College Leadership Team
Presentation
June 7, 2011
Completion By Design
Presented by: Christina Cortez
Student Success Team Leader
Lone Star College System
Managing Partner
 October 5, 2010 – Announced at White House Community
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College Summit
October 6, 2010 – RFA released
October 25 – Bidders’ Conference Call held
November 19 – Proposal due date
Mid-January to Late-February 2011 – Anticipated site visits
for finalists
March/April 2011 – Targeted for announcement of
Managing Partners by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mid-April to Mid May 2011 Completion by Design kick-off
 Analyze their systems in order to understand where
they are failing and succeeding
 Restructure the student experience from intake to
completion based on what they learn from that
analysis by introducing proven and promising
practices
 Build linkages and interdependencies among the
student success systems
 Establish clear accountability for student success and
completion
The Cadre is the planning and implementation
team for Completion by Design. Made up of at least
four community colleges or campuses within a state,
the Cadre will work together to design and implement
a model pathway to completion using proven and
promising practices
• Alamo Community College
• Dallas County Community College District
• El Paso Community College
• Lone Star College System
• South Texas College
 Managing Partner must have a cadre comprising
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campuses with a significant number of students
receiving Pell grants.
Pilot Schools (Interdisciplinary Team of Eight)
ACCD – St. Philip’s
DCCCD – Cedar Valley
EPCC – Valle Verde
LSCS – LSC-North Harris
STC – Pecan College
 Separately Funded
 Advisory and Assistance Group
 Led by Nan Poppe & Leslie Haynes
 Extensive CC experience
 College President
 Gateway to College
 Early College High School Initiative
 Provide Managing Partners and their Cadres with the
expertise
 Five-year initiative intended to increase the proportion
of low-income young adults completing
 AND increase pace by which low-income young adults
progress to postsecondary credential completion at
public two-year community colleges
• 23 % of white students who enter public
community colleges full-time complete an
associate degree with three years
• 15% of Hispanic students
• 11% of African-American students
(IPEDS), 2007
te College America
http://www.completecollege.org/
state_data
 Challenge #1: Reaching consensus among 5
large college systems, each with a team of 8
representatives
 Challenge #2: Difficulties in scaling a program
across campuses in multi-college districts
 Challenge #3: Large-scale reform in a current
state deficit environment
 Challenge #4: Policy change in a state with a
complex higher education structure