1 May, 2024

Victories in Information Literacy: An Effective Collaboration Between the Library and Reading Departments

2024-07-30T14:14:16-05:00

Volume XLVI, No. 8 | May 2, 2024 Victories in Information Literacy: An Effective Collaboration Between the Library and Reading Department Montgomery County Community College (MCCC) publishes learning outcomes for each course offered at the college. The Reading Department's outcomes include identifying and applying practical and efficient comprehension strategies for college-level texts. [...]

Victories in Information Literacy: An Effective Collaboration Between the Library and Reading Departments2024-07-30T14:14:16-05:00
31 Aug, 2023

Serving a 360-Degree Need: Using Non-Faculty Employees to Support Students in the Classroom

2023-08-31T09:19:43-05:00

Volume XLV, No. 12 | August 31, 2023 Serving a 360-Degree Need: Using Non-Faculty Employees to Support Students in the Classroom March 2020: It was the middle of the spring semester and dreams of spring break plans were right around the corner. Then the pandemic hit. Our community college, like many others [...]

Serving a 360-Degree Need: Using Non-Faculty Employees to Support Students in the Classroom2023-08-31T09:19:43-05:00
1 Dec, 2022

What Jabari Taught Me: The Power of Engaging Students in Building an Equitable and Responsive Classroom Atmosphere

2023-01-09T10:42:00-06:00

Volume XLIV, No. 20 | December 1, 2022 What Jabari Taught Me: The Power of Engaging Students in Building an Equitable and Responsive Classroom Atmosphere On December 4, 1992, I went to a workshop called "Failing at Fairness" facilitated by Myra and David Sadker (Sadker, 1992). The Sadkers' work on gender [...]

What Jabari Taught Me: The Power of Engaging Students in Building an Equitable and Responsive Classroom Atmosphere2023-01-09T10:42:00-06:00
26 Apr, 2022

“And Scene!” Using Best Practices From Institutional Assessment Processes to Enhance Virtual Learning Experiences

2022-04-27T19:14:21-05:00

Volume XLIV, No. 8 | April 28, 2022 “And Scene!” Using Best Practices From Institutional Assessment Processes to Enhance Virtual Learning Experiences In 2019, more than 170 faculty and staff gathered at a design thinking session at Tallahassee Community College (TCC) to answer the following question: How might TCC redesign its [...]

“And Scene!” Using Best Practices From Institutional Assessment Processes to Enhance Virtual Learning Experiences2022-04-27T19:14:21-05:00
3 Apr, 2019

Help Me! Connecting Students to College Resources

2022-10-31T16:38:14-05:00

Volume XLI, No. 12 | April 4, 2019 Help Me! Connecting Students to College Resources In my eight-week courses, students are assigned a final reflection essay. In it, they are asked to respond to the following questions: Evaluate the choices (personal or academic) you made before this course. What were some of [...]

Help Me! Connecting Students to College Resources2022-10-31T16:38:14-05:00
6 Feb, 2019

CHEERS

2022-10-31T16:38:11-05:00

Volume XLI, No. 4 | February 7, 2019 CHEERS Every semester, I create a to-do list of a new teaching methods to try or previous teaching methods to put a twist on. In particular, I try to implement suggestions students offer for improving my classroom. My continued self-reflections on how to improve [...]

CHEERS2022-10-31T16:38:11-05:00
3 Apr, 2018

Providing 24/7 Service for Students and Employees

2022-10-31T16:41:31-05:00

Providing 24/7 Service for Students and Employees Issue No. 10 • April 2018 In “Providing 24/7 Service for Students and Employees,” Tammie Mahoney, Manager, Information Technology, Harper College (IL), discusses how to increase student success by providing help with technical issues outside of regular business hours.

Providing 24/7 Service for Students and Employees2022-10-31T16:41:31-05:00
14 Dec, 2017

Helping Students Survive So They Can Succeed

2022-10-31T16:37:49-05:00

Volume XXXIX, No. 31 | December 14, 2017 Helping Students Survive So They Can Succeed A recent Wisconsin HOPE Lab report (Goldrick-Rab, Richards, Hernandez, 2017) surveyed 33,000 students at 70 community colleges in 24 states and found that half of the students had unstable housing and two-thirds of them had low food [...]

Helping Students Survive So They Can Succeed2022-10-31T16:37:49-05:00
13 Sep, 2017

Elevating Your Educational “Hotness”: Achieving Teaching Excellence

2022-10-31T16:28:29-05:00

Volume XXXIX, No. 19 | September 14, 2017 Elevating Your Educational “Hotness”: Achieving Teaching Excellence Recently, my colleagues and I facilitated a National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) webinar titled, “Bird by Bird: Creating a Culture of Teaching Excellence.” The webinar focused on creating a culture of teaching excellence through [...]

Elevating Your Educational “Hotness”: Achieving Teaching Excellence2022-10-31T16:28:29-05:00
1 Sep, 2010

Raising the Bar on Completion

2017-06-16T01:30:16-05:00

Raising the Bar on Completion September 2010 Diane Troyer, Senior Program Officer Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (WA) After nearly 10 years of focused attention on improving high school graduation rates, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation realized that high school improvement alone was not enough to improve access to opportunity in America. From [...]

Raising the Bar on Completion2017-06-16T01:30:16-05:00