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SDD20: The Ambiguity of Student Success
Hours: 1.5
For this interactive workshop we are asking participants, “How do you define and contribute to student success?” This workshop will cover how faculty and staff can understand the ambiguities within student success and redefine the term to allow more access and opportunity to flow through their classrooms and workplaces. This workshop will discuss the topics of equity and inclusion, cultural competence and leadership, utilization of internal and external resources for student success, and the need for commUNITY and engagement practices for students to earn opportunity.
A participant walks away with:
Participants will take away a new way of identifying and utilizing various tools needed to contribute and continuously grow student success in their classrooms and workplaces. Also, participants will leave with tangible takeaways of how and when to encourage students to begin or continue pushing forward on their journey of success as well as facilitate dialogues with their peers, co-workers, and/or commUNITY on student success and practices of how to increase it.
Presenter(s):
Grant E. Loveless was born and raised in Austin, Texas, May 15th, 1999. He graduated from Manor High School, in May 2017, and is now a current sophomore at Austin Community College finishing his prerequisites. He plans to transfer to Rice University to double major in Psychology and Political Science. Loveless aspires to be a Public Diplomacy Foreign Affairs Officer for the United Nations in the United States of America.
Loveless was chosen to be a Student Ambassador and Engagement Specialist with Career and Transfer Services at Austin Community College; inducted Spring of 2019 as the Vice Chair with the Black Student Success Committee at Austin Community College; selected as the first Community and Policy Fellow with Austin Justice Coalition, and currently serves as a member, liaison, and partner of several other student-led and non-profit organizations working hard to create equitable and accessible spaces for students of color in various communities.
At such a young age and with such a productive and adventurous year ahead of him, Loveless was blessed in March of 2019 to be chosen by community members in Austin and Houston to be the recipient of the Influencer of the Year and Activist of the Year by the Minds of Power and Creation; and selected by the Black Austin community to be the recipient of the Community Impact award from Miss Juneteenth Austin and Pecan Street Festival. These awards he received for his work at Austin Community College and in the Austin community.
As a writer, poet, student leader, and social entrepreneur in the Austin community he serves to promote equity and inclusion, and pathways for student success while combating issues of self-love / identity, racial inequality and injustice, and the disparities that minorities face in educational facilities that lead to economic, professional, and academic failure. He continues to assist in various communities and gives his heart, time, and everlasting commitment to serving those who are under-resourced and underprivileged as students or young citizens in Austin, Texas. |
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