 AM EDT
Strategic and Innovative Partnerships to Meet the Needs of Students and the Community
The partnership between the Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) Board of Trustees and the Anne Arundel Community College Foundation Board of Directors has been...
Thu 11:15 AM EDT
Trustee Transitions
Explore best practices for creating and contributing to a cohesive board of trustees that provides long-term stability for the college, clear and consistent...
Thu 11:15 AM EDT
The Power of Listening: How Consumer Insights Can Help Community Colleges Adapt, Innovate, and Survive in a New Era
In spite of growing demand for education and training beyond high school, community college enrollments have been declining for the past decade with no end in sight...
Thu 10:00 AM EDT
Prioritizing Student Success through Innovative Funding Model
With $1.2M remaining from its previous strategic plan, Harper College created an internal “grant program” called Student Success Initiatives, challenging faculty and...
Thu 10:00 AM EDT
3 Rapid-Fire Sessions: Enrollment Growth, Connectivity & Data
Leading student-services providers for an array of fields will present three speed sessions to help your institution meet students' needs while keeping your...
Thu 10:00 AM EDT
Institutional Strategic Planning: We are all in this together!
In the fall of 2019, SFCC engaged in a comprehensive institutional strategic planning effort. Using an institutional and community planning team, the College engaged...
Wed 5:45 PM EDT
Food Connects Us: Joliet Junior College Cooking Demo
2020 has been a year of disconnection. But the JJC Culinary Arts Department will spend this virtual hour reminding you that food connects us. Join the...
Wed 4:30 PM EDT
Bridge Programs that Support Community College Students with Autism
Prior postsecondary education research suggests that, despite the capability to achieve a two-year or four-year degree, students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD)...
Wed 4:30 PM EDT
Virtual Student Services: Technology and AI to the Rescue
2020 has pushed all of us to find creative ways to support our students in a 100% online world. A number of new technologies, including AI powered tools, are emerging...
Wed 4:30 PM EDT
Board and its Governing Functions
The purpose of college and university governing boards is to protect the institution, assure fulfillment of the mission, and strategically plan for the college’s future.
Wed 4:30 PM EDT
Meet Your Peers: 45 and Under Caucus Networking Meeting
Meet Your Peers: 45 and Under Caucus Networking Meeting
Wed 3:15 PM EDT
The RELLIS Vision Realized, and Then Some
Through the RELLIS Academic Alliance, the cornerstone of the educational programs, the Blinn College District and the Texas A&M University system's ten regional...
Wed 3:15 PM EDT
Food Insecurity, Social Justice and Serving Students in a Virtual World
COVID-19 presents new challenges for students, such as rapidly moving to a virtual instructional approach and providing additional support to the most vulnerable...
Wed 2:00 PM EDT
Catalyzing Equity Work on Campus: College of Lake County’s Equity Story
It can be challenging to seamlessly integrate statements on diversity, equity and inclusion with student success efforts; however, the events of 2020 underscore the...
Wed 2:00 PM EDT
Supporting Student Parents during COVID-19
Colleges need to address student’s basic food and housing needs. The almost 30% of students with children have additional challenges.
Wed 2:00 PM EDT
Board Retreats As A Strategic Vehicle For Board Cohesion And Team Building
An annual board retreat is a standard of good practice and allows boards the time and space to reflect on its effectiveness, address challenges, and develop goals and...
Wed 12:30 PM EDT
ACCT Regional Awards General Session
ACCT presents annually up to five Regional Awards...
Wed 11:15 AM EDT
Trustee Transformation at Parkland College into a high performing Board by 3 Amigos and Bonnie
Four Trustees from Parkland College with over 100 years of Board experience will describe the Trustee Transformation of Parkland College from just a "regular"...
Wed 11:15 AM EDT
Don't Waste a Good Crisis: One Community's Ability to Overcome Workforce Obstacles
WNCC's Sidney Campus' Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center provides a space for entrepreneurial endeavors. This space hosts new entrepreneurs for up to two years rent...
Wed 11:15 AM EDT
Digging Deeper into Student Success—The Science and Art of Changing Student Behavior
Those of us responsible for increasing community college student success rates work under the unwavering belief that student success is, in many ways, a science. We...
Wed 10:00 AM EDT
Serving the Whole Student: Addressing Non-Academic Barriers Facing Rural Community College Students
In this presentation, the authors will identify six non-academic barriers to completion and briefly explore how these barriers effect students, services, and success...
Wed 10:00 AM EDT
Beyond the Skills Gap: Skills as the New Currency
For nearly two decades, Emsi has been at the forefront of helping colleges quantify their economic impact, develop workforce-aligned programs and guide their students...
Wed 10:00 AM EDT
Building Effective Boardsmanship Through Policy Governance
Policy Review, Case Studies, and Policy Governance principles will be discussed as well as strategies for monitoring Board Ends and College Performance including...
Tue 4:30 PM EDT
Success On-Demand: Innovation & America’s Online Community College
Learn how the College leveraged four decades of distance education experience in order to evolve from an initial set of high-quality, low-cost offerings to 600+...
Tue 4:30 PM EDT
Best Practices of Effective Governing Boards
The definitive test of board and CEO leadership is how well their colleges educate students and meet the educational and workforce needs of their communities.
Tue 4:30 PM EDT
The Community College Baccalaureate, National Scope, and Impact on the Working Learners’ Economic Advancement
This presentation will focus on the role of the Community College Baccalaureate in helping community colleges fulfill their mission of providing student pathways...
Tue 4:15 PM EDT
Meet and Greet with ACCT
Do you have questions about community college advocacy? Want to learn more about board retreats or presidential searches? Stop by this Zoom room and chat with ACCT...
Tue 3:15 PM EDT
Three Missions, One Project: Mid-State Health Care Simulation Center
This session explains how three organizations blended missions to develop the Mid-State Health Care Simulation Center located at Aspirus Riverview Hospital through...
Tue 3:15 PM EDT
COVID-19: Challenges Imposed, Lessons Learned
Yavapai College pivoted to remote delivery in response to the COVID-19. While the transition imposed challenges, it offered opportunity to build institutional capacity...
Tue 3:15 PM EDT
Resources for Rural Colleges
On this panel attendees will be provided with an update regarding ACCT’s Strengthening Rural Community College’s initiative, have the chance to learn about...
Tue 2:00 PM EDT
Centering Racial Equity in Student Access and Success Work
If community colleges are “America’s institutions of the moment,” (James and Deborah Fallows, “Our Towns”, 2019), they must be at the center of racial healing and...
Tue 2:00 PM EDT
The Board & The CEO - Maximizing the Relationship
High performing boards are dedicated to maximizing the relationship with the CEO. CEOs must exhibit behavior worthy of board support.
Tue 2:00 PM EDT
Legal Challenges in Operating a Community College During the Pandemic
Join a panel of 3 legal practitioners including ACCT’s General Counsel and Washington Attorney Ira Shepard who is joined by two of his colleagues at Saul Ewing...
Tue 1:45 PM EDT
Network with Your Regional Peers: Western Region
Calling all Western Region attendees! This is an opportunity to network and engage with other trustees, presidents, and others from your region. Share stories, catch...
Tue 12:30 PM EDT
Membership Celebration General Session
Tue 11:30 AM EDT
Network with Your Regional Peers: Southern Region
Calling all Southern Region attendees! This is an opportunity to network and engage with other trustees, presidents, and others from your region. Share stories, catch...
Tue 11:15 AM EDT
Behavioral Intervention and Campus Security on a Budget
This presentation describes the process that Madisonville Community College used to implement a behavioral intervention team, training, and campus security at a time...
Tue 11:15 AM EDT
How Allan Hancock College Improved Graduation Rates and Saved Valuable Time for Academic Advisors and Student Services
Learn how Allan Hancock College, in partnership with Ferrilli, leveraged existing technology to increase completion rates and improve efficiencies within Academic...
Tue 11:15 AM EDT
The Real Price of College
Many community college students find that the real price of college is higher than the financial aid formula would predict. That surprise contributes to basic needs...
Tue 10:00 AM EDT
NJCAA Athletics - The Benefits and Complete Review Process
A comprehensive review of NJCAA Athletics to include Finances, Student Outcomes, and Community Support.
Tue 10:00 AM EDT
Stiff Competition, National Recognition: Reaping the Benefits of Participating in the 2021 Bellwether Award Competition
The Bellwether College Consortium is a respected independent think tank of member colleges who have actively competed for the Bellwether Award.
Tue 10:00 AM EDT
Service, Support and Consistency – Even through a Pandemic
With new leadership and a renewed focus on improving service to students, College of the Mainland took steps to change their front-line support service configuration...
Tue 9:30 AM EDT
Meet ACCT Staff and Congress Troubleshooting - Tuesday
This zoom room will be available every morning for attendees who would like to meet with ACCT staff members, or who need assistance navigating the virtual event....
Mon 6:15 PM EDT
Meet Your Peers: All Presidents/CEOs Meet and Greet
Calling all Presidents, Chancellors, and CEOs! This is an opportunity to network and engage with other presidents/CEOs in attendance. Share stories, catch up, and...
Mon 5:30 PM EDT
Meet Your Peers: All Trustees Meet and Greet
Calling all Trustees! This is an opportunity to network and engage with other trustees in attendance. Share stories, catch up, and learn from one another.
Mon 4:30 PM EDT
The Chicago Roadmap: How City Colleges of Chicago and Chicago Public Schools are working to provide a seamless path for students and families and access to quality higher education
In close partnership with Chicago’s philanthropic community and key elected officials, the Chicago Roadmap seeks to breakdown institutional silos between Chicago...
Mon 4:30 PM EDT
Strategies for Math Placement during COVID 19: A Discussion around Multiple Measures and its Impact on Student and Institutional Success
Nationwide, millions of students struggle to complete their degree-required math courses, losing time, money and, often, confidence. This issue will be exacerbated due...
Mon 4:30 PM EDT
Financial Aid Culture - When In Doubt, Give it Out!
Learn about California’s best practices guide and framework for Financial Aid Directors, CEOs and Trustees to support a cultural shift towards more student-centered...
Mon 4:15 PM EDT
Network with Your Regional Peers: Pacific Region
Calling all Pacific Region attendees! This is an opportunity to network and engage with other trustees, presidents, and others from your region. Share stories, catch...
Mon 3:15 PM EDT
Hidden college, hidden asset: noncredit education.
Some of the most exciting innovation in higher education is taking place nationwide on the noncredit side of community colleges. Noncredit education varies widely from...
Mon 3:15 PM EDT
Board Communication Protocols
High-functioning boards practice clear and frequent internal and external communication protocols to foster a strong bond between the president and the board as well...
Mon 2:00 PM EDT
Stop, Drop, Enroll! A Research Study on Persistance
Stop, Drop, Enroll is a research study conducted to understand the individual and institutional reasons students do not persist and to propose action steps to increase...
Mon 2:00 PM EDT
Oriented for Action: Linking Board Orientation, Retreats, Evaluation Practices & Crisis Management
How does a college react instantly in crisis management with the Board ready for action to ensure business continuity, campus morale, and presidential support designed...
Mon 2:00 PM EDT
Neighborhood College: Strategies for taking our College into the Community
The Phoenix College Neighborhood College effort delivers classes at the workplace. This partnership concept was developed from a desire and willingness to meet...
Mon 1:30 PM EDT
Network with Your Regional Peers: Central Region
Calling all Central Region attendees! This is an opportunity to network and engage with other trustees, presidents, and others from your region. Share stories, catch...
Mon 12:30 PM EDT
Opening General Session
Welcome to the 2020 ACCT Virtual Leadership Congress!
Mon 11:30 AM EDT
Network with Your Regional Peers: Northeast Region
Calling all Northeast Region attendees! This is an opportunity to network and engage with other trustees, presidents, and others from your region. Share stories, catch...
Mon 11:15 AM EDT
Policy Governance. Strong Leadership. Effective Transition.
This presentation will highlight the Policy Governance model and the long-standing successful processes and policies assisting Lakeshore Technical College in...
Mon 11:15 AM EDT
Using a College Farm to Create Partnerships
Glen Oaks Community College operates a 67 acre farm as part of its ongoing campus operations. This farm is run by the Ag Equipment Technology faculty member with the...
Mon 11:15 AM EDT
Community College Presidents’ Voices on Prison Education
Since 2015, over 25 community colleges throughout the United States have been offering college programs in prisons funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Second...
Mon 10:00 AM EDT
Destination Graduation: Our Journey to Centralize Academic and Career Advising
Midlands Technical College, like many community colleges, needed to improve student retention and career planning. With a decentralized advising model, accountability...
Mon 10:00 AM EDT
System Building: Interconnecting the Healthcare Ecosystem (Employer, Training Providers, Community Based Organizations, and the Philanthropic Community)
A healthcare sector partnership led by Cuyahoga Community College in collaboration with Workforce Connect, a partnership of public and private leaders, to utilize the...
Mon 10:00 AM EDT
A Mission-Driven Response to the Coronavirus Crisis: Finding the Silver Linings
A college’s mission statement defines its key values and goals. During a crisis, it is essential that these values underscore all plans, communication, and actions....
Mon 9:30 AM EDT
Meet ACCT Staff and Congress Troubleshooting Room
This zoom room will be available every morning for attendees who would like to meet with ACCT staff members, or who need assistance navigating the virtual event....