League for Innovation in the Community College March 2018 | Page 5

W elcome to the inaugural issue of Innovatus, the magazine of the League for Innovation in the Community College! Throughout 2018, the League is celebrating the 50 th anniversary Spring 2018 League for Innovation in the Community College Chair, Board of Directors Sylvia Jenkins of its founding. Since innovation is at our core, it seems appropriate for this first issue of Innovatus to have innovation as its theme. With a mission to cultivate innovation in community colleges, the League has spent five decades promoting and facilitating the creative risk-taking and problem-solving that seed President and CEO Rufus Glasper innovative thought and action among educators and leaders Vice President for Learning and Chief Impact Officer Cynthia Wilson partnerships create networks of community college faculty, staff, Managing Editor Kelly Dooling in these institutions. League projects, events, publications, and and administrators who openly share the process of innovation, from false starts and messiness to breakthroughs and successes. Innovatus offers yet another venue for showcasing innovation and connecting innovators. In this issue, the cover story about Membership and Social Media Director Sherry Sklar a recent conversation between two game-changing leaders of Partnerships and Marketing Director Chris Hennessey and recognizing the innovative spirit of community college Conference Director and Event Planner Robin Piccirilli Publisher TouchPoint Education Solutions the League complements articles featuring effective innovations, thought pieces on innovation itself, and other items celebrating practitioners. On behalf of the League for Innovation, I invite you to spend some time with Innovatus, and to use what you find here to initiate conversations on your campus—and perhaps stimulate innovations of your own. League for Innovation in the Community College 1333 South Spectrum Boulevard Suite 210 Chandler, Arizona 85286 www.league.org Please send inquiries to [email protected]. For information on advertising, please contact [email protected]. SYLVIA JENKINS Chair, Board of Directors, League for Innovation in the Community College President, Moraine Valley Community College FROM Innovatus MARCH 2018 5