College Ready?
Or
Ready for College Success
AND Completion?
CPCC
September 18, 2015
Wesley Beddard, NCCCS
AVP for Programs
SuccessNC
• In the Fall of 2010 President Scott Ralls introduced
and the State Board approved a new strategic plan
for our System – SuccessNC.
• 14 initiatives were included – 4 more were
integrated as we progressed.
• Historically, we had done a great job of providing
Access to education, but not so well at guiding,
facilitating and promoting Student
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Guiding Goals
• Improve Student Success – Increase the number of
students leaving with a job-ready credential.
• Increase Student Access - Develop policies and
practices that provide increased opportunities for students
to enter into and proceed successfully through postsecondary education and training courses.
• Ensure Program Excellence – Examine and continually
improve rigor, relevance and quality in all academic and training
opportunities to ensure that successful completion equates to a
competitive position in the workforce or in the attainment of
higher educational goals.
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SuccessNC Initiatives
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Basic Skills Plus
Career and College Promise
CTE HS to College Articulation
Code Green Super CIP
Common Core Alignment
Completion By Design
CAA
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SuccessNC Initiatives
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Data Initiative
Developmental Education Redesign
Financial Aid Simplification
Integrated Teaching & Learning Gateway
Math Pathways (Math CIP)
Minority Male Mentoring
Performance Measures and Funding
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Additions as we progressed:
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Multiple Measures of Placement
Reverse Transfer (1400 additional CC credentials!)
ICAA
Tiered Funding (developmental dividend)
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During the Listening Tour that occurred after the launch of SuccessNC,
“poor alignment with high schools” and “students using up too much
of their Financial Aid getting through Development Education” were
cited as barriers to Student Success. Also concerns that students “got
stuck” in DE and simply gave up on their goal of attaining a degree or
job ready credential.
Recommended solutions:
• Better alignment with high schools to reduce the need for
development education in community colleges.
• Redesign development education and placement testing to accelerate
student completion and enrollment in college level courses.
• CBD Loss/Momentum Framework –
Connection/Entry/Progress/Completion
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College Ready?
Lots of opinions and definitions of what being
“College Ready” means, but most include
some reference to being ready to enroll in
college-level classes, particularly in English
and mathematics without remediation.
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Ideally, every student who enters our CCs will be
ready to enroll directly into their desired
curriculum without remediation; however, ……
… we live and work in the real world.
Some things are totally beyond our control.
Some things we can help influence.
Some things we can control.
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God, Grant me the SERENITY to accept the
things I cannot change; COURAGE to change
the things I can; and WISDOM to know the
difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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There is more to the Serenity Prayer than just
those few lines. In 1951, Neibuhr published
a version that was significantly longer and
included the following line toward the end:
“… so that I may be reasonably happy in this
life”
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Perhaps instead of overly focusing on whether
students are “College Ready”
we should focus on doing the things within
our control that help students become:
Ready for College Success and Completion
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Ready for College Success and Completion
What can we help influence?
• Better alignment with high schools
• We should do this anyway, and in some
communities, our colleges have made some
strides. But now…….
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Ready for College Success and Completion
SB 561
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SB 561
• SBCC, in consultation with SBE, shall
develop a program that introduces college
developmental mathematics, reading, and
English during the HS senior year.
1. SBCC establishes measures for
determining student readiness* and
preparation (MMP?)
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SB 561
2. Remedial courses mandatory for students
who do not meet readiness indicators* by
their junior year. Courses will fulfill senior
math and English requirements.
3. Revisions to current remediation modules
used by community colleges to provide
remedial education to high school students.
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SB 561
4. Appropriate measures of completion to ensure HS students are
prepared for CC coursework without further remediation; and the
length of time the measures would be valid after graduation.
5. CC faculty will provide training and oversight for HS faculty. HS faculty
will serve as facilitators for HS students. Training by CC faculty prior to
start of year or semester in which HS facilitate provide facilitation. HS
shall provide appropriate technology resources for delivery of the
remedial course modules.
Report on progress due to Joint Legislative Education Oversight
Committee by Jan. 15, 2016.
No funding including with the bill.
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So….
Lots of work ahead of us.
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This will not eliminate Dev. Ed. on our campuses (time limit
and older students), but will probably reduce it significantly.
What if students still do not have “it’ after the senior year of
remediation?
Puts pressure on high schools to get students ready, but also
challenges us to clearly describe and articulate the
competencies needed and train the high school faculty.
We will engage NCADE in this effort (Oct. 2)
Use a CIP like approach to develop this in partnership with
NCADE, colleges and DPI.
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Ready for College Success and Completion
What can we change/have we changed?
Placement Testing (30+% misplaced)
Redesigned Dev. Ed courses
MMP (future impact of HS 10 pt scale?)
Math CIP/Pathways
ENG 111 and 112 Redesign (in collaboration with
universities)
• Career and College Promise
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Ready for College Success and Completion
Work to do…
1. SB 561 Work
2. Continue to enhance delivery of DE courses to students that need
them to allow students to progress through DE and be successful in
the curriculum
3. Provide summer bridge/remediation/test prep programs
4. Refine DE modules/courses as needed to make more effective
5. Work to develop supplemental courses/programs to help students
succeed in curriculum courses
6. Better advising (including web-assisted advising and required
orientation), structured pathways, advising tools for faculty and
students
7. Keep working to remove barriers to student success at our
community colleges
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Ready for College Success and Completion
“You create barriers in education by doing
nothing. You have to be intentional to
remove barriers.”
Dr. David Hines
University of Mount Olive
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Our Challenge
“We must take people where they are and carry
them as far as they can go within the assigned
functions of the system.”
Dr. W. Dallas Herring
Our functions may change as students come to
us with less need for remediation. This may
require re-organization and the repurposing of
some positions on our campuses.
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Dr. Herring Updated
I think if he were alive today, Dr. Herring might
amend his statement slightly. Rather than
having our role as carrying students, he
might say that we should “motivate and
empower students to go as far as they can
go.” We do that by making sure our
community colleges are “Student Ready”
and designed for Student Success and
Completion.
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Suggested Reading:
“Reshaping System Culture at the North
Carolina Community College System”
A case study published on 9/10/2015
by ITHAKA S+R.
Authors Jessie Brown and Richard Spies
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Thank you!
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