Austin Suite | Teaching/Learning

Math—The Musical—Returns

Barbara Aaker, Professor of Mathematics, Community College of Denver (CO)

 Room 4A, Level 3 | Economic & Workforce Dev.

Vitalizing Environmental and Engineering Technician Programs in an Economic Recession

Jo Dale Ales, Biology Department Chair/Associate Professor; Laura Younger, Associate Professor; and Sandra Guzman, Associate Professor, Baton Rouge Community College (LA)

Room 4C, Level 3 | Teaching/Learning

Create a Sensation with Medication Education!

Susan Schultz, Professor of Nursing, Florida Community College at Jacksonville

ROOM 5B, LEVEL 3 | Teaching/Learning

Team Teaching Terror Management Theory: How Understanding Death Anxiety Can Encourage Diversity

John Kornichuk, Coordinator and Professor General Arts and Sciences; and Sue Hoffman, Professor, Confederation College (Canada)

Room 6B, Level 3 | Educational Technology

Teaching Foreign Language Vocabulary Online and In the Classroom

Max Gartman, Professor of Spanish and French, Chattanooga State Technical and Community College (TN)

Room 7, Level 3 | Student Success

Community Garden Project at South Texas College

Debbie Villalon, Biology Instructor,; and Max Abbassi, Biology Department Chairperson, South Texas College

Room 8A, Level 3 | Teaching/Learning

The Braylon Edwards and Design Lab High School Project at Cuyahoga Community College

Young Shim, Barbara Winston, and Contae Bentley-Murphy, Assistant Professors, Cuyahoga Community College (OH)

Room 8C, Level 3 | Teaching/Learning

Step Up and Lead: Empowering Student Leaders Through a Coach Approach to Interactive Drama

Alexia Vernon, Adjunct Professor, New Jersey City University

Room 9A, Level 3 | Teaching/Learning

Take Notes and Pass the Popcorn: Engaging Business Students with Pop Culture

Thomas Passero, Associate Professor, School of Business, Owens Community College (OH)

Room 9B, Level 3 | Educational Technology

Creating and Implementing a Multimedia Electronic Textbook

Leif Swanson, English Instructor; and Howard Major, Dean, Arts and Humanities, Laramie County Community College (WY)

ROOM 9C, LEVEL 3 | Culture of Evidence

Lest We Forget! Oral Traditions and the Threat They Pose to Institutional Effectiveness

Fernando Figueroa, Dean of University Studies, Tyler Junior College (TX)

ROOM 10A, LEVEL 3 | Culture of Evidence

Assessing How Student Success Courses Influence Engagement in College

Maryellen Mills, Doctoral Candidate, CCLP, The University of Texas at Austin

ROOM 10B, LEVEL 3 | Developing Faculty

Preparing Students for Our Fast-Changing Global World

Dom Bongiorni, Chair, Communications and Cosmetology Department, Lone Star College–Kingwood (TX)

ROOM 11A, LEVEL 4 | Student Success

Creating Student Success in a Paraeducator Training Program

Joseph Davis, Professor, Teacher Education/Curriculum Specialist, Project FLAGSHIP; Melanie Wursta, Project Director, Project FLAGSHIP; and Karen Bydlon, Support Specialist, Project FLAGSHIP, Lehigh Carbon Community College (PA)

ROOM 11B, LEVEL 4 | Diversity

Best Practices for Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Faculty in Higher Education

Margaret Venable, Assistant Vice President/2008-09 ACE Fellow, Georgia Perimeter College

ROOM 12A, LEVEL 4 | Teaching/Learning

The Practicality of the Liberal Arts as Preparation for Life

Debra Sikes, Professor, English, Tarrant County College Northeast (TX); and Barbara Murray, Professor, English, Daytona State College (FL)

ROOM 12B, LEVEL 4 | Leadership/Organizational Dev.

Climbing on the Box: Student Leaders Build Capacity for Service-Learning

Teresa Baumgartner, English Instructor, Faculty Service-Learning Coordinator, Butler Community College (KS); Adrian Rodriguez, Vice President, Student Development, Tarrant County College Trinity River (TX); and Danica Dickson-Murray, AmeriCorps*VISTA, Butler Community College (KS)

ROOM 13A, LEVEL 4 | Teaching/Learning

Avoiding Paralysis by PowerPoint: Active Learning in the College Classroom

Charis Sawyer, Associate Professor, Johnson County Community College (KS)

Room 13B, Level 4 | Educational Technology

Motivating and Supporting Faculty in Online Instruction

Katie O’Brien, Graduate Assistant; and Preeti Palvankar, Education Technology Designer, Kent State University (OH)

ROOM 14, LEVEL 4 | Developing Faculty

Breaking the Ice: The Impact of a New Faculty Seminar Series

Brandie Faulkner, Associate Professor/Assistant Facilitator, New Faculty Seminars; and Shauna Smith, Professor/Facilitator, New Faculty Seminars, Tallahassee Community College (FL)

ROOM 15, LEVEL 4 | Developing Faculty

Entrepreneurial Learning: How People Learn to Learn and Learn to Apply What They Have Learned

Ronald Paige, Director, Instructional Technology, Cleveland State Community College (TN)

ROOM 16A, LEVEL 4 | Educational Technology

Does a WIKI Grab You?

Thomas Scott, Manager- Center for Teaching Innovation; and Dorothy Chase, Professor, College of Southern Nevada

ROOM 16B, LEVEL 4 | Culture of Evidence

Using Interactive Focus Groups to Assess Courses and Programs and to Strengthen Teaching

Terri Kadala, Program Coordinator, Teaching and Learning Center, The University of Texas at San Antonio

ROOM 17B, LEVEL 4 | Leadership/Organizational Dev.

Focus on Reading with a One Book, One Campus, One Community Read

Gail Butler, Director, Clemens Fine Arts Center, West Kentucky Community and Technical College

ROOM 18A, LEVEL 4 | Teaching/Learning

Strategies to Cultivate Critical Thinking Skills While Strengthening Written and Oral Communication

Fortune Taylor, Adjunct Instructor/Former Campus Dean, Strayer University (NC)

ROOM 18B, LEVEL 4 | Student Success

P-16 for Smarties: How Dual Credit and Concurrent Enrollment Create Student Success in Early College Start

Melinda Valdez-Ellis and Christy Ponce, Doctoral Students, Community College Leadership Program, The University of Texas at Austin

ROOM 18C, LEVEL 4 | Educational Technology

Virtualization: A 21st Century Tool for Delivering Online Information Technology Courses

Sunita Rajanala and Randy Ritchey, Faculty, Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology

Room 18D, Level 4 | Economic & Workforce Dev.

Building Successful Business/Industry Partnerships with Community and Technical Colleges

Sharon Hornsby, Campus Dean; and Donald Baham, Instructor/T-Ten Coordinator, Louisiana Technical College–Region 9

ROOM 19A, LEVEL 4 | Student Success

The Wide World of Education

Raymond Puchot, Speech Instructor, McLennan Community College (TX); Tafa Awalojua, Director of Human Resources; Sarah Garrett, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Bristol Community College (MA); Kathy Lingo, Theater Program Director; Lisa Bell, Speech Communication Director, University of Texas at Dallas;and  Jackie Whitaker, Public Information Manager, Lee College (TX)

ROOM 19B, LEVEL 4 | Student Success

Integrating SCANS-WorkKeys Skills into CTE Programs

David Licht, Career Analyst, Central New Mexico Community College

Austin Suite | Teaching/Learning

Incorporating Inquiry-Based Methods in Life Science Curriculum

Adjoa Ahedor, Professor, Life Science, Rose State College (OK)

 Room 4A, Level 3 | Educational Technology

Web Class in the Classroom—24/7 Access

Tommy Flud, Management Instructor, North Arkansas College

Room 4B, Level 3 | Economic & Workforce Dev.

TPR Training—Technical Program Resuscitation!

DeDe Griffith, Lead Instructor, Lee College (TX)

Room 4C, Level 3 | Educational Technology

Using a WIKI to Provide Students Information about Clinical Education Placements

Peggy Block, Coordinator PTA Program, West Kentucky Community and Technical College

ROOM 5A, LEVEL 3 | Teaching/Learning

Pop Quiz: Using Popular Culture and Media Responses in the Classroom

Stephanie DeHaven, Adjunct English Instructor, South Louisiana Community College

ROOM 5B, LEVEL 3 | Diversity

White Teachers/Brown Students: Preparing Teacher Education Majors to Serve Increasingly Diverse Students

Altheria Gaston, Department Chair, Education and Philosophy; and Danna Diaz, Adjunct Instructor, Tarrant County College South (TX)

ROOM 5C, LEVEL 3 | Student Success

An Innovative Approach to Retain Students in a First-Year Gateway Programming Course

Amardeep Kahlon, Professor, Austin Community College (TX); and Larry Lee, Associate Professor, Del Mar College (TX)

ROOM 6A, LEVEL 3 | Teaching/Learning

Students, Textbooks, and Active Learning: The San Jacinto College QEP in Social Science Classrooms

Ed Weller, Professor of History and QEP Faculty, San Jacinto College South (TX); and James Semones, Professor, Sociology/Faculty, QEP, San Jacinto College North (TX)

Room 6B, Level 3 | Teaching/Learning

Theory to Practice: Active and Interactive Learning Strategies in Online Courses

Pam Sharma, Professor of Physics, West Virginia Northern Community College

Room 7, Level 3 | Educational Technology

Converting Internet Movies for PowerPoint Classroom Use

Michael Prim, Instructor of English, Navarro College (TX)

Room 8A, Level 3 | Developing Faculty

Walking the Talk: Distance Learning Certification for Faculty

Charles Fox, Director, Instructional Technology Services; and Jim Rhodes, Instructional Technologist, Polk Community College (FL)

Room 8B, Level 3 | Teaching/Learning

Classism vs Culture of Poverty: Creating a Culture for Student Success-Vertical Alignment to CRS

Deanna Caillier Mercer, Assistant Professor, Teacher Education, Huston Tillotson University (TX)

Room 8C, Level 3 | Student Success

Best Practices for Transfer: Transfer Centers

Bonita Jacobs, Vice President for Student Development/Associate Professor in Higher Education; Marc Cutright, Associate Professor in Higher Education, University of North Texas

Room 9A, Level 3 | Diversity

Looking Through the Diversity Lens—Using Community to Create Classroom Activities and Discussions

Stacy Gresell, Associate Professor of Communication; and Idolina Hernandez, Professor of Sociology, Lone Star College–Cy Fair (TX)

ROOM 9C, LEVEL 3 | Educational Technology

Web Site Accessibility: Opening the Doors to Education

Julie Luscomb, Assistant Professor, Tulsa Community College (OK)

ROOM 10A, LEVEL 3 | Developing Faculty

Peak Performance Practices of Highly Effective and Happy Faculty

Susan Robison, Principal, Professor Destressor (MD)

ROOM 10B, LEVEL 3 | Culture of Evidence

Comparing and Assessing Online vs. On-Campus Lab Science Courses

Peter Jeschofnig, Professor Emeritus, Colorado Mountain College

ROOM 11A, LEVEL 4 | Teaching/Learning

Bottom Line Behaviour

Julia Brandwin-Glait, Faculty, Curriculum Consultant, Nova Scotia Community College (Canada)

ROOM 11B, LEVEL 4 | Culture of Evidence

Research Demystified: Design Your Own Teacher-Action Research Project

Sarah Church, Assistant Professor and Teacher Education Unit Coordinator, Hostos Community College (NY)

ROOM 12A, LEVEL 4 | Student Success

A Program Like No Other: A Description of South Texas College’s Dual Enrollment Programs

Nicolas Gonzalez, Associate Dean for High School Programs and Services; Wallace Johnson, Assistant Director for Early College High School; Lupe Chavez, Coordinator of Dual Enrollment Academies; and Rebecca Millan, Coordinator of Dual Enrollment, South Texas College

ROOM 12B, LEVEL 4 | Economic & Workforce Dev.

Partnering for Success

Linda Wyatt, Director, Career Center, Kansas City Kansas Community College

ROOM 13A, LEVEL 4 | Teaching/Learning

Do What You Love; the Teaching Will Follow

Gale Smetana, Assistant Professor, Kirkwood Community College (IA)

Room 13B, Level 4 | Educational Technology

Distance Education: A New Way to Study Art and Design

Steven Steinman, Dean of the School of Design, American InterContinental University (GA)

ROOM 14, LEVEL 4 | Student Success

I Don’t Teach Developmental Students: How to Modify Instruction to Meet Student Needs

Renee Wright and Margaret Murnighan, Instructors, Triton College (IL)

ROOM 15, LEVEL 4 | Developing Faculty

Leadership and Empowerment through Service Learning

Maria Franco, Assistant Professor, Mathematics/Associate Director, Service Learning; Josephine Pantaleo, Director, Basic Skills Learning Center and Service Learning; and Meghmala Tarafdar, Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Queensborough Community College (NY)

ROOM 16A, LEVEL 4 | Student Success

Becoming the Brady Bunch

Al Groccia, Professor, Mathematics, Valencia Community College (FL)

ROOM 16B, LEVEL 4 | Leadership/Organizational Dev.

Lean and Continous Improvement in Higher Education...The Beat Goes On

Theresa Waterbury, Director of Institutional Research, Winona State University (MN); and Maudie Holm, Core Faculty, Capella University

ROOM 17A, LEVEL 4 | Teaching/Learning

Standardizing Basic Writing: A Data-Driven Approach Through an Online Learning System

Richard Dice, Instructor, Shelton State Community College (AL)

ROOM 17B, LEVEL 4 | Teaching/Learning

Creating “AHA” Moments—How to Give It So They Get It

Bridget Murray, Associate Professor/IECE Program Coordinator, Henderson Community College (KY)

ROOM 18B, LEVEL 4 | Leadership/Organizational Dev.

Mentoring Matters

Pamela Christian, American Council on Education Fellow, Houston Community College (TX); and Zachary Hodges, President, Houston Community College Northwest (TX)

ROOM 18C, LEVEL 4 | Educational Technology

Educate! Engage! Excite!

Mary Dickson, Testing Coordinator/Instructor; and Janyth Ussery, Director of Web Education, Texas State Technical College–West Texas

Room 18D, Level 4 | Developing Faculty

(Almost) Effortless Research: Making Technology Work for You

Linda Reeves and Renata Gibson, Instructional Librarians, Northwest Vista College (TX)

ROOM 19B, LEVEL 4 | Teaching/Learning

Creating Communities for Change and Empowerment: Working With African American and Latino Males

Lloyd Sheldon Johnson, Professor, Department of Behavioral Science; Lee Santos Silva, Associate Professor, Department of English; and Lori Catallozzi, Director of Learning Communities, Bunker Hill Community College (MA)

Ballroom G, Level 4 | Student Success

Starting Right: Entering Students Speak Out

Arleen Arnsparger, Project Manager, MetLife Initiative on Student Success, The University of Texas at Austin; and Vincent Tinto, Distinguished Professor, Syracuse University (NY)