Making it Happen (MIH) Strategic Partners in Student Success MIH FALL 2015: 1,600 STUDENT COHORT

Student Success at BC

1.Improve access and increase student engagement 2.Improve student progression 3.Decrease student time to completion MIH Program Goals

Goal 1: Improve Access & Increase Student Engagement 1.Summer Bridge 2.Rural Initiatives 3.Academic Support Services 4.MIH Mentors 5.Classroom Interventionists & Habits of the Mind

Summer Bridge

Rural Initiatives

Academic Support Services 1.SARS Alert 2.TurnItIn.com 3.Writing Center 4.Tutoring 5.Math Lab/Success Lab 6.Supplemental Instruction

Supplemental Instruction TermSI LeadersSections Spring Summer Fall Spring Summer Fall Spring 15 SI Attendance ABCDF Total # Students Avg GPA 019%25% 11%19% times28%25%27%11%8% times32%31%18%14%6% Times27%34%26%10%3% SI Success Spring 2015Attendance: 0Attendance: 1-2 TimesAttendance: 3-5 timesAttendance: 6+ Successful 69%80% 81% 87% Unsuccessful31%20%19%13%

MIH Mentors 50 Mentors 5-10 Students/each Faculty, Staff, and Administrators Required Training: 20 Hours

MIH Mentoring: Lessons Learned Carol Schaefer, Academic Development Faculty Jacqueline Lau, Admissions & Records Technician Kim Arbolante, Writing Center Lead

MIH Mentoring: Successes Greater connection with students Awareness of programs & activities Sense of BC Community Reassurance Being on the right track Questions are addressed Insight to students’ “college knowledge” Professional Development & fundamentals for Mentors

MIH Mentoring: Challenges Difficulty staying in touch Face-to-face, , RemindApp Gifts not significant to them Mentees make contact only when they need help Hard to establish continual connection

MIH Mentoring: Bonding & Connection Create more opportunities Continual incentives More mentor/mentee events Meet & Greet at beginning of semester “Lunch & Munch” mentee feedback Team building/bonding retreat Establishing peer-to-peer buddy system

MIH Mentoring: Moving Forward “It Takes a Village” Family Involvement Friends/Peers Need 6 meaningful interactions outside of the classroom

Classroom Interventionists Sample Tools for Instructors

Goal 2: Improve Student Progression

Goal 3: Decrease Time to Completion 1.Multiple Measures 2.Course Acceleration & Compression 3.First Year Course- Taking Patterns 4.Change Assessment Philosophy

Multiple Measures: Why We Do It Compass Score (30 extremely low to 90 extremely high) High School GPA %28%32% %49%55% %70%75% Westrick & Allen, 2014: Conditional Success Rates (Table 6)

CourseCompass TestCompassHSGPAHSGPA + Compass English 1Writing Skills ArithmeticPre-Algebra AlgebraPre-Algebra Intermediate AlgebraAlgebra College AlgebraAlgebra College Algebra Westrick & Allen, 2014: ACT COMPASS Validation Median Logistic R (Table 4) Multiple Measures: Improved Accuracy

Using Disjunctive Multiple Measures

Multiple Measures Success: English

Multiple Measures Success: Math

Course Acceleration & Compression Scaling up at BC

Course Acceleration & Compression

First Year Course-Taking Patterns Previous data predicted better success if students took: a.Math first semester b.English first semester c.Had a full load of 12 or more units DID NOT PREDICT a + b + c = better success Changed strategy - Math and Reading or English and Reading Improve communication with students and be directive with ASEP

Our Philosophy on Assessment Tests aren’t always the best measures In fact, tests alone are TERRIBLE measures The goal is to predict success More information provides better placement Trust the research: use junior year grades Not perfect, iterative – don’t wait Thousands of reasons to START NOW

Saving Students Money and Time In 2015, BC saved students 2111 semesters through multiple measures and improved testing

Moving Forward: Scaling Up Previous 3 Cohorts (2011, 12, 13) 2014 MIH Cohort2015 MIH Cohort Percent with multiple measures 0%100% Percent Enrolled 55.7% (270)70% (326)88% (1433) Enrolled in English First Semester 38% (100)76% (248)87% (1243) Enrolled in Math First Semester 41% (108)75% (246)82% (1175)

Moving Forward: Increased Success MIH GroupMath (college-wide)English (college-wide)Reading (college-wide) Students enrolled/cohort % (50.5%) 57% (58.7%) 62% (67.8%) % (52.7%) 64% (61.7%) 75% (67.1%) % (53.9%) 61% (62.2%) 59% (67.3%) % (52.2%) 60% (63.1%) 62% (65.9%) Summer Only 71% N= % N=37 80% (N=24) 1635

Moving Forward: Partnerships Dr. Janet Fulks, BC Dean of Student Success & Pre-collegiate Studies, Dr. Ben Sherley KHSD Director of Ed Services, Vickie Spanos, KHSD Director of Instruction, Dr. Jacqueline Mimms, CSUB AVP of Enrollment Management, Kristy Fraley, KHSD Resource Counselor, Lesley Bonds, BC MIH Program Manager