NISOD and Macomb Community College to Host Regional Workshop Austin, Texas, August 8, 2018 – The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) announced it will host a Regional Workshop, scheduled for March 29, 2019, at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan. NISOD’s Regional Workshops bring professional learning closer to faculty, administrators, and [...]
Volume XL, No. 24 | August 2, 2018 Let Me Take a Selfie Student engagement in the classroom and on campus is thought to improve students’ grades and increase retention rates. Having students involved in on-campus activities is beneficial because of the personal connections and relationships students build through their participation in [...]
Since 1991, NISOD has provided NISOD-member colleges with the opportunity to recognize individuals doing extraordinary work on their campuses with the NISOD Excellence Awards. Held during NISOD’s annual conference, Excellence Awards recipients are recognized and honored during the Excellence Awards Dinner and Celebration. Often times, in addition to attending the Excellence Awards Dinner and [...]
Volume XL, No. 23 | July 19, 2018 College Orientation for New Students 2.0 In 1995, I authored the Innovation Abstracts, “College Orientation for New Students,” after Central Florida Community College’s (CFCC) Counseling Department won the Florida Association of Community Colleges Exemplary Practice Award for its student orientation program. As a young, [...]
NISOD Announces Sessions for Second Annual Virtual Conference Austin, Texas, July 16, 2018 – The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) has announced the sessions being presented during the Second Annual Virtual Conference being held on Wednesday, October 17, 2018. Virtual Conference presenters were selected not only because of their reputations and [...]
Member Spotlight - Mountain View College "Mountain View College is a place where we give people hope, but it’s our extraordinary students who truly give us all hope. We believe that everyone deserves a chance to go to college, and we provide our students with choices that lead to [...]
Volume XL, No. 22 | July 5, 2018 The Writing Process: A Look at Pedagogy One of the lessons I’ve learned about the writing process is that the final product is never finished. After submitting an essay to a journal or newspaper, I still get a queasy, uneasy feeling that the essay [...]
NISOD and Kansas City Kansas Community College to Host Regional Workshop Austin, Texas, June 26, 2018 – The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) has announced it will host a Regional Workshop, scheduled for October 12, 2018, at Kansas City Kansas Community College in Kansas City, Kansas. NISOD’s Regional Workshops bring professional [...]
Volume XL, No. 21 | June 21, 2018 Divide-and-Conquer Programming Revisited When I wrote my 1998 Innovations Abstracts, “Divide-and-Conquer Programming: Using Interdependent Teams,” I was an adjunct professor, only teaching face-to-face classes. In the article, I argued that student group projects that used the divide-and-conquer approach—where students in each group divided project [...]
NISOD’s 2018 Conference Celebrates and Inspires Community and Technical College Educators Austin, Texas – June 15, 2018 – Over the 2018 Memorial Day weekend, the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) welcomed more than 1,000 community and technical college teachers, administrators, staff, and their family members to Austin, Texas, for the annual International Conference on [...]