Lake Michigan College

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• Lake Michigan College
• Data Summit

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Purpose of our Data Summit

• For you to come to know this initiative
• Purpose and goals of ATD generally
• Implementation within LMC specifically
• Begin conversations about our data
• Secure your energetic engagement

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Outline of comments

• Overview of this national initiative
• Our plan for 2007-08 specifically
• Our plan for 2008-12 generally
• Whats new about this anyway
• Whats the big deal

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Achieving the Dream

• Achieving the Dream is a national initiative
  designed to help more community college students
  succeed.
• Particularly groups of students that have seen
  the least success, including low-income students
  and students of color.

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Community colleges are our nations colleges of
opportunity

• We provide opportunities for our students to
  meet their educational goals
• Prepare for career
• Earn certificate or degree
• Transfer to other institutions
• Personal growth

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Opportunity is a start but. our credentials
change lives

• Higher levels of education lead to higher
  earnings for all for all racial and ethnic
  groups and for both men and women.
• People with associate degrees generally earn 20
  to 30 percent more than people with only high
  school diplomas.

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Fewer than half of students meet their
educational goals

• Nationally, of community college students who
  seek an associate degree or higher, only 45
  percent earn an associate or bachelors degree or
  transfer to a four-year institution within six
  years.
• Nationally, of students enrolled in a certificate
  program, only 41 percent achieve that goal, (or
  earn a degree or transfer to a four-year
  institution) within six years.

Source U.S. Department of Education, NCES
(2001). Beginning Postsecondary Students
Longitudinal Study 19962001 (BPS96/01).
Analysis by Community College Research Center.
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A closer look at student groups
Students seeking an associate degree
Students seeking a certificate
Percentage of students who earn an associate or
bachelors degree or transfer to a four-year
institution within six years
Percentage of students who earn a certificate,
earn a degree or transfer to a four-year
institution within six years.
Data for Native American students are not
included because the sample size was too small to
be statistically valid.
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Achieving the Dream

• Achieving the Dream is a national initiative
  designed to help more community college students
  succeed.
• Particularly those groups that have seen the
  least success, including low-income students and
  students of color.

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Funders (20 foundations)

• Achieving the Dream is funded by many sources

FLORIDA, NEW MEXICO, NORTH CAROLINA, TEXAS AND
VIRGINIA Lumina Foundation for Education ARKANSAS
COLLEGES Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation CONNECT
ICUT COLLEGES Nellie Mae Education
Foundation HAWAII COLLEGES Kamehameha
Schools Office of Hawaiian Affairs The University
of Hawaii Community Colleges HOUSTON-AREA
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Houston Endowment Inc.
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGES The Lloyd G. Balfour
Foundation The Boston Foundation TERI The Irene
E. George A. Davis Foundation MICHIGAN
COLLEGES W.K. Kellogg Foundation The Kresge
Foundation OHIO COLLEGES KnowledgeWorks
Foundation OKLAHOMA COLLEGES Oklahoma State
Regents for Higher Education
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGES The Heinz Endowments SOUTH
CAROLINA COLLEGES Palmetto Institute South
Carolina Technical College System WASHINGTON
STATE COLLEGES College Spark Washington
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Achieving the Dream colleges
NORTH CAROLINA Durham Technical Community
College, Durham Guilford Technical Community
College, Jamestown Martin Community College,
Williamston Wayne Community College,
Goldsboro TEXAS Alamo Community College
District, San Antonio (Northwest Vista College,
Palo Alto College, San Antonio College, St.
Philips College) Brookhaven College,
Dallas Coastal Bend College, Beeville El Paso
Community College District, El Paso Galveston
College, Galveston
Houston Community College System, Houston South
Texas College, McAllen Southwest Texas Junior
College, Uvalde VIRGINIA Danville Community
College, Danville Mountain Empire Community
College, Big Stone Gap Patrick Henry Community
College, Martinsville Paul D. Camp Community
College, Franklin Tidewater Community College,
Norfolk
2004 INSTITUTIONS FLORIDA Broward Community
College, Fort Lauderdale Hillsborough Community
College, Tampa Tallahassee Community College,
Tallahassee Valencia Community College,
Orlando NEW MEXICO Central New Mexico Community
College, Albuquerque
New Mexico State University-Dona Ana, Las
Cruces San Juan College, Farmington Santa Fe
Community College, Santa Fe Southwestern Indian
Polytechnic Institute, Albuquerque University of
NewMexico-Gallup, Gallup
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Achieving the Dream colleges (contd)
Community College of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia Delaware County Community College,
Media Montgomery County Community College, Blue
Bell Northampton Community College,
Bethlehem Westmoreland County Community College,
Youngwood TEXAS Alvin Community College,
Alvin Brazosport College, Lake Jackson College
of the Mainland, Texas City Lee College,
Baytown North Harris Montgomery Community
College District, The Woodlands Prairie View
AM University, Prairie View San Jacinto
College, Pasadena
Texas Southern University, Houston University of
Houston-Downtown, Houston Wharton County Junior
College, Wharton WASHINGTON Big Bend Community
College, Moses Lake Highline Community College,
Des Moines Renton Technical College,
Renton Seattle Central Community College,
Seattle Tacoma Community College, Tacoma Yakima
Valley Community College, Yakima
2005 INSTITUTIONS CONNECTICUT Capital Community
College, Hartford Housatonic Community College,
Bridgeport Norwalk Community College,
Norwalk OHIO Cuyahoga Community College,
Cleveland Jefferson Community College,
Steubenville
North Central State College, Mansfield Sinclair
Community College, Dayton Zane State College,
Zanesville 2006 INSTITUTIONS PENNSYLVANIA Commu
nity College of Allegheny County,
Pittsburgh Community College of Beaver County,
Monaca
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Achieving the Dream colleges (contd)
SOUTH CAROLINA Aiken Technical College,
Aiken Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College,
Orangeburg Technical College Of The Lowcountry,
Beaufort Trident Technical College,
Charleston TEXAS Paris Junior College,
Paris The Victoria College, Victoria University
Of Houston, Houston VIRGINIA Northern Virginia
Community College, Annandale
Springfield Technical Community College,
Springfield MICHIGAN Bay De Noc Community
College, Escanaba Henry Ford Community College,
Dearborn Jackson Community College,
Jackson Lake Michigan College, Benton
Harbor North Central Michigan College,
Petoskey Wayne County Community College,
Detroit OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City Community
College, Oklahoma City Rose State
College,Midwest City Tulsa Community College,
Tulsa
2007 INSTITUTIONS ARKANSAS National Park
Community College, Hot Springs Ouachita
Technical College, Malvern Phillips
Community College, Helena Pulaski Technical
College, North Little Rock
HAWAII The University Of Hawaii
Community Colleges, Honolulu MASSACHUSETTS Bunke
r Hill Community College, Boston Northern Essex
Community College, Lawrence Roxbury
Community College, Roxbury
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Academic and universitypartner organizations

• American Association of Community Colleges
• Community College Leadership Program, University
  of Texas at Austin
• Community College Research Center, Teachers
  College, Columbia University
• Institute for Higher Education, University of
  Florida

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Five professional service organization partners

• Supporting specific strands of work
• MDRC (external evaluation)
• KSA-Plus (communication, public relations)
• JBL Associates (national data base, tools)
• Public Agenda (policy arm)
• MDC (overall manager)

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Guiding values

• Student-centered vision
• Culture of inquiry and evidence
• Accountability and measurement
• Equity and excellence
• Institutional change

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Intentional institutional change

• Long term impact, sustainable
• Requires changes in our systems
• Appropriate to our system and procedures
• Appropriate to our students needs
• Broad based participation

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With our help, more of our students can succeed

• Achieving the Dream supports our efforts to help
  students stick with their studies and attain
  their academic goals.
• We will develop and 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.

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Central to this effort is.

• Developing a culture of evidence
• Being open and forthright about our current
  performance
• Examining the data carefully, boldly, openly
• Improving where we need to improve
• Based on where our data leads us
• Move away from the anecdotal

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In order to develop a culture of evidence and
inquiry.

• We will, at unprecedented levels
• Gather and examine data on student achievement
• Base our decisions on our data
• Confront and address achievement gaps
• Monitor our progress closely
• Share our findings broadly

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Fewer than half of students meet their
educational goals

• Nationally, of students who seek an associate
  degree or higher, 45 percent earn an associate or
  bachelors degree or transfer to a four-year
  institution within six years.
• Nationally, of students enrolled in a certificate
  program, 41 percent achieve that goal, earn a
  degree or transfer to a four-year institution
  within six years.

Source U.S. Department of Education, NCES
(2001). Beginning Postsecondary Students
Longitudinal Study 19962001 (BPS96/01).
Analysis by Community College Research Center.
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Overall goal

• Increase the proportion of our students who meet
  our faculty members continually increasing
  standards
• Similar goals to several other efforts
• Current retention efforts
• Tutoring, Supplemental Instruction
• Student Support Services
• Title III supported STEM initiative

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Specific goals increase the proportion of our
students that

• Successfully complete transitional level courses
  and move into college level
• Successfully complete first level college courses
  including gatekeeper courses
• Complete all of their college level courses with
  a grade of C or better
• Re-enroll from term to term
• Complete certificates and degrees

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Our plan of work for 2007-08

• Data, data, data - gather them, analyze them,
  make sense of them, be guided by them.
• Become increasingly data driven
• Identify broad areas of focus
• Define specific problems
• Develop specific strategies
• Implement strategies in Fall 2008

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Cohort approach to data gathering and analysis

• Gathering, cleaning, analyzing many of the data
  we have on three cohorts.
• Students that were new to LMC in
• Fall 2004
• Fall 2005
• Fall 2006
• Standardized approach across all of the ATD
  institutions nationwide

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Consider success of sub sets of students within
each cohort

• By academic preparation
• College ready
• Not college ready
• By some demographics
• Gender
• Race or ethnicity
• Financial need
• Many other sub sets to be studied

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Develop interventions for each group or issue or
obstacle

• Plans for 2008-12
• Consider obstacles faced by each group
• Create strategies to address their lack of
  success specific to each student type
• Implement strategies for each group
• Measure effectiveness of interventions
• Change interventions, assess, feedback
• Institutionalize successful interventions

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Developing our strategies

• Gather, sort, consider our data
• Get judgment on data, your opinions
• Get others perspectives in November
• Focus groups with internals and externals
• Draft strategies in December
• Discuss in January Opening Days
• Strategy conference in February
• Apply in March
• Implement in April

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Two current ATD work groups

• Core Team is Deans Council Plus
• Souden, Selmon, Varney, Harrison, Bingaman,
  Zibbel, Philip, Schanker, Melton, Lister,
  Eagan, Kibler
• Data Review Team is SOC and Retention
• Bendixen, Bruehlman, Cox, Elwell, Tezuka, Lovett,
  Grannell, Howse-Willard, Johnson, Klein, Paine,
  Littlefield, Marsh-Peek, Schanker, Noel, Melton,
  Bingaman

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Partially grant supported

• This year, in fiscal year 2007-08
• 50,000
• Next four years, fiscal years 2008-12
• Up to 100,000 per year
• Requires proposal in Spring 2008.

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Specific ATD help - two of several nationwide
experts

• Our LMC Coach
• Dr. Maria Sheehan
• Community college President Emeritus
• Our LMC Data Facilitator
• Dr. Charles vanMiddlesworth
• Institutional research expert
• Four visits here each year

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Your personal estimates

• What proportion of our cohort that began in Fall
  2004 earned a certificate or an associate degree
  in 3 years?
• Your estimate ______
• What proportion completed 60 or more credits in 3
  years?
• Your estimate ______

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Oh. One more little thing.
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Change this College !

• This is not just another project
• This is THE College priority
• Transformative at all levels
• Intended to markedly improve the rates at which
  our students meet the increasing standards
  established by our faculty
• That is - greatly improve LMCs success
• Nothing less

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Success is what counts

• Our students success