Advancing Women in IT – This program seeks to promote the advancement of women in IT by sharing experiences and insights of IT professionals, increasing pathways to career opportunities, and creating a pipeline for women in IT leadership positions across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The program includes both in-person and online meetings for women in NWACC member IT organizations.
Customer Experience – This program fosters a community of practice for IT staff who provide technology support to those engaged in teaching, learning and research at NWACC institutions. Activities include online guest speakers, panels, round-tables, and information sharing.
Cybersecurity – This program includes an annual in-person workshop and periodic online meetings for cybersecurity professionals that address both operational and strategic issues. Other activities, such as technical information sharing, cyber policies, security product experience, and collaboration on best practices, are also pursued.
Digital Accessibility – Known as NWHeat, this program is a collaboration between NWACC and the Orbis Cascade Alliance of academic libraries to advance our common goal of ensuring that digital services and resources are equitably accessible to all users. NWHeat fosters a community of practice through a series of webinars and a shared knowledge base of best practices.
Instructional Technology RoundTable – The centerpiece of this program is an annual in-person workshop for instructional technologists, instructional designers, and related staff. Other program components include collaborative project development, periodic summer workshops for faculty and instructional technologists, best practice information sharing, an exemplary practice award, a working group on professional development, and occasional co-authored position papers.
Leadership Development – The Leadership Development Program (LDP) includes a “cohort” track for IT staff members, a professional development workshop for CIOs, and a broad-based mentorship program for IT staff members, newly appointed CIOs, and others.
Strategic Issues – This program concentrates on issues that have long-term, far-reaching impact across our institutions. The program includes an annual, in-person meeting as well as periodic online discussions.