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STATEWIDE STRATEGIES FOR ADVANCING STUDENT SUCCESS THROUGH INNOVATION2013 Annual Meeting
Increasing Persistence
and Engagement
Planning for
College & Career
Enhancing Affordability
STATEWIDE INNOVATION, STUDENT SUCCESS
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Increase the number of individuals who are educated and trained by Virginia’s Community Colleges by 50,000 to an annual total of 423,000, with an emphasis on increasing the number from underserved populations by at least 25,000 individuals.
Access
Maintain tuition and fees at less than half of the comparable cost of attending Virginia’s public 4-year institutions, and increase the annual number of students who receive financial assistance and scholarships by 36,000.
Affordability
Increase the number of students graduating, transferring or completing a workforce credential by 50%, including increasing the success of students from underserved populations by 75%.
Student Success
Race/Ethnicity Domicile
Pell Status1st
Generation
UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS
ACHIEVE 2015 TAKE TWORecalibrated goals
2/3 part-time
53% of all Virginia under-
graduates
3/5 of in-state under-
graduate enrollments
6% increase in
Hispanic students
60% of VCCS students are from underserved populations
A STUDENT’S JOURNEY
And for some studentsAND FOR SOME STUDENTS…
Student Assistance & Intervention for Learning Success
BackgroundAchieve 2015 – Student Success
3x the number of students graduating, transferring, or completing a workforce credential, to 91,173; including tripling the success of students from underserved populations to 39,393.
Department of Labor TAA-CCCT Grant
September 30, 2013Pilot period began with all developmental education courses
Spring 2014 Expand to include student success (SDV) courses and gateway courses
Roles & Privileges
Raise flags, when appropriate.
Respond to student flags, as necessary.
Potentially track attendance.
Instructors
View and track SAILS activity.
Follow-up, as necessary.•Add notes•Clear flags•Close the loop
Student Services
Staff
Receive email notifications when flagged.
Contact appropriate support office.
Students
Flags & KudosFlags
• Attendance concern• Assignment concern• General concern• In danger of failing• Low participation• Low quiz/test scores• Never attended
Kudos• Keep up the good
work• Showing
improvement• Outstanding
academic performance
HOW IT ALL WORKS
HOW IT ALL WORKS
HOW IT ALL WORKS
The Virginia Education Wizard
Career & Course Planner
Set up
Career goals
Assessments
Transfer
Placement tests
Course planner
Experiences
Financial aid
Share
Career & course planner
Career & course planner
Career & course planner
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others.
open educational resources, n.
TCDLR
Textbook Costs & Digital Learning Resources Workgroup
A.L.O.
Ex. PSY 200
Utilize the VCCS faculty peer group structure to articulate learning outcomes for courses, beginning with prerequisite courses and courses with high enrollment currently demonstrating low success rates and/or low persistence rates to subsequent courses and award completion.
“Z”COURSES
Gen EdCertificate
$
$
• $3000• Emphasis on adoption• High enrollment courses• Cohort-based• Lumen-supported• Stealth course-redesign
Spring 2013
$
1. BIO 1012. BIO1023. BUS 1004. CHM 1115. CST 1006. ENG 111
7. ENG 1128. HIS 1019. ITE 11510.MTH 16311.PSY 20112.SDV 100
FALL 2013
$
520 Students20 sections
12 colleges$52,000 in savings
FALL 2013
• “Z” Degree• Associate degree in Business Admin• $0 Textbook Costs
FALL 2013
“Z”COURSES
1. ENG 1112. ENG 112 3. ENG 1254. MTH 1515. PHY 2016. PHY 202
7. HIS 1218. HIS 1229. ART 10110. ART 10211. HIS 26212.SDV 100
FALL 2013
Gen EdCertificate
ENG111
ENG 111 & 112
INSTITUTIONAL & FACULTY CULTURE
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” –Peter Drucker
IMPORTANCE OF LIBRARIES
IMPACTS TEACHING & LEARNING
COLLEGES ARE
Piloting the SAILS early alert system
Sharing the WIZARD with current and prospective students
Using OER to replace textbooks
ADVANCING STUDENT SUCCESS THROUGH INNOVATION
Questions?
Dr. Susan WoodVice Chancellor, Academic Services
Ms. Lori DwyerDirector of Educational Policy
Dr. Chris PfautzDirector of Student Support Technologies
Dr. Richard SebastianDirector of Teaching and Learning Technologies