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Tbers,
The TLTC recently broadcast a program on promoting student engagement and
persistence entitled Keeping'em Once You've Got'em II. The handout for this
program is now posted at the TB web site:
www.oneonta.edu/academics/teachingbreakfast/packet47.pdf
You will need your email usercode/password to access this material.
There are papers in this material you may find interesting by John Braxton
who is Professor of Education in the Department of Leadership, Policy and
Organizations at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University and Iris HeavyRunner
who is a National Resilience Resource Center Senior Fellow and the
originator of a student retention model successfully in operation at various
tribal colleges.
John Braxton's research interests center on the college student experience,
the sociology of the academic profession, and academic course-level
processes. He has published over 60 refereed journal articles and book
chapters on topics related to these areas of research interest.
Professor Braxton has also coauthored Toward Understanding and Reducing
College Student Departure. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, and
Institutionalizing a Broader View of Scholarship Through Boyerıs Four
DomaIns. Professor Braxton serves as a Consulting Editor for the Journal of
Higher Education and Research in Higher Education and is a member of the
Editorial Board of The Journal of College Student Retention.
Iris HeavyRunner is currently a Bush Leadership Fellow completing her Ph.D.
in Social Work at the University of Minnesota. An enrolled member of the
Blackfeet Tribe in Browning, Montana, HeavyRunner also currently serves as
Adjunct Faculty at Fort Peck Community College. For the past four years she
was selected as a National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher
Education Training Fellow, an Emerging Scholar for the W.K. Kellogg Native
American Higher Education Initiative, 1996 Department of Education Faculty
Development Fellow, and a 1994 Bush Advanced Child Welfare Scholar.
Tintoıs Theory Revised for Student Departure in Residential Colleges and
Universities on page 8
³Faculty Teaching Skills and Their Influence on the College Student
Departure Process² by John M. Braxton page 10
³Understanding and Reducing College Student Departure² by John M. Braxton et
al page 26
³Traditional Native Culture and Resilience² by Iris HeavyRunner and Joann S.
Morris page 35
³ıMiracle Survivorsı: Promoting Resilience in Indian Students²
by Iris HeavyRunner and Kathy Marshall page 40
As a reminder, the last Teaching Breakfast of the year will be May 5, at 8
am in Morris Hall - please mark your calendars.
Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, New York 13820
email: [log in to unmask]
phone: 607-436-2701
fax: 607-436-3081
IM: oneontatltc
"Ignorance is curable, stupidity lasts forever"
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