1. Community Colleges: Increasing the Transfer Rate, What Works?
Los Angeles CCD
Armida Ornelas
Alexa Victoriano
Francisco Rodriguez
AAHHE March 10, 2017

2. Necessary ingredients to improve the transfer rate
Aspiration
Inspiration
Perspiration

3. National picture

4. The California Community Colleges

6. Education TRENDS & ISSUES IN LOS ANGELES
Accountability Movement
Public School and Higher Education Financing
Achievement/Opportunity Gap
Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
Poverty of School Children and College Students
Charter School Movement
Recovery from Disinvestment Caused by Great Recession
Chronic Underfunding from State
Rising Heath & Benefits Costs
Collective Bargaining/Unions
School/College Board Politics
Crisis in Public Confidence
Teacher/Faculty Preparation
Demographic Shifts
Testing to the Standards
English-language Learners
Underpreparedness of Students
Leadership Turnover: Retirements & Succession Planning
Voter Fatigue
Overregulation

7. TOTAL ENROLLMENTS: 225,942 ENROLLMENTS BY COLLEGE
Los Angeles City College
31,385
East Los Angeles College
55,118
Los Angeles Harbor College
13,517
Los Angeles Mission College
15,143
Los Angeles Pierce College
31,331
Los Angeles Southwest College
12,282
Los Angeles Trade-Technical College
23,179
Los Angeles Valley College
27,880
West Los Angeles College
14,856
TOTAL ENROLLMENTS: 225,942

8. LACCD STUDENT PROFILE
56.7%
Latino
11.1%
African-American
10.0%
Asian/Pacific Islander
14.9%
White
22.5%
Non-Native English speaking
51%
Below the poverty line
18%
From homes where parents received only elementary education
27.5%
Full Time Students
72.5%
Part Time Students
EDUCATIONAL GOALS
17.4%
Vocational
49.5%
Transfer
15.3%
General Education
4.1%
Transitional
13.8%
Undecided

11. Ideas on increasing the transfer rate
Early outreach with P12, communities and families
Streamline application and on-boarding process
Design, align and refine student support services, transfer counseling and advising for students
Create an institutional transfer culture
Nurture a positive student mindset for transfer
Increase course-to-course articulation with 4-year universities
Mandate transfer as state funding and legislative priority
Clarify and strengthen transfer pathways

12. Pierce College Center for the Sciences

14. Challenges and opportunities in transfer
Address pervasive remedial/basic skills education gaps
Incentivize full-time enrollment
Strengthen Associate Degrees for Transfer (ADT)
Increase more and better course articulation with 4-year institutions
Make transfer institution-wide responsibility
Hire, promote individuals who reflect the diversity and values of institution
Increase baccalaureate degree opportunities at community colleges
Strengthen ties between technical education and transfer education
Better understand the connection between poor health, poverty and educational attainment

16. Final thought
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
Thank you for being that one.

17. Uds. son el orgullo y la esperanza de nuestra comunidad.
GRACIAS!