Innovations
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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2017
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
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
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
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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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
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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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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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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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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...
