Innovations
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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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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2017
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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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2017
Andy Mays, Speech and Languages faculty at Lee College, discusses a few things that she does inside and outside of the classroom to help students succeed in her class and in life.
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2017
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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2017
Aubria Phillips, a counselor at Community College of Philadelphia, discusses her concern with losing students prior to completion, especially low-income and veteran populations.
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2017
Mary Arthur, an IT Project Coordinator at St. Louis Community College, discusses the importance of students setting an educational goal in order to realize success.
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2017
Angela Hendershot, an English instructor at Zane State College, discusses how her college is influencing student retention by forming an early intervention plan, which focuses on students who may be at risk and figures out ways to get them back into the classroom.
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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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