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Early College Start,Dual Credit, and
College ConnectionNortheast Texas Community College
April 11, 2008
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Presenter
Luanne Preston, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Early College Start and College Connection
Austin Community College
Phone: 512-223-7354
E-mail: [email protected]
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Agenda• Austin Community College• Overview: Closing the Gaps• Early College Start (ECS)
• How it works
• Benefits
• Results
• College Connection and ECS• Best Practices
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Agenda
• ACC’s Early College Model Development
• Working Models• Lockhart High School
• Crockett College Academy• How to Build the Model
• Questions/Answers
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Austin Community College
• “One College” with 7 campuses
• 34,000 students in credit programs
• Strong commitment to high school outreach programs
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Closing the Gaps OverviewClosing the Gaps Overview
• Closing the Gaps warns that if more Texans do not receive college degrees by 2030, the State could lose up to $40 billion in annual household income.
• The goal is to increase student enrollment in higher education by 630,000 by 2015.
• Most students will elect to start at a community college.
• Austin Community College District expects over 15,000 more students by 2015.
Source: http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/ClosingtheGaps/ctgtargets_pdf.cfm?Goal=1
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Early College Start
• Umbrella concept for ways students can obtain free/low-cost college credit while in high school• Dual credit
• Co-enrollment
• Tech Prep/Credit-in-escrow
• Pre-enrollment services delivered at high school campus
• ACC outreach program for rising juniors and seniors
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College Connection
• Response to “Closing the Gaps”
• Pre-enrollment services delivered at high school campus
• ACC outreach program for 100% of senior class
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How ECS WorksDual Credit/Co-enrollment
Students:• Demonstrate college-readiness via state-
approved tests
• Meet all academic skills and college course prerequisites
• Follow the college process for enrollment – services brought to high school campuses
• Register for ACC courses
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How ECS WorksDual Credit/Co-enrollment
• ACC waives tuition and fees• for in-district students
• classes taught on high school campuses;
• $40 per-course fee for out-of-district
• Students transfer credit • back to high school
• use at ACC toward degree/certificate
• forward to 4-year institution
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How ECS WorksCredit-in-Escrow
Students:• Enroll for high school classes articulated to
college courses
• Complete with a “B” or better
• Upon graduation, apply at ACC
• CATEMA system indicates to student that they have credit to claim
• ACC applies credit-in-escrow to student’s college transcript
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How College Connection Works
Seniors• Complete pre-enrollment process on
high school campus during senior year
• Application• Assessment testing• Orientation• Academic advising
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How College Connection Works
• Are ready-to-register by graduation• May enroll at ACC as early as the
summer following graduation
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Benefits of ECS
• Makes college accessible and affordable
• Supports “Closing the Gaps” state goal
• Creates a college-going culture in high school
• Increases college-going rate
• Creates enrollments for college programs
• Creates familiarity with merits and value of community college
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Student Benefits
• Provides free/low-cost college experience
• Fulfills advanced measures for Texas’ Distinguished Achievement Plan
• Enhances seamless transition to college
• Satisfies high school graduation requirement and earns college credit (dual credit)
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Student Benefits• Allows completion of college/core
curriculum/general education transfer courses
• Allows CATEMA* statewide registration of Tech Prep credits
• Provides access to courses not available in high school (e.g. Japanese, Russian, photography)
*Career and Technology Education Management application (system to enter, display, update, report data)
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ECS and College Connection
• Many student benefits are the same
• Both programs reduce barriers to college attendance
• Both programs are FREE
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ECS Results
• 2,500 plus enrollments every semester in ACC’s eight-county service area
• Participants from each of 57 service-area high schools
• College classes offered on 37 high school campuses
• ECS students enter after high school at twice the annual rate for traditional students
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Post-High School Entry to ACC (In-district)
2002-2004
0
10
20
30
40
50
ECS 45.7%
In-District High
Schools 19%
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Dual vs. TraditionalACC Grade Distribution by Enrollment Status (Dual vs. Traditional) and Delivery Method
(Distance Learning vs. Classroom)
Fall 2006
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ECS Student Success
• ECS students have better success indicators than traditional students:• Higher mean GPA• Higher rate of retention
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School District Benefits
• Offers large range of college-level opportunities
• Offers increased “menu” options of ECS college credit and AP
• Offers college-level programs that students not considering AP can access
• Offers classes not available in high school curriculum
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School District Benefits
• Provides alternative to “wasted” senior year perception/criticism
• Reduces high school personnel units as more students take college classes
• Offers potential to satisfy 4x4 needs
• Is convenient—ACC will offer classes during school day on high school campus
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Advantages of ECS
• Students gain a true college experience
• college academic content,
• typical college semester format (rather than over an entire academic year)
• exposed to college professors who meet SACS standards
• Students establish a college transcript
• credit in-hand upon successfully completing the college course
• no additional testing needed
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Advantages of ECS
• Ease of transfer of college credit • transfers seamlessly to public institutions in Texas
• transfers easily to Texas private institutions and out-of-state public and private institutions
• Maturing experience for students
• follow college enrollment process
• attend new student orientation
• learn the mechanics of going to college and college survival skills
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Advantages of ECS
• Student success in focus at ACC
• access to community college support services (libraries, tutoring labs, computer labs)
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High School Partnerships
• College policies and procedures
• Office to implement/staffing to support
• Formal agreements
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College Connection Results
• Increased college-going rate in every participating school
• Increased enrollments at ACC
• More students traditionally underrepresented in higher education, particularly African-American and Hispanic, than in the general ACC student population
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How ECS and College Connection Work Together
• A strong dual-credit program reduces the need for College Connection services– Dual credit students don’t need to
apply, may require no assessment testing, have already been through orientation, and have college experience
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How ECS and College Connection Work Together
• College Connection and ECS services can be delivered at the same time– Takes a little more planning
• College Connection is one more opportunity to help dual credit students with college awareness and college planning
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Why Do Austin Community College (ACC) and School Districts Need to Partner?
• Our constituencies overlap (parents, students, business communities)
• We have a common interest in raising educational achievement levels
• Closing the Gaps applies to all of us
• Economic development depends on educated trained workforce
• We have similar challenges
• Funding
• Accountability
• We are stronger when we work together
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Early College High Schools/Middle Colleges
• Goal• Blend high school and college • small school concept• secondary and postsecondary
partners take joint responsibility for students
• Curriculum is carefully designed so that students can earn a high school diploma while earning college credit
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Early College High Schools/Middle Colleges
• Key Characteristics• Engages students in college-level
course work
• Ensures that students graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree or 2 years of transferable college credit
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Early College High Schools/Middle Colleges
• Provides access to college, important to economically disadvantaged students
• Assumes that all students will complete a postsecondary credential
• Often targets students who are underrepresented in higher education
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Early College High Schools
• Academically rigorous classes• College classes as early as Grade 10• Program completed in 4-5 years• Grade 9 and 10 classes are taught by
school district teachers• Provides guidance and coaching from
high school advisors through the first 2 years of college
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Middle Colleges
• Close links with Tech Prep programs
• Flexible schedule allows students to work
• High school diploma comes with college degree
• Provides alternative to traditional high school programs
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Early College High Schools/Middle Colleges
• Gates Foundation Support• Requirements for dedicated space on
college campus
• Dedicated faculty
• At-risk students, dropout recovery
• Funding mechanism, usually ADA (grant funding is for planning)
• Challenges for ACC
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ACC’s Model Development
• How does ACC’s model differ?• Works with available college
resources
• Focuses on completion of core curriculum
• Works within the tuition waiver allowed by ACC policy
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ACC’s Model Development
• Academic year planning• Can be started by any school in
summer or fall with sufficient enrollment
• Timing and sequence of courses to make sense for rising juniors and seniors
• Hybrid faculty and facility use• Transportation
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ACC’s Model Development
• Flexibility• Cohort approach
• Application process
• Parent involvement
• Multiple points of entry• Juniors and/or seniors
• During school year only• Students can earn up to a year of college credit
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ACC’s Model Development
• Flexibility• Adding summer courses allows
students to complete the core curriculum the summer following graduation
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Working Models
• Lockhart High School
• Crockett College Academy• Austin ISD
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Working Models
• Lockhart High School• Smaller, rural school
• Academic year only (students take summer classes on their own)
• Multiple entry points
• Classes offered in face-to-face format at LHS
• ACC faculty travel to LHS
• Some LHS faculty are also ACC adjunct faculty
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Working Models
• Lockhart High School• Students routinely graduate with 24
core college credits
• Savings example: $9,064 (approximate) for 24 hours tuition/ fees, plus room and board for two semesters at Texas A&M
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Lockhart High School
Classifi-cation Notes
Fall Semester Spring SemesterACC Course
NumberCourse Title
ACC Course Number
Course Title
JuniorsENGL 1301
English Composition I
ENGL 1302English Composition II
HIST 1301 U.S. History I HIST 1302 U.S. History II
Seniors
Successfully completed ENGL 1301 & 1302
ENGL 2322 British Literature I ENGL 2322British Literature II* or elective
ECON 2302Principles of Microeconomics
GOVT 2305 U.S. Government
Seniors
Didn’t take ACC classes as juniors
ENGL 1301English Composition I
ENGL 1302English Composition II
ECON 2302Principles of Microeconomics
GOVT 2305 U.S. Government
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Crockett College Academy
• Cohort approach• Application process
• Selective for a combination of attitude, ability, and college-readiness
• School year and summer classes
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Crockett College Academy
• Across the street from ACC’s newest South Austin Campus
• Proximity allows classes taught at both locations
• College and high school-based faculty
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Crockett College Academy
• Students:• are largely Hispanic, economically
disadvantaged
• complete almost all of the core curriculum while in high school
• have many course choices based on eventual AA/AS and BA/BS degree sought
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Crockett College Academy
• receive agreed-upon extra support in first two semesters
• First class is “Effective Learning” taught at CHS
• Accompanied to second class at SAC by a high school faculty member to reinforce “Effective Learning” concepts, and to help stay on track for successful, first core curriculum course completion
• All ACC student success services, including tutoring, available to CCA students
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Crockett College Academy
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How to Build the Model
• Find your public ed/higher ed partner
• Start with an academic year plan• What to offer
• When to offer
• How much to offer
• Promote to students/parents
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How to Build…
• Make good use of faculty resources• Check for master’s-degreed high
school faculty or recent retirees (they understand high schools and high school students
• Enlist support of college department chairs
• Designate a “point person” for each institution
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How to Build…
• Schedule classes
• Arrange transportation, textbooks, supervision, college and campus orientation• Who does this?
• Register students (use best method)• Cohort registration by college to ensure
access to correct section(s)
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How to Build…
• Students use registration with guidance
• Monitor progress• Check with faculty and students• Check student grades/retention
• Refine system• CCA will change application, selected
larger cohort for second year• LHS adding new courses
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Questions/Answers
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Find a copy of this presentation at:www.austincc.edu/isd/ntcc/041108Presentation.ppt