Metro States Journey to Preeminence

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Metro States Journey to Preeminence
Metro States Journey to Preeminence
Metro States Journey to Preeminence
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Metro States 2015 Vision

• To become the preeminent public
  baccalaureate college in the nation.
  
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Defining preeminence

• High expectations for student success.
• High standards defining student competence.
• Faculty who encourage and improve student
  achievement, who value being current in their
  discipline and use it to enhance instruction, and
  who continually seek ways to be more effective
  teachers.
• A curriculum that emphasizes the integration of
  theory and practice, and that prepares students
  for success in their profession.
  
• Liberal admissions policies coupled with precise
  assessment of students skills and reliable and
  appropriate advising based on that assessment.
  
• Widespread student, faculty and staff engagement
  with regional communities and beyond.
  
• Providing affordable, high quality, accessible
  education, recognizing the importance of
  financial aid.
  
• Graduates who are well prepared for the
  responsibilities, challenges and opportunities
  offered by life, their families, their
  communities and their careers.
• College Strategic Planning Committee, January
  2007

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The journey to preeminence Increase full-time
tenured/tenure-track faculty
Number of full-time faculty
2010 Goal 60 percent Current level 38 perce
nt
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The journey to preeminenceStrengthening our
safety net for students

• New initiatives
• Partnering with the Community College of Denver
  to restructure and align the remedial programs
  our students take.
  
• Establishing a cohort with Front Range Community
  College and the Community College of Aurora
  called the 22 Program.

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The journey to preeminenceStrengthening our
safety net for students (continued)

• Created a learning community initiative. This
  initiative provides students with academic
  support via four approaches
  
• First-year seminar (Metro State 101) help
  students adjust to college and develop a better
  understanding of the learning process.
  
• Learning communities focus on peer mentoring,
  social and support networks, cohort scheduling,
  supplemental instruction and civic engagement.
  
• Sophomore retention services extend programs to
  second-year students.
  
• Transfer services address the large percentage
  of students who transfer to Metro State through
  these programs.
  

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The journey to preeminenceBecoming an Hispanic
Serving Institution

• Requires 25 percent of student population to be
  Hispanic
  
• Federal designation, carrying federal and other
  funds
  
• Goal to obtain designation by 2010
• Currently, we have the opportunity to serve
  10,000
  
• Hispanic students. Right now, were serving
  1/3rd of that
  
• number.

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Building on Metro Statesheritage of diversity

• Established a senior leadership team that
  reflects the diversity of Metro State.
  
• Appointed a first-generation college graduate who
  is Metro States first Hispanic Provost.
  
• Created an Office of Institutional Diversity,
  which leads institution-wide efforts to ensure
  diversity and civic engagement.
  
• This fall, we have a net gain of 43 new full-time
  tenured and tenure-track faculty of those 20 are
  of color.
  
• tenured and tenure-track

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Solving Community Problems Colorados paradox
Colorado ranks
35th in sendinglow-income students to college
41st in sendingminority students to college
Source Colorado Commission on Higher Education,
2005
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Colorados shrinking pipeline
ethnic minority

• Denver Public Schools student population is 80
  percent ethnic minority.
  
• The Community College of Denver offers the most
  ethnically diverse community college experience
  with 48 percent students of color.
  
• Metro State has the largest minority student
  population of any four-year institution in the
  Front Range at 24 percent. The state average of
  four-year colleges is 17 percent.

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Urban land grant civic engagementSolving urban
problems

• Metro State is partnering with Denver Public
  Schools (DPS)
  
• to prepare students for college.
• The goal of the 9.5 million federal Department
  of Education Teacher Quality Education (TQE)
  grant is to better prepare and retain secondary
  education teachers to teach in urban schools and
  thereby boost student achievement.
• The 2006 Toyota Family Literacy grant allows more
  than 100 families at four DPS elementary schools
  to participate in a program that teaches basic
  language and literacy skills.
• Working with Denver Public Schools to help
  achieve HSI status at the K-12 level.
  

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Metro State Where Success Begins With You

• You are the keys to our students, our
  institutions and our communities success.
  
• Reach out and establish partnerships with the
  business community and nonprofits.
  
• Take on a class project and empower your students
  to solve an urban problem.
  
• Create a new program here at Metro State.
• Conduct independent research on a college-wide
  area of interest.
  
• Become a national expert in your field.

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