Cross Institutional C ollaborations: Building Partnerships for Student Success

1. Cross Institutional Collaborations: Building Partnerships for Student Success Montgomery College Prince George’s Community College University of Maryland University College

2. Presentation Outline • Kresge Research Goals • Research Findings • Interventions • Panel Discussion

3. Impetus for the Partnership • Community college students are 45% of all undergraduate students • In MD, SB 740 Career and College Readiness and College Completion Act focuses onimproving the completion pipeline • What factors contribute to student success at the four-year institution? 30 Earned an A.A. 12 Earn a 4-yr Credential in 6yrs 20 Transfer to a 4-yr Institution 2 Still Enrolled 100 Community College Students 20 Still Enrolled 6 Stop Out 40 Stop Out

4. Institutional Partners • MC • Diverse population of over 60,000 students a year from 75 difference countries • PGCC • Diverse population of over 40,000 students from 103 countries • UMUC • Online, open-enrollment university • Over 90,000 students enrolled online • Transfers from PGCC or MC

5. Kresge Project Overview PGCC and MC Student Data UMUC Student Data Predict Student Success Intervene to Improve Student Performance

6. Project Stages • Build partnerships across segments to better understand student needs • Develop a cross-institutional database with students’ academic history to profile and benchmark student success • Analyze student success using data mining and predictive modeling • Implement interventions to promote transfer student success

7. Kresge Data Mart MC data • PGCC data Data Warehouse (current) Base Extract Spring 2005 to Spring 2011 CRM Advising LMS Online Classroom UMUC Student Info Sys

8. Research Focus • Describe student performance and persistence at UMUC • Use demographic factors and community college course-taking behaviors to predict success Next Semester Re-Enrollment Graduation Retention UMUC First Term GPA Community College Data • Define student success at UMUC: • First semester GPA • Re-enrollment • Retention

9. Community College Transfer Students Are Successful at UMUC

10. UMUC Success Quadrants Retained Not Retained GPA ≥2.0 GPA <2.0

11. Predictors of First Term GPA at UMUC

12. UMUC Success Calculator

13. Predictors of Re-Enrollment While not associated with performance, minority status and receiving a PELL grant at the CCare associated with persistence

14. Intervention Focus Academic Support Social and Institutional Integration Goal Setting

15. Interventions to Promote Student Success • Collaborative: • Developmental Education • Math • UMUC: • Accounting 220 and 221 • UMUC Student Resource Checklist • College Success Mentoring Program • Jumpstart Summer • Community Colleges: • MC: Girls to Women and Boys to Men • PGCC: Diverse Male Student Initiative

16. MC: Girls to Women and Boys to Men • Women’s Mentoring and Boys to Men (MC) • Serves minority at-risk students • Focuses of academic and life skills • Academic support: Online tutoring – Educate Online • Starts with high school students • Provides mentoring as required • Scholarships for some students

17. PGCC: Diverse Male Student Initiative • Serves minority at-risk male students • Focuses of academic and life skills • Two-year structured program with two-day summer institute • Strong faculty and peer mentoring • Provide role models and networking opportunities • Build community of support among participants • Goal is to guide students to succeed

18. Next StepsPanel Discussion and Audience Questions

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