1. Keep Students in College with a Comprehensive Student Success Course
Dr. Marsha Fralick

2. Ice Breaker What should I visit if I were to travel to your city?
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5. Overview Program description Program results Key elements
Course Credit
Career planning
Learning style
Technology

6. What is the dream that students have when they begin college?

7. The American Dream Get a degree Get a better job
Improve the quality of life
Increase self-respect
Be the best you can be

8. The Reality What Happens?
After 8 years, only 53% of those seeking degrees achieved their goals.
40-50% of the students don’t even return the next semester.
6 out of 10 transfer students give up their plans or drop out in one semester.
Sources: Achieving the Dream website, PACE Research

9. How can we help college students be successful?
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10. Cuyamaca College
El Cajon, CA

11. Personal Development 124, Lifelong Success
8000 students enrolled in college
1600 take PDC 124 each year
One of the top 15 revenue producing programs for the college
56 sections a year

12. College Success Motivation Time and Money Memory and Reading
Test Taking
Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking

13. Career Success Personality and Related Majors
Learning Style and Intelligence
Interests and Values
Career and Educational Planning

14. Lifelong Success Communication and Relationships
Critical and Creative Thinking
Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle
Appreciating Diversity
Positive Thinking
Life Stages

15. Course Choices
Face to Face
22 sections
Blended
Online
12 sections

16. College Success Course
3 units
Transfers to four year universities
One of the top 15 revenue producing programs in the college

17. Key to Success: Make it Count
Transfers as general education for CSUC, Area E, Lifelong Understanding
Transfers to University of California

18. The Transfer Approval Process
Academic Rigor
Broad Scope
Careers
Lifelong Success
Articulate with Universities

19. Bridge
High School
Community College
University

20. Program Results
Program Review 2000, 2005

22. The most significant finding is increased persistence.

23. Persistence Students who return the next semester
Approximately half of community college students nationwide do not persist after the first semester

24. All successful PDC students 89% All students 63% A 26% improvement!
College Persistence Semester to Semester 5 Year Average at Cuyamaca College
All successful PDC students 89%
All students 63%
A 26% improvement!

25. Keys to Success
The program helps students to make a good choice of a major and career.

26. College Success: A Study of Positive and Negative Attrition
Community College Review

27. The Successful Student
Had a definite goal or college major
Based on this research, choosing a major and career planning was included in our college success course.

28. How did you choose your major? Career?

29. How to Choose a Major Self Assessment Personality Interests Values
Learning Style
Career Research

30. Personality
Carl Jung and personality type
Online:

33. Keys to Success
The program helps students to understand their learning style and how to become a lifelong learner.

34. The PEPS Learning Style Assessment
Measures preferences in 20 areas
Perceptual
Environmental
Emotional
Sociological
Physical

35. Keys to Success
Use technology to make education engaging and inescapable.

37. New Millennials Our current college students Most were born since 1990
Most were born with a computer in the home and were using them by age 5
Cyber generation
The connected generation
82% are online daily
Average 12 hours per week online

38. Where are you in the technology continuum?
Baby boomer
Generation X
New Millennials
How much technology did you use in college?

39. Rationale for Using Technology
Your students use it
It captures their attention
Education on demand
Any time or place
Increased access
New roles for faculty

40. Using Technology Online career and learning style assessment E-text
Online portfolio

41. Technology helps guide students through the critical first two weeks
Make sure all students have started
Monitor progress from the beginning
Engaging material for the New Millennial Generation

42. Take a Look

44. Resources for Faculty Instructor Manual Exercises and Handouts
Instructor Manual
Exercises and Handouts
Syllabus
Research
PowerPoint
Internet Links

45. Questions?
Evaluation forms