Students
This section includes resources on strategies
for increasing student engagement and
involvement in the life of your campus through
orientation, mentoring, service learning,
student clubs and organizations, and athletics.
Orientation
NC-ACCESS provides a wide variety of orientation resource links from colleges in North Carolina and elsewhere; categorized by state and resource type: http://www.nc-access.info/orientationresources.php
Mentoring Programs
Male Minority
Mentoring Program (Adobe Acrobat file)
Durham Technical Community College, Johnston Community College, Mitchell
Community College, Piedmont Community College, Southeastern Community
College, and Wayne Community College participated in a project designed
to improve retention, increase graduation by concentrating resources on
improving educational programs, raise academic performance, and provide
substance abuse education for minority male students. This report documents
the programs' implementation, student outcomes, and potential sustainability.
Additional mentoring program best practices can be found on the NC-ACCESS
website under Retention:
http://www.nc-access.info/retention_mentor.php
Service Learning
The American Association of Community College’s Horizons
Service Learning Project offers resources to assist colleges
in integrated service learning into their institutional climate:
http://
www.aacc.nche.edu/servicelearning
Clubs and Organizations
North Carolina Comprehensive Community College Student Government
Association
http://www.n4csga.org
North Carolina Community College Student Leadership Institute
http://www.nccc-sli.com/
Phi Beta Lambda
http://www.fbla-pbl.org/
Phi Theta Kappa
http://www.ptk.org/
National Student Leadership Conference
http://www.nslcleaders.org/
Athletics
National Junior College Athletic Association
http://www.njcaa.org/
North Carolina Community College Teams and Sports
Frequently updated Excel file of college sports teams.
http://www.ncccs.cc.nc.us/Stu_Dev_Services/StudentDevPersonnel.htm
