"Strengthening Our Institution The Power of Title III in Impacting Assessment, Distance

Learning, & Advising at a Small, Rural Community College"

"Strengthening Our Institution The Power of Title III in Impacting Assessment, Distance

Learning, & Advising at a Small, Rural Community College"

A Dialogue about Retention Challenges and Strategies for Distance Learning and the Traditional Classroom

Don Staub, Title III DirectorPatrick Keough, Distance Learning Director

Carteret Community College

http://ccctitle3.wordpress.com/

A Dialogue about Retention Challenges and Strategies for Distance Learning and the Traditional Classroom

Don Staub, Title III DirectorPatrick Keough, Distance Learning Director

Carteret Community College

http://ccctitle3.wordpress.com/

•Associate, Diploma, and Certificate programs: 34

• Curriculum Enrollment: ~1,700

• Online Courses Offered: 78 (F/H)

• Full-time Faculty: 68

• Part-time Faculty: 95

• Staff/Administration: 108

A Little Background

Challenge“Between 2002 and 2005, the mean overall retention rate for college credit programs was 50% (the range in program retention in 2004 – 2005 was 33.3% to 100%). ”

The Challenge• Advising = Registering

• No systematic assessment program (and here comes SACS)

• Distance Learning’s open door policy

The Challenge Student Preparedness

• Career goals

• College readiness• Online instruction

The Response:

Professional Development

Getting all faculty and staff willing to upgrade their technical skills and developing viable and targeted training for our faculty and staff

• Advising

• Assessment

• Technology

• DL Best Practices

The Challenge

39% … In 2006, full-time faculty reporting that they had received orientation on their role in advising (down from 48% in 2001 survey)

The Response:

A Plan for Proper Advising

• Developing a Product: CAPS

• Developing a Process

Advising

• Fall 2008 - all campus workshop with NACADA consultant (Jennifer Bloom)

• Spring 2009 - Focused seminar for small group of faculty

• Summer 2009 - Stipends for faculty to work in CAPS

• Fall 2009 - CCC team to attend NACADA annual conference

• On-going: Advising Task Force

The Response:

Professional Development

The Challenge “Too few administrators and staff understand assessment…Written assessment plans for departments are not related to student learning and institutional competencies.”

Asessment Planning

• Spring 2007 - ILLOs

• Spring-Summer 2007 - PLLOs & Program Reviews

• Fall 2007 - PLLOs & Administrative Outcomes

• Since then: ILLOs, PLLOs, Program Reviews, Administrative Unit Reviews…Working to create a culture of assessment

The Response:

Professional Development

The Outputs

http://ccctitle3.wordpress.com

The Challenge “Students in online and hybrid Internet courses are less successful than students in traditional classroom courses.”

success ratesfall 2006 spr 2007 fall 2007 spr 2008 fall 2008 spr 2009

total 74.1% 75.0% 74.6% 72.7% 72.2% 68.9%internet 65.4% 68.7% 64.3% 64.0% 66.5% 60.1%hybrid 69.5% 75.7% 79.7% 72.6% 81.2% 74.2%traditional 76.6% 77.1% 77.2% 76.2% 73.6% 72.4%

“Too few professional development opportunities for faculty have resulted in a low number of faculty using creative teaching methodologies.”

The Challenge Student Preparedness

• Career goals

• College readiness• Online instruction

http://dlccc.wordpress.com/effective-online-learning-student-module/

The QAP Scorecard

The Challenge Are We There Yet?

• Using Technology (Excel - Sharing Files)

• Understanding online instruction

• Mastering and Embracing Online Instruction

• Understanding the importance of assessment & understanding assessment

The Outcome

fall to fall retentionfall 05 - fall 06

fall 06 - fall 07

fall 07 - fall 08

retention rate retention rate retention rate

first time 53.0% 48.0% 52.3%female 55.9% 51.1% 49.5%male 49.2% 44.9% 56.3%age - to median 55.0% 46.8% 52.3%age - over median 49.6% 51.2% 52.2%college transfer 53.1% 43.7% 54.9%non-transfer 53.3% 52.2% 50.8%

“Between 2002 and 2005, the mean overall retention rate for college credit programs was 50%…”

Buy-In (20 months ago)

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Buy-In (today)

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Those who get it Those who don't Those who don't care

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Advising Task Force

Online Resources

• Title III Blog http://ccctitle3.wordpress.com

• Distance Learning Blog http://dlccc.wordpress.com

• Carteret Community College http://www.carteret.edu

Contact Us @

Don Staub - staubd@carteret.edu

Patrick Keough - pjk@carteret.edu