Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century Student
Submitted to JCCI Dec 14 9:00 a.m.
Institutional challenge: attracting students, retaining students, serving new populations of students
Title III Activity: Strengthening Student Engagement for Persistence and Success
Component 1: Expand Best Teaching/Learning Practices to increase student engagement, retention and success
What We Want To Do
Expand the existence of classroom learning communities (defined as including):
 Problem-based learning
 Group work
 Faculty collaboration (?)
 A sense of connectedness among students
 Supportive relationships between instructor/s and students
 Use of Small Group Instructional Dialogue process
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Empower students as learners; give them “voice;” engage them in “real-world”
learning that means something to their lives; show them and allow them to show
their learning very visibly.
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Some Ways To Do It
Professional development (PD) about learning communities and “simple steps” to
implement in “stand-alone” classroom to foster a communal environment
Financially support process of curriculum change at the department level to
incorporate specific pedagogies and outcomes (which are derived from PD on
learning communities)
Facilitate inter or intra-departmental learning groups to collaborate on
instructional projects and provide mini-grant incentives for project
implementation
Professional development for SGID process
Create cohorts/learning communities where they do not currently exist or exist
only marginally: I-BEST, developmental students, new students, health care core
students, etc.
Focused PD for I-Best collaborative instruction both for existing teams and
interested faculty
Focused PD to expand best practices of ‘pathway’ connections already
implemented in some health medical, GED and chemistry classes (who is this
targeted towards?)
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)
Financially support instructional changes to create assignments that can be shared
at student-learning events
Support the physical improvement of campus common areas to feature displays
of student work (see section on physical improvements)
ePortfolio, undergraduate research
Faculty PD to understand how Service Learning can fit into existing curricula
Financially support process of curriculum change at the department level to
incorporate Service Learning into classes
Expand offering of existing student learning course
Service Learning Coordinator position to support faculty and students (combined
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Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century Student
Submitted to JCCI Dec 14 9:00 a.m.
Institutional challenge: attracting students, retaining students, serving new populations of students
Title III Activity: Strengthening Student Engagement for Persistence and Success
Component 1: Expand Best Teaching/Learning Practices to increase student engagement, retention and success
Align pedagogy and services with the needs of new student populations.
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with internship coordination?)
SGID
PD around the changing demographic of our catchments area and student
enrollment trends (?)
PD in cultural competency?
Expand eLearning to include portfolio; eTutoring (training, equipment, classroom
improvements)
Tutoring:
 training for tutors and faculty
 Replicate model of tutor training currently available at the LOFT to the
math and science learning lab
 Support instructor collaboration with tutoring centers to enhance
effectiveness of tutor support (Do the tutors and instructors simply need to
intentionally talk and collaborate?)
 Increase coordination of program-specific tutoring (how? Is there campuslevel activity related to tutoring we should include?)
SDS staff PD illustrating the changing demographic of our catchment area and
student enrollment trends (?)
Staff PD in cultural competency for student services (is this they want/need?)
Expand open access to basic skills instructional support via new computer lab
 Create drop-in open enrollment computer lab for English language instruction
(models at SSCC and others) (also multi-language instructional support thru
lab?) Requires computers, furniture, coordinator and software
 Include life skills computer modules in multiple languages? Financial literacy,
etc. Jan has models for this?
Align instruction and outcomes across key student transition points/killer
courses/gateway courses
 Support faculty working groups to norm the quality of student work and increase
collaboration across ESL/ABE and Developmental level Eng/Math faculty
Support faculty working groups to norm the quality of student work and increase
collaboration across pre-requisite courses and degree programs (which ones?)
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Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century Student
Submitted to JCCI Dec 14 9:00 a.m.
Institutional challenge: attracting students, retaining students, serving new populations of students
Title III Activity: Strengthening Student Engagement for Persistence and Success
Component 2: Strengthen Learning Support Services to increase student engagement, retention and success
Applicant tracking
Advising: increase the effectiveness of student advising services
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Increase coherence of course offerings for students through a Master Scheduling
Project
Increase evening and off-hour availability of services
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Software and procedures to keep connected to students from initial inquiry
through registration and engagement in an identified program of study.
Reduce overlap and streamlining the flow of information for students
Support collaboration opportunities for faculty and advising staff (through
committees, meetings, how?)
Create a menu of experiences that would connect the student to a career pathway,
o program of study, another course on campus—something more than/bigger than
the course they are enrolled in this quarter. Train and encourage faculty to
incorporate experiences from this menu in classes across the curriculum.
Align Health/Human Services advising with the rest of campus; add an advising
position for HHS
Develop new paradigm for scheduling classes that responds to multiple needs
(student, faculty, institutional)
Purchase new software?
Support work with designated coordinator?
Is this just more staff time ~ would the grant support all of it?
Are there additional web-based support service models we could roll-out thru the
grant (thinking about sustainability…)?
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Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century Student
Submitted to JCCI Dec 14 9:00 a.m.
Institutional challenge: attracting students, retaining students, serving new populations of students
Title III Activity: Strengthening Student Engagement for Persistence and Success
Component 3: Make Physical Improvements to increase student engagement, retention and success
Upgrade 20 general education classrooms to current standards
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Technology
Furniture prompting collaborative learning/community-building
Upgrade student common areas to increase usage/facilitate community
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Paint, flooring, furniture, lighting in IB building student lounges?
Cafeteria lounge upgrades?
Signage and lighting
Way-finding
Budget Items: Types of Expenditures embedded in the above
Professional development for faculty and staff
Curriculum development
Faculty collaborative working time
Coordination (e.g. service learning, enrollment management, etc)
External consulting (needs assessments, process improvement)
Software: instructional and administrative
Hardware: instruction
Classroom upgrades: furniture, technology, furnishings
Facilities renovation
New positions: HHS advisor, enrollment manager (perhaps)
Grant evaluation
Grant management
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