An Essential Investment: Centering Students in the Future of Work
Session proposals should align with the NCCCS Strategic Plan and fall within one of the following tracks:
Sessions highlight strategies that strengthen pathways from high school to college and improve recruitment, onboarding, and early student support through personalized, modernized, and student-centered approaches.
Sessions showcase efforts to improve access, persistence, completion, transfer, and employment outcomes through advising excellence, financial stability initiatives, meaningful student engagement, and comprehensive wraparound supports aligned with high-demand careers and bachelor’s degree pathways.
Sessions feature approaches that develop transferable, future-ready skills through collaborative teaching, cross-departmental program design, integrated academic and workforce curricula, and innovative instructional models that prepare learners for multiple career pathways.
Sessions highlight strategies that align programs and credentials with employer and regional workforce needs while reducing cost and time to completion through partnerships, credit for prior learning, stackable credentials, transfer and articulation agreements, and coordinated pathways across K–12, NCCCS, universities, and workforce systems.
Sessions focus on leadership and institutional practices that strengthen colleges through responsible use of technology and AI, data-informed decision-making, policy implementation, and systems that enhance experiences, reduce administrative burden, and preserve local identity.
All proposals must be submitted by March 31, 2026.
Session or workshop descriptions must:
