44th ANNUAL CONFERENCEFEBRUARY 6-7, 2019

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Individual Action Plan

The ICCHE conference provides the opportunity to learn new ideas, identify best practices, network with colleagues and refresh our minds. Keep track of your action plan throughout the conference, so you can hit the ground running when you are back in the office!

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Conference at a GlanceWednesday, February 6, 2019

12:00 Registration ............................................................................................................................Alumni Lounge 12:30-12:35 Welcome & Introductions.............................................................................................................1895 Room Donna G. Liljegren, ICCHE President & Dean of Online Enrollment and Continuing Education, Aurora University Myra Gaytan-Morales, ICCHE Vice President & Assistant Dean for Academic Services & Programs, University Center Lake County

12:35-1:00 Lunch............................................................................................................................................1895 Room 1:00- 1:40 Opening Keynote..........................................................................................................................1895 Room Adult-Centered Paths for Success: Lori Suddick, College of Lake County (CLC) President

1:50 - 2:40 Breakout Session I Choose one of the following sessions.

Paths towards Increasing Quality for Outline Students and Faculty: ..............................................Casey Processes and Lessons Learned Kimberly Harrison, Assistant Dean of Online Faculty Recruiting and Development, Aurora University Kate Male, Associate Dean of AU Online Matt Hlinak, Facilitator

Building a Better Orientation:..........................................................................................................Greenup Renovating Online Student Orientation for Better Retention Rebeckah Grosboll, Online Coordinator, UIS Abby Mifflin, Online Coordinator, UIS Nora Mena, Facilitator

The Magic of Collaboration...........................................................................................................Effingham Dena Lawrence, MyCreditsTransfer Coordinator, Illinois Board of Higher Education Hilary Ward Schnadt, Facilitator

2:50 - 3:40 Breakout Session II Choose one of the following sessions. Online Discussions: Blogging and Visuals........................................................................................ Casey Bonnie J Covelli, Assistant Professor, University of St. Francis Kimberly Harrison, Facilitator

PATHs: A Framework for Identifying and Measuring....................................................................Greenup Learner Analytis in Online Learning Environments Oluwakayode Adebowale, Visiting Research Professor of Educational Leadership, UIS Ruben Howard II, Facilitator Community Partnership Development: Essential in ....................................................................Effingham Shaping, Maintaining and Validating the Role of Continuing Education in Your Community Mary Ettling, Interim Director, Office of Educational Outreach, SIUE Stephanie Simpson, Program-Student Advisor - Corporate Partnerships Office of Educational Outreach, SIUE Dena Lawrence, Facilitator

Providing adult learners with what they need, when they need it, where they need it, and how they need it can seem overwhelming within the traditional design structures of higher education. Making a shift in design for adult learners to seamlessly get on a path and then stay on a path to degree completion is imperative for higher education to be relevant today.

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3:50 - 4:40 Breakout Session III Choose one of the following sessions. Experiential Learning: A Win For Schools, Students, and Businesses............................................. Casey Gina Rose-Cook, Manager of Continuing Education and Workforce Development, Prarie State College Nora Mena, Facilitator Faculty Members’ Experiences with Adopting Open Educational Resources............................Effingham The OER Faculty Fellows Program at UIS Michele Gribbins, Learning/Data Specialist, Center for Online Learning Research and Service (COLRS) Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Management Information Systems Ahmad Juma’h, Associate Professor, Accountancy David Holland, Clinical Instructor, Biology Tiffani Saunders, Lecturer, Sociology/Anthropology Kimberly Harrison, Facilitator

4:40 - 5:00 Networking

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Thursday, February 7, 2019

7:30-8:00 Registration.............................................................................................................................Alumni Lounge 8:00-8:40 Keynote Speaker......................................................................................................................Arcola/Tuscola Equity Matters: Growing Adult Learner Programs through Inclusive Practices James Howley, Director, B.A. in General Studies, Eastern Illinois University

8:45-9:30 Breakout Session IV Choose one of the following sessions. Community Partnership Development: Essential in Shaping, .........................................................Casey Maintaining, and Validating the Role of Continuing Education in Your Community Mary Ettling, Interim Director, Office of Educational Outreach, SIUE Stephanie Simpson, Program-Student Advisor-Corporate Partnerships Office of Educational Outreach, SIUE Matt Hlinak, Facilitator Authentic Leadership: A Training Program for Your Students or Your Staff..............................Greenup Bonnie J Covelli, Assistant Professor, University of St. Francis Kimberly Harrison, Facilitator

Building a Better Orientation:.....................................................................................................Effingham Renovating Online Student Orientation for Better Retention Rebekah Grosboll, Online Coordinator, UIS Abby Mifflin, Online Coordinator, UIS Donna G.Liljegren, Facilitator

9:40-10:20 Breakout Session V Choose one of the following sessions.

Developing Pathways and Articulation Agreements - Best Practices................................................Casey Dena Lawrence, MyCreditsTransfer Coordinator, Illinois Board of Higher Education Nora Mena, Facilitator

PATHs: A Framework for Identifying and Measuring Learner Analytics in Online Learning Environments.................................................................................. Greenup Oluwakayode Adebowale, Visiting Research Assistant Professor of Education and Leadership Kimberly Harrison, Facilitator

In this session, participants will hear about practices aimed at attracting more diverse audiences to their programs. The address will present ways to go beyond the idea of diversity and will focus on equity-minded practices.

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10:30-11:10 Breakout Session VI Building an Accessible Future For All Learners...............................................................................Casey Vance Martin, Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service (COLRS), UIS Ruben Howard II, Facilitator Online Discussions: Blogging & Visuals........................................................................................Greenup Bonnie J Covelli, Assistant Professor, University of St. Francis Matt Hlinak, Facilitator Paths Towards Increasing Quality for Online Students and Faculty: ........................................Effingham Processes and Lessons Learned Kimberly Harrison, Assistant Dean of Online Faculty Recruiting and Development, Aurora University Kate Male, Associate Dean of AU Online Nora Mena, Facilitator

11:20 - 1:30 Business Luncheon, Awards, ICCHE Board Elections and Research Presentation.......................Rathskellar

1:40 - 2:20 Breakout Session VII Defining ICCHE’s Value Proposition-Roundtable Discussions...........................................Arcola/Tuscola Donna G. Liljegren, Dean of AU Online, Aurora University & ICCHE President Hilary Ward Schnadt, Facilitator 2:30 - 3:00 Wrap Up and Giveaways (Must be present to win!)...............................................................Arcola/Tuscola Kathy Johnson and Hilary Ward Schnadt, Facilitator

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Conference DetailsWednesday, February 6

1:00 - 1:40 - Rathskellar Speaker Bio

Lori Suddick brings 18 years of experience working in two-year college leadership and faculty roles to the College of Lake County, where she began serving as President on May 1, 2018. From 2009 to April 2018, Dr. Suddick served as Vice President of Learning and Chief Academic Officer for Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) in Green Bay, a designated Leader College of Achieving the Dream. In this role, she provided inspirational and strategic leadership to build a culture for equitable student success outcomes and solutions for workforce and economic development. She has presented at the national and state level on multiple topics including student success, integrated advising, systemic engagement of faculty, K12 partnerships, flexible adult learning and align-ment of credentials with the labor market needs. Dr. Suddick was one of 40 exceptional leaders selected to the 2016-2017 inaugural Aspen Presidential Fellowship for Community College Excellence. Dr. Suddick is engaged in national initiatives focused on advancing student success, including the American Associ-ation of Community College’s Guided Pathways project and the Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success project through Achieving the Dream. She co-led the NWTC Frontier Set Network effort, a select group of colleges and universities committed to increasing educational attainment while eliminating achievement disparities across race and socioeconomic status. At NWTC, Dr. Suddick provided visionary leadership on multiple cross-functional college-wide teams responsible for the design and implementation of full-scale high impact practices for student success. She led transformative student suc-cess efforts across three campuses, five regional learning centers, four specialty centers and four regional technical acad-emies in a five county district. She is experienced in building innovative and collaborative community partnerships with K12, universities and industry, spearheading cross-organizational initiatives to address the talent pipeline for the region. She served on multiple boards for local organizations involved in education and workforce development and oversaw the strategic development of credentials that offer both transfer opportunities for students and align with regional workforce needs. She demonstrated progress in strategic priorities in a fiscally responsible design fostering a growth mind-set within a revenue-constrained environment. As a first generation college student, Dr. Suddick is passionate about the power of education in transforming the lives of individuals. She is committed to empowering and mobilizing talent within a high performing, innovative and pur-pose-driven organization that is responsive to its community ensuring every student completes within its student-ready inclusive environment

Description: Providing adult learners with what they need, when they need it, where they need it, and how they need it can seem overwhelming within the traditional design structures of higher education. Making a shift in design for adult learners to seamlessly get on a path and then stay on a path to degree completion is imperative for higher education to be relevant today

Opening Keynote - Lori Suddick Adult-Centered Paths for Success

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Breakout Session I:Wednesday, February 6, 1:50 - 2:40 (choose one of the following sessions)

Paths towards Increasing Quality for Online Students and Faculty: Processes and Lessons Learned.............. Casey Kimberly Harrison, Assistant Dean of Online Faculty Recruiting and Development, Aurora UniversityDescription: Join us for a discussion of strategies for improving the student and faculty experience! We will share our processes for supporting online adult students and working to provide them high-quality learning experiences. In addition, we will dis-cuss our faculty orientation and professional development processes. We will encourage you to share your best practices and lessons learned, too!

Building a Better Orientation: Renovating Online Student Orientation for Better Retention................................Greenup Rebekah Grosboll, Online Coordinator, UIS Abby Mifflin, Online Coordinator, UISDescription: Through online degree programs many adult learners have more opportunity than ever to pursue their educational goals. Online degree programs offer the flexibility and accessibility that many adult learners need; however, with these benefit there are also potential hurdles to overcome. Online courses have historically seen lower retention rates, and adult online learners face unique challenges when it comes to retention. Ji‐Hye Park’s (2007) Revised Model of Dropout From Distance Learning in Organizations classified factors related to adult learner retention in distance education into: learner characteristics, learner skills, external factors, and internal factors. Although not every factor associated with online adult learner dropout can be solved by an institution of higher education, a number of these internal factors can begin to be ad-dressed through an innovative orientation approach. This breakout session will discuss how an orientation for online adult learners can be renovated to address student internal factors related to retention. An overview of the design of the online orientation will be given and examples of practical orientation activities to address these factors will be discussed.

The Magic of Collaboration.................................................................................................................................. Effingham Dana Lawrence, My Credits Transfer Coordinator, Illinois Board of Higher Education

Description: This session provides a fun environment for discussing the merits, challenges, resources needed, and power potential of collaboration. It provides specific examples and best practices in forming collaborative initiatives – across departments, across institutions, and across state lines. There are many opportunities to capitalize on the great things we can accom-plish using a collaborative approach!

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Breakout Session II:Wednesday, February 6, 2:50 - 3:40 (choose one of the following sessions)

Online Discussions: Blogging and Visuals ............................................................................................................Casey Bonnie J Covelli, Assistant Professor, University of St. FrancisDescription: Building community within an online course is essential to an effective student experience. Research demonstrates that the discussion component is one of the most effective means to facilitate the learning experience and to promote student-cen-tered learning and build community. Discussions help students interact with one another and develop relational connec-tions. This session will share innovative practices involving the use of blogging, video and visuals within the discussion board. These elements may also be used to supplement the discussion component within online or face-to-face courses.

PATHs: A Framework for Identifying and Measuring Learner Analytics in Online Learning Environments.............................................................................................................................Greenup Oluwakayode Adebowale, Visiting Research Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, UIS

Description: Based on the analytics data extracted from Blackboard Learn course reports, a framework was developed for identifying potential factors (and explanatory variables) and different potential dependent variables that are relevant in online learning environments. The data from the course reports were grouped into four main categories: Posts, Access, Time, and Hits—together termed the PATHs Framework. A case is made for using the PATHs Framework as a guide for identifying learn-ing analytics factors in online learning environments

Community Partnership Development: Essential in shaping, maintaining and validating the role of continuing education in your community:..........................................................................................Effingham Mary Ettling, Interim Director, Office of Educational Outreach, SIUE Stephanie Simpson, Program-Student Advisor-Corporate Partnerships Office of Educational Outreach, SIUEDescription: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has been largely successful in establishing partnerships with community stake-holders by hiring a professional staff/faculty member to serve as community development director. Reporting directly to academic affairs, we have established highly effective relationships and learned how we can better use our agility to serve our community and its needs. By encouraging institutions to develop a similar role whose primary responsibility is to focus on institutional visibility and partnership potential in the community, we are better positioned to understand how our resources and opportunities can be used where they are needed the most. In order to explore the potential benefits of having a community development professional, existing staff members must think differently about their roles and open themselves to new opportunities as well as continually re-evaluate and prioritize initiatives for success. Our corporate partnership programs benefit from intentional student-focused practices.

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Breakout Session III:Wednesday, February 6, 3:50 - 4:40 (choose one of the following sessions)

Experiential Learning; A Win for Schools, Students and Businesses......................................................................... Casey Gina Rosie-Cook, Manager of Continuing Education and Workforce Development, Prairie State College Erin Craven, Manager of Continuing Education and Workforce Development, Prairie State CollegeDescription: Want to create an engaging educational experience for adult learners? Help your students to learn by doing through expe-riential learning.PSC provides a wide array of short-term vocational healthcare training programs whereby students can obtain training, earn an industry recognized credential, and participate in an externship in order to launch a new career in less than a year. Experiential learning also involves critical thinking, problem solving and decision making skills. It goes beyond the theo-ries taught in the classroom to offer first-hand experience, which further aids in the retention of theory. Another benefit is the increased engagement levels of students. Learn best practices on how PSC has embedded experiential learning oppor-tunities into their vocational healthcare programs. -Types of possible experiential learning opportunities -Program implementation -Continuous relationship building with host sites -Benefits to the school, students and businesses -Best Practices -Success stories Faculty Members’ Experiences with Adopting Open Educational Resources: ...................................................Effingham The OER Faculty Fellows Program at UIS Michele Gribbins, Learning/Data Specialist, Center for Online Learning Research and Service (COLRS) Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Management Information Systems Ahmad Juma’h, Associate Professor, Accountancy David Holland, Clinical Instructor, Biology Tiffani Saunders, Lecturer, Sociology/AnthropologyDescription: In the Spring of 2018, the Center for Online Learning Research and Service at the University of Illinois Springfield announced an Open Educational Resources (OER) Fellows Program for faculty. The initiative serves to reduce or eliminate students’ textbook costs by increasing the adoption and use of OERs in classes. OERs are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media. In higher education, the use of OERs range from an individual module or learning object to an entire textbook to an entire course.The OER Fellows Program serves to encourage faculty adoption of OERs with the goal of reducing students’ textbook costs and increasing access to higher education through greater affordability. The adoption of OERs by faculty can provide students with access to superior and more current learning tools, and provide them with access to course materials after the course ends, unlike rental text-books options.Our presentation will begin with a description of the OER Fellows program at UIS, include the application and selection process and anticipated cost-savings for students. Thereafter, faculty members from the inaugural class of OER Fellows will share their experi-ences in finding and adapting their existing courses for the inclusion of open educational resources. Both challenges and wins will be shared, as well as lessons learned for initiating a similar fellows program on your campus.

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Breakout Session IV:Thursday, February 7, 8:45 - 9:30 (choose one of the following sessions)

Community Partnership Development: Essential in shaping, maintaining and validating the role of continuing education in your community:............................................................................................Casey Mary Ettling, Interim Director, Office of Educational Outreach, SIUE Stephanie Simpson, Program-Student Advisor-Corporate Partnerships Office of Educational Outreach, SIUEDescription: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has been largely successful in establishing partnerships with community stake-holders by hiring a professional staff/faculty member to serve as community development director. Reporting directly to academic affairs, we have established highly effective relationships and learned how we can better use our agility to serve our community and its needs. By encouraging institutions to develop a similar role whose primary responsibility is to focus on institutional visibility and partnership potential in the community, we are better positioned to understand how our resources and opportunities can be used where they are needed the most. In order to explore the potential benefits of having a community development professional, existing staff members must think differently about their roles and open themselves to new opportunities as well as continually re-evaluate and prioritize initiatives for success. Our corporate partnership programs benefit from intentional student-focused practices.

Authentic leadership: A training program for your students or your staff:....................................................... Greenup Bonnie J Covelli, Assistant professor, University of St. FrancisDescription: Higher education and industry are facing historic changes and challenges. Leadership at all levels must be ready to effec-tively address these challenges. This presentation discusses the theory of authentic leadership and proposes a professional development model to prepare future authentic leaders within continuing higher education. The session will present the relevant theory and then share a practical application in the form of a training program. The participants will complete the mini-training program during the session and will be provided the materials to use with their students or staff.

Building a Better Orientation: Renovating Online Student Orientation for Better Retention................................Greenup Rebekah Grosboll, Online Coordinator, UIS Abby Mifflin, Online Coordinator, UISDescription: Through online degree programs many adult learners have more opportunity than ever to pursue their educational goals. Online degree programs offer the flexibility and accessibility that many adult learners need; however, with these benefit there are also potential hurdles to overcome. Online courses have historically seen lower retention rates, and adult online learners face unique challenges when it comes to retention. Ji‐Hye Park’s (2007) Revised Model of Dropout From Distance Learning in Organizations classified factors related to adult learner retention in distance education into: learner characteristics, learner skills, external factors, and internal factors. Although not every factor associated with online adult learner dropout can be solved by an institution of higher education, a number of these internal factors can begin to be ad-dressed through an innovative orientation approach. This breakout session will discuss how an orientation for online adult learners can be renovated to address student internal factors related to retention. An overview of the design of the online orientation will be given and examples of practical orientation activities to address these factors will be discussed.

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Breakout Session V:Thursday, February 7, 9:40 - 10:20 (choose one of the following sessions)

Developing Pathways and Articulation Agreements – Best Practices:......................................................................... Casey Dena Lawrence, MyCreditsTransfer Coordinator, Illinois Board of Higher EducationDescription: This session will present current trends and best practices in designing, developing and maintaining various types of trans-fer and articulation agreements: Transfer Guides, 2+2 and 3+1 agreements, pathway programs, dual enrollment partner-ships, guaranteed admission transfer programs, etc. PATHs: A Framework for Identifying and Measuring Learner Analytics in Online Learning Environments.............................................................................................................................Greenup Oluwakayode Adebowale, Visiting Research Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, UISDescription: Based on the analytics data extracted from Blackboard Learn course reports, a framework was developed for identifying potential factors (and explanatory variables) and different potential dependent variables that are relevant in online learning environments. The data from the course reports were grouped into four main categories: Posts, Access, Time, and Hits—together termed the PATHs Framework. A case is made for using the PATHs Framework as a guide for identifying learn-ing analytics factors in online learning environments Breakout Session V Notes:

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Breakout Session VI:Thursday, February 7, 10:30 - 11:10 (choose one of the following sessions)

Building an accessible future for all learners:............................................................................................................. Casey Vance Martin, Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service (COLRS), UISDescription: In the United States it is projected that 25% of the population has a disability, while only about 10% of our students seek an accommodation for disabilities. Federal law mandates that we make all digital educational materials accessible for all learners. However, what is required, and how we meet these requirements are often misunderstood. To help reduce this misunderstanding, we will review the existing federal and state laws in place which govern accessibility at our institu-tions. We will discuss how these laws on accessibility for all differ from previous laws which were used to make accom-modations for a few. We will then focus on the strategies we are employing at the University of Illinois Springfield. We are focusing on three areas: faculty training, outreach with various offices on campus, and employing students to make files accessible. With two semesters of data we will examine what types of materials we are working on, how long it takes, and how little it costs. We will discuss how these ideas may work at attendees’ home institutions. Online Discussions: Blogging & Visuals:..................................................................................................................Greenup Bonnie J Covelli, Assistant professor, University of St. Francis Description: This session provides a fun environment for discussing the merits, challenges, resources needed, and power potential of collaboration. It provides specific examples and best practices in forming collaborative initiatives – across departments, across institutions, and across state lines. There are many opportunities to capitalize on the great things we can accom-plish using a collaborative approach! Paths towards Increasing Quality for Online Students and Faculty: Processes and Lessons Learned..............................................................................................................................Effingham Kimberly Harrison, Assistant Dean of Online Faculty Recruiting and Development, Aurora University Description: Join us for a discussion of strategies for improving the student and faculty experience! We will share our processes for supporting on-line adult students and working to provide them high-quality learning experiences. In addition, we will discuss our faculty orientation and professional development processes. We will encourage you to share your best practices and lessons learned, too!

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Conference DetailsThursday, February 7, 2019

8:00 - 8:40 AM , Arcola/Tuscola

Speaker Bio James Howley, Ph.D. currently serves as the Director of the B.A. in General Studies degree program at Eastern Illinois University. Most recently, he served as Interim Vice-President and Dean of Instruction at Wilbur Wright College in Chicago. Previously, Dr. Howley was Chair for the Division of Liberal Arts and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Governors State University. He holds the Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the M.A. in Higher Education from The Ohio State University.

Description

In this session, participants will hear about practices aimed at attracting more diverse audiences to their pro-grams. The address will present ways to go beyond the idea of diversity and will focus on equity-minded prac-tices.

Keynote Speaker - James A. Howley, Ph.DEquity Matters: Growing Adult Learner Programs Through Inclusive Practices

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ICCHE AwardsICCHE Innovative Initiative Award 2019The ICCHE Innovative Initiative Award, or IIA, program is an excellent opportunity to showcase outstanding programs, to gain recognition for institutions or divisions within, and to learn about successful initiatives at other ICCHE institutions. Initiatives are scored on how they meet the following criteria:

1. Contributes to the mission of ICCHE 2. Meets a need in the community served by the institution 3. Makes significant impact 4. Is unique in continuing higher education 5. Is easily replicable

Currently chaired by Kimberly Harrison, Aurora University, the IIA Committee consisted of the following ICCHE mem-bers who volunteered their time to review and score the submissions received this year.

• Matt Hlinak – Dominican University • Dena Lawrence – University of Illinois System Office • Donna Liljegren – Aurora University • Nora Mena – University Center of Lake County • Tim Panfil – Elmhurst College

Three innovative initiatives were submitted this year by ICCHE members. They were:

1.SIUE Successful Communities Collaborative

The Successful Communities Collaborative (SSCC) aims to create long lasting partnerships between SIUE students and faculty with communities and organizations to meet sustainability and livability needs as identified by city partners. The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Successful Communities Collaborative began as a pilot program in 2017 championed by the SIUE Chancellor and Provost. Execution of the initiative was spearheaded by the Office of Educa-tional Outreach. The initiative is modeled after the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities Network (EPIC-N) which connects higher education institutions with communities to improve living conditions and promote sus-tainable practices. The community partner creates a list of sustainability and livability projects that could benefit from in-cluding students in research, design or other applied projects directly connected to the classes within their fields of study. Faculty from across the University incorporate these projects into their already existing courses, and engage graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in the projects. Each project is connected with one or more key courses at SIUE that can provide research or technical support and move the project forward.

2.University of St. Francis’s Business Incubator In 2014, the University of St. Francis opened a campus “Business Incubator” to support student and community entrepre-neurs. The incubator is an innovative use of campus space, resources, and programming that supports the economic devel-opment of the region by fostering new business development and entrepreneurial education in a lab setting. The incubator provides a co-working environment between startups and entrepreneurial students. Programming includes a credit-based entrepreneurship degree for undergraduates and non-credit programming for the community. Incubator members include community members and students working together.

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3. UIS Accessibility Student Workers Program

There are one state and four federal laws, two of which have recently been revised which require institutions of higher education to make all of their digital course materials accessible. Unlike in the past when materials were made accessible only when there was a student with a need in the classroom, the revised laws require all materials on day one of a class must be accessible. This is a massive undertaking for any institution. The UIS Accessibility Student Workers Program began in February 2018 to assist with the overload of course materials for faculty, to help them comply with accessibility laws. Under the direction of Dr. Vance Martin four student workers were hired and trained to work on faculty materials. In the first semester over 1000 files were received. All of the files for 42 classes were worked on, a little over 900 total files including Word, PDF, PPT, and Video. The program has continued in the 2018/19 year with a comparable amount of work on almost 100 classes to date. Simultaneously Dr. Martin has continued to work with faculty to train them on how they can make their new materials accessible.

The 2019 ICCHE Innovative Initiative Award goes to Mary Ettling and the SIUE Successful Communities Collabo-rative! Congratulations!!!

Past President’s Award for ServiceThe Illinois Council on Continuing Higher Education (ICCHE) has a forty year tradition in providing outstanding leader-ship and service in higher education in Illinois. ICCHE is a unique organization in that, from its very inception, it has been a collaboration among Illinois private colleges and universities, Illinois community colleges and Illinois public universi-ties. In recognition of this proud history, the ICCHE Past Presidents Committee may select ICCHE Past Presidents’ Ser-vice Awards be presented at the ICCHE state annual meeting. These awards would go to an institution and/or individual that has provided extended and exemplary service to ICCHE and the State of Illinois. ICCHE Past Presidents will com-prise the selection committee. Names of individuals/organizations would be solicited in the fall from all ICCHE members and the award will be presented at the annual meeting, after approval by the ICCHE Board of Directors. The deadline for submission is typically January 1.

The Criteria:• Long term/outstanding contribution to ICCHE.

• Can be either an individual or Illinois higher education institution.

• Exemplary service achieved beyond expectations.

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2019 ICCHE Committee MembersAndrea Guerrero, University of Illinois Springfield

Bonnie Covelli, University of Saint FrancisDena Lawrence, University of Illinois System

Donna G. Liljegren, Aurora UniversityHilary Wards Schnadt, University Center of Lake County

Kimberly Harrison, Aurora UniversityMatt Hlinak, Dominican University

Michele Gribbins, University of Illinois SpringfieldNora Mena, University Center of Lake County

Peggy Brown, Eastern Illinois UniversityRuben Howard, Oakton Community College

Stacy Rucker, Sandburg CollegeMyra Gaytan-Morale, University Center of Lake County

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