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AQIP Action Projects at Wright
College 2014 -2015
Kevin Li, Dean of Instruction
FDW, August 12, 2014
Current Action Projects
• College Completion (to be retired in
December 2015)
• Skills Connection (to be retried in December
2014)
• Service Learning (to be retired in December
2014)
• Two new Action Projects by January 2015
College Completion
• Peer mentor program: To increase retention by connecting committed
student mentors with incoming students to alleviate initial isolation,
increase student involvement and interaction, and improve academic
achievement (implemented Fall 2014).
• Extended orientation: Organized through the Wright in Your Corner
(WIYC) Student Center, extended orientation helps to ensure that
students have a successful transition to college, connect to resources
and skills that build a solid academic and social foundation, and
engage in the Wright College community (implemented Summer
2014).
• Embedded tutoring: In Summer 2013, the Tutoring Center piloted 13
course sections with embedded tutors, followed by 23 course sections
embedded in the Fall 2013 pilot and 40 course sections in Spring 2014.
College Completion
• College Success courses were implemented in Spring 2014; the College
Success course is designed to enhance the student experience at City
Colleges by providing critical information about academic and career
planning, college resources, study and research skills, and opportunities
to become engaged in college life outside of the classroom.
• Co-requisite offerings: Maintained and improved quality of pre-credit and
credit courses linked as co-requisite learning communities to accelerate
developmental education student progress in Fall 2013 and Spring 2014.
• College advisor meet-and-greet and tutor meet-and-greet sessions were
held in Spring 2013 with 70 and 149 students participating, respectively.
The college advisor meet-and-greet was repeated in Fall 2013 and Spring
2014 with 229 and 195 students participating, respectively.
College Completion
• Student Support Services website: In Fall 2014, the College launched
a new, comprehensive website featuring links to important academic
services and other essential services.
• College Completion website: New site (in development Fall 2014) to
house relevant completion materials, like the “Commit to Complete”
handout published in Fall 2013, with links to important completion
information, support services videos, and video testimonials
featuring recent college completers.
With the implementation of these projects, Wright College was able to
attain an 18.6% increase in degree completion for FY 2014. The official
degree numbers for FY 2013 and FY 2014 were 869 and 1031,
respectively.
Skills Connection
• Sixteen (16) workshops have been held since the launch of the program in
Fall 2013, with 105 students in attendance. The workshops covered topics
such as professionalism, communication, teamwork, conflict resolution,
organizational skills and time management, presentation skills,
assertiveness and self-confidence, networking and online professionalism,
and goal setting.
• 245 students have taken WorkKeys tests.
• 217 students earned NCRCs, which translates into a 89% success rate for
Wright College test takers.
• 201 Fit Assessments aiding student career exploration have been
administered in either a classroom setting or on a walk –in basis in office
settings. In both settings, counseling sessions were provided with the
assessments so that students understood the assessment results.
Skills Connection
• 153 Talent Assessments (soft skills inventory) were administered in
either classrooms or on a walk-in basis in office settings and counseling
sessions were provided so that students understood the assessment
results.
• Nine (9) career programs - Computerized Numerical Control,
Environmental Technology, Licensed Practical Nurse, Medical Assistant,
Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA), Paralegal, Psychiatric
Rehabilitation, Radiography, and Registered Nurse Completion - have
integrated Skills Connection tools.
• The Occupational Therapy Program has developed Talent Action Plans by
using Skills Connection tools to help students who may need
remediation with challenges encountered at internship sites. In such
cases, the Skills Connection coordinator works with OTA staff and
administers Fit and Talent Assessments, develops an action plan for any
soft skills deficiencies, and meets with students to monitor progress.
Skills Connection
• Career Exploration support has been provided by combining Fit and
Talent assessments, along with debriefing sessions, students on a walk-in
basis. Career Exploration workshops were provided in six (6)
Foundational Studies Math courses for approximately 300 students.
Career exploration workshops have also been provided for at-risk
students in the Level Up summer program and to one section of College
Success course students.
• The Behavioral Monitoring Scales were used to assess students’ soft skills
proficiency and develop interventions for improvement in both a
Psychiatric Rehabilitation class and an Occupational Therapy Assistant
class.
• Faculty training sessions on Skills Connection tools and how to effectively
integrate them into curriculum have also been provided.
Service Learning
The college involved people in work on this action project through the
creation of a committee and three subcommittees. The inclusion of
administrators, full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, and program
coordinators served to target various stakeholders across the college.
In addition to the original committee, during the spring 2013 semester,
two other college staff members were added, the Skills Connection
Coordinator and the Director of Community Relationships.
The committee has also reached out to the larger college community
by presenting on service learning during Faculty Development Week in
August 2012, 2013, and 2014. These presentations serve not only to
inform and remind faculty that service learning is a current AQIP action
project, but also serve to share best practices, and encourage faculty
participation in service learning.
Service Learning
In the original proposal, the college had planned to submit an application for
the 2015 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. However, once the
application was obtained and work began on it, the college felt that it was
not at a mature enough stage to ultimately submit the application for
consideration.
Although the service learning component is healthy, the college is lacking in
a general commitment to volunteerism. It is hoped that the application can
be revisited in the near future.
Service Learning
Shift in Goals:
In October of 2013, this action project committee found an additional way to
provide students an opportunity for service learning while at the same time
providing other students with much needed daily resources. The committee
began discussions with the Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD). The
GCFD is a nonprofit food distribution and training center that provides food
for hungry people while striving to end hunger in our community. The college
recognized the need to serve both our students at the college and our
community neighbors. With the help of GCFD, the committee worked for the
past year to prepare for the introduction of a food pantry at the college. This
preparation involved collaborative efforts from faculty to the chief engineer
at the college. In July 2014, members of the committee underwent training
with GCFD and the food pantry is scheduled to open at the college in
September 2014. We hope this is the beginning to a lasting commitment to
helping students meet the basic necessities of life. In addition, the food
pantry will provide other students opportunities for service learning.
HLC’s Action Project Requirement
The Commission’s AQIP Action Project requirement is central to
an institution’s success in the program because it compels the
institution to develop the structure(s) necessary to organize and
oversee a quality initiative. This process requires broad
engagement of faculty and staff in the selection of projects and
also through participation on project teams. Moreover the
frequency of Action Projects ensures that the institution
completes a continuous series of initiatives as opposed to
getting mired in lengthy strategic planning processes that are
often delayed and never completed. For many institutions, the
specific choice of project is less critical than the communication
of a shared sense of activity, movement, and purpose. An
important result of early Action Projects is a demonstration that
shared efforts can improve institutional performance.
Overview of targets for Wright
Strategic Metric
❶ IPEDS 150 Completion Rate
❷ Total Awards
Total Degrees
Total Certificates
❸ Credit Students Fall-to-Spring Retention
❹ Student employment rate in area of training
❺ Med. earnings of stud. employed in training area
❻ Total Enrollment (unduplicated)
Credit Enrollment
Adult Ed. Enrollment
Continuing Ed. Enrollment
C2C Enrollment
❼ Transfer within 2 years of degree completion
❽ Transfer after earning 12 credits (fall new stud.)
❾ Remediation transitions 1yr
❿ Transitions to College Credit
⓫ GED Attainment
⓬ Percent of Students Attaining level Gains
⓭ Full-time to 30 ch in 1 year
Part-time to 15 ch in 1 year
1600
1600
1600
AFSCME
1600
1600
AFSCME
AFSCME
AFSCME
1600
FY12* FY13*
FY14
FY15
FY16
FY17
FY18
11%
12%
13%
14%
16%
18%
23%
1,497
1,581
1,629
1,675
1,764
1,847
2,004
735
820
854
887
950
1,010
1,122
762
761
775
788
813
837
882
67.6% 70.1% 70.7% 71.5% 72.1% 73.6% 75.8%
60%
60%
61%
64%
69%
71%
$31,200 $31,824 $31,461 $34,262 $36,149 $38,129
23,076 23,175 22,643 22,829 23,032 23,289 23,603
12,725 12,772 12,874 12,977 13,081 13,186 13,291
5,864
6,504
6,537
6,602
6,668
6,768
6,903
4,982
4,416
4,394
4,416
4,460
4,527
4,617
3,613
5,368
7,123
8,878 10,633
43%
44%
48%
52%
56%
143
145
169
188
221
36.1% 36.4% 36.7% 37.0% 37.6% 38.3% 39.5%
115
155
213
337
426
485
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
7.1%
7.3%
7.5%
7.7%
8.0%
8.4%
9.2%
21.5% 22.0% 22.6% 23.1% 24.2% 25.3% 27.5%
* Targets, not actuals
1600
Full-time Faculty and Professional(1600) Contract Metrics
AFSCME Adult Educators/Coordinators Contract Metrics
DRAFT - for discussion purposes
3/28/2014
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Ideas for the two new Action
Projects in 2015….
• FYE
• Space planning
What other ideas you may
have?
AQIP Action Projects at
Wright College 2014 -2015
Correspondence regarding this presentation
should be addressed to:
Kevin Li, Dean of Instruction/Accreditation Liaison Officer
Wilbur Wright College
One of the City Colleges of Chicago
[email protected]