Innovations
2017
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
Julie Shattuck, an Associate Professor of English at Frederick Community College, discusses the need for institutions to focus on addressing student needs, such as food and housing, to facilitate student retention and completion.
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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
Curtis Daniels, Career and Technical Education Division Chair at Crowder College, discusses instituting problem-based learning tailored to industry in the classroom to mimic a real industrial environment and working with local employers as curriculum advisors and classroom visitors.
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2017
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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2017
Jimmy Adams, Dean, Media Arts & Technology Center of Excellence, at Houston Community College, talks about the barriers that effect student success, including life issues, and how his college is trying to identify and eliminate those barriers (e.g., issuing bus vouchers and emergency funds for child care).
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2017
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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Oniel Smith, a Mathematics lecturer at the College of Agriculture, Education and Science, discusses fforts to overcome student struggles in math classes, including a diagnostic test to determine their level of competence in mathematics and teaching in the Jamaican dialect as well as standard English so students are more likely to nderstand the vocabulary.
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2017
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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2017
Teri Denman, assistant to two deans in Academic Affairs at Estrella Mountain Community College, discuss a leadership/professional development program developed by a residential psychology faculty member at her college, reflecting the college’s core values of innovation, diversity, and collaboration.
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2017
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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2017
Nathan Rom, Chairman of the Board, Montego Bay Community College, discusses his concern about what happens to students when they leave the college and enter the workforce and stresses the need to prepare students adequately for employment and industry.
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2017
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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2017
Bernard L. Monette, a Web Development instructor at Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, discuss those practices he uses in the classroom to make the environment authentic, in terms of both technologies and social skills, to ready students for the workplace, instilling in them resilience and grit to prepare them for success.
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2017
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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2017
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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2017
Henry Osborn, a Computer Information Sciences instructor at Northern Caribbean University, discusses student success and completion and the importance of providing students resources (e.g., books, practice exams, simulations) so they can perform as effectively and efficiently as possible in their chosen field of study.
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2017
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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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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2017
Avery Thompson, Mathematics faculty at Northern Caribbean University, expresses her concern that students are expected to complete their courses without consideration of how their studies relate to the workplace, entrepreneurship, and nation-building.
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