Alamo Colleges Dual Credit Task Force: Here’s What We Know, Here’s Where We’re Going! Presented By: Rosena Garcia, Director of High school Programs for Alamo colleges

Alamo colleges The Alamo Colleges consist of five colleges: St. Philip’s College (est. 1898) San Antonio College (est. 1925) Palo Alto College (est. 1985) Northwest Vista (est. 1995) Northeast Lakeview (est. 2007)

ABOUT THE ALAMO COLLEGES 5 Colleges – 4 individually accredited; 1 seeking candidacy 60,000 student enrollment each semester 5 HSI/ 1 HBCU Dual Credit enrollment: 17% 11 Early College High Schools

challenge Texas legislature passed HB505 in May 2015 A rule [from the texas higher education coordinating board] may not limit the number of dual credit courses or hours in which a student may enroll while in high school or limit the number of dual credit courses or hours in which a student may enroll each semester or academic year (http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/84R/billtext/html/HB00505I.htm)

Response from Alamo colleges Bring all the stakeholders together to discuss expansion provided by hb505 Decide how we would share the cost of expansion between Alamo colleges and the school districts Creation of the Alamo colleges dual credit task force Met from January through march 2016

Alamo college dual credit task force Included 15 of 38 school districts small, medium and large school districts School district representatives: Cte directors, curriculum & instruction executives, dual credit liaisons, hs/echs principals, hs counselors and superintendent, College representatives: college president, college faculty, finance representative, student success - advising representative, workforce program representative, hs programs representative, vice chancellor of academic success and vice president of academic success

Focus areas Access through College-Readiness Advising for Workforce and Transfer Academic Rigor and Earning Credit Resources for Programmatic Success

Highlights of task force meetings Meeting 1 – Task force kick off Gain understanding of current state of dual credit Communicate the four areas of focus Gain understanding for opportunities for growth Introduce timeline of work to complete

Highlights of task force meetings Meeting 2 – access through college readiness Identifying best practices & recommending resources for: Advising for workforce & transfer Admission and enrollment process Tsi Support structures Academic rigor and earning credit

Highlights of task force meetings Meeting 3 – advising for workforce & transfer Alamo institutes Alamo career coach Review current implementation of hb18 Alamo advise and mymap

Highlights of task force meetings Meeting 4 – academic rigor and earning credit Course agreements for dual credit Discuss procedures for evaluating dual credit courses to ensure rigor Professional development for high school (adjunct) faculty Monitoring rigor in classrooms

Highlights of task force meetings Meeting 5 – resources for programmatic success www.Alamo.edu/hsprograms Provide materials to support counselors, students & parents Provide participants with background on higher ed funding structure for dual credit

Sample recommended activities Make available the apply texas guide Identify and make available a standard tsi pre-assessment activity for use by all partner school districts Develop course menu by entry point [One pager] document outlining implications of dual credit failure Crosswalk handbook with placement scores, pre-recs, etc Tsi prep resources

Sample recommended activities Provide resources for counselors on broad topics Create advising guides for transfer institutions Dual credit counselor training Develop a collaborative for hiring qualified dual credit instructors Provide a “space” / system to share instructional best practices Review nacep guidelines for accreditation Provide academic support (early alert, protocol to follow up with students)

Sample recommended activities Ensure consistency and equity in resource allocation to all districts through all colleges Develop shared funding mechanism to implement quality dual credit programs Develop partnership meetings to ensure mou items are discussed for subsequent year

Final outcomes May 9th – meeting with superintendents regarding recommendations May-june – joint meetings between isd cfos and Alamo colleges finance department July-august – finalize recommendations and present to superintendent group August-sept – present recommendations to respective boards Changes to 2017-18 mous Implementation of changes fall 2017