1. SUPPORT FOR YOUR STUDENT EQUITY PLAN
Presented by the Institute for Evidence-Based Change September 5, 2014

2. Richard Duran President of Oxnard College
Presenters
Richard Duran President of Oxnard College
Brad Phillips
President
IEBC
Jordan Horowitz
Vice President
IEBC

3. Engaging in the Student Equity Plan
Welcome to the webinar!
The changing face of California
The importance of this work
Colleges need to welcome and embrace this opportunity
This is not a “check the box” plan
Develop an authentic, doable plan

4. Data Use and Your Student Equity Plan
Analytics
data collection
data storage
data linking
data analysis
data reporting
Organizational Habits
strategic data use
data committees
everyday operations
accreditation
Human Judgment
information processing
decision making

5. Some Overarching Considerations
How much data is really actionable?

6. Typical Student Tracking Outcomes

7. Some Overarching Considerations
How much data is really actionable?
Don’t forget about the overall numbers

8. Transfer Rate by Age Group

9. Transfer Rate by Age Group

10. Some Overarching Considerations
How much data is really actionable?
Don’t forget about the overall numbers
If your reports indicate that a majority of your students are underperforming—that all or most of your percentages are low, then it’s your systems and not the students

11. Systems
Student

12. Some Overarching Considerations
How much data is really actionable?
Don’t forget about the overall numbers
If your reports indicate that a majority of your students are underperforming—that all or most of your percentages are low, then it’s your systems and not the students
Identify your key themes

13. Remediation
Preparation
Persistence
Special Populations
Student Services
Instruction

14. Some Overarching Considerations
How much data is really actionable?
Don’t forget about the overall numbers
If your reports indicate that a majority of your students are underperforming—that all or most of your percentages are low, then it’s your systems and not the students
Identify your key themes
It’s not just about programs, don’t forget about policies

15. Student status
Programs
Policies

16. Innovations Impact of culture and habit on organizational change
Setting criteria for innovations
Reviewing current efforts
High impact policy and practice innovations
Using project management to support implementation
Monitoring and evaluate the effectiveness of innovations

17. The Landscape
What is your College already doing to address gaps in student equity?
What populations are being served?
What evidence exists to support the efficacy of the practices?
Of these, what can be scaled, modified or eliminated?
What new initiatives can be employed that have a research basis for improvement?

18. Considerations and Criteria
No BOUTIQUE practices
No small grants for innovation
Think big, start small
Not about restoring what was lost in the cuts
Must be able to go to scale
Must be researched-based
Must be able to implemented properly
Must be adequately resourced
Think systemically
Modest gains can be made with student services alone, Large gains can be made with instructional interventions and student services combined

19. Policies/Practices Barrier removal Eliminate late registration
First time in college strategies
Authentic orientation
Align HS and college coursework
Supplemental instruction
Summer boot camp
Purposeful mentoring
Focus on retention strategies
Learning communities at scale
Structured Academic Pathways

20. Use Project Management to Ensure Effective Roll Out of the High Impact Practice

21. Effective innovations + Effective implementation
Increased Student Success!

22. Project Management Plan
RASIC
Responsible
Accountable
Support
Inform
Consult

23. Monitor and Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Policy/Practice

24. Era of Accountability What gets measured gets done
If you don’t measure results, you can’t tell success from failure
If you can’t see success, you can’t reward it
If you can’t reward success, you’re probably rewarding failure
If you can’t see success, you can’t learn from it
If you can’t recognize failure, you can’t correct it
If you can demonstrate results, you can gain support for the work
Adapted from: Reinventing Government, Osborne and Gaebler, 1992

25. Evaluation Steps
Develop data collection methods before the start of the intervention
Include both process and outcomes measures
Include the student voice
Decide what success would look like
Collect data often
Use the outcome data in both a formative and summative way

26. Building a Logic Model For Evaluation
Situation
Inputs
Activities
Outputs
Outcomes/
impacts
What problem are you trying to solve
What resources go into a program
What activities the program undertakes
What is produced through those activities
The changes or benefits that result from the program

27. Questions and Answers

28. Thank You for Attending!
For Further Information…
Brad C. Phillips
Jordan E. Horowitz
We’re happy to help as you move forward!