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Dual Enrollment in California: Challenges & Bright Spots

Learn about the challenges and bright spots in dual enrollment in California, exploring common barriers, updates, and success stories. Discover how dual enrollment articulation works with high schools and community colleges, and find out about the impactful dual enrollment toolkit. Identify the most common challenges faced across the state and explore solutions to enrollment processes, capacity issues, accurate data collection, and program integration. Additionally, delve into guided pathways design principles and learn how early engagement and dual enrollment can promote positive student outcomes.

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Dual Enrollment in California: Challenges & Bright Spots

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  1. Dual Enrollment in California Challenges & Bright Spots April 13, 2018 Naomi Castro Director

  2. Career Ladders Project fosters educational and career advancement through research, policy initiatives and direct assistance to community colleges and their partners.

  3. OBJECTIVES Resources Survey & Case Studies Common Barriers & Bright Spots Updates

  4. WHO IS HERE?

  5. Dual Enrollment For the first time in California’s Education Code, the term “dual enrollment” is identified to define “special part-time” or “special full-time” students – that is, high school or other eligible special admit students enrolling in community college credit courses.

  6. Concurrent Enrollment • Not defined or used in legislations • Common usage by colleges refers to single student taking a college course on their own • Dual and concurrent refer to the same idea – students are enrolled at the same time (concurrently) in two different institutions(dually) • term is being phased out

  7. Dual Enrollment Articulation • course is HS or ROP • exam/ portfolio/ demonstration • notated as “credit by exam” • no penalty for poor performance • flexibility in hours • can satisfy prereq • is a college course • grade earned in the course • transcripted as regular class • poor performance transcripted • taught by college faculty – min. quals

  8. Dual Enrollment Toolkit

  9. Survey Reached out to 114 Colleges Phone interviews with 48 Case study site visits with three colleges and high school partnerships Detailed phone interviews with an additional two colleges

  10. Common Challenges What do you think the most common dual enrollment challenges are across the state? Talk with your neighbor and come up with a list. Be ready to share.

  11. Common Challenges Enrollment process Capacity Underserved Youth Accurate data collection Integration

  12. Common Challenges Enrollment process CCC Apply The ”form” Hand enrollment Bright spots Online enrollment in classes – worry about the “form” after Outside software for secure electronic signatures

  13. Common Challenges Capacity Program staff Instructors A&R Bright spots Dean and directors for dual enrollment Bakersfield has a program manager and assistant, looking ad another manager – over 3k students served Making the case

  14. Common Challenges Underserved Youth Majority of HS students coming to campus on their own and taking GEs This suggests access to college resources and/or knowledge Bright spots Community, college and HS changing preconceptions about which students are college bound – ELAC using DE as community engagement strategy including community ed and adult ed courses offered to parents

  15. Common Challenges Accurate Data Collection Non-apportionment generating classes don’t get “counted” in CCCCO MIS Bright spots Survey ironically helped some colleges find inconsistencies in their system

  16. San Joaquin Delta College Rural and Urban Slowly but steadily expanding IT support at colleges SJD sends their IT support staff to work with HS IT staff

  17. Reedley College Rural Has a middle college on campus Greatly expanded DE Partnership for just in time tutoring Flagging DE students for outcome data Professional development and mentorship Partnership w Agricultural co

  18. East Los Angeles College During recession did not cut back DE dramatically DE is part of larger community engagement strategy Strong partnerships w multiple school districts Reworking enrollment process

  19. Updates 5% summer enrollment cap lifted for CCAP Non-resident HS students treated like regular HS students Adult Ed not eligible for DE – still getting clarification Upcoming legislation

  20. WHAT ARE GUIDED PATHWAYS? GUIDED PATHWAY DESIGN PRINCIPLES 1. GUIDED EXPLORATION FOR UNDECIDED STUDENTS 2. CLEARLY DELINEATED PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (DEFAULT SEQUENCE) 3. DEV ED TRANSFORMATION 4. PROACTIVE AND INTEGRATED ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC SUPPORTS

  21. WHAT ARE GUIDED PATHWAYS? CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO, IL

  22. WHAT ARE GUIDED PATHWAYS?

  23. Promoting outcomes through Early Engagement & Dual enrollment

  24. FOR MORE INFORMATION Naomi Castro NCastro@CAREERLADDERSPROJECT.ORG

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