We Have Pathways at CCBC. Now What? Jenn Kilbourne, Danielle James, Renuka Kumar, Kyle Goehner The Community College of Baltimore County

58% Need Dev. Ed. (Fall 2016) Average Age: 37 Female: 58% Minority: 50% 2,528 Non-Native Speakers 262 International Students 89% Enroll Part-Time 58% Need Dev. Ed. (Fall 2016) CCBC: 64,748 Students 32,119 Credit 32,629 Non-Credit 39% Pell Grant Recipients 11% Other Financial Aid Recipients 12% Enter Directly From High School Jenn 52% Work 20+ Hours Per Week FY′15 CCBC Data

Brief Overview of First Year Structure put into place: Student Success 102 Team Faculty Academic Pathway Coordinators Faculty Committees Pathway Advising Coordinator Pathway Advisors Career Services Liaisons Kyle

Brief Overview of First Year Structure put into place: Blackboard organizations Start Smart process New Student Orientation Kick-off events Pathway activities First Year Experience Course – contextualized

Kick-off Events Representation from Pathways faculty and Student Support Services Partnership with Student Life may expand Held in the second week of Fall and Spring semesters on all campus and the OM Center Student engagement outside the classroom 2015-2016 Academic Year: 974 Attendees 2016-2017 Academic Year: 2,639 Attendees (170% increase) Jenn

Pathway Activities BL&CJ: Field trips to DC; Graduate Panels; Constitution Day A&H:ASL Career Panel; Dance Concert and Career Session; Film Festival Workshop BESS: Panel Discussion (Bad Hair Does Not Exist), College Readiness Workshop, Film Screenings PAH: Exam Preparation Workshops, TEAS Seminars, Career Exploration Workshops TSM: Transfer event, Career event, Internship & Resume Workshop, Field Trips Fall 2015 – 1272 students; Fall 2016 – 2662; 300 students attended more than one event Jenn NUMBERS INCLUDE KICK-OFF EVENTS

Orientations New Student Orientation (NSO) Offered On Campus and Online Faculty Engagement via Pathways First portion of the Orientation focuses on Pathways and the Culture of College Students who attend orientation are 28% more likely to be retained through spring and 92% of students who did not register for the spring had not attended an orientation. Jenn

Course Tracks Challenge: Goals: Limit registration errors that lead to unnecessary courses Allow for degree completion in a defined period of time Challenge: Aligning course tracks to programs in catalog Renuka

High Impact Practices (HIP) Goals Common and coherent set of experiences Student engagement and retention Connect experience and learning to Pathways and future careers Characteristics Collaboration Form relationships with others Student feedback from peers and faculty Test and apply what students are learning Reflection Renuka Implement HIPS in highly enrolled General Education courses.

HIPs – CSIT 101 Theme - Collaborative Assignments and Projects Committee of 6 full time faculty formed Assignments based on Career Exploration developed Piloted in Fall 2016 Solicited student feedback via surveys Refined the project Development of adjunct training Implemented in Spring 2017 Renuka

HIP – CSIT 101 Key Findings: Challenges: Obtaining “buy-in” from full-time faculty Engaging adjunct faculty Training of all faculty including adjuncts

HIPs – Communications 101 Communications: August 2016 – Reviewed HIPs; selected Global and Diversity Course will be a globalized course; semester long infusion Faculty committee formed Pilot of 15 courses in Fall 2017; then scale up Have selected the common assignment that will serve as basis Kyle

HIPs – English 101 Presented idea January 2016 Four person committee; email survey Global education/ diversity Formation of a larger committee Piloted individual attempts Solicited student feedback Development of adjunct workshops Kyle

HIPs – BIO 110 HIP Infusion Project will focus on collaboration in a general biology lab Students will participate in group lab reports written collaboratively over the semester Requires redesign of lab Faculty “buy-in” Pilot with selected FT faculty Spring 2017 Pilot will be expanded in Fall 2016 Jenn

HIPs – Health 101 HIP infusion project will focus on a common intellectual experience Students will complete a self assessment to test their stress level before and after learning about stress coping mechanisms Pilot with 60% of health classes in Fall 2017 Following feedback, the HIP will be scaled to include all sections of Health 101 Dani

Restructuring of Pathways Original Five Pathway Structure Faculty concerns Student issues Solution – Six Pathways; Organized primarily around degree Kyle

General Studies Pathway General Studies is the single largest major at the college Original Pathways structure left General Studies in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Pathway New structure will create a separate Pathway geared toward the needs and challenges of the population General Studies students need: More career exploration More advising More faculty interaction Dani

General Studies Pathway Challenges Structure and flexibility Finding balance between students who know what they want and students who are undecided Having faculty and students identify with the Pathway Planning and executing meaningful activities Dani

Mentoring Pilot General studies students experience difficulty connecting with faculty and have fewer opportunities for career exploration and guidance Decreased sense of belonging No set of faculty responsible for assisting students Mentoring pilot designed to pair students with faculty from the most common general education courses Dani

Mentoring Pilot Challenges Defining the purpose of the mentoring program Program structure (content, number of meetings, number of mentees, management) Duties of the mentor/mentee Selecting faculty volunteers/training Selection of mentees Measuring the outcome Dani

Lesson Learned Faculty and staff buy-in and participation are crucial Activities need to be paired around course objectives Students don't do optional-We must offer a carrot Partnering with faculty and Enrollment and Student Services to leverage Pathway Activities Continue to deepen relationship between Instruction and Advising, Student Life, Career Services All?