Innovations
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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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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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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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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Donna Powell Wilson, Executive Director of The Council of the Community Colleges of Jamaica, finds that students attend community colleges for a variety of reasons and suggests that rather than focusing on completion rates, the value that students add to society should be considered.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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