1. 2011 STUDENT AFFAIRS GOOD TO GREAT LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
June 29-30, 2011
The State of Student Affairs at Ivy Tech Community College
Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. Benjamin F. Young
Vice President for Student Affairs

2. What is Ivy Tech?

3. Unique Role in Higher Education
Ivy Tech shall meet the needs of state and local officials, employers, and labor organizations by designing and delivering educational training courses and programs. The primary objective of this effort shall be to provide economic and workforce development support to the state’s employers and communities, by meeting their needs for better educated and trained, more productive, and more competitive employers and citizens. In addition Ivy Tech shall provide educational opportunities and appropriate workforce development, assessment, and training to those who have graduated from high school and want to earn credits that will transfer to a four (4) year college.
Excerpts from Senate Enrolled Act 296-Enacted July 1, 2005

4. The Community College Challenge
Capacity Constraints in Staff and Facilities
Low Percent of Adults with College Degree
Inconsistent Transfer Policy
Poor Linkage with Indiana Business
Lowest Funded Higher Ed Institution
Indiana’s Most Challenged Student Population
950,000 Under Prepared Adults
Two-Track Education System
Disproportional Number of Community College Students vs. Four-Year
The Community
College Challenge
High Community College Tuition
Below National Average Time to Degree
Lack of Understanding of Value of Degrees and Certifications
No Common Statewide General Education Core
Lack of Statewide Data System
Lack of Student Incentives to
Complete AS
New Community College System

5. Indiana Adults in Need of Education and Training (Ages 18-64), 2006
No College Education,
Earning Less than a Living Wage
651,609
No High School
Diploma
524,370
256,112
226,029
385,775
27,445
14,784
No College Education,
Speak Little or No English
63,450
12,360
8,861

6. Serving Students at Risk
88,000+ on Financial Aid
20% Single Parents
Median Income $19,103 (Independent FA Students)
73% Working Adults
81% Part-Time
17,859 on Food Stamps
10,630 on Medicaid

7. A Changing Community College
Enrollment Graduates Transfer
,708 6,315 3,881
Current 166,550 12,366 11,047
Change 59% 96% 185%

8. Lumina’s Big Goal - Indiana
6,454+ Graduates / Per Year
Ivy Tech will likely provide 75 percent

9. Ivy Tech Community College Outcomes
Work Ready/One & Two-Year Graduates 12,366
2011 Totals
Students Who Transfer ,047
Workers Trained ,226
Certifications Administered 40,074
Totals ,713

10. Emerging Challenges

11. Performance Funding Indiana national leader New formulas for Indiana
Successful transfer
Successful remediation
Completion of General Education core
Student incentives

12. New Completion Initiatives
Achieving the Dream (2009)
Mandatory orientation
Mandatory advising for remedial students
Mandatory success courses for remedial students
Remedial course completion
Retention numbers increased by 20 percentage points for those students that went through the above ATD interventions

13. IPEDS Dilemma IPEDS Cohort (2007) Enrollment 6,898
IPEDS Cohort Graduates (2010)
IPEDS Cohort Transfers (2010) 1,291
Total 2010 Graduates 9,419
Total 2010 Transfers 10,047

14. Student Affairs Team

15. Student Affairs Management Groups
Vice President for Student Affairs
Regional Student Affairs Vice Chancellors
Commencement Coordinators
Executive Director for Student Life
Directors of Student Life
Assistant Vice President for Admissions and Enrollment Management
Directors of Admissions
Designated School Officials
Assistant Vice President for Student Development Services
Directors of Careers Services
Directors /Coordinators of Disability Support Services
Directors/Coordinators of Retention and Student Success
Statewide Academic Advising Committee
Assistant Vice President for Student Records
Registrars

16. Expectations : Vice Chancellors of Student Affairs
Directs total Student Affairs operation; reports directly to chancellor and enjoys spot in regional inner circle
Supervises the core Student Affairs: Admissions, Financial Aid, Registrar/Student Records, Career Services, Academic Advising, Student Life, Retention/Student Success, Disability Support Services, Counseling Services, Judicial Affairs, and Multicultural Affairs
Manages the regional Student Affairs budget
Serves as regional’s chief student advocate
Responsible for staff’s growth and development
Ensures compliance and regulatory requirements are met

17. Expectations : Vice President for Student Affairs
Advances College’s mission and attainment of strategic plan
Serves as the College’s chief student advocate
Provides direction for development of recruitment and enrollment management processes
Offers professional development experience
Collaborates with College faculty-staff members to establish standards and policy development for all areas of student affairs
Establishes spirit of continuous quality improvement in all elements of student affairs
Promotes College’s core values
Oversees non-instructional student experiences including admissions, academic advising, student records, retention and student success, registration, assessment testing, career services, disability support services, multicultural affairs, student conduct, and student life

18. Key Student Characteristics

19. 69% Need Remediation

20. Ivy Tech and Pell Grants
54.5% of Pell recipients
50.7% of Pell dollars
Recipients Awards
Ivy Tech 68,411 $201,647,513
PU – West Lafayette 6,502 $25,386,868
IU-Bloomington 5,887 $24,226,385

21. 23,134 Minority Students

22. Step Up

23. Opportunities for Student Affairs
Implement Recommendations from the Student Affairs Degree
Completion Summit
Embrace the stretch goals for degree completers & graduation rate
Move quickly on short-term and intermediate recommendations
Support the plan to assign ownership of academic advising to student affairs
Implement Student Life Model & Core Functions
Reaffirm the Achieving the Dream Interventions
Student Intake Process
New Student Orientation
Academic Advising leading to Individual Academic Plan
Student Success Courses

24. Opportunities for Student Affairs-continued
Support this year’s business process improvements:
*Streamline graduation process
*Student Life model & core functions
*Commencement standardization
*Chart Realignment Project
*Reform of ATB policy
*Code of Student Rights & Responsibilities
*College Common Calendar
Refine & Support new business improvements
*Transcript evaluations
*Revision of admissions application including ATB check-off
*UNDI coding Uniform
*Uniform reinstatement process for academic appeals
*Procedures for handling disruptive students

25. Opportunities for Student Affairs-continued
Student Affairs Vice President Reporting to President
Expectations for quicker action
Greater engagement with other sectors
Student issues come first
RSAOC needs to “pick up its game”
Accelerating Greatness 2013
Strategy 1 (student preparedness, advising, degree completion)
Strategy 2 (scan for state needs, global competitiveness, continuous
improvement)
Strategy 3 (student experience, online education, quality standards)
Strategy 4 (alumni engagement, Good to Great)

26. Opportunities for Student Affairs-continued
Serving Unrepresented Groups
Addressing Twin Challenges
Increase student enrollment
Increase degree completion-numbers & rates
Office of President Initiatives
Ivy Institute of Technology
Pre-Nursing: Health Care Support Curriculum
Ivy Tech Online
Statewide Academic Advising Model
IPEDS Cohort Follow-up
Corporate College
Accelerated One Year Associated Degree Program
Adult Degree Completion project
Transfer Advocates
Transfer Coordinators
Office of Information Technology

27. Concluding Comments and Questions