1. Increase Student Persistence with a Comprehensive Student Success Course
Dr. Marsha Fralick

2. Ice Breaker Introduce yourself. Where are you from?
What is one thing I should see if I
were to visit where you live?

3. Overview Program description Program results Key elements
Career planning
Technology
Course credit

4. Cuyamaca College
El Cajon, CA

5. Personal Development 124, Lifelong Success
8000 students enrolled in college
1600 take PDC 124 each year
One of the top 15 revenue producing programs for the college
56 sections a year

6. Course Choices
Face to Face
22 sections
Blended
Online
12 sections

7. College Success Motivation Time and Money Memory and Reading
Test Taking
Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking

8. Career Success Personality and Related Majors
Learning Style and Intelligence
Interests and Values
Career and Educational Planning

9. Lifelong Success Communication and Relationships
Critical and Creative Thinking
Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle
Appreciating Diversity
Positive Thinking
Life Stages

11. Program Results
Program Review 2000, 2005

12. The most significant finding is increased persistence.

13. Persistence Students who return the next semester
Approximately half of community college students nationwide do not persist after the first semester

14. All successful PDC students 89% All students 63% A 26% improvement!
College Persistence Semester to Semester 5 Year Average at Cuyamaca College
All successful PDC students 89%
All students 63%
A 26% improvement!

15. Student Confidence
The course helped 62% of students feel more confident about their academic skills

16. Student Satisfaction
88% of students rated the course as very good or good.

17. Grade Improvement
72% of student agreed or strongly agreed that the course helped to improve grades

18. Keys to Success
Career planning
Course Credit
Technology

19. College Success: A Study of Positive and Negative Attrition
Community College Review

20. The Successful Student
Had a definite goal or college major
Earned a B+ or better in high school
Based on this research, choosing a major and career planning was included in our college success course.

21. Choosing a Major
The course helped 52% of students choose a major

22. How to Choose a Major Self Assessment Personality Interests Values
Learning Style
Career Research

23. Personality Key theme throughout course Carl Jung and personality type
Online:

25. Key to Success: Make it Count
Transfers as general education for CSUC, Area E, Lifelong Understanding
Transfers to University of California

26. Bridge
High School
Community College
University

27. The Transfer Approval Process
Academic Rigor
Broad Scope
Careers
Lifelong Success
Articulate with Universities

28. Technology
A Skill Needed for College Success

30. New Millennials Our current college students
Most were born with a computer in the home and were using them by age 5
Cyber generation
The connected generation
82% are online daily
Average 12 hours per week online

31. Where are you in the technology continuum?
Baby boomer
Generation X
New Millennials
How much technology did you use in college?

32. Rationale for Using Technology
Your students use it
It captures their attention
Education on demand
Any time or place
Increased access
New roles for faculty

33. Using Technology Online career and learning style assessment E-text
Online portfolio

34. Take a look at CollegeScope http://www.collegescope.com/cuyamaca

35. Technology for New Millennials
Individually tailored
Portable
Dynamic Content

36. Technology helps guide students through the critical first two weeks
Make sure all students have started
Monitor progress from the beginning
Engaging material for the New Millennial Generation

37. Resources for Faculty http://www.collegesuccess1.com
Classroom exercises
Syllabus
Research
PowerPoint
Internet Links

38. Questions?
Evaluation forms