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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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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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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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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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
This guide was developed by Public Agenda for use in Choicework Moderator Training Workshops held as part of the League for Innovation's Faculty Voices Project. It is intended for use wtih the Moderator Training Videos and the Moderator Guide.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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