1. Student Success Leadership Institute Initiative and Structured Pathways
Dr. Jo Alice Blondin, President, Clark State Community College
Dr. Mike Snider, Chief Academic Officer, OACC
Dr. Lauri White, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Central Ohio Technical College
Dr. Amit B. Singh, Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs, Clark State Community College

2. Advocating for Success Year in Review

3. Student Success Center
Student Success Center Goals
Support the Colleges as they Reform Developmental Education
Build Institutional Capacity for Data-Driven Decision-Making
Leverage the evidence-based practices that have emerged from the various initiatives currently and formerly in place in Ohio’s community colleges

4. Student Success Center
Accomplishments
Secured grant funding to sustain core Student Success Center activities through 2018.
Launched Student Success Leadership Institute (SSLI) with 23 participating colleges.
Developed new partnership with Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation.
Received AmeriCorps competitive grant.
Built staff capacity with Chief Academic Officer, Grants Coordinator, and AmeriCorps Program Coordinator positions.

5. Student Success Center Partners

6. Gates Grant: Completion by Design (CbD) Policy and Scaling
Projects Supported
Guided pathways reform efforts through the Student Success Leadership Institute (SSLI).
Integration of evidence-based student success initiatives in the OACC advocacy agenda.
Facilitation of the performance-based funding consultation and ongoing SSI data analysis conducted with leadership from HCM Strategists.
Efforts to build institutional research (IR) capacity through data coaching and the OACC’s standing Research and Evaluation Committee.
State higher education policy review and collaboration with ODHE including the 2+2 transfer initiative.
Establishment of the OACC Chief Academic Officer.

7. Student Success Leadership Institute
Key Features of SSLI
Funded by Gates and Great Lakes
Participation by all 23 colleges:
Teams of 8-10 from 20 participating colleges
Coaching provided by leaders from Ohio’s 3 CbD college
Cohort-based, long-term engagement of campus student success teams
Six in-person institutes in 2016 with presentations from state and national experts
Facilitated exchange of ideas with peer colleges and colleagues
Aligned with campus completion plan updates due to ODHE in June of 2016
Focused on guided pathways and CbD principles within the performance-based funding environment
Technical assistance (TA) fund and data coaching to engage broader groups on campus
Increased awareness and integration of Ohio’s statewide student success and completion initiatives.

8. Student Success Leadership Institute
Additional SSLI Features
Team Activities on Campus
Assessment of guided pathways work and technical assistance needs
JFF Institutional Policy Audit
Book clubs reading “Redesigning America’s Community Colleges”
Technical assistance provided by state and national experts
Focus on Use of Data for Decision Making
Data teams receiving customized data coaching
Institutional data provided to SSLI teams:
Progress and completion reports
Funding model analysis
labor market data
Clark State’s Book Club (with the youngest SSLI Participant!)

9. Impact of SSLI on the Development of the College Completion Plan 2016-2018

10. Completion Plan
Legislative mandate for all public colleges and universities
Published on ODHE website
Focus on increasing student success & completion

11. Strategic Creation of Completion Plan
Began summer 2015 with review of current plan.
Continued with Student Success Leadership Institute (SSLI) team
One component: Focus on provided data to develop completion plan
Input from various stakeholders
Faculty
Staff

12. Focus Areas of Plan Connection to the Institution
Successful First-Year Entry
Student Progress
Student Completion
Other Aspects of Completion Success
Workforce

13. Operational Lessons Learned
Use SSLI as the foundation for gaining needed information was beneficial.
Data provided was good conversation starter
Data coach asked tough questions making us look at the data

14. Operational Lessons Learned
Team approach to development provides buy-in from campus community.
Co-led by Academic Affairs and Registration / Records
SSLI team members represented faculty and staff
Utilize current plan as foundation for new plan; do not recreate the wheel
Create objectives and strategies independently of data
Campus meetings to review components systematically
Supported discussion with information gained from SSLI

15. Operational Lessons Learned
3. Use data already being collected by IR & E
Completed plan allows for continuation of objectives when key personnel leave the institution

16. Structured Pathways
Help in Identifying and Eliminating Gaps

17. Better Understanding of Performance Based Funding Formula Across College and Better Alignment with Strategic Plan

18. Conducted Policy Audit
Career Services
K-16 Pathways/Alignment with Workforce
Remedial Education
45+ Credit Hours

19. Guided Pathways Essential Practices Audit
Assistance to students in pre-health majors
Information on the College’s website on employment and further education opportunities

20. Communication and Collaboration Across the College
All-day meetings/discussions with College team at SSLI
Ideas brought back to campus for further discussion with various stakeholders

21. Additional Technical Support
Data Team/Date Coach
Davis Jenkins, CCRC

22. Access to National Experts on Success and Completion
Community College Resource Center
Jobs for the Future
Higher Education and Workforce Program
National Center for Inquiry and Improvement
Completion by Design

23. Hearing and Learning from Other Institutions

24. QUESTIONS?

25. THANK YOU!