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University of Cincinnati’s
SUCCESS CHALLENGE:
Placing Student Success
at the Center
Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange
For Early Intervention Committee Meeting – October 16, 2008
Caroline Miller, PhD
Sr. AVP Enrollment
[email protected]
Maria Palmieri, PhD
Sr. Research Assoc, IR
[email protected]
UC status in 2000
• Almost 30% baccalaureate Freshmen
gone by the start of the second year
• Fewer than half graduated within 6 years
• That’s a tragedy for students & tax payers
• That’s a tough track record to market for a
research extensive campus
What Contributes to Retention?
• Profile – largely a function of institutional &
student profile (academic, financial &
demographic)
• Progress – prevailing model is around
persistence, but if the goal is graduation we
must focus on progress – the distance to the
finish line, not the distance from the start line
What Contributes to Retention?
• Process – If the goal is to raise the overall
retention and grad rates, it’s important to
focus on the “all” not just those most at
risk
• Promise – Experiences are consistent
with the “Promise of the Brand” – break
the promise, we will lose students
Access Without Success
National Trends:
• Retention rates up, then stable – now
reported to be dropping
• Graduation rates now reported to be
dropping
• The disparity is greater for students from
low socio-economic backgrounds
Pell Eligibility
• UC’s Uptown campus enrolls the third
highest percentage of Pell-eligible
students among research extensive
institutions nationwide – about 30%.
• 50% of UC students are 1st-generation
(40% of Uptown students are 1stgeneration)
So how does UC compare –
particularly for High Risk
Students?
ENTER
SUCCESS CHALLENGE
Success Challenge
Ohio Board of Regents Initiative (1999)
Challenges university main campuses:
1. To increase the baccalaureate graduation
rates of in-state at-risk students
2. To shorten the length of time to degree
Note: Not U College, Not CAT, Not Branches
Success Challenge
Management & Partnership
• Oversight shared by Sr. Assoc VP for EM and
Sr. Vice Provost for Academic Planning
• PI’s in Academic Affairs and Student Affairs
manage programs and are accountable for
budget and reporting
• Research Office within Institutional Research
performs annual assessment and maintains the
data mart
Efforts that
Touch all First-Year Students
• Bearcat Bound Summer Orientation
• Mandatory Placement in math,
English & languages
• First-Year Experience (some colleges)
• Mandatory advising (some colleges)
Academic / Social
Integration
• Writing Center
• Math Learning Lab
• Learning Assistance
Center
• Killer-Course
Supports
• Supplemental
Instruction
• Faculty-Student
Interactions
• Learning
Communities
• First-Year Experience
Courses
Focused Efforts
• Students of Color
• Students in Transition
• BASE – Brothers And • Center for Exploratory
Studies
Sisters Excelling
• Career Navigator
• Cincinnati Pride
Series
Grant
• Transfer and Lifelong
Learning Center
Research Goal:
Determine if Success Challenge is
achieving its goals
1. Are in-state at-risk baccalaureate
students graduating at higher rates?
2. Are they graduating in a more timely
manner?
Methodology
• 2000 and 2001 First-Time, Full-Time
Baccalaureate Degree-Seeking Cohorts
• Compared Success Challenge
Participants to SC Non-Participants
– Graduation Rates
– Time to Degree
– Grouped by Pell-Eligibility Status
Methodology
– Defined 2000, 2001 Cohorts
– Collected Data:
• Degree Sought
• Ethnicity
• Pell-Eligibility Status
• ACT/SAT Scores
• Residency Status
• Graduation Status
• Credit Load Level
• SC Participation
• Gender
• 1st Year GPA
Control Group
• Chosen from pool of Success
Challenge participants
• Match the proportion of Success
Challenge non-participants
• Based on stratification variables
Stratification Variables
Variables
Pell-eligibility
Gender
Ethnicity
ACT/SAT Rank
(Preparedness)
Categories
Pell-eligible
Pell-ineligible
Female
Male
Black
White
Bottom third
Middle Third
Top Third
No ACT/SAT
Preparedness Groupings
ACT / SAT
Preparedness
Group
Head
Count
Percentage
21 & under
1
1602
33.1
22 – 25
2
1655
34.2
26 and up
3
1576
32.6
no ACT/SAT
reported
0
57
Grand Total
4890
Mean ACT/SAT (t-Test)
N
Pell-elig 111
2000 Pell-inelig 484
Total
595
Pell-elig 107
2001 Pell-inelig 386
Total
493
SC
ACT
21.927
23.338
23.076
21.445
23.491
23.064
Non-SC
N
ACT
111 22.018
484 23.015
595 22.829
107 21.385
386 23.410
493 22.988
Sig.
p-val Sig
0.8691 0.1936 0.2805 0.9174 0.7491 0.7489 -
RESULTS
Success Challenge Participants
Do Graduate at Higher Rates
than Non-Participants
2000 Cohort
Graduation Rates
SC
Yrs to
Grad
N
Non-SC
%
N
%
≤4
118
19.8 %
80
13.4 %
≤5
275
46.2 %
195
32.8 %
≤6
309
51.9%
229
38.5%
No Grad
286
48.1 %
366
61.5 %
Total
595
100 %
595
100 %
Success Challenge
Participants Do Graduate
in a More Timely Manner
than Non-Participants
2000 Cohort Time-to-Degree
SC
Non-SC
Significance
No TTD No TTD p-val
Sig.
Pell Elig
51 4.69 27 5.07 0.0221
*
Pell Inelig 280 4.73 225 4.76 0.8150
Total
331 4.72 252 4.79 0.3452
-
2001 Cohort Time-to-Degree
SC
No
Pell Elig
55
TTD
4.71
Non-SC
No
TTD
Significance
p-val
Sig.
29
4.93 0.1487
-
Pell Inelig
224
4.75 173
4.92 0.0364
*
Total
279
4.75 202
4.92
*
0.0118
Success Challenge
Participants Have
Better First-Year
Academic Performance
than Non-Participants
2000 Cohort
First Year GPA
SC
Significance
N
1 yr
GPA
p-val
Sig
111 2.688
111
2.329
0.0001
*
Pell Inelig 484 2.798
484
2.666
0.0003
*
Total
595
2.611 <0.0001
*
N
Pell Elig
1 yr
GPA
Non-SC
595 2.780
Validation
• Rising scores in Student Satisfaction as
measured by Noel-Levitz Student
Satisfaction Inventory
• Rising levels of Student Engagement as
measured by NSSE.
Continued Success
University of Cincinnati Uptown Campus
Retention Rates (Autumn Quarter, 2008)
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
1st Yr
73.3 75.0 77.4 77.5 78.7 80.0 82.0 82.9
2nd Yr
63.8 66.3 66.7 68.2 70.0 71.2 73.8
3rd Yr
58.5 60.8 63.4 64.7 64.3 66.4
UC Graduation Rate climbs to 55% –
Up from 48% just 5 years ago!
UC|Recognition
Awarded National Best Practice Recipient for the
institutionalization of enhanced retention and
graduation rates
By
Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange
at the National Symposium on Student
Retention