WARREN — A conference proposal submitted by Northern Pennsylvania Regional College’s English instructor, Ben Blood, has been accepted for the national 2021 Teaching Professor Conference held this June in New Orleans, La.

Blood’s presentation titled, “Non-Academic Instruction and First-Year Student Success,” focuses on how teaching skills for balancing life in and out of the classroom, in addition to supplemental reading and writing instruction, best serves students who place into first-year support and development English courses.

This topic was developed after Blood’s nearly ten years of teaching a range of college English courses at various institutions.