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Connecting Education Policy with Experience

Connecting Education Policy with Experience. Facilitating Seamless Transitions. advocacy.collegeboard.org. A trusted resource for information, data, education policy analysis and research and is instrumental in helping to increase college preparation, access and success.

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Connecting Education Policy with Experience

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  1. Connecting Education Policy with Experience Facilitating Seamless Transitions advocacy.collegeboard.org

  2. A trusted resource for information, data, education policy analysis and research and is instrumental in helping to increase college preparation, access and success. Special focus on underserved populations, especially low-income students, students of color, and first-generation college students. First-rate policy research capability and robust advocacy agenda to drive change in policy and practices that support college success

  3. Excelencia in Education aims to accelerate higher education success for Latino students by providing data-driven analysis of the educational status of Latino students and by promoting education policies and institutional practices that support their academic achievement.

  4. The College Completion Agenda • Goal: Increase the proportion of young Americans earning a postsecondary degree or credential to 55 percent by 2025 • Tools • State Policy Guide • Progress Report Purpose: To provide reliable, measurable information that tracks our collective progress, as well as policymaking strategies each state can use to help reach our destination

  5. 10 Recommendations Working toward the goal of 55 percent by 2025 • Voluntary Preschool Education Available To Low-Income Families • Improve Middle School and High School Counseling • Implement the Best-Research Based Dropout Prevention Programs • Align K-12 System With International Standards And College Admissions • Improve Teacher Quality and Focus on Recruitment And Retention • Clarify and Simplify the Admissions Process • Need-Based Grant Aid; Simplifying the Financial Aid • Keep College Affordable • Dramatically Increase College Retention Rates • Postsecondary Opportunities as Essential Element of Adult Education

  6. The College Completion Agenda Without properly consulting with the institutions that award the baccalaureate degree, the transfer process can never function in a way that supports the nation’s need for an educated citizenry — in particular, a citizenry that authentically represents the diversity of this nation.

  7. Connecting Education Policy with Experience Current Landscape advocacy.collegeboard.org

  8. 55% by 2025

  9. High School Graduation Rate

  10. AP Examination Students

  11. College Remediation Rate

  12. Immediate Enrollment Rate

  13. Graduation Rates (2-Year Institutions)

  14. Graduation Rates (4-Year Institutions) Connecting Education Policy with Experience June 8, 2011

  15. Connecting Education Policy with Experience Community Colleges: Fast Facts advocacy.collegeboard.org

  16. Community Colleges • Community colleges are the largest postsecondary education segment and its share of the undergraduate population is likely to increase. • Community college students want to transfer: Surveys indicate • that at least 50 percent and perhaps as many as 80 percent of all • incoming community college students seek to transfer and earn a bachelor’s degree. • Community colleges attract students from underserved groups in greater numbers than four-year colleges and universities. • Community colleges cost less to attend than four-year institutions.

  17. Student Demographics (2007-2008) NCES. (2009). 2007–08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:08) [AACC analysis] Average age: 28 Median age: 23 21 or younger: 39% 22–39: 45% 40 or older: 15% First generation to attend college: 42% Single parents: 13% Non-U.S. citizens: 6% Veterans: 3% Students with disabilities: 12%

  18. Student Demographics (fall 2008) NCES. (2008). IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey. [AACC analysis] Women: 58% Men: 42% Minorities: 45% Black: 13% Hispanic: 16% Asian/Pacific Islander: 6% Native American: 1%

  19. Community College Students as % of Undergraduates (fall 2008) NCE. (2008). IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey. [AACC analysis] All U.S. undergraduates: 44% First-time freshmen: 43% Native American: 55% Asian/Pacific Islander: 45% Black: 44% Hispanic: 52%

  20. Employment Status (2007–2008) NCES. (2009). 2007–08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:08) [AACC analysis] • Full-time students • employed full time: 21% • employed part time: 59% • Part-time students • employed full time: 40% • employed part time: 47%

  21. Average Annual Tuition and Fees (2010–2011) College Board. (2010). Trends in College Pricing: 2010 Community colleges (public, in district): $2,713 4-year colleges (public, in state): $7,605

  22. Transfer Rate NCES. (2008). IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey. [AACC analysis] & Mullin, C. M. (2010, November). Just how similar? Community colleges and the for-profit sector (Policy Brief 2010-04PBL). Washington, DC: American Association of Community Colleges. Annual transfer rate: 22 percent When transfer rates are included in graduation rate analyses, community colleges have completion rate of 40%

  23. Connecting Education Policy with Experience Group Activity #1 advocacy.collegeboard.org

  24. Group Activity #1 Do you know your feeder high schools/institutions? What does your institution currently do to facilitate the transfer process for community college students? What percentages of students currently transfer to/or from your institution? What top 3 issues limit the ability of community college students to transfer to/ or from your institution?

  25. Connecting Education Policy with Experience Group Activity #2 advocacy.collegeboard.org

  26. Group Activity #2 What is the environment/leadership for establishing partnerships or seamless transfer pathways at your institution? Using the top 3 issues identified, how would you mitigate these issues to allow more students to transfer? What resources would be needed to implement this program?

  27. Connecting Education Policy with Experience Group Activity #3 advocacy.collegeboard.org

  28. Group Activity #2 How do you know if your transfer efforts are effective? What measures would you use? Are your transfer efforts replicable and/or scalable?

  29. Connecting Education Policy with Experience Improving Student Transfers from High School to Community Colleges advocacy.collegeboard.org

  30. Community College Strategies for Transfer Success • Link Curricula to High School: Community colleges should link their curricula more closely to those of local high schools. One of the best ways community colleges can encourage greater student effort in high school is to show how courses required in high school develop skills for college-level work. • Communicate Success: Community colleges should do a more effective job of communicating the success of their graduates. Community colleges have not been especially effective in communicating this to high school students. • Offer Check-Ups: Community colleges should offer academic “check-ups” to high school students. • Help Counselors Counsel: The introduction of diagnostic academic data will strengthen the role of high school counselors.

  31. Connecting Education Policy with Experience Improving Student Transfers from Community Colleges to Four-Year Institutions: Community Colleges advocacy.collegeboard.org

  32. Community College Strategies for Transfer Success • Establish transfer to a four-year institution as a high institutional priority. • Ensure that transfer is perceived by students as expected and attainable. • Offer a rigorous curriculum for all students that includes writing, critical thinking, mathematics, and the sciences. • Provide high quality instruction, including innovative and research-based pedagogies. • Coordinate collaboration between faculty at community college and the university at the discipline level to facilitate the student pathway. • Provide accurate and appropriate information to students on transfer opportunities, support, and resources.

  33. Community College Strategies for Transfer Success • Develop intensive academic support programs based on models of “academic excellence” (e.g., academic counseling, peer tutoring, and reciprocal learning techniques). • Create an environment of belonging in which students feel stimulated to achieve at high academic levels. • Establish strong community and family linkages that foster intellectual stimulating, secure, and culturally rich environments for students on and off campus. • Engage students no later than the first term at a community college to develop an academic plan of action for successful transfer.

  34. Community College Strategies for Transfer Success • Reinforce on-going commitment of faculty from two-year and four-year institutions working in partnership to identify the essential academic preparation needed to help students make the transition from a community college to a four-year institution. • Invest institutional resources for counselors and other student support personnel at two-year and four-year institutions. They are the critical gatekeepers of information about transfer.

  35. Connecting Education Policy with Experience Improving Student Transfers from Community Colleges to Four-Year Institutions: Four-Year Institutions advocacy.collegeboard.org

  36. Leadership & Commitment Strategies for Success

  37. Outreach and Preparation Strategies for Success

  38. Admission and Enrollment Strategies for Success

  39. Financial Aid Strategies for Success

  40. Student and Academic Affairs Strategies for Success

  41. Connecting Education Policy with Experience Examples of Excelencia and Growing What Works Database advocacy.collegeboard.org

  42. Connecting Education Policy with Experience Resources on Facilitating Seamless Transitions advocacy.collegeboard.org

  43. Community College Strategies for Transfer Success • www.edexcelencia.org • advocacy.collegeboard.org • www.aacc.nche.edu

  44. Connecting Education Policy with Experience Thank You!!! advocacy.collegeboard.org

  45. http://advocacy.collegeboard.org Young Men of Color: I Am Change DRAFT Linking Research with Practice: For School Counselors Recommendations #2, #3 and #5 Journal series, DVD and web access • Promote awareness of the barriers that hinder young men of color’ college and career aspirations. • Provide school counselors and community partners with specific interventions and strategies to implement the Eight Components of College and Career Readiness Counseling. • Use a collection of stories, commentaries, artwork, and essays from adult leaders and youth writers offering guidance and inspiration in working with young men of color.

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