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Achieving the Dream

Achieving the Dream. Kauai Community College Convocation Fall 2008. We can help more community college students succeed. Achieving the Dream supports colleges’ efforts to help students stick with their studies and attain their academic goals.

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Achieving the Dream

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  1. Achieving the Dream Kauai Community College Convocation Fall 2008

  2. We can help more community college students succeed • Achieving the Dream supports colleges’ efforts to help students stick with their studies and attain their academic goals. • Colleges work within a culture of evidence, a collective mindset in which critical decisions affecting students are informed by data and evaluated in light of whether student achievement increases.

  3. Overview • Develop an evidence-based culture • Engage in institutional transformation and systemic change • Assure success of low-income, 1st generation and Native Hawaiian students

  4. Hawai‘i’s Partners and Funders The Kamehameha Schools The Office of Hawaiian Affairs The University of Hawai‘i, Community Colleges

  5. A five-year initiative • Goal is to increase number of students who successfully; • complete remedial/developmental courses; • complete “gatekeeper” courses; • complete all enrolled courses with C or higher; • re-enroll from one semester to the next; and • earn certificates and/or degrees.

  6. UHCC & KCC Strategic Goals • Native Hawaiian Educational Attainment • Increase Hawaii’s Educational Capital • Increase enrollment • Increase success and retention through increased Financial Aid • Increase success in remedial/developmental courses • Increase the number of students who transfer or graduate

  7. Continuation: If they don’t come back they don’t complete In the top states, 62% of entering community college students return their second year. In the UH Community College System, 45% return. At Kaua‘i CC 46% overall return (69% of FT and 32% of PT). Source: Measuring Up 2006 Completion and IPEDS

  8. Year One: 2007 • Collect data on student success, retention and persistence • Identify gatekeeper courses (high enrollment and <70% success rate) • Identify factors related to student success and lack of success • Identify intervention strategies to increase student success

  9. Gatekeeper Courses Course C or Higher % Headcount ENG 100 65% 12% (400) ENG 22 57% 10% MATH 24 66% 9% HIST 151 64% 8% SP 151 64% 8% ICS 100 56% 7% MATH 22 58% 6% (200) ENG 21 58% 6%

  10. Year Two 2008: Implementation • Priority Area A: Financial Aid Participation • Financial Aid Outreach • Mandatory Advising for new, probationary, and Rem/Dev students

  11. Action Plan: Financial Aid Outreach

  12. Year Two 2008: Implementation con’t. • Priority Area B: Developmental Intervention • College Success Center • Asst English Instructors • Strengthen peer assistant tutoring • Math/Science Lab

  13. Compass Scores: First Time Students

  14. Year Two 2008: Implementation con’t • Priority Area C: Successful Progress and Graduation or Transfer • Strengthen Early Alert • Provide Professional Development in Hawaiian values, teaching strategies, workshops, conferences, etc.

  15. Action Plan: Successful Progress

  16. Action Plan: Early Alert • 73 Early Alert Students (30% NH) • 101 different classes • 273 enrollments (duplicate count) • 3.74 classes each • 30% success in enrolled classes

  17. Early Alert

  18. Year Two: Implementation con’t • Priority D: Data Collection , Analysis, and Utilization • Institutional Researcher • Data collection and evaluation instruments • Training on data analysis

  19. Pau Kauai Community College Convocation Fall 2008

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