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MCC Daily Tribune

Call for Abstract Submissions - 2023 AACC Annual Conference

The AACC Annual Conference will be held on April 1-4, 2023, in Denver, Colorado. AACC is currently seeking abstract submissions for agenda consideration.

All MCC employees are invited to consider forwarding an abstract for MCC’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT) consideration.

Please forward your abstract to Maureen Karlnoski (mkarlnoski@monroecc.edu) on or before Monday, November 7.

Following are guidelines to assist with your abstract draft:

  • Theme: Reaching New Heights
  • Tracks: Select one of the following tracks and include background, method, data, results, and conclusive statements in your abstract:
    • AI, AR, VR and Emerging Technologies: Highlight the use of new and emerging technologies that support the college’s student success agenda, that enhance institutional operations and help the institution realize efficiencies, or that focus on reimagining student success in a digital world. 
    • Developing a Work-Ready Workforce: Strategies for building public and private partnerships; working with business and industry partners to reclassify jobs to align with credentials; scaling programs, in particular those with low student-to-teacher ratios; creating new programs that keep up with changing workforce needs; and relationships that lead to student employment with family-sustaining wages. 
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives: Programs and services focused on underrepresented populations. Highlight programs that close equity and achievement gaps and lead to student success.
    • Enrollment Declines: Strategies that the college has deployed to maintain current or increase enrollment, reversing the enrollment trends exacerbated as a result of the pandemic and the competitiveness from business and industry to attract workers. 
    • Teaching and Learning for Student Success: Related to pedagogy and strategies that promote engagement of students with the content in the classroom. Abstracts can also focus on supplemental instruction and student support services that have been integrated into instructional processes.
    • The Community College of the Future: Includes innovation that positions the institution to be responsive to student and community needs in the future. Sessions can focus on operational changes that have been implemented since the pandemic or in response to trends and issues impacting the sector where colleges are seeing positive outcomes, the addition of student supports to address today’s challenges, strategies to combat food and housing insecurity as well as other much needed wraparound services.

The ELT looks forward to receiving your abstract submission highlighting MCC’s excellence. MCC is an institutional American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) member and Dr. Burt-Nanna sits on the AACC Commission on Structured Pathways, which focuses on strategies for scaling community college pathways across systems, states, and the nation, and contributes to the development of the AACC Pathways resources and related work through identification of pertinent resources, technical assistance expertise, and college examples, as well as through review of emerging evidence on the efficacy of pathways.

Kimberly McKinsey-Mabry
Acting Provost and Vice President, Academic and Student Affairs
10/31/2022