PRESS RELEASE: NISOD’S 2022 Conference Celebrates and Inspires Community and Technical College Educators For Immediate Release NISOD’S 2022 Conference Celebrates and Inspires Community and Technical College Educators Austin, Texas—June 8, 2022— Over Memorial Day weekend, May 28-31, the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) welcomed more than 600 community and technical [...]
2022 Tuesday General Session Keynote Play to Win! Leveraging the Unique and Valuable Roles of Community and Technical Colleges to Enable College Completion Dr. Watson Spiva addresses the special roles community and technical colleges play in the college completion movement. She also identifies barriers and solutions to ensuring positive, postsecondary outcomes for [...]
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
Dr. Martha Kanter Restoring the Soul of the Nation
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 [...]