A major focus has been directed toward serving veterans on campus. While those services are essential, campuses are often failing to provide needed services for those significant others who are attending college and impacted by military service. This presentation will demonstrate how campuses can organize to provide quality services for military families and their significant others.  Participants will learn which specific services and activities are best suited to serve these individuals.

Developmental education is perhaps the most controversial area of post-secondary education. This program will review research related to developmental education controversies and make suggestions about future directions for research and practice.

This session will focus on how an institution can positively impact student success by implementing a ‘culture of evidence’ to drive strategy development, assessment, and resource allocation/re-allocation. The session will demonstrate how one community college has utilized a culture of evidence to transform how the institution addresses student success issues.

This session will offer fresh, specific, research-based, and research-proven perspectives on the teaching of developmental writing.  Its foundational content is a body of cognitive research that includes the presenter’s extensive twenty-year research program and captures the nature of developmental writing.  The presenter will summarize the research, offering clear descriptions of what developmental writers know and do when they compose text and how they differ from at-level writers.  This information points not only to what developmental writers need to achieve but also to how they can exceed all expectations for writing improvement and success, including the retention and application of skills studied, through appropriate learning activities.

A national research study found that almost half of first-time students who leave their initial institutions by the end of the first year do not return to higher education. Identifying and engaging with these students is crucial to their persistence. Participants in this session will learn teaching strategies and techniques for engaging unprepared students, allowing them a better chance at success in the college classroom.

This session will explore UDL’s three principles and how they benefit a wide range of learners, including students of different ages, life experiences, cultural backgrounds, abilities and disabilities, and learning styles.  Participants will gain a deeper understanding of UDL, including what it is, who benefits from it, how it can be implemented, and how it can be institutionalized for lasting benefit.