Transcript Community College League of California

Community College League
of California: Equity2015 = I3
Implement, Integrate, & Institutionalize
Student Equity
Student Equity Plans: Promising Practices
Denise Noldon, Interim VC, Student Services, CCCCO
Debra Sheldon, Student Equity & Success, CCCCO
May 6, 2015
Student Equity Funding
2014 June—An appropriation of $70 million of Student Equity
funding to the CCCs with new requirements for planning:
 Be coordinated with other categorical programs.
 Include faculty, student services and other constituencies.
 Include Foster Youth, Veterans and Low-Income students as
target populations.
2015 January—Governor proposed an additional $100 million in
of Student Equity funding for 2015-16 FY, bringing the statewide
to $170 million.
2015 May—Revenue estimates are much higher than expected
What is Equity?
Prioritizing Equity
How do we prioritize?
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All students?
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Largest number of students?
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High-need students?
Where is the balance?
Prioritizing Equity
CCRC studied High and low-impact Florida CC’s*
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Focus on retention & graduation vs. enrollment
Target support to underperforming & historically
underrepresented students
Provide well-aligned and proactive student
support services
Provide faculty development on improved
teaching
Experiment with ways to improve student
success
Use data for program improvement
*Community College Management Practices That
Promote Student Success, Jenkins, 2006
Prioritizing Equity
CCRC studied High and low-impact Florida CC’s
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Focus on retention & graduation vs. enrollment
Target support to underperforming & historically
underrepresented students
Provide well-aligned and proactive student
support services
Provide faculty development on improved
teaching
Experiment with ways to improve student
success
Use data for program improvement
Elements of the Plan
Research Success Indicators*
• Access
• Course Completion
• ESL and Basic Skills Completion
• Degree and Certificate Completion
• Transfer
Goals*
Activities*
Budget
Evaluation
*Disaggregated by student groups
Student Equity Plan: Populations
Populations to be addressed by gender:
• American Indians or
Alaskan natives
• Asian
• Black or African
American
• Hispanic or Latino
• Native Hawaiian or
Pacific Islander
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Whites
Some other race
More than one race
Current or former
foster youth
• Students with
disabilities
• Low income students
• Veterans
Student Equity Plan: Coordination
SB 860 also requires the Student Equity Plan to include
coordination with these categorical or campus-based programs:
• DSPS
• EOPS
• Fund for Student Success:
 MESA
 Middle College High
School
 Puente Project
• SSSP
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Programs for foster youth
Programs for veterans
CalWORKs
Student Financial Aid
Administration
• Basic Skills Initiative and
students
Student Equity Plan:
Guidelines
Basic Elements of Expenditure Guidelines:
All expenditures must:
• address the Student Equity populations and indicators
as defined in statute and title 5.
• Be based on the disproportionate impact study, goals
and activities described in the college Student Equity
Plan.
• No match is required.
In addition:
• Provide an annual report on expenditures and
progress toward goals.
Student Equity Plan Requirements
Timelines:
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Planning timeframe: minimum of 3 years
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Must submit annual Year-end Report
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Revised plan template available hopefully
end of June, 2015
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Due November 23, 2015
Reading the Plans - Highlights
Representative Panel of 30 Readers March 18-20, 2015
– Review worksheet covered research, goals, activities, budget,
coordination with other programs, etc.
– 10 teams of 3 readers, with unique backgrounds/skills.
– Each team reviewed 11-12 plans from across the state.
Feedback to Colleges:
– Peer review with feedback to individual colleges on strengths
and weaknesses.
– Provided in time to help colleges update plans for 2015-16.
Feedback to CCCCO:
– needed changes to plan template, expenditure guidelines,
evaluation and statewide professional.
Plan Review - Questions
Did the college student equity plan include:
• Required elements – Signatures, Research, goals, activities,
budget, evaluation?
• Goals and activities addressed and aligned with impacted
groups?
• Budget aligned with goals, activities and impacted groups?
• Campus wide collaboration and coordination?
• Evaluation aligned with goals, activities and impacted groups?
For each section:
• What was done well?
• What needs to be improved?
Reading of the Plans – Practices
Institution-wide Initiatives:
• Bi-annual study sessions/updates for the BOT.
• College-wide process for publicizing and
monitoring success indicators for groups
experiencing an achievement gap.
• Integrate SE into the Education Master Plan and
program review.
• Improve data collection and research for foster
youth, veterans and low-income students.
Reading of the Plans – Practices
• Conduct a campus climate needs assessment
survey.
• Integrate student equity planning into district
resource allocation.
• Update website and student portal to support
focus on goal completion. Make it easily
accessible, with timely information. Address
language and disability barriers.
• Provide faculty and staff development
Reading of the Plans - Practices
Access:
• Develop/Revise outreach materials and websites
in target group languages.
• Reach out to faith-based communities frequented
by target groups to better understand student
barriers and solutions.
• Increase applications and use of financial aid for
targeted groups.
• Ask affected students what barriers they face and
what helps them to succeed. Disseminate results.
Reading of the Plans - Practices
Course Completion and ESL and Basic Skills
Completion:
• Provide better prep for students prior to placement tests
• Make sure student groups experiencing DI receive an
education plan.
• Provide targeted counseling to affected groups.
• Conduct research on improving early alert and revise
process.
• Cultivate peer mentor programs to identify and work on
diversity issues.
Reading of the Plans - Practices
Course Completion and ESL and Basic Skills Completion,
cont’d:
• Expand first-year experience programs and learning
communities for targeted student populations
• Integrate student equity planning with basic skills.
– Publicize BS pathways to HS and existing students.
Include info on “cost” in terms of time and money,
and strategies to shorten the path.
– Increase tutoring and supplemental instruction
– Provide acceleration in math, English and English as a
Second Language (ESL) programs
Reading of the Plans - Practices
Degrees and Certificates:
• Promote scheduling practices to eliminate gaps in pathways to
facilitate completion of academic goals.
• Schedule more evening courses if research shows it might
improve outcomes.
• Develop as student communication management systems to
notify them of deadlines, etc.
• Increase use of career center to help refine career goals.
• Target activities to students w/15 units who lack a
comprehensive education plan.
• Implement Year-end celebrations for targeted groups.
Reading of the Plans - Practices
Transfer:
• Improve messaging to students about benefits
of transfer.
• Promote Associate Degrees for Transfer
(ADT’s) to targeted student groups.
• Promote collaboration among instructional
and counseling faculty on ADT’s for targeted
groups.
Reading of the Plans – Future Changes
Plans and Topics: Statewide Professional Development:
• What is student equity and why it is important?
• Best practices by indicator and target population
• Cultural sensitivity and competency
• Using SE data for program improvement:
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Displaying data for decision makers and committees
Aligning student equity goals and activities with research
prioritizing student equity goals, activities and expenditures
Setting equity goals and establishing baseline data
• Integrating student equity, program evaluation and other
planning efforts
• Developing “All Student Equity Coordinator” training.
Reading of the Plans – Future Changes
Changes to the Student Equity Plan Template:
• Include new requirements of SB 860
• Increased focus on collaboration
• Description of overall strategy for improving equity
• Better alignment of research, goals, activities and
expenditures
• Reformat template so research, goals and activities,
and budget are all a subset of each indicator: access,
course completion, Basic skills and ESL completion,
Degrees and Certificates and transfer.
Panelist Experiences
What did you learn?
What will you implement
at your college?
Student Equity: Next Steps
Get involved – Make equity visible, know your plan,
make equity part of institutional plans and budgets, be
a active part of the current/future committee.
How do you move from Student Equity
planning to implementation?
Implement, Integrate and Institutionalize
Questions?
Comments?