Broad engagement: student success across the state

1. Broad engagement: student success across the state Bringing Achieving the Dream to scale in Ohio

2. Meeting overview • Video – Dr. Ron Abrams, President OACC • Introducing the Statewide Initiative • Thinking Regionally – Conducting regional meetings • How • Why • Lessons learned • Participant Engagement – Planning Your Region • Statewide follow-up – Preparing for future work

4. Developing a statewide approach • Statewide Policy Team Priority – Bring AtD to Scale • Development of Statewide Planning Team • Representation from each of the AtD Colleges • Draft agenda/template developed by OACC • Utilized conference calls to facilitate meeting planning • December 2010 Meeting – Building Ohio’s Community College Student Success

5. Building ohio’s community college student success • Presidents and CAO sent save the date information that identified suggested team composition • CAO • IR • Dev Ed • Faculty • Agenda • Plenary • Topical breakouts/small group discussions • Peer group networking luncheon • Regional breakouts

6. Four Principles • Committee Leadership • Use of Evidence to Improve Programs & Services • Broad Engagement • Systemic Institutional Improvement

7. Northwest Region

8. Northwest– Morning Agenda • IntroductionsWhat one principle or practice from the ATD Field Guide is your institution doing well? • From Developmental Education to Completion:The State and National Agenda • Committed Leadership and Use of Evidence What are your strengths and challenges in these areas?What steps can you take to overcome your challenges and leverage your strengths? • Sharing and Feedback

9. Northwest– afternoon Agenda • Broad Engagement and SystemicInstitutional Improvement What are your strengths and challenges in these areas?What steps can you take to overcome your challenges and leverage your strengths? • Using Data: Understanding Who Our Students Are and Making Data-Driven Decisions • What story is your data telling you? • Aha Moments! Next steps

10. Northwest – take aways • Rethink the use of “developmental education” vs. “student success” • Don’t reinvent the wheel . . . talk to other institutions • Create a schedule of town hall meetings to communicate developmental education initiatives • The Ohio two-year colleges are trying to prepare a coordinated position on Achieving the Dream • We need to collect more data • Confirmed my intent and desire to establish a Student Success committee that invites members from all academic and student affairs divisions/departments and that includes students, faculty, staff, and administrators

11. Northwest – Future Meetings • Inclusion of technical faculty in the discussions • Allow more time for sharing developmental education best practices from each college • Create a list of meeting or anticipated meeting “outcomes” and send that list to us before the meeting so we can work toward achieving some clearly understood outcomes. An outcomes based meeting will probably help us to use our time more judiciously

12. Northwest – Top Ten • Communication and Collaboration make everything happen • Faculty matter - Core Team expanded to include faculty/ faculty leader/ faculty development • Data analysis counts • “Students don’t do optional” - policies are needed (no late registration, orientation, pre-requisites, student success class) • Go to the experts – read, attend conferences, bring them in; try it: Supplemental Instruction; Collaborative Learning; My Labs • Location matters (tutoring center, counseling, etc.) • Student Ambassadors are an integral resource (peer mentors, peer leaders) • Outreach matters– tutors, instructional specialists go to classrooms • Learning communities – there’s more to it than pairing courses • Training matters - sessions for tutors with Instructional Specialists and Dev Ed faculty (tutors include adjunct faculty, part-timers, etc.)

13. Central Region

14. Central Region Most Valuable: • Makeup of Host Group • Self-ratings on Readiness Assessment • Use of AtD metrics

15. North Central State College Takeaways: • Personalize and pave the way • Be realistic • Everyone needs team time

16. Northeast region

17. NorthEast– Morning Agenda • 10-10:15 am Welcome – MartaraiesaFiala, Eastern Gateway student Introductions and Meeting Purpose – Christina Wanat, Chief Administrator of Student Development • 10:15-11:30 am Breakout Sessions – 20 minutes per session • Committed Leadership – Dr. Meek(Vision, values, starting core and data teams, etc.) • Use of Evidence for Improvement – Patty Sturch, Dean of Enrollment Management (IT/IR capacity, process for identifying achievement gaps, evaluating programs, etc.) • Broad Engagement – Ann Koon, Director of Public Information (Engaging faculty, staff, students and external stakeholders) • Systemic Institutional Improvement – Dr. Robin Snider-Flohr, Dean of Allied Health Careers, Biological Sciences and Public Services (Institutional management and planning, organization, professional development)

18. NorthEast– afternoon Agenda • 11:30 am-12:15 pm Networking Lunch • 12:15-1:15 pm Quantitative and Qualitative Data Presentation – Patty Struch • Data drives decisions. Reviewing your college and using data are crucial to making and moving decisions. Overview of the available quantitative data and examples of how qualitative data has been helpful. Discuss collection, analysis, use and reporting of data. • Discussion on how colleges will start submitting data to HEI in a JBL-like format beginning summer 2012. • 1:15-1:45 pm Individual College Breakouts Colleges work in separate groups to discuss College Readiness Assessment and to discuss use of data and brainstorm initiatives on which to seek data to make decisions before initiative implementation. • 1:45-2 pm Wrap-up and Next Steps – Christina Wanat

20. Southwest region

21. Southwest region – key activities • Share Student Success Initiatives • Focused Discussions on College Assessments (leadership, using evidence, engaging all, systemic improvement • Data Presentation • Individual college work time

22. Southwest region – lessons learned • More time needed for data analysis and discussion • More faculty participation

23. southeast region

24. Southeast region – key activities • Discussion – potential leadership & policy implications • College Readiness Assessment • Sharing Campus Interventions & Activities • Next Steps

25. Southeast region – using the college readiness assessment • Colleges completed and submitted to OACC • Data shared with Leader College in aggregate form • Aggregate data shared with group – imbedded in this is discussion/reflection regarding the four AtD Principles • Regional SWOT analysis

26. Southeast region – developing a regional student success plan • Data points to be identified by Zane State • Data collection via Zane State – Institutions to submit data Spring 2012 • Identification of Regional Success Measure – Summer 2012 • Institutions share proposed intervention – Summer 2012 • Implementation of Intervention – Fall 2012

27. Planning an Activity in Your State or Region

28. Plan Your “Scale Up” Approach • Identify the entity in your state or region that could take the "convener" role that OACC plays for Ohio • Consider the feasibility of scheduling an "all colleges" meeting to kick things off, any potential locations • How could you organize and assign the non-AtD Colleges in your state/region? • Consider potential time(s) of year to host college-to-college meetings • Identify unique barriers or challenges for your state/region

29. Next steps

30. Following up – using feedback to shape next steps • Participants emphasized need for additional State-level meetings • Expressed desire to learn about the work of AtD and more broadly engage the student success agenda • Desire to learn what is going on at other institutions • Participants question the utility of additional regional meetings at the current juncture • Greater engagement of faculty

31. Moving forward • March 2011 – OACC Statewide Symposium • Stan Jones – Complete College America • Vincent Tinto – University of Syracuse • Summer 2011 – Regional Meetings • December 2011 – Ohio’s Student Success Agenda • Shanna Smith – Jaggars CCRC • March 2012 - OACC Statewide Symposium • April 2012 – Statewide Math Summit

32. Oacc statewide symposium

33. Statewide math summit

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