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UPCOMING WEBINAR


The Illinois Green Economy Network (IGEN)

 

 By leveraging a TAACCCT grant, 17 of the IGEN network colleges formed a consortium that created 32 certificate and degree programs and over 180 online or hybrid courses within industry clusters like architecture, STEM, manufacturing, agriculture, and transportation.

 

 

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WEBINAR: A State System Approach to Creating a Green Talent Pipeline

Interested in expanding your educational and training programs into in clean energy technologies?  

 

The Illinois Green Economy Network (IGEN) is a network of 48 Illinois community colleges working together to grow the state's green economy. A consortium of IGEN colleges developed certificate and degree programs that include core sustainability-related outcomes and were developed in a coordinated way across the state system. Learn how IGEN has is increasing employment opportunities, improving environmental and human health, and fostering community engagement while implementing clear career pathways.   

   

Presenters:  

  • Stephen Bell, Executive Director, Illinois Green Economy Network (IGEN)
  • Sherry M. Burlingame, Ph.D., Career Pathways Project Director, College of Lake County
  • Todd Cohen, Director of Workforce Strategies and Sustainability, American Association of Community Colleges 

Cost: Free  

 

When: Wednesday, May 6, 2015, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET

 

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DRIVING SUSTAINABILITY INTO THE CORE OF OUR COLLEGES

At many of the SEED Colleges, we have had significant and sometimes evangelical support for sustainability. Yet this support, that often includes senior management, never seems to move to a level where sustainability is a core of how we do our teaching, learning, and business processes. Why? Because support or commitment alone is not enough. We need to know how to drive change throughout our institutions. We need to understand how to evolve our institutional cultures using sustainability as a tool for systematic change.

 

Last summer with three other community college presidents, I attended the summer program at Harvard University that included senior leaders from corporations, non-profits, and higher education. The community college presidents who attended found it a great way to reinvigorate their commitment to driving sustainability throughout their campuses. I personally have applied the organizational change theory from last year's program to both our student success and sustainability initiatives at the College of Lake County. All of us agreed that we returned to our colleges with new tools and understandings for moving sustainability deeper into our institutions.

 

The institute will be offered again this summer from October 7-10. I would encourage you to explore participating or to reach out to your president or senior leadership to enroll in this summer's four-day program for Executive Leadership for Sustainability offered at the Harvard University T. H. Chan School of Public Health, July 7 - 10, 2015, Cambridge, MA.

 

While the usual cost is $4,200. The tuition is $3,900 for those who register before May 7th. Space in the program is limited so all applications must be received by May 25, 2015.  Apply and learn more here. If you wish to learn more before applying you might consider attending one of the free informational webinars on April 30 or May 13.  Click here to register for one. Or you can email [email protected] with any questions you may have.

 

Jerry Weber

[email protected]

April 20, 2015

 

Jerry Weber Ph.D

President

College of Lake County

19351 West Washington Street

Grayslake, Illinois 60030-1198

847.543.2200

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