2. College Leadership Team Presentation June 7, 2011 Completion By Design Presented by: Christina Cortez Student Success Team Leader

3. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Completion By Design
Lone Star College System
Managing Partner

4. Initiative Timeline
October 5, 2010 – Announced at White House Community College Summit
October 6, 2010 – RFA released
October 25 – Bidders’ Conference Call held
November 19 – Proposal due date
Mid-January to Late-February 2011 – Anticipated site visits for finalists
March/April 2011 – Targeted for announcement of Managing Partners by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mid-April to Mid May 2011 Completion by Design kick-off

5. CBD Fundamentally Believes That Community Colleges Can Dramatically Increase Completion Rates if they:
Analyze their systems in order to understand where they are failing and succeeding
Restructure the student experience from intake to completion based on what they learn from that analysis by introducing proven and promising practices
Build linkages and interdependencies among the student success systems
Establish clear accountability for student success and completion

6. Define Cadre
The Cadre is the planning and implementation team for Completion by Design. Made up of at least four community colleges or campuses within a state, the Cadre will work together to design and implement a model pathway to completion using proven and promising practices
Alamo Community College
Dallas County Community College District
El Paso Community College
Lone Star College System
South Texas College

7. Strategic Design of Our Cadre

8. RFA used Pell Eligibility for Criteria
Managing Partner must have a cadre comprising campuses with a significant number of students receiving Pell grants.
Pilot Schools (Interdisciplinary Team of Eight)
ACCD – St. Philip’s
DCCCD – Cedar Valley
EPCC – Valle Verde
LSCS – LSC-North Harris
STC – Pecan College

10. CBD Initiative Assistance Team (CDAT)
Separately Funded
Advisory and Assistance Group
Led by Nan Poppe & Leslie Haynes
Extensive CC experience
College President
Gateway to College
Early College High School Initiative
Provide Managing Partners and their Cadres with the expertise

11. Goals of the Completion by Design (CBD) Initiative
Five-year initiative intended to increase the proportion of low-income young adults completing
AND increase pace by which low-income young adults progress to postsecondary credential completion at public two-year community colleges

12. 11% of African-American students
23 % of white students who enter public community colleges full-time complete an associate degree with three years
15% of Hispanic students
11% of African-American students
(IPEDS), 2007
IPEDS – Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems – Data on Full-Time Students

13. State of Completion Rates in Texas
State Data | Complete College America
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te College America

14. Chart from Gates Completion by Design
We can get them in the door, it’s keeping them that we need to focus on (Entry Point) We have been most focused, but we must assess those loss points.

16. Challenges
Challenge #1: Reaching consensus among 5 large college systems, each with a team of 8 representatives
Challenge #2: Difficulties in scaling a program across campuses in multi-college districts
Challenge #3: Large-scale reform in a current state deficit environment
Challenge #4: Policy change in a state with a complex higher education structure