Penn State

March 17–18, 2009

The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel
State College, Pennsylvania

Governor's Conference on Higher Education Pathways to College Success

Presentations

Day One

Tough Times Require Bold Goals
Molly Corbett Broad

Achieving the Dream: How It WORKS!
John C. Flynn, Jr., Montgomery County Community College
Virginia Carter, Delaware County Community College
Judy Gay, Community College of Philadelphia
Michael Montgomery, Northampton Community College

Promise Lost—College-Qualified Students Who Don't Enroll
Alisa Federico Cunningham, Institute for Higher Education Policy
Christopher Mullin, Illinois Education Research Council and Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Derek V. Price, DVP-Praxis Ltd

Early Alert: Strategy for Student Success
Samuel Hirsch, Community College of Philadelphia
Ron Jackson, Community College of Philadelphia
Jermaine Williams, Community College of Philadelphia

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: An Overview of Postsecondary Education
Kate Shaw, Deputy Secretary, Office of Postsecondary and Higher Education

Preparing ABLE Students for Postsecondary Success
Angela Kenes, Intermediate Unit 1
Sue Conrady, Intermediate Unit 1
Diana Hardy, Penn State Eberly Campus

Accountability: We Are What We Measure
James Moran, PASSHE

Student Mobility: Not Just an Admissions Issue Anymore
Kathleen Howley, PASSHE

Day Two

Access Reconsidered: It Ain't Over 'til It's Over
Patrick Terenzini

Doubling the Number: Moving from College Access to College Success
Hilary Pennington, Director, U.S. Special Initiatives

Lessons Learned in Community College Math Remediation
Jeffrey Focht, Northampton Community College
Elizabeth Tyler Bugaighis, Northampton Community College

The Use of Research for Assessing Developmental Education: So, You Have Collected Data, But What Does It Mean?
Carol A. Rush, Westmoreland County Community College
Mary Horne Snaden, Westmoreland County Community College

What Works: Programs and Interventions for Under-Prepared and Low-Income Students in College
Robert D. Reason, Penn State
Joan Pecht, Penn State

Curriculum Makeover—When Education and Industry Partnerships Meet
James Logan, Life Science Career Alliance
Lauren Ward, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
Laura Roselli, Burlington County College

College Begins in Kindergarten: The Project GRAD Approach
Tycene P. Edd, Project GRAD USA
Robert Rivera, Project GRAD USA

Degree Completion Strategies for Pennsylvania's Adult Noncompleters
Sidney Hacker, Public Works LLC
Matt Schure, President of Pennsylvania College of Osteopathic Medicine and Chairman of the Pennsylvania WIB's Adult Learning Task Force
Craig Weidemann, Penn State

Bridging the Gap in Student Writing: An Online Community Approach
Merilee Griffin, Michigan State University


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