Name: Student Skill Sprints: Accelerating Career-Ready Learning on Campus
Start: 2026-07-15T11:15:00-0600
End: 2026-07-15T11:45:00-0600

2026 Badge Summit @ CU Boulder
In-person July 13-15 | Online August 4

Student Skill Sprints: Accelerating Career-Ready Learning on Campus

Wednesday July 15, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am MDT

UMC 235

Skill Sprints are a cohort-based, on-campus model that helps college students complete Google Professional Certificates through structured “workshop” time and staff support. This session explores how Skill Sprints blend online credentials with in-person facilitation to increase engagement and completion, sharing implementation strategies, lessons learned, and a scalable framework for accelerating student career readiness.

Speakers

Jenny Lane

Associate Director, Office of Academic and Learning Innovation, University of Colorado Boulder

Jenny is passionate about expanding access to quality higher education to anyone, anywhere. At CU Boulder, Jenny helps develop and grow the university’s scaled online course offerings and programs. Prior to joining CU Boulder, Jenny spent 12 years at Arizona State University (ASU... Read More →

Mikayla Rochelle

Community Manager, Office of Academic and Learning Innovation, University of Colorado Boulder

Mikayla is the Community Manager for the Office of Academic and Learning Innovation, where she leads student engagement efforts through strategic event planning and management as well as multi-channel communications.
A central focus of her role is creating meaningful opportuniti... Read More →

Wednesday July 15, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am MDT
UMC 235

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2026 Badge Summit

Jenny Lane

Mikayla Rochelle

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2026 Badge Summit

Jenny Lane

Mikayla Rochelle

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