Sanjaya hopes the research will ultimately attract industry and
academic partners to the region, enhancing economic development
and work force opportunities.
College Foundation of West Virginia Sees Promising
Results in College Counseling Through Text Messaging
During a recent meeting of the West Virginia Higher Education
Policy Commission, state officials announced that a pilot project
to provide college counseling through text messaging is yielding
encouraging results. The project, which is part of the commission’s
statewide College Foundation of West Virginia (CFWV) outreach
initiative, provides students with a series of text message reminders to help them succeed in college. Students can text back any
time to receive free assistance from a counselor.
“The text messaging project is showing great promise as an innovative and low-cost method for boosting course enrollment and
college retention rates,” says Dr. Paul Hill, chancellor of the commission. “As we strive to meet our goal of doubling the number
of degrees we produce by 2025, we will look to creative strategies
like this to ensure that more of our students graduate on time.”
This October, CFWV will begin its fourth text messaging
campaign. Funding for the service is provided through a grant
from the Kresge Foundation, a private philanthropic organization
headquartered in Michigan. Bluefield State College, Concord University, Fairmont State University, Marshall University, Shepherd
University, Southern West Virginia Community and Technical
College, West Virginia Northern Community College and West
Virginia State University are partners in the project.
Messages guide students through the processes of applying
for financial aid, registering and preparing for college and connecting with resources and advisors once they arrive on campus.
Any student who is planning to attend college for the first time
in the fall of 2017 can sign up to receive the alerts by visiting
the state’s free college-planning resource, www.cfwv.com.
Clio Wins Campus Technology National Award
Marshall University’s Clio, a website and mobile application
that connects users with the history and culture that surround
them, has been named an Education Futurist by Campus Technology. The project is one of only 11 selected in six categories
to represent the magazine’s 2016 Innovator Awards.
Rhea Kelly, executive editor of Campus Technology, says
the Education Futurist category recognizes “projects that are
forward-looking in some way—sometimes it’s the use of cutting-edge technology, sometimes innovative pedagogy or outof-the-box thinking.”
Dr. David Trowbridge, an associate professor of history at
Marshall, created Clio in 2012, and since then it has grown
into a national resource with more than 20,000 users a month
and 10,000 curated entries. Trowbridge was recently named
a Whiting Public Engagement Fellow, for which he received
$50,000 and a six-month leave to devote toward developing Clio.
“Ultimately, I hope this recognition helps us share the
word that this technology is available for anyone to use,” says
Trowbridge.
Named after the mythological muse of history, Clio is free
and has a growing database that includes museums, art galleries, monuments, sculptures and historical sites. For more information about Clio, visit www.theclio.com.
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