Institute

Mission Statement:

To provide high quality, timely, affordable professional development for faculty in emergent technologies with opportunities for peer networking and industry/business interaction.

Institute Information:

The Institute will take place May 21 - 25, 2007 in Springfield, Illinois and will begin at 8:00 a.m. and conclude at 5:00 p.m. each day. Friday's training will conclude by 1:00 p.m.

The training will take place at the Capital City Center located at 130 W. Mason. Free parking is available at the Capital City Center during the Institute.

Attendees will stay at the Quality Inn & Suites - State House located at 101 E. Adams, which is approximately 4 blocks from the Capital City Center.

WC-IL is designed to provide intensive training, but additionally offers luncheon sessions with key IT industry leaders and networking sessions for faculty to share best techniques in IT education. The Institute provides 6 training tracks.

Background

In 2003, with funding provided by Microsoft Corporation, the Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institute selected the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) as one of 10 community college sites nationally to participate in a program developed to assure that information technology training for community college instructors is equal and competitive with the commercial sector. The program is a partnership between the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and the National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET).

ICCB manages the Faculty Development Institute. Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield is the host site for the week-long Institute. Each of Illinois' 48 community colleges can send two of its IT faculty to the institute for training. Institutions outside Illinois are invited to participate in the Institute and are invited to contact us.