BSI SLO SEPACCJC SIM

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(BSI SLO SEP)ACCJC SIM

• Chair, Lesley Kawaguchi, Santa Monica
• Queen SLO, Marcy Alancraig, Cabrillo
• Trustee, Wade Ellis, West Valley - Mission CCD
• Researcher, Cathy Hasson, Skyline College
• Dr. BSI, Barbara Illowsky, De Anza
• Princess SLO, Karen Wong, Skyline College

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First dateStudent Equity Plans

• 1991 -- CA. Legislature
• Ed. Code 66010.2c
• 66030
• 1992 -- Board of Governors
• Student Equity Policy
• 1996 -- Board of Governors
• Student Equity Plans

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Student Equity Plans

• Title 5 Section 54220
• ASCCC response Student Equity Guidelines for
  Developing a Plan
• Original 1993 revised and adopted Fall 2002
• Last plans due in 2005

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What was in the plans?

• 5 major student equity indicators
• Access
• Course completion
• Degree and certificate completion
• ESL and basic skills completion
• Transfer rate
• Student Equity Issues
• Breakdown the above factors on the basis of
  ethnicity/race, gender, disability status

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Why no sparks?

• Plans often done by a single person or very small
  group
• Plans sat on a shelf
• Plans had no accountability
• Plans had no funding tied to them

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CourtshipStudent Learning Outcomes

• -Born in 1980s
• -Moved from East Coast to West
• 2002 New Standards recognize importance of SLOs

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Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places

• 5 Stages of Faculty Grief and Resistance
• Academic Senate Opposition
• Lack of Administrative Funding for doing the work
• Always crushed out on Equity but sometimes unable
  to make a real connection

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Finally Love Comes

• Emergence of SLO Coordinators
• Recognition from ASCCC
• More dates with Equity
• Looking at whats happening in the classroom and
  across the Institution

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Linking Equity and BSI

• Natural merger
• Couldnt happen until we got to know each other
• Couldnt happen until SLO relaxed and knew how
  to thrive in California

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Meeting the in-lawsBasic Skills Initiative

• Phase III -
• 5 goals 2 are specifically addressing equity

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Equity in Higher Education

• Involves three parts
• Equity in college preparation
• Access to college
• Success in reaching college goals
• Thomas Bailey
• Vanessa Smith Morest

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Goal 1 Research Data Collection

• Literature Review Addendum
• Equity Issues Strategies
• High School to College Transition
• Non-credit to Credit Transition
• Data base
• Survey of programs, strategies and projects
• Includes California and national data

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Goal 3 Student Equity

• Evaluate all 109 2005 Student Equity Plans
• Identify common statewide trends
• gtgt Develop state resources for general needs
• gtgt Gather baseline data
• Identify discrepancies
• gtgtTechnical Assistance to individual colleges

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ClergyBoard of Trustees

• What can we do for the Board?
• What can the Board do for the BSI?

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What can we do for Boards?

• Board members are politicians.
• John McCains speech on the economy praised
  community colleges as retraining institutions
  that can help with reemployment.
• We can help them understand that retraining
  requires Basic Skills.
• SJ Mercury News, 4/13/08 need for more access to
  education through the community colleges
• We can help them understand that access and
  opportunity means Basic Skills

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What can Boards do for Basic Skills?

• Highlight Basic Skills Initiative by asking for
  presentations on Student Equity, SLO and BSI
  Plans.
• Ask presentations on retraining and veterans
  assistance programs.
• Ask presentations on how basic skills programs
  are being integrated into bond funded
  construction plans.

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What else can Boards do?

• Boards can act as marriage broker, encouraging
  administrations to promote basic skills
  collaboration.
• Student Services, Financial Aid, Human Resources,
  Counseling, each of the academic departments, and
  admission and records are all participants at an
  effective basic skills college or district.

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MarriageKeys to Success

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Points of Integration

• Partnership Collaboration
• Communication
• Growth Opportunities
• Incentives
• Consultation and Mentoring

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Points of Integration (cont.)

• Strategies
• BSI Research Agenda
• Faculty Inquiry Groups
• Program Review Research Plans

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Outcomes

• Learning Communities
• Supplementary Instruction
• Additional research assessment
• Targeted marketing and promotion
• Retention Strategies
• Early Alert
• Wait Lists
• New and enhanced programs and services

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OffspringStudent Improvement Movement

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Report out from sessionHow do all of these
activities fit in with Accreditation and SIM?

• Forced all of our bodies to get together.
  Generated research. We need the data to
  understand whats going on. Transparent. data
  process that others can critique.
• Senate should take the initiative in integrating
  everything together with one voice.
• Established a culture of data-driven
  self-assessment.

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(continued)

• We can go back and make correction based on data.
  Formative evaluation.
• Student learning and data.
• Documentation of program review. School dinged
  because budget should be driven by SLOs but not
  documentation
• Data. Questions you asked are part of the
  research design. Are the questions good.
• Direct connection to planning. All of the areas
  need to be connected to the master plan. Lack of
  integrate planning can cause problems that are
  addressed by BSI

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(continued)

• Data need to be both quantitative and
  qualitative. Critical questions need to have
  both.
• Time constraints and personnel problems make it
  hard to get all the information. Here is one
  thing we are going to take across the board and
  to use as a model.
• Dialogue is crucial to the overarching planning
  for the success of the three initiatives.

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Remain true!

• Babye!