Student Success: The Educational Imperative
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 | Marshall University, Huntington, WV
Deadline to submit proposals: Friday, March 6, 2020
What is success? Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/success) defines success as “a favorable or desired outcome.” For students, success is broader than checking boxes on a program of study. Indeed, EAB’s Student Success Collaborative claims that student success goes beyond having a successful classroom experience. “For students, success consists not just of good grades and steady progress toward graduation, but a holistic sense of fulfillment…They want to become strong candidates for careers in their chosen fields, emerge as competent and trustworthy adults, look back on their time without regrets, and make their mentors and family members proud.”
This conference is a professional development opportunity to learn more about how to achieve our educational imperative: student success. The theme for 2020, Student Success: The Educational Imperative, invites faculty, staff, and administrators from Marshall University and all regionally accredited Colleges and Universities to think deeply about how they define, understand, and promote student success. We seek proposals about how to foster student success by creating conditions and opportunities that support steady progress toward graduation and generate personal fulfillment as students prepare for life beyond the academy.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Classroom structures, projects and/or initiatives that promote student success
- High-impact practices that support success
- Approaches to identifying and mitigating academic barriers to success
- Approaches to identifying and mitigating non-academic barriers to success (such as food insecurity, financial aid, or first-generation status)
- Ways to examine and assess the campus and institutional culture and relative impact on student success
- Ways to build a community that inspires a feeling a belonging in students and faculty
- Ways to define and measure success
- Impact of curricular and co-curricular community engagement opportunities
Session Types/Proposal Submission
Submit a proposal by completing the fillable pdf and submitting to both fugett5@marshall.edu and ctl@marshall.edu.
Click here for the pdf form.
- Interactive Presentation: 75 minutes; one or more facilitators; audience interaction
- Panel Presentation: 75 minutes; three co-panelists for approximately 20 minutes each with Q&A (you may choose to create your own panel or indicate your interest in being placed into a panel by conference organizers)
- Workshop/Tutorial: 2 hours; one or more facilitators; participants work on some element of their own teaching practice (e.g., syllabus development, high-impact practices)
- Teaching Clinic: 30-minute time slots for demonstrations of particularly fruitful teaching practices and brief discussion; single facilitator
- Facilitated Roundtable Discussion: 30-minute time slots for open discussions of success initiatives either inside the classroom or at the Institutional level; one or more facilitators; audience participation expected
For questions, contact April Fugett, Ph.D. (fugett5@marshall.edu) or Jenny Morgan (jennifer.morgan@marshall.edu).