1. Adult Reengagement in Michigan
Degrees When Due:
Adult Reengagement in Michigan
Michigan Student Success Summit
September 28, 2018

2. Presenters Jason Taylor, University of Utah
Degrees When Due Researcher
Stephen Linden, Oakland Community College
Degrees When Due College Lead
Erica Orians, Michigan Center for Student Success
Degrees When Due State Liaison

3. Jason
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July 9, 2018

4. Two Models, One Mission:
Credit When It’s Due
Project Win-Win
Jason
July 9, 2018

5. What does DWD offer institutions?
Degrees When Due is a national initiative to increase degree attainment among the “some college, no degree” adult learner population. DWD scales evidence-based “degree reclamation” strategies that help institutions identify students who have enough credits or nearly enough credits to earn an associate’s degree and assist them in crossing the completion finish line.
What does DWD offer institutions?
Help assembling the right cross-sector institutional team
Concrete workplans to make campus staff’s current work easier
Data-mining lessons involved in degree auditing
Live coaching from seasoned degree reclamation experts
Communications strategies that improve student consent and engagement
Policy recommendations at the federal, state and institutional levels that enhance degree reclamation efforts
Jason
July 9, 2018

6. Why should your institutions care about DWD?
  Student Impact & Equity: DWD builds on the evidence-based strategies demonstrated through both Project Win-
Win and Credit When It’s Due, which together awarded more than 20,000 new associate’s degrees to adult
learners who had either: (1) accumulated enough credits to earn a degree, but stopped out before having one
conferred, OR (2) stopped out just short of the completion finish line, and just needed to be re-engaged and put
on a clear path to completion. Importantly, DWD incorporates equity analysis into the previous models to improve
attainment among underserved populations. Institutional staff who successfully complete the online course will
be in the very real position to confer associate’s degrees at the end of the 9 month cycle.
Facilitate and Strengthen Cross-Campus Communication: DWD is a high-quality, cross-functional innovation implementation tool that builds the capacity of institutions to help adult learners complete their degrees. Institutional staff across the campus will strengthen working relationships through the implementation process, incorporating lessons learned from DWD training in their work.
Institutional Change: DWD helps institutions actually do the work of data mining and degree auditing, but, more importantly, helps institutions fundamentally rethink their campus completion culture, address equity gaps, and tackle institutional policies that will help reduce the ultimate number of adult learners who stop out before completing.  
Jason
July 9, 2018

7. Why adult reengagement in Michigan?
More than 1.5 million adults with some-college, no degree in Michigan
Since 2009, nearly 275,000 students have left a Michigan community college with no degree (source: CEPI Success Rates)
Colleges are now offering well-designed Guided Pathways
21 colleges awarded more than 2,000 degrees in our successful Project Win-Win efforts in the past
Adult reengagement track selected because we have two active and time- consuming transfer projects
Erica

8. Why adult reengagement at Oakland Community College?
Work with Project Win-Win, Credit When It’s Due, and continuing reviews of student records have found a considerable number of former OCC students who were part of the “some college, no degree” population.
Project Win-Win:
We moved almost 4,000 students through the pipeline.
Over 600 students were eligible to receive a degree, and over 3,000 were identified as being close to a degree.
Eventual efforts resulted in about 500 students being awarded a degree they had already earned or that was completed with 1 – 2 more classes.
Changes in curriculum requirements and a new population of students since PWW make OCC well-positioned to achieve excellent results once again with Degrees When Due.
Steve

9. Degrees When Due Modules
2 Tracks: Reverse Transfer & Adult Reengagement
Steve
July 9, 2018

10. Using IHEP materials to support adult reengagement.
The IHEP modules and resources engage your staff and work with them through their entire adult-reengagement efforts.
Staff often know how to perform the individual tasks.
The modules help bring that valuable knowledge together and direct it toward the goal of adult reengagement. They also present new ideas, innovative approaches, and best practices to all the DWD steps.
Additionally, live coaching brings experience and expertise to assist your team.
The modules also help set the groundwork for schools to continue their adult- reengagement efforts beyond DWD.
Steve

11. Jason
July 9, 2018

12. Degrees When Due Research
Research Questions
How does degree reclamation influence students’ education and employment outcomes?
How do students understand and perceive the value of their reclaimed degrees?
How does Degrees When Due influence institutional capacity to implement and scale degree reclamation?
Jason
July 9, 2018

13. Data Reporting
As an institutional participant in DWD Cohort 1, your institution commits to participate in the following research and reporting activities:
Complete campus readiness survey (June 2018)
Individual participants in online platform complete occasional surveys embedded into platform (October 2018-May 2019)
Baseline indicator data submission (see indicators below) (October 2018)
Implementation metric submission (Submission 1) (February 2019)
Implementation metric submission (Final Submission) (October 2019)
Year 1 follow-up indicator data submission (October 2020)
Year 1 policy/practice follow-up survey (October 2020)
Year 2 follow-up indicator data submission (October 2021)
Indicator Data
Adult Re-Engagement
Number of degrees conferred via degree reclamation (by demographics)
Number of re-enrolled students (by demographics)
Cohort re-enrollment rate (by demographics)
Reverse Transfer
Number of degrees conferred via degree reclamation (by demographic)
Cohort reverse transfer conferral rate (by demographics)
*All implementation metric data and indicator data will be reported at the aggregate level; student-level data will not be reported.
Questions about the research and reporting may be directed to: Dr. Jason Taylor
Jason
July 9, 2018

14. Press Information
See IHEP materials.

15. Next Steps Review Initiative Launch Materials from IHEP
Watch for announcement about our state coach
Watch for Monthly Zoom Call Information
Erica

16. Discussion