ATD Strategy Hub will launch with a focus on adult learners. Content is organized into the following categories:

• Topics: High-priority areas community colleges can target to improve equitable student outcomes. Complete this suggestion form to let us know what topics you’d like ATD to consider adding.
• Strategies: Coordinated tactics designed to produce specific outcomes, like improved enrollment or post-graduation employment.
• College Spotlights: Stories submitted by community colleges about their successes with strategies, lessons learned, implementation tips, outcomes, and next steps.
• Resources: Institution-created templates and tools containing practical next steps community colleges can use as they implement strategies.

The ATD Network includes 300+ community colleges across the nation. We work directly with these institutions every day and choose topics and strategies based on their evolving challenges and opportunities with a particular focus on supporting adult learners. Complete this suggestion form to let us know what topics you’d like ATD to consider adding.

ATD strategies come from our work with community colleges as they strengthen the following foundational capacities:

• Data
• Equity
• Holistic Student Supports
• K-12 Partnerships
• Leadership
• Pathways
• Teaching & Learning

ATD strategies are continuously tested by the 300+ institutions and partners that belong to our Network.

ATD invites community colleges that have had success with the strategies showcased in the Strategy Hub to submit college spotlights and resources.

Authors must work for a community college to contribute to the Strategy Hub. Organizations that are not community colleges can encourage a partner community college to submit using our nomination form. A member of the college’s staff must submit the content.

Authors may contribute strategy recommendations, college spotlights, and resources that help their peers avoid recreating the wheel or starting from scratch:

• Strategy recommendations ATD can consider adding to Strategy Hub topics.
• College spotlights captured in 750 words or less demonstrating how community colleges used a strategy, lessons learned, implementation tips, and next steps.
• Resources contain videos, templates, exemplar deliverables, or other assets community colleges can use to implement a strategy.

Institutions can contribute to the Strategy Hub by carefully completing a resource, college spotlight, or strategy publication form. Once a form is submitted, the ATD team will review the submission to determine whether or not it is a good fit for the Strategy Hub.

Not all submissions will be published, and some may require additional editing from the original author. The entire publication process can take up to 6-12 weeks.

Generally, ATD looks for submissions that are aligned with our ICAT and Areas of Expertise. More specifically, submissions must meet the following requirements to be considered for publication:

• Submitted by an employee of a community college that has successfully implemented the strategy
• Not duplicative of existing content within the Strategy Hub
• Relevant to a topic currently included in the Strategy Hub

To be published, the content must also meet the following quality standards:

• Equity
  • Demonstrates respect for all people and communities.
  • Uses asset-based language rather than deficit-based language (e.g. “economically marginalized” instead of “low-income;” minoritized instead of “minority.”)
  • Specifies groups of people rather than using blanket terms. (e.g. “Black,” “Latinx,” and/or “Indigenous” instead of “people of color” or “Black and brown people”)
  • Respects gender and gender identity (e.g. “women” as in “women leaders” instead of female) and aligns pronoun use with individual preferences.
  • Respects people’s varying abilities.
• Readability
  • The content is grammatically correct.
  • The content does not contain confusing acronyms or jargon.
  • The content is concise and avoids unnecessary detail.
• Completeness
  • Each component of the submission form has been filled out as instructed with equal thoroughness.
• Practicality
  • The content provides actionable guidance or inspiration for other institutions.
  • The content addresses a relatively narrow topic and is not so broad as to be overwhelming or inactionable.
• Relevance
  • The content is applicable beyond that of the submitting institution.
  • The content considers current context and trends faced by students and institutions.

ATD may use Strategy Hub content to support coaching and training, but not for commercial use. Our reprint limitations include [ATD to add].

Not all submissions will be published, and some may require additional editing from the institution’s author before publication. Submissions should be aligned with ATD’s ICAT and Areas of Expertise and meet the following requirements to be considered for publication:

• Submitted by an employee of a community college that has successfully implemented the strategy
• Not duplicative of existing content within the Strategy Hub
• Relevant to a topic currently included in the Strategy Hub

To be published, the content must also meet the following quality standards:

• Equity
  • Demonstrates respect for all people and communities.
  • Uses asset-based language rather than deficit-based language (e.g. “economically marginalized” instead of “low-income;” minoritized instead of “minority.”)
  • Specifies groups of people rather than using blanket terms. (e.g. “Black,” “Latinx,” and/or “Indigenous” instead of “people of color” or “Black and brown people”)
  • Respects gender and gender identity (e.g. “women” as in “women leaders” instead of female) and aligns pronoun use with individual preferences.
  • Respects people’s varying abilities.
• Readability
  • The content is grammatically correct.
  • The content does not contain confusing acronyms or jargon.
  • The content is concise and avoids unnecessary detail.
• Completeness
  • Each component of the submission form has been filled out as instructed with equal thoroughness.
• Practicality
  • The content provides actionable guidance or inspiration for other institutions.
  • The content addresses a relatively narrow topic and is not so broad as to be overwhelming or inactionable.
• Relevance
  • The content is applicable beyond that of the submitting institution.
  • The content considers current context and trends faced by students and institutions.

ATD will respond to your submission in one of three ways:

1. The author will receive notice of approval for publication on the site with a possible request for minor edits.
2. The author will receive notice of approval pending amendments recommended by the Strategy Hub team.
3. The author will receive notice that, after careful consideration, the Strategy Hub team has determined the submission is not the right fit for publication at this time.

When community colleges exchange knowledge and expertise, they enrich the experience of other institutions and help foster an environment of shared learning. The outcome of this collective growth is life-change for community college students around the country.

Community colleges can tackle their most pressing challenges alongside our expert coaches. We build customized growth plans and equip institutional leaders, faculty, and staff with field-tested solutions across these areas of expertise:

• Data
• Equity
• Holistic Student Supports
• K-12 Partnerships
• Leadership
• Pathways
• Teaching & Learning

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The following ATD services and programs are designed to help community colleges put students at the center of everything they do:

• Institutional Capacity Assessment: Identify growth priorities that drive equitable student outcomes.
• Foundations of Transformation: Work with expert coaches to build foundational capacities for student success over a 3-year engagement.
• Accelerating Transformation: Dive into specific institutional capacities with ongoing coach support.
• Specialized Cohorts: Work with peer institutions on issues impacting community colleges, including building racial equity and supporting rural communities.
• Professional Learning Events: Join colleges and higher education organizations from around the country to explore new ideas and create meaningful partnerships.

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