CompletionMatters Conversations: Dr Brenda Kays, GTCC, Strategies Supporting Student Success

Conversation with Dr. Brenda Kays, VP, Student Learning and Success, Guilford Technical Community College, North Carolina, discusses strategies for sustaining programs and opportunities for supporting student success, particularly for developmental education students. For example, the college is looking for volunteers to sustain their advocacy program from faculty, to retirees to students. As part of the Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) and a member in Achieving the Dream, the college is creating programs for students to address gaps or to retrain by using both face-to-face and online components, and aiming offer to more convenient and expanded offerings to meet student demand. The college is continuing to assess program effectiveness and impact on student learning, showing early success, including with the NCAT and developmental math competencies. Sharing lessons learned and learning from other colleges is vitally important, and a key part to DEI, to state policy changes, and the postsecondary success initiative generally.

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