Innovative Educators Webinar: Leveraging Internet Technology to Facilitate Student Success

http://www.innovativeeducators.org/retention_p/794.htm

Webinar Description

This presentation will highlight the collaborative efforts of faculty members, student services staff, computer programmers/web developers, and administrators in the development, implementation of an Online Student Profile system which serves as an integral part of a college-wide effort to improve the retention and success of at-risk students (defined as those placing into one or more developmental reading or English courses). This project, funded in large part through a Dept. of Education Title III Improving Institutions grant, resulted in significant increases in student success and retention for this student population.
This internally-produced Online Student Profile system incorporates self-scoring personality and learning style assessment features and a wide variety of student information features in a package used by student services staff and faculty members to provide more individualized service and instruction to students through ease of access to expanded information about individual students and, for instructors, about the learning/cognitive preferences of entire class sections.


Objectives

Participants will learn how to :
• develop and implement an Online Student Profile system that includes a variety of student information features
• teach student services staff how to utilize the system to provide more individualized service
• teach faculty how to utilize the system to learn more about the learning/cognitive preferences of entire class sections and ultimately improve instruction
• incorporate the system into a college-wide effort to improve the retention and success of at-risk students

Who Should Attend?

• Faculty
• Vice Presidents of Academic Affairs
• Vice Presidents of Student Affairs
• VP for Enrollment Management
• Dean/Director of Admissions
• Deans of Academic and Student Affairs
• Student Success Staff
• Retention Specialists
• Student Development Retention Coordinators
• Academic Advisors
• Directors of Enrollment Services
• Directors of Student Development Services



Who is the Speaker?

Clint McElroy, Ph.D., is Dean for Retention Services at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) in Charlotte, NC. He earned his doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Urban Education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He chairs CPCC's Retention Committee, a cross-functional group which focuses on improving student retention, and also its cross-functional Student Intake Steering Committee, which focuses on improving student intake processes. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Activity Director for a federal Title III Improving Institutions grant project focusing on improving retention of students entering the College who placed into two or more developmental courses. The success of the CPCC Title III activity in positively influencing student retention has resulted in teams from several colleges from across the United States visiting CPCC to learn about the implementation of the project and how it might be duplicated on their own campuses. The organization of the CPCC Title III activity was highly cross-functional, requiring substantial interaction among the College's Instructional, Student Services, and Information Technology Services units.

Innovative Educators Webinar: Leveraging Internet Technology to Facilitate Student Success