Meeting the needs of the 21st Century Student
Building Community to increase student engagement, retention and success
Focus on Instructional Best-practices to increase student engagement, retention and success
Campus-wide activity
Objective
Expand the existence of classroom learning communities (defined as including):
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Problem-based learning
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Group work
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Faculty collaboration (?)
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A sense of connectedness amongst students
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Supportive relationships between instructor/s and students
Increase opportunities for real-world learning across the curriculum
Promote a wider use of the Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID) (does this belong in
targeted group area?)
Build greater understanding regarding our “new student population”
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Financially support process of curriculum change at the department level to incorporate
specific pedagogies and outcomes (which are derived from PD on learning communities)
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Facilitate inter or intra-departmental learning groups to collaborate on instructional
projects and provide mini-grant incentives for project implementation
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PD to incorporate Student Learning into courses and establish departmental goals for
including in curriculum
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Expand offering of existing student learning course
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Service Learning Coordinator position to support faculty and students (ideally combined
with internship coordination)
Is this an instructional best practice we should support with Title III? If so, what is needed
to make this happen?
PD illustrating the changing demographic of our catchment area and student enrollment
trends (?)
PD in cultural competency for faculty
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Increase the visibility of student work across campus (does this fit here under relevancy?)
Implementation
PD regarding importance of learning communities and share “simple steps” to implement
in any classroom to foster a communal environment
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Identify coordinator for “student learning events” and establish fund for project materials
(do we ever do this? Seems like a great Ed Fund role?) expand frequency of events like
making learning visible)
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Support instructional changes to create assignments that can be shared at student-learning
events
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Support the physical improvement of student common areas to display student work (?)
Enhanced Activity – Targeted at Specific Programs/Students
Objective:
Increase instructional support for students across transition points
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Implementation
Focused PD for I-Best collaborative instruction both for existing teams and interested
faculty
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Focused PD to expand best practices of ‘pathway’ connections already implemented in
some health medical, GED and chemistry classes
Extend E-learning opportunities and offerings
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Support faculty working groups to norm the quality of student work and increase
collaboration across ESL/ABE and Developmental level Eng/Math faculty
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Support faculty working groups to norm the quality of student work and increase
collaboration across pre-requisite courses and degree programs
Can we fit something about e-learning in this category of relevancy and building connections?
Does E-Portfolio fit here, for example?
Maybe the core course offering in Health Medical goes here? What about BEIT? Check with
MOE on this….
Focus on Student Support Services to increase student engagement, retention and success
Campus-wide activity
Objective
Implementation
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Enhance overall effectiveness of student advising services
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Increase awareness of existing support services thru multiple communication channels
Build greater understanding regarding our “new student population”
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Master scheduling project to increase coherence of course offerings for students
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Offer more collaborative opportunities for faculty and advising staff (through committees,
meetings, how?)
Align HHS advising with the rest of campus (how would this work? What is needed?
Advisor PD and more advisors??)
What does this look like? hire consultant to review our internal communication practices?
Establish web-based student orientation?
Staff PD illustrating the changing demographic of our catchment area and student
enrollment trends (?)
Staff PD in cultural competency for student services
develop new paradigm for scheduling classes that responds to multiple needs (student,
faculty, institutional)
purchase new software?
Support work with designated coordinator?
Enhanced Activity – Targeted at Specific Programs/Students
Objective:
Increase evening and off-hour availability of services
Increase quality, effectiveness and access to tutoring services
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Implementation
Is this just more staff time ~ would the grant support all of it?
Are there web-based support service models we could roll-out thru the grant (thinking
about sustainability…)?
Replicate model of tutor training currently available at the LOFT to the math and science
learning lab
Develop instructor connections with both tutoring centers to enhance effectiveness of tutor
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Expand instructional supports for non-native English speaking students
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support (is this just instructor PD and/or something else? I’m thinking the tutors and
instructors simply need to intentionally talk and collaborate)
Increase coordination of program-specific tutoring (how? Is there any campus-level activity
related to tutoring we should include?)
Create drop-in open enrollment computer lab for English language instruction (models at
SSCC and others) (also instructional/tutoring support thru lab?) computers and software
What about life skill computer modules in multiple languages? Financial literacy, etc. ?
Focus on Physical Improvements to increase student engagement, retention and success
Campus-wide activity
Objective
Implementation
Upgrade classrooms to current standards
Target number?
Upgrade student common areas to increase usage/facilitate community
Paint, flooring, furniture and lighting in IB building lounges?
Cafeteria lounge upgrades?
Update signage campus-wide?
Additional signage to make NSCC more user friendly
Parking Lot
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Offer core classes in the HHS division to support cohorts of students entering the field of study (examples from Yakima—what faculty needs to be part of this discussion?)
Should BEIT be part of this too?
*We can specify our definition of relationships and relevancy to be multi-dimensional (faculty/student, faculty/faculty, students/students & relevancy as a focus on the realworld, learning outcomes)