Concurrent sessions will be added to this listing after each round of review and upon acceptance by the proposal review committee for presentation. Check back periodically for updated concurrent sessions
Sessions are in alphabetical order by last name of each presenter. Where there is more than one presenter, the session is listed by the presenter's name appearing first on the proposal.
The Student Success Workshop Model
Presenter(s):
Yadira Andujar, Broward College
Qwesha Keen, Broward College
Zoe Fried, Broward College
Michael Morse, Broward College
James Senat, Broward College
Summary: Broward College has developed a series of College Readiness Workshops that are designed to help students from 9-12 grade start preparing for the college experience before graduating high school.
Presenter(s):
Greg Beamish, Northern Michigan University
Summary: This session will introduce and discuss ways of bridging the gap between "ways of knowing" and "ways of caring". It will address ways of balancing the integration of introspection and empathy into the freshman writing curriculum.
Presenter(s):
Stephen Berard, Bemidji State University
Summary: This interactive presentation will feature a variety of strategies to help students boost active listening. Participants will later watch a short video followed by a quiz in order to put these tips to the test.
Presenter(s):
Sara Centeno, Ivy Tech Community College
Summary: This session will identify three components of student success and demonstrate strategies to integrate into any classroom that will boost student engagement and maximize academic performance.
Presenter(s):
Dominique Charlotteaux, Broward College
Ashley Lawrence, Broward College
Timothy Warrick, Gran View College
Alex Medina, Broward College
Shelby Giannola, Broward College
Summary: College instructors can broaden their millennial competencies and actively engage students in their learning process by implementing educational apps in face-to-face, blended, and online classes. This presentation will explore how educational apps positively impact students' level of engagement with learning. It will also showcase some of the educational apps available to instructors.
Presenter(s):
Dr. Christine Conley-Sowels, Ferris State University
Monica Frees, Ferris State University
Deedee Stakley, Ferris State University
Dave McCall, Ferris State University
Kristin Conley, Ferris State University
Summary: This presentation focuses on programs offered in our Center for College Readiness created to help students who are below academic college standards from (U3) underprepared, underrepresented and underserved populations.
Presenter(s):
Vivian Corll, Keiser University
Summary: “Buzzy,” an animated cartoon bumblebee, challenges students in Basic English and ENC1101 to adopt an attitude of self-efficacy. Through discussion and writing students explore the cartoon’s relevance to their own lives.
Presenter(s):
Tonga Cox, ohio university
Summary: According to a 2015 Harris Poll, students reported that the first year of college is full of emotional challenges that span far beyond academics. A majority of students (60%) wish they would have gotten more help with emotional preparation for college. Several studies point to a relationship between mindfulness and focused attention, memory capacity and general well-being. This presentation looks at the literature and several hands-on activities that bring awareness to these challenges.
Presenter(s):
Nathalie Crocker, Landmark College
Summary: How can we keep our students attention and increase positive classroom participation? This session will cover ways to encourage students to dynamically and appropriately engage in the college classroom.
Presenter(s):
Robin Cunningham, Seton Hall University
Majid Whitney, Seton Hall University
Summary: With rising concern regarding college students’ ‘coddling’ and a university’s responsibility to stimulate intellectual and personal growth, we will discuss strategies to reengineer Freshman Seminar to facilitate the socio-emotional transition to college.
Presenter(s):
Donnette Dennis-Austin, Broward College
Summary: This presentation focuses on creating a career preparedness program that works along with the current high school curriculum to help curb inner city schools high dropout school rate and to bridge the gap between high school and college life for at risk youths.
Presenter(s):
Kateri Drexler, Global Learning Solutions, Inc.
Summary: The proliferation of online courses necessitates additional skills for the successful student. Effective learning strategies for online students include variations on the standard study skills.
Presenter(s):
Eldiane Elmeus, Northern Essex Community College
Mayra Bonet, Northern Essex Community College
Rebecca Rose, Northern Essex Community College
Summary: Presenters will discuss the benefits of fostering a learning-centered approach to assist freshmen in understanding and creating awareness in applying academic skills across multiple disciplines.
Presenter(s):
Constance Farley, Montgomery College
Cinder Cooper, Montgomery College
Summary: This three-fold presentation on successful engagement of ESL students and multicultural populations focuses on preparation, classroom experience, and mindful-team teaching using the Global Learning Value Rubric. Many helpful documents, planning structures, example instructional materials, and preparation checklists will be shared.
Presenter(s):
Fitzroy Farquharson, Valencia College
Summary: Institutions are offering more online math courses, however the success rates for these courses are usually lower than expected, causing faculty and administrative concerns. Participants will engage in a discussion of factors that contribute to students not successfully completing an online math course. This session will also demonstrate the use of a web-based program that enables students to determine if they are ready to take an online math course and provides them with six areas of remediation based on their survey results to prepare them for the course.
Presenter(s):
Daniel Farr, Kennesaw State University
Summary: This session will provide take-away ideas for online course organization, fostering student-teacher connection, engagement, and tactics for managing student expectations.
Presenter(s):
Shannon Farrelly, College of Charleston
Melissa Thomas, College of Charleston
Summary: Everyone has a story. Students in academic recovery can use their story to learn the skill of critical self-reflection for sustained growth. Participants will view assignment examples and build their own story.
Presenter(s):
Christopher Finnin, Drexel University
Kyle Norton, Drexel University
Summary: A Program Director and faculty member from Drexel's LeBow College of Business will discuss key take aways from 15 years of experience with Learning Communities.
Presenter(s):
Paige Frazier, Northern Michigan University
Kelsey Lueptow, Northern Michigan University
Sara Ryan, Northern Michigan University
Summary: This presentation addresses use of anonymity, journaling, and collaboration to avoid normalizing and privileging traditional learning styles. It will demonstrate these inclusive teaching strategies through classroom activities and student work.
Presenter(s):
Leonard Geddes, Lenoir-Rhyne University
Summary: Participants will discover common thinking errors that limit student academic success. This session will present strategies and tools to help students become effective thinkers and learners.
Presenter(s):
Linda Giampa, Northern Essex Community College
Lynne Nadeau, Northern Essex Community College
Summary: Northern Essex Community College piloted an Academic Coaching program during the Fall 2015 semester. This session will include a discussion of the coaching concept in academic support, and an overview of program development, implementation, and results.
Presenter(s):
Michael Giddings, Northern Michigan University
Cameron Contois, Northern Michigan University
Caleb Nelson, Northern Michigan University
Ania Payne, Northern Michigan University
Summary: Using music, contemporary entertainment, and literature, this panel will challenge current assumptions about bridging the gap between high school and early college. Handouts, activities, and rubrics will be shared.
Presenter(s):
Cindy Gomez, Hodges University
Summary: Florida universities face unique challenges in meeting the academic needs of under-prepared students. This presentation will provide an overview of Hodges University's multi-modal approach for preparing these students for college success.
Presenter(s):
Stacey Guney, Austin Community College
Summary: Mental toughness has frequently been associated with successful performance in sport; however recent research suggests that it may also be related to academic performance in higher education and can also be coached.
Presenter(s):
HelenMarie Harmon, Indiana University Northwest
Summary: Engaging, interactive and exploratory activities will be presented to help first-year university students adjust and transition to college life and expectations, as they make key academic and career decisions along the way for their future endeavors!
Presenter(s):
Steve Heisler, Rutgers University
Summary: This sessions will explore how parents, teachers and advisers can employ facilitation to help students develop habits of success and to recognize their own (often microscopic) successes and build on them.
Presenter(s):
Steve Heisler, Rutgers University
Summary: In this session participants will be introduced to the importance of critical success skills and how a facilitative atmosphere, engendered by a professional/clinical family can support the development of successful students.
Presenter(s):
Lenuel Hernandez, Wayne State University
Summary: This presentation will focus on a math tutoring paradigm that helps students find gaps and misconceptions in their knowledge through failures. Applying this approach, students can better conceptualize how learning and problem solving occurs.
Presenter(s):
Toni Hernen, Bronx Community College
Summary: Have you ever tried to get your students to slow down while they are reading, and pay more attention to details? This can be a challenge for some remedial students as well as English Language Learners. In this presentation, we will learn how close reading while using digital photos, can be a helpful strategy to reinforce the skill of finding details in a text.
Presenter(s):
Ellen Horowitz, Gran View College
Summary: This interactive workshop will provide participants with strategies to engage and motivate students to initiate, participate and self-evaluate their own learning experiences. Strategies can be used the next class session!
Presenter(s):
Lori Howe, University of Wyoming
Summary: This presentation of research on theories of student-centered learning suggests that cross-disciplinary metacognitive and critical thinking skills are fostered by dynamic, collaborative pedagogical approaches such as the creative writing workshop model.
Presenter(s):
Trent Hoy, Broward College
Summary: Don’t put away your phones! This session will explore how integrating mobile applications into classroom activities (face-to-face and online) can enhance student engagement and success. Research and examples will be highlighted.
Presenter(s):
Lisa Imel, Academic Innovations
Summary: The Dual Enrollment Program at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) created the Get Focused...Stay Focused!TM Initiative in 2009 and continued to develop it into a holistic approach to college and career readiness for all students. With a curriculum built upon the Common Core State Standards, it provides an innovative, student-centered strategy to ensure all students have the opportunity to enroll for college credit by 12th grade. Attend this interactive session to learn about the curriculum, connected dual enrollment courses, impressive student outcome data, and strategic planning for implementation.
Presenter(s):
Lisa Imel, Academic Innovations
Summary: Unlike traditional freshman orientation courses, a Student Success Course, built on the Freshman Transition Standards of the George Washington University, promotes college completion by assuring freshmen have a meaningful 10-year career and education plan. Participants will learn about a classroom-based guidance course that supports the one-to-one advisory functions of over-taxed counseling departments. Participants will leave with a copy of the standards and a Student Success Course syllabus.
Presenter(s):
Ralph W. Jernigan, Liberty University
Summary: Liberty University offers learning strategies classes for students who choose to improve their study skills and academic habits as well as for those on academic warning or probation. This presentation will include the basic design of classes that have proven effective in helping the struggling student.
Presenter(s):
Billy P. Jones, Ph.D., Broward College
Summary: How can colleges promote leadership, academic and career success in high school boys? Learn more about the research and evaluation of Broward College s pilot program, the Pre-College Summer Leadership Institute (PSLI).
Presenter(s):
Tara Kai, Broward College/Pearson
Summary: In this presentation, participants will examine processes and components of an academic improvement plan that integrates frequent analysis and continued development of Academic programs, Faculty excellence, Student achievement and supports.
Presenter(s):
Deborah Kellner, University of Cincinnati
Summary: This session provides an exchange of ideas regarding the practice of annotation across disciplines. Research and hands-on activities using this transferable skill will be introduced.
Presenter(s):
J. L. Kemp, McKendree University
Summary: Writing tends to be one of the areas that indicate a high level of under preparedness for many students. I have re-designed a 200-level course to improve their English skills
Presenter(s):
Steven Kennedy, Broward College
Summary: An examination of the college experiences and outcomes of African-American male college students, including practices that promote success, barriers to success and institutional interventions.
Presenter(s):
Kimberly Kilpatrick, University of Texas at El Paso
Summary: Encouraging students to develop effective communication skills is a paramount responsibility. Individual viewpoint and self-expression is highly valued, but equally significant should be the capacity to respectfully disagree with others.
Presenter(s):
Benjamin Kinney, Northern Michigan University
Summary: This session will center on the presenter’s use of experimental film, such as David Lynch’s Eraserhead and Rabbits, to build confidence in students’ critical faculties as well as foster an atmosphere of exploration and discovery in first-year composition classes.
Presenter(s):
Sandy Lawrence, Georgia State University
Dr. Nannette Commander, Georgia State University
Summary: The audience will provide feedback on research investigating undergraduate and graduate students metacognitive awareness of reading strategies and perceived reading ability.
Presenter(s):
Kristen Lawson, IUP (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Summary: Academic coaching for at-risk, incoming freshmen during a summer program at a regional university demonstrates success. Academic coaches utilize the academic coaching model of self-assessment, reflection, and goal setting (Robinson, C., & Gahagan, J., 2010). Student success measures included GPAs and retention rates from Summer 2014 through Spring 2015.
Presenter(s):
Dean Loring, Broward College
Summary: An online resource that provides guidance to all students before the first day of class toward review and skill building in courses that require prerequisites.
Presenter(s):
Theodosia Lovett, Albaby Technical College
Summary: The presenter will present effective Student Success initiatives that have been developed providing statistical support and feedback from students. Also the presenter will share some innovative strategies to assist other Colleges based on practice based research.
Presenter(s):
Tawana Mattox, Athens Technical College
Summary: This presentation will provide a review of a First Semester Seminar at Athens Technical College. The coordinator will discuss the learning outcomes, course design, faculty development, and year one results.
Presenter(s):
Aiesha Motley, The University of Akron
LaVell Harris, The University of Akron
Summary: How do we recruit, retain and reward multicultural students? This presentation will discuss some of the recruitment trends as well as ways to get these students connected on our campuses and graduate them.
Presenter(s):
Laura Nabors, Health Promotion and Education Program, University of Cincinnati
Summary: This session will present an experiential learning project that provides leadership and work experiences for students in health promotion and education. Participants will explore how experiential learning can advance career knowledge and leadership development in other fields.
Presenter(s):
Donna Nalley, South University Online
Jennifer Ferraro, South University Online
Jessica Masoner, South University
Ruth Roberman, South University
Summary: Session will explore student and faculty mindsets regarding who belongs and can succeed in college and examine how these beliefs affect perception, performance, and persistence in the online classroom.
Presenter(s):
Nicole Pellegrino, Wells College
Megan Riedl, Wells College
Summary: A look at a pilot college success program geared towards first year students that combines lifelong wellness, learning strategies, campus culture and peer leaders.
Presenter(s):
Audra Pickett, Colorado Community Colleges Online
Summary: This presentation provides critical reading tools for success in content-level courses. Participants will learn strategies to put in their study-skills toolbox that will assist any student who wants to improve his/her college reading skills.
Presenter(s):
Peggy Quinn, The University of Memphis
Summary: The interactive workshop will demonstrate the value of internships through research, intern testimonials and shared experiences.
Presenter(s):
Aaron Rooks, Truman State University
Jonathan Vieker, Truman State University
Summary: Presenters will explore challenges posed by student disengagement (both generally and in ESL populations specifically), and will showcase various techniques and concepts to address disengagement.
Presenter(s):
Tia Roy, University of Connecticut
Heather Mores, Northern Essex Community College
Summary: Looking to engage students in the classroom? This session includes powerful stories, techniques to develop and share your own stories, and ways that this practice can lead to student success.
Presenter(s):
Lee Santos Silva, Bunker Hill Community College
Lloyd Sheldon Johnson, Bunker Hill Community College
Summary: This panel discussion will highlight examples of culturally responsive pedagogical approaches that use content in African American Studies to empower students used in the disciplines of English, Psychology, and Geography.
Presenter(s):
Lou Ann Sears, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Summary: Everyone in the student-success business should know Think Big by Ben Carson, On Writing by Stephen King, and A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer. Come and find out why.
Presenter(s):
Dr. Greg Sojka, University of Cincinnati Clermont College
Summary: Many freshman success courses include skills development as well as self-assessments. "Exploring UC Clermont College" includes a career focus that enables students to explore, discover and decide upon a career: an added retention feature.
Presenter(s):
Laura Soldner, Northern Michigan University
Summary: This workshop (presented in English and translated in Spanish) will acquaint participants with storytelling methods for introducing prereading and comprehension monitoring strategies to ESL learners.
Presenter(s):
Richard Stackpole, University of Cincinnati
Betsy Macke, University of Cincinnati
Summary: This presentation will address the unique challenges that university personnel face in the recruitment and retention of first-generation college students.
Presenter(s):
David Strickland, East Georgia State College
Carol Strickland, Georgia Southern University
Summary: Classroom tested resources for teaching college success are described, demonstrated, and provided as handouts or links including a video library of over 100 videos with recommendations for use in teaching.
Presenter(s):
David Strickland, East Georgia State College
Carol Strickland, Georgia Southern University
Summary: Two assessments measured outcomes related to student retention, attitudes and behaviors including a 14 year retention study and a pre/posttest survey measure of changes in student perspective.
Presenter(s):
Jason Teal, Northern Michigan University
James Dyer, Northern Michigan University
Summary: Speakers will introduce the new aspects of the Northern Michigan University composition curriculum, including successful multimodal writing assignments that fit the NCTE's position statement on multimodality in support of "essential components of knowing."
Presenter(s):
Jennifer Theriault, Northern Illinois University
Summary: Don’t refuse these M and M’s: mindset and metacognition. Learn what growth and fixed mindsets are and how to help students use metacognition to understand their own attitudes about learning.
Presenter(s):
Theresa Tyus Mitchell, DASD School District, Widener University
Summary: Participants will examine ways to provide students of color with increased opportunities for academic success, centralizing on the importance of GPA and test scores, the ability to code switch, the benefits of having a packed schedule, and steps students must take to develop positive relationships with educators.
Presenter(s):
Benjamin Van Howe, Northern Michigan University
Davi Baldussi Alves, Northern Michigan University
Summary: Presenters will explore digital media genres and the narrative rhetoric employed. Analysis of interactive fiction, video games, and social media will serve as springboards for writing assignments, classroom activities, and multimedia projects.
Presenter(s):
Michelle Wiley, Penn State World Campus
Summary: To help prepare new World Campus students for the demands of online learning, the World Campus offers students free, academic resources to better prepare them for academic success.
Presenter(s):
Denise Wilkinson, Virginia Wesleyan College
Summary: The presenter will discuss the pros and cons of a flipped classroom and share flipped activities that offer significant benefits to freshmen student learning and can be eased into an existing course with little modification.
Presenter(s):
Kara Woehler, Wayne State College
Summary: College is a big step for many students, and is a different experience from high school. Offering a Peer Mentor program for 1st year students can and will drastically improve their chances of persistence, good academic standing and eventually graduation at your institution.
Presenter(s):
Zadjia Zahi, Qatar University
Summary: This program will provide strategies and tips that facilitate second language learning for academically struggling university students.
Presenter(s):
Ellen Zimmerman, McHenry County College
Debi Keyzer, McHney County College
Summary: Are you in search of a new and innovative approach to the First Year Experience that will increase your pass rate and student satisfaction with the course? Take part in this fresh and interactive presentation about the Element Approach and how it can energize and engage your students through thought provoking, and inspiring curriculum!