PRESS RELEASE: 2024 NISOD Student Essay Contest Winners Announced For Immediate Release NISOD Announces 2024 NISOD Student Essay Contest Winners Austin, Texas – April 26, 2024 – The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) is proud to announce the winners of its 2024 Student Essay Contest. The [...]
2024 Student Essay Contest Winners Mickyzjha Moore Student Lynda Altman Instructor, Early Childhood Education Forest Mahan President Shalae Morgan Student Marquita Pruitt Instructor, Cosmetology [...]
Meet the 2024 Faculty Conference Scholarship Recipients Heather Elmatti Associate Professor Speech/Communication Lake-Sumter State College Why do you teach? My philosophy of teaching begins with the premise that the purpose of education is to teach students how to think rather than what to think. I strive to inspire my [...]
PRESS RELEASE: 2024 NISOD Student Graphic Design Contest Winner Announced For Immediate Release NISOD Announces 2024 Student Graphic Design Winner Austin, Texas, April 9, 2024 – The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) announced that Dashawn Rustin, a student at College of Southern Maryland, is the winner of the 2024 Student [...]
PRESS RELEASE: NISOD and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Name 2024 Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges For Immediate Release NISOD and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Name 2024 Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges Austin, Texas – April 9, 2024 – The National Institute [...]
Volume XLVI, No. 1 | January 25, 2024 Leveraging Internal and External Stakeholders to Optimize Student Success Introduction How do we define student success? Every institution of higher learning may have a slightly different perspective, although there are certain widely accepted metrics. These include graduation rates; pass rates, especially in gateway courses; [...]
Dear NISOD Members, This message is to inform you about recent developments concerning content on our website, particularly the mandated removal of references to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) from our site, following the passage of SB17. In alignment with the newly implemented law, we are compelled to make these changes to ensure our compliance. [...]
Volume XLV, No. 18 | November 30, 2023 Using Simulation to Explore Healthcare Careers Eastside High School’s Biomedical Science Academy was established to serve high school students through innovation and technology. The Academy was designed using the Linked Learning approach. Linked Learning encompasses a stringent combination of academics, career and technical education, [...]
Volume XLV, No. 16 | November 2, 2023 Improving Student Outcomes Through Collaborative Partnerships Faculty and staff at community and technical colleges demonstrate every day the ability to think with care and nuance about how to best support the students who walk through the doors of their institutions. Community and technical college [...]
Volume XLV, No. 15 | October 19, 2023 Creating an Equity-Minded Syllabus for a Post-Covid Classroom “Everyone smiles in the same language.” If you are anything like me, you smiled when you read the above quote. Aside from its effect of making people smile, I love this quote because it represents equality and [...]