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Removing Language Barriers to Student Success and Belonging
Date and Time
Monday, February 9, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Location
When: Monday, February 9, 2026
4:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m
Where: Virtual, via Zoom
Description
An OURS Workshop for GVSU Faculty
Join Melanie Rabine-Johnson, Academic Resources and Retention Specialist, to discuss college as a foreign culture and language new to students, regardless of their background and experiences. Melanie asserts that student-belonging comes about as a result of feeling included and dignified by a community within a culture of norms and expectations. Using the 6 Principles of TESOL as they relate to research mentoring, Melanie will help faculty participants gain transferable skills for working with diverse student populations to affirm a student’s belonging regardless of background or experiences.
Melanie Rabine-Johnson is the Academic Resources and Retention Specialist at Grand Valley State University’s College of Education and Community Innovation.
This event has been tagged as and, belonging, ftlc, ours, pew, student, success, and workshop.
Contact
Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship
230 LIB
1
Campus Drive
Allendale, Michigan 49401
(616) 331-8100
[email protected]