1. Integrating Student Voices:
How one college listened to and integrated students into the redesign process
Introduce ourselves
Interactive
Who’s in the room
Danielle Carnes | Erin Davison | Jennifer Inslee

2. Students at Edmonds Community College
Making data speak: Question: what’s your grad rate? Vs What’s a compelling a story that you remember that you found powerful about a student at your college

3. The Power of Qualitative Research
The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story. This truth applies both to individuals and institutions.
Michael Margolis, Educator, Futures Anthropologist
Ask questions - Who’s used qualitative data? Know what it is? Other questions...
Qual can guide quant queries
Qual can support quant
The why, the stories behind data

4. Project Timeline

5. How We are Using the Data
Created Retention Recommendation Sheets for Faculty and Staff
Focused Mini-Presentations for Specific Departments
Acquired Texting System to Better Communicate with Students
Marketing and Fundraising

6. Using Data specific to Guided Pathways
Community
Communication
Challenges
Clear Pathways
Advising
Data is only as good as what you do with it.

7. 10 things our students want you to know to help them belong

8. Powerful way to tell your story.
Quantitative + Qualitative
Powerful way to tell your story.

9. 2015 CCSSE
89.9%
Academic Advising is somewhat or very important to me.
10.9%
Use Academic Advising services often.

10. Advising
“Having an advisor that you can say, "This person is my advisor." That's really important to you as a student. The fact that I know that no student here has one person they can specifically say, "This is my advisor", that they can turn to, is really scary.”

11. Student story of first day at Edmonds

12. Entry Advising

13. Guided Pathways ATD Focus groups 2011
Sense of Belonging/Resilience and Communication: Triton Jumpstart (faculty response and scaling up)
Pathways: Areas of Study Focus Groups
LatinX Focus Groups

14.
42%
Conversion Rate

15. Leaks in the Pipeline

16. Completion Rates

17. Transfer Rates

18. What We Learned Make time for the planning and IRB process
Make sure to collect demographic information
Think about multiple ways to encourage student participation in focus groups
Go to where the students are
Do we need??

19. Have the process driven by and be inclusive of all faculty levels
Have multiple coders and analyzers for consensus of findings and validity of data
Use platforms like Dedoose for coding and analysis

20. Students in the Quad

21. At Your Campus What data sources are currently at your college?
What questions need to be answered?
What populations would you want to make sure are included?
Who are the stakeholders that need to hear from those students and how will you present the information?
Resources: people and funds sample budget

22. The Power of Qualitative Research
The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story. This truth applies both to individuals and institutions.
Michael Margolis, Educator, Futures Anthropologist
Ask questions - Who’s used qualitative data? Know what it is? Other questions...
Qual can guide quant queries
Qual can support quant
The why, the stories behind data

23. Useful Resources: Student Voice Studies
CCSSE: Focus Group Tool Kit and Sample Report
National School Boards Association: Organizing and Facilitating Focus Groups
Center for Learning Connections
Dedoose: Qualitative Analysis Platform ($8 per person/month) for projects needing multiple coders/analyzers
Student Voice Studies
Career Ladders Project: Bringing student voice to guided pathways inquiry and design
Public Agenda and West End: Student Voices on the Higher Education Pathway (2012)