1. We Have Pathways at CCBC. Now What?
Jenn Kilbourne, Danielle James, Renuka Kumar, Kyle Goehner
The Community College of Baltimore County

2. 58% Need Dev. Ed. (Fall 2016) Average Age: 37 Female: 58%
Minority: 50%
2,528 Non-Native Speakers
262 International Students
89% Enroll
Part-Time
58% Need Dev. Ed.
(Fall 2016)
CCBC: 64,748
Students
32,119 Credit
32,629 Non-Credit
39% Pell Grant Recipients
11% Other Financial Aid Recipients
12% Enter Directly From High School
Jenn
52% Work 20+ Hours Per Week
FY′15 CCBC Data

3. Brief Overview of First Year
Structure put into place:
Student Success 102 Team
Faculty Academic Pathway Coordinators
Faculty Committees
Pathway Advising Coordinator
Pathway Advisors
Career Services Liaisons
Kyle

4. Brief Overview of First Year
Structure put into place:
Blackboard organizations
Start Smart process
New Student Orientation
Kick-off events
Pathway activities
First Year Experience Course – contextualized

5. Kick-off Events
Representation from Pathways faculty and Student Support Services
Partnership with Student Life may expand
Held in the second week of Fall and Spring semesters on all campus and the OM Center
Student engagement outside the classroom
Academic Year: 974 Attendees
Academic Year: 2,639 Attendees (170% increase)
Jenn

6. Pathway Activities
BL&CJ: Field trips to DC; Graduate Panels; Constitution Day
A&H:ASL Career Panel; Dance Concert and Career Session; Film Festival Workshop
BESS: Panel Discussion (Bad Hair Does Not Exist), College Readiness Workshop, Film Screenings
PAH: Exam Preparation Workshops, TEAS Seminars, Career Exploration Workshops
TSM: Transfer event, Career event, Internship & Resume Workshop, Field Trips
Fall 2015 – 1272 students; Fall 2016 – 2662; 300 students attended more than one event
Jenn
NUMBERS INCLUDE KICK-OFF EVENTS

7. Orientations
New Student Orientation (NSO)
Offered On Campus and Online
Faculty Engagement via Pathways
First portion of the Orientation focuses on Pathways and the Culture of College
Students who attend orientation are 28% more likely to be retained through spring and
92% of students who did not register for the spring had not attended an orientation.
Jenn

8. Course Tracks Challenge: Goals:
Limit registration errors that lead to unnecessary courses
Allow for degree completion in a defined period of time
Challenge:
Aligning course tracks to programs in catalog
Renuka

9. High Impact Practices (HIP)
Goals
Common and coherent set of experiences
Student engagement and retention
Connect experience and learning to Pathways and future careers
Characteristics
Collaboration
Form relationships with others
Student feedback from peers and faculty
Test and apply what students are learning
Reflection
Renuka
Implement HIPS in highly enrolled General Education courses.

10. HIPs – CSIT 101 Theme - Collaborative Assignments and Projects
Committee of 6 full time faculty formed
Assignments based on Career Exploration developed
Piloted in Fall 2016
Solicited student feedback via surveys
Refined the project
Development of adjunct training
Implemented in Spring 2017
Renuka

11. HIP – CSIT 101 Key Findings: Challenges:
Obtaining “buy-in” from full-time faculty
Engaging adjunct faculty
Training of all faculty including adjuncts

12. HIPs – Communications 101 Communications:
August 2016 – Reviewed HIPs; selected Global and Diversity
Course will be a globalized course; semester long infusion
Faculty committee formed
Pilot of 15 courses in Fall 2017; then scale up
Have selected the common assignment that will serve as basis
Kyle

13. HIPs – English 101 Presented idea January 2016
Four person committee; survey
Global education/ diversity
Formation of a larger committee
Piloted individual attempts
Solicited student feedback
Development of adjunct workshops
Kyle

14. HIPs – BIO 110
HIP Infusion Project will focus on collaboration in a general biology lab
Students will participate in group lab reports written collaboratively over the semester
Requires redesign of lab
Faculty “buy-in”
Pilot with selected FT faculty Spring 2017
Pilot will be expanded in Fall 2016
Jenn

15. HIPs – Health 101
HIP infusion project will focus on a common intellectual experience
Students will complete a self assessment to test their stress level before and after learning about stress coping mechanisms
Pilot with 60% of health classes in Fall 2017
Following feedback, the HIP will be scaled to include all sections of Health 101
Dani

16. Restructuring of Pathways
Original Five Pathway Structure
Faculty concerns
Student issues
Solution – Six Pathways; Organized primarily around degree
Kyle

17. General Studies Pathway
General Studies is the single largest major at the college
Original Pathways structure left General Studies in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Pathway
New structure will create a separate Pathway geared toward the needs and challenges of the population
General Studies students need:
More career exploration
More advising
More faculty interaction
Dani

18. General Studies Pathway
Challenges
Structure and flexibility
Finding balance between students who know what they want and students who are undecided
Having faculty and students identify with the Pathway
Planning and executing meaningful activities
Dani

19. Mentoring Pilot
General studies students experience difficulty connecting with faculty and have fewer opportunities for career exploration and guidance
Decreased sense of belonging
No set of faculty responsible for assisting students
Mentoring pilot designed to pair students with faculty from the most common general education courses
Dani

20. Mentoring Pilot Challenges
Defining the purpose of the mentoring program
Program structure (content, number of meetings, number of mentees, management)
Duties of the mentor/mentee
Selecting faculty volunteers/training
Selection of mentees
Measuring the outcome
Dani

21. Lesson Learned Faculty and staff buy-in and participation are crucial
Activities need to be paired around course objectives
Students don't do optional-We must offer a carrot
Partnering with faculty and Enrollment and Student Services to leverage Pathway Activities
Continue to deepen relationship between Instruction and Advising, Student Life, Career Services
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