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 a 2 credit “College
Readiness Seminar” for first
quarter students
-College-readiness skills
-Student IEPs
-Career exploration
opportunities / Increased
engagement with the NSCC
Community / new student
introduction to information
literacy (and e-portfolio)
Student Services
Counselors
Library staff
Faculty Coordinators
Person to Person Calling
Campaign - connect all students
with a non-faculty employee
during their first quarter on
campus
Engagement with campus
community
SDS, Mgmt Team,
Student Leadership?
Technology upgrades
to support course
curriculum, student
identification system
for course enrollment,
curriculum
development,
Instruction and Student
Services collaboration
Staff training, student
tracking/identification
for program
Advising/wrap around services
changes to emphasize first quarter
engagement
- Greater knowledge of and
access to/use of services during
first quarter
All first quarter students are
touched by a NSCC staffer
during their first quarter
- Greater collaboration of
services across campus
departments
Student services
Staff training
Workforce Education
Program
?
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North Seattle Community College
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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
Teams/Leads
Implies
Instructional Bridging activities
within ABE/ESL courses and
across the ESL/ABE Developmental Level Transition
More students transition
beyond ESL/ABE level course
work
ABE/ESL and Dev.
English and Math
faculty
Curriculum Design
Counselors and
Advisors
Faculty collaboration
across departments
PD
Faculty Coordinators
Open Skills Lab for ABE/ESL
students
Enhance Tutoring Services
Offer selected “high-risk” /
“gatekeeper” courses using
Supplemental Instruction.
- Increased student success and
enrollments by accessing self
paced ENG/BS/CAREER skills
software.
- Increased Enrollments
- Higher quality tutoring
services
- Plug identified gaps
- Easy identification of tutoring
availability
ABE/ESL faculty
Workforce Training
Hardware/Software/Lab
Space remodel
Training/PD
Tutor coordinators
Increased training
Faculty coordinators
Increased collaboration
between tutors/faculty
- Increased student success
rates in high risk courses
- New core of student leaders
in the SI program
Faculty Coordinators
PD, 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
Outcomes
Teams/Leads
Expand Off-Hour Services
Increase access to all services
for evening, online and
weekend students
Increased ability of students to
plan and progress through a
program
Everyone
Master Scheduling Project
Targeted and recurring collection
and analysis of student data
Increased used of student data
to drive decisions at all levels
of college planning and policy
Implies
?
Instruction
?
Advising
OIE, IC, SDS Council,
Faculty Coord
Master schedule and
plan for data collection
PD
4.
Revitalize
Prof/Tech
Programs
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
IC
Implies
-Program review thru
collaboration with
industry
- Faculty return to
industry
- Faculty PD to support
pedagogical changes
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North Seattle Community College
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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.
Implies PD, curriculum
development, external
partner collaboration
for both SL and
Research
PD, curriculum change,
Faculty collaboration
Prof/Tech Faculty
Advising
Increased FTEs and specialized
state funding
Incorporate service learning and
undergraduate research
opportunities into more classes
across the curriculum
Develop alternative models for
linked courses
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
Faculty
Advising
Faculty
Advising
Faculty
Advising
Implies PD, curriculum
development/change
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