Keep Students in College with a Comprehensive Student Success Course

1. Keep Students in College with a Comprehensive Student Success Course Dr. Marsha Fralick

2. Ice Breaker What should I visit if I were to travel to your city? Think Pair Share

5. Overview • Program description • Program results • Key elements • Course Credit • Career planning • Learning style • Technology

6. What is the dream that students have when they begin college?

7. The American Dream • Get a degree • Get a better job • Improve the quality of life • Increase self-respect • Be the best you can be

8. The Reality • What Happens? • After 8 years, only 53% of those seeking degrees achieved their goals. • 40-50% of the students don’t even return the next semester. • 6 out of 10 transfer students give up their plans or drop out in one semester. Sources: Achieving the Dream website, PACE Research

9. How can we help college students be successful? • Think • Pair • Share

10. Cuyamaca College El Cajon, CA

11. Personal Development 124, Lifelong Success • 8000 students enrolled in college • 1600 take PDC 124 each year • One of the top 15 revenue producing programs for the college • 56 sections a year

12. College Success • Motivation • Time and Money • Memory and Reading • Test Taking • Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking

13. Career Success • Personality and Related Majors • Learning Style and Intelligence • Interests and Values • Career and Educational Planning

14. Lifelong Success • Communication and Relationships • Critical and Creative Thinking • Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle • Appreciating Diversity • Positive Thinking • Life Stages

15. Course Choices • Face to Face • 22 sections • Blended • 22 sections • Online • 12 sections

16. College Success Course • 3 units • Transfers to four year universities • One of the top 15 revenue producing programs in the college

17. Key to Success: Make it Count • Transfers as general education for CSUC, Area E, Lifelong Understanding • Transfers to University of California

18. The Transfer Approval Process • Academic Rigor • Broad Scope Careers Lifelong Success • Articulate with Universities

19. Bridge High School Community College University

20. Program Results Program Review 2000, 2005

22. The most significant finding is increased persistence.

23. Persistence • Students who return the next semester • Approximately half of community college students nationwide do not persist after the first semester

24. College Persistence Semester to Semester5 Year Average at Cuyamaca College • All successful PDC students 89% • All students 63% A 26% improvement!

25. Keys to Success • The program helps students to make a good choice of a major and career.

26. College Success: A Study of Positive and Negative Attrition Community College Review

27. The Successful Student • Had a definite goal or college major Based on this research, choosing a major and career planning was included in our college success course.

28. How did you choose your major?Career?

29. How to Choose a Major • Self Assessment • Personality • Interests • Values • Learning Style • Career Research

30. Personality • Carl Jung and personality type • Online:

33. Keys to Success • The program helps students to understand their learning style and how to become a lifelong learner.

34. The PEPS Learning Style Assessment • Measures preferences in 20 areas • Perceptual • Environmental • Emotional • Sociological • Physical

35. Keys to Success • Use technology to make education engaging and inescapable.

37. New Millennials • Our current college students • Most were born since 1990 • Most were born with a computer in the home and were using them by age 5 • Cyber generation • The connected generation • 82% are online daily • Average 12 hours per week online

38. Where are you in the technology continuum? • Baby boomer 1946-1964 • Generation X 1965-1977 • New Millennials 1977-1995 • How much technology did you use in college?

39. Rationale for Using Technology • Your students use it • It captures their attention • Education on demand Any time or place • Increased access • New roles for faculty

40. Using Technology • Online career and learning style assessment • E-text • Online portfolio

41. Technology helps guide students through the critical first two weeks • Make sure all students have started • Monitor progress from the beginning • Engaging material for the New Millennial Generation

42. Take a Look

44. Instructor Manual Exercises and Handouts Syllabus Research PowerPoint Internet Links Resources for Faculty www.collegesuccess1.com

45. Questions? Evaluation forms