Title III Framework
North Seattle Community College
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Strengthening Academic Programs and Institutional Systems to promote
Student Engagement and Success
1.
First Quarter
Success Initiative
Ensure all students experience an engaging, comprehensive introduction to their new learning environment
during their first quarter on campus.
Components
Outcomes
Teams/Leads
Implies
Develop multiple “first quarter
portals” including extended
orientation sessions and creditbearing “Student Success” classes
to ensure all students receive
targeted and appropriate “collegereadiness” and other services
during their first quarter on
campus.
-College-readiness skills
-Student Individual Education
Plans
-Career exploration
opportunities / Increased
engagement with the NSCC
Community / introduction to
information literacy and
campus IT resources (and eportfolio)
Increased engagement with
campus community for new
students
Student Services
Counselors
Library faculty
Faculty Coordinators
Technology upgrades
to support course
curriculum, student
identification system
for first quarter course
enrollment, curriculum
development,
Instruction and Student
Services collaboration
Student Development
Services, Mgmt Team,
Student Leadership?
Staff training, process
to identify students for
program, student
coding to track calls
“Welcome to NSCC” Calling
Campaign – all new students
receive a call from a NSCC
employee during the first half of
their first quarter on campus.
Provide calls in multiple
languages for ESL community
All first quarter students are
touched by a NSCC staffer
during their first quarter
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Advising/wrap around services
changes to emphasize first quarter
engagement
-2- Greater knowledge of and
access to/use of services during
first quarter
- Greater collaboration of
services across campus
departments
Student services
Staff training
Workforce Education
Program
Design an “early
warning system” to
identify new students
who are potentially at
risk and ensure their
connection with
services as appropriate
Title III Framework
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Strengthening Academic Programs and Institutional Systems to promote
Student Engagement and Success
2.
Increase
Instructional
Supports for High
Risk Students
Ensure a wide variety of instructional supports are available to students across programs
Components
Outcomes
Instructional Bridging activities More students transition
beyond ESL/ABE level course
within ABE/ESL courses and
work
across the ESL/ABE Developmental Level Transition
Initiate a cross-campus
“transitions committee” to
implement activities and programs
to enhance connections across this
critical transition point
Teams/Leads
Implies
ABE/ESL and Dev.
English and Math
faculty
Curriculum Design
Counselors and
Advisors
Professional
Development
Faculty collaboration
across departments
Faculty Coordinators
Student ambassadors program to
connect college-level students
back with the precollege/ESL/ABE population
Credit-bearing Open-Entry Skills
Lab for ABE/ESL students and
Work Discoveries Class
- Increased student success and ABE/ESL faculty
enrollments by accessing self
paced ENG/BS/CAREER skills Workforce Training
software.
- Increased Enrollments
Hardware/Software/Lab
Space remodel
Training/Professional
Development
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Enhance Tutoring Services
Offer selected “high-risk” /
“gatekeeper” courses using
Supplemental Instruction (SI).
- Higher quality tutoring
services serving more students
- Plug identified gaps
- Easy identification of tutoring
availability
- Increased student success
rates in high risk courses
- New core of student leaders
in the SI program
Tutor coordinators
-4Increased training
Faculty coordinators
Increased collaboration
between tutors/faculty
Faculty Coordinators
Professional
development,
curriculum change,
collaboration between
SI program, faculty &,
tutoring
Tutoring center
directors
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Strengthening Academic Programs and Institutional Systems to promote
Student Engagement and Success
3.
Change
Institutional
Systems to Support
Student Progress
Remove specific institutional hurdles inhibiting student success
Components
Expand Off-Hour Services
Master Scheduling Project
Targeted and recurring collection
and analysis of student data
4.
Revitalize
Prof/Tech
Programs
Outcomes
Increase access to all services
for evening, online and
weekend students
Increased ability of students to
plan and progress through a
program
Increased used of student data
to drive decisions at all levels
of college planning and policy
Teams/Leads
Everyone
Implies
Instruction
?
Advising
Office Institutional
Effectiveness,
Instructional Council,
Student Services
Council, Faculty
Coordinators
Master schedule and
plan for data collection
Professional
Development
Revise Specific Professional Technical Programs to Meet Current Industry Standards and Better Serve NonTraditional Students
Components
Curriculum redesign in Prof/Tech
programs experiencing declining
enrollment
Outcomes
- Updated programs matching
current industry standards
- Increased enrollments
Teams/Leads
Prof/Tech faculty
Workforce Education
Office
Instructional Council
Implies
-Program review with
industry
- Faculty return to
industry
- Faculty PD to support
pedagogical changes
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Strengthening Academic Programs and Institutional Systems to promote
Student Engagement and Success
5.
Support and
Expand Innovative,
Learning-centered
Instructional
Models and
Methods
Increase the number of classrooms incorporating evidence-based best-practices into their curriculum
Components
Outcomes
Teams/Leads
Implies
Increase the number of I-BEST
pathways, number of faculty
engaged in I-BEST programs, and
the number of ABE/ESL students
enrolling in I-BEST classes
Increased numbers of students
successfully transitioning from
ABE/ESL to college-level
work
ESL/ABE Faculty
Professional Development,
curriculum change/design,
new outreach strategies to
ESL/ABE students for
pathway awareness and
support.
Incorporate Service Learning (SL)
and undergraduate research
opportunities into more classes
across the curriculum
Develop alternative models for
linked courses
Advising
Increased FTEs and specialized
state funding
Increased learning relevancy
and student engagement
-More access to integrated
learning experiences
-Increased availability to fulfill
degree requirement
Increase the number of courses
Increased student engagement
incorporating characteristics of the in the classroom (and increased
“learning paradigm” e.g.:
retention)
supporting multiple learning styles,
active learning methodologies,
outcomes/assessment based
instruction, cooperative and
collaborative learning environments
Prof/Tech Faculty
Faculty
Advising
Faculty
Advising
Faculty
Advising
Implies Professional
Development, curriculum
change, external partner
collaboration for both SL
and Research
Professional Development,
curriculum change,
Faculty collaboration
Implies Professional
Development, curriculum
development/change
possibly some physical
space renovations to
support group work and
updated classroom
technologies
Title III Framework
North Seattle Community College
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Academic Goal 1 – First Quarter Success Initiative
Objective
1.1 After 5 years, increase by x percentage points
the number of
1.2 After 5 years, Increase the number of
1.3 After 5 years, Increase the number of
1.4 After 5 years, increase the number of
Strategies
Benchmarks/Result
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Academic Goal 2 –Increase Instructional Supports for High Risk Students
Objective
2.1 After 5 years, increase from x % to x % the
number of students enrolled
2.2 After 5 years, Increase the number of ESL
students remaining enrolled past ESL level III to
pursue a higher level from xx% to xx%
2.3 After 5 years, x% of students seeking tutoring
services will successfully pass the course for
which they are requesting help. Base line data
collected winter 08?
2.4 After 5 years, increase the passage rate of
those high-risk and developmental courses
instituting Supplemental Instruction from a xx% to
xx%
Strategies
Benchmarks
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Academic Goal 3 –Revitalize Prof/Tech Programs
Objective
3.1 After 5 years, increase from x % to x % the
number of students enrolled
3.2 After 5 years, Increase the number
3.3 After 5 years, x% of students seeking
3.4 After 5 years, increase
Strategies
Benchmarks
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Academic Goal 4 –Support and Expand Innovative, Learning-centered Instructional Models and
Methods
Objective
4.1 After 5 years, increase from x % to x % the
number of students enrolled
4.2 After 5 years, Increase the number
4.3 After 5 years, x% of students seeking
4.4 After 5 years, increase
Strategies
Benchmarks
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Institutional Management Goal 1: Change Institutional Systems to Support Student Progress
Objective
1.1 After 5 years, increase from x % to x % the
number of students enrolled
1.2 After 5 years, Increase the number
1.3 After 5 years, x% of students seeking
1.4 After 5 years, increase
Strategies
Benchmarks