Transcript Fall 2012 - California Community Colleges

Advancing Student Success in the
California Community Colleges
Presentation to the American Association of Community Colleges
April 2013
Our
Community
• Serving 2.4 Million Students
• 20% of all U.S. Community College Students
• 112 Colleges and 72 Off-Campus Centers
Fueling California’s Workforce
Our graduates and certificate earners:
Keep you safe ~
80% of
firefighters, EMTs
and police
officers are
trained at our
colleges
Keep you healthy ~
70% of California
nurses are
educated at
community
colleges
Innovate ~
48% of UC
bachelor’s degree
holders in STEM
majors
transferred from
a community
college
Transfer Mission
• 28% of UC graduates and
55% of CSU graduates
start at a community
college.
High Return
on Investment
• Californians with a degree will earn $1.3M more
than with a high school diploma.
• For every $1 California invests in a college
graduate, it receives a net return of $4.50.
• Californians with an associate degree nearly
double their earnings in three years.
California and the U.S. Need
More College-Educated
Workers
• Business leaders say hiring and retaining a qualified
workforce is a daunting task.
• In 2009, the Public Policy Institute of California estimated
that by 2025 California will be short 1 million college degree
and certificate holders.
• The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that jobs
requiring an associate degree will grow by 19% through 2018
– twice the rate of jobs requiring a bachelor’s degree.
Shrinking Budget vs.
Growing Demand
Over the past four years…
• Funding for community colleges has been cut $1.5 billion
• Enrollment has decreased by more than 600,000 students
(more students than currently attend all CSU campuses)
• Demand has soared, with workers seeking retraining,
record numbers of high school graduates, veterans
returning and students being shut out from UC and CSU
Need for policies and practices that ensure
student success
• Recession substantially reduced resources. 47% of students
cannot enroll in needed classes, compared to 28% nationwide
• Low completion rates. Of the 77% of students who begin
below transfer-level, only 41% ever achieve a certificate,
degree, or transfer preparation
• If we are forced to ration education, shouldn’t we do it
rationally?
Student Success Task Force
• In January 2011, the California Community Colleges
Board of Governors established the Student Success
Task Force
• Task Force Goal: Examine best practices and models
for accomplishing student success and present
recommendations
• Task Force Composition: 20 members from diverse
internal and external stakeholders groups
A Bold Plan for Refocusing
on Student Success
The Student Success Initiative will…
• Improve educational outcomes and workforce
preparedness and close achievement gaps for historically
underrepresented students
• Decrease time it takes students to earn a degree,
certificate and/or transfer
• Save students and taxpayers money through efficiencies
Task Force Recommendations Overview
Comprehensive plan to improve the System’s
capacity to serve students:
• Rebalance priorities within the community
college system to better focus on the core
missions of workforce preparation and transfer,
while protecting access
• Make community colleges more responsive to
the needs of students and the economy
• Increase student success rates for certificate
and degree completion and transfer to four-year
institutions
Re-Thinking How We Serve Students to
Promote Success for All
• Identify and close equity & achievement gaps:
• Scorecard & Student Equity Planning
• Triage services based on student needs
• Broader approach to service delivery:
• Pre- and post-enrollment services &
supports, “just in time,” and intrusive
services
• Supports for at-risk students
• Re-thinking student assessment– moving towards
a more holistic approach based on a multiple
measures & assessment of college readiness
Re-Thinking How We Serve Students to
Promote Success for All
• Improving communication to students on college
expectations and strategies for student success in college
• Early career and education goal planning – exploration of
career interests (pre-application, pre-enrollment, and postenrollment)
• Declaring program of study and creating student education
plan (initial & comprehensive)
• Strengthen links with community groups and other
partners: K-12, local workforce agencies, etc.
Eight Areas of Focus
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Increase college and career readiness
Strengthen support for entering students
Incentivize successful student behaviors
Align course offerings to meet student needs
Improve education of basic skills students
Revitalize and re-envision professional development
Enable efficient statewide leadership and increase
coordination among colleges
8. Align resources with student success recommendations
Putting Recommendations into Action
• Task Force made 22 specific recommendations
• Action has been taken on 20 of the
recommendations
• Mix of implementation methods: Statutory
and regulatory changes, adoption of best
practices
Student Success Act of 2012
• The Student Success Act of 2012,
Senate Bill 1456, signed into law
in September 2012
• Targets funding to core services
of orientation, assessment, counseling/advising to
assist students with development of education plans
• Focuses on helping new students define goals and get
on track to achievement
Key Provisions
• Mandates assessment, orientation, and
education planning
• Requires students to declare a course of study
• Targets student support services funding model
• Sets minimum academic standards for state
financial aid
• Establishes Student Success Scorecard at all
colleges
Other Approaches to Incentivize and
Support Goal Completion
• Statewide enrollment priorities that reward
students for use of services and academic progress
• More creative approach to service delivery to
improve effectiveness and efficiency
• Integrating institutional student success and
student equity planning to address achievement
gaps
Student Success Scorecard
• Builds on previous accountability system
and continues to measure “high-order”
outcomes: Degree, Certificate, Transfer
• Also measures “momentum points”
• Focuses on institutional progress, rather
than comparison with other colleges
• Expands populations measured
• Data broken down by race, ethnicity,
gender, age group, and level of college preparation
Implementing the Scorecard
• Accountability Advisory committee met
January through June 2012
• Created new and expanded data definitions
• Refined focus on final outcomes and
significant momentum points
• Simplified levels of reporting and identified
proper reports for different audiences
The Reporting Triangle
The Scorecard
• Went live second week of April
• 30,000 clicks in first two days
• http://scorecard.cccco.edu
Student Success Scorecard homepage
http://scorecard.cccco.edu/scorecard.aspx
Statewide tab
Student Success Initiative homepage
http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/PolicyInAction/StudentSuccessInitiative.aspx
Thank you.