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Adult Basic Skills and College Pathways

Adult Basic Skills and College Pathways. Ali Mageehon Umpqua Community College. The Program. 800 students annually; 300 graduates Focus on fundamental academic and career-based skills Multi-site, including partnership with Wolf Creek Job Corps

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Adult Basic Skills and College Pathways

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  1. Adult Basic Skills and College Pathways Ali Mageehon Umpqua Community College

  2. The Program • 800 students annually; 300 graduates • Focus on fundamental academic and career-based skills • Multi-site, including partnership with Wolf Creek Job Corps • Mandatory student orientation, managed enrollment, academic rigor, and advising and transition services

  3. Program History • Continuous program since early 1970s • Changes in focus from preparing students for work immediately after the GED to helping students understand that the GED is necessary but not sufficient • Greater focus on collaboration with main campus and transition

  4. Transition History • 16 credit tuition waiver • Minimal use of waiver • Students testing into developmental education level classes • Very low rates of transition and completion

  5. OPABS and Accelerated Opportunities • Participated in design phase of Accelerated Opportunities grant • Used Oregon Pathways to Adult Basic Skills as curriculum model • Three term model during year one 2011-2012 • Three cohorts started

  6. Model

  7. Supports • Assigned academic advisor on campus • Enthusiastic instructors • Established curriculum • Tuition waiver split over two terms • In 2011-2012, Ability to Benefit

  8. First Year Successes • Two successful three term cohorts • Of 15 students, 12 transitioned successfully into college courses, earning between 13 – 20 credit hours per student (as of Fall 2013) • Low GED completion rate

  9. Second Year • Lower success rate • Personnel issues • Only one cohort • More GED tests passed

  10. Next Steps • Continuing with one OPABS cohort per year • Co-enrolled DE and OPABS cohort, team taught starting in Fall 2013 • TRAC cohort starting in Spring, mixed ABS and DE with Career Pathways certificate focus and homegrown curriculum

  11. Questions

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