Conferences are wonderful opportunities to learn from and connect with amazing industry leaders. It is often said that in today’s world, it is not what you know, but who you know that really counts. This seems to be the case regardless of the field or profession. So a professional conference truly does provide us with…Read More
Engage Your Culturally Diverse Students
Research shows that student engagement is multidimensional and an important contributor to academic performance and learning outcomes in the classroom (Josephine A. Gasiewski, M. Kevin Eagan, Gina A. Garcia, Sylvia Hurtado and Mitchell J. Chang, 2012; Handelsman, et al., 2005). Engaging students in a variety of activities promotes more participation in the learning process. As…Read More
The Greater Good
In the fall of 2017 I had the opportunity to attend the 31st Annual Conference of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). The conference theme was “Championing Hispanic Higher Education Success: Driving America’s Prosperity”. I greatly appreciated the focus of the event and the extent to which educators from across the nation gathered…Read More