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.XL – The Summer Bridge & First-Year Experience Program. Brock Klein Pasadena City College Pasadena, California.
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.XL – The Summer Bridge &First-Year Experience Program Brock Klein Pasadena City College Pasadena, California
“I did not like high school and I did really bad in high school. And I did not think I would ever graduate and go to college. So right now, I think off it like this is where I can start my life. And then I can go on and do the things I want to and continue on to become a successful person.” .XL3 student
The .XL Mission The .XL program is designed to help first-generation and traditionally underrepresented students make a smooth and successful transition from high school to college in a nurturing, collaborative environment.
Math SI Math, Engl, Counseling Math & English Summer Fall Spring Summer Bridge and The First-Year Experience PCC High School Graduates Summer Bridge: High school graduates take a block of courses in the summer.First-Year Experience: They remain as a cohort for the remainder of their first year.
Program Director Recruiter .XL Student Ambassadors Faculty -- math, English Counselor Instructional Aides .XL Staff
Registration Textbook & parking permit purchase Student IDs Parent and student contracts Financial Aid advisement Orientation
Summer Bridge Data .XL Cohorts 3, 4, & 5
Fall Math Data • Fall to Spring Persistence • .XL 2-5: 88% • PCC: 69% • Hispanic: 67% • Success – No significant difference
An Important Finding Students engaged in an intense and sustained intervention have a greater chance of staying in school and succeeding than those who do not.
.XL 4-6 Findings • .XL success: .XL 4-6 students succeeded in all of their classes at a higher rate (78.5%) than PCC students in all classes (65.9%) and PCC students in basic skills classes (59.4%). • Basic skills to transfer math: A greater percentage of .XL 4-6 students (25%) who began in Level 1,(pre-algebra) registered for a transfer-level math course within 9 semesters than their non-.XL counterparts (11.1%).
.XL 4-6 Findings • College environment: Latino/a .XL students demonstrated more positive perceptions of the college environment than non-.XL Latino/a students. • Social adjustment: Latino/a .XL students demonstrated greater social adjustment to college than non-.XL Latino/a students.
Unexpected but Welcomed Outcomes • The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning • Faculty Inquiry • Development of SLOs • Research and Experimentation • Collegiality • Collaboration with other first-year experience program directors at PCC • New linked courses and programs
.XL Health Sciences .XL STEM .XL Now Reading Jam Math Jam .XL Variations
Questions for Discussion • Is it wise to shelter young, under-prepared students? • Is the program worth the cost/student? • Can the college scale up, offer the same experience to more students, maintain the same standards and level of intimacy, and have the same impact?
A Math Instructor and Her Students “Prealgebra is not so much about teaching math as it is about teaching students that they can do math.”