Innovations
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
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
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
Henry Osborn, a Computer Information Sciences instructor at Northern Caribbean University, discusses student success and completion and the importance of providing students resources (e.g., books, practice exams, simulations) so they can perform as effectively and efficiently as possible in their chosen field of study.
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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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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
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
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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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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2017
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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2017
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
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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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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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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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...
November
2016
A faculty member friend of mine, Dr. Karen Hattaway, tells the story of a student in her writing class who stood up about six weeks into a 16-week course and said, “I finally get it! You want us to cite the article so the other person can find the source! I could see it all along, and I couldn’t figure out why you kept telling me to sight it.” Wow—for over a third of the term, this student had no idea what this award-winning, caring, articulate professor meant when she was asking the class to cite sources, which is such a commonplace task in professional writing, that experts can easily...
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It’s crunch time on campus at Onondaga Community College (OCC). Spring semester final exams are just over a week away. In Professor Kristen Costello’s Microeconomics (ECO 204) class she’s discussing final project options with students. “You can do either a paper or a presentation,” Costello said. “If you choose a presentation you can do so as an individual or in a group of up to three people.”
Costello is holding class in the lounge of one of the college’s four residence halls. This particular residence hall is the home of Business majors who reside in one of the college’s Living Learning...
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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