1. Becoming Student Ready
The Skyline College
REDESIGN
Becoming Student Ready
Academic Senate
September 20, 2018

2. Urgency around Student Success
Mary
Reflection on Change Leadership Framework and Model

3. “Every System is perfectly designed to achieve the results it gets.”
- W. Edward Deming and Paul Batalden

5. Promise Scholars Program (ASAP Replication) Components
Financial Support
Fee waivers for the first full year
Monthly transportation incentives (gas card or Clipper Card)
Book voucher to offset the costs of textbooks and course materials
Academic Support
Promise Scholars Summer Institute
Priority registration
Blocked courses
Required tutoring for students on academic probation
Collaborations with academic departments to offer clear pathways to graduation
Student Services
Student-to-Counselor ratio of 150:1
Need-based counseling model
Career and professional development support
Peer mentoring
Group counseling sessions and collaborative events
Expectations
Must commit to enrolling full-time (12 units or more each semester) for the duration of the program
Must consistently participate in counseling requirements
Must be a recent High School, GED or adult continuation graduate

6. What is a Meta-major?
A meta-major is a grouping of related fields of study designed to simplify the process of selecting a major.
A student facing piece.
Jessica

7. Meta-Majors: Arts, Languages, & Communication
Business, Entrepreneurship, & Management
Society & Education
Science, Technology, & Health

8. What is a Guided Pathway?
A guided pathway integrates student services, the learning commons and instruction to create a cohesive student experience.
Jessica

9. Specifically, Skyline College Guided Pathways include:
On ramp processes that help students into their college experience
Intake processes that help students clarify goals for college and careers
Intentional course sequences with clearly defined career and academic milestones
Embedded counseling, academic support and feedback on student progress throughout their educational journey
Jessica

10. What is Transformative
Teaching & Learning?
Transformative Teaching and Learning embraces the limitless potential of all learners in a co-creative, relevant, and innovative environment that fosters curiosity and critical thinking and gives space to lived historical and cultural identities to change lives and communities.
Jessica

11. What is your team’s definition of a “student-ready” college?
Team Scavenger Hunt…
Explore the words around the room
Select four key words you would like to use in your definition
Jessica
Work together as a team to write a complete definition
What is your team’s definition of a “student-ready” college?

12. Engaging with Student Voices:
Individually, take a minute to read
the student quote.
On the sticky note provided, write down what stood out to you while reading the student quote. What challenge or issue do you think the student is bringing to light?
Jessica
In your group, share out your initial thoughts about the quote
and then together determine one student concern you will
focus on.

13. Envisioning a Student-Ready Academic Senate
Using your group’s definition of student-ready and the 10+1,
please answer the following:
What area(s) do you think connects to the student
issue you have identified?
Jessica
What further action could be taken by Academic Senate
to become more student-ready?