1. Honoring Our Promise: The Chaffey College Basic Skills Transformation Project Rob Rundquist - Success Center Coordinator

2. The Chaffey College “Basic Skills” Curriculum  No Assessment  Separation from the discipline  Duplicated curriculum  Confusing numbering systems

3. Student Population (2000) 72% Underprepared 28% College Prepared

4. Course Offerings (1999) Transfer Courses 90% “Basic Skills” Courses 10%

5. Example from 1998-1999 Chaffey College Catalog Basic Skills in English 301 A, B, C, D “Individually prescribed instruction designed to provide students with skills in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, and prewriting…” Basic English 307 A, B, C “An individually designed program for grammar …assignments may include review by application and practice of basic grammar, writing skills, and vocabulary development”

6. Basic Skills Transfer DSPS EOPS Separate and Unequal Support

7. The Chaffey “Basic Skills” Support Services  Lack of faculty leadership  Limited budgets and poor facilities  Duplicated services

8. “Basic Skills” Campus Culture  Divisive  Students “trapped” and “stigmatized”  Faculty frustrated  “Painful” recognition of the need to change

9. Basic Skills Success Rates 1997-19981998-19991999-2000 Success Rates57.2%56.2%54.9% Success Rates

10. The “foundation” student of today is the transfer student of tomorrow. The Promise

11. Basic Skills Transformation Project

12. Academic Support Instruction Curriculum Organizational Structure Assessment/ Placement Facilities What Happened... Budget

13. Preparation for Change Visiting Team Report Board Mandate Partnership for Excellence Funds Research Model

14. Overview of Change  Implementation of assessment measures  Curriculum Revision Eng 500  Eng 550  Eng 450  Eng 1A  Success Center Requirements

15. Creation of Success Centers  Instructional Program  Faculty Leadership  Serve all students and faculty  Student-centered learning community

16. E.Course Catalog Description English 1A: Careful study and practice of expository and argumentative writing techniques and the frequent writing of compositions with the ultimate goal of a research project. A minimum of 6,000 written words is expected over the course of the term. Five arranged hours of supplemental learning in a Success Center that supports this course is required. Designed to prepare the student for satisfactory college writing. May be offered as an Honors course. “Supplemental Learning” defined as study groups, workshops, and directed learning activities Activities available at the Writing Center and all off-campus locations English 1A Course Outline

17. F.Course Topics (Scope and Description of Content): 1.Minimal grammar and paragraph review 2.Limiting topic; thesis; unity; coherence 3.Rhetorical Modes 4.The components of the research project 5.Elements of style 6.MLA documentation mastery 7.Awareness of purpose, audience, and tone DLA for 3 levels Learning Group DLA using library materials Workshops on integrating research DLA on evaluating websites DLA activities connecting to students’ writing Explicit Course Connection

18. Success Center Curriculum  Directed Learning Activity  Learning Group  Workshop  Tutoring  Lab Resources

19. Annual Number of Student Contacts at the Success Centers (Contacts of 15 or More Minutes) Number of Contacts 00-0101-0202-0303-0404-0505-0606-0707-0808-0909-1010-1111-1212-13 Contacts 73,685147,774177,024164,037182,075209,764177,778202,490255,190254,306231,777218,703206,056

20. Unduplicated Number and Percent of Students Who Accessed Success Centers Annually Percent of Students Annual Headcount 00-0101-0202-0303-0404-0505-0606-0707-0808-0909-1010-1111-1212-13 Accessed Success Center 7,57311,71212,52611,99112,74614,59513,68414,75916,45316,43414,86414,18413,653 District Headcount 26,55929,80028,74126,07126,82727,185 28,22229,32329,37725,92924,11023,599

21. Success Center Access Courses That Do/Do Not Have a Success Center Requirement Percent Success Center Access 05-0606-0707-0808-0909-1010-1111-1212-13 Have SC Requirement42.149.353.654.758.958.157.154.8 Do Not Have SC Requirement57.950.746.445.341.141.942.945.2

22. Success Rates in Foundation Skills Courses Pre- and Post-Basic Skills Transformation 99-0000-0101-0202-0303-0404-0505-0606-0707-0808-0909-1010-1111-1212-13 Succ. Rate54.960.661.161.263.363.964.166.267.867.668.169.671.871.9 Success Rate Pre Post-Transformation

23. Relationship Between Success Center Access and Success and Retention Rates, 2012 ~ 2013 All Courses Students Who Accessed the Success Centers Students Who Did Not Access the Success Centers Success Rate 77.5%68.4% Retention Rate 93.7%88.0% Percent

24. Students Who Accessed the Success Centers Students Who Did Not Access the Success Centers Success Rate 78.3%51.3% Retention Rate 94.7%80.1% Percent Relationship Between Success Center Access and Success and Retention Rates, 2012 ~ 2013 Foundation Skills Courses

25. Students Who Accessed the Success Centers Students Who Did Not Access the Success Centers Success Rate 78.9%70.3% Retention Rate 93.8%88.7% Percent Relationship Between Success Center Access and Success and Retention Rates, 2012 ~ 2013 Transfer Level Courses

26. Percent of Students Who Completed at Least One Pre-Collegiate Skill Level Course Who Subsequently Transferred to a Four-Year Institution Percent of Transfer Students Pre TransformationPost Transformation 98-9999-0000-0101-0202-0303-0404-0505-0606-0707-0808-0909-10 Transfer Rate6.410.011.312.614.015.217.820.722.623.426.327.7

27. Percent Success Center Usage Increase After Taking A Required Course

28. Student Populations Positively Impacted by Success Center Access: Success Rates, 2012 ~ 2013 Student Population Accessed Success Center Did not Access Success Center Effect Size Male Students75.066.5.19 Female Students79.069.8.21 African American69.257.3.25 Asian85.279.2.16 Caucasian81.874.6.17 Hispanic77.166.4.24 Native American70.655.1.32 Pacific Islander80.360.7.44 Multi-Racial/Ethnic74.066.9.16 First-Time Students75.860.8.33 DPS Students71.666.5.11 EOPS Students76.671.5.12

29. Reflections and Questions