Program Focus
• Facilitate institutional improvements and boost student
success through the sharing of best practices
• Help colleges identify institutional strengths and
opportunities
• Assist in the development of strategies and tools
• Coordinate collaborative relationships
• Utilize and help colleges better understand performance
measure data
• Ensure program is college-driven, ongoing, voluntary, and
open to all colleges
• To share in Each Other’s Success!
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Components
• Performance Partnership Summit
• Peer Mentoring
• Action Plans
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Summit
• One-day showcase of best practices and forums
associated with performance improvement related to
performance measures and other topics associated with
student success
• Inclusive of all colleges and held annually during the
summer
Mark Your Calendars
2015 Performance
Partnership Summit
Tuesday, July 28
Embassy Suites, Cary
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Peer Mentoring
• Collaborations to facilitate
institutional improvements and
increased success rates for our
students across the state
• Mentees choose a willing Mentor
• Mentors Share best
practices/strategies
• Campus visits or other interactions
• Collaboratively develop an action
plan for improvement
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MEASURES BEING DISCUSSED TODAY:
•Measure E- One Year Progression
•Measure F- Curriculum Student
Completion
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MEASURE E
• The purpose: To ensure first year students
reach an academic momentum point that
helps predict future credential completion.
• The description: Percentage of first time
fall credential-seeking students attempting
at least twelve hours within their first
academic year who successfully complete
(“P” or “C” or better) at least twelve of
those hours
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MEASURE F
•Purpose: To ensure student completion
and persistence toward a postsecondary credential
•Description: Percentage of first-time fall
credential –seeking students who
graduate, transfer, or are still enrolled
within 36 hours after six years
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Review of Notes from the
Performance Partnership
Summit:
Some common themes and
best practices…
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Common Themes from Summit
•The technical and vocational programs have
stackable credentials.
•Effective and good working relationships with
the closest UNC college, They should have a
presence on the CC campus.
•Collaboration with Achieving the Dream and
Completion by Design to streamline services
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Common Themes from Summit
• Intrusive advising-professional advisors. Advisors
have regular advisees.
• Advisors must meet with referrals within two
weeks.
• Required an ACA course for all freshmen
• College Transfer Advising Center.
• New student orientation.
• Minority male mentoring.
• Students encouraged to take math and science
early.
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Common Themes from Summit
cont’d
•Early connection with students.
•Communicate to students that quitting is not
an option.
•Emphasizing certificates.
•Holding students accountable.
•Regular meeting with students about their
programs.
•Meeting with students after exams.
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Common Themes from Summit
• Provide supplemental instruction.
• Embedding tutors in gateway classes.
• Require students to complete developmental courses within
one year.
• Peer to peer tutoring
• Embedded librarians, started with distance education
classes, now seated classes have librarians also.
• Use Google hang out to communicate with students.
• Require the use of Starfish and other early alert system
• Require students to complete developmental courses within
one year.
• Encourage mixing of developmental and regular courses
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Importance of Good Data
• Collect data on course evaluation
• Foster collaboration between Arts and Sciences and
vocational.
• Use Data Navigator to pull data down from the course level
and share data with instructors. Use CCSSE and other
national and state assessments
• Examine what is working
• Share data in regular faculty meetings every month.
• Faculty examine data and ask what they could do
differently to make a difference.
• Increased communication between faculty and
administration
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Progression and Completion Strategies
Christy L. Forrest, Ed.D.
Dean, General Studies and Academic Support
10/17/2012
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Davidson Community College
•Proactive Advising Model
•Early Alert System- Starfish
•Redesigned Programs with reduced hours &
limited choices
•Required success course for most new
students
•Required orientation for new students
•Implemented Multiple Measures
10/17/2012
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Davidson Community College
•Gateway courses moved to early in program
when possible
•Stackable Credentials in technical programs
•Consolidation of academic support and
testing to one location- Learning Commons
10/17/2012
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Wake Technical Community College
10/17/2012
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Loss & Momentum
Framework
CONNECTION
ENTRY
PROGRESS
Interest to
Application
Enrollment to
Completion of
Launch Pad
Courses
Entry into Course
of Study to 75%
Requirements
Completed
POLICIES
PRACTICES
PROGRAMS
PROCESSES
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COMPLETION
Complete Course
of Study to
Credential with
Labor Market
Value
Completion Initiatives
• Structured Pathways
• First Year Experience
• First Year Academy
• MOOCs
• Financial Aid Awareness
• Fall Premiere
• New Student Orientation
• Information Sessions (GPS)
Connection
Entry
Completion
Progress
•Academic Success Centers
•Embedded Career &
Employment Resources
•Reverse Transfer
•Service Learning/Volunteerism
Hope
*Strategies core to CBD are shown bolded
.
• Proactive Advising
• Accelerated Developmental
Education
• Stackable Credentials
• Student Support Resources (ASSETS)
• Supplemental Instruction
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Wake Tech Community College
Structured
Pathways
• AA and AS
programs revised
• All 55 career and
technical programs
revised
10/17/2012
Accelerated
Developmental
Education
• Retention
increased to 82%
from 77%
• 79% of all students
completed at least
one module
• 700 students used
the MOOC to prep
for placement test
• 10+% reduction in
dev math students
2012FA to 2014FA
Proactive
Advising/First
Year Experience
• Persistence
increased by 21%
when enrolled in
FYE
• Success increased
by 24% when
enrolled in FYE
• Persistence
increased by 12%
if attended
orientation
• Success increased
by 2.5% if
attended
orientation
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Financial Aid &
Resource
Awareness
• Student awareness
of financial aid
options increased
by 3.2%
• Financial aid
awards increased
by 17%
mpleter
Persistence
2013FA –
2014SP
Persistence
2014SP –
2014FA
Course
Success
2013FA
Course
Success
2014SP
Course
Withdraw
Rate 2013FA
Course
Withdraw
Rate 2014FA
FYE Completer
95.6%
74.8%
84.1%
83.3%
5.8%
7.9%
FYE
Non-Completer
75.2%
38.2%
60.1%
41.0%
18.6%
35.0%
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ACA 090 Success/Persistence
Students in
Sample
Course Completion
Rate for Sample
Students Passed
ACA 090
Course Completion Rate
for ACA 090 Passers
350
60%
262/75%
69%
Spring 2014
Re-enrolled
257/73%
64%
227/85%
65%
Fall 2014
Re-enrolled
151/43%
75%
144/55%
76%
Fall 2013
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COMPLETION BY DESIGN
Best Practices
Marilyn Terrill
Department Head, Business Administration
Wake Technical Community College
meterrill@waketech.edu
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Best Practices
•Implemented Pro-Active Advising
•Initiated Department Orientation
•Streamlined AAS and Certificates
•Created Stackable Credentials (2013-14) (See
Next Slide)
•Business Administration AAS
•Business Administration/Human Resources
Management AAS
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Business Administration A.A.S.
Stackable Credentials
10/17/2012
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Results: Increased Graduation Rates (20.09%)
Total Graduates
300
269
250
224
200
150
144
100
50
0
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
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VGCC STUDENT SUCCESS INITIATIVES
The Vance-Granville Community College (VGCC) faculty and staff
is dedicated to enhancing student success as evidenced through
the many initiatives currently in place at the college.
 Advising in 3-D is the college’s QEP (Quality Enhancement
Plan)
 Completion by Design
 Student Learning & Success Center/Career Services
 Academic & Career Coaching Model - -Spring of 2015
10/17/2012
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VGCC:
Will implement an Intrusive and Appreciative Academic & Career
Advising Model – Spring 2015
 Uses Starfish Early Alert System several times each semester to
track student progress, attendance, and behavior
Has redesigned Programs of Study with reduced hours and
streamlined elective lists
Use ACA courses in College Transfer programs and other
programs where appropriate
Has mandatory orientation for new students
Has ongoing Professional Development for faculty and staff to
improve student engagement skills and institutional knowledge
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Halifax Community College
B.T. Brown, Dean of Curriculum Programs
• Strategies for supporting our students toward achieving individual
goals include:
• Assistance with college and financial aid applications
• _______ scholarships
• Consistent, structured, unstructured and individualized guidance
and advisement throughout the college experience including
course selection and progression towards goals.
• Opportunities to interact with faculty and staff outside of
classroom
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Pickup basketball
Chess under the pavilion
Faculty and staff using dental services and cosmetology salon
Fall and spring festivals
Turkey trot and other service centered activities
Student clubs
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• Opportunities to connect with peers and participate in campus life
help students build a shared sense of community that encourages
persistence.
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Clubs
On campus employment opportunities
P.R.I.D.E. & Women of Excellence
TRIO activities
Variety of campus wide events
Multi cultural programs
• Mentoring programs
• P.R.I.D.E.
• Women of Excellence
• Tutoring
• Student Success Center
• Content specific
• Writing support
10/17/2012
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• Math Lab
• Study groups
• Counseling services
• College and career counseling, and placement services
• Services for students with disabilities
• Personal counseling
• Electronic Resource Center (ERC) with computer workstations for
students
• College success course
• Freshman orientation
• Trio Student Support Services
• Study skills, test taking, goal setting and other supportive skill building workshops
• Laptop loans
• Advising
10/17/2012
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Halifax Community College
• Early alert system implemented that s used to refer student
to various support systems as appropriate.
• Cohort models of peer support in some programs
• Nursing
• Dental hygiene
• Selective first year learning communities
• On campus child care and financial support to pay tuition
• Implementation of CBD initiatives in Fall 2014 will help us to
continue to meet and enhance performance measure F.
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What comments and feedback
do you have on today’s call?
What would you like to discuss
during the next conference call
for this measure?
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What follow-up questions do
you have for those who have
discussed their efforts?
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What comments and feedback
do you have on today’s call?
What would you like to discuss
during the next conference call
for these measures?
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Thank you Presenters!
• Christy Forrest, Dean, General Studies and Academic Support
Davidson County Community College cforrest5062@davisonccc.edu
• Laura Kalbaugh, Dean of Academic Success and Transition Resources
Wake Tech Community College lmkalbaugh@waketech.edu
• Marilyn Terrill, Department Head of Business Administration, Wake
Tech Community College meterrill@waketech.edu
• B.T. Brown, Dean of Curriculum, Halifax Community College,
btbrown920@halifaxcc.edu
• George Henderson, Dean of Students, Vance-Granville Community
College, hendersong@vgcc.edu
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If you’d like a copy of today’s
PowerPoint, please email a
request to:
Dr. Deryl Davis Fulmer
Halifax Community College
ddavisfulmer985@halifaxcc.edu
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•Next Measure E & F CallIn Session
Wednesday, April 22nd
3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
10/17/2012
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Until Next Time…..
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