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iFALCON Title V Grant Year One Interim Performance Report April 2010. Spring 2009: Application written by Cheryl Shimazu, Steve Clifford, Laurie Kristinat September 2009: Notice of grant award Year One: October 1, 2009-September 30, 2010
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iFALCON Title V GrantYear One Interim Performance ReportApril 2010
Spring 2009: Application written by Cheryl Shimazu, Steve Clifford, Laurie Kristinat • September 2009: Notice of grant award • Year One: October 1, 2009-September 30, 2010 • Fall semester 2009 reduced staffing start-up • Spring semester 2010 fully staffed • Year One Interim Report Due to Dept. of Education on April 27, 2010 iFALCON Title V History
Project Director: Steve Clifford • Activity II Director: Lynn Serwin • Activity III Director: Francie Quaas-Berryman • Activity IV Director: Bryan Reece • Counselors: Marvelina Barcelo and Evelyn Ryozaki • Math Coordinator: Angie Conley • Project Assistant: Liz Quintero • Media/Web Specialist: Sarah Ramirez • External Evaluator: Dawn Person (CSUF) • 2 Hourly assistants housed in HSS and Grants office • Faculty Senate President: Deb Moore (unfunded) iFALCON Title V Staff
Website 2.0 highlights • www.cerritos.edu/ifalcon • 25 new success videos • Most successful element of online presence • Interactivity: • academic success polls • iFALCON Blog • Library RSS feed • iFALCON Club info • Social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter) • Facebookprovides average of 400 visits weekly Activity I: Web and CounselingOctober 1, 2009-March 31, 2010
Website 2.0 focus group: December 2009 • Students drawn from iFALCON Club, Counseling classes, developmental ed. classes • Students want: • More videos and more interactive features and updates • More content • Brighter, more engaging color scheme • Links to admissions/enrollment assistance • Page that resembles new college home page • Website 3.0 planned for August 2010 release • “Pathway to Enrollment” • New faculty/staff/student featured bloggers • Access to weekly calendar and updates • Other features TBA Activity I: Web and CounselingOctober 1, 2009-March 31, 2010
Counseling initiatives • Appointment Card outreach • “Pathway to Enrollment” • Website providing step-by-step guidelines to assist new students in • Admissions • Counseling • Financial Aid • Content • Student videos • Links to enrollment resources • Projected beta version August 2010 • Co-Sponsor, January 2010 Orientations Workshop • Summer 2010: Integrating iFALCON and Summer Connections Activity I: Web and CounselingOctober 1, 2009-March 31, 2010
Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIGs) • 6 groups, up to 5-6 participants in each group • Spring 2010 participants creating FALCON portfolios • Presentations at May 14 final FIG event • Professional Development Activities • 5 brown bag presentations/workshops • Presentations at department, division, program, Academic Excellence Awards, STAR, and Student Senate meetings • Present iFALCON at Strengthening Student Success Conference, San Francisco, October 2009 • June 2010: Staff Development workshop Activity II: Professional DevelopmentOctober 1, 2009-March 31, 2010
iFALCON Resource Center • Physical location: Innovation Center • Beginning relationship with Innovation Center to provide professional development support to faculty and staff • Liz Quintero housed in Innovation Center as iFALCON resource • Virtual location: www.cerritos.edu/ifalcon • Development of professional development resources to be available on website • Syllabi • Class lessons • Activities • Self-study resources Activity II: Professional DevelopmentOctober 1, 2009-March 31, 2010
Integrating iFALCON into dev. ed. classes • Spring 2010: piloting one class each English 52 and Math 40 to develop integration model • content- and skills-specific videos • course materials (syllabi, assignments, samples, activities) • Fall 2010: add faculty participants in English and Math courses • 6 new participating classes • English 20 and 52; Math 40 and 60 • scale up each semester to include participation of Reading and ESL depts. • Co-sponsor, Success Centers Workshop, March 2010 • Participant in ongoing Success Centers conversation Activity III: Developmental EducationOctober 1, 2009-March 31, 2010
Creation/Advising of iFALCON Club (ASCC) • Raised funds for 2 $500 iFALCON Scholarships to be awarded at May 2010 Awards Banquet • E-Mail Outreach Campaign (HSS Pilot) • 7,000 students weekly; 1-3% rejection rate • Full campus pilot in planning for Fall 2010 • E-mails originate with area deans or dean of counseling Activity IV: Community OutreachOctober 1, 2009-March 31, 2010
Counseling Appointment Cards • iFALCON one side, Counselors on other • Fall 2010 cards include DSPS, EOPS, and Transfer Center • iFALCON Information Centers • 50 classroom/building installations • iFALCON success skills (permanent) • Successful Alum Spotlight (permanent) • Dean’s/President’s Lists (rotating) • Mid-semester rotating w/Transfer info, other guides to academic support services Activity IV: Community OutreachOctober 1, 2009-March 31, 2010
ARCC Data • Spring 2010 ARCC data too soon to show impact of Title V • Spring 2011 ARCC data first meaningful ARCC measurement • Program Evaluation by External Evaluator • Create evaluation baseline for grant by: • surveying 500 participants in 2009 Summer Connections and 500 new student non-participants • surveying 6 dev. ed. classes (3 FALCON/3 Non-FALCON) • surveying 6 transfer-level (3 FALCON/3 Non-FALCON) • Focus groups interviewing • Participants in Task Force (faculty/staff/student) • Faculty participating in above surveys • Students randomly selected from student survey data • Baseline data collected April-May 2010 Program Outcomes and EvaluationOctober 1, 2009-March 31, 2010