Topics

Listed below are only some of the many topics for which there are League consultants and guest speakers available. Detailed information is available for many of the topics below by clicking on the links. If you would like someone to visit your campus regarding a topic not listed, please contact Ed Leach so that we can obtain additional information your needs.

The League is Pleased to Announce Several New Topics!

Categories:

Diversity and Equity

Enterprisewide Systems and Infrastructures

Leadership

Learning

Organizational/Staff Development

Research and Practice

Resource Development

Student Success

Technology

Workforce Development
 

Diversity and Equity
Attract, Serve, and Retain a Culturally Diverse Campus Community
The “Colors” of a High-Performance Team
The “Colors” of Diversity and Culture
The “Colors” of Leadership
Diversity
Diversity
International Education Activities
Enhancing International Education Opportunities
Issues Relating to Recruiting and Retaining Minority Faculty
Managing Diversity and Cultural Issues in the Workplace
Overseas Program Evaluation
Proven Methods to Increase Diversity Among Faculty
Universal Design for Learning
Women's Leadership Styles: Values, Assumptions, and Beliefs


Enterprisewide Systems and Infrastructures
A House Divided: Bringing Together Academics and Student Services
Academic Master Planning
Accreditation Management for Recognition and Renewal
Course Management Systems
Designing Rating Scales to Evaluate Teaching Effectiveness
Emergency and Disaster Planning
Enable Your College to Use Benchmarking to Adapt Best Practices
The Entrepreneurial Community College
Entrepreneurship and Intrapraneurship in Today’s Business Environment
Enterprise Resource Planning
Evaluation of College Programs and Processes: An Appreciative Approach
Facilities Planning
Homeland Security Assessment
Improve Website Stickiness Through Content
Information Technology Assessment
Information Technology Planning
Institutional Alignment
Libraries and Learning Resource Centers
Managing an Online Education Program
The On-Target Student Success System: A Community College Imagineering Project
Paper-Based Versus Online Administration of Student Scales
Practical Computer Security
Strategic Planning
Systems Thinking as the Model for Operation in a Learning College
Teaching and Learning Centers
Top 14 Strategies for Evaluating Teaching
Toward a Rational Approach to Technology
Website Review


Leadership
Acres of Diamonds in Your College
Applying Basic Supervisory Techniques in Community Colleges
Appreciative Inquiry (1)
Appreciative Inquiry (2)
Athlete Mindset: Leadership and Management Techniques From the Sports Arena
Authentic Leadership
Baldrige-Based Quality Principles
Board Development
Career Strategies for Higher Education Administrators
Challenges and Opportunities for Two-Year College Faculty in the New Millennium
Change Management
Classified Staff Development
Coaching for Teaching and Leadership Effectiveness
The “Colors” of a High-Performance Team
The “Colors” of Diversity and Culture
The “Colors” of Leadership
Communicating in the Midst of Controversy
Crisis Management
Customer Service
Dealing with Difficult People
Discovering (or Refining) Institutional Vision Through College Participation
Energizing Observations on Leadership
Enhancing Solutions: A Winning Opportunity
Executive Coaching/Mentoring
Facilitation Skills
Finding, Retaining, and Maximizing Employees
The Future of the Community College
Improving Communication Skills
Improving Intergenerational Communication
Interpersonal Skills
Leadership
The Leadership Development Process
Leadership in Times of Change
Learning on a Budget
Making Meetings More Exciting and Effective
Making the Most of Community Colleges on the Road Ahead
Mentoring
The New Rules for Managers: Keys to Successful Management
Next-Generation Faculty
Organizational Assessment/Reorganization
Organizational Climate/Culture
The Physiology of High Performance
Planning and Organizing Skills
Policy Development
Preparing Future Administrators
The President as Lobbyist
Preventing Sensitive Issues From Becoming Legal Headaches
Proactive Leadership: Creating a Vision for the Future
Raising the Scalpel: Lessons From Surgeons in Training High-Performance Teams
The Role of the President in Fundraising
Seriously Funny
Skillfully Working: Developing Your Strengths
Strategic Planning
Success Made Simple: Lessons Learned That Lead to Success
Systems Thinking as the Model for Operation in a Learning College
Team Building for Department Chairpersons
Teambuilding, Leadership, and Communication
Team Building: Using Our Strengths to Work Effectively Together
Think Fast! Improvisation for Professional and Personal Development
To Renew a College
Transforming Organizational Culture
Unlocking Faculty Potential: The Whys and Ways of Supporting Full- and Part-time Faculty
Using Appreciative Inquiry for Strategic Planning
Women's Leadership Styles: Values, Assumptions, and Beliefs
Working in a Union Environment


Learning
Academic Master Planning
Articulation Agreements
Active Learning for Online Student Success
Active Learning Strategies for the Online Classroom
Assessment in Context: A Systems Approach to Educational Effectiveness
Assessment Outcomes
Championing Academic Integrity on Your Campus
Classroom Assessment and Active Learning: Making the Connection
Conducting College Classroom and Program Assessment
Contextual and Integrated Learning: Understanding How the Brain Works
Creating TV, Movie, and Broadway Parodies to Hook Students on New Topics
Credentialing and Certification
Critical Legal Issues in Distance Education
Critical Thinking and Active Learning: Teaching Thinking Skills in the Classroom
Curriculum Design and Development
Designing Effective Assignments and Class Activities
Developmental Education
Dialogue vs. Monologue: Strategies for Meaningful Discourse
Distance Learning
The DotCommies are Coming!
Education in a Digital Democracy
Educational Cartography: Mapping the Learning Outcomes Frontier
Faculty Learning Groups
Fostering Student Learning for a Lifetime
Global Change and Higher Education’s Challenge
Here to Stay: Faculty-Student Relationships
Humor and Multimedia as Teaching Tools for the Net Generation
Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator
Injecting Jest Into Your Course Tests to Reduce Test Anxiety
International Education Activities
Introduction to Digital Literacy
Learning and the Brain
Learning-Centered Education (1)
Learning-Centered Education (2)
Learning Communities and Community Connections
Learning Dialogs
Learning on a Budget
Learning Outcomes
Learning Strategies for the Information Age
Lifelong Learning
Lively Lectures: Using Active Learning to Create Excitement in the Classroom
Making the Connection to Learner and Learning
Making the Grade in the Information Age
Millennial Generation
Moving From Effectiveness to Excellence
Music as a Teaching Tool: From Classical to Hip Hop Across the Curriculum
New and Emerging Instructional Technologies
Non Credit Programs
On the Horizon and In Your Face: Key Issues in Information Technology
The On-Target Student Success System: A Community College Imagineering Project
Problem-Based Learning
Putting a Little Technology, Learning, and Community (TLC) into Higher Education
Realistic Assessment of Learning Outcomes
Service Learning: New Horizons for Change
Soft Skills for Information Technology Students
Success Factors: Designing Online Learning That Works
Systems Thinking as the Model for Operation in a Learning College
Teaching Critical Thinking Skills for Life: A Necessary Skill
Teaching With Video Clips: TV, Movies, YouTube, and mtvU in the Classroom
Techniques to Engage the Learner
The Top 15 Complaints by Students About Taking Tests and Some Solutions
Top Ten Flaws in Constructing Multiple-Choice Items
Understanding Bloom
Understanding Learning Styles
Universal Design for Learning
Unleashing the Power of the Internet in Teaching and Learning, Student Services, and Institutional Management
Using Technology to Connect With the i-Pod Generation
Web-Based Curriculum: Designing Lessons on the Net


Organizational/Staff Development
A Big Laugh: Effectively Using Humor in the Classroom or the Boardroom
A House Divided: Bringing Together Academics and Student Services
Academic Careers at Two-Year Colleges
Academic Master Planning
Accreditation Management for Recognition and Renewal
Acres of Diamonds in Your College
Active Learning for Online Student Success
Active Learning Strategies for the Online Classroom
Adjunct Faculty
Applying Basic Supervisory Techniques in Community Colleges
Appreciative Advising Overview
Appreciative Inquiry (1)
Appreciative Inquiry (2)
Assessment in Context: A Systems Approach to Educational Effectiveness
Assessment Outcomes
Assessment Strategies for Distance Learning
Athlete Mindset: Leadership and Management Techniques From the Sports Arena
Attract, Serve, and Retain a Culturally Diverse Campus Community
Authentic Leadership
Baldrige-Based Quality Principles
Best Practices in Enrollment Management
Board Development
Budget Planning and Fiscal Management
Business Etiquette
Camtasia: Tools and Techniques
Career Strategies for Higher Education Administrators
Challenges and Opportunities for Two-Year College Faculty in the New Millennium
Championing Academic Integrity on Your Campus
Change Management
Classified Staff Development
Classroom Assessment and Active Learning: Making the Connection
Coaching for Teaching and Leadership Effectiveness
The “Colors” of a High-Performance Team
The “Colors” of Diversity and Culture
The “Colors” of Leadership
Communicating in the Midst of Controversy
Communication Strategies for Distance Learning
Conducting College Classroom and Program Assessment
Creating TV, Movie, and Broadway Parodies to Hook Students on New Topics
Creating Your Own Crystal Ball: Resiliency in the Educational Workplace
Crisis Management
Critical Ethical Issues in Today’s Workplace
Critical Legal Issues in Distance Education
Critical Thinking and Active Learning: Teaching Thinking Skills in the Classroom
Curriculum Design and Development
Customer Service
Customer Service or Professional Service?
Dealing with Difficult People
Defeating Writer’s Block
Demanding Technology: Understanding the New Student
Designing Effective Assignments and Class Activities
Designing Online Learning That Works
Designing Rating Scales to Evaluate Teaching Effectiveness
Determining Your Purpose in an Academic Career
Discovering (or Refining) Institutional Vision Through College Participation
Diversity
Diversity
The DotCommies are Coming!
Driving Forces and Trends: What Might Be the Next Big Thing?
Editorial Cartoons: Bringing World Issues to the Classroom
Educational Cartography: Mapping the Learning Outcomes Frontier
Enable Your College to Use Benchmarking to Adapt Best Practices
Energizing Observations on Leadership
Enhancing International Education Opportunities
Enhancing Solutions: A Winning Opportunity
The Entrepreneurial Community College
Ethics and IT Professionals
Evaluation of College Programs and Processes: An Appreciative Approach
Executive Coaching/Mentoring
Facilitation Skills
Faculty and Staff Orientations
Faculty Engagement as a Necessity for Meaningful Change
Faculty Learning Groups
Faculty/Staff Development Days
Faculty Technology Training Programs
Finding Meaning at Work
Finding, Retaining, and Maximizing Employees
Foresight, Imagination, Resilience, and Ethos: Using Futuring to Light a F.I.R.E. Under College Planning
Free and Inexpensive Tools to Use for Online Development
Fundamentals of Public Relations
The Future of the Community College
Futurizing: The Future and Some Ways to Approach IT
Global Change and Higher Education’s Challenge
Here to Stay: Faculty-Student Relationships
High Potential Employees: How to Identify, Train, and Retain Them
Homeland Security Assessment
How to Talk, How to Listen: Communication in the Workplace
How to Write Targeted Workplace Emails
Humor and Multimedia as Teaching Tools for the Net Generation
Humor as a Coping Strategy for the Stressors of Academe
Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator
Improve Website Stickiness Through Content
Improving Communication Skills
Improving Intergenerational Communication
Incorporating Digital Photography Into Your Classroom
Injecting Jest Into Your Course Tests to Reduce Test Anxiety
Instructional Technology and Teaching Style
Integrated Marketing Communications
International Education Activities
Interpersonal Skills
Introduction to Camtasia
Introduction to Digital Literacy
Issues Relating to Recruiting and Retaining Minority Faculty
Jest for Success!
Language, Literacy Learning, and Teaching in Pluralistic Societies: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Leadership
The Leadership Development Process
Leadership in Times of Change
Learning and the Brain
Learning-Centered Education (1)
Learning-Centered Education (2)
Learning Communities and Community Connections
Learning Dialogs
Learning on a Budget
Learning Outcomes
Learning Strategies for the Information Age
Libraries and Learning Resource Centers
Lifelong Learning
Lively Lectures: Using Active Learning to Create Excitement in the Classroom
Living the Full Life: Manage Energy
Look Who’s Coming to Your Community College
Making Meetings More Exciting and Effective
Making the Connection to Learner and Learning
Making the Grade in the Information Age
Making the Most of Community Colleges on the Road Ahead
Managing an Online Education Program
Managing Diversity and Cultural Issues in the Workplace
Mass Media in Today’s Workplace
Mentoring
Millennial Generation
Moving From Effectiveness to Excellence
Music as a Teaching Tool: From Classical to Hip Hop Across the Curriculum
New and Emerging Instructional Technologies
The New Rules for Managers: Keys to Successful Management
Next-Generation Faculty
The On-Target Student Success System: A Community College Imagineering Project
On the Horizon and In Your Face: Key Issues in Information Technology
Online and Hybrid Course Design
Overseas Program Evaluation
Paper-Based Versus Online Administration of Student Scales
Part-Time Faculty Development
Partnering for Progress: Aligning Technical Education With Business and Industry
Partnering for Progress: Aligning Technical Education With Technical Certification Sponsors
The Physiology of High Performance
Plagiarism in the Digital Age
Planning and Organizing Skills
Post-Tenure Faculty Development
The Power of Practical Magic
Practical Computer Security
Preparing Future Administrators
Preventing Sensitive Issues From Becoming Legal Headaches
Preventing Sexual Harassment in Community Colleges
Proactive Leadership: Creating a Vision for the Future
Problem-Based Learning
Producing an Edited Book
Program Development
Program Review
Promoting Customer Service and Professionalism for Community College Personnel
Proven Methods to Increase Diversity Among Faculty
Psychology Program Evaluation
Public Speaking and Presentation
Raising the Scalpel: Lessons From Surgeons in Training High-Performance Teams
Realistic Assessment of Learning Outcomes
Reclaiming the Nobility of Teaching
Resources to Hire, Aid, and Keep Excellent Adjunct Faculty
Roadmap to Success: The College Business Plan
Seriously Funny
Service Learning: New Horizons for Change
Skillfully Working: Developing Your Strengths
So You Want to Teach the Future? Topics, Tools, and Tasks
Success Factors: Designing Online Learning That Works
Success Made Simple: Lessons Learned That Lead to Success
Systems Thinking as the Model for Operation in a Learning College
Teaching and Learning Centers
Teaching Critical Thinking Skills for Life: A Necessary Skill
Teaching With Emotional Intelligence in Mind
Teaching With Video Clips: TV, Movies, YouTube, and mtvU in the Classroom
Team Building for Department Chairpersons
Teambuilding, Leadership, and Communication
Team Building: Using Our Strengths to Work Effectively Together
Technology Trends Assessments in Education
Ten-Minute Futurist: Practical Tools When You Need Them
Think Fast! Improvisation for Professional and Personal Development
Thriving in an Environment of Constant Change
To Renew a College
Top 14 Strategies for Evaluating Teaching
The Top 15 Complaints by Students About Taking Tests and Some Solutions
Top Ten Flaws in Constructing Multiple-Choice Items
Toward a Rational Approach to Technology
Transforming Organizational Culture
Understanding Bloom
Understanding Learning Styles
Universal Design for Learning
Unleashing the Power of the Internet in Teaching and Learning, Student Services, and Institutional Management
Unlocking Faculty Potential: The Whys and Ways of Supporting Full- and Part-time Faculty
Using Appreciative Inquiry for Strategic Planning
Using Camtasia to Produce Podcasts, Vodcasts, and Screencasts
Using Technology to Connect With the i-Pod Generation
Using Technology Effectively in Distance Learning Courses
Women's Leadership Styles: Values, Assumptions, and Beliefs
Working in a Union Environment
Writing Effective Business Correspondence


Research and Practice
Academic Master Planning
Accreditation Management for Recognition and Renewal
Appreciative Inquiry (1)
Appreciative Inquiry (2)
Assessment in Context: A Systems Approach to Educational Effectiveness
Assessment Outcomes
Assessment Strategies for Distance Learning
Baldrige-Based Quality Principles
Best Practices in Enrollment Management
Classroom Assessment and Active Learning: Making the Connection
Conducting College Classroom and Program Assessment
Designing Rating Scales to Evaluate Teaching Effectiveness
Driving Forces and Trends: What Might Be the Next Big Thing?
Educational Cartography: Mapping the Learning Outcomes Frontier
Enable Your College to Use Benchmarking to Adapt Best Practices
Evaluation of College Programs and Processes: An Appreciative Approach
Grant Writing
Homeland Security Assessment
Information Technology Assessment
Information Technology Planning
Institutional Alignment
Moving From Effectiveness to Excellence
The On-Target Student Success System: A Community College Imagineering Project
Paper-Based Versus Online Administration of Student Scales
Policy Development
The Power of Practical Magic
Producing an Edited Book
Program Development
Program Review
Psychology Program Evaluation
Realistic Assessment of Learning Outcomes
Strategic Planning
Top 14 Strategies for Evaluating Teaching
The Top 15 Complaints by Students About Taking Tests and Some Solutions
Top Ten Flaws in Constructing Multiple-Choice Items
Understanding Bloom
Using Appreciative Inquiry for Strategic Planning


Resource Development
Business Partnerships
Business Planning
Budget Planning and Fiscal Management
Develop and Expand Your Business Partnerships
Effective Strategies for Passing Local Community College Tax Proposals
The Entrepreneurial Community College
Entrepreneurial Community Learning Center
Entrepreneurship and Intrapraneurship in Today’s Business Environment
Fundraising Program Assessment
Grant Writing
International Education Activities
Learning Outcomes
Marketing/Community Relations
New Revenues: Developing an Entrepreneurial Contract Training Program in the Global Millennium
The President as Lobbyist
Relationship-Based University Model Fundraising
Resource Development
Roadmap to Success: The College Business Plan
The Role of the President in Fundraising


Student Success
A House Divided: Bringing Together Academics and Student Services
Accreditation
Active Learning for Online Student Success
Appreciative Advising Overview
Articulation Agreements
Assessment in Context: A Systems Approach to Educational Effectiveness
Assessment Outcomes
Best Practices in Enrollment Management
Championing Academic Integrity on Your Campus
Classroom Assessment and Active Learning: Making the Connection
Conducting College Classroom and Program Assessment
Creating TV, Movie, and Broadway Parodies to Hook Students on New Topics
Credentialing and Certification
Critical Thinking and Active Learning: Teaching Thinking Skills in the Classroom
Customer Service
Demanding Technology: Understanding the New Student
Designing Effective Assignments and Class Activities
Developmental Education
Dialogue vs. Monologue: Strategies for Meaningful Discourse
Distance Learning
Diversity
The DotCommies are Coming!
E-Folios
Editorial Cartoons: Bringing World Issues to the Classroom
Education in a Digital Democracy
Educational Cartography: Mapping the Learning Outcomes Frontier
Enhancing International Education Opportunities
Fostering Student Learning for a Lifetime
Global Change and Higher Education’s Challenge
Here to Stay: Faculty-Student Relationships
Humor and Multimedia as Teaching Tools for the Net Generation
Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator
Improving Intergenerational Communication
Injecting Jest Into Your Course Tests to Reduce Test Anxiety
International Education Activities
Introduction to Digital Literacy
Learning and the Brain
Learning-Centered Education (1)
Learning-Centered Education (2)
Learning Dialogs
Learning Outcomes
Learning Strategies for the Information Age
Liberal Arts, Technical Literacy, and Computer Proficiency
Lively Lectures: Using Active Learning to Create Excitement in the Classroom
Look Who’s Coming to Your Community College
Making the Connection to Learner and Learning
Making the Grade in the Information Age
Millennial Generation
Millennial Students
Moving From Effectiveness to Excellence
Music as a Teaching Tool: From Classical to Hip Hop Across the Curriculum
Net-Generation Students
Next-Generation Students
Non Credit Programs
The On-Target Student Success System: A Community College Imagineering Project
Problem-Based Learning
Putting a Little Technology, Learning, and Community (TLC) into Higher Education
Realistic Assessment of Learning Outcomes
Retention Programs for At-Risk Students
Service Learning: New Horizons for Change
Soft Skills for Information Technology Students
Student Retention
Student Services: Time to Put Students First
Student Success is Everyone's Responsibility
Success Factors: Designing Online Learning That Works
Supporting Student Success in Community Colleges
Teaching Critical Thinking Skills for Life: A Necessary Skill
Teaching With Emotional Intelligence in Mind
Teaching With Video Clips: TV, Movies, YouTube, and mtvU in the Classroom
Techniques to Engage the Learner
Thriving in an Environment of Constant Change
The Top 15 Complaints by Students About Taking Tests and Some Solutions
Top Ten Flaws in Constructing Multiple-Choice Items
Understanding Bloom
Understanding Learning Styles
Universal Design for Learning
Unleashing the Power of the Internet in Teaching and Learning, Student Services, and Institutional Management
Using Technology to Connect With the i-Pod Generation


Technology
Active Learning for Online Student Success
Active Learning Strategies for the Online Classroom
Camtasia: Tools and Techniques
Communication Strategies for Distance Learning
Course Management Systems
Critical Legal Issues in Distance Education
Demanding Technology: Understanding the New Student
Designing Online Learning That Works
Distance Learning
The DotCommies are Coming!
E-Folios
Education in a Digital Democracy
Enterprise Resource Planning
Entrepreneurial Community Learning Center
Ethics and IT Professionals
Faculty Technology Training Programs
Free and Inexpensive Tools to Use for Online Development
How to Write Targeted Workplace Emails
Humor and Multimedia as Teaching Tools for the Net Generation
Identifying Your Institution's Technological Innovation Capabilities
Improve Website Stickiness Through Content
Incorporating Digital Photography Into Your Classroom
Information Technology Assessment
Information Technology Planning
Instructional Technology and Teaching Style
Introduction to Camtasia
Introduction to Digital Literacy
Liberal Arts, Technical Literacy, and Computer Proficiency
Making the Connection to Learner and Learning
Making the Grade in the Information Age
Managing an Online Education Program
Millennial Students
New and Emerging Instructional Technologies
Next-Generation Faculty
On the Horizon and In Your Face: Key Issues in Information Technology
Online and Hybrid Course Design
Partnering for Progress: Aligning Technical Education With Business and Industry
Partnering for Progress: Aligning Technical Education With Technical Certification Sponsors
Plagiarism in the Digital Age
Practical Computer Security
Putting a Little Technology, Learning, and Community (TLC) into Higher Education
Soft Skills for Information Technology Students
Technology Trends Assessments in Education
Toward a Rational Approach to Technology
Unleashing the Power of the Internet in Teaching and Learning, Student Services, and Institutional Management
Using Camtasia to Produce Podcasts, Vodcasts, and Screencasts
Using Technology to Connect With the i-Pod Generation
Using Technology Effectively in Distance Learning Courses
Web-Based Curriculum: Designing Lessons on the Net
Website Review


Workforce Development
Critical Ethical Issues in Today’s Workplace
Develop and Expand Your Business Partnerships
Entrepreneurial Community Learning Center
Lifelong Learning
Managing Diversity and Cultural Issues in the Workplace
New Revenues: Developing an Entrepreneurial Contract Training Program in the Global Millennium
Non Credit Programs
Overseas Program Evaluation
Partnering for Progress: Aligning Technical Education With Business and Industry
Workforce Development
Working in a Union Environment