Moving from Access to Completion

Moving from Access to Completion

California Community College Student Success Conference

Sacramento, CA

March 14, 2016

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✓ _{Access without support is not opportunity.}

Improvement in rates

✓ _{Access without support is not opportunity.}

✓ Completion requires the timely completion of many courses one after the other over time

Improvement in rates

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✓ _{Access without support is not opportunity.}

✓ Completion requires the timely completion of many

courses one after the other over time.

✓ Improvement in rates of student success does not arise by chance. It requires an intentional,

structured and coordinated course of action that builds collaboration across campus and employs data to improve practice and close equity gaps.

Improvement in rates

Promoting Student Success

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Expectations

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Promoting Student Success

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Expectations

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(e.g. Anne Arundel CC, Austin CC; Central Piedmont CC; Lorain County CC; Miami Dade; Saddleback C; Sinclair CC)

Promoting Student Success

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Expectations

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(e.g. Anne Arundel CC, Austin CC; Central Piedmont CC; Lorain County CC; Miami Dade; Saddleback C; Sinclair CC)

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Promoting Student Success

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Expectations

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• Knowing where to go and who to see

• Knowing what courses to take to transfer/graduate

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Promoting Student Success

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Providing Support

– Financial

– Academic

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Providing Financial Support

✓Incentive grants

✓Summer Pell grants

✓Support for textbooks

Providing Academic Support

✓High School programs

(e.g. Chattanooga State CC; Lee College)

✓Summer / Transfer Bridge programs

(e.g. El Paso CC; Georgia Perimeter College; Pasadena City College; Rio Hondo College)

✓_{Student success courses}

(e.g. Bronx CC; Houston CC System; Wake Technical CC)

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Contextualized Academic Support

✓Supplemental instruction

(e.g. Austin CC; El Camino CC; Gavilan College)

✓Co-Requisite instruction

(e.g. CAP; Butler CC; Butte C; Ivy Tech CC; Long Beach City)

✓Accelerated learning

(e.g. CAP; CC Baltimore County; Gateway CC)

✓Linked courses

(e.g. Kingsborough CC; LaGuardia CC)

✓Embedded academic support

(e.g. I-Best)

✓Adaptive learning

Supplemental Instruction (SI)

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Co-Requisite Instruction

College English

Basic Skills Linked Courses

ESL English

22 “The relationship between accounting and ESL is helping a lot because the accounting

professor is teaching us to answer questions in complete sentences, to write better. And we are more motivated to learn vocabulary because it is accounting vocabulary, something we want to learn about anyway. I am learning accounting better by learning the accounting language better.”

Providing Social Support

(e.g. Zane State College)

✓ Mentors

(e.g Cape Cod CC; Eastern Shore CC; Rio Hondo CC)

✓ _{Cohort programs}

✓ Learning communities

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“In the cluster we knew each other, we were friends, we discussed everything from all the

classes. We knew things very, very well because we discussed it all so much. We had discussions about everything… it was like a raft running the rapids of my life.”

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Promoting Student Success

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Assessment and Feedback

- Entry assessment and placement

Promoting Student Success

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Assessment and Feedback

- Entry assessment and placement

(e.g. Bakersfield; Butte; Camden County; Ivy Tech; Long Beach City; Passaic County)

- Early warning

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Promoting Student Success

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Assessment and Feedback

- Entry assessment and placement

(e.g. Bakersfield; Butte; Camden County; Ivy Tech; Long Beach City; Passaic County)

- Early warning

(e.g. Davidson County; N.E. Alabama; Schenectady County)

- Predictive/Learning Analytics

Promoting Student Success

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Assessment and Feedback

- Entry assessment and placement

(e.g. Bakersfield; Butte; Camden County; Ivy Tech; Long Beach City; Passaic County)

- Early warning

(e.g. Davidson County; N.E. Alabama; Schenectady County)

- Predictive/Learning Analytics

(e.g. South Orange CC District; Coastline; Golden West; Los Rios; Westhill)

- Classroom Assessment

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Promoting Student Success

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Promoting Engagement

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Promoting Student Engagement

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Pedagogies of engagement

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Cooperative/collaborative learning

(e.g. Hawkeye CC; Patrick Henry CC)

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Problem/Project-based learning

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Promoting Student Engagement

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Pedagogies of engagement

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Cooperative/collaborative learning

(e.g. Hawkeye CC; Patrick Henry CC)

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Problem/Project-based learning

(e.g. Gulf Coast State College; Three Rivers CC) ➜

Hybrid/Blended classrooms

Cohort programs

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Learning communities

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Service learning

Promoting Student Completion

Completion requires the timely completion of

many courses one after the other over time.

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Promoting Student Completion

Promoting Student Completion

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_{Removing curricular roadblocks}

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Promoting Student Completion

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Removing curricular roadblocks

✓

Accelerated learning

✓

_{Building supportive pathways to degree}

completion

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(e.g. Chatanooga )

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(e.g.Central Piedmont; Lorain County; Miami Dade; Sinclair)

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Supportive Pathways

Pasadena City College Pathways:

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Promoting Student Completion

✓

Removing curricular roadblocks

✓

_{Accelerated learning}

✓

Building supportive pathways to degree

completion

✓

Building pathways to College/University

completion

✓ Statway/Mathway

(e.g. College of the Canyons; Mt SAC)

✓ Transfer to College Pathways

Closing Thoughts:

It is one thing for colleges to work to retain

students, it is another for colleges to act in

ways that lead students to want to persist and

complete their programs of study.

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Closing Thoughts:

In the final analysis student success is

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