Focus on the Future!
Mission: The Southeastern Supplemental Instruction (SI) Conference seeks to bring together a community of student leaders and academic success administrators/professionals to share experience and expertise in a collaborative environment. Whether you are a student leader, a faculty member, an SI administrator, or a professional hoping to gain more knowledge about SI, you can learn new skills to bring back to your learning environment.
Our Purpose: Often, students and higher education professionals focus their attention on objective goals that elicit immediate results. We forget that focusing too long and too hard on things right in front of us inhibits our ability to see the bigger picture. But what would happen if we switched our focus?
Join us in adjusting our vision in 2020. Once we do, we can make a larger impact on our students, the world around us, and ultimately, our future. With Focus on the Future, we want to grow our teams and strengthen long-term goals in the student success center setting. Not every vision or goal is clear from the start. Every member of our teams bring new lenses, and together these lenses can aid us in our missions. We may not all have perfect vision, but together our vision is 2020!
General Information
Date:
- Friday, September 18, 2020 Pre-Conference (Open to student leaders)
- 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
- Saturday, September 19, 2020 (Open to student leaders, faculty, and professionals)
- 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Cost:
- Students: $15
- Faculty/Professionals: $25
- Cost covers access to keynote speaker(s), concurrent sessions, and a digital Online Strategy booklet.
- Scholarships are available
International Center for SI Endorsement
The International Center for Supplemental Instruction endorses the Southeastern Supplemental Instruction Conference.
Keynote Presentation and Presenters
Separate but Not Alone: Peer Educators Collaborating and Leading from Home
It’s true; supporting students is challenging when you’re stuck at home on your laptop. At the same time, this online environment opens up new doors for teaching and learning, and peer educators are in a uniquely pivotal position to explore and lead this new frontier. By thinking collaboratively and intentionally, faculty, staff, and peer educators across regions can seek new opportunities for working together, co-constructing innovative ways to help students succeed. The effective online practices we create for today will enhance our ability to support student success and equity once we return to our campuses in the future.
Presented by: Valeria Carillo, Roni Haj Hussein, Lindsey Lazo, and Dr. Crystal Kiekel
Student Keynote Presentation: Take the first step: A story of initiative and interdisciplinary collaboration
FSG facilitators play an important part in promoting essential academic skills and enriching the learning experience of many of their fellow students. Facilitators tend to have a passion for supporting students and also have the unique experience of being a student helping other students. Their unique perspective can lead to innovative ways of supporting students as FSG facilitators can identify gaps in support that may have been previously missed. Here we demonstrate an example of two FSG facilitators who reflected upon their struggles, identified gaps in support, and then took initiative to create a successful interdisciplinary program within their FSG program. All facilitators have the ability to change and create for the better with reflection and taking initiative.
Presented by: Samuel Haile and Anshu Kashyap
Student and Faculty/Staff Conference Information
What is Supplemental Instruction?
“Supplemental Instruction (SI) is an academic support model that utilizes peer-assisted study sessions. The SI program provides regularly scheduled review session on course material outside the classroom. SI study sessions are informal seminars in which students compare notes, discuss readings, predict test items, and develop tools for effective organization. The SI program targets traditionally difficult courses at the undergraduate, graduate and professional school levels.
SI is a free service offered to all students in a targeted course. SI is a non-remedial approach to learning as the program targets high-risk courses rather than high-risk students. Participation is voluntary, but all students are encouraged to attend SI sessions. Students with varying levels of academic preparedness participate in and benefit from SI.
This program was developed at UMKC in 1973 and is used in hundreds of colleges and universities around the world.”
-University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2020
More Information
For more information, please visit the or the University of North Georgia’s Supplemental Instruction website.
For more information about SI, how to start your SI program, and/or accreditation procedures, please visit the