Project 90 Leadership Journey Presentation
Guest Speaker: Julie Phelps
Julie Phelps is a mathematics professor at Valencia Community College in Florida. Phelps holds a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction, specializing in Community College from the University of Central Florida. For the past 10 years, Phelps has studied ways to increase student engagement, learning, retention, and graduation among developmental education students.
From 2005-2009, she was project director of Achieving the Dream, a national, grant-funded initiative aimed at helping more community college students succeed – particularly those who have traditionally faced barriers to success, including low-income students and students of color.
Valencia’s Achieving the Dream work focused on identifying and closing achievement gaps across racial and ethnic groups, between college-ready and under-prepared students, and between student success in mathematics and other discipline courses.
Phelps’ work focused on three learning community strategies: supplemental instruction or cooperative learning inside and outside of class; the expansion of the Learning in Community (LinC) approach that brings faculty members and student support experts to work with students in double-class periods; and expanded course offerings focused on academic success and life lessons designed for community college students.
In 2010, Phelps was named the winner of the Virginia B. Smith Innovative Leadership Award, which recognizes leaders who have made exceptional contributions to advance innovation in American higher education.
Guest Speaker: Julie Phelps
Julie Phelps is a mathematics professor at Valencia Community College in Florida. Phelps holds a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction, specializing in Community College from the University of Central Florida. For the past 10 years, Phelps has studied ways to increase student engagement, learning, retention, and graduation among developmental education students.
From 2005-2009, she was project director of Achieving the Dream, a national, grant-funded initiative aimed at helping more community college students succeed – particularly those who have traditionally faced barriers to success, including low-income students and students of color.
Valencia’s Achieving the Dream work focused on identifying and closing achievement gaps across racial and ethnic groups, between college-ready and under-prepared students, and between student success in mathematics and other discipline courses.
Phelps’ work focused on three learning community strategies: supplemental instruction or cooperative learning inside and outside of class; the expansion of the Learning in Community (LinC) approach that brings faculty members and student support experts to work with students in double-class periods; and expanded course offerings focused on academic success and life lessons designed for community college students.
In 2010, Phelps was named the winner of the Virginia B. Smith Innovative Leadership Award, which recognizes leaders who have made exceptional contributions to advance innovation in American higher education.
