TITLE V REGIONAL BEST PRACTICES CONFERENCE

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TITLE V REGIONAL BEST PRACTICES
CONFERENCE

• Title V Cooperative GrantOpening The Pipeline -
  Closing the Gaps
• Presenters
• Dr. Verónica Guerra, TAMU-CC
• Rudy Duarte, Del Mar College
• Victor Davila, TAMU-CC
• Agnes Flores, Del Mar College
• Verónica S. Gutiérrez, Del Mar College
• Leslee Basse, TAMU-CC

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Title V Cooperative Grant

• OPENING THE PIPELINE
• CLOSING THE GAPS
• 3.2m five-year grant
• October 2004 to September 2009
• Three Components

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Three Components

• Component 1 Opening The Pipeline
• Collaborative / DMC TAMU-CC
• Component 2 Maintaining The Pipeline
• Del Mar College
• Component 3 Completing the Pipeline
• TAMU-CC

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Component One

• What is a Go Center?
• Students assisted with
• Admissions
• Financial Aid
• Testing
• Scholarship
• Careers

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Component One

• Outreach Coordinator (Del Mar College)
• Student Leader
• Director of Go Centers (TAMUCC)
• Program Coordinator
• G Force and CTP Lead Mentors
• Student Mentors
• 43 TAMUCC (Go Centers and CTP)
• 12 DMC

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Component One

• Opening The Pipeline
• GO Centers
• High Schools (32) Middle Schools (5)
• Go Center Steering Committee
• Partners Del Mar College, TAMUCC, TAMUK UTPA CBC
• Private Industry
• Plan local training for high school G force
• Plan regional training

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Component One

• Partnerships
• Local Schools
• Other departments (Admissions, Financial Aid)
• Scholarships
• Academic Rising Scholars (ARS)

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Component One

• EVENTS
• College Nights
• PIN Events
• FAFSA
• Career Awareness

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Component One

• Stipends
• 500 awards every Fall and Spring
• Priority students
• FY 04-05 7,000
• FY 05-06 20,000
• FY 06-07 38,500
• FY 07-08 20,000 (Fall only)

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Component One

• Summer Bridge Applications
• Learning Communities
• Completing the Pipeline
• Go Center Intakes
• Self Identified students

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Component One

• Faculty/Teacher Development
• Curriculum Alignment
• Conversations and Summits
• Collaboration between the two institutions
• Interaction with High School staff
• Interaction with High School students

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Component Two

• Project Co-Director
• Curriculum Coordinator
• Intervention Specialist
• Office Assistant
• Licensed Counselor (Part-Time)

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Component Two

• Maintaining the Pipeline
• 5 broad constituents
• 1. Learning Communities
• 2. Advising/Counseling/Intervention
• 3. Academic Support Services

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Component Two

• 4. Tutoring, Mentoring,
• Supplemental Instruction
• 5. DMC Summer Bridge Program

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Component Two

• 1) Learning Communities
• Curriculum Coordinator
• Linked Courses
• Faculty Involvement
• Coordinated Lesson Plans
• Student Portfolios
• Teacher Portfolios

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Component Two

• Examples of Learning Community Pairs
• Criminal Justice 1301 linked with English 1301
  and linked with Speech 1315
• HPRS 1204 1106 linked with Math 0373

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Introduction to Health Class
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Component Two

• 2) Advising/Counseling/Intervention
• Pre and Post Surveys
• VARK Inventory/
• and Interpretation
• Preliminary Course Plan
• Intervention

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VARK Inventory
Interpretation

• Quick/Easy inventory
• Four basic learning styles
• V-isual
• A-uditory
• R-eading-Writing-Rewriting
• K-inesthetic

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Preliminary Course Plan

• Individual meeting
• Discuss assessment levels
• Discuss major
• Collaborate degree plan
• Assess semester-by-semester plan
• WHY?
• Gives student direction/guidance/plan

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Intervention

• Referral from professor
• Student self-referral
• Intervention Specialist referral

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Component Two

• 3) Academic Support Services
• 36 Laptop Computers
• Check-out for 2 week period
• Wireless Internet
• Receive one USB Flash Drive to save documents
• Must be enrolled in a Title V Class for this
  service
• Supplemental Instruction

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Component Two

• 4) Supplemental Instruction, Tutoring, Mentors
• Supplemental Instruction Focus
• 1) What to learn
• 2) How to learn it
• 3) How to understand it
• Purpose - provide course support to students
  enrolled in selected class
• Share information, skills, and knowledge with
  students

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Component Two

• SI Leaders / Mentors
• Serve as a friend to fellow students
• Meet with students and answer questions
• Provide a campus tour as needed
• Introduce DMC faculty or staff
• Assist students with accessing campus resources

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Component Two

• 5) DMC Summer Bridge
• Collaborate with GO Center Director
• Develop Summer Bridge to high school graduates
• Assist with smooth transition, testing,
  enrolling, acquaint with college

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Title V Cooperative Grant

• SUCCESSES
• In first four semesters L.C. LINKED COURSES have
  averaged from 1.1 to 6 higher success rate
  (Grades of A, B or C) than Parallel DMC Courses
• Scholarships of 500 awarded annually to 40 high
  school students from GO Centers

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Component Three

• Director of Go Centers
• Project Coordinator
• Student Mentors
• Summer Spring Orientation

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Component Three

• Completing the Pipeline
• 7 Main Components
• Laptop Lending Library
• Brand new Dell computers with wireless internet
  connections and Microsoft Office
• Workshops
• Skills workshops note taking, test taking,
  stress management, budgeting, study skills
• Fun workshops STDs, what to do for fun in CC,
  healthy eating habits, quick workout routines,
  getting along with roommates, etc.

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Workshops
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Component Three

• Peer Mentoring
• A place where students feel comfortable to come
  and talk about issues bothering them at home (if
  unable to assist direct them to the Counseling
  Center)
• THEA Advising
• Work with students (both in groups and one-on-one
  in preparing them for the THEA exam)
• Academic Tutoring
• Have study sessions for a group setting or
  one-on-one tutoring
• Create Individual Success Plan at beginning of
  each semester

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Component Three

• Summer Bridge
• Work with GO Center Director
• Work with TAMUCC Orientation Staff
• High School/Community College Recruitment
• Focus on facilitating the transition from high
  school/community college to University life

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TAMUCCSummer Bridge
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Component Three

• Recruitment
• Collaboration with several high schools in the
  Coastal Bend
• Cooperate with GO Center Director

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Component Three

• Tutors/Mentors
• Peers that act as a Big Brother/Big Sister to
  fellow students
• Meet with students on weekly/bi-weekly basis
• Provide campus knowledge to students
• Assist students with accessing campus resources
  and organizations

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CONCLUSION

• Questions / Answers
• For more information, please visit our
  cooperative websites
• http//titlevtrio.tamucc.edu
• http//www.delmar.edu/titlev