Innovations
2017
Esmerelda Adame, Advanced Manufacturing Technology program chair at South Texas College, discusses how the college supports new students through open orientation and mentoring.
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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
Jed Peterson, History faculty at Kirkwood Community College, contends that students don't care about what you know until they know that you care.
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2017
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
Angelic Cole, Business Administration professor and chair at St. Louis Community College, discusses the pressing concern about student completion and the importance of community colleges building strong partnerships with employers to make sure that needed credentials are incorporated into programs.
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Alex Ranc, a Fine Arts instructor at Angelina College, discusses engagement and cocurricula activities to engage students equally and throughout their education path.
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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
Moaz Ben Azzouz, Mathematics faculty at Sinclair Community College, is concerned that quality of education does not seem to be the most important goal of the student success and completion initiative.
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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
Darnette McCleary, a Project Manager at St. Louis Community College, discusses her institution’s students first philosophy and striving to create a premium experience for the student both inside and outside the classroom, based on the student’s needs.
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2017
Alvan Ross, a counselor at Excelsior Community College, speaks about students' lack of interpersonal communication skills and teaching them how to be smarter then their smartphones to be successful.
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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
Selina Bliss, a Nursing Instructor at Yavapai College, discusses student retention and alternate healthcare pathways at her institution for those students who do not make it into the rigorous nursing program.
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2017
Laura Powell, a Workforce Development Training Specialist at St. Charles Community College, discusses her concerns about student completion in terms of industry needs, saying, “Industry needs credentials that do not always equal an associate’s degree."
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Bob Klepac is breaking down the notion that architecture means four walls and a roof. For example, he told a Del Mar College class one morning last summer that one of his former students is designing a meal tray for passenger jets at Boeing. “He’s making over $120,000 a year doing that,” he said.
Klepac, a technical drafting instructor, was a lively observer that day as students in his Technical Animation and Rendering class presented their final projects. The 12-week course introduced them to three-dimensional (3D) computer modeling and the software language of computer-aided design. Their...
December
2016
How many of you use technology to enhance your instructional practice? Do you feel it’s a challenge to get students to use and understand it? Over the last few years, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with technology and its value. I know technology can be very supportive in the right situation, like assisting students with disabilities. I’m often torn about when to use it and how to get the best return on my investment. However, I have found a few tools that my students seem to respond to and that are fairly easy to use.
The first tool, WriteLab, is an online tool that provides students with...
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December
2016
I never cease to be thrilled to see new buildings under construction on campus. Blank spots are filled in and meld into our daily comings and goings. The bare uprights represent growth and vitality framing our mission as well as tangible community support since many new building projects come about through large-scale bond initiatives. Structural change in higher education once meant just this—new buildings to house fresher, technologically advanced classrooms, laboratories, and learning spaces for more and more students. As important as new buildings and infrastructure renovations are to our...
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Move over kale; the latest trendy vegetable comes from the sea. It’s kelp!
Kelp is a slippery brown seaweed that grows in shallow waters along coastal areas. This unlikely ingredient is on the menu at Norwalk Community College (NCC), where the Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts programs have partnered with marine biologist Charles Yarish, Ph.D., to harvest kelp for research and to promote its nutritional benefits.
Kelp is a powerhouse of vitamins and minerals. It is used in many Asian cuisines and contains the highest natural concentration of calcium of any food source. It’s also high...
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December
2016
I’m always looking for ways to help students succeed; when students perform well, my life and job are easier. So, when I read about psychological interventions several years ago, I was enamored by the possibilities and what student success would look like using brief, or small interventions. These psychological interventions help build tenacious students: those who believe they belong in school academically and socially, and that school is relevant to their future; who seek out challenges and value effort as a learning experience; who view setbacks as an opportunity for learning; and who aren...
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November
2016
Student success is certainly an educational buzz word. But honestly, what institution would claim not to want their students to succeed? The concept may be familiar, perhaps even hackneyed, but as faculty and students know, success is not automatic, and it isn’t easy. We’re rather intense about student success at San Jacinto College, and we’re always reviewing what we actually mean by that phrase and how we can practice what we preach. One innovative means to monitor student success in the moment is a practice initiated by my esteemed colleague Barbara Lindsey Brown, the long-time, well-...
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