1. Redesigning Cuyamaca with Pathways

2. Degree Mapping Minimize confusion over class choices available
Reduce mistakes while navigating college
Students lack knowledge about college procedures and options
Degree maps lay out a structured format
Narrower set of program options
Guiding choice without restricting options
Degree mapping is the backbone of pathways. When students have a clear plan for their academic program, we can determine the best way to get them into a program (intake), monitor their progress and keep them on track.

3. Degree maps are the backbone
Degree Mapping helps us to:
Monitor student progress
Key milestones
Critical courses
Identify skills and concepts most important to teach each in course (learning outcomes)
Rationalize and simplify scheduling of classes
The more students that are progressing along pathways generates data
How many students need a course
What time should we offer it
When to offer in relation to other courses

4. Type of map: Default maps
Sequence of courses determined by faculty (the experts)
Students have the option of opting out of default pathway
Pathway can be customized to the individual’s needs and goals
Default pathways increase student confidence and commitment
Students trust the experts had good reason
Still have control over their decisions with help from advisors with opt out option
Type of map: Default maps
Students with poor academic preparation and limited exposure to higher ed, having to plan an academic program can be daunting and mistakes are made.
Faculty are best qualified to design a meaningful course of study.

5. Type of map: Active choice
Individuals required to choose from a relatively small set of clearly defined options
They are not defaulted to any one option
Works best when
Choice set is diverse
Experts are unsure of which choice is best
Choosers prefer to choose
Type of map: Active choice

6. Degree Mapping Identify List
Milestones students are expected to achieve
Identify
critical courses : those that most strongly predict later success in major
And when it should be taken in program (usually early)
courses that are most important to the major
Degree Mapping
Milestones, like when to complete college math to stay on track.

7. Other considerations while mapping
Include learning outcomes
Align with requirements of subsequent classes
Faculty from different disciplines need to meet!
Instructors and counselors should work together on maps
Start to have counselors specialize in a particular area?
Consider and “Exploratory track”
Undecided students can enter one of the most popular program areas
Can immediately begin general education that all areas must fulfill
Can engage students in structural exploration

8. Intake How do prospective students know about us?
Website redesign
What info should be on homepage? Department pages? Survey students
Linkages with high schools
East County Education Alliance
Campus visits
Data interchange: we get little info on academic strengths and interests
Timely access to transcripts and other records
How do we get info on students not from local high schools, or are older students
Website:
Should provide detailed information about each program:
Program length, opportunities for employment and further education; occupations; wages; labor market demand, etc.
East County Education Alliance: work with them.
4 year universities get a lot of info on their incoming students: not only transcripts but application includes questions on interests
“What did you want to know when you first considered Cuyamaca College?”

9. Orientation and Registration
Many students arrive with unclear goals and unaware of support services
Is registration process easy/intuitive?
Students receive s for self orientation:
Receipt for payment is not itemized
Directions on next steps
Online orientation videos
How are campus services advertised? Are students aware?
Are students directed to go, or given a choice to go?
Campus services: health services, mental health services, career services, veterans services, counseling services, financial aid

10. Advising services must haves:
Help students select and enter a program of study
Track progress through program milestones
Provide frequent feedback to students on their progress
Intervene with those that go off track
Who monitors this? Advising teams? (instructors and counselors?)
Advising services must haves:

11. Colleague Update: phase 1
Back up WebAdvisor as plan B
Fall 2018 doing away with WebAdvisor
CRM Recruit: can track students before they apply
FAFSA at which high school
A portal for students
Can have communications with subgroups
Outreach module
Registration, campus map, check grades
Elucian mobile app
Ed planning
Student planning module
Colleague Update: phase 1

12. Colleague Update: phase 2
Fall 2019?
Early alert
Tracking services
Creat portfolios for each student
Can define high risk for early alert
Degree audits
Colleague Update: phase 2

13. Colleague training? Admissions hasn’t had training
All faculty should have training
Student training?
Colleague training?
Professional Development?
Students: success courses?
Systems should build upon clear program structures, and must be incorporated into users’ daily lives while allowing for human points of contact when needed.

14. Student Support Services
Should help students choose an appropriate program, transfer destination, and career goal
Teach students how to use available resources to self advise
Track student progress
To allow for early intervention
Student Support Services

15. Student Support Student success courses
Narrow the focus to prevent too many topics being covered superficially
Identify essential advising needs
Training on online advising system; hands on experience; practice creating academic plans
Target specific meta-majors: focus on specific paths, transfer options, career exploration. Helps undecided students.
Academic courses should align with success courses
Reinforce the skills taught in success course
Student Support
Combining clearly defined default program pathways, more effective use of group counseling via success courses, and advising technology for monitoring and providing feedback on student progress, advisors and counselors can focus on students who need them the most.

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17. Action Items Continue working on Degree Mapping
Develop teams
Instructors of appropriate courses
Counselors
Align SLOs and identifying milestones/momentum points/early alert
Stipends; schedule designing events in summer?
Student success courses
Work with instructors of appropriate classes

18. Other Action Items Registration team? Orientation team?
Website redesign team?
Have some coordination with registration team
Advising team
How or organize student advising: a team for each meta-major?
Who? Counselors, instructors, special services
How to monitor early alerts
Exploratory track design team? After degree maps