USA Funds® has a strong commitment to enhancing postsecondary education access and success. The 2012 USA Funds Symposium focused on discussing and developing plans to leverage financial literacy, student loan debt management and default prevention as well as student retention to promote degree completion and student success. Sessions examined the role that institutional leadership, capacity planning and assessment, and student engagement play in support of college completion.
More than 120 administrators from a diverse group of institutions attended the event to hear from notable speakers who shared their expertise to help inform attendees’ development of realistic and sustainable action plans to address the unique needs and concerns associated with promoting student success.
Presentations
- Capacity Building and Assessment: Pre-Requisites for Success and Sustainability — Walter Kimbrough.
- Capacity Planning: Integrating the New with the Old — James Kellam, Nelva White-Collier, Cheryll Mills, Leilani Harjati, Judith Mills-Wong.
- Re-Defining Success Strategies for the Net Generation — Jane McBride Gates, April Gentry, Hope Cranford.
- Integrating Debt Management, Loan Default Prevention and Financial Literacy — A Winning Approach — Elena Olivier.
- College Completion: Time Is The Enemy — Stan Jones.
- Assessment Tools That Inform Retention, Completion, Financial Literacy and Debt Management — Tiffany McMillan.
- Using Assessment Data to Inform and Validate Your Capacity-Building Recruitment and Retention Efforts — Toya Barnes-Teamer, Phyllis Dawkins, Kevin Bastian.
- What Can You Do to Impact Student Loan Repayment While Students are Still Enrolled? — Joel Harrell, Sharon Wurm.
- Capacity Building: It Matters How You Tell Your Story — Teresa Valeria Parrot.
- Student Engagement: Leveraging Student Engagement to Impact Student Success — Sanford Shugart.
- Facilitating Student Engagement in the Second Year of College — Jill Rasmussen, Melanie Jobe, Rhonda Lovelace, Carla Wood.
- Advancing Self-Regulated Learning and Leadership Through Peer Mentoring — Leroy Hamilton, Jr., Mary Kunz, Adena Williams Loston.
- Students Engaging Students to Impact Student Success — Carmen Panlilio, Ilia Cordero.
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