A Guide to Teaching Financial Responsibility This session provides financial basics every parent or grandparent can share with their kids or grandkids. Glenn Kent works as a financial advisor with Ameriprise. He earned an associate degree while attending community college in Pennsylvania and continued his path in education, obtaining a PhD in psychology. [...]
Using Restorative Practices to Interrupt and Address Microaggressions in the Classroom Those of us engaged in the work of addressing identity in the classroom by discussing issues related to race, gender, age, ability, religion, class, sexual identity, and culture have, at some point, encountered unconscious bias in the form of microaggressions. Even though the harm [...]
Helping Students Become Extraordinary: Using the CliftonStrengths Assessment to Enhance Engagement and Retention at Community Colleges In this webinar, which is geared toward all community college professionals who work in instruction, advising, admissions, and student affairs, participants learn how to use the CliftonStrengths Assessment to increase student engagement and retention. This assessment provides an individualized [...]
Exploring NISOD's Benefits Learn more about the benefits NISOD offers its member colleges. Raquel Mendoza, Education Programming Manager, NISOD Cody Bowie, Publications and Communications Manager, NISOD
Volume XLIV, No. 4 | March 3, 2022 Midsemester Evaluations of Teaching: Strengthening Faculty Development in Rapidly Changing Times Student evaluations are used at many higher education institutions to assess faculty performance and encourage self-reflection and improvement over time. However, because these evaluations typically come at the end of the semester, [...]
Seven Ways NISOD Honors Excellence Awards Recipients Each year, a new cohort of NISOD Excellence Awards recipients is honored at our annual conference in Austin, Texas. They join the more than 30,000 recipients who have been honored with the Award by their colleges since the NISOD Excellence Awards were established in 1991. The Excellence Awards [...]
Volume XLIV, No. 3 | February 17, 2022 Teaching Argumentative Writing in the Age of Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces In 2016, an opinion article in The New York Times entitled “Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, and Free Speech, Too,” was written by Sophie Downes, a then-college student at the University of [...]
Using Syllabus Management Technology to Keep Learning on Course This webinar explores the benefits and impacts a syllabus management system had on Angelina College (AC), including consistency, compliance with mandates, and more. AC needed to implement a new syllabus management system that ensured syllabi and curriculum vitae were publicly available. AC implemented Concourse, [...]
Four Reasons to Present at #NISOD2023f2f d The Call for Presentations for the International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence opens soon! Are you considering whether or not to submit a presentation proposal? Here are four reasons you should! 1. Share What You've Learned Recent years have brought diverse challenges to community and [...]
Art, Imitating Life: Integrating Humanities for Teaching Social Sciences Undoubtedly, higher education benefits from collaboration across disciplines. This webinar highlights the use of the humanities to enrich social science instruction. Methodologically, using the humanities as a lens for the social sciences allows students to gain a deeper understanding of often complex, nuanced concepts and unfamiliar [...]