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Keeping The Promise: What Equality of Outcomes Requires of Institutions of Higher Education

Explore the need for equality of outcomes in higher education and the institutional changes required. Discover the importance of disrupting traditional practices and closing achievement gaps for marginalized student populations.

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Keeping The Promise: What Equality of Outcomes Requires of Institutions of Higher Education

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  1. Keeping The Promise:What Equality of Outcomes Requires of Institutions of Higher Education Sara Lundquist, Ph.D. Lumina Foundation Strategy Consultant (Santa Ana College Vice-President 1993-2017)

  2. The Equity & Attainment Imperative:Lumina Foundation’s Goal 2025 • For Lumina the North Star is to increase the percentage of adults (25-64) who have a high quality PSE credential from 45.8% to 60% by 2025. Our nation is bookended by West Virginia @ 32.9% and Massachusetts @ 55.2%. • Closing achievement gaps by race, ethnicity, income, and immigration status is at the heart of the work. • Progress requires disrupting business as usual in higher education where sorting, sifting, and stale practices leave huge numbers of would-be degree earners marginalized and non-credentialed. Check out your state’s overall attainment & equity gaps at http://strongernation.luminafoundation.org/report/2017

  3. TALENT HUBS • Talent Hub designation awards to 17 collaboratives focusing on one or more target population (with prominent equity targets) • TRADITIONAL students • Adults with SOME college, but no credential • Adults with NO college, but the ability to benefit significantly • Sites expected to become models applying best practices at scale for each specific population • Promise Programs are abundant and most often centered at community colleges, but those that serve adults are few and far between nationally. Tennessee Reconnect is an exception, New York and California are high potential with major state policy enacted.

  4. Some Students Are Born With a Promise that Includes Academic Preparation Access to Funding (to be first world citizens of HE institutions) (a safety net is available) A College Roadmap (slow-baked to completion)

  5. Many others depend on us. Will they be well served or expected to survive higher education’s prevailing conditions?

  6. Warm Welcomes Followed by a Perplexing Matrix of Off-Ramps & and Best Kept Secrets are Common This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

  7. Too Often College Access-Oriented Equality of Opportunity Initiatives Feature: • Pernicious constraints on forward momentum—access is easy & comfortable compared to throughput • A false attribution of failure (or success) that exonerates the institution and denigrates the learner (in the pit!) vs. you haven’t learned quadratic equations yet! • Optional vs. required supplemental learning—outside of official instruction • The absence of a universal design for mastery learning

  8. Celebration of the Heroic Persister • Magnificently accomplished! • Professor-proof! • Could not be stopped! • Hurdled over every obstacle with super-human physical & intellectual capacity! • Exonerates the institution! • Why can’t you be more like them????

  9. Beyond Window Dressing The College-Going Culture The Student Ready College Does not leave what success requires to chance Provides just in time reinforcement Normalizes conditions that could lead to profound vulnerability (Financial need, immigration status) Tech support & peer mentoring Resource & solution hubs • Ensures academic readiness for post-secondary work (nothing can substitute for this) • Critical pre-college activities take place during the school day • Establishes a direct and continuous line of communication with parents • HS & community one-stop Higher Education Centers • Individual student record data to bring hard data immediately back to sending institutions

  10. Higher Education Transformation Check List ___ Outdated learning modalities diminishing, anytime/anywhere learning taking hold ___ Antiquated and demoralizing course placements eliminated (avoid a broken promise year in developmental education) ___ Guaranteed seats provided in English, math, high demand courses (note: a well designed schedule of classes should make a student’s enrollment priority irrelevant) ___ Orientation overload eliminated by pre-enrollment activities, learning communities, & just-in-time information pushes ___ Expanding certification of external & work-based learning for college credit (APL) ___ Year-long schedules available for viewing & pre-enrollment

  11. The Transformation Checklist Continues! ____ Universal supports activated (what success requires, professorial check-in contracts, +++ alerts) ____ Degree audit/degrees when due activated ____ Pathways to completion being created & activated (intersegmentally & with business partners) ____ Redistribution of human & fiscal resources ____ Reciprocal data sharing & analysis established ____ Eradicate institutional dialogue that denigrates students such as, an implicit right to fail academically, some people “help them too much”, ____ Eliminate Restraining forces called out publicly followed by a nevertheless action response in place

  12. The Data We Have & the Truth It Reveals Access differentials at the starting gate become course success, persistence, & completion differentials but are seldom catalysts for transformation-why? • Students are blamed for failing to thrive • Institutions are likely to be funded regardless of student success & completion • Data is considered imperfect & not yet actionable • Transformation requires a readiness to leap when the opportunity presents itself • A deep knowledge of the mission-central interests of sending & receiving educational segments • An understanding of the limits of consensus-based decision making & the will to act in the interests of students

  13. Santa Ana College Promise Program • In Fall 2016 the number of SAUSD students enrolled full-time (End of Term) increased 52.1% from Fall 2015 • In Fall 2016 the number of SAUSD students enrolled part-time (End of Term) increased 24.8% from Fall 2015

  14. Santa Ana College Promise Program • From Fall 2015 to Fall 2016 • An increase of 63.4% (355 SAUSD students) enrolled in English • An increase of 53.8% (247 SAUSD students) completing an English course • An increase of 38.4% (114 SAUSD students) successfully completing an English course

  15. Santa Ana College Promise Program • Fall 2015 - 14% (168) of SAUSD students who were registered at First Census did not complete the semester • Fall 2016 – 7% (112) of SAUSD students who were registered at First Census did not complete the semester

  16. Santa Ana College Promise Program • 30.9% more SAUSD students were registered at First Census in Fall 2016 than Fall 2015 • 41.4% more SAUSD students completed Fall 2016 than Fall 2015

  17. Santa Ana College Promise Program • IMPORTANT NOTE: • From Fall 2015 to Fall 2016 the average first semester GPA decreased by 0.08 (from 2.01 to 1.93)

  18. PROMISE MOBILIZIATION WITH ALL HANDS ON DECK

  19. Kindergarten Roundup & KinderCaminata 2017!

  20. Promise Net—The Feast Table: Take it and make it your own!Research models, strategic frameworks, systems change plans, policy imperatives, branding/messaging efforts This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND

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