Academic Quality Improvement Program
and
Achieving the Dream Initiative
Where We’ve Been
Where We Are
Where We’re Going
• The drivers of the initiatives – Dr. Abrams
• AQIP and Achieving the Dream working
together, making progress – Peg Moir and
Kate Peresie
• AQIP and Achieving the Dream projects,
teamwork in action:
• AQIP Strategic Planning Team – Don Plotts,
Team Leader
• AQIP Communication Team – Keith Stoner, Molly
Hockenberry, Steve Williams
• AtD Developmental Education Team – Terry
Coleman, Team Leader
• AtD Communication Team – Keith Stoner,
Kimberly Lybarger, Team Leaders
AQIP and AtD
• February ’05 – AQIP Application
Accepted
• Winter ’05 – AQIP Steering
Committee
• Spring/Summer ’05 – AQIP Data
Mining Process
• Communication
• Using Data
• Strategic Planning
AQIP and AtD
• July ’05 – AtD Institute and College
commitment
• August ’05 – AQIP Action Projects
refined/combined
• Communication of AtD
• Using Data within AtD
• Strategic Planning
AQIP and AtD
• ’05 - ’06 -- AtD Planning Year
• August ’05 -- AtD Core, Data and
Communication Teams established
• Summer/Fall ’05 -- Database,
quantitative analysis
• Developmental Education
• Gatekeeper Courses
• Persistence
• December ’05 – Engagement Teams
AQIP and AtD
• ’05 - ’06 -- AtD Planning Year
• January ’06 –
• Identified at-risk groups
• African-Americans
• 23 – 29 year olds
• Males
• Identified high-failure rate courses
• Developmental Education
• Gatekeeper Courses
AQIP and AtD
• January ’06 – AtD Strategy Institute,
narrowed focus to developmental
education for ’06 – ’07
• March ’06 – AQIP Strategy Forum,
changed/refined Action Projects
• Improving Student Success in
Developmental Education (using data)
• Conducting a Communication Audit
• Selecting a Strategic Planning Model
AQIP and AtD
• Team Reports:
• AQIP Strategic Planning Project – Don
Plotts
• AQIP Communication Project – Keith
Stoner, Molly Hockenberry, Steve
Williams
• AtD/AQIP Developmental Education
Project – Terry Coleman
• AtD Communication Project – Keith
Stoner
AQIP and AtD
• What’s Next –
• May 12 ’06 – AQIP Commitment
Declaration for Action Projects
• May 15 ’06 – AtD Implementation Plan
AQIP and AtD
• What’s Next –
• AQIP Strategic Planning Project –
• Selecting a Model → Using the Model
• AQIP Communication Project –
• Communication Audit → Another
Communication project?
• AtD/AQIP Developmental Education Project –
• Improving Student Success in
Developmental Education → Improving
Student Success in Gatekeeper Courses
• AtD Communication Project –
• Continues
More Information
• The Academic Quality Improvement
Program
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At NC State
http://www.ncstatecollege.edu/aqip/
At HLC
http://www.aqip.org/
• The Achieving the Dream Initiative
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At NC State
http://www.ncstatecollege.edu/atd/index.html
At AtD
http://www.achievingthedream.org/
Celebration Cookout
Tuesday, June 6th
11:00 – 1:30
All Invited!