Dr. Natasha Casey, assistant professor of communication, recently presented (with co-author Spencer Brayton) research on media literacy and social justice at the Global Media Education Summit at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Category Archives: Professional Presentations
Avendano and Myers present at conference
Lisa Avendano and Laurie Myers, specialists in the LLCC Writing Center, attended the New Mexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention Conference, Feb.16-17, in Albuquerque. They presented a session titled “Taking the Writing Center to the Classroom: How the Embedded Tutoring Model Has Improved Assessment Opportunities.”
Barb Eades and Karen Sanders present at national conference
Barb Eades, assistant director, LLCC Foundation, and Karen Sanders, vice president, advancement, and executive director, LLCC Foundation, presented at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) national conference for community college advancement in Anaheim, Calif. Oct. 27. Their topic was “Creating an Engaging Faculty and Staff Giving Campaign.”
Al Shull presented at Culver Stockton art exhibit Oct. 22
Al Shull, professor of art, had 15 oil paintings and drawings exhibited at the Mabee Art Gallery at Culver Stockton College in Canton, Mo. Oct. 4-22. Prof. Shull spoke about his art to students and alumni at the exhibition’s closing event last Saturday during Culver Stockton’s homecoming weekend. Shull’s art is described as “photorealistic, capturing an unexpected moment in time. His work is large and full of biographical details which beautifully narrate the person within the picture plane.” His co-exhibitor and presenter was Stan Hilginbrinck, a fellow Culver Stockton alum.
Dr. Colin Suchland and Tiffany-Anne Elliott present at Assessment Institute
Dr. Colin Suchland, professor of sociology, and Tiffany-Anne Elliott, academic support programs coordinator for the LLCC Center for Academic Success presented “Lifting Learning Barriers — Positioning Embedded Tutoring as a High Impact Practice to Increase Student Mastery of Core Competencies” this past Monday at the Assessment Institute. Elliott discussed how the LLCC Writing Center’s formative program review led to piloting embedded tutoring on our campus and shared the results of preliminary assessment of that service. Suchland presented his assessment of how having Elliott as an embedded tutor in a section of his SOC 101 course dramatically improved students’ completion of assignments as well as their performance of written communication skills as measured by the written communication general education VALUE rubric.
If you would like to hear more about their work, they will be holding a session on Professional Development Day titled “The Win-Win: Improving Student Engagement and Skills via Embedded Tutoring” in which faculty and staff can learn more about embedded tutoring, its power to impact student success and opportunities for incorporating embedded tutors into other courses.
Julie Clevenger and Jamie McCoy present at NCLCA conference
Julie Clevenger, executive director, LLCC Center for Academic Success, and Jamie McCoy, workforce development and health care program coordinator, presented “From Classroom to Clinicals: Supporting Students in Health Care Programs” at the 37th annual National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) Conference on Oct. 8, in Reston, Virginia. The presentation was intended to teach strategies for academic support professionals to use to support students in health care programs, even if the support professionals did not come from a health care background.
NCLCA is dedicated to promoting excellence and providing support to learning center personnel at the post-secondary level. The national conference has more than 300 attendees annually.
Jamil Steele presents at Forum for Excellence Conference
Marybeth Hentrich, adult education coordinator; Nancy Sweet, dean, Workforce Institute; Adam Watkins, dean, arts and communication; Brent Todd, dean, natural and agricultural sciences; Jason Dockter, associate vice president, academic services; Scott Searcy, dean, mathematics and computer science; Brandon Lewis, program navigator, Open Door Workforce Equity Initiative; Jamil Steele, director, adult education and literacy
Jamil Steele presented on “Adult Education Information Technology Pathways” at the Forum for Excellence Conference on Sept. 23, in Bloomington/Normal. The conference theme was Cultivating Collaboration Through Conversations.
The Forum for Excellence highlights the continuing partnership of career, technical and adult education in Illinois. The Forum is sponsored by the Illinois Community College Board and hosted by the Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support and the Southern Illinois Professional Development Center.
https://icsps.illinoisstate.edu/cte/forum-for-excellence
Dr. Frederick presents to ICCB Board
Lewis-Fritz presents at ICCFA Annual Conference
Laurie Lewis-Fritz, assistant professor of music, presented as part of a panel at the Illinois Community College Faculty Association Annual Conference on Teaching Excellence. This year’s conference, “Sharing Stories of What the Pandemic Wrought,” was held virtually on Friday, Nov. 12.
In conjunction with Dr. Irene Apanovitch-Leites from Black Hawk College, the panel, “Hope & Perseverance in the Choral Classroom: Responding to Global Crises” featured a discussion about how choral rehearsals were adapted to the online modality and on maintaining hope and resilience in the classroom.
Two LLCC faculty presented at MIIIE virtual conference Nov. 5-6
At the recent Midwest Institute for International and Intercultural Education virtual conference, Rihab Sawah, professor of physics, provided a presentation that showcased the Stamps of Hope Syrian refugee art exhibit while it traveled prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (including its hosting on the LLCC campus) and its successes at subsequent exhibit sites. Sawah also discussed the future of the travel exhibit post COVID-19. In addition, the presentation highlighted the presence and purpose of Stamps of Hope artifacts on MIIIE’s new website.
Dr. Alison Stachera, professor of English, presented on how the Stamps of Hope traveling Syrian refugee art exhibit served as a meaningful teaching tool in a developmental writing course, culminating in interdisciplinary collaboration, social activism and real-world writing for her students.