Increase Student Persistence with a Comprehensive Student Success Course

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Increase Student Persistence with a Comprehensive
Student Success Course Dr. Marsha Fralick
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Ice Breaker

• Introduce yourself.
• Where are you from?
• What is one thing I should see if I
• were to visit where you live?

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Overview

• Program description
• Program results
• Key elements
• Career planning
• Technology
• Course credit

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Cuyamaca College El Cajon, CA
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Personal Development 124, Lifelong Success

• 8000 students enrolled in college
• 1600 take PDC 124 each year
• One of the top 15 revenue producing programs for
  the college
• 56 sections a year

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Course Choices

• Face to Face
• 22 sections
• Blended
• 22 sections
• Online
• 12 sections

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College Success

• Motivation
• Time and Money
• Memory and Reading
• Test Taking
• Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking

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Career Success

• Personality and Related Majors
• Learning Style and Intelligence
• Interests and Values
• Career and Educational Planning

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Lifelong Success

• Communication and Relationships
• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle
• Appreciating Diversity
• Positive Thinking
• Life Stages

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Program Results

• Program Review 2000, 2005

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The most significant finding is increased
persistence.
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Persistence

• Students who return the next semester
• Approximately half of community college students
  nationwide do not persist after the first semester

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College Persistence Semester to Semester5 Year
Average at Cuyamaca College

• All successful PDC students 89
• All students 63
• A 26 improvement!

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Student Confidence

• The course helped 62 of students feel more
  confident about their academic skills

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Student Satisfaction
88 of students rated the course as very good or
good.
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Grade Improvement

• 72 of student agreed or strongly agreed that the
  course helped to improve grades

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Keys to Success

• Career planning
• Course Credit
• Technology

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College Success A Study of Positive and Negative
Attrition

• Community College Review

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The Successful Student

• Had a definite goal or college major
• Earned a B or better in high school
• Based on this research, choosing a major and
  career planning was included in our college
  success course.

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Choosing a Major

• The course helped 52 of students choose a major

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How to Choose a Major

• Self Assessment
• Personality
• Interests
• Values
• Learning Style
• Career Research

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Personality

• Key theme throughout course
• Carl Jung and personality type
• Online

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Key to Success Make it Count

• Transfers as general education for CSUC, Area E,
  Lifelong Understanding
• Transfers to University of California

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Bridge



High School
Community College
University
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The Transfer Approval Process

• Academic Rigor
• Broad Scope
• Careers
• Lifelong Success
• Articulate with Universities

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Technology
A Skill Needed for College Success
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New Millennials

• Our current college students
• Most were born with a computer in the home and
  were using them by age 5
• Cyber generation
• The connected generation
• 82 are online daily
• Average 12 hours per week online

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Where are you in the technology continuum?

• Baby boomer 1946-1964
• Generation X 1965-1977
• New Millennials 1977-1995
• How much technology did you use in college?

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Rationale for Using Technology

• Your students use it
• It captures their attention
• Education on demand
• Any time or place
• Increased access
• New roles for faculty

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Using Technology

• Online career and learning style assessment
• E-text
• Online portfolio

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Take a look at CollegeScopehttp//www.collegescop
e.com/cuyamaca
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Technology for New Millennials

• Individually tailored
• Portable
• Dynamic Content

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Technology helps guide students through the
critical first two weeks

• Make sure all students have started
• Monitor progress from the beginning
• Engaging material for the New Millennial
  Generation

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Resources for Facultyhttp//www.collegesuccess1.c
om

• Classroom exercises
• Syllabus
• Research
• PowerPoint
• Internet Links

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• Questions?
• Evaluation forms