Improving Four-Year Graduation Rates – Why It is Important Susan Powers, AVP for Academic Affairs

1. The Pathway to Success Improving Four-Year Graduation Rates – Why It is Important Susan Powers, AVP for Academic Affairs Josh Powers, AVP for Student Success Strategic Plan Conference March 4, 2014

2. FR Cohort Persistence on Path to Graduation: 2006-2012 Percentage Note: Falls 3-7 include both enrolled and graduated students by those points.

3. The Pathway to Success 1-Yr Retention and 4 & 6-Yr Completion: Total FTFT-BDS Cohort by Snapshot Year • Noted Changes in this Period: • Slow enrollment decline early part of decade; large increases began Fall 2010. • Lilly Grant for 1stYear Programs ended 2002. • Low income, minority, & cond. admit enrollment jump in 2010. Noted decline in conditional admits in subsequent years. Source: IR Data

4. The Pathway to Success 1-Yr Retention and 4 & 6-Yr Completion: Pell Student Cohort by Snapshot Year • Noted Changes in this Period: • Pell grant maximums largely flat through 2006. • Changes in Pell eligibility definition resulted in jump in Pell students in 2009, but very large jump in 2010. • Economy tanked in 2009. Source: IR Data

5. The Pathway to Success 1-Yr Retention and 4 & 6-Yr Completion: African American Student Cohort by Snapshot Year • Noted Changes in Period: • Substantial growth in African American students from urban areas, particularly Chicago and Indy, starting in 2010. • 2007 federal ethnicity definition change. • Initiation of ISUcceed Program in African American Cultural Center in 2011. • Change in recruitment strategy in Chicago area in 2011. Source: IR Data

6. The Pathway to Success 1-Yr Retention and 4 & 6-Yr Completion: White Student Cohort by Snapshot Year • Noted Changes in Period: • Enrollment decline starting in 2003, started increasing in 2007, largest jump in 2010. Source: IR Data

7. The Pathway to Success 1-Yr Retention and 4 & 6-Yr Completion: 21st Century Scholar Cohort by Snapshot Year • Noted Changes in Period: • State policy change 2011: Eligibility changes aimed at reducing program costs. • State policy change 2012: Fall 2013 FR must complete 30 CRs/year to keep full aid. • Large jumps in 21st Century Scholar enrollment Fall 2010, 2011, and 2013. Source: IR Data

8. The Pathway to Success Change in SAT Scores of Entering Freshmen: 1998-2013 Source: IR Data

9. The Pathway to Success What Does the Research Say Impacts Completion at 4-Year Institutions? • The Big 4 – TPSC • Time (i.e., longer it takes to do anything, more likely “other things” get in the way) • Predictability • Structured pathways to degree • Co-requisite remediation Way that most institutions increase completion: Change who they admit

10. The Pathway to Success • State Mandates • HEA 1220-2012 (Credit Creep Bill) – implemented Fall 2013 • SEA 182-2012 (Statewide Transfer General Education Core) – implemented Fall 2013 • SEA 182-2013 (Single Articulation Pathways) – to be implemented Fall 2015 • HEA 1348-2013 (Degree Maps) – to be implemented Fall 2014

11. The Pathway to Success ISU Response • Curriculum • Summer School • Instruction and Related Activities

12. The Pathway to Success ISU Response • Curriculum • Board of Trustee Components of a Degree • 120 credit hours – 4 programs approved for exemption • Foundational Studies Core to not exceed 45 hours • Minimum of 45 hours of 300/400 level coursework • A major consisting of 31-71 hours of approved coursework • 30 programs exceed 72 hours (10 are revising) • A major can be completed in 6 semesters • 10 programs - 7 semesters • 13 programs - 8 semesters ✔ ✔ ✔

13. The Pathway to Success ISU Response • Curriculum • Board of Trustee Components of a Degree • STGEC • 30 credit hour transfer core as a block • Faculty developed outcomes • Single Articulation Pathways • Transfer from Ivy Tech & Vincennes • 60 credit hours • Development underway for at least 10 areas • Degree Maps • MySAM • General Interest Areas • 6 credits remedial coursework • General Studies Degree – Target for Fall 2014

14. The Pathway to Success ISU Response • Summer School • 4-Year Graduation Incentive • Summer Marketing • Taskforce for Summer 2015

15. The Pathway to Success ISU Response • Instruction and Related Activities • Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence • Academic Department Student Enrollment and Success Plans • Advising post University College Enrollment * Retention * Completion * Post-College Achievement Sessions get to the root of advisement problems Indiana Statesman, February 24, 2014

16. The Pathway to Success ISU Response • Instruction and Related Activities • Graduation Guarantee • Over 1,000 students from Fall 2012 and 2013 • All students Fall 2014 • Accountability • Handbook policies related to faculty responsibility • Remedial Math • Contracted to Ivy Tech 2012-13 and 2013-14 • Departmental success taskforce • Examine dept. issues that hinder student success • Evaluate the chair’s role in promoting/supporting dept. behaviors related to student and faculty success • Identify specific faculty behaviors that promote student success

17. Small Group Discussion Exercise At your table, please discuss these three questions related to student completion at ISU: What are the time-to-degree facilitators and inhibitors within programs or curriculums that you observe? Are there ones that would be useful to examine? What factors do you observe that enable or hinder predictability for students as they plan or change their academic course of study and/or select or change a major? Where are the gateway course bottlenecks and are there ways to reduce them? What do you feel are important considerations in discussions about strategy in the college completion arena?

18. Re-defining Excellence Traditional Definition in Higher Education: Who gets excluded The ISU Way: Who gets included and the transforming experiences they receive Our Challenge to Ourselves: Being that rare institution that evidences rising completion rates on the back of inclusion, not exclusion. It is generally easier for a college to change who they admit than it is to change the success rates of the students already there. - American Enterprise Institute study of 1,700 U.S. colleges (Feb. 2014)