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Achieving the Dream Dr. Jan Lyddon

Achieving the Dream Dr. Jan Lyddon. October 2010. What is Achieving the Dream?. ATD has built a NATIONAL NETWORK. Over 130 institutions, 24 states & District of Columbia More than1 million students enrolled in ATD colleges. Goals of Achieving the Dream.

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Achieving the Dream Dr. Jan Lyddon

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  1. Achieving the DreamDr. Jan Lyddon October 2010

  2. What is Achieving the Dream?

  3. ATD has built a NATIONAL NETWORK Over 130 institutions, 24 states & District of ColumbiaMore than1 million students enrolled in ATD colleges

  4. Goals of Achieving the Dream • Students progressing successfully through developmental courses • Students advancing from developmental courses into and through credit bearing courses • Students successfully completing college-level courses (grade of C or better) • Students re-enrolling from one semester to the next, and from year to year • Students earning degrees, diplomas and certificates. 

  5. Achieving the Dream Institutional Change Principles • Committed leadershipCEO and leadership team actively support efforts to improve student learning and completion • Use of evidence to improve policies, programs, and services Colleges routinely analyze student data to assess progress and outcomes • Broad engagementFaculty, staff, students, and community stakeholders participate in efforts to improve student success • Systemic institutional improvementColleges orient all planning and activities around student success agenda

  6. Some Themes within Achieving the Dream • We build a culture of evidence and inquiry to guide decisions and actions. • We confront hard truths: “We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face…Wemust do that which we think we cannot.” Eleanor Roosevelt

  7. All students are not alike • Disparities by race: • Adults with associate’s degrees or higher: • 42% of whites • 26% of African Americans • 18% of Hispanics • Disparities by gender: • Growing evidence that young men are falling behind • Disparities by age group: • Younger students – “Gen-Next” – have different expectations and behaviors

  8. Share the facts and act on what you’ve learned “Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.” Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) Great Expectations

  9. (we are not alone) Issues Impacting Our Students Are National Issues Impacting Other Community College Students

  10. What is Achieving the Dream … continued

  11. What We Know Nationally • About half of all U.S. undergraduates and 40 percent of first-time freshmen are in community colleges • Research shows that low-income students and students of color are most at risk of not achieving success. • Yet these students are a large share of community colleges’ enrollment. Source: Achieving the Dream Data Notes,1(6) July/Aug 2006.

  12. What We Know Nationally … a reality check … 45% earn an associate or bachelor's degree or transfer within six years. 41% earn a certificate or transfer to a four-year institution within six years. Source: Achieving the Dream Data Notes,1(6) July/Aug 2006.

  13. What We Know Nationally Of 2002 Achieving the Dream Cohort, % Needing Developmental Education Source: Achieving the Dream Data Notes,1(6) July/Aug 2006.

  14. How are they doing? Percent of 2002 AtD Cohort referred to developmental education that attempted and completed at least one developmental course during their first term, by race. Source: Achieving the Dream Data Notes, 1(6) July/Aug 2006.

  15. We Need to Take a Serious Look at Our Issues • We want the “great minds” of the college to look at the data and begin to address the issues related to student success.

  16. Roles and Responsibilities

  17. Core and Data Teams Core TeamData Team • Broadly representative • Understand College data and evaluation of initiatives • Guide discussion, prioritization, implementation of improvements • Communication link to larger communities • Broadly representative • Collect, disaggregate, and study data • Provide support to the Core Team • Support evaluation of all initiatives

  18. ATD five-step process for Student Success Support from ATD Investment by the college Improve student success & equity 5 ATD goals

  19. ATD five-step process for Student Success

  20. ATD five-step process for Student Success

  21. Taking it step by step Examine the data: How many students get a C or better in Developmental courses? College-level English? College-level math? Are there some students who don’t do as well? Which ones? What are some of the underlying issues we need to understand?

  22. Taking it step by step… • Cohorts • How many students continue for a second semester? For a second year? Graduate? • Are there differences by race, gender, age group?

  23. Taking it step by step Examine the data: What do the students say? CCSSE Focus groups Other surveys

  24. Taking it step by step Examine the data: What do other stakeholders have to tell us? Students’ families Community leaders K-12 educators

  25. Taking it step by step What are some of the policies and practices at the College that affect student success? Which are helpful and which inhibit student success?

  26. The Inarguable Fundamentals The center of community college work is student learning, persistence, and success. Every program, every service, every academic policy is perfectly designed to achieve the exact outcome it currently produces.

  27. Achieving the DreamKilgore College October, 2010

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