(BSI + SLO + SEP)*ACCJC = SIM

1. (BSI + SLO + SEP)*ACCJC = SIM Chair, Lesley Kawaguchi, Santa Monica Queen SLO, Marcy Alancraig, Cabrillo Trustee, Wade Ellis, West Valley - Mission CCD Researcher, Cathy Hasson, Skyline College Dr. BSI, Barbara Illowsky, De Anza Princess SLO, Karen Wong, Skyline College

2. First date:Student Equity Plans 1991 -- CA. Legislature Ed. Code 66010.2c 66030 1992 -- Board of Governors Student Equity Policy 1996 -- Board of Governors Student Equity Plans

3. Student Equity Plans • Title 5 Section 54220 • ASCCC response: Student Equity: Guidelines for Developing a Plan • Original 1993; revised and adopted Fall 2002 • Last plans due in 2005

4. What was in the plans? • 5 major student equity indicators: • Access • Course completion • Degree and certificate completion • ESL and basic skills completion • Transfer rate • Student Equity Issues • Breakdown the above factors on the basis of ethnicity/race, gender, disability status

5. Why no sparks? • Plans often done by a single person or very small group • Plans sat on a shelf • Plans had no accountability • Plans had no funding tied to them

6. Courtship:Student Learning Outcomes -Born in 1980’s -Moved from East Coast to West • 2002: New Standards recognize importance of SLOs

7. Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places • 5 Stages of Faculty Grief and Resistance • Academic Senate Opposition • Lack of Administrative Funding for doing the work • Always crushed out on Equity but sometimes unable to make a real connection

8. Finally: Love Comes • Emergence of SLO Coordinators • Recognition from ASCCC • More dates with Equity • Looking at what’s happening in the classroom and across the Institution

9. Linking Equity and BSI • Natural merger • Couldn’t happen until we got to know each other • Couldn’t happen until “SLO” relaxed and knew how to thrive in California

10. Meeting the in-laws:Basic Skills Initiative Phase III - 5 goals: 2 are specifically addressing equity

11. Equity in Higher Education Involves three parts: • Equity in college preparation • Access to college • Success in reaching college goals Thomas Bailey & Vanessa Smith Morest

12. Goal 1: Research & Data Collection • Literature Review Addendum • Equity Issues & Strategies • High School to College Transition • Non-credit to Credit Transition • Data base • Survey of programs, strategies and projects • Includes California and national data

13. Goal 3: Student Equity Evaluate all 109 2005 Student Equity Plans Identify common statewide trends >> Develop state resources for general needs >> Gather baseline data Identify discrepancies >>Technical Assistance to individual colleges

14. Clergy:Board of Trustees • What can we do for the Board? • What can the Board do for the BSI?

15. What can we do for Boards? Board members are politicians. • John McCain’s speech on the economy: praised community colleges as retraining institutions that can help with reemployment. We can help them understand that retraining requires Basic Skills. • SJ Mercury News, 4/13/08: need for more access to education through the community colleges We can help them understand that access and opportunity means Basic Skills

16. What can Boards do for Basic Skills? • Highlight: Basic Skills Initiative by asking for presentations on Student Equity, SLO and BSI Plans. • Ask: presentations on retraining and veterans assistance programs. • Ask: presentations on how basic skills programs are being integrated into bond funded construction plans.

17. What else can Boards do? • Boards can act as marriage broker, encouraging administrations to promote basic skills collaboration. • Student Services, Financial Aid, Human Resources, Counseling, each of the academic departments, and admission and records are all participants at an effective basic skills college or district.

18. Marriage:Keys to Success

19. Points of Integration • Partnership & Collaboration • Communication • Growth Opportunities • Incentives • Consultation and Mentoring

20. Points of Integration (cont.) • Strategies • BSI Research Agenda • Faculty Inquiry Groups • Program Review Research & Plans

21. Outcomes • Learning Communities • Supplementary Instruction • Additional research & assessment • Targeted marketing and promotion • Retention Strategies • Early Alert • Wait Lists • New and enhanced programs and services

22. Offspring:Student Improvement Movement

23. Report out from session:How do all of these activities fit in with Accreditation and SIM? • Forced all of our bodies to get together. Generated research. We need the data to understand what’s going on. Transparent. data process that others can critique. • Senate should take the initiative in integrating everything together with one voice. • Established a culture of data-driven self-assessment.

24. (continued) • We can go back and make correction based on data. Formative evaluation. • Student learning and data. • Documentation of program review. School dinged because budget should be driven by SLOs but not documentation • Data. Questions you asked are part of the research design. Are the questions good. • Direct connection to planning. All of the areas need to be connected to the master plan. Lack of integrate planning can cause problems that are addressed by BSI+

25. (continued) • Data need to be both quantitative and qualitative. Critical questions need to have both. • Time constraints and personnel problems make it hard to get all the information. Here is one thing we are going to take across the board and to use as a model. • Dialogue is crucial to the overarching planning for the success of the three initiatives.

26. Remain true! Ba’bye!