Selection of Past Presentations
Convocation Keynote Addresses:
Santa Ana College - August 2021
Porterville College - August 2021
Tennessee Board of Regents Statewide Gateway Academy 2 - March 2021
Tennessee Board of Regents Statewide Gateway Academy 1 - October 2020
Coastline College - August 2018
Grossmont College - January 2017
San Diego City College Adult Education - August 2016
Mt SAC College - March 2015
College of Marin - January 2015
Merced College - August 2014
Aspen Institute/Bank of America/National Center for Inquiry and Improvement - April 2021
California Community College Statewide Strengthening Student Success Conferences
September 2015, October 2017, October 2018
Community College League of California, Northern California CEO Conference - March, 2014
"Academy for College Excellence: A Model for Student Success"
CIO/CSSO Life in the Fast Lane Expressway to Student Success - March, 2014
"Engaging Students from Matriculation through Completion: Measuring Students' Affective Learning and Why It Matters"
Hawaii Strategy Institute Gone WILD CC Conference - March, 2014
"Closing the Achievement Gap: Student Transformation, Support and Accelerated Learning in the Classroom"
LEAGUE Innovations 2014 - March, 2014
"Closing the Achievement Gap: Student Transformation, Support, and Accelerated Learning"
Achieving the Dream DREAM 2014 - February 16, 2014
"Closing the Achievement Gap: What We Can Learn from Measuring the Non-Cognitive Domain"
The Board of Governors of California Community Colleges - November 12, 2013
"Academy for College Excellence: A Model for Student Success"
The Kresge Foundation Student Success Institute Men of Color in Community Colleges - November 3-5, 2013
"Focusing on the Non-Cognitive and Seeing the Results: Proven Impact on Accelerated English and Math Course Completion for Men of Color”
The RP Group Strengthening Student Success Conference - October, 2013
"Affective Precursors to Academic Performance" panel presentation & "Developing Intrinsic Student Engagement by Addressing the Affective" post-conference workshop
NISOD 35th Annual International Conference - May 27, 2013
"Addressing the Affective in Higher Education Through Professional Development"
Gates Foundation Non-Cognitive Working Session - May 3, 2013
"Brain-based Approaches to Curriculum & Pedagogical Design"
American Association of Community Colleges 93rd Annual Convention - April 22, 2013
"Role of Community College in the Age of MOOCs: Is Developmental Education our Competitive Advantage?"
American Council on Education 95th Annual Meeting: Leading Change - March 5, 2013
"Initiatives that Foster Academic Success for Minority Males"
Achieving the Dream DREAM 2013 - February, 2013
"A Curriculum-Based Intrinsic Model of Student Engagement: Samples from the Field"
Gates Foundation Global Good Fund - January 16, 2013
"Philosophy in Action: From Theory to Practice, Non-Cognitive Precursors to Academic Performance"