Student Success
at the Beach
Update Nov 15, 2012
http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/aa/planning_enrollment/student_success/
CSULB’s Academic Purpose
“To graduate students with
highly-valued degrees”
Our degrees are valued
by faculty, students,
graduate schools,
employers,
the community
=
and
We support
students all the
way to completion
Value of
CSULB
degrees is
increasingly
recognized
Access to Success and
Graduation Initiative
• National: Access to Success
– Natl. Assn. of System Heads &The Education Trust
– 24 public higher education systems
• CSU: Graduation Rates Initiative
– Goals:
• Raise freshmen 6-year grad rates 8% by 2016
• Cut in half achievement gaps for under-represented
minority (URM) students
• CSULB: Highly Valued Degrees
Why Focus on Completion?
I: Global Competitiveness
• US – ranks 14th in college completion with
about 42% of 25-34 year olds (OECD, Table A1.3a, Education at a Glance, 2012)
• Korea – ranks 1st with about 65%, up from 12% in older
generation (OECD, Table A1.3a, Education at a Glance, 2012)
• US demographic trends add to
challenges in meeting skilled
employment needs
• US cannot meet baccalaureate degree
goals without the CSU
President
Obama: In a
global economy
where the most
valuable skill you
can sell is your
knowledge, a
good education
is no longer just
a pathway to
opportunity -- it
is a prerequisite.
Why Focus on Completion? II:
Delays cost current students
• Additional Tuition and Fees
– 3,369 to 4,062 per semester!
• Loss of financial aid
– Limits: Pell, 12 semesters (new); Cal Grant, 4 yrs; SUG 150 units (new)
• Additional financial aid debt after completion
• Delay entering graduate school = delayed career
• Delay in entering jobs = lost earnings
Why Focus on Completion? III:
Delays deny opportunities
• We cannot admit new students while current
students are taking spaces
• Delays impact prospective student opportunities
• Budget crisis has made this much worse
The Great News!
Highest Ever CSULB Grad Rate
CSULB Freshman Continuation
and Graduation Rates
More Great News:
Highest Ever Transfer Grad Rate
CSULB Transfer Continuation
and Graduation Rates
CSULB’s Graduation Rate
Exceeds Predictions
• Actual current rate 56.6%
• Comparison and Predicted rates:
–42% (2010 Ed Trust data, 2004 freshman cohort, 43 institutions >10,000 UG
FTE, >35% Pell, <$21,000 E&G (CSULB E&G = 11.5k; average of 43 E&G = $15k)
– 46% (Predicted using linear multiple regression, 2010 Ed Trust data, 2004
freshman cohort, predicted from institutional SAT, In-State Tuition & Fees,
%Pell, %Underrepresented Minority, Student Related Expenditures/FTE, N=442
institutions, r=.87, r^2=.76)
– 49% (IPEDS comparison cohort, 33 institutions)
IPEDS 2012 Data Comparison
CSULB outperforms 33 IPEDS comparison
institutions in all student success categories…
IPEDS 2012 Data Comparison
…except time to degree
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HVDI Project Examples I
Faculty Learning Communities
40 faculty members
Designed to improve student learning and course completion rates
Historically low completion rate courses
Reaching more than 8,000 CSULB students
Supplemental learning
Course redesign efforts
Results: Significant changes in completion rates and course GPAs
Recognitions:
– AASCU: Innovation Award Winner, Faculty Development for Student Success
– AAC&U PKAL: Innovation in STEM Teaching and Learning
– NSF STEM Transforming Teaching & Learning Grant Proposal (under review)
HVDI Project Examples II
Model Advising in COE
• Engineering Student Success Center
– Student Progress Tracking
• Semester by semester tracking of progress to guide students to majors
they are appropriately qualified within the first year.
– Of the 547 students in Fall 2011 cohort, 209 students were not making degree
progress in the first-year.
• Early identification of at risk students in the major via Five GPA
analysis, including Term, Upper-Division, and Major GPAs.
– Strategic Advising
• Mandatory freshmen advising in the first two semesters by staff.
• Mandatory transfer advising in the first semester by faculty.
• Moving toward annual mandatory advising by faculty starting in the
sophomore year.
HVDI Project Examples III
Unit Reductions in HHS
• 14 of the academic programs in CHHS were
able to reduce their units an average of 5% (112%)
• All but three of the academic programs in
CHHS are at or under 120 units (with double
counting)
Future Challenges
• Sustaining gains in face of budget challenges
• Improving 4 year graduation rates
• Reducing actual units to degree – not just nominal
units
• Reducing time to degree at least to IPEDS
comparable institution average
• Improving STEM rates
• Closing achievement gaps that remain
Student Success
at the Beach
Update Nov 15, 2012
http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/aa/planning_enrollment/student_success/