1. The Achievement Gap in our Classes Lone Star College
October 2018 Workshop

2. Broadening Participation
Need:
Goal:
Have a good understanding of what our demographics look like in our classes compared to our campuses
Recognize discrepancies in our classes and minimize it.

3. Enrollment Demographics in GEOL1403 for the past 5 Semesters

4. GEOLOGY DEMOGRAPHICS VS SYSTEM

5. African-American Enrollment in our Classes
Graphs show what percent of our geology classes are made up of a certain demographic relative to what percent that demographic makes up of each of our campuses.
Hispanic Enrollment in our Classes

6. Female Enrollment in our Classes

7. Broadening Participation
Need:
Strategies:
Fewer women and African- American students are enrolling in our classes relative to the college population
Meet with advisors
To make them aware of geology and greater success rate over other sciences for Gen Ed students
To create micro-campaigns to encourage enrollment in geology (e.g., focus on those enrolled that have not taken a science class)
Work with curriculum team to align our math requirements with current math pathways (make us more accessible than other sciences)
Meet with high schools
Create and share a brochure about our geology program
Collaborate with National Association for Black Geoscientists to talk to high school classes
Goal:
Short term: Move the needle in the right direction
Long-term: Come within 2% of our college’s demographics

8. Success of All Students
Need:
Goal:
A clear view of who is successful in our classes
Minimizing the difference in success across the demographics

9. Success of Students broken down by Demographics (Success = A,B,C, or P)
Succcess: ABC or P

10. 25 31 26 21 26 23 23 18 19 18 43 38 35 35 35
Percent is % of that demographic enrolled
Labels are the percent of that demographic enrolled that were not successful

11. GPA For Different Demographics. Number labels = number of students65 15 96 15 11 63 91 50 60 67 92 78 91 44 95 22 20 6 89 19 23 11 20 23 27 17 18 17
103 47
GPA For Different Demographics. Number labels = number of students 17 40 67 44 2 68
105 86 73 26 60 66 73 23 50 54 24 21 39 39 5 20 12 67 14 13 6 3 12 5 42
166 60
156
118
107 65 59 79 62
113 60 62 75 86 11 88 64 74 15 13 54 35 26 18 26 68 9 12 23

12. Success of All Students
Need:
Strategies:
Success rate based on GPA of underrepresented minorities is lower than Caucasian students
Adjuncts + Full Time:
Increase workshop participation
Expose them to the achievement gap
Provide strategies for an inclusive classroom
Create more active learning ready-made strategies to use in their classrooms
Goal:
Increase success rate by an average of 0.5 GPA points

13. Strand 3: Increasing Professional Pathways
Need:
Possible Strategies
Lack a clear pathway for geoscience majors and future science teachers
Continue pathway discussions with University of Houston – Downtown as first articulation agreement
Educating advisors on geoscience careers and developing a handout
Expand campus geology webpages to include career information, internships, research opportunities, highlight achievements of former students
Goal:
Develop a guided universal pathway for all neighboring four-year universities

14. Average GPA for GEOL1403 What are your observations?
NOTE: These are the terms that AIR uses for our school.