Colloquium
June 18, 2009
Re-visioning Two-year Institutions in the Midwest: Examining Policy Challenges, Leading Practices, and Leadership Opportunities
4:00 PM -  7:00 PM
The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
By invitation only.
 
As the global economy demands more advanced knowledge and skills, community and technical colleges in the Midwest experience rapid growth. Two-year colleges are increasingly viewed as an affordable, accessible, and cost-effective approach to addressing the demands for a highly-skilled workplace.

In light of the unprecedented pace of innovation in the twenty-first century, two-year colleges must systematically explore this rapidly changing economic, social, and cultural environment with both a global and regional lens. This two-day colloquium will examine promising ideas for rethinking two-year colleges that will help to ensure that our two-year colleges and their communities and partners are positioned to meet emerging individual and societal needs. Scholarly presentations and panel discussions with two-year college leaders and policymakers will focus on:
  • The Rapidly Changing Midwest Context, considering portraits of and new possibilities for two-year colleges in the global and regional innovation economy.
  • Promising Innovations, benchmarking regional economic development partnerships, leveraging new models of work-based learning, ensuring both student access and success, and creating professional learning and development communities.
  • Promising Ideas, rethinking the research university-community partnership, engaging leadership for learning, considering the applied baccalaureate, generating successful innovations, and aligning policies for opportunity and prosperity.
The concluding discussions will identify and elaborate on the implications for Midwest schools and colleges of education as they prepare and support two-year college leaders. An agenda will soon be available for download.

If interested in attending this colloquium, you may request to be added to the list of attendees by contacting Gail Krumenauer at gkrumenauer@wisc.edu or 608-265-0444, or visiting http://groups.google.com/group/21stCenturyInstitutions.

Sponsors
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
Center on Education and Work
Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education.  

Partners
Midwestern Higher Education Compact
University of Wisconsin Colleges
Wisconsin Technical College System.
Colloquium
June 19, 2009
Re-visioning Two-year Institutions in the Midwest: Examining Policy Challenges, Leading Practices, and Leadership Opportunities
7:45 AM -  4:00 PM
The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
By invitation only.
 
As the global economy demands more advanced knowledge and skills, community and technical colleges in the Midwest experience rapid growth. Two-year colleges are increasingly viewed as an affordable, accessible, and cost-effective approach to addressing the demands for a highly-skilled workplace.

In light of the unprecedented pace of innovation in the twenty-first century, two-year colleges must systematically explore this rapidly changing economic, social, and cultural environment with both a global and regional lens. This two-day colloquium will examine promising ideas for rethinking two-year colleges that will help to ensure that our two-year colleges and their communities and partners are positioned to meet emerging individual and societal needs. Scholarly presentations and panel discussions with two-year college leaders and policymakers will focus on:
  • The Rapidly Changing Midwest Context, considering portraits of and new possibilities for two-year colleges in the global and regional innovation economy.
  • Promising Innovations, benchmarking regional economic development partnerships, leveraging new models of work-based learning, ensuring both student access and success, and creating professional learning and development communities.
  • Promising Ideas, rethinking the research university-community partnership, engaging leadership for learning, considering the applied baccalaureate, generating successful innovations, and aligning policies for opportunity and prosperity.
The concluding discussions will identify and elaborate on the implications for Midwest schools and colleges of education as they prepare and support two-year college leaders. An agenda will soon be available for download.

If interested in attending this colloquium, you may request to be added to the list of attendees by contacting Gail Krumenauer at gkrumenauer@wisc.edu or 608-265-0444, or visiting http://groups.google.com/group/21stCenturyInstitutions.

Sponsors
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
Center on Education and Work
Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education.  

Partners
Midwestern Higher Education Compact
University of Wisconsin Colleges
Wisconsin Technical College System.
 

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