b'SATURDAY10:00am11:15am CONCURRENT SESSIONSTRADITIONAL PANEL From Community Engagement to Anchor Institutions:The Vital Role of Colleges of Arts & SciencesChallenges abound as well as opportunities. How Colleges of Arts & Sciences connect what their faculty and students do in the classroom with community neighbors and partners has never been more important. This panel will fea-ture ways in which public and private metropolitan colleges and universities are assuming a more central role in the local communities. We will consider how our community-practices and needs are evolving given the crises we now face as we try to figure out what the new normal means.TRADITIONAL PANEL Moving to an Administrative Service Model:Efficiencies & Cost Savings?The University of Northern Colorado (UNC) has implemented an Adminis-trative Service Center (ASC) Model where there are generalists within each College instead of departmental administrative assistants. The purpose of this model is to improve efficiencies in our administrative functions in order to invest in our fiscal sustainability and our students success. It has result-ed in layoffs. This model was introduced to the campus in January and will be implemented in May 2020. Our presentation will outline the model and report on the challenges and successes thus far. PAIRED THEORY/PRACTICE A Case Study in the Assessment of Class Sizes:Empowering Deans & Faculty to Address Inequitiesand Maximize ResourcesThe issue of maximum class sizes in higher education is a complicated one that directly impacts student success, faculty workloads, and appropriate and efficient allocation of human and physical resources. Prior research in this area supports the theory that pedagogical intent should dictate maxi-mum class sizes. However, less scholarly attention has been devoted to the practice of assessing appropriate maximum class sizes, particularly under that theoretical assumption and given the situational constraints of limited space and/or instructional faculty. We will present a theory-driven case study where a task force of faculty conducted an internal and external inves-tigation of maximum class sizes across a set of peer institutions.CCAS 202023'