C OMBINING S UCCESSFUL S TRATEGIES TO C REATE A F ULLY - INTEGRATED L EARNING C OMMUNITY Dr. Nicholas Bekas Marilyn Curall Summer Trazzera Al Groccia
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H ISTORY AND B ACKGROUND What is the issue? 3 prep students struggle more than any other group. Past initiatives primarily focused on students with two or less mandates. Data 14% of 3 mandate students ever graduate, and it takes them on average 3 terms to finish their mandate and 9 terms to complete their degree.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE REACH P ROGRAM Concept of an interdisciplinary program Process for development Rough Draft of plan (Evergreen)
DEVELOPMENT OF THE REACH P ROGRAM Faculty Involvement and Training Getting the faculty together Getting to know each other Consultant and Evergreen Developmental Advising Monthly planning meeting
DEVELOPMENT OF THE REACH P ROGRAM Fall 2011: Dev. Math II and Dev. Reading Student Success and Developmental Writing Spring 2012: Intermediate Algebra and Intro to Humanities Freshman Comp I and Speech Summer 2012: College Algebra and Freshman Comp II
DEVELOPMENT OF THE REACH P ROGRAM Elements of REACH Integrated Lessons Co curricular Tuesdays developing the students as a whole Team building Fridays Capstone Project and Common Read Recruiting Students 3 Prep students Orientations Explaining a new opportunity to students
R ESULTS FROM FALL 2011 Fall to Spring Persistence 95% vs. 83% Success Math 60% vs. 54% Reading 90 % vs. 72% Writing 100% vs. 71% Student Success 88% vs. 68%
B REAK INTO GROUPS Student Administrator Faculty
D ISCUSS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR GROUP AS YOUR ROLE ( STUDENT, FACULTY, ADMINISTRATOR ): Benefits and Challenges of REACH
L ARGE G ROUP D ISCUSSION Report out BENEFITS Report out CHALLENGES
O UR BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES Benefits Faculty work together to create integrated assignments Students work together improving learning Create a “family” where everyone supports each other Challenges Registration, course design, logistics Financial issues Faculty loads
W HERE WE ARE NOW ? Interview Responses What we learned?
REACH S TUDENT V IDEOS Videos Video 1: Video 2:
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