Agenda
Student Success Committee Meeting
UH Maui College, Ka’a’ike 105cd
March 20, 2014 10:30am-12pm
Discussion Items from previous meeting:
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ACTION ITEM Update- Update from Cathy Bio-Institutionalizing NSO and/or FYE Counselor position
ACTION ITEM Update- Update -Pilot Lamakuhi: EARLY ALERT/STARFISH
ACTION ITEM Update- Update -Roadmap to Student Success-Problem Identification & Problem Solution
Increase Distance Learning Success-Workgroup Report
Math Pilot-Workgroup Report
ACTION ITEM Update- Update -Committee to update uses for Pritt Donation
ACTION ITEM Update- General Studies Major? Possible area for SSC to focus on to 1) help highest risk
students to be better prepared for college before they decide their majors, 2) help college/Program
Coordinators to have a clearer idea of where students really are and what students are pursuing 3)help
students to better understand their challenges and the requirements of the pathway they choose vs.
choosing a discipline before they receive pertinent information= well informed faculty and better
prepared students who have a stronger success foundation
ATD Site Visit-Discussion/ Suggestions
Bernadine Fong asked if ATD Innovations funding will be moved. KC confirmed that some funds will be
deferred to Strategic Planning Workgroups in 2015. She would like these funds to be tagged for scaling
especially for DEV ED. Suggested that the Student Success Committee narrow their focus to 2 goals ONLY.
She suggested that the SSC look at the continuum and persistence.
ATD Annual Report
Principal Assessment Survey-due 4/10/14
Ben & John to complete ATD Reflection Report in May; will be asking others for activity and data updates
2014 ATD HSI
Feedback? Please complete survey! http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1549837/fe77df6113ad
At the Hawai'i Strategy Institute, Diego Navarro was our Keynote Speaker RE: CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT
GAP: STUDENT TRANSFORMATION, SUPPORT AND ACCELERATED LEARNING IN THE CLASSROOM
Diego James Navarro, Cabrillo College
The terms character, grit, productive persistence, and hope have become keywords in the narrative of those
working with underprepared and marginalized students. At the Academy for College Excellence (ACE) we have
seen dramatic improvements in the academic performance of students when we focus on developing noncognitive skill-sets. This workshop will explore affective constructs that lead to heightened academic
performance. Participants will learn about curriculum that shifts affective dimensions including students’
sense of academic self-efficacy, hope, college identity, and mindfulness, and the ways that different colleges
have integrated this curriculum with accelerated developmental courses, transfer-level general education
courses, and Career Technical Education. Participants will also begin to understand why measuring the effects
of non-cognitive interventions help to determine effective practices and replicate outcomes. We will report on
the results of a longitudinal non-cognitive and academic outcomes study of multiple colleges (n=1,362
students), which shows statistically significant changes in accelerating students to transfer-level English, math
as well as non-cognitive performance. The students served in this study were over 70% Latino and African
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American, 90% below transfer-level English, and 86% two levels below transfer-level Math. Participants will
leave the workshop understanding how affective learning is critical to meeting the needs of today’s basic skills
students, and will be clear about next steps for bringing this innovation to their own campuses.
When our campus group met on Day 2, many were excited about the possibility of creating a program like this
at UHMC. What I like most about this program is about their ability to transform students in a very short
period of time, ( 2 week immersion and the a Foundations course for the remaining 14 weeks of the semester)
that enable the students to experience not only short but long term success, once they leave the program
(which is only one year). The demographics of the kinds of students they assist are similar to ours but their
groups seemed to have gang related issues too that we may not have as much here in Hawai'i. The most
exciting aspect of this academy is that they have done a great deal of research that shows that what they do
with these students has a direct correlation to the transformation, lighting the fire toward their future success,
which is something I've never seen before. Often with Student Success Programs or New Student Orientation,
we THINK what we're doing is effective and although we have data, we are still not sure if their success is
directly attributable to what we do in our programs/activities. Please read the handout and visit the site and
be prepared to discuss more soon.
The campus, by way of the Student Success Committee, wants to take this on and there is an ACE rep, Kimie
Sasaki, who lives on Maui who is available to train faculty and then help us to develop a program for our
campus using the methods that they use in ACE. See full site ACE: http://academyforcollegeexcellence.org/
See evidence using this link: http://academyforcollegeexcellence.org/affective-non-cognitive-evidence/
Save the Dates-2014 Student Success Committee Meetings
Thursday, April 17
Thursday, May 15
Thursday, June 19
10:30am - 12:00pm
Ka'a'ike 105CD
Outreach Rooms: Molokai 119, Lanai 106, Hana Partition, Lahaina Conference Room
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