Innovations
Meeting the demand for quality professional development programming in times of constrained resources created an opportunity for innovative and creative thinking at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Over 1,200 full-time employees at CPCC are required to complete 20 hours of professional development credit annually, and all full- and part-time employees—more than 1,800—must complete a series of three required annual trainings, thus creating a demand for over 60,000 hours of professional development opportunities annually.
This demand occurs at a time of...
This fall, HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, began offering a fully online two-year associate degree in building construction management that prepares students for the growing demand in construction careers.
HACC is one of the only schools in the nation to offer this program fully online. In addition, it is the only community college in Pennsylvania to provide the opportunity to complete the program online in two years.
“Word is getting out and we have fielded inquiries from Western Pennsylvania and the D.C. metropolitan area. Construction companies in Central Pennsylvania have...
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2017
Linwall Mcfarlane, Campus Director at Montego Bay Community College, idiscusses the teaching and learning practices that he uses in his classroom to promote student success, including experiential learning, simulation, group work, and a student-centered approach.
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Rita Wheeler, an Instructional Technology Specialist at Moberly Area Community College, discusses student success and completion and the services that colleges can provide, particularly for nontraditional students.
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China Jenkins, Faculty & Instructional Leadership Development Services manager at Houston Community College, discusses faculty the importance of faculty eliminating the deficit mindset and believing that their students can accomplish any goal they set out to achieve.
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Scott Kearns, a Workforce Development Training Specialist at St. Charles Community College, discusses two-year career technical programs as legitimate pathways to good paying jobs in technical fields such as welding, certified logistics, and manufacturing.
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Juley Wynter Robertson, a Hospitality and Tourism Management lecturer at Bethlehem Moravian College, discusses diversified strategies to help support students in their academic journeys and personal lives.
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Mary Jane Batchelor, a licensed Vocational Nursing instructor at Vernon College, discusses teaching on her smaller campus. A collegewide program being implemented on her campus to aid student completion has been intrusive advising.
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Claudia Levi, Business faculty at Edmonds Community College, discusses how face-to-face time is critical to affect student success and completion.
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Karl Smith, Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, cites the cooperative learning model developed in the 1970s as a way to help his first-year students figure out if they want to go into engineering and to choose a specific pathway.
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Faculty Voices Project Video: Cordella Lewison Gilpin, College of Agriculture, Science and Education
Cordella Lewison Gilpin, a Humanities lecturer at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education, discusses student success and completion barriers, such as inadequate finanacial resources and intrinsic motivation for some students, at her college and in Jamaica as a whole.
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Kate Jordahl, a Fine Arts and Communication instructor at Foothill College, discusses an initiative to help improve online learning across the State of California and her concern for giving her online students an experience equal to those who take face-to-face courses.
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Dan Stevenson, a New Media and Design instructor at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, discusses how student completion has become more important at his college in light of Alberta, Canada's recent underperforming economy.
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Denise Barton, a Business professor at Wake Technical Community College, discusses her college’s e-learning initiative to prepare students to take classes online and faculty to teach online.
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Odvar Clunie, a Computer Science instructor at Excelsior Community College, discusses workforce development and the challenges of placing students in IT positions post-graduation due to a lagging market as well as giving students access to programs online so that they can practice remotely for more hands-on experience.
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Orville Beckford, Social Sciences faculty at Excelsior Community College and Mona Community College, discusses student success and completion from his perspective as a lecturer at two colleges in Jamaica.
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Diana Lucio, a Public Administration instructor at South Texas College, discusses DegreeWorks, a collegewide, web-based program that allows students to track their degree plan progression.
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Chris Roddenberry, an Associate Professor of Social Psychology at Wake Technical Community College, discusses the college’s use of synchronous tools, such as texting and webinar software, and custom videos to create a sense of community and decrease the distance between faculty and students in their online classes.
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2017
Signal Brown, Information and Communication Technology instructor at Knox Community College, says that student-centered learning often needs to be gradually introduced so that students with no experience with this approach when they enter college become familiar with it and the chances of student success is increased.
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2017
Maria del Rosario Villasana, Child Development and Family Studies Department Chair at City College of San Francisco, discusses the diverse student body in CTE programs and the many pathways available to her students for completion of either a certificate or degree.
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