Transcript AATYC and Student Success - Arkansas Department of Higher

Center for Student Success
AATYC and Student Success
• Higher ed imperative used to be about access;
now it’s about student success.
• Two-year colleges recognize the challenge,
and have been proactively undertaking
initiatives: Career Pathways, Achieving the
Dream, Center for Community College Student
Engagement (CCCSE), Foundations of
Excellence.
Data Driven Decision Making
• Part-time and Full-time students.
• Achieving the Dream.
• WA and MD momentum point
studies.
AATYC Center for Student Success
• Intended to build upon and better coordinate
this collection work.
• 3 Year Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Grant.
Additional investment by Southern Bancorp.
Center’s Primary Objectives
Promote activities and raise funding to:
• Build upon and take to scale best practices for
student success currently underway.
• Pilot new practices, particularly in critical areas
such as developmental education.
• End goal: Build collection of proven practices
from which colleges can choose.
• Develop and promote supportive policy change.
Gathering Information on Best
Practices
• Established faculty/administrator Advisory
Committee to help identify what works and
guide Center.
• Visited colleges in state and out (OH).
• Worked with UCA Mashburn Center to help
identify best practices (report forthcoming).
• Reviewing research (Community College
Research Center, MDRC, NCPR, etc.)
Information Gathering cont….
• Attended strategic meetings, conferences
– Gates Foundation I-BEST convening
– Achieving the Dream/DEI policy meeting
– National Center for Postsecondary Research
conference at Columbia University titled
Developmental Education: What Policies and
Practices Work for Students.
– Grantmakers for Education conferences to
connect with potential funders.
What Have We Learned?
• Foremost: No Silver Bullet!
• Certain practices are showing promise:
mandatory student orientation and advising,
eliminate late enrollment, college success
courses, early alert systems, student mentoring,
support services (Career Pathways).
• Developmental education is a particularly critical
barrier to student success; some promising
reforms BUT more experimentation is needed.
“Developmental Education is a Moral
Imperative” – Kay McClenney UT Austin
• It will always be critical to access for certain
students:
– Certain students, particularly disadvantaged students,
will always need it, even with improved K-12 learning.
– Non-traditional students will always need it; almost
50% of all students in remedial courses are over 25.
– Not all developmental ed students are the same!
• However, it’s equally critical that it be done
better.
What Do We Know About Doing it
Better?
• Promising reforms fall into 4 categories:
prevention, acceleration, contextualization,
supplemental supports.
Source: Zachry, Elizabeth, and Emily Schneider.
2010. Building Foundations for Student
Readiness: A Review of Rigorous Research and
Promising Trends in Developmental Education.
New York: MDRC.
Bottom Line: More Experimentation
and Rigorous Evaluation Needed
• Developmental Education Redesign
Demonstration Project.
• Test promising practices and other innovative
approaches in AR, and rigorously evaluate.
– Also look at alternative assessment, classroom
instructional practices , and professional
development practices.
Dev Ed Redesign Demo Project
• Workgroup established with developmental ed
faculty from all 22 colleges and ADHE.
• Working with colleges to design their pilots,
develop budgets, seek funding as needed.
• Working to establish data metrics for evaluation,
and needed evaluation support for colleges.
• End Goal: Identify practices that improve student
completion and can be taken to scale, and
identify needed supportive institutional and state
policy change.
Dev Ed Just Piece of Larger Student
Success Puzzle
• Also working to identify other best practices
(CCCSE, etc.), and build institutional research
capacity.
• End Goal for Center: Identification of a collection
(or menu) of student success practices that work
at critical points in education continuum that
colleges can select from and implement to suit
their particular needs.
• Each college will be encouraged and supported to
develop their particular collection of practices.
Pre-college: Getting Ready to
Enroll
•Understanding of college enrollment, application and financial aid requirements (Career Coaches Initiative).
•Early academic assessments and interventions for underprepared students (Arkadelphia College Prep Academy,
summer bridge programs.
•Dual Enrollment and Early College High Schools.
First Year (enrollment to completion of
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gatekeeper courses)
•Eliminate late enrollment.
•Mandatory orientation and advising, student success course, attendance, course of
study.
•Early alert system and academic supports services (peer tutoring, etc).
•Incentives for persistence (multiple Pell dispersals).
•Improved assessment and placement practices (pre-test preparation).
• Improved developmental education practices.
•CCCSE and improved student engagement (mentoring, etc).
•Supplemental support services (childcare, transportation vouchers – Career
Pathways).
•Instructional innovation (collaborative learning, etc.)
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Continued Progress to
Degree Completion
•Mandatory advising.
•Stackable certificates.
•Persistence scholarships.
•Supplemental support services.
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Transfer and/or Employment
•Mandatory advising.
•Job search and placement assistance.
•Internships.
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