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The College Coach Approach: A Low Cost, High Impact Strategy For Student Success
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a unique repertoire of emotional skills and competencies that a person uses to navigate everyday challenges of life. EI skills can assist students in adapting to the demands and pressures of the college environment, promoting effective student learning, and contributing to college success.
This session will highlight an innovative and collaborative approach that significantly contributes to student success and college retention. College employees (staff, faculty and administrators) utilize their leadership and EI skills to make a meaningful difference in the lives of college students. In their role as ‘College Coach’, they encourage students to develop those EI skills that are paramount for being academically successful. In doing so, college employees expand their own personal repertoire of EI skills which leads to personal and professional growth.
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Career Technical Education Webinar Series
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Registration Fee: $750.00
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- Career Technical Education: Preparing Students for 21st Century Careers
- The Role Of Career & Technical Education In STEM Education
- The Role Of Career & Technical Education In The “Creative” Pipeline
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Exceptional Front-Line Customer Service In Higher Ed
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, January 24 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST & Tuesday, February 28 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Flexible Date Webinar
How do you define customer service?We may all define this differently, but there are basic principles and proven tips and techniques that can assist front-line staff in providing exceptional customer service to our students and their families. This session will provide participants an overview of different philosophies of customer service and why exceptional customer service is important in higher education.
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Increasing Access & Success For Underrepresented Populations: The Importance Of Family Engagement
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, January 24 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Many community colleges struggle with the challenge of educating students from low-income backgrounds. More specifically, community college administrators are attempting to enroll more low-income, Latino students while also increase persistence rates. We believe that connecting with families at an early stage and creating a continuum of services will increase the number of students who pursue a postsecondary education in addition to the number of adults who will enroll as non-traditional students.
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Identifying And Reaching Unprepared Students: Strategies For Creating Success In The College Classroom
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, January 25 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST & Wednesday, March 7 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Flexible Date Webinar
Many students enter college unaware of the expectations and unprepared for the academic rigors of college. Their initial enthusiasm and excitement is often replaced in a matter of weeks by varying degrees of discouragement. For many students, this first year of college is the “make or break” year. 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.
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Promoting Access And Success Through Summer Bridge Programs
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, January 26 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
After participating in this webinar, participants will leave with a clearer understanding of the challenges that at-risk students face in college, the role that summer bridge programs play in promoting their adjustment and success in college, and ways to assess the effectiveness of summer bridge programs. All participants will receive an electronic copy of a recent publication by the presenter/author on summer bridge programs.
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Providing Comprehensive Student Support Services Online
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, January 31 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
With diminishing resources and a new generation of students who have high expectations for 24/7 information availability, colleges need to identify and implement an extensive menu of online student support services. Online services assist faculty and staff with many things such as reducing repetitive inquiries, preparing students ahead of time for counseling and advising appointments, and providing detailed and consistent information.
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Increasing Retention And Persistence Of First-Year, Minority Male Students
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, February 2 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
The Center for Academic Excellence on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University implemented a pilot male retention program entitled Project M.A.R.C.H. (Male Aggies Resolved to Change History) in Fall 2009, designed to enhance the academic progress of first-year, African-American male students to increase their persistence, retention and matriculation at the University. This program was created in response to a University System of North Carolina report which stated that “UNC should increase the educational attainment of all underrepresented populations, especially African-American males”. Project M.A.R.C.H. incorporates intensive intrusive advising, tutorial support, supplemental instruction, academic monitoring and academic skill building workshops, resulting in 100% Fall to Spring persistence and 80% retention for the first cohort during the 2009-2010 academic year.
This presentation focuses on the multifaceted approach used in this program to address both the academic and social needs of this special population, including intensive intrusive advising, academic monitoring, tutorial sessions, student development workshops, intramural sports participation, and socio-political engagements, as well as the assessment of student learning outcomes, program objectives, and the program’s effectiveness in the retention and persistence of the population.
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Student Motivation: Increasing Engagement, Persistence, & Learning
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Friday, February 3 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Students motivation is an essential precondition or prerequisite for both student learning and student development. Simply stated, students will not learn and develop unless they are motivated to do so. This webinar is built on the premise that student motivation for the college experience cannot be assumed; instead, it must be intentionally ignited by classroom instructors, academic support specialists, and student life professionals through the systematic application of powerful motivational principles.
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Providing Professional Development 24/7: Restructuring How We Deliver Training
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Complimentary Webinar
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Wednesday, February 8 ~ 3:00-4:00pm EST
With increasingly limited resources and high demands from faculty and staff, institutions are finding it difficult to provide training in a cost-effective manner. This session will explore a series of online tools faculty and staff can use to provide training 24/7.
The presentation will include the use of podcasts, web conferencing and videos, all of which are critical to creating a dynamic and engaging learning environment. The presenters will focus on how to utilize these tools to deliver and enhance face-to-face training, online training and on-demand training, so that you can do more with less.
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Developing An Effective Peer Mentoring Program Supporting First-Generation College Students
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, February 9 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
In these difficult economic times of budget cuts and limited resources determining best practices for making the most of existing assets while continuing to serve students effectively is critical. First-generation college-goers experience a variety of challenges as they enter and move through higher education. In fact, much of the existing research indicates that students whose parents did not attend college are more likely than their non first-generation counterparts to be less academically prepared for college, to have less knowledge of how to apply for college and for financial assistance, and to have more difficulty in acclimating themselves to college once they enroll (Tym, et al., 2005). As Vargas (2004) explains, low-income, minority, and first-generation students are especially likely to lack specific types of “college knowledge.” Zimmerman (2000) asserts that at-risk students are less likely to seek help when they need it. As such, educational institutions must provide students with specific types of resources and support to insure that they move through college successfully. Peer mentoring programs like the one to be described here can serve to supplement existing programmatic and institutional efforts to support first-generation students, while building capacity and empowering students through the development of critical college knowledge.
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Identifying And Managing Asperger’s In The Classroom
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Friday, February 10 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
At many colleges and universities, the number of students with Asperger’s Disorder continues to increase. While these students have the intellectual abilities to be successful, they struggle with understanding social cues and comprehending unwritten rules and procedures. They may be teased or laughed at by other students. As a result, these students pose unique challenges to faculty members, administrators and other students during their college careers. Working successfully with Asperger’s students requires an understanding of their behavior and knowledge of how to communicate with them. In this program, Brian Van Brunt, Ed.D., will offer recommendations for helping these students to succeed.
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Universal Design Within Student Affairs: Proactive Design For Inclusion And Engagement
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, February 14 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Institutions of Higher Education continue to strive to retain and engage all students. One way that this has been addressed specifically for students with disabilities over the past decade is through the application of Universal Design (UD) regarding reduction of physical barriers, and the application of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) regarding reduction of academic barriers (Belch, 2004; Getzel, 2008). The principles and framework of UD have been well established; notably summarized by Burghstahler and Cory (2008). As the focus on UD has increased, the value of UD beyond people with disabilities has gained positive attention (Harper & Quaye, 2009). Originally created as a framework for architecture, UD has expanded to applications inside and outside of the classroom; its very nature spurning users to think creatively and expansively.
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Online Student Retention: Assessing Why Students Stay And Why They Leave
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, February 16 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
Two of the most widely discussed topics in post-secondary education today are online teaching & learning and student retention & success. In the national dialogue these topics are usually treated separately. However, those institutions that make great use of online delivery have learned – often the hard way – that increasing the rates of retention and success of online students requires mechanisms and resources grounded in the unique characteristics of the students who gravitate toward distance and technology-mediated course delivery.
In this webinar we will examine the experiences of University of Maryland University College (UMUC), the largest public university provider of online programs and courses in the United States, in measuring and improving the retention and success rates of its online students.
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Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: How to Improve the Academic Success of Student Veterans on Your Campus
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, February 23 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
There have been over 2.3 million soldiers deployed to the Wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan since October 2001. Of these, approximately 1.4 million
have left active duty and begun their transition to civilian life,
engaged in getting an education and new jobs. Many of these new veterans
face psychological and readjustment difficulties that are the invisible
wounds of war. The VA estimates that approximately 51% of returning
soldiers sought help for a mental health problem, usually Post Traumatic
Stress. In this lecture, we will explore the scope of mental health,
neuro-cognitive, and readjustment problems that previously deployed
military veteran students face as they return to our college campuses.
We will also explore some unique issues military veterans not been
deployed to a war zone may bring to college campuses. Finally, we will
provide some guidelines on how campus initiatives and education can help
these service men and women thrive in their educational endeavors.
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Supporting Part-Time Faculty Through Policy Development, Integration & Professional Development
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, February 29 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Colleges are facing an overwhelming challenge in developing part-time faculty as an institutional advantage rather than a last minute alternative. Concerns regarding the growing use of part time faculty have been widely studied and analyzed. However, virtually all existing research supports the assertion that part time faculty are as equipped to assist students in reaching their academic outcomes when hired, retained, and supported as a viable workforce demographic (Gappa & Leslie, 1993; Levinson, 2005; Wagoner, Metcalfe, & Olaore, 2005). This presentation will address the need for a more relevant and timely exploration of strategies that support part-time faculty and their role in student success and retention.
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How To Involve Faculty In Recruitment & Retention Efforts
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, March 1 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
With increased competition for the best and brightest students, faculty have become instrumental in student recruitment efforts. Furthermore, research shows that a meaningful relationship with a faculty member can make the difference in a student deciding to stay at an institution or leave an institution. Admissions and enrollment professionals are experts at the top of the funnel when students are expressing interest in an institution, but faculty involvement can be crucial when a student is deciding between one place and another. Students want to know who will be teaching them and the faculty are the experts in the academic fields.
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Building And Maintaining A Robust And Productive Student Success Team
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, March 7 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
Many campuses have student success teams or retention committees; however, many of them are less than productive. Increasing student retention is much more realistic when there is a large contingency focused on retention initiatives. Having a robust student success team can be instrumental in your retention efforts.
Hear from the chair of a very robust student success team who has led the team for more than 8 years and led the efforts to increase retention by 10 percent at the institution. The team’s composition, agendas, follow-up, and recognition are key to the success in building a team that is effective and produces results year after year. Join us and you will receive valuable information regarding how to build a productive student success team on your campus.
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Increasing Academic Performance Using First-Year Seminars And Learning Communities
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, March 8 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
Early intervention is critical to campus retention efforts. Early alert systems offer institutions systematic approaches to identifying and intervening with students exhibiting at-risk behaviors before the behaviors reach the acute stage. Many of these systems rely on a common format for student referral to a central receiving point. Systems at larger institutions use web-based technology to allow for a scalable approach to at-risk intervention. This presentation describes the development, implementation, and assessment of a web-based, fully integrated early alert referral system at a large, public university in the Southwest.
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Teach Students How To Learn: Metacognition Is The Key!
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, March 8 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
This webinar is designed to help faculty, learning center professionals, and student affairs personnel develop strategies to help students become independent, self-directed learners. A discussion of the characteristics of today’s students will help participants understand why many students lack effective learning strategies when they enroll in college, and how simple it is to teach them strategies for successful learning.
Reflection and think-pair-share activities will introduce participants to cognitive science research based methods that can be used to improve teaching and learning. The session will provide a variety of strategies that have proven successful in helping students experience meaningful, transferable learning.
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Supporting Transfer Students: Creating A Campus Climate That Promotes Student Success
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Friday, March 9 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Transfer and access to higher education are now more intertwined than ever before. Many institutions are looking to transfer students to fill in the enrollment gaps left by fewer high school graduates. Accepting transfer students into the culture of the campus isn’t as easy as simply admitting them. Changing campus climate and culture to accept and value transfers can be a challenge for many faculty and administrators. Building a campus climate that enhances student success and welcomes this ever growing population takes an intentional effort with university-wide support. Participants will be instructed on how to assess the campus environment as it relates to transfer students and their experiences. Based on their campus audit, faculty and staff will hear some creative ways of building a transfer friendly and transfer-going culture on their campuses.
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Embedding Universal Learning Design In The Classroom: Low And No-Cost Strategies That Work
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, March 15 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EDT
Postsecondary education affirms both access and excellence in education. Both require resources and commitment to achieve. Traditional sources of learning assistance and developmental education are under both strain of limited financial resources and the desire to reduce offerings of developmental-level courses. Instructors of first-year and lower-division college courses are uniquely positioned to increase student achievement and persistence through using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to embed best practices of learning assistance into their classroom activities. The same UDL principles can also be used within student service units. This webinar will equip educators with a practical toolbox of activities and strategies that can easily be implemented.
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Developing Strong K-16 Partnerships That Increase Latino/a Student Access And Success
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, March 20 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EDT
Institutions across the country have struggled to create initiatives that lead to increased completion rates for all students and more specifically for Hispanic students. This webinar will focus on the myriad of strategies and initiatives being utilized by South Texas College in collaboration with nineteen school districts to create a college-going culture and increase college readiness and completion. The purposeful partnerships with K-12 have led to a nine percent increase in college-going rates, twenty-seven percent increase in English Language Arts college readiness, and a twenty-six percent increase in mathematics college readiness over a five year period in a predominately Hispanic population.
Participants will receive information on key collaborative strategies for elementary, middle, and high schools. A major focus will be on the comprehensive dual enrollment program including dual enrollment academies, early college high schools, and dropout recovery programs.
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Driving Student Success Through A Culture Of Evidence
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, March 21 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EDT
Established via Legislative mandate, South Texas College opened its doors in 1993 and has grown from 1,038 to over 27,500 students in sixteen years. Serving a 95% Hispanic Student body, the College has taken bold steps to balance student access with student success. 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.
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Staying Smart: Strategies For Moving Forward With Assessment
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Friday, March 30 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EDT
This workshop will ask you and your colleagues to consider your assessment challenges and will help you identify tools to enhance assessment planning and the use of assessment to improve teaching and learning. The presentation will include a discussion of ways to keep assessment front and center so that programs continue to improve in meaningful ways.
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Increasing Student Involvement And Retention: An Innovative (And Low Cost) Peer Program That Works
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, April 4 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EDT
It’s a familiar sight on many college campuses, especially at the beginning of a new term…the classic Involvement Fair. It may be called by different names on different campuses, but it is essentially the same wherever you see it. A collection of tables and displays are arrayed in a large open space where interested parties can walk up and learn the details of a myriad of different opportunities. For those of us who are driven by a passion for helping students connect and engage with our institutions, there are few experiences that give us such a close and personal view of student involvement. Before our very eyes, we watch new relationships form and new interests develop. Maybe the reason we all do some version of an involvement fair is because it always seems to work. Perhaps it is that it works so well that we so often fail to ask a very important question, “Does it work for everyone?”.
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Peer Mentoring For Transfer Students: Creating A Bridge That Helps Students Succeed
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, April 5 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EDT
As public funding for colleges and universities diminishes in a poor economy, coupled with an increasing emphasis on accountability for retention and graduation rates, academic and student affairs specialists face multiple challenges. To meet these expectations at a large metropolitan university that enrolls more than 10,000 new transfers each academic year, an innovative Peer Mentor program was developed. The successful program assists students as they prepare for transfer, helps them through their transition and guides them as they progress to graduation. Through collaboration with multiple partners, this peer program trains students to be first-level academic advisors, provides them a structure and support to develop transition programming that meets the needs of new transfer students, and creates a bridge for new students into the academic and social life of the campus community.
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Developing & Implementing A Web-Based Early Alert System
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, April 5 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EDT
Early intervention is critical to campus retention efforts. Early alert systems offer institutions systematic approaches to identifying and intervening with students exhibiting at-risk behaviors before the behaviors reach the acute stage. Many of these systems rely on a common format for student referral to a central receiving point. Systems at larger institutions use web-based technology to allow for a scalable approach to at-risk intervention. This presentation describes the development, implementation, and assessment of a web-based, fully integrated early alert referral system at a large, public university in the Southwest.
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Empowering Non-Traditional Students To Succeed In Today’s College Classroom
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, April 11 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EDT
This 90-minute webinar is designed specifically for classroom teachers who can expect to encounter non-traditional students regularly in their courses. A significant secondary audience would be the academic administrators who supervise those faculty members and who are responsible for training them. The purpose of this webinar is to help faculty members and administrators understand who non-traditional students are, what sorts of special needs they may have and how instructors can help to meet those needs, and how non-traditional students can often make unique contributions to the learning environment. The webinar will be led by a 26-year veteran of the community college classroom who has taught literally thousands of non-traditional students over the years and who has also served as a department chair and an academic dean.
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Retention