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Path to Accelerated Completion and Employment (PACE) Grant

Path to Accelerated Completion and Employment (PACE) Grant. PACE: Next Step in Two-Year College Quest for Student Success . 1991: Arkansas Technical and Community College System 2005: Career Pathways Initiative 2006: Freshman Year Experience

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Path to Accelerated Completion and Employment (PACE) Grant

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  1. Path to Accelerated Completion and Employment (PACE) Grant

  2. PACE: Next Step in Two-Year College Quest for Student Success • 1991: Arkansas Technical and Community College System • 2005: Career Pathways Initiative • 2006: Freshman Year Experience • 2005: Community College Survey of Student Engagement (coordinate efforts in 2012) • 2009: Career Coaches Program

  3. PACE: Next Step in Two-Year College Quest for Student Success • 2010: Arkansas Delta Training and Education Consortium (ADTEC) • 2010: Arkansas Regional Education Optical Network (ARE-ON) • 2010: AATYC Center for Student Success • 2011: PACE grant, Complete College America grant • 2011: Performance Funding

  4. PACE Grant: Primary Goals • Create a new model for postsecondary training designed to improve student completion and time-to-degree. • New model will initially target high demand technical certificate and degree programs, and with success be expanded institution- and system-wide. • Specific goal: Increase graduation in targeted programs by 15%.

  5. Strategies to Increase Completion and Reduce Time-to-Degree • Strategy 1: Transform Developmental Education using promising course redesign models. • Models accelerate completion in math, reading and writing. • CCCUA results: In single semester, 8% of students completed 3 levels of math; 55% completed 2 levels; 25% completed 1 level.

  6. Strategies to Increase Completion and Reduce Time-to-Degree • Strategy 2: Streamline Certificate and Degree Programs using promising practices identified by Complete College America. • Block scheduling of courses. • Compressed courses. • Use of technology for blended instruction to reduce seat-time.

  7. Strategies to Increase Completion and Reduce Time-to-Degree • Strategy 3: Improved Advising and Student Engagement using technology. • Front end: Improved career, program and course advising. • On-going: Improved tracking of student progress and connecting struggling students to needed support services. • Back-end: Improved job placement support.

  8. PACE Grant Impact • Will enable proactive approach to addressing key barriers to student success. • All 22 two-year colleges will be participating, enabling system-wide impact. • PACE grant will position Arkansas to leverage more resources to deepen/scale these strategies and further advance the student success agenda (e.g. Kresge Foundation Grant, Winthrop Rockefeller Grant).

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