Teachership Academy – Phase II Orientation Session

1. Teachership Academy – Phase II Orientation Session Students Speak: Are We Listening?

2. Planning RetreatAugust 9, 2012 Texas Completes Arleen Arnsparger Project Manager, Initiative on Student Success Center for Community College Student Engagement The University of Texas at Austin Irma Camacho Director of Student Success Team Lead, Texas Completes El Paso Community College

3. What did you hear? • About “front door” experiences? • About learning and teaching? • About support for students? • About what makes a difference for students? Texas Completes

4. Students Need to“Get with the Program” Many community college students enroll without clear goals for college and careers. CCs offer lots of programs, but most offer little guidance to help students choose a program. Disadvantaged students are more likely to complete if they enter a well-structured program of study as early as possible. To increase completion rates, colleges need to help more students get “with the program.”

5. ENTRY PROGRESS CONNECTION COMPLETION PREP Student Support Services Program RAP Summer Bridge Case Management Math Emporiums College Connection Early College High Schools RISE We Want You Back Upward Bound Gateway to College Developmental Education Demonstration Project College Entry Dual Credit Service Learning Program Gear Up Literacy Program Military & Dependent Leadership Grant Learning Communities LEAP (ABE) Achieve Texas Initiative/ Career Clusters Student Success Initiatives Texas Pathway Project Developmental Education Council Developmental Education Initiative Community College Developmental Education Initiative Program Faculty Data Research Team College Readiness Consortium Achieving the Dream Start Right Initiative Student Success Core Team

6. What the EPCC Data Says Texas Completes

7. Fall Semester Enrollment 66% Increase in Enrollment Source: EPCC Banner Files: Run 8/7/12

8. Associates/Certificates Awarded 197% Increase in Awards Source: EPCC Banner Files: Run 8/7/12

9. Retention, Fall to Spring

10. Persistence, Fall to Fall Terms

11. 3-Year FTIC Transfer Rates

12. Six-Year Graduation Rates

13. Some Outcomes After college readiness initiatives, we start to see an increase in the percentage of entering students who are college-ready.

14. Some Outcomes Reading Placement Levels Writing Placement Levels Math Placement Levels 2003 2009 Through interventions to elevate placement, we reduced the time required to complete developmental education course work.

15. Some Outcomes We see a reduction in the number of developmental education areas students are placing into.

16. CCSSE BenchmarksEl Paso Community College EPCC2012 Cohort Active & Collaborative Learning 54.9 50 Student Effort 54.5 50 Academic Challenge 53.7 50 Student-Faculty Interaction 49.6 50 Support for Learners 57.9 50 Texas Completes CCSSE – Community College Survey of Student Engagement

17. CCSSE BenchmarksEl Paso Community College FTPT Active & Collaborative Learning60.8 51.2 Student Effort 59.751.2 Academic Challenge 57.551.2 Student-Faculty Interaction 53.8 46.9 Support for Learners 61.855.4 Texas Completes

18. CCSSE Data • Compared to students at other community colleges, more EPCC students report that the following are very important to them: • Academic advising • Career counseling • Tutoring • Math and English labs • Computer labs Texas Completes

19. CCSSE Data • Compared to students at other community colleges, more EPCC students use: • Academic Advising • Career Counseling • Math and English Labs • Computer labs • Financial aid advising • Tutoring Texas Completes

20. Where do students turn for academic advising? Nationally… 52% - friends, family, other students 22% - instructors 13% - other staff Texas Completes

21. SENSE 2007 - At EPCC, where do students turn for advising? • EPCC Counselor – 50% • Friends, family or other students • EPCC Academic Advisor Texas Completes Center for Community College Student Engagement

22. CCSSE Data • More El Paso Community College students report • that the college: • Helps them cope with non-academic responsibilities. • Provides the financial support they need. • Provides the support they need to thrive socially. Texas Completes

23. CCSSE Data • Significantly more El Paso Community College students report that before the end of their first term, an advisor helped them: • Develop an academic plan – for completing a certificate, degree or transferring. Texas Completes

24. CCSSE Data • The college iswhat the students experience. • Do we knowwhat our students experience? Texas Completes

25. CCSSE Faculty Data • EPCC students who say they often or very often receive prompt feedback from faculty – written or oral – about their performance… • Faculty say: 89% Texas Completes

26. CCSSE Student Data • EPCC students who say they often or very often receive prompt feedback from faculty – written or oral – about their performance… • Faculty say: 89% • Students say: 51% Texas Completes

27. CCSSE Data – Dev Ed • More EPCC students are required to take a placement test before they can register for classes. • More EPCC students took the college placement test while in high school. • More EPCC students did something to prepare for the placement test…and found the college’s brush up/refresher experiences/materials helpful. • More EPCC students were told they were REQUIRED to • enroll in a dev ed course in their first term – AND DID IT! Texas Completes

28. Questions to consider: • What about the data surprises you? • What questions does the data raise for you? • What additional information do you need before designing strategies to improve student success? Texas Completes

29. EPCC/Texas Cadre Priorities: • A comprehensive student advising and management system • Redesigned and more prescriptive Programsof Study,to include the TX Core alignment • Reducing the number of students referred to developmental education and accelerating students referred into programs of study Texas Completes

30. EPCC/Texas Cadre Priorities: • A comprehensive student advising and management system • Re-designing our advising and monitoring system to provide better student advisement, monitoring and tracking along the pathway Texas Completes

31. EPCC/Texas Cadre Priorities: • Redesigned and more prescriptive Programs of Study, to include the TX Core alignment • Includes Core complete pathway for students who are undecided and/or plan to transfer • Includes some form of MandatoryOrientation, MandatoryStudent Success Course and Mandatoryentry into a Program of Study for all FTICs Texas Completes

32. EPCC/Texas Cadre Priorities: • Reducing the number of students referred to developmental education and accelerating students referred into programs of study • Goal is to reduce the time in developmental education, or eliminate it all together.  Could include modularizing, placement based on intent, contextualization. Texas Completes

33. CBD Pathways Analysis: Guiding Questions

35. TABLE GROUP DISCUSSION CONNECTION Outreach, dual credit, early remediation, and in-time advising, student monitoring-data system ENTRY Orientation,programs of study, default schedule, student monitoring-data system PROGRESS Student monitoring-data system, feedback & recognition of milestones COMPLETION Automatic Degree, Reverse Transfer & Experiential Learning, Student monitoring-data system