Transcript (BSI + SLO + SEP)*ACCJM = SIM

(BSI + SLO + SEP)*ACCJC = SIM
Chair, Lesley Kawaguchi, Santa Monica
Queen SLO, Marcy Alancraig, Cabrillo
Trustee, Wade Ellis, West Valley - Mission CCD
Researcher, Cathy Hasson, Skyline College
Dr. BSI, Barbara Illowsky, De Anza
Princess SLO, Karen Wong, Skyline College
First date:
Student Equity Plans
1991 -- CA. Legislature
Ed. Code 66010.2c
66030
1992 -- Board of
Governors
Student Equity Policy
1996 -- Board of
Governors
Student Equity Plans
Student Equity Plans
»Title 5 Section 54220
»ASCCC response: Student
Equity: Guidelines for
Developing a Plan
»Original 1993; revised
and adopted Fall 2002
»Last plans due in 2005
What was in the plans?
» 5 major student equity indicators:
»Access
»Course completion
»Degree and certificate
completion
»ESL and basic skills completion
»Transfer rate
» Student Equity Issues
»Breakdown the above factors on
the basis of ethnicity/race,
gender, disability status
Why no sparks?
»Plans often done by a single
person or very small group
»Plans sat on a shelf
»Plans had no accountability
»Plans had no funding tied to
them
Courtship:
Student Learning Outcomes
-Born in 1980’s
-Moved from East
Coast to West
- 2002: New
Standards
recognize
importance of
SLOs
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Looking for Love in all
the Wrong Places
»5 Stages of Faculty Grief and
Resistance
»Academic Senate Opposition
»Lack of Administrative
Funding for doing the work
»Always crushed out on Equity
but sometimes unable to make
a real connection
Finally: Love Comes
»Emergence of SLO
Coordinators
»Recognition from ASCCC
»More dates with Equity
»Looking at what’s
happening in the classroom
and across the Institution
Linking Equity and BSI
»Natural merger
»Couldn’t happen until we got
to know each other
»Couldn’t happen until “SLO”
relaxed and knew how to
thrive in California
Meeting the in-laws:
Basic Skills Initiative
Phase III 5 goals: 2 are
specifically
addressing
equity
Equity in Higher
Education
Involves three parts:
»Equity in college preparation
»Access to college
»Success in reaching college
goals
Thomas Bailey &
Vanessa Smith Morest
Goal 1: Research &
Data Collection
 Literature Review Addendum
 Equity Issues & Strategies
 High School to College Transition
 Non-credit to Credit Transition
 Data base
 Survey of programs, strategies and
projects
 Includes California and national
data
Goal 3: Student Equity
Evaluate all 109 2005 Student
Equity Plans
Identify common statewide
trends
>> Develop state resources for
general needs
>> Gather baseline data
Identify discrepancies
>>Technical Assistance to
individual colleges
Clergy:
Board of Trustees
»What can we
do for the
Board?
»What can the
Board do for
the BSI?
What can we do for
Boards?
Board members are politicians.
» John McCain’s speech on the economy:
praised community colleges as retraining
institutions that can help with reemployment.
We can help them understand that
retraining requires Basic Skills.
» SJ Mercury News, 4/13/08: need for more
access to education through the community
colleges
We can help them understand that
access and opportunity means Basic
Skills
What can Boards do for
Basic Skills?
»Highlight: Basic Skills Initiative
by asking for presentations on
Student Equity, SLO and BSI Plans.
»Ask: presentations on retraining
and veterans assistance programs.
»Ask: presentations on how basic
skills programs are being
integrated into bond funded
construction plans.
What else can Boards do?
» Boards can act as marriage broker,
encouraging administrations to
promote basic skills collaboration.
»Student Services, Financial Aid,
Human Resources, Counseling, each
of the academic departments, and
admission and records are all
participants at an effective basic
skills college or district.
Marriage:
Keys to Success
Points of Integration
1. Partnership &
Collaboration
2. Communication
3. Growth Opportunities
4. Incentives
5. Consultation and
Mentoring
Points of
Integration (cont.)
1. Strategies
» BSI Research Agenda
» Faculty Inquiry Groups
» Program Review Research
& Plans
Outcomes
»Learning Communities
»Supplementary Instruction
»Additional research & assessment
»Targeted marketing and
promotion
»Retention Strategies
»Early Alert
»Wait Lists
»New and enhanced programs and
services
Offspring:
Student Improvement Movement
Report out from session:
How do all of these activities fit
in with Accreditation and SIM?
» Forced all of our bodies to get
together. Generated research. We
need the data to understand
what’s going on. Transparent.
data process that others can
critique.
» Senate should take the initiative in
integrating everything together
with one voice.
» Established a culture of datadriven self-assessment.
(continued)
» We can go back and make correction based
on data. Formative evaluation.
» Student learning and data.
» Documentation of program review. School
dinged because budget should be driven by
SLOs but not documentation
» Data. Questions you asked are part of the
research design. Are the questions good.
» Direct connection to planning. All of the
areas need to be connected to the master
plan. Lack of integrate planning can cause
problems that are addressed by BSI+
(continued)
» Data need to be both quantitative and
qualitative. Critical questions need to
have both.
» Time constraints and personnel
problems make it hard to get all the
information. Here is one thing we are
going to take across the board and to
use as a model.
» Dialogue is crucial to the overarching
planning for the success of the three
initiatives.
Remain true!
Ba’bye!