2022 Monday General Session Keynote Making Good on the Promise of the Open Door While we know hard work and persistence are essential to success, we also know opportunity and access are the true keys to student persistence and achievement. The 1960s saw the creation of more than 500 “open-door community colleges,” [...]
Patrick Methvin The Fierce Urgency of Now: Transforming Higher Education Through Equity, Innovation, and Value
Dr. Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher Equity Consciousness in Community Colleges: The Call for Advancing Racially Just Student Experiences and Outcomes
2019 Student Essay Contest Winners Video from the 2019 NISOD International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence. Press Release 2019 Scott Wright Student Essay Contest – Winners
Trapped!! Escaping the Comfort of Complacency: Make Every Moment Count Prepare to laugh out loud as we look at real-life situations that cause you to reexamine your passion, commitment, and attitude toward teaching and inspire you to take your teaching and leading to a higher level. This is an entertaining, but challenging [...]
A Mind at Work: Capitalizing on the Relationship Between Mindset and Student Success Many students who walk through the doors of community colleges have already been told they are not college material. Through intentional and deliberate actions, colleges can begin to move students from nonproductive mindsets to productive mindsets and change the [...]
Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire Keynote Metacognition: The Key to Equity and Excellence for All Students Download Presentation Download TSHTL and TYHTL Color Flyer 21st Century students come to college with widely varying academic skills and motivation levels. During this session, chemistry professor, learning strategist, and author Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire [...]
Dr. John O’Brien Keynote The History of the Future of Educational Technology Reflecting on history and our tendency to ignore it in our forward-looking work, EDUCAUSE President and CEO John O’Brien invites us to consider the “history of the future” of higher education technology. He explores engaging “paleofuture” artifacts—for [...]
Mental Health and How It Impacts Education This session focuses on mental health issues that affect students and learning, particularly the impact of trauma. Participants discuss the psychosocial barriers students are facing and how trauma left untreated can have a negative impact on students’ emotional and social development. Participants advance their knowledge [...]
