Chutes and Ladders: The Ups and Downs of Pathways San Jacinto College Houston, Texas

1. Chutes and Ladders:The Ups and Downs of PathwaysSan Jacinto CollegeHouston, Texas www.sanjac.edu

2. San Jacinto CollegeEstablished 1960 • Serving over 41,000 students and seven Independent School Districts • Central Campus – 1961 • North Campus – 1975 • South Campus – 1979 • Maritime Campus- 2016 www.sanjac.edu

3. Laurel V. Williamson, Ph.D. • Southwest Mississippi Community College: Faculty and Director of Curriculum Development • Valencia College: Faculty, Manager of Instructional Programs, Chief Academic Officer • Lower Columbia College: Vice President of Instruction • San Jacinto College: Deputy Chancellor and President www.sanjac.edu

4. AACC Pathways: From the Cafeteria to the Intentional Diet • The Culture of Evidence. What do our data tell us? • Results can be changed only with substantive and foundational change within the entire institution. • What are the goals you wish to achieve, that the entire college wishes to achieve? • Put students at the center of everything. • How do you know what to change and how fast you can change? www.sanjac.edu

5. Do You Know the Data? Are You Asking the Right Questions? • How many of you know the percent of students who do not achieve any credit hours in their first semester? If you know that, do you know it as disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, and economic status? How else can it be disaggregated? • What have you done if you do know it, and what might you do once you find the answer? www.sanjac.edu

6. Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch www.sanjac.edu

7. Formative, Intentional Change As you begin to think about how to advance your agenda, you must think about how you create a common vision, with all employees driving toward the same vision, understanding the strategic goals and annual objectives, and understanding clearly their roles in putting that vision in place. www.sanjac.edu

8. Cultural Framework • Board of Trustees sets Strategic Goals • College Leadership identifies annual priorities tied to each Strategic Goal • Teams and individuals create key performance indicators (KPIs) tied to annual priorities • Individuals evaluated on accomplishment of KPIs, college service, leadership, and professional development • Differential compensation www.sanjac.edu

9. Cultural Framework • We are allresponsible for students being successful. • We work to reduce barriers for students in all areas of the College. • Collaboration between student development and instruction is essential. • We believe that all students can succeed if they are given appropriate pathways and opportunities. www.sanjac.edu

10. Cultural Framework • Every person is aware of student performance data at individual, departmental, and institutional levels. • Pockets of excellence vs. institutional excellence. • Scale-up is difficult, but necessary. • Student metrics won’t be changed without full institutional commitment. www.sanjac.edu

11. Where do you begin? • Develop a partnership of student services and instruction • Involve all support services, even those that do not have direct contact with students • Take down all the silos • Plan and implement as a sustained, collective collaborative effort www.sanjac.edu

12. So What Are We Doing Differently • Training and communication on everything • Complete overhaul of entry process • Relational advising vs. transactional that begins with Admissions Advisors (formerly Enrollment Bar Specialist) • Intentional, student-focused conversations that stress career/pathway choices before course selection www.sanjac.edu

13. So What Are We Doing Differently? • A strong faculty role in advising • Educational Planners see all students who are not new students • Early alerts and interventions • Focus on career advising from the beginning • 24-27 credit hour progress check; registration is blocked www.sanjac.edu

14. So What Are We Doing Differently? • Differential placement: no single metric/test score • Developmental education completely redesigned • Goal to create achievement among non-achievers • Intentional Connections and iConnect Centers • Veterans Centers • Math and English redesigned • Faculty engaged in analyzing where students fail or withdraw and doing something about it www.sanjac.edu

15. So What Are We Doing Differently? • Leadership, organizational structure, leadership training and competencies • Department chairs, deans, and provosts • No need for Instruction and Student Services Council; replaced by Student Communication Council www.sanjac.edu

16. Student Continuum Task Force • Created fall 2016 • Charged to re-imagine the student experience from the entry process through completion of the first semester • Met weekly throughout fall 2016 and spring 2017 to develop a groundbreaking first-semester experience that removed identified barriers to student success • 314 FTIC students are participating in a pilot of the re-imagined plan, SmartStart, fall 2017 www.sanjac.edu

17. What does it look like? • Pilot is 314 students who are full time/first time in college. • First two weeks they will attend every day from 8am- noon. Flipped classroom approach. • “Pathways to Learning” will include topics to help students transition to and succeed in college. • Career assessments and decision making, digital literacy, effective notetaking and test taking, pathways exploration, emotional intelligence, learning style, academic expectations, etc., are all included. www.sanjac.edu

18. Depend on Your Data • Analyze where your students are hitting roadblocks in course progression • Ask the question: are we satisfied with our performance as measured through student achievement? • Charge faculty and staff with changing student performance and progression • Let design be unencumbered by mechanics and budget www.sanjac.edu

19. R&D Teams • Create teams of faculty who will champion initiatives • Math and English R&D Teams: start where you find barriers • Seek out the scouts and pioneers • Let design be unencumbered by mechanics and budget • Bring in institutional subject matter experts to figure out how to implement the design www.sanjac.edu

20. What Have We Done on the Journey to Achieving Students’ Dreams? www.sanjac.edu

21. Continued … www.sanjac.edu

22. Rewards for the Work AACC Pathways College Aspen Top 5 Community College Rising Star Frontier Set College Achieving the Dream Leader College NCHEMS College Texas Pathways Leader College www.sanjac.edu

23. Gains by Our StudentsIncrease Over Five Years www.sanjac.edu

24. Gains by Our StudentsIncrease Over Five Years www.sanjac.edu

25. Gains by Our Students • From 2008-09 to 2015-16, tripled Hispanic/Latino student certificates and degrees: 1,012 to 3,472 • African-American, doubled from 292 to 667 • College-wide, 4,170 awards or an increase of 146.4% • Data element: How do your Pell students perform? www.sanjac.edu

26. Success Rates – Fall 2016 www.sanjac.edu

27. Fall 2011- Fall 2016Intentional Connections Program www.sanjac.edu

28. Success Rates – Fall 2016 www.sanjac.edu

29. Developmental Reading/Writing www.sanjac.edu

30. Increase in awards If student earned more than one degree and/or certificate during the academic year, he/she is counted for each Degree and/or Certificate received. www.sanjac.edu

31. Questions? www.sanjac.edu