Below are descriptions of past workshops provided. Please note these are only examples of some services, and not a full totality of what can be provided.
Financial Management: Strategic budgeting, resource alignment, and avoiding financial missteps
With a weak national economy and declining state budgets, higher education leaders must provide innovative and creative strategies to maintain organizational effectiveness. Effective resource alignment is inextricably linked with successful leadership. Leadership is always a matter of balancing competing demands, interests, ideas and approaches. The challenge related to aligning resources with priorities is “rarely clear, and may change from time to time, and from place to place. Creating the type of climate that fosters new ideas and facilitates change is a necessary skill set for higher education leaders. This session will discuss the budget development process and ways to align resources through collaboration with various campus entities. In addition, insight will be offered relative to avoiding common pitfalls relative to institutional finances.
Resiliency Matters *
In today’s academic climate, the challenges of retention, persistence, and graduation continue to impact minority male students at an alarmingly negative rate. One area of impact that has gotten much attention on the local and national level, is how psychological and social factors pertaining to campus climate has negatively impacted the experience for minorities and contributed to shortcomings in student success. In this workshop, we address these shortcomings (nationally and campus specific), areas of minority male success, and ultimately how to build upon those areas of success and navigate through the college pipeline to graduation. Through use of research, theory, and personal experiences, a conceptual framework will be presented to help students understand the importance of resiliency to their college success. (* = this workshop series is traditionally done in conjunction with Dr. Aaron Juniper)
Recruiting at community colleges: A strategic approach
Recruitment offices at community colleges are often charged with increasing the institution's population without any strategic and/or data driven guidance impacting the approach to help achieve growth. In this workshop, effective recruitment strategies that focus on necessary collaborative efforts between the institution, community, and workforce are addressed. Participants in this workshop will also have the opportunity to draft the beginning stages of a strategic communication plan for their institution.
How to effectively recruit and retain students into student success initiatives
When working with students in success and mentoring initiatives, it can be difficult to quantify the impact mentorship is having toward the students' success. This workshop examines the results of a 2014 study conducted by Dr. Wade that focused on the impacts of a minority male initiative program at a Texas community college. Based on the findings of the study, the workshop focuses on what strategies do (or don't) work, the impact mentorship (and types of mentorship) has on student success, and recommendations to potentially help colleagues improve their mentorship programs (or perhaps start one on their campus).
Transitioning from undergraduate to graduate chapters: Why it benefits you
NPHC students, particularly males, tend to not transition to the graduate chapter and lose the connection with their Greek experience. They also rarely give back to the undergraduate chapter to help establish a true alumni link between older and current chapter members. Furthermore, without active participation at the graduate level they cannot be of official service to their undergraduate chapter, or within the organization in general. This workshop conveys the message to our undergraduate students that commitment to their organization extends beyond undergraduate years, and that they are missing out on an entirely new experience that can not only benefit them but their home chapter. This workshop also addresses some of the reasons undergraduates tend to not transition, and help dispel some of those negative perceptions with transitioning to the graduate chapter.
Places where Jerrel has presented
ACT Enrollment Planners
American Association of Blacks in Higher Education Leadership and Mentoring Institute (Faculty)
American Association for Paralegal Education
Big XII Conference on Black Student Government (University of Oklahoma)
Channelview (TX) High School
Council for the Study of Community Colleges
Louisiana State University
NASPA IV West Regional Conference (Omaha, NE)
San Jacinto College
The University of Oklahoma
TEDx Tomball ED
Texas Association for Black Higher Education Professionals
Texas Higher Education Symposium (University of Texas - San Antonio)
