1. Achieving the Dream
Student Success Courses

2. Andrew Buckser Camille Kluttz-Leach
Adolfo Santos Patricia Sendall Peter Wooldridge

3. Introduction
 More than 11 million students attend 1200
community colleges in the US
 Enrollment rates have surged due to
recessions

4. STUDENT SUCCESS:
National Trends & Issues

5.  College completion rates for two-year degrees in 2009
 28% overall
President Obama (July 2009) challenge
 Boost community college graduates by
 5 million by 2020
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6. Lumina Foundation’s “Big Goal”
 By 2025, 60% of the American population
 Hold high-quality college degrees or credentials
 Quality education:
 Student outcomes, particularly learning outcomes
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7. Community College Survey on Student
Engagement (CCSSE)
 National benchmarks of effective educational
process in community colleges
 Student engagement matters!
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8. CCSSE benchmarks focus on institutional practices
and student behaviors that promote student
engagement, and that are positively related to student
learning and persistence.
Five benchmarks:
Active and Collaborative Learning
Student Effort
Academic Challenge
Student-faculty Interaction
Support for Learners
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9. Achieving the Dream (AtD):
Community Colleges Count
Launched in 2004
 Goal: To increase the academic success of community
college students
 First-Year Experience (FYE) efforts
 FYE programs focused interventions
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10.  STEM for Indiana and Ivy Tech
 Global Competitiveness and Ivy Tech

11.  Disproportionately large number of jobs of the
future will be in STEM fields
 In 2010, 3.7 Billion invested in STEM education
 While job growth between 2008-2018 is expected to
be 10%, in STEM, expectation is 17%
 63% of Associate’s Degree holders in STEM earn
more than Bachelor’s Degree holders in non-STEM
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Press Release Oct. 20,2011)

12.  Average wages are 14.9% below national
average
 Employment growth: ranks 49th of 50 states
and DC
 Average wage growth: ranks 50 of 50 states
and DC
 There were 4.41 patents per 10,000 employees
vs. 6.95 for the US (Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness State of Indiana Economic
Performance Indicators)

13.  Education and Health Services
 Ranks 3rd in Medical devices
 Ranks 1st in prefabricated enclosures

14.  Ivy Tech’s focus on technology and
medical careers and degrees positions it
very well for the demand and need that
exists

15.  Global Competitiveness
 Higher Education needs to increase educated
workforce to remain globally competitive
• Lumina Foundation: By the year 2025, 60 percent of
Americans need hold high-quality postsecondary
degrees or credentials
• Korea, Canada and Japan all have populations of 25-34
year olds with Associate level degrees or higher
exceeding 56%. The US – 41%

16.  Indiana’s adult population excluding 65 olds and older–
4,032,925
 Enrollment of roughly 165,000 students/ or 4% of adult
population
 A six-fold increase in enrollment would mean Ivy Tech
would educate 25% of those between 18 and 65 years of
age
 Given Ivy Tech’s dominance of the community college
system, it can has great potential for growth

17. STUDENT SUCCESS:
Strategies and Activities

18. STRATEGIC PLAN
“ACCELERATING GREATNESS
2013”

19. STUDENT-CENTERED

20.  Implement student preparedness policies and practices
 Expand and improve learning support services
 Implement successful scheduling, curriculum and instructional
practices
 Mandatory Support Services for high-risk students
 Comprehensive Academic Advising System
 Develop incentives for associate degree completion
 Simplify transfer-oriented programs
 Develop a general education core
 Expand and improve dual enrollment courses
 Strategies for successful transition from high school
 Align curricula, academic rigor, assessment and communications
 Participate in statewide data systems tracking on dual enrollment

21. Student Success Center
Subject Area Tutoring, Writing
Assistance and Information Resources

22. RECENT HEADLINES:
CHE Approves New Transfer Program for Ivy Tech
Community College – Program Provides a Set
Curriculum to Prepare Students for Transfer to All
Indiana Institutions

23. ACADEMIC COURSES
 College and Life Success
 Study Skills
 Research Strategies
 Critical Thinking

24. LIFE SKILLS COURSES
 Health and Wellness
 Managing Personal Finances

25. SEMINAR COURSES
 First Year Seminar
 New Student Seminar

26.  Key learning outcome terms include “proactive, self-
awareness, effective, critical thinking, and creative
thinking”
 Designed for students with no previous college
experience
 Fall 2010 Cohort
 --Students enrolled in IVY 101 persisted to the spring
2011 semester at a significantly higher rate
 --Students enrolled in IVY 101 successfully
completed their coursework at a significantly higher
rate
 --Rates of persistence and successful course
completion were similar across age
range, gender, ethnicity, and enrollment in remedial
courses

27.  Key learning outcome terms/phrases include
“apply, adjust, successfully navigate, impact, critical
thinking, and explore”
 Designed for students with some previous college
experience
 Fall 2010 Cohort:
 --Students enrolled in IVY 120 persisted to the
spring 2011 semester at a significantly higher rate
 --Students enrolled in IVY 120 did not successfully
complete their coursework at a significantly
higher rate
 --Non-significant data trends suggest that gender,
age, remedial course enrollment, and ethnicity
might impact student performance

28.  AtD report recommendation
 Communication of Enrollment Expectations
 IVY 120 Prerequisite
 Integration of student success course into
programs of study

29.  Highlight enrollment expectation
 Consider required enrollment in IVY 101 or 120
for all students
 Explore the unique needs of students enrolled
in IVY 120
 Survey students currently enrolled in IVY 101
and 120
 Survey has been developed and deployed
 Survey results will be presented in January 2012

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STUDENT SUCCESS:
Communication Plan

31. Constituents
 Instructional team
 Student support staff
 Incoming students
 Larger public

32. Instructional team
 Instructors
 Academic skills chairs
 Liberal arts department chairs
 Life skills program chairs

33. Instructional team
 Internal course design consultation
 External best practice consultation
 Internal logistical communications
 Assessment

34. Student support staff
 Admissions and financial aid staff
 Case managers
 Student support deans
 Senior campus and system leadership

35. Student support staff
 Updates on course
content, scheduling, and staffing
 Consultation as needed with
instructional team

36. Incoming students
Identified for participation in AtD
program

37. Incoming students
 Information about course content,
scheduling, costs, and support
 Updates on course logistics
 Ongoing consultation on academic and
personal issues

38. Larger public
 Prospective students
 Parents and family of Ivy Tech
students
 Business, government, and
community leaders
 Interested members of the public

39. Larger public
 Basic information about purposes and
design of success courses
 Information about impact of success
courses

40. Proposed communications resources
 Email lists
 Website resources
 Meetings

41. Proposed communications resources
 Email lists
 Instructional team
 Student support staff
 Students
• Currently enrolled
• Incoming

42. Proposed communications resources
 Website resources
 Comprehensive course information page
– internal use
 Rationale and impact page – external use

43. Proposed communications resources
 Meetings
 Semiannual leadership meeting
 Annual success course conference

44.  IVY Tech is well positioned to meet the
emerging educational needs of Indiana students
 The use of student success courses as one piece
of a FYE program is in line with national trends
and supported by AtD data gathered by
participating colleges across the nation
 An ongoing focus on best practices in the design
and instruction of student success courses, and a
well coordinated communication plan is critical
for the college
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