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Reminder to Register: Next Essential Discussions - Student Success at Scale: Guided Pathways


There is still time to register for “Student Success at Scale: Guided Pathways” – the sixth event in our Essential Discussions: Conversations at Monroe Community College series. The Essential Discussions series explores topics that are shaping the postsecondary agenda. To register or for more information, please visit https://www.monroecc.edu/go/discussion . This event is free and open to the public.

MCC will host this daylong colloquium on Tuesday, February 23, 2016. It will provide opportunities to engage in conversations about how colleges are rethinking their organizational structures and implementing clearer academic pathways to support student success. The event will be held from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center on MCC’s Brighton Campus.

Keynote speakers include Thomas Bailey, Ph.D., George and Abby O’Neill Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and director of the university’s Community College Research Center. Dr. Bailey is co-author of Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success <https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674368286>  (Harvard Press).  The afternoon session will feature Tia Brown McNair, Ed.D., associate vice president of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success at the Association of American Colleges & Universities. Response panels comprising student, faculty and administrator perspectives will follow the morning and afternoon keynote presentations.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Sheila Strong, executive assistant to the president, at <mailto:EssentialDiscussions@monroecc.edu> . You can also share your comments on this event or topic on Twitter using #MCCDiscussion.

I look forward to seeing you soon!

PLEASE NOTE: This presentation will also be video-streamed to the Damon City Campus, Room 5057.

Anne M. Kress
Office of the President
02/10/2016