{"id":7933,"date":"2015-05-19T20:14:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T20:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hets.org\/?p=7933"},"modified":"2015-05-19T20:14:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T20:14:28","slug":"2016-best-practices-showcase-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/2016-best-practices-showcase-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Best Practices Showcase-"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7856 \" src=\"https:\/\/hets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Banner2016BPS-Web.jpg\" alt=\"Banner2016BPS-Web\" width=\"733\" height=\"223\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><strong>Celebrating Technology Innovation for<\/strong><strong> Hispanic Success in Higher Education<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/2016-best-practices-showcase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Home<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/call-for-proposals\/\">Call for Proposals<\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/schedule\/\">Conference at a glance<\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/showcase-tracks\/\">Showcase Tracks<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/registration\/\">Registration<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/academic-fair\/\">Academic Fair<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/lodging-hotel-reservations\/\">Lodging\/Hotel Reservations<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/sponsors\/\">Sponsors 2016 BPS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/hets-board-meeting\/\">HETS Board Meeting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>When: <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">January 14 and 15, 2016<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where: <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><em>Universidad del Este<\/em>, AGMUS, Carolina, PR<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lodging:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Hotel San Juan Resort &amp; Casino <\/strong><\/span>(<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elsanjuanhotel.com\/default-en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.elsanjuanhotel.com<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>San Juan, PR (<a href=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/2014-hets-best-practices-showcase\/video-about-puerto-rico\/\">video about Puerto Rico<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What: <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Best Practices Showcases, International Speakers, Academic Fair and Networking Opportunities<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who attended: <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Academic leaders, staff administrators, faculty, technology staff, investigators, corporate representatives related to technology and education, students and general public.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">HETS would like to highlight and celebrate the outstanding work of its member institutions in meaningfully and strategically using technology to achieve Hispanic student success. Taking place in <strong>January 14 and 15,<\/strong> the 2016 HETS Best Practices Showcase will focus on <strong>three main tracks:<\/strong> <strong>Access and Student Mobility,<\/strong> <strong>Retention<\/strong> and, <strong>Assessment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">HETS has defined a \u201cbest practice\u201d as an innovative approach or strategy that, with the effective use of technology, has proven to increase recruitment, promote student success, improve student retention and completion, and provide institutions with viable, effective, and efficient approaches to assessment. Overall, it will be a celebration of innovative technology strategies in Higher Education focused on impacting the Hispanic student population by enhancing retention, college completion, and successful learning outcomes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Certainly, HETS member institutions are experts in dealing with the Hispanic population and finding ways to provide them with opportunities to succeed, and we want to open a space for them to share this expertise. Once again, attendees will be not only able to learn from the showcased works, but also find solutions to many common issues and even established new possibilities for collaboration with other institutions and potential partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating Technology Innovation for Hispanic Success in Higher Education Home | Call for Proposals| Conference at a glance| Showcase Tracks | Registration |\u00a0Academic Fair | Lodging\/Hotel Reservations Sponsors 2016 BPS | HETS Board Meeting When: January 14 and 15, 2016 Where: Universidad del Este, AGMUS, Carolina, PR Lodging:\u00a0Hotel San Juan Resort &amp; Casino (www.elsanjuanhotel.com) San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[73,84,105,209,217,219,341,420],"class_list":{"0":"post-7933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hets-events","8":"tag-assessment","9":"tag-best-practices-showcase","10":"tag-bps","11":"tag-hets","12":"tag-hetsevents","13":"tag-hetsorg","14":"tag-retention","15":"tag-une","16":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"rcontreras","author_link":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/author\/rcontreras\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}