Creating a Sustainable and Collaborative Orientation

1. Creating a Sustainable and Collaborative Orientation District-Wide Student Services Task Force Presented by: Vice Presidents & Deans of Student Services April 20, 2012

2. Mission Statement: Creating a Community of Success

3. Retention Factors • Retention is multi-variant and single causal factors are difficult to ascertain. • Persistence depends on the extent to which an individual has been integrated into the academic and non-academic components of the campus environment (student engagement). • Students do not come to college with a cognitive map of functioning and prospering.

4. Promising Practices in Student Success Planning for success: • Assessment & Placement • Orientation • Goal setting & planning Initiating success: • Accelerated Developmental Education • First Year Experience • Student Success Course • Learning community

5. Promising Practices in Student Success Sustaining success • Class Attendance • Early alert & Intervention • Experiential Learning • Tutoring • Supplemental Instruction

6. Elements of Successful Orientation (Learning Assistance Programs) Demystify the college experience Decode the environment Diagnose individual readiness Develop academic preparedness

7. Orientation Objectives • Introduce the college community to new students from both an academic and personal perspective • Provide information and assistance to new students so that they may succeed academically and develop personally • Ensure that students feel adequately prepared to face the challenges of their first year • Allow students to meet each other and develop new relationships

8. Orientation Objectives • Provide peer counselors who can share their own experiences as a source of support and information • Expose students to the wide range of issues facing them as PCCD students, including factors affecting their personal health & safety • Introduce the variety of students services that are available on campus, so that students feel able to navigate the college on their own as they transition into their second year

9. Re-framing Orientation – Learning Assistance • Orientation is an on-going process that is designed to providing students the right information at the right time. It is not a static event but an evolving and holistic process of educational development. • Orientation requires the intelligent leveraging of resources both human and fiscal. • Orientation is collaborative learning process – student/faculty; staff/faculty and, staff/student.

10. Orientation as a Continuum Core Elements

11. Orientation Manifesto

12. Student Support Manifesto

13. Proposal: Two Part Orientation 1. Intensive: One to two day Orientation (occurring prior to the beginning of the semester and prior to counseling and enrollment into classes). 2. Continuous: One or two semester – First Year Experience

14. Intensive One to Two Day Orientation Model: • Presentations – General overview, interactive, student panels, mock classes • Specialized program orientations • Campus Tours • Centralized Advising, Course Scheduling and Enrollment. • Financial Aid Support Workshops • SLO Assessment • Success Checklist

15. Team Presentations • EOPS/CARE • Financial Aid • DSPS • Counseling • Tutoring • Teaching Faculty (CTE and other cohort programs) • English • Math • Library • Learning Communities • Career Center • Health Center • Student Panel/Clubs and Organizations/Leadership • Veterans

16. Process Flow

17. New Orientation Model: Continuous Year Long: • College Success Course • First Year Experience Program (cohort) • Contextualized and/or Accelerated Instruction • Career Development Course • Learning Community • End-of-year Orientation • Student Educational Plan

18. First Semester

19. Second Semester

20. Program Elements • Mandatory for all new students • New students could not enroll prior to intensive orientation • New students could not enroll late • Program begins 2013 • New students have priority enrollment for the second semester

21. Online Orientation* • Welcome • Success Tips • Every section has a test • Final test at end of orientation • 45 minutes • Results will be submitted and included in matriculation process • SEP

23. Implementation Timeline • Stakeholder consultation and campus planning teams to develop detailed plans - now • Peralta teams communicate with feeder high schools, and other local community agencies/organizations beginning in fall of 2012 to describe the program. • Begin Spring 2013 as a pilot • Full implementation – Fall 2013

24. Issues to Address • Definition of new and/or matriculating students • On-line orientation implementation • Involve students in planning and develop student peer advising component. • Clarifying the scope of "First Year Experience“, and Learning Communities within the framework of Orientation.

25. Shared Governance Stakeholders that need to be involved in planning: • District and college matriculation committees • District and college academic senates • VP/Deans of Instruction and Student Services • IT (mandatory holds, etc.) • Admissions & Records • College Counseling and Teaching faculty and classified staff • Assessment staff • District and college marketing staff

26. Questions?