Past Conferences

Prior to COVID-19, the NCTLA met twice a year - Fall and Spring. Some of the topics that were discussed at past conferences and workshops were:

  • Discussions to form a new organization

  • Location:
    Pinehurst Country Club, Pinehurst, NC

  • Location:
    Pinehurst Country Club, Pinehurst, NC

  • Topics:
    NCCCS and CRLA program certification

    Location:
    Pinehurst Country Club, Pinehurst, NC

  • Topics:
    Online tutoring, FTE for tutoring, Starting a lab, Supplemental instruction, and Grant writing

    Location:
    Pinehurst Country Club, Pinehurst, NC

  • Topics:
    Study skill strategies, Faculty connections, and Communication

    Location:
    Pinehurst Country Club, Pinehurst, NC

  • Topics:
    Tutor training, Best practices, FTE compliance, and Tutor certification

    Location:
    Pinehurst Country Club, Pinehurst, NC

  • Topic:
    Included distance tutoring

    Location:
    Central Piedmont CC NC, Charlotte, NC

  • Topic:
    Math tutoring, and Certification through CRLA, NADE, and NTA

    Location:
    Pinehurst Country Club, Pinehurst, NC

  • Topic:
    Math tutoring, and Certification through CRLA, NADE, and NTA

    Location:
    Wake Tech, Raleigh, NC

  • Topic:
    Students with disabilities, Learning center spaces, Tracking systems, and NADE certification guidelines

    Location:
    Wake Tech, Raleigh, NC

  • Topic:
    Marketing your lab, Burnout, Barriers with special populations, and NCLive in tutoring

    Location:
    Pitt CC, Greenville, NC

  • Topic:
    Neurodiverse students, Online marketing, Running a center, and New timekeeping systems

    Location:
    Pinehurst Country Club, Pinehurst, NC

  • Topic:
    System-wide changes and initiatives, SACS as a catalyst, and The role of our centers in completion

    Location:
    Forsyth Tech, Kernersville, NC

  • Topic:
    Tutoring and technology, Tutor training, TutorTrac program, Improvement of DRE performance, Learning disabilities, and LibGuides

    Location:
    Cape Fear CC, Wilmington, NC

  • Topic:
    Data overview of NCTLA, Students with disabilities, Mnemonic strategies in tutoring, and The appreciative tutor

    Location:
    Central Carolina CC, Sanford, NC

  • Topic: CRLA certification, Mentoring, Completion and transfer persistence, and Online tutoring

    Location: Pinehurst Country Club, Pinehurst, NC

  • Online Tutoring (In-house and Out Sourced)
  • Grant Writing
  • Forming Faculty Connections to Enhance Students Success and Retention 
  • Meeting Faculty Expectations of the Learning Center
  • FTE Funding and Reporting
  • Tutor Training
  • Supplemental Instruction
  • Developing and Establishing a Writing Center

  • Topic:
    Space for centers, using technology in centers, digital space

    Location:
    Johnston CC, Smithfield, NC

  • Topic: Peer vs. professional tutoring, tutoring nightmares, faculty connections, student success initiatives, and multiple measures

    Location: Gaston CC, Dallas, NC

  • Topic: Avoiding copyright violations in a digital age, ways of knowing, the new MLA, the Irlen Method, student support in a large scale college improvement plan

    Location: Davidson CC, Lexington, NC

  • Topic: mindfulness, mindfulness in language, outthinking the stigma of tutoring, goal setting, constructive honesty, staff motivation, FTE reporting, new center directors

    Location: Asheville-Buncombe TCC, Asheville, NC

  • Location: North Carolina Community College System Office in Wake Tecg, Raleigh NC

  • Location: Pinehurst Country Club, Pinehurst, NC

  • Location: Guilford Tech, Jamestown, NC

  • Topics: auditing, diversity, using social media to attract students

    Location: Guilford Tech, Jamestown, NC

  • Topics: Neurodiversity and learning, centrality of learning centers to the colleges, etc.

    Location: Central Carolina CC, Sanford, NC

  • Topics: Online tutoring, and administrative and tutoring tracks

  • Topics: tutor self-care

  • Topics: neurodiversity

  • Topics: Beyond COVID-19, cross-departmental collaboration, engaging students, collecting meaningful data, shame and learning, mindfulness