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SDD17: Student Services for Sustainable Success
Hours: 1.25
This workshop is designed to provide its participants with tools and information needed to improve academic success and classroom engagement for students. Specifically, participants will learn what type of student services are available to assist them with their efforts for reaching out students and ensuring they are properly prepared both inside and outside of the classroom.
A participant in this workshop will walk away with:
Knowledge of the student learning services provided by ACC.
Research supported methods that can be used to increase students' engagement in the classroom.
Monique Johnson-Jones, of Port Allen, Louisiana, completed her B.S. degree in biology at Xavier University of Louisiana. She went on to complete her M.S. degree in leadership and policy studies in higher education at the University of Memphis. While serving as the Director of Freshman Studies at Lane College, she successfully designed a first year program that improved student retention at the College. She then enrolled in the doctoral program in leadership with a focus on higher education at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. She went on to serve as the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs and the Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs at Lane College. After her tenure at Lane College, she moved to Austin, Texas to serve as the Director of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Center at Huston-Tillotson University. In this position, she works with faculty and staff to strengthen the STEM program of the institution which includes securing funds and other resources in order to create new programs while improving the current STEM programs. As Director of STEM, Dr. Johnson-Jones also serves as Director of the Austin Pre-Freshman Engineering Program (AusPREP). This seven-week non-residential summer program for 7th – 10th graders was designed to attract more females and minority students to the STEM areas. The program has been on the campus of Huston-Tillotson University for twenty-five years and continues to thrive. Dr. Johnson-Jones also proudly served as a freshman seminar instructor to the engineering and computer science cohort of first-year students, and the Interim Director of the Office of Sponsored Programs. |
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