Vincent Tinto Syracuse University (315) 443-4763 vtinto@syr.edu

1. A Matter of Degrees:Promising Practices and College Completion 2012 Annual Workshop - NISODAustin, TXMay 29, 2012 Vincent Tinto Syracuse University (315) 443-4763 vtinto@syr.edu

2. Promoting Student Success in College:Lessons Learned • Student success occurs one class at a time • Classrooms as nexus of institutional action for student success

3. Promoting Student Success in College:Lessons Learned • Student success occurs one class at a time • Student momentum matters • Completion requires timely completion of many classes over time.

4. Promoting Student Success in College:Lessons Learned • Student success occurs one class at a time • Student momentum matters • Student success requires going beyond vaccines • One shot interventions are not enough

5. Promoting Student Success in College:Lessons Learned • Student success occurs one class at a time • Student momentum matters • Student success requires going beyond vaccines • It is one thing to start a program, another to sustain it and scale it up over time • To many programs start and stop and even when effective rarely scale up across campus

6. Building Successful Classrooms • Expectations • Clear, consistent, accurate information • High expectations

7. Building Successful Classrooms • Expectations • Support • Academic Support • Social Support

8. Building Successful Classrooms • Expectations • Support • Assessment and Feedback • Entry assessment and placement • Institutional monitoring of progress • Classroom assessment of performance

9. Building Successful Classrooms • Expectations • Support • Assessment and Feedback • Engagement • Contact with students, faculty, and staff • Active engagement in learning with others • Intensity / time-on-task

10. Establishing Clear Expectations • Mandatory first-year advising • On-line advising (e.g. Saddleback College) • Peer Mentoring

11. Providing Academic Support • Getting an Early Start • Summer Bridge programs

12. Providing Academic Support • Getting an Early Start • Summer Bridge programs • Contextualization of academic support • Student success courses • Supplemental instruction (e.g. El Camino College) • Embedded academic support (e.g. I-Best) • Basic skills learning communities (e.g. LaGuardia CC)

13. LaGuardia CC - ESL Linked Courses ESL Developmental English Accounting

14. “The relationship between accounting and ESL is helping a lot because the accounting professor is teaching us to answer questions in complete sentences, to write better. And we are more motivated to learn vocabulary because it is accounting vocabulary, something we want to learn about anyway. I am learning accounting better by learning the accounting language better.”

15. Providing Assessment and Feedback • Assessing student classroom performance for student success • Early warning systems (e.g. Signals, EARS) • Automated feedback systems (e.g. clickers) • One-minute papers

16. Promoting Student Engagement • Pedagogies of Engagement • Cooperative learning • Problem-based / Project-based learning • Service learning

17. “You know, the more I talk to other people about our class stuff, the homework, the tests, the more I’m actually learning... and the more I learn not only about other people, but also about the subject because my brain is getting more, because I’m getting more involved with the other students in the class. I’m getting more involved with the class even after class.”

18. Promoting Student Engagement • Pedagogies of Engagement • Learning Communities • Living-Learning communities

19. Promoting Student Engagement • Pedagogies of Engagement • Learning Communities • Service Learning

20. Promoting Classroom Success • Faculty as key to student success • Not leaving faculty development to chance (e.g. Richland College, Valencia College)

21. Student Momentum Matters • Identifying roadblocks • Fixing courses with high failure rates

22. Student Momentum Matters • Identifying roadblocks • Identifying momentum points • State of Washington momentum point analysis

23. Student Momentum Matters • Identifying roadblocks • Identifying momentum points • Building structured pathways to college completion • Completion By Design (Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas)

24. Going Beyond Vaccines • Student success requires extended support • ASAP (Borough of Manhattan, Kingsborough, LaGuardia)

25. Going Beyond Start-Ups • Sustaining institutional action • Scaling up takes time • Importance of assessment to prove and improve

26. Going Beyond Start-Ups • Sustaining institutional action • Scaling up institutional action • Sharing ownership

27. Program Growth Curve

28. Promising Practices • Structured First-Year Programs • http://www.fyfoundations.org/ • Mathways Project • www.utdanacenter.org/mathways.edu

29. Closing Thoughts • Student success does not arise by chance • It requires intentional, structured, and proactive action that is systematic in nature and coordinated in application

30. Closing Thoughts • Student success does not arise by chance • It requires intentional, structured, and proactive action that is systematic in nature and coordinated in application • “Students should not do optional” - McClenney