Guided Pathways: A First Look at Student Experiences and the Role of Faculty Across the country, colleges are redesigning guided pathways. How are students experiencing this change? This webinar discusses a national report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement that takes a first look at how students are experiencing this transformational reform. Participants also [...]

A Syrian Immigrant's Perspective on Teaching English to Non-Native Speakers This webinar presents an activity that teaches English to international and immigrant students. The presented activity includes three procedures that shore up students' confidence and build their prowess in a college writing course. First, participants use a candy-based exercise, including the well-known Hershey’s Kisses, to stimulate the five senses and generate descriptive words. Next, participants focus [...]

Questions That Create Connections: Fostering Deep Learning in Person and Online With Polling and Quizzing  Whether online, in-person, or any imaginable combination of the two, student engagement matters now more than ever. In this webinar, participants learn how to get started quickly using polling and asynchronous quizzes to facilitate active learning, gather timely student feedback, [...]

Supporting Students: Pause, Plan, Persist The experience of a global pandemic and the shift to online learning has brought with it new challenges for students and the staff who support them. This webinar presents a three-step approach to supporting your students with a focus on pausing, planning, and persisting during uncertain times. Participants review the key attributes of a successful online student and discuss techniques to help struggling students see a [...]

Shared Governance: Stronger Together Shared governance is a stakeholder-driven system founded on principles of openness, transparency, and inclusiveness. It requires partners to take ownership and contribute to accountability-based decisions. This session walks through the steps taken by Madison College to create and foster a successful shared governance experience. Learning Outcomes: Learn five best practices in [...]

The Community College Baccalaureate and Its Role in the Higher Education System This webinar focuses on the role of the Community College Baccalaureate (CCB) in helping community colleges fulfill their mission of providing student pathways toward economic mobility. Students voice why they chose the CCB degree to create an understanding of why this higher [...]

Bridging the Gap: F2F to Online Teaching Skills Many instructors skilled at teaching face-to-face classes are hesitant to teach or develop an online class because they feel it's so different from in-person instruction. Others worry that their specific subject area can't be taught online. With guidance and encouragement, these same instructors can become [...]

Three Student Engagement Strategies for Our New World: Lessons From Community College Leaders and a Behavioral Scientist Effective communication over different channels is now necessary to engage students who will remain distanced from their classrooms in the fall. In this webinar, leaders from CUNY Hostos Community College and Triton College share how they are collaborating [...]

Equity Insight Metrics for Faculty: Moving Beyond Buzzwords Equity Insight Metrics for Faculty: Moving Beyond Buzzwords Too often, institutions rely on lagging performance indicators that analyze students’ past performance, such as graduation rates. Research has now identified a set of leading key indicators in students’ first term and first year that provide evidence [...]

Increasing Equity in STEM and Career Technical Education With Open Educational Resources With the cost of college steadily increasing, many students struggle to afford the materials necessary for success in their courses. River Parishes Community College faculty Dr. Esperanza Zenon is tackling this issue by using and promoting open education resources (OER). This presentation will [...]