Partnering for Student Success: Cradle to Career

1. Partnering for Student Success: Cradle to Career Portland State University November 4, 2010 Nancy L. Zimpher Chancellor, The State University of New York

2. The College Board 55% by 2025: A Big Hairy Audacious Goal* By 2025, 55% of Americans between the ages of 25-34 will hold a post-secondary degree. *From Built to Last, Collins and Porras, 2004 2

3. What stands in our way? 3

4. The Leaking Student Pipeline Nationally, for every 100ninth grade students… 68 students graduate from high school four years later… 40students immediately enter college… 27students are stillenrolled in their second year… and 18students graduate with either an associate’s degree within three years or a bachelor’s degree within six years. 4 Source: National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2004

5. The Leaking Teacher Pipeline • National cost of teacher turnover: $7.3 billion • Teacher attrition has grown by 50% over the past decade • National rate of attrition: 17% • Urban school attrition rate: 20% • Chicago: teacher dropout costs $86 million each year • Low school performance and high poverty rate correlated with high teacher turnover rate in Chicago and Milwaukee Source: The High Cost of Teacher Turnover, NCTAF, 2007 5

6. No Unified System of Education Community-Based Organizations Government Early Childhood Social Services Non-Profits Higher Education P-12 Foundations Business and Industry 6

7. A Divisive Public Debate 7

8. So how do we move the dial? 8

9. Nationally Visible Reform Efforts 9

10. But Are They Systemic? Completion at Every Stage In order to reach the goal of 55 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds obtaining an associate degree or higher by the year 2025, the commission has put forth a 10-part recommendation that is aimed at strengthening the educational pipeline at every stage throughout a student’s trajectory from preschool to college completion. The College Completion Agenda 2010 Progress Report 10

11. A Way Forward: Taking Community-based, Cradle-to-Career Partnerships to Scale 11

12. Every Student Graduates, No Exceptions Successful Students. Productive Citizens. Thriving Cities. 12

13. EVERY student in the region will: Be Preparedfor school through early childhood education Be Supported inside and outside school Succeedacademically Enroll in some form of college Graduate and enters a career MISSION: Empowering every child in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky to succeed from birth through some form of college and into a meaningful career. 13

14. Student’s Roadmap to Success: Critical Benchmarks and Transition Years 14

15. Establishing a Network of Cradle to Career Partnerships 15

16. Implementation and Development Sites Establishing Urban Universities as Anchors for Transformational Birth through Career Partnerships Portland State University Portland, Oregon California State University – East Bay Hayward, California Strive –University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Indiana University/ California State University – Fresno Fresno, California Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Virginia Arizona State University Mesa, Arizona Implementation Site (EPIN) Development Site (EPDN) University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico University of Memphis Memphis, Tennessee University of Houston Houston, Texas 16

17. 5 Attributes of Successful Systemic Partnerships: A Theory of Action 17

18. What’s the Big Idea? Vision Successful Students • Productive Citizens • Thriving Cities Successful Students • Productive Citizens • Thriving Region “Envision our region—the dynamic and diverse counties and communities of the greater San Francisco East Bay Area—as characterized by successful students, productive citizens and thriving cities” Support the children and youth in greater Houston cradle to career 18

19. Who’s at the table? Convening Power • Colleges and Universities • Community-based Organizations • Corporate and Business • Early Childhood • K-12 • Teacher Unions 19

20. How can we build capacity? An Organizational Action Plan 20

21. How will we measure success? Evidence-based Interventions Strive Six Sigma: Define exactly what we want to do. Measure what improvements need to occur to achieve our goal. Analyze factors that determine outcomes. Improve current strategy and/or fill gaps with new or existing resources. Continue to improve on the action plans. 21

22. How to show continuous improvement? Accountability 22

23. What if the nation’s largest public university system took this model to scale? 23

24. SUNY’s Strategic Plan 24

25. The Power of SUNY:SUNY will be a key engine of revitalization for New York State’s economy and enhance the quality of life for the state’s citizens 25

26. Six Big Ideas SUNY and the Entrepreneurial Century SUNY and an Energy-Smart New York SUNY and the Seamless Education Pipeline SUNY and a Healthier New York SUNY and the World SUNY and the Vibrant Community 26

27. SUNY and The Seamless Education Pipeline Cradle-to-Career Success SUNY Works SUNY Urban-Rural Teacher Corps 27

28. A Distributed Network of 64 Campuses 28

29. Cradle-to-Career Success 29

30. SUNY Urban-Rural Teacher Corps A Unified Vision Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation and Partnerships for Improved Student Learning A Unified Profession 30

31. A Call to Action Washington DC Press Club - November 16, 2010 31

32. “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King, Jr. 32

33. Partnering for Student Success: Cradle to Career Portland State University November 4, 2010 Nancy L. Zimpher Chancellor, The State University of New York