Implementing College Culture Change with a Sense of Urgency

1. Implementing College Culture Change with a Sense of Urgency Dr. Beverly Walker-Griffea, Senior Vice President for Student Services Dr. Monica Brown, Collegewide Dean of Student Success

2. “If You Are To Knock On The Door Of Opportunity, Montgomery College Will Answer” • PhuCao--Montgomery College Recent Graduate and Student Leader

3. Montgomery College's Diverse World View • Racial Diversity • Academic Diversity • Economic Diversity • Age Diversity

4. Classroom Collisions Of Yesterday's Expectations with Today's Realities • Presidential Vision • Montgomery College will develop and implement a College experience that will address students unique needs in a clear, consistent and concrete way

5. Creating a Culture of Student Success • 7Truths For A Common Student Experience • Start Smart • Maintain a Foundation of Support Services • Get Connected • Build Community • Enhance the Classroom Experience • Encourage Student Success Every Stop of the Way • Plan to Cross the Finish Line

6. MC 2020 Strategic Plan

7. A Legislated Disruptive Innovation • College and Career Readiness and College Completion Act of 2013 • Intent • Impact

8. College Readiness • Historical Partnerships with Secondary Schools • Legislated Changes • Dual Enrollment • HS Math Requirement • Assess College Readiness in 11th Grade • Develop and Implement Transitional Courses for 12th Graders Not College Ready

9. Dual Enrollment Intent • Only Public Schools • Due No Harm To What Already Exists • Increase Student Participation

10. Dual Enrollment Impact • Tuition Changes • Course and College Fees Agreements • Marketing To All Students • State Level Reports Submitted

11. Joint Implementation Team • Short Time Line • Encompassing Team Composition • Focused Charge • Measurable Deliverables

12. MOU Created and Signed • Publicity • Enrollment Processes • Course Selections • Faculty Selection

13. MOU Created and Signed Continued • Textbooks • Disabled Services • Tuition, Invoicing and Payment • Data Collection, Sharing and Reporting

14. Working with External Partners Successfully • DISCUSSION

15. Montgomery College's Response to Maryland State’s College and Career Readiness and College Completion Act (CCRCCA) • Degree Plans, Advising & Pathways, oh, my . . . Using Advising to Achieve Legislative Intent • Distribution of Degree Plans • Developmental Advising Model • Major Field Advising Plan • Pathways To A Degree

16. Montgomery College's Response to Maryland State’s College and Career Readiness and College Completion Act (CCRCCA) • Degree Plans • Distribution of Degree Plans: • Upon Entry to Montgomery College • Degree Plans by Major Website • During Academic Orientation

17. Montgomery College’s Developmental Advising Approach • Creating a Developmental Advising Model • Guiding Principles: • Definition • Mission • Philosophy • Goals & Outcomes • Program Framework & Components • Mandatory Academic Orientation • Benchmarks • Success Network

19. Montgomery College’s Major Field Advising Plan • Charge • Guiding Practices, Documents and Standards: • Components:

20. Pathways To A Degree • MC Collegewide Curriculum Alignment Day • http://www.mcinfonet.org/curriculum/program_review.html • Course Re-numbering • Program/Course Outcomes Alignment • Semester-based Outline of Each Program in the Discipline

21. Starfish Student Retention System • Using Technology as a Student Retention System - http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/starfish/ • Advising Questionnaire • Education Plan • Advising Appointments • Success Network • Tracking and Monitoring

22. Working with Internal Partners Successfully • DISCUSSION

23. Questions & Answers