Transcript Cal State Los Angeles The Graduation Initiative Update for the Town Hall May 6, 2011 Dr.

Cal State Los Angeles
The Graduation Initiative
Update for the Town Hall
May 6, 2011
Dr. Cheryl Ney, Associate VP,
Academic Affairs
Graduation Initiative Team ‘10-’11
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Alfredo Gonzalez, Dean, Undergraduate Studies
Ashish Vaidya, Provost /VP, Academic Affairs
Becky Hopkins, Director of EOP
Bill Chang, Director, ITS-CMS
Bryant Alexander, Interim Dean, College of Arts
and Letters
Cheryl Ney, AVP, Academic Affairs
Costello Brown, Special Assistant to the Provost
Dale C. Weaver, Professor, Social Work
Eleanor Ferguson-Marshalleck, Associate Dean,
College and Health & Human Services
Gaithri Fernando, Associate Professor,
Psychology
Holly Menzies, Associate Professor, Special
Education; Campus Assessment Coordinator
James P. Henderson, Dean, College of Natural
and Social Sciences
Joan Woosley, University Registrar/Director of
Enrollment Services
Keith H. Moo-Young, Dean, College of
Engineering, Computer Science & Technology
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Mae Santos, Interim Assistant Vice President,
Administration and Finance
Marcia Ann Murota, Director, University Academic
Advisement Center
Mark Robinson, Associate Director, Institutional
Research
Nancy Hunt, Chair, Academic Senate; Professor,
Special Education
Rita Ledesma, member, Academic Senate
Executive Committee; Professor, Social Work
Robert Desharnais, Professor, Biological Sciences
Stephen Pollard, Professor, Economics and
Statistics
Steve Classen, Vice Chair, Academic Senate;
Professor, TV, Film and Media Studies
Tamie Nguyen, Director, Financial Aid
Tony Ross, VP for Student Affairs
Valerie Talavera-Bustillos, Associate Professor,
Chicano Studies
Vincent Lopez, Director of Admissions and
Recruitment
Wayne Tikkanen, Professor, Chemistry and
Biochemistry; Program Review and GE Coordinator
The Graduation Initiative at Cal State Los Angeles
Strategic Initiative #1: Student Success: Closing the
Achievement Gap. Cal State LA will pursue student
success by:
 Providing access to and delivering highly-valued
academic and co-curricular experiences
 Retaining and graduating students in a timely manner
with special emphasis on closing the achievement gap
 Supporting students’ post collegiate aspirations
CSU system wide initiative
Campus effort affirmed by WASC Commission
and Educational Effectiveness Review team
Retention and Graduation Rates
2003 Freshmen (Headcount: 1373, 61% URM)
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90
80
70
60
% Degree Awarded
% Degree Awarded URM)
50
% Retention
% Retention (URM)
40
33.1
30
24.3
20
8.6
10
0
0
0.4
0
0
Fall 2003
year 1
year 2
year 3
year 4
year 5
year 6
Retention and Graduation Rates
2003 Transfers (Headcount: 1592, 50%URM)
100
90
80
70
60
51.5
53.3
% Degree Awarded (URM)
47.4
50
% Degree Awarded
% Retention
% Retention (URM)
36.8
40
30
20
14.1
10
0
0.4
0
Fall 2003
year 1
year 2
year 3
year 4
year 5
year 6
Precollege
Programs
Recruitment
and admission
Orientation,
transition to
CSULA
Foundational
learning and
student
support
The first
year: 0
through 45
college units
From middle
school to
college
Declare
major at 45
units
Program
mastery
and
student
support
Graduation,
first job
or
professional
school
90 through
180 units
Leading Indicators
Precollege
Programs
•Audiences
learn CSULA
mission
•Number of
programs and
participants
•Learning
achievement
data
Recruitment
and admission
•Recruitment
outcome
measures
•Outcomes
achievement
•Outreach
yields
Orientation,
transition to
CSULA
Foundational learning and student support
•Earn 36
collegiate
units
•% Early
Start pass
•% Complete
IHE,
remediation
•% pass
ELM, EPT
•Retention
•Complete GE rate into
basic skills
second year
•Intro to
CSULA
resources
•Early alert
success rate
•Declared
majors at 45
units
•Complete
LD GE, ENGL
102
•GE
evaluation
for transfers
•Retention
rate for
transfers
Program
mastery and
student
support
•Complete
program, UD
GE
•Pass WPE
•File
graduation
Check
Graduation, first
job
or professional
school
•First job/post
degree
placement
•Graduation and
first position
•Alumni and
measures of
success
Implied Methodology
Focused Themes of the
Graduation Initiative Plan
• Assessment of Student Learning
• Comprehensive, Integrated and Proactive
Advisement
• Enhance Campus-Student Communication
• Academic and Social Support
Assessment of Student Learning
Graduation, first job
and professional school
Program and ILO
mastery
Foundational
Coursework
Orientation
Recruitment
From Middle School to
College
•Career placement.
•Success in post-degree activities.
•Reported ILO achievement.
•Enhance Alumni surveys for program review and accreditation
•Promote ILOs, PLOs and outcomes in course work in:
•Honors College, GE, academic major, academic support, student affairs
activities,
•Implement HIPs effective for URMs. Faculty development in assessment,
pedagogy and HIPs.
•Promote ILOs, PLOs and outcomes in course work in:
•Honors College, GE, academic programs, academic support and student affairs
activities.
•Implement HIPs effective for URMs. Faculty development in assessment, pedagogy
and HIPs
• Articulate and measure student outcomes for
orientation
• Articulate ILOs and PLOs during orientation
• Articulate and measure student and institutional
outcomes for recruitment activities
• Articulate and measure student and institutional outcomes
for outreach activities
Comprehensive, Integrated and Proactive Advisement
Graduation, first job and
professional school
Program and ILO mastery
Foundational Coursework
Orientation
Recruitment
From Middle School to
College
• Advising for career and professional development.
• Comprehensive academic advisement
• Utilize Early Warning system
• Comprehensive academic advisement.
• Establish Early Warning system
• Implement comprehensive and integrated academic
advisement
• Inform potential students, parents, educators about entry
requirements and timelines for CSULA admissions
• Inform potential students, parents and educators about higher
education opportunities and entry requirements at CSULA
Enhance Campus-Student Communication
Graduation, first job
and professional school
Program and ILO
mastery
Foundational
Coursework
Orientation
Recruitment
From Middle School to
College
• Build alumni database.
• Enhance use of advisory boards for academic
programs and other areas of student learning.
•Enhanced student portal for LMS, email and GET access and
automated alerts of upcoming milestones.
•Technology to electronically process academic transactions.
•ILOs, SLOs
•Enhanced student portal for LMS, email and GET access and
automated alerts of upcoming milestones.
•Technology to electronically process academic and other
transactions.
• Enhanced student portal for LMS, email and GET access
and automated alerts of upcoming milestones.
• Enhanced student portal for LMS, email and GET access
and automated alerts of upcoming milestones.
• Communications plan to reach students, parents, educators
and counselors in local area
Academic and Social Support
Graduation, first job
and professional school
Program and ILO
mastery
Foundational
Coursework
Orientation
Recruitment
From Middle School to
College
• Career services supports for “first job” and
“next steps”.
•Writing and tutorial center
•Scheduling that better meet student needs through accurate
course demand computation using aggregate student progress.
•Financial aid workshops for eligibility, maintenance requirements.
•SLIC, Writing and tutorial center.
•Scheduling that better meet student needs with course demand
info.
•Financial aid workshops for eligibility, maintenance requirements.
• IHE, EOP, Financial aid workshops for eligibility,
maintenance requirements. Administer ASBI to identify
needs of at risk students
• VIP day and other activities including Financial aid
workshops for eligibility and maintenance requirements.
Identify other needed informational sessions
• Outreach activities such as: Sponsored research (SEED, etc.),
student development programs, etc. (MESA)
What can you do?
• Deliberately and explicitly align your own/office/unit/
department/divisional activities with the four themes of
the graduation initiative (as appropriate).
• Develop a mechanism for divisional representative(s)
to communicate information from and to the
Graduation Initiative Team throughout the division
• Seek out collaborations across campus, as
appropriate, to improve efforts.
• Seek out resources to inform efforts, especially best
practices nationally.
• Assist students in engaging with faculty, peers and
departmental, college and institutional activities that
promote student success.