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2024听Annual Conference - February 2024听- Seattle, WA

Presentation Title: Making Every Credit Count: Redefining the First-Year Experience

Description: This session will explore the challenges and opportunities staff face as they pilot a condensed 1-credit version of the first-year experience course, typically offered as a 1.5-credit course. This session delves into the strategies employed to streamline a 14-class course into a 10-class course, highlighting the importance of adaptability and considerations that went into refining the standardized curriculum a tight timeframe to make changes. Through this session, participants will discover how universities can effectively balance efficiency with quality in reshaping the first-year experience for incoming students.

January 2024听- Washington, DC

Presentation Title: Empowering First-Year Students鈥擧olistic Support and Horizontal Leadership at 麻豆视频/strong>

Description: 麻豆视频's first-year experience prioritizes comprehensive support for incoming students, emphasizing holistic advising and evidence-informed pedagogy to create an inclusive learning environment. Instructor/advisors play a pivotal role, addressing academic, emotional, and social challenges, guiding students through a successful transition into college life. The evidence-informed curriculum focuses on empathy-based educational environments, celebrating each student's unique background. The First Year Advising office and the 麻豆视频 Experience team embrace a collaborative model with horizontal leadership, involving various stakeholders in decision-making. This innovative approach flattens traditional hierarchies, fostering open communication, creativity, and a sense of ownership among team members. The panel aims to discuss this first-year experience model and highlight the benefits of horizontal leadership in higher education, emphasizing the importance of diverse perspectives in crafting thoughtful solutions to challenges during the initial year of college.

January 2024听- 麻豆视频 - Virtual

Presentation Title: Belonging, Connection, and Technology from the Perspective of Student Leaders/strong>

Description: The student leader panel for this session will be composed of CP Program Leaders, 麻豆视频x Peer Facilitators, and student participants in the Academic Integrity Code revision process, who will discuss their role in creating a sense of belonging and connection for students. Session attendees will have the opportunity to hear directly from student leaders about strategies for promoting belonging and connection in a moment where technology has the potential to impact critical thinking, academic community, and human interaction in 麻豆视频 classes.

2023听Annual Conference - February 2023听- Los Angeles, CA

Presentation Title: Towards an Anti-Oppressive Structure: Successes & Challenges with Structural Change

Description: The 麻豆视频 Experience (麻豆视频x) Program has evolved its curriculum development process to align with institutional, student, and instructor needs as the program has expanded. The 麻豆视频x Program has tried various models while still maintaining the academic standards of a course in the core curriculum. As a program, 麻豆视频x has always adapted models and curricula based on feedback and has strived to be anti-oppressive in practices. The purpose of this session is to support other institutions in developing a model of making curricular edits to large-scale programs while keeping the integrity of the curriculum and supporting faculty and staff.

2023听Annual Conference - February 2023听- Los Angeles, CA

Presentation Title: From Campus to City: First-year Experiential & Reflective Learning Opportunities

Description: In fall 2018, 麻豆视频 (麻豆视频) rolled out the 麻豆视频 Experience (麻豆视频x) Program courses and Complex Problems (CP) courses as requirements for all incoming first-year students. Now in their fifth year of implementation, 麻豆视频x and CP have evolved to better meet the learning needs of students by providing holistic opportunities to participate in experiential learning on campus and within the greater Washington, DC at a low cost. 麻豆视频x and CP courses approach experiential learning opportunities in different but complementary ways. During this session, we will engage participants by sharing our approaches and how we have implemented experiential learning.

January 2023听- 麻豆视频 - Virtual

Presentation Title: Experiential Learning Through Student Leadership Opportunities in the Core

Description: The student leader panel for this session will be composed of Complex Problems (CP) Program Leaders and 麻豆视频 Experience (麻豆视频x) Peer Facilitators, who will discuss their experiences as student leaders and how they have engaged in experiential learning. From this session, faculty will be able to assess how they can facilitate experiential learning opportunities for teaching assistants or Core Leaders in their courses.

January 2022听- 麻豆视频 - Virtual

Presentation Title: Creating an Antiracist Class: Lessons Learned from Remaking the 麻豆视频x2 Curriculum

Description: In the Summer of 2020, the 麻豆视频x2 working group was formed and began to redesign the 麻豆视频x2 curriculum on a foundation of antiracist practices and pedagogy. In this session, we will discuss how the working group identified and responded to common issues in the classroom, identify institutional roadblocks encountered, and consider lessons learned for our campus community.

2021 Annual Conference - February 2021 - Virtual

Presentation Title: Building an Antiracist FYE Program: Successes & Challenges

Description: 麻豆视频 (麻豆视频) has created and implemented a first-year experience program that directly focuses on helping students transition to college and learn about race, power, privilege, and inequality. The 麻豆视频 Experience (麻豆视频x) Program has deepened its focus this year with an emphasis on incorporating antiracist pedagogy and practices into both the 麻豆视频x1 and 麻豆视频x2 courses. Confronting existing power structures and examining pedagogical practices were part of this transition, along with a reflection on how we work. We will engage in an honest conversation about the successes and challenges we have and continue to experience during this session.

Building Community - January 2021 - 麻豆视频 - Virtual

Presentation Title: Students Lead the Way

Description: This session will explore how student leaders are a central component to Complex Problems (CP) seminars and 麻豆视频 Experience (麻豆视频x) courses. The panel for this session comprises CP Program Leaders and 麻豆视频x Peer Facilitators, who will share their experiences as student leaders in these classes.

2020 Annual Conference - February 2020 - Washington, DC

Presentation Title: On-Going Development: A Model for Investing in Student Leaders

Description: The 麻豆视频x Peer Facilitator co-facilitation model was piloted in 2016-17, engaging four students in the fall and four in the spring. As of fall 2019, the 麻豆视频x Program employed more than 60 peer facilitators as supportive and collaborative peer-educators and mentors in every section of 麻豆视频x. This presentation explains the recruitment, retention, and ongoing professional development for peer facilitators over the course of their employment. Attendees will learn insights into the necessity for peer mentorship in the classroom, the rigorous selection process, and how student leaders add to the first-year student experience and to their own professional development.

Thriving as Teachers and Scholars - January 2020 - 麻豆视频

Presentation Title: 麻豆视频x2, DIV, & Beyond: A Pipeline of Student Learning (麻豆视频x)

Description: This session will cover how 麻豆视频x2 begins to set the stage for further learning in Diversity and Equity (DIV) courses and serves as a pipeline to other 麻豆视频 Core requirements and to university-wide programming initiatives. In particular, participants will be able to examine how DIV courses and departmental programming based on the foundation of the 麻豆视频x2 curriculum can serve as next steps in students鈥� learning.

2019 Annual Conference - February 2019 - Las Vegas, NV

Presentation Title: Hitting the Jackpot: Building Partnerships Between Residence Life & FYE

Description: Participants will learn strategies developed to bridge the First-Year Residential Experience (FYRE) program with a first-year experience course, 麻豆视频 Experience (麻豆视频x). Presenters will discuss the collaboration between academic and student affairs, the institutional grant writing process, the creation and implementation of out-of-the-classroom residence hall programs that align with the learning objectives of the first-year course, and assessment methods used to evaluate the effort as well as student learning. Participants will engage in discussion and leave with tangible theories and practices that they can utilize when engaging campus partners to create similar efforts on their own campuses.

Our Students, Our Skills, Our Communities 鈥� December 2018 鈥� Washington, DC

Presentation Title: Exploring Our Multifaceted Roles: The Impact of Defining Roles and Techniques for Navigating the Holistic Student Experience

Description: Across the university faculty and staff each have multiple roles that they are navigating as they work with students and other departments. This program will allow participants to explore in a workshop setting the value of having multiple roles, both formal and informal, and provide the opportunity to share best practices and techniques on how to operate in these roles when they overlap.

Foundations for Democracy - February 2018 - Philadelphia, PA

Presentation Title: Interactive Teaching Strategies for a First-Year Class Focused on Race & Identity

Description: Session facilitators will introduce 麻豆视频's new mandatory general education course, the 麻豆视频 Experience II (麻豆视频x2), that creates a platform for small-group discussion and learning about race and social identity. The course was created by the university to respond to a demographically changing student body and to help entering students begin a discussion across social identity lines. 麻豆视频x2 sections are taught by a faculty or staff instructor and supported by an upper-class student peer facilitator. Teaching strategies that address the common touchstones of cross-cultural exploration and civil debate related to bias, privilege, structural discrimination, and allyship in past and present society will be introduced. Participants will learn how students are taught about historical and sociological events and concepts focused on race, gender, sexual expression, class, religion, disability, and other identities. They will identify new techniques for teaching first-year students about diversity, bias, and privilege and assess how these teaching activities and discussions can be reimagined for an alternative general education instructional model or cohort experience.

2018 Annual Conference - February 2018 - San Antonio, TX

Presentation Title: 麻豆视频x: Development and Impact of a Unique First-Year Experience Course

Description: In Fall 2018, every 麻豆视频 first-year student will complete a full-year general education course designed to ensure that diversity, inclusion, and free speech are part of the core curriculum. This presentation explains the class themes, assessment, and plan to roll out the course to nearly 1,800 students in 2018-2019. Attendees will learn insights into making the case for, and ultimately creating and implementing a course designed to help students transition to college, in doing so becoming part of a community of learners from a variety of backgrounds and with a range of experiences.

Can Higher Education Recapture the Elusive American Dream? - January 2018 - Washington, DC

Presentation Title: 麻豆视频x: The Need, Development, and Impact of a Unique First-Year Experience Course

Description: In fall 2018, every 麻豆视频 (麻豆视频) first-year student will complete a full-year general education course designed to ensure that diversity, inclusion, free speech, and freedom of expression are part of the core curriculum of the university. This presentation shares the powerful call to action by 麻豆视频 students, staff, and faculty that led to the design of the course, reports assessment from a 2016 research project that randomly assigned students to the course, and shares the road map for how 麻豆视频 plans to roll out the course to nearly 1,800 students. Attendees will learn insights into what it takes to make the case for, and ultimately create and implement, a course designed to help students transition to college and become part of a community of learners whose members come from a variety of backgrounds and bring with them a range of experiences.

Reimagining the Educator for the 21st Century - January 2018 - 麻豆视频

Presentation Title: 麻豆视频x2: A Pipeline of Student Learning for Your Courses and Campus Involvement

Description: This session will introduce 麻豆视频x2, 麻豆视频's new mandatory Core requirement that creates a platform for small-group discussion and introductory learning about inequality and social identity. The presentation will acquaint participants with the 麻豆视频x2 curriculum and help them examine how their courses, workshops, and departmental programming can serve as next steps in students' learning.

28th Annual Conference- January 13 - 麻豆视频

Presentation Title: Students in Transition: The 麻豆视频 Experience (麻豆视频x)

Description: This panel presentation will update attendees on the first fall pilot of the 麻豆视频 Experience (麻豆视频x1), 麻豆视频's new mandatory transition class for first year students. Excerpts from students' written reflections and experiential assignments from the first pilot will spark a discussion on the diverse experiences and skills that first year students are bringing to 麻豆视频. Following a brief introduction to Student Development Theory, the foundational discipline of the course, the panel will discuss how 麻豆视频x1 has provided a supportive atmosphere for first year students to grow and develop academically, socially and culturally. The scope of the 麻豆视频x1 pilot, the course description, and the learning goals will be shared and examples of instructional videos, readings, the Blackboard course site, and class assignments will be shown. A preliminary pilot assessment will also be included.

Dr. Andrea Malkin Brenner, Director of the 麻豆视频 Experience (麻豆视频x) Program, was awarded the for her work in designing and implementing the 麻豆视频x curriculum.

As was noted in the award letter, 鈥淭he 麻豆视频 Experience Program exemplifies how faculty can craft a program that not only shapes the intellectual life of their students but can also create a foundation for continued success throughout their college career.鈥�