Past Events

Format: Teleconference Webinar Registration Due: September 16, 2022 Registration Fee: $220.00 Time: 1-2:30 pm Date: September 23, 2022 Overview: The Intensive Support Transitional Learning Community (ISTLC) is designed to close the academic achievement gap at the developmental educational level. Additionally, ISTLC aims to build and foster the skills necessary for students to transfer into credit level courses as they continue to matriculate. This webinar will provide participants with a savvy way of redesigning developmental education programs at their institutions. The…

Format: Teleconference Webinar Registration Due: September  27, 2022 Registration Fee: $220.00 Time: 1-2:30 pm Date: October 7, 2022 Overview: This webinar will increase participants awareness of difference and consider how issues of diversity can impede the development of inclusive communities. It will examine issues of implicit cultural assumptions, stereotyping, and biases and consider how attitudes toward race and gender operate at a conscious and unconscious level. The session will support participants to expand their cultural competence and ability to make…

Format: Teleconference Webinar Registration Due: October 14, 2022 Registration Fee: $220.00 Time: 1-2:30 pm Date: October 21, 2022 Overview: Over the past five years, high school student populations have been declining nationwide for a number of reasons.  Community colleges have been recruiting and retaining students successfully for years. This session will review how to increase enrollment using refined strategies that will support retention as well as increase graduation rates. Objectives: Conduct Enrollment SWOT Analysis Define enrollment Implementing the proactive strategies…

Format: Teleconference Webinar Registration Due: November 4, 2022 Registration Fee: $220.00 Time: 1-2:30 pm Date: November 11, 2022 Overview: This webinar reviews a range of approaches that can be integrated into the synchronous and asynchronous online classroom to engage students as active collaborators in the teaching-learning dynamic. In addition, the facilitators will examine classroom assessment techniques and assignments that promote individual engagement with course material, questioning techniques that enliven asynchronous discussions, opportunities for active learning in videoconference sessions, feedback strategies…

Format: Teleconference Webinar Registration Due: November 19, 2022 Registration Fee: $220.00 Time: 1-2:30 pm Date: December 9, 2022 Overview: Today, it is recorded that more than a quarter of first-generation students drop out after their first-year college—which is four times the dropout rate of higher-income second-generation students. First-generation students sometimes require special attention to succeed in college, and research has shown that their parents are often unequipped to provide the necessary support. While data is available on the demographics of…

Format: Teleconference Webinar Registration Due: December 16, 2022 Registration Fee: $220.00 Time: 1-2:30 pm Date: January 13, 2023 Overview: A significant percentage of male students of color face substantial challenges when entering college. In order to increase the success and persistence of this student population, institutions need to develop and grow strong recruitment and on-campus programs that will give them the support they need to achieve their full potential. This webinar will highlight the importance of collaborative partnerships between academic…

Format: Teleconference Webinar Registration Due: January 23, 2023 Registration Fee: $220.00 Time: 1-2:30 pm Date: February 3, 2023 Overview: This webinar session will address factors that students (and their parents) take into consideration in choosing which college to attend—based on student persistence to graduation (including academic preparation, social integration, institutional support, and financial considerations), the key factors relevant to finding appropriate job placements, as well as how to identify potentially students and effectively intervene with these students in an integrated…