BASIC SKILLS & Budget Cuts Mike Orkin Educational Services October, 2011

Basic Skills classes identified by MIS Data Element CB08: “Course-Basic-Skills-Status” = B (Not the same as “Course-Prior-To-Transfer-Level”)

ESP Program Viability Enrollment Success Productivity

Enrollment

world’sis the Fall 2011 Basic Skills = 5.9% CampusBasic Skills FTES Non Basic Skills FTES Alameda 1261,570 Berkeley 781,719 Laney 2563,501 Merritt 711,600 Total 5318,390

Alameda 7.4% Berkeley 4.3% Laney 6.8% Merritt 4.3% Basic Skills By College: Fall 2011

Basic Skills vs. Non Basic Skills DISTRICT Fall 2008 Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Basic Skills % total FTES 6.80%6.70%6.30%5.90% BASIC SKILLS WITHIN SUBJECT Fall 08Fall 09Fall 10Fall 11 ENGLISH22.60%23.70%22.20%22.90% ESL43.00%44.40%43.10%38.20% MATH17.40%18.90%16.70%14.80%

BASIC SKILLS SECTION COUNTS FALL CampusSubjectYear 09-10Year 10-11Year AlamedaENGL13107 ESL1399 MATH1097 Alameda Total BerkeleyENGL10 14 ESL1 MATH998 Berkeley Total LaneyENGL ESL MATH Laney Total MerrittENGL765 ESL14126 MATH12108 Merritt Total Grand Total

Success

CampusTotal GradedSuccessSuccess Rate Alameda12,9118,59667% Berkeley14,5029,81868% Laney29,14520,06269% Merritt14,4719,60966% District71,02948,08568% COLLEGE OVERALL SUCCESS, ALL COURSES: Fall 2010

CampusSubject Total Graded SuccessSuccess Rate DistrictENGL (all)6,2333,90463% DistrictESL (all)3,9773,11778% DistrictMATH (all)7,2284,28059% District Total 17,43811,30165% DISTRICT OVERALL SUCCESS ENG, ESL, MATH: Fall 2010

CampusSubject Total Graded SuccessSuccess Rate DistrictENGL1, % DistrictESL1,7161,33078% DistrictMATH1,7551,00757% District Total 4,7763,09765% DISTRICT BASIC SKILLS SUCCESS: Fall 2010

Flow-through math 60% chance of Success 3 course sequence.6 x.6 x.6 = % chance of Success

Factors Structure?Inertia?Grading?Budget cuts?

Productivity

What is it?

Why is it necessary?

Do you need it at class level? at subject level? at program level?

Alameda SubjectSectionsFTESFTEFProductivity ENGL ESL MATH Total Basic Skills Fall 2011 ?

Berkeley SubjectSectionsFTESFTEFProductivity ENGL MATH Total

Laney SubjectSectionsFTESFTEFProductivity ENGL ESL MATH Total

Merritt SubjectSectionsFTESFTEFProductivity ENGL ESL MATH Total

Should we teach Basic Skills as separate courses

Even if college- level classes must be cut?

Accelerate Online, asynchronous Merge, contextualize Grants OPTIONS

Conclusion

Questions?

More questions?