Student Success Summit

Join us for the 2024 Student Success Summit on Sept. 17-18 at Emens Auditorium and the Student Center. This free event is an opportunity for campus partners to come together and discuss strategies to foster student success and well-being.

Helping students achieve academic success in today’s technologically advance world requires an understanding and utilization of new and different tools, techniques, and technologies. As we struggle to stay up to date with new and exciting innovations, we must also consider how these new innovations impact curriculum and pedagogical strategies. Thus, this year’s summit will focus on the tools, techniques, and technologies we leverage to support student success.

During the summit, you can expect to learn more about how colleagues are using innovative tools, techniques, and technologies that have led to curricular innovations, pedagogical enhancements, and engaged learning resulting in greater student outcomes.

By the end of the summit, participants will be able to:

1. Discover innovative approaches to creating effective curricular and co-curricular designs that leverage tools, techniques, and technologies that connect with students’ unique strengths and interests.
2. Be able to identify and implement at least one new strategy to facilitate student success.
3. Have ideas about how to lead from where they are to help address systemic and structural barriers to student success and equity.
4. Have a broader understanding of Ball State University’s student success efforts.

Meet our keynote speaker, Dr. Leonard Taylor, and closing speaker, Suzanne Carbonaro!

Dr. Leonard Taylor is an associate professor of higher education and student affairs, and the director of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) at Indiana University.  Dr. Taylor has taught in college contexts for nearly a decade in various teaching roles, working with undergraduate and graduate students.  His scholarship is focused on investigating and improving how student success commitments are enacted at higher education institutions.  Through research, teaching, and consulting, he works to understand, interrogate, and inform how administrators, faculty and staff members, and other post-secondary stakeholders use research, data, and promising practices to enhance post-secondary outcomes.

Suzanne Carbonaro is the director of higher education programs at 1EdTech Consortium.  She has spent 25-plus years serving multiple higher education institutions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic areas of the country.  Ms. Carbonaro served as director of assessment at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Rider University's College of Education and Human Services.  Through her leadership, these institutions were re-accredited and received recognition for their assessment practices, including the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy 2019 Award for Excellence in Assessment.