building student community through student …...goal: inspire all students to seek postsecondary...
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MARIA MOTEN, DEAN
ENROLLMENT SERVICES
AACRAO 2012
MONDAY, APRIL 2 , 2012
1:15 PM - 2 :15 PM
SESSION ID 245
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Building Student Community
Through Student Success
Key Points2
• National Completion Agenda
• Need to Change
• Community-Based Strategic Planning
• Student Success: Shift focus from Access to
Completion
• Implementing Change
• Campus Engagement
The College3
Located in the northwest suburbs
of Chicago
Serves 535,000 residents
27,419 annual unduplicated
headcount
8 associate degrees; variety of
certificates
Provides transfer, career, and
Continuing Education programs
Playing catch-up in college completion
The United States trails
much of the developed
world in college
attainment among young
adults, a key measure of
global competitiveness.
One reason: Other
nations are pressing
harder on quick-
turnaround professional
degrees.
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Less than 25%
Earn an Associate's Degree within 3 Years
o Part-time students rarely graduate even when they have twice as much time (7.8%)
o Graduation odds are specifically low for low-income, minority students
Source: Time is the enemy. Complete College America
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Less than 60%
Earn an Bachelor’s Degree within 8 Years
o Part-Time students are less likely to graduate even when they have twice as much time
(24.3%)
o 20.7% of those seeking a bachelor’s degree require remediation
Source: Time is the enemy. Complete College America
•President Obama is now mandating 5 mi l l ion
addit ional col lege graduates by 2020
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President Obama’s Completion
Agenda
K-20 Educational
System
Employers
Economic Development
Integrated Workforce
Development
The “Old Normal”8
K-20 Educational Systems
Employers
Economic Development
Integrated Workforce
Development
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The “New Normal”9
Harper College’s Strategic Plan12
Inspiration Develop programs with educational partners that inspire postsecondary education and career readiness as a life goal
Partnership Engage in partnerships to develop programs in existing and emerging career areas that enable students to succeed in a global economy
Accountability Create a culture of innovation, accountability and transparency
Completion Increase completion and achievement of all students with a focus on underperforming student groups
College Engagement
Goal and strategy teams have been staffed
Each led by one administrator and one faculty member
More than 170 volunteers are involved in the process
Champion Team
Provides overall direction
6 faculty and 6 administrators
Some student success strategies have gone through a trial, with preliminary
results
We are leveraging partnerships like never before
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Champion Team
•Review Results
•Ability to Scale
•Budget
•Harper Integration
•Identify Owners
•Institutional
Decision
•Review of Literature
•Benchmarking
•Best Practices
•Resources
•Trials
•Know What IT is
•Implementation
•Complete Evaluation
•Budget
•Complete as
designed
•Action Plan
•Budget
•Evaluation Plan
•Define Processes and
Stakeholders
•Know HOW to do it
PHASE I
Investigation
PHASE II
Planning
PHASE III
Pilot
PHASE IV
Evaluation to
Scale
Champion
Checkpoint
Champion
Checkpoint
Champion
Checkpoint14
Inspiration15
Goal: Inspire all students to seek
postsecondary opportunities
Inspire people to learn more about these
opportunities and prepare them to
succeed
First College and Career Expo for
elementary and middle school students
Campus tours for 800 elementary and
middle school students
Goal: Ensure P-20 curriculum
alignment and transfer articulation
Work with faculty and administrators
from the K-12 schools to align curriculum
at all levels
High School districts began giving the
mathematics portion of the COMPASS
placement exam to high school juniors
Created articulated pathway in math
from secondary to postsecondary
levels
Credential Seeking
Developmental Student Pipelines
Complete 15 College
Credits
Complete 30 College
Credits
Dev Students Earned Credential:
13%
Not Earned
15 College Credits
22% (977-704)/1,266Not Enrolled in 15 College Credits
23% (1,266-977)/1,266
Earned 15 butNot Enrolled in
30 College Credits
1% (704-688)/1,266
Sample: 2008 cohorts,
tracked for three years
* Earned is defined as
successful completion
(A,B,C)
Enrolled in 15 College Credits
77% (977/1,266)
Earned 15 College Credits
56% (704/1,266)
Enrolled in 30 College Credits
54% (688/1,266)
Not Earned
30 College Credits
16% (688-488)/1,266
Earned 30 College Credits
39% (488/1,266)
All DevStudents
1,266
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Partners for Success--Mathematics
Goals:
1. Curriculum alignment
Align high school Algebra 2 and Harper’s Intermediate Algebra
2. Increase the percentage of first-time, full-time students beginning in college-level math courses
Encourage juniors to take math their senior year
Offer other courses senior year: dual credit and a career/college readiness math course
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Partners for Success--Mathematics
Fall 2009-Spring 2010
Step 1: Math Compass Testing
2,416 students from High School D211 were tested
Faced with data, there was an increased interest in collaboration
Step 2: Trust Building
Monthly meetings with administration and math faculty from High School and Harper College
Understanding how high school vs college systems work
Sharing course syllabi, final exams, course flowcharts
Listening to what the high schools wanted
Step 3: Curriculum Alignment
High school Algebra 2 and Harper’s Intermediate Algebra
Common Core served as a framework
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Partners for Success--Mathematics
Fall 2010-Spring 2011
Step 4: Expanded to include other districts
5,071 students in D211, D214 and D220 took Compass Math
Large meeting with stakeholders from all 3 districts: Algebra 2 alignment, Harper Intermediate
Algebra final for placement, course flowchart, dual credit course, teacher credentials
Step 5: Finalized curriculum alignment
D211 and Harper math faculty go to Common Core presentation together
Harper’s math faculty invited to attend several D211 math chairs meetings
D211 had summer curriculum projects to align Algebra 2 and rework senior curriculum
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Partners for Success--Mathematics
Specific Results
8% increase in enrollment in senior math by Algebra 2 juniors in District 211
6% increase in number of Harper freshman taking a college-level math class
11% decrease in number of Harper freshman taking a lowest level math class
General Results
Increased awareness in high school about prerequisites and math needed for many
career fields
Increased collaboration between Harper and high schools
Increased access and opportunity to careers that can support a family
Opened doors for underrepresented students
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Partnerships21
Goal: Create stackable career and academic pathways
Identify careers that provide a living wage
Define, research assessment tools for employability skills
Survey advisory committees to determine most important employability skills
Research national data on desired employability skills
Map employability skills to the career curricula by identifying specific learning outcomes listed in course outlines
Goal: Integrate career readiness skills into education and training programs with an emphasis on adult education
Seek to increase the workplace and career readiness of adult students so that they are fully engaged in a global economy
Developed a model for supporting AED students transitioning to career programs
Accountability 22
Goal: Identify funding and leverage partner resources for innovative projects
Identify and pursue prospective private and public granters and philanthropists who will invest in the student success agenda and secure their support
Desired Outcome: To secure at least $1.25 million in partnership funding over 4 years
Goal: Identify, monitor, and publish results on institutional effectiveness measures, key performance indicators and metrics for strategic goals
Work collaboratively with all goal/strategy teams to identify their measures/metrics and set up a system to monitor and publish results to the internal and external communities
Desired Outcome: To create a transparent communication tool, such as a web-based dashboard, that provides constituents with up to date information on the College’s progress towards meeting the strategic goals
Completion23
Goal: Decrease student achievement gaps of developmental, young male and black non-
Hispanic students, while increasing academic achievement for all
Strategy teams:
Accelerated Pipeline
Placement for Success
Early Alert
Summer Bridge Programs
Diversity Student Engagement
2540,347
10,604 Additional Graduates
29,743
Inspiration
Technology
Partnerships
Alternative
Credit
Questions? 27
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Maria Moten: [email protected]