Holistic Student Support

UNC colleague and veteran Rob Palermo shares insight into supporting military connected students in their college transition.

The Café model features colleagues from different community colleges. This session featured CVCC faculty and staff as they explored their tips and approaches for making student connections.

Presented by Dr. Sarah Parlier from Blue Ridge Community College in this session you will identify key characteristics of the different generations in your classes and hear recommendations for engagement.

Our professional and personal lives can make us vulnerable to stress. In this session Dr. Kara Finch provided self-care strategies and shared how to effectively deal with upset individuals.

Led by Dr. Devon Graves this session provides pedagogical approaches to building effective relationship-building and teaching practices for students of color.

Dr. Sonny Kelly from Fayetteville Tech delivered a 4-part series on relevant and poignant practices for enhancing teacher and student performance and interaction in face-to-face, online, and hybrid classrooms. This is the third session of the series.

Facilitated by Dr. Stephanie Whalen from Harper College and Achieving the Dream this session unpacks how instruction can build on a student’s prior knowledge and cultural experiences to develop skills and increase engagement.

Facilitated by Dr. Tanya Scott of Achieving the Dream this workshop provided an overview of Universal Design for Learning (UDL, how it can be utilized to create engaging and responsive learning environments for all students, as well as principles and guidelines to help design new courses or revise existing ones.

If you are a faculty advisor who wants to streamline your advising process, or, if you are an instructor and faculty advisor who desires a more consistent approach to advising students, then this session is for you.

Undocumented students in North Carolina face a variety of barriers to entering and persisting in higher education including the community colleges. This workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss issues, trends, and responses to the undocumented population.

This session unpacked the definition of deficit thinking, identified alternative strategies to change the students' outcomes, and illuminated communication's role in dismantling deficit thinking to asset-based pedagogical thinking.

This session is a facilitation discussion about the challenges of online and in-person teaching both pre- and post-pandemic. Several student profiles are discussed with consideration of personality types and ways to successfully reach them for their learning success.

Many colleges have made the decision to move towards half-term courses so that students can focus on fewer classes at a time and can complete courses even if “life happens” midway through a semester. This session highlights one college’s transition and the method that the faculty used to condense the courses; this session is beneficial for faculty wanting to streamline their full-term courses.

This workshop explored best practices in crafting and implementing engaging discussions, as well as how to lead and moderate controversial and hot discussion topics through an equity-minded and trauma-informed lens.

Led by Dr. Kara Finch this session discussed the impact of trauma. Faculty and staff who are aware of trauma’s effects can better recognize it among their students and create a safer environment.