Achieving the Dream

1. Achieving the Dream Kauai Community College Convocation Fall 2008

2. We can help more community college students succeed • Achieving the Dream supports colleges’ efforts to help students stick with their studies and attain their academic goals. • Colleges work within a culture of evidence, a collective mindset in which critical decisions affecting students are informed by data and evaluated in light of whether student achievement increases.

3. Overview • Develop an evidence-based culture • Engage in institutional transformation and systemic change • Assure success of low-income, 1st generation and Native Hawaiian students

4. Hawai‘i’s Partners and Funders The Kamehameha Schools The Office of Hawaiian Affairs The University of Hawai‘i, Community Colleges

5. A five-year initiative • Goal is to increase number of students who successfully; • complete remedial/developmental courses; • complete “gatekeeper” courses; • complete all enrolled courses with C or higher; • re-enroll from one semester to the next; and • earn certificates and/or degrees.

6. UHCC & KCC Strategic Goals • Native Hawaiian Educational Attainment • Increase Hawaii’s Educational Capital • Increase enrollment • Increase success and retention through increased Financial Aid • Increase success in remedial/developmental courses • Increase the number of students who transfer or graduate

7. Continuation: If they don’t come back they don’t complete In the top states, 62% of entering community college students return their second year. In the UH Community College System, 45% return. At Kaua‘i CC 46% overall return (69% of FT and 32% of PT). Source: Measuring Up 2006 Completion and IPEDS

8. Year One: 2007 • Collect data on student success, retention and persistence • Identify gatekeeper courses (high enrollment and <70% success rate) • Identify factors related to student success and lack of success • Identify intervention strategies to increase student success

9. Gatekeeper Courses Course C or Higher % Headcount ENG 100 65% 12% (400) ENG 22 57% 10% MATH 24 66% 9% HIST 151 64% 8% SP 151 64% 8% ICS 100 56% 7% MATH 22 58% 6% (200) ENG 21 58% 6%

10. Year Two 2008: Implementation • Priority Area A: Financial Aid Participation • Financial Aid Outreach • Mandatory Advising for new, probationary, and Rem/Dev students

11. Action Plan: Financial Aid Outreach

12. Year Two 2008: Implementation con’t. • Priority Area B: Developmental Intervention • College Success Center • Asst English Instructors • Strengthen peer assistant tutoring • Math/Science Lab

13. Compass Scores: First Time Students

14. Year Two 2008: Implementation con’t • Priority Area C: Successful Progress and Graduation or Transfer • Strengthen Early Alert • Provide Professional Development in Hawaiian values, teaching strategies, workshops, conferences, etc.

15. Action Plan: Successful Progress

16. Action Plan: Early Alert • 73 Early Alert Students (30% NH) • 101 different classes • 273 enrollments (duplicate count) • 3.74 classes each • 30% success in enrolled classes

17. Early Alert

18. Year Two: Implementation con’t • Priority D: Data Collection , Analysis, and Utilization • Institutional Researcher • Data collection and evaluation instruments • Training on data analysis

19. Pau Kauai Community College Convocation Fall 2008