CoNVerge Program 2017

We are excited to offer a full line up of assorted topics for this year’s conference. Here is a glimpse of some of the planned sessions:

  • “I’ll Never Use This”: Connecting Life to Learning
  • Veteran Retention Begins with Collaboration
  • Dual Enrollment Pell Grant: Successes & Challenges
  • I Got 26.2 Problems but Burnout Ain’t One
  • Passions to Pathways: Outcomes in Career Readiness
  • A New Approach to Peer Mentoring
  • SHATTERED Dreams
  • I F&*%ed Up: Using Failure to Generate Innovation
  • Honors Education: Balancing Challenge and Support
  • The Jump Start Dual Enrollment Program
  • Transition Services for Students with Disabilities
  • Addressing Food Insecurity among Nevada Students
  • No Greater Odds: Sharing Our Students’ Stories
  • Rural Students: If You Invite Them, They Will Come
  • Helping Nevada Families Save for College
  • Increasing College Success for LIFG Students
  • STEM or Not to STEM…That is the Question
  • Professional Development with LIFG Students
  • Embedded Academic Peer Support Specialist Outcomes
  • Fostering Access and Success with E-Communications
  • Educational Equity: The Role of Financial Literacy
  • Rising Researchers – Summer Research Experience
  • Teamwork: Financial Aid and Academic Advisement
  • NEPLANTLActs: Bridging the Gap for First Gen Students
  • Communicating with Millennial Students
  • Innovative Tutoring Models Equal Student Success
  • Keys to Successful Mentorship Programs
  • Barriers and Best Practices for Rural Nevada Students
  • Motivation and Advice for Scholarship Writing
  • Implementing a Minority Male Mentorship Program
  • Sample College and Career Week
  • Gen Z and the Workplace: What Employers Want
  • Faculty Mentoring: Support Academic Engagement
  • Developing the Leaders of Tomorrow
  • Abriendo Caminos/Opening Pathways for Students

For brief descriptions of the above listed breakout sessions, click here: CoNVerge 2017 Confirmed Breakout Sessions Rev 7-10-17.