Transcript Partnering for Student Success: Cradle to Career Portland State University November 4, 2010 Nancy L.

Partnering for Student Success:
Cradle to Career
Portland State University
November 4, 2010
Nancy L. Zimpher
Chancellor, The State University of New York
The College Board
55% by 2025: A Big Hairy Audacious Goal*
By 2025, 55% of Americans
between the ages of 25-34 will
hold a post-secondary degree.
*From Built to Last, Collins and Porras, 2004
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What stands
in our way?
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The Leaking Student Pipeline
Nationally, for every 100
ninth grade students…
68 students graduate from
high school four years later…
40 students
immediately enter college…
27 students are still
enrolled in their second year…
and 18 students graduate with
either an associate’s degree within
three years or a bachelor’s degree
within six years.
Source: National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2004
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The Leaking Teacher Pipeline
 National cost of teacher turnover: $7.3 billion
 Teacher attrition has grown by 50% over the past decade
 National rate of attrition: 17%
 Urban school attrition rate: 20%
 Chicago: teacher dropout costs $86 million each year
 Low school performance and high poverty rate correlated
with high teacher turnover rate in Chicago and Milwaukee
Source: The High Cost of Teacher Turnover, NCTAF, 2007
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No Unified System of Education
CommunityBased
Government
Organizations
Early
Childhood
Social Services
Non-Profits
P-12
Business
and Industry
Higher
Education
Foundations
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A Divisive Public Debate
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So how do we
move the dial?
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Nationally Visible Reform Efforts
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But Are They Systemic?
Completion at
Every Stage
In order to reach the goal
of 55 percent of 25to 34-year-olds obtaining
an associate degree or
higher by the year 2025,
the commission has put
forth a 10-part
recommendation that is
aimed at strengthening the
educational pipeline at
every stage throughout a
student’s trajectory from
preschool to college
completion.
The College Completion Agenda 2010 Progress Report
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A Way Forward:
Taking Community-based,
Cradle-to-Career Partnerships to Scale
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Every Student Graduates,
No Exceptions
Successful Students. Productive Citizens. Thriving Cities.
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MISSION:
Empowering every child in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky to succeed
from birth through some form of college and into a meaningful career.
EVERY student in the region will:
 Be Prepared for school through early
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childhood education
Be Supported inside and outside school
Succeed academically
Enroll in some form of college
Graduate and enters a career
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Student’s Roadmap to Success:
Critical Benchmarks and Transition Years
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Establishing a Network of
Cradle to Career Partnerships
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Implementation and Development Sites
Establishing Urban Universities as Anchors
for Transformational Birth through Career Partnerships
Portland State
University
Portland, Oregon
California State University – East Bay
Hayward, California
Indiana University/
Purdue University
Indianapolis, Indiana
California State University – Fresno
Fresno, California
Arizona State
University
Mesa, Arizona
University of
New Mexico
Albuquerque,
New Mexico
Strive –University
of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio
Virginia Commonwealth
University Richmond,
Virginia
University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
Implementation
Site (EPIN)
Development
Site (EPDN)
University
of Houston
Houston, Texas
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5 Attributes of Successful
Systemic Partnerships:
A Theory of Action
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What’s the Big Idea?
Vision
Successful Students • Productive Citizens • Thriving Cities
Successful Students • Productive Citizens • Thriving Region
“Envision our region—the dynamic and diverse counties and
communities of the greater San Francisco East Bay Area—as
characterized by successful students, productive citizens and
thriving cities”
Support the children and youth in greater
Houston cradle to career
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Who’s at the table?
Convening Power
 Early Childhood
 K-12
 Teacher Unions
Colleges and Universities
 Community-based Organizations
 Corporate and Business
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How can we build capacity?
An Organizational Action Plan
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How will we measure success?
Evidence-based Interventions
Strive Six Sigma:
Define exactly what we want to do.
Measure what improvements need to occur to achieve
our goal.
Analyze factors that determine outcomes.
Improve current strategy and/or fill gaps with new or
existing resources.
Continue to improve on the action plans.
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How to show continuous improvement?
Accountability
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What if the nation’s largest
public university system
took this model
to scale?
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SUNY’s Strategic Plan
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The Power of SUNY:
SUNY will be a key engine of revitalization
for New York State’s economy and enhance
the quality of life for the state’s citizens
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Six Big Ideas
SUNY and the
Entrepreneurial Century
SUNY and the Seamless
Education Pipeline
SUNY and a
Healthier
New York
SUNY and an EnergySmart New York
SUNY and
the World
SUNY and the Vibrant Community
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SUNY and
The Seamless
Education Pipeline Cradle-to-Career
Success
SUNY Works
SUNY Urban-Rural
Teacher Corps
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A Distributed Network of 64 Campuses
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Cradle-to-Career Success
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SUNY Urban-Rural Teacher Corps
A Unified Vision
Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical
Preparation and Partnerships for
Improved Student Learning
A Unified Profession
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A Call to Action
Washington DC Press Club - November 16, 2010
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“We are caught in an inescapable
network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment of destiny. Whatever affects
one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Partnering for Student Success:
Cradle to Career
Portland State University
November 4, 2010
Nancy L. Zimpher
Chancellor, The State University of New York