Student Success and Completion Agenda
2012-2016
Co-Chair
Dr. John Selmon
Early
Engagements
College
Readiness
1. Early testing and intervention to promote
college readiness
2. Increase supplemental instruction for
incoming and existing students
3. Develop a COMPASS refresher experience for
incoming students
4. Plan Curriculum Summits/Data Sharing
5. Improve college culture for students
6. Early College Initiatives
Co-Chair
Teresa Sturrus
Student Success and Completion Agenda Steering Committee
Achieving the Dream/
College Completion
1. Early Alert System
2. Graduate on Time (GOT)
3. Student Education Plans (SEP)
4. Financial Literacy Program
5. Evaluate tutoring/SI models in order to
expand our services to students
6. Student Engagement Survey
1. Accelerated MATH 036/038 with mandatory
supplemental instruction
2. Improved First Year Experience
3. Professional Development Complementing
Priority Areas
4. Policies and Procedures Review
Pathways to Completion
Pre-enrollment
Successfully complete a
pre-college Math or
English course
Successfully complete
the developmental
coursework sequence
Earned 15 college- level
credits
Earned 30 college-level
credits
Completion of
transfer curriculum
Earned a degree or
certificate
Outcomes:
Short Term
Medium Term
1. Increased persistence rates
2. Increased participation in
developmental coursework
3. Increased enrollment in gatekeeper
courses
1. Increased percent of students who
completed developmental coursework
2. Increased retention rates
3. Increased completion of gatekeeper courses
Long Term
1. Increased transfer rates
2. Increased graduation rates
3. Increased degree attainments
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Student Success and Completion Agenda
Student Success and Completion Agenda Steering Committee
Co-Chair
Dr. John Selmon
Purpose:
The Student Success and Completion Agenda Steering Committee serves as a coordinating body
for all current and potential initiatives related to measuring and increasing student success.
Co-Chair
Teresa Sturrus
AtD
College Readiness
Early Engagements
Charge: The College-Readiness Team will investigate
what is currently happening at MCC in the way of
College-Readiness. Using this research they will be the
body that helps to prioritize and monitor the College’s
programs, policies, and services in this area. In addition
they will assist in implementation of new initiatives and
report back monthly to the Student Success and
Completion Agenda Steering Committee.
Facilitator:
Co-Chairs:
Co-Chairs:
Ed Breitenbach
Cindy Reuss
Jeanne Cooper Kuiper
Hollie Benson
Eli Fox
Dean Fritzemeier
Charlotte Griffith
Tonia Lans
Shawn Macauley
Mary Ottman
Denise Passage
Dan Rinsema-Sybenga
Robert Ross
Charge: The Early Interventions Team will investigate
what is currently happening at MCC in the way of early
interventions. Using this research they will be the body
that helps to prioritize and monitor the College’s
programs, policies, and services in this area. In addition
they will assist in implementation of new initiatives and
report back monthly to the Student Success and
Completion Agenda Steering Committee.
Facilitator:
Co-Chair:
Co-Chair:
Charge: Achieving the Dream is a national movement to help
more community college students succeed. Students come to us
with high hopes, but too many leave without achieving key goals:
completing developmental instruction, completing college-level
courses, earning a C or better in the courses they take, persisting
from one term to the next or earning certificates or degrees. We
want to learn what we can do as an institution to change that by
adopting Achieving the Dream’s guiding principles for a student
success agenda: committed leadership; the use of evidence to
improve policies, programs, and services; broad engagement;
and systematic institutional improvement.
Co-Leader:
Co-Leader:
Sally Birkam
Marty McDermott
Jennifer Volkers/Mike Alstrom
Janice Alexander
Patti D’Avignon
Steve Fiorenzo
Jessica Graf
Aaron Hilliard
Dave Kiley
Tom Martin
Colleen Morse
Sandy Ring
Marcia Truxton
Bruce Wierda
Ex-officio
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Kelley Conrad
Jenny Klingenberg
Mike Alstrom
Sally Birkam
Ed Breitenbach
Gretchen Cline
Eli Fox
Elena Garcia
Trynette Harps
Sylvia Hayes
Heidi Holmes
Dave Kiley
Elizabeth Kroll
J.B. Meeuwenberg
Papa N’Jai
Char Parker
Cindy Reuss
Jean Roberts
Cathy Rusco
Teresa Sturrus
Marcia Truxton
Sheila Wahamaki
Dr. Nesbary
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Student Success and Completion Steering Committee
Purpose: Student Success and Completion Steering Committee serves as a coordinating body for all
current and potential initiatives related to measuring and increasing student success.
Membership: John Selmon, Teresa Sturrus, Ed Breitenbach, Sally Birkam, Cindy Reuss, Trynette Harps,
Jean Roberts, Kelley Conrad, Jenny Klingenberg, Mike Alstrom, Rosemary Zink, Jeanne Cooper-Kuiper,
Marty McDermott, Char Parker, Tina Dee, Aaron Hilliard, and Jennifer Volkers.
Ex-Officio: Dr. Nesbary
Goals:
1. Every MCC student will complete with a postsecondary degree or certificate enabling them to be
successful in a 21st century global economy
2. MCC will support programs, develop networks and target high impact solutions to help our
students succeed
3. MCC will constantly evaluate its student success initiatives and report the results of these
evaluations to our students and community
Objectives:
1. Establish a core leadership team representing all stakeholders in a minimum five-year effort to
create and sustain pathways to completion for all students.
2. Develop the capacity to collect, organize, and interpret data and make evidence-based decisions
to support meaningful change and increase student completion
3. Create programs of study with “ instructional program coherence” that provide student with
opportunities for deeper learning
4. Prepare all employees through a strategies staff development program for their role in creating
and sustaining student pathways to completion
5. Apply appropriate technological innovation to create, implement, and monitor the student
success pathways to optimize efficiency and effectiveness
6. Implement guidelines for rapid, expansive “scaling up” of successful programs and practices
7. Realign current resources and identify potential new resources --- funding, personnel, facilities,
and community support --- to double the number of students who successfully complete a
credential with life space and marketplace value
8. Create transparent and user-friendly campus-wide communication system to keep stakeholders
9. informed and engaged and use it to celebrate student success and institutional progress
Source: Guidelines for Completion Agenda, Terry O’Banion, Community College Journal,
August/Sept. 2011 (p 30-32)
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College Readiness Design Team
Work Plan 2012 – 2016
Activities
Early testing and intervention to
promote college readiness
• Implement COMPASS
Diagnostics
• ACT Test revisions
• Track student success rates in
English 101 and Math 040
Increase supplemental instruction
for incoming and existing students
• Explore idea of mandatory
tutoring for students on the
line in core areas
• Implement tutoring for
students on the line in core
areas
• Evaluate entry procedures for
students and test them to
make sure they work
Develop a COMPASS refresher
experience for incoming students
• SPA Program
• Explore grant opportunities
for funding of refresher
programs
Plan Curriculum Summits/Data
Sharing
• Hold Math Summit – June ‘12
• Hold English Summit – June
‘13
• Assess future need for
Summits
Improve College Culture for Students
• Customer Service training for
frontline faculty and staff
Early College Initiatives
• Early College of Muskegon
County
• Ottawa County
• Newaygo County
• Direct Credit
• Dual Enrollment
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Early Engagements Design Team
Work Plan 2012 – 2016
Activities
Year 1
Early Alert System
Scale up the number of
Instructors using Course Signals
Continue promoting use of BIT
Explore software tools that are
available for early alert systems
Evaluate and Improve Program
Integrate systems for reporting
and capabilities
Commit to Success Day
Graduate on Time (GOT)
Develop Program
Develop Training for
Staff/Faculty
Implement Program
Evaluate and Improve Program
Student Education Plans
Develop Education Plans
Implement with target groups
Scale up to all incoming
freshmen
Ongoing evaluation and
improvements
Financial Literacy
Develop strategy to reach largest
number of students
Implement programming
Explore strategies for assisting
financial aid dept. in preventing
students defaulting on loans.
Ongoing evaluation and
improvements
Evaluate Tutoring and SI
models in order to expand
services
Look at different models for
comparison
Choose new model, expand
services
Ongoing evaluation and
improvements
Student Engagement Survey
Conduct Survey
Share data on Campus
Conduct Focus Groups
Use Feedback for
Strategy/Initiatives
Act on Strategy/Initiative’s
Follow up/evaluate
Conduct Survey(every 24
months)
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Achieving the Dream/College Completion Design Team
Work Plan 2012 - 2016
Activities
Accelerated MATH 036/038 with mandatory
supplemental instruction
• Offer multiple sections
• Evaluate success of students in
subsequent Math 040, 050, and college
level math
• Explore accelerating Math 040 and 050
Student Placement Advancement (SPA)
• Implement SPA, a self-paced program,
week-long program, which uses the
MyFoundationsLab software, to new
students who place into developmental
reading, writing, and/or math.
• At the end of the week, students retake
the Compass test
• Evaluate success of SPA in helping
students place into higher levels of
reading, writing, and/or math
• Evaluate SPA participants’ success in
reading, English and math classes
• Evaluate SPA participants’ retention and
completion rates
Improved First Year Experience
New Student Orientation (NSO):
• Continuous improvement based on
student surveys
• Evaluate success of students through
retention and completion data
• Require NSO for students testing into
developmental levels of reading, writing,
math – phase in starting with students
testing into developmental levels in all
three subjects
• Evaluate effectiveness of mandatory
NSO for students in developmental
classes
College Success Seminar (CSS 100):
• Offer multiple sections of revised CSS
100
• Evaluate qualitatively through in-class
feedback sessions
• Evaluate success of students - completion
rates of CSS 100
• Evaluate success of students - retention
and completion data
• Improve class based on evaluations
• Explore mandatory CSS 100 for
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developmental students (dependent on
proven effectiveness of class)
Professional Development Complementing
Priority Areas
• Seminar Days – Fall 2012 – Presentations
by Arleen Arnsparger: "The Faculty’s
Role in Student Engagement" and John
Cooper: “How Professional Development
Improves Student Success"
• Work with the LIFT to develop trainings
and workshops for faculty and staff
• Selected faculty and staff will attend the
annual AtD DREAM conference
• Faculty/staff complete and post
“inspiration cards”
Policies and Procedures Review
• Present update on policy/practice review
to faculty and staff
• Examine CCSSE and SENSE results for
information related to MCC policies and
procedures that impede student
engagement
• Review research for best practices at
community colleges
• Present summary of above three items to
various groups on campus
(administration, faculty, Board, Student
Services staff etc.)
• Determine which, if any, policies and
procedures should be discontinued,
implemented, or changed
• Evaluate any changes through qualitative
and/or quantitative data
• Monitor changes in policies/procedures
for impact on retention
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Student Success Completion Agenda Highlights 2012-2013
AUGUST 2012
SEPTEMBER 2012
Present Student Success
EARLY ENGAGEMENTS Completion Agenda to Faculty/Staff Graduate on Time (GOT)
OCTOBER 2012
EARLY ENGAGEMENTS Student Education Plans (SEP)
ACHIEVING THE DREAM
COLLEGE COMPLETION Policies and Procedures Review
NOVEMBER 2012
COLLEGE READINESS Plan Curriculum Summits/Data
Sharing
DECEMBER 2012
EARLY ENGAGEMENTS Early Alert System
JANUARY 2013
ACHIEVING THE DREAM
COLLEGE COMPLETION Accelerated MATH 036/038 with
mandatory supplemental
instruction
ACHIEVING THE DREAM
COLLEGE COMPLETION Improved First Year Experience
FEBRUARY 2013
COLLEGE READINESS Early testing and intervention to
promote college readiness
COLLEGE READINESS Develop a COMPASS refresher
experience for incoming students
MARCH 2013
EARLY ENGAGEMENTS Financial Literacy Program
APRIL 2013
ACHIEVING THE DREAM
COLLEGE COMPLETION Professional Development
Complimenting Priority Areas
EARLY ENGAGEMENTS Evaluate tutoring/SI models in
order to expand our services to
students
MAY 2013
COLLEGE READINESS Increase supplemental instruction
for incoming and existing students
JUNE 2013
JULY 2013
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Student Success Completion Agenda Steering Committee
Meetings
August 17, 2012
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Room 1118
October 19, 2012 CANCELLED
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Room 1118
November 16, 2012
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Room 1118
January 18, 2013
Michigan Student Success
Network Meeting
Jackson Community College
February 1, 2013
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Room 1118
March 15, 2013
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Room 1118
May 17, 2013
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Room 1118
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Muskegon Community College
Student Success and Completion Key Performance Indicators
2012 -2016
1. Increase New Student Orientation Participation Rates by 3%
2. Increase the Completion Rates for Developmental Coursework by 2%
3. Increase Completion Rates of Gatekeeper Courses by 2%
4. Increase FT Persistence Rates (Fall to Winter) by 2%
5. Increase PT Persistent Rates (Fall to Winter) by 2%
6. Increase FT Retention Rates (Fall to Fall) by 2%
7. Increase P T Retention Rates (Fall to Fall) by 1%
8. Increase Graduation Rates by 2% - 2012 Cohort
9. Increase Transfer Rates by 1%
10. Increase Overall Student Satisfaction Rates by .05
Most of these goals will be measured annually: over fall, winter, summer semesters. Associate
degree graduation cohort rates will be measured every 3 years. The student satisfaction surveys will
be measured every other year.
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