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 [...]

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 [...]

Reboot Your Class by Teaching With Presence and Compassion As faculty enter the post-Covid teaching arena, there are many strategies available to bring life and engagement to their classes. Contrary to what students think, online courses are not effortless. Online courses require students to have self-management, discipline, and inner motivation. Faculty can help [...]

Faculty Mental Wellness in Academe: Is Leadership Up to the Challenge? In an era of global pandemics, social distancing, covered faces, and vaccine debates, college educators and their students are expected to forge ahead. Yet the question arises: Is leadership prepared? Much is made of student mental wellness, and rightly so, but the [...]

In Need of a Course Chiropractor? Using Distance Learning Alignment Strategies to Improve Student Success Anyone who has ever taken a seminar or course in improving online course design has undoubtedly heard the term "alignment" again and again. Seasoned faculty sometimes resist the concept, especially when they are told to work on learning [...]