The Degree Partnership Program

Purpose and Goals Joint admission / concurrent enrollment Improve student access, success and 4-year degree completion Expand options for college-level services and curriculum. Improve academic program articulation. Gain efficiency and effectiveness

Getting The Word Out

Promoting DPP LBCC expands reach The Trouble with Transfer “So you are merging?” LBCC leads with, OSU follows with Going to new communities – OR Tribes, HI, NE Portland, & abroad.

DPP Admissions Blake Vawter Associate Director of Admissions Marketing and Communications OSU

DPP Admissions Details 1st year students: SAME AS TRADITIONAL OSU ADMISSIONS –>=3.0 GPA; 14 subjects (incl. 2yrs of foreign language); Insight Resume; SAT/ACT score Transfer students: PROVIDES EARLIER ACCESS –>=2.25 GPA; 24 credit hours; college-level writing; MATH PLACEMENT EXAM; Insight Resume

Speeding Up Service Web application only! –Batch extract reports –Compressed and password protected –Banner view access by both schools EDI transcripts –Two week turnaround on transcript updates

Important Dates Summer May 23, 2008 Fall August 29, 2008 Winter 2008-December 12, 2008 Spring March 6, 2009 Implemented to improve service to students on financial aid

Degree Partnership Programs & Financial Aid Rebecca Martinez Associate Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships, Oregon State University

Financial Aid Issues Financial Aid Consortium Agreements – purpose Required by USED to ensure compliance with regulations Must determine “home school” for financial aid purposes Definition of “home school” varies Once the aid paying school is determined (HOME school), each partner must set up their systems appropriately

Enrollment Information Sharing Level of enrollment Student Status Confirmation Report (SSCR) Withdrawals/ R2T4/ Last Date of Attendance End of Term grades/credits (SAP) Monitoring for aid-eligible courses Institutional policies and deadlines for drops, adds, receiving W’s, **ESTABLISH TIMELINES FOR SHARING**

Academic Calendars Challenges of degree partnership programs: Academic calendars not in synch –Start and end dates of terms –Quarter hour calendar vs. semester calendar –Registration dates –Fee payment –Financial aid disbursement

Why do this?

Schools would manually look at credits and decide which school would disburse aid. OLDE PROCESS

Sometime later, we decided to let the student decide (within parameters) which school would be the home school and disburse aid. Still a paper process and part of the paper Admissions process.

Then we invented the wheel.. We used TECHNOLOGY!!

Initial Home School Process Send to students explaining HOME school parameters Provide link to online questionnaire for home school declaration

Online Questionnaire

Methods of Data Sharing THEN Mail /fax data/ Staff access to partner institution data base NOW OFAX – electronic file for financial aid

OFAX Oregon Financial Aid Exchange Multiple-enrollment data exchange for financial aid purposes Participating schools send in their data via a secure web site OFAX server processes file –Return matching records sent in by other schools via password protected attachment

What do we want to do with the data once we have it? Combine, as appropriate, with OSU data to process student’s financial aid with concurrent enrollment information of courses, credits and grades.

OSU’s OFAX Data Form

To infinity and beyond Advances in technology Single billing Statewide agreement Quarters/Semesters Maintaining human element in a more globalized learning environment. -Buzz Lightyear

What can we do better? What role do you play in facilitating students’ successful entry into the DPP? What questions do you have about the process? What questions about the DPP are you often asked by families or colleagues? What might be done to improve recruitment, marketing, orientation, admissions, or financial aid delivery for DPP students?