1. Motivation & Instruction: The Portal to Post- Secondary Student Success Margery B. Ginsberg, Ph.D. Raymond J. Wlodkowski, Ph.D. Adult Student Recruitment and Retention Conference University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

2. Guiding Values … To avoid higher education evolving into a system that reinforces and increases social stratification and inequality, and …To become a system that enhances the education quality of learning for all students Guiding Values … To avoid higher education evolving into a system that reinforces and increases social stratification and inequality, and …To become a system that enhances the education quality of learning for all students

3. Why is college success important… ….beyond the increased demands of a global economy and technology?

4. Why is retention an enduring concern? Persistent low-completion rates (40%) Challenges facing developmental education Disproportionality of low-income, students- of-color who stop out or drop out. Policy research suggests what to do but not how to do it on the ground.

5. Why is instruction foundational to academic success? 90% of social or academic engagement is in the classroom or online. Abstract & extrinsically reinforced systems of education do not work for at least 1/3 rd of students. Access is inseparable from inclusion.

6. What is intrinsic motivation and why is it essential to post- secondary student success?

7. Reflect on your own experience.

8. The Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching

10. An Example of Instruction

11. Transformative ways for faculty & student services professionals… ‘We learn best from our experience, but we never directly experience the consequences of many of our most important decisions’, Peter Senge (1990: 23) Shadowing, interviews and sustained faculty development focused on instruction.

12. Faculty need what students need Authentic community Relevant learning experiences Interesting ways to strengthen instruction Supportive & evidence- focused feedback

13. Where there is a will, there is a way” should be reversed and restated as “Where there is a way, there is a will.” (p. 45). Anyon, 2005

14. What spoke to you? What questions do you have?

15. Thank you!