The Achievement Gap in our Classes Lone Star College

1. The Achievement Gap in our ClassesLone Star College October 2018 Workshop

2. Broadening Participation Need: Goal: • Have a good understanding of what our demographics look like in our classes compared to our campuses • Recognize discrepancies in our classes and minimize it.

3. Enrollment Demographics in GEOL1403 for the past 5 Semesters

4. GEOLOGY DEMOGRAPHICS VS SYSTEM

5. African-American Enrollment in our Classes Graphs show what percent of our geology classes are made up of a certain demographic relative to what percent that demographic makes up of each of our campuses. Hispanic Enrollment in our Classes

6. Female Enrollment in our Classes

7. Broadening Participation Need: Strategies: • Fewer women and African-American students are enrolling in our classes relative to the college population • Meet with advisors • To make them aware of geology and greater success rate over other sciences for Gen Ed students • To create micro-campaigns to encourage enrollment in geology (e.g., focus on those enrolled that have not taken a science class) • Work with curriculum team to align our math requirements with current math pathways (make us more accessible than other sciences) • Meet with high schools • Create and share a brochure about our geology program • Collaborate with National Association for Black Geoscientists to talk to high school classes Goal: • Short term: Move the needle in the right direction • Long-term: Come within 2% of our college’s demographics

8. Success of All Students Need: Goal: • A clear view of who is successful in our classes • Minimizing the difference in success across the demographics

9. Success of Students broken down by Demographics (Success = A,B,C, or P)

10. Labels are the percent of that demographic enrolled that were not successful 25 31 26 21 26 23 23 18 19 18 38 43 35 35 35

11. GPA For Different Demographics. Number labels = number of students 65 15 11 15 96 63 67 50 60 91 78 91 44 20 92 95 22 6 89 19 20 23 11 23 17 27 17 18 47 103 40 17 44 68 2 67 73 86 26 105 23 50 73 60 66 24 5 39 54 21 39 67 12 20 3 14 6 13 12 5 42 60 59 166 107 65 156 118 62 60 79 113 86 15 11 62 74 88 35 75 64 54 13 18 26 68 26 12 9 23

12. Success of All Students Need: Strategies: • Success rate based on GPA of underrepresented minorities is lower than Caucasian students • Adjuncts + Full Time: • Increase workshop participation • Expose them to the achievement gap • Provide strategies for an inclusive classroom • Create more active learning ready-made strategies to use in their classrooms Goal: • Increase success rate by an average of 0.5 GPA points

13. Strand 3: Increasing Professional Pathways Need: Possible Strategies • Lack a clear pathway for geoscience majors and future science teachers • Continue pathway discussions with University of Houston – Downtown as first articulation agreement • Educating advisors on geoscience careers and developing a handout • Expand campus geology webpages to include career information, internships, research opportunities, highlight achievements of former students Goal: • Develop a guided universal pathway for all neighboring four-year universities

14. What are your observations? Average GPA for GEOL1403 NOTE: These are the terms that AIR uses for our school.