21st Century Skills: Two Decades Later
In 2000, the League published Learning Outcomes for the 21st Century, a report of a study designed to help community colleges define and clarify the knowledge, skills, and abilities students would need for success in the new millennium. Juxtaposing findings from that study against descriptions compiled from more recent publications about 21st century skills offers a view of how defining and clarifying these skills has changed, or not, in the last twenty years.
Both lists include certain skills deemed necessary for success in a work environment, variously called workplace, soft, interpersonal, or power skills. These include such skills as the ability to communicate effectively or to collaborate with colleagues, and are distinct from the specialized knowledge, skills, and abilities required for a particular job.
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Since 2012, the League for Innovation in the Community College has led its Community Colleges and Public Health Project with an overarching goal of involving community colleges in education for public health. Throughout the project, the League has worked closely with the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health, initially convening a panel of experts to examine the needs, opportunities, and barriers that exist to the development of public health courses and programs in community colleges.
Following the panel’s recommendations, the project’s second phase focused on developing prototype curricula for community college programs that could fulfill workforce needs and provide career ladders for graduates. The models were produced in consultation with Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, National Association of County and City Health Officials, Society for Public Health Education, Association of University Programs in Health Administration, and Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs, and were vetted by the community college and public health communities.
In the third phase, the League recognized 14 innovative community colleges for developing or enhancing courses, certificate programs, and associate degree programs in public health with Riegelman Awards, sponsored by Richard and Linda Riegelman and Jones & Bartlett Learning and presented at the Innovations Conferences from 2016 to 2019.
The fourth and current phase of the project focuses on Creating a Community College Culture of Health, with an emphasis on increasing community college student awareness of career opportunities in public health. Colleges are encouraged to make connections between public health careers and existing certificate and degree programs, such as nursing, allied health, first responder, environmental studies, engineering, and HVAC. To support public health career awareness activities, the League awarded 21 small grants for events held in April 2019 during National Public Health Week (USA) or on the World Health Organization’s World Health Day. Thirty-seven additional grants were awarded to the following community colleges to support public health career awareness activities this spring.
2020 Public Health Grant Recipients
For more information about the League’s Community Colleges and Public Health Project and Creating a Community College Culture of Health, including resources, please visit http://www.league.org/ccph.
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As part of its recent strategic planning process, the League for Innovation in the Community College Board of Directors brainstormed a list of current challenges facing community colleges—challenges the League could use in its programming to help its full membership develop and share solutions. The total list included almost 70 issues and challenges from Board members and League representatives, who serve as liaisons between the Board colleges and League staff. A subset of these challenges became what the group termed “issues that keep us awake at night.”
League staff analyzed the list and the nine major themes that emerged are presented here, along with a link to descriptions and other resources about the types of challenges community colleges are facing within each theme. For example, the Equity and Inclusion theme includes challenges such as ensuring access and opportunity enrollment strategies and meeting the needs of underrepresented students. Other themes focus on issues and challenges around courageous leadership, the effects of declining resources on organizational capacity, and educating students for careers that align with business and industry needs.
This exercise was the first phase of an iterative process, so this list is not, nor it is intended to be, final, complete, or exclusive. Community colleges face numerous challenges every day, and the League is committed to increasing awareness of these challenges and helping faculty, staff, and administrators share their experiences as we all work to find innovative, effective solutions that benefit our students and communities.
The second phase of the process is being conducted this spring. The League is vetting the issues on this list with its full membership, initially through discussion sessions at the Innovations Conference, March 1-4, 2020, in Seattle. Additional member input will be sought through a membership survey after the conference.
The nine themes are:
• Equity and Inclusion
• Funding and Revenue Generation
• Leadership Development
• Organizational Capacity
• Politics and Policy
• Safety, Security, and Civility
• Student Success and Completion
• Technology
• Workforce Development
To learn more about these issues and to join the conversation, visit http://www.league.org/node/22250.
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Terry O’Banion Student Technology Awards
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Student Technology Champions
Emilie C. Robertson, Anne Arundel Community College
Michael Vazquez, Moraine Valley Community College
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Educational Testing Service O’Banion Prize
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John & Suanne Roueche Excellence Awards
Excellence in Community College Teaching and Leadership
Congratulations to this year’s 458 faculty, staff, and administrator award recipients!
Visit www.league.org/node/18164 to access the Excellence Awards Program, which includes recipient names.
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The graphs on these pages illustrate responses to questions about how well faculty think their college is doing in:
a. engaging faculty in decision making around completion efforts;
b. planning thoroughly for successful implementation of completion efforts;
c. supporting coordination and collaboration among completion efforts;
d. providing sufficient time and resources for full implementation and evaluation of impact; and
e. adequately preparing faculty to fulfill their roles in completion efforts.
In all cases, half or slightly more than half of the total number of respondents indicated their college was doing a “very good job” or “somewhat good job.”
Complete information about the survey and methodology, as well as topline data for all survey items, is available at www.league.org/node/18137. Responses reported here are from QE4a-4e.
How well do you think your college does at:
a. Including faculty in decisions about how to increase the percentage of students who earn a certificate or degree or transfer?
b. Planning the support and resources that are needed to ensure that initiatives to increase the percentage of students who earn a certificate or degree or transfer are implemented successfully?
c. Ensuring that all the initiatives to increase the percentage of students who complete are coordinated and work together?
d. Ensuring that initiatives to increase the percentage of students who complete are supported long enough to have an impact?
e. Ensuring that faculty are prepared to efficiently carry out initiatives to increase the percentage of students who complete?
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