Episodes
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Get to Know Jee Hang Lee, ACCT’s New President and CEO
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Welcome to Season 4 of In the Know with ACCT. In this Episode, David Conner and Jacob Bray talk to Jee Hang Lee about how he fell in love with community colleges and his plans for ACCT as the association's new President and CEO.
Jee Hang's next town hall meeting is on January 14th. Click here for more information on how to participate.
Additionally, click here to register for the 2022 National Legislative Summit.
Thanks for listening, we'll see you next week.
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
David Mathis: Evolution of Community College Trusteeship PART 1
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Season 4, Episode 1: ACCT Chair David Mathis has been a member of the Mohawk Valley Community College board of trustees since 1977. In this episode, Mathis reflects on how community college and how public higher education governance have evolved over the past four decades, including challenges, opportunities, and changes that have taken place. As he takes the helm of the association during one of the most tumultuous years of American history, and when ACCT is undergoing its own major changes, Mathis discusses his many goals, including pandemic recovery; making meaningful progress in diversity, equity and inclusion at community colleges; finding the best person to lead ACCT into the future, and more.
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Reaching Generation Z Students: Part 1
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
This episode of In The Know is about how to best reach Generation Z students.
ACCT's David Conner and Jacob Bray spoke with Ted Tedmon and Casey Wilhelm, professors at North Idaho College who have researched how Gen Z students learn, what special considerations colleges should be making to adapt to their needs, and what questions community college trustees should ask to make sure their colleges are making the investments needed to make their youngest students as successful as they can be.
This is the first part of a two-part conversation. Part two will be published on April 7.
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Make It Count: Recognizing Prior Learning for Workforce Development
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
On this episode of In The Know, ACCT’s Director of Strategic Communications David Conner talks with me and Allison Beer, ACCT’s Senior Policy Analyst about the paper we just published about Prior Learning Assessment. We dive into why we chose to profile Dallas County Community College District and Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College, and the benefits of Prior Learning Assessments.
The full report is available here.
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Strengthening Rural Community Colleges: Part 2 (Audience Questions)
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
This is the question-and-answer component of a two-part episode on strengthening rural community colleges.
In this episode, Jee Hang Lee, ACCT’s Senior Vice President, and Casey Sacks, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the Department of Education, talk about ACCT’s Strengthening Rural Community Colleges Initiative, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project will focus on California, Iowa, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Texas, but will take into account information from rural community colleges nationwide. This episode was recorded at our annual Congress in San Francisco.
For more information, please visit rural.acct.org.