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NCIINCII
  • Approach
  • Services
    • Overview
    • Short-Term Engagements
    • Long-Term Engagements
    • Multi-College Initiatives
  • Focus Areas
    • Guided Pathways
    • Student Financial Stability
    • Career Connections
    • Rural Student Success
    • Leadership for Transformation
  • About
    • Team
    • Partners
    • Clients
    • News
  • Contact

Long-term Engagements

Colleges seeking ongoing support for large-scale change choose to work with NCII over a longer term. This type of work often builds on a short-term engagement.

In a long-term engagement, NCII collaborates with college leaders to customize a support model that fits the college’s needs. The approach can include on-site visits, virtual coaching for design and implementation teams, professional development, and tailored resource development.

Long-term engagements must be at least six months, and they typically last two years, although they can extend even longer. Whatever the timeframe, we conduct extensive work with executives and redesign leaders including faculty, staff, and administrators. The college builds on its existing efforts and works toward making institutional change at scale so it can deliver on its promise to help each student succeed.

Colleges with long-term engagements have unlimited access to the NCII Design Toolkit, which provides a variety of proprietary resources that colleges use to identify improvement ideas and design a plan for implementing them. In addition, they are invited to periodic webinars featuring leading-edge redesign issues.

Support

Long-term engagements provide comprehensive assistance and typically include:

  • An on-site or virtual kick-off meeting to ground the work.
  • A series of interviews with stakeholders throughout the campus community to understand your college’s strengths and needs as well as the local context and relevant issues.
  • Design team formation and facilitation, including periodic check-ins and working sessions with design teams.
  • Implementation guidance and assessment.
  • Ongoing coaching of college executives and redesign leaders including faculty, staff, and administrators.

Design Teams

NCII helps colleges create and use a design and implementation structure to define their goals, identify challenges, and develop approaches to improve. While this work may begin with a big-picture idea — such as revamping onboarding or fixing developmental education — the NCII approach helps colleges turn the broad aspiration into action.

With NCII’s support, colleges establish design teams, each of which focuses on a specific area. The teams then use NCII’s structure to develop solutions. In some cases, colleges subsequently create implementation teams, which also are supported by NCII.

NCII’s structure for implementing change includes:

  • Inquiry. Discuss the possibilities and identify the priorities for immediate work.
  • Design. Develop the student experience.
  • Implementation. Pursue scaled approaches.
  • Iteration. Evaluate efficacy, adjust, and monitor improvement.
  • Institutionalization. Ensure sustainability of change.

Participating Colleges

Colleges across the country — in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, and Wisconsin — have had long-term engagements with NCII.

  • Coastline Community College (CA), 2017–20
  • Columbus State Community College (OH), 2017–19
  • Community College of Rhode Island (RI), 2017–19
  • El Paso Community College (TX), 2018–present
  • Essex County College (NJ), 2019–21
  • Evergreen Valley College (CA), 2017–19
  • Kirkwood Community College (IA), 2021–present
  • Lake Michigan College (MI), 2018–21
  • Lane Community College (OR), 2019–21
  • Los Angeles Community College District (CA), 2020–22
    • East Los Angeles College
    • Los Angeles City College
    • Los Angeles Harbor College
    • Los Angeles Mission College
    • Los Angeles Pierce College
    • Los Angeles Southwest College
    • Los Angeles Trade Tech College
    • Los Angeles Valley College
    • West Los Angeles College
  • Maricopa County Community Colleges (AZ), 2018–21
    • Chandler-Gilbert Community College
    • Estrella Mountain Community College
    • GateWay Community College
    • Glendale Community College
    • Mesa Community College
    • Paradise Valley Community College
    • Phoenix College
    • Rio Salado College
    • Scottsdale Community College
    • South Mountain Community College
  • Merced College (CA), 2017–19
  • Metropolitan Community College (NE), 2020–present
  • Moorpark College (CA), 2018–20
  • Northeast Nebraska Community College (NE), 2020–22
  • St. Louis Community College (MO), 2021–present
  • San Jose City College (CA), 2017–19
  • Stark State College (OH), 2019–21
  • Tarrant County College (TX), 2017–19
  • Tillamook Bay Community College (OR), 2024–present
  • University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville (AR), 2018–20
  • Western Technical College (WI), 2020–22

Cost

This more in-depth support typically involves a six-month to two-year commitment. Depending on the length and intensity of the work, the cost for a long-term engagement is usually $50,000–$150,000.

Long-term engagements are open to any two- or four-year college or university. For institutions interested in securing grants to participate, NCII can provide a support letter and/or content for applications.

Interested? Let’s Talk!

Support

Over the course of two years, NCII gives participating colleges comprehensive assistance, including:

  • An on-site or virtual kick-off meeting to ground the work.
  • A series of interviews with stakeholders throughout the campus community to understand the college’s strengths and needs as well as the local context and relevant issues.
  • Design team formation and facilitation, including periodic check-ins and working sessions with design teams.
  • Implementation guidance and assessment.
  • Ongoing coaching of college executives and redesign leaders including faculty, staff, and administrators.

Design Teams

NCII helps colleges create and use a design and implementation structure to define their goals, identify challenges, and develop approaches to improve. While this work may begin with a big-picture idea — such as revamping onboarding or fixing developmental education — the NCII approach helps colleges turn the broad aspiration into action.

With NCII’s support, colleges establish design teams, each of which focuses on a specific area. The teams then use NCII’s structure to develop solutions. In some cases, colleges subsequently create implementation teams, which also are supported by NCII.

NCII’s structure for implementing change includes:

  • Inquiry. Discuss the possibilities and identify the priorities for immediate work.
  • Design. Develop the student experience.
  • Implementation. Pursue scaled approaches.
  • Iteration. Evaluate efficacy, adjust, and monitor improvement.
  • Institutionalization. Ensure sustainability of change.

Participating Colleges

Colleges across the country — in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, and Wisconsin — participate in NCII Intensive.

  • Coastline Community College (CA), 2017–20
  • Columbus State Community College (OH), 2017–19
  • Community College of Rhode Island (RI), 2017–19
  • El Paso Community College (TX), 2018–present
  • Essex County College (NJ), 2019–21
  • Evergreen Valley College (CA), 2017–19
  • Kirkwood Community College (IA), 2021–present
  • Lake Michigan College (MI), 2018–21
  • Lane Community College (OR), 2019–21
  • Los Angeles Community College District (CA), 2020–present
    • East Los Angeles College
    • Los Angeles City College
    • Los Angeles Harbor College
    • Los Angeles Mission College
    • Los Angeles Pierce College
    • Los Angeles Southwest College
    • Los Angeles Trade Tech College
    • Los Angeles Valley College
    • West Los Angeles College
  • Maricopa County Community Colleges (AZ), 2018–21
    • Chandler-Gilbert Community College
    • Estrella Mountain Community College
    • GateWay Community College
    • Glendale Community College
    • Mesa Community College
    • Paradise Valley Community College
    • Phoenix College
    • Rio Salado College
    • Scottsdale Community College
    • South Mountain Community College
  • Merced College (CA), 2017–19
  • Metropolitan Community College (NE), 2020–present
  • Moorpark College (CA), 2018–20
  • Northeast Nebraska Community College (NE), 2020–22
  • St. Louis Community College (MO), 2021–present
  • San Jose City College (CA), 2017–19
  • Stark State College (OH), 2019–21
  • Tarrant County College (TX), 2017–19
  • University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville (AR), 2018–20
  • Western Technical College (WI), 2020–present

Cost

NCII Intensive is open to any regionally accredited community college. Cost for participation is $75,000 per year for two years ($150,000 total). For colleges interested in securing grants to participate, NCII can provide a support letter and/or content for applications.

Interested? Let’s Talk!

Note: In the past, colleges participated in this long-term support in specific two-year cohorts; this grouping was called the Attitude, Agency, and Intensive Implementation (A2I2) Cohort.

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