Understanding and Engaging Under Resourced College Students

Berkshire Community College is excited to host a Bridges Out of Poverty workshop on its main campus. At this training, attendees will better understand how to help under-resourced college students.

Objectives for the event include:

• Identify and give examples of various causes of poverty.
• Analyze students’ internal and external resources and identify campus and community resources that can assist students.
• Give examples of hidden rules of class and college campuses.
• Explain and implement mediation and cognitive strategies to improve student learning.
• Explain language registers, discourse patterns, and story structure as to how they influence students’ success in college.
• Identify paradigm shifts in higher education.
• Describe “Investigations Into Economic Class in America” curriculum as it might apply to my institution.

Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced College Students Workshop overview