Title: The Experience of Program Participants at Cal: What UCUES Results and Our Institutional Data Tell Us
1The Experience of Program Participants at Cal
What UCUES Results and Our Institutional Data
Tell Us
- Gregg Thomson, Director, Student Research
- ASES Spring Symposium
- May 11, 2006
2What We Need to Know
- Who are our program participant students?
- How do program participants fare once they are at
Berkeley? - Objective institutional outcome measures
- What students themselves tell us about their
experience (UCUES)
3Who are our program participant students who
enter as fall freshmen?
- A note about transfer students
- Definitions and numbers
- Characteristics
4 Program Participant Students in Freshmen Class
5 Program Participant Student Characteristics
- Just over 35 Underrepresented Minority just
under 50 Asian - Two-thirds 1st generation college
- Half of all Underrepresented Minority and
one-fifth of all Asian freshmen (close to half
for Vietnamese freshmen) are Program Participant
students
6Institutional Outcomes for PPS
- Contrasting research hypotheses
- Adjustment and recovery
- Version A - Revolving door
- Version B - Catch-up take-off
- Cumulative effects of relative disadvantage
- Version A - Academic progress barriers
- Version B - Cumulative impact of modest disad.
- Retention rates
- Graduation rates
- Cumulative UC GPA
7 One-Year Retention
8 Three-Year Retention
9 Five-Year Retention
10 4.5 Year Graduation
11 One-Year UC GPA
12 Three-Year UC GPA
13What students tell us on UCUES
- UCUES Spring 2005 - all enrolled undergraduates
- 51 of all PPS freshman entrants responded
- 53 of all non-PPS freshman entrants responded
- Compare reported experiences for PPS and non-PPS
year-by-year - Freshmen
- Sophomores
- Juniors
- Seniors
14UCUES Questions Looked At
- Demands on time
- Satisfaction with
- Academic social experience
- Faculty advising
- Staff advising
- Sense of belonging
15 6 hours or less sleep
16 Working
17 Community Service
18 3 hs/wk Family Respons.
19Satisfied - Faculty Advising Academic Matters
20Satisfied - Staff Advising Non-Academic Matters
21 Satisfied - Overall Social Experience
22Feel that I Belong at Cal
23Enroll at Cal Again
24Conclusions
- Program participant students who enter Cal as
freshmen are finding pathways to academic
success! - There are significant challenges in terms of
ongoing demands on the students and the quality
of the undergraduate experience. - Our results suggest a new middle years focus
for support.
25Final Message
- The numbers presented today are just the starting
point for deeper inquiry - More quantitative analyses to, for example,
pinpoint patterns of success by student
characteristic, field of study, etc. - Qualitative and real person accounts
26UCUES 2006
- Every student has a voice. Every voice must be
heard. - Summer phase to encourage students to complete
UCUE in June