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DOMAIN 1 ASSURING ACCESS

• Develop Pathways or contracts to CSULA that
  will be introduced and used by freshmen and
  sophomores in high school that will guarantee
  admission to CSULA.
• Develop Pathways or contracts between the
  community college student and CSULA guaranteeing
  admission and the transfer of specific courses
  towards a bachelors degree.
• For every 100 high school freshmen, there were
  only 66 high school graduates.
• 300 of 600 graduates from Alhambra High School
  went to a community college.

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DOMAIN 1 ASSURING ACCESS

• Create positions called Transfer Advocates to
  serve as an independent person to assist the
  students with any and all procedural issues that
  may hinder a smooth transition.
• Increase transfer yield
• Bridge to CSULA
• Use of internet based technology

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DOMAIN 1 ASSURING ACCESS

• Publicize the many services CSULA provide to and
  for students with disabilities. This should begin
  at the middle schools and target the student and
  parents. CSULA needs to meet with the recruit
  students with disabilities.
• CSULA recognizes that students with disabilities
  and their family work hard to secure support in
  order to achieve academic success and that
  support system should not stop at high school
  graduation.

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DOMAIN 1 ASSURING ACCESS

• The website www.assist.org should continue to be
  updated, maintained, and expanded to assist
  transfer students interested in CSULA.
• Clearly outline articulation
• Removes the guessing
• Explore by majors
• Empower the student

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DOMAIN 1 ASSURING ACCESS

• CSULA needs to develop partnerships with many
  School Districts in our area to introduce higher
  education to the students and begin to develop
  the idea of attending a college or University,
  preferably CSULA.
• Provide a CSULA field trip for middle school and
  high school students (through 10th grade)
• Intermediaries
• Cash for college Gear Up
• Cal-Soap EOP
• Unite-LA School to Career Know how to go
• Upward Bound Campaign for college opportunity

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DOMAIN 1 ASSURING ACCESS

• Alliance for a better community
• Campuses for college opportunity
• Alliance for a better community
• Community Coalition
• Communities for Educational Equity
• Cal State L.A. needs to bring these many programs
  together
• in our service area to facilitate a sense of
  community
• Remember our students and families overestimate
  the cost
• of college and underestimate the availability of
  financial aid.

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DOMAIN 1 ASSURING ACCESS

• Campus and system efforts must work hand in hand
  to serve our students. To not do so is to negate
  excellent efforts in practice.
• Departments should review procedures that require
  students to go to additional offices for
  resolution
• Run-around is a CSULA barrier
• Develop personal touch to electronic systems in
  financial aid, GET, communications, web home
  page, tuition payment options

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DOMAIN 2 Connecting to P-12 Schools and
Community Colleges Why is this area important?

• P-16 is a continuum
• P-12/14 is the pipeline for the CSU/CSULA
• The CSU produces approximately 60 of those who
  teach in P-14
• The products of P-14 education in CA are, to a
  great extent, by products of the CSU

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DOMAIN 2 Connecting to P-12 Schools and
Community Colleges What are the Goals the
CSU/CSULA Should Strive for in this Domain?

• To produce competent teachers at all levels of
  P-14
• Greater curriculum alignment
• Better, more consistent dialogue
• To be, and be recognized as, a resource for all
  levels of the P-14 pipeline
• To play a role in helping segments of the
  pipeline (preschool, elementary, middle and high
  school) interact more effectively

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DOMAIN 2 Connecting to P-12 Schools and
Community Colleges How could/should the
CSU/CSULA Support Achieving the Goals Suggested
Above?

• Promote/support greater understanding of the
  importance of the relationship between the
  CSU/CSULA and P-12/14
• Develop a coordinated plan at the CSU/CSULA level
  with clear objectives and priorities
• Review and eliminate policies that create or
  serve as obstacles to working with the P-14
  Pipeline

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DOMAIN 2 Connecting to P-12 Schools and
Community Colleges Possible Contributions of
Technology to Improving the Pipeline

• Develop universal technological capability of
  students at any high school or CC to align
  completed course work with admission or
  graduation requirements
• Strive for more common look, features and
  functionality among technological systems at CCs
  and CSUs that students use to conduct university
  business
• Expand the use of electronic data interface
  between CCs and CSUs for transcripts and other
  functions

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DOMAIN 3 FULFILLING COMMITMENTS TO MULTIPLE
STAKEHOLDERS

• Multiple Stakeholders students, faculty, staff,
  volunteers, alumni, emeriti, elected officials
  and government, media, prospective students,
  donors, foundations, other funding sources,
  non-profit organizations, law enforcement,
  teachers, parents, the CSU and other
  universities, the community at large, counselors,
  schools, community colleges organized labor,
  employers seeking workforce, community
  partnerships.

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DOMAIN 3 FULFILLING COMMITMENTS TO MULTIPLE
STAKEHOLDERS

• Learn, understand and appreciate what various
  stakeholders want/need from the University look
  at the ways in which we are fulfilling
  stakeholders needs and integrate these into the
  communication strategy toward these groups.
• Build internal stakeholders pride and sense of
  community so that this will radiate to external
  stakeholders.

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DOMAIN 3 FULFILLING COMMITMENTS TO MULTIPLE
STAKEHOLDERS

• Develop key messages/points that are meaningful
  to all stakeholders
• Cal State L.A. has transformational power.
• Learning in a diverse environment enriches an
  education and gives graduates an edge in leading
  the way with an educated, humane and just future
  workforce.
• The University is a powerful resource with a
  reach that invigorates the lifeblood of its city,
  its region. The University and its surrounding
  communities are a source of mutual strength.

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DOMAIN 3 FULFILLING COMMITMENTS TO MULTIPLE
STAKEHOLDERS

• High visibility and involvement of campus
  leadership strengthens internal and external
  stakeholders recognition/appreciation of its
  scope of service.

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DOMAIN 4 Ensuring Success in Student Learning

• Student Learning Outcomes
• Assessment activities are stimulated through
  annual assessment mini-grant competitions for
  programs workshops on program-level assessment
  meetings with the deans, department chairs, and
  faculty and provision of technical assistance to
  academic units developing self studies for
  program review or developing assessment plans for
  degrees.
• Through the campus Program Review process, major
  degree programs provide evidence of the
  assessment of student learning outcomes and how
  the information is used to improve the program.

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DOMAIN 4 Ensuring Success in Student Learning

• Advisement
• Actions taken to improve student advisement
  include creation of college advisement centers,
  degree roadmaps, mandatory orientation and
  Introduction to Higher Education courses. In
  addition, administrative office hours have been
  extended to be more accessible to night students.

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DOMAIN 4 Ensuring Success in Student Learning

• Retention
• Through tasks and actions included in the
  Delivering Results document, the campus is
  redirecting efforts to assure timely
  communication with students and greater focus on
  providing access based on student needs and
  enrollment demands.
• The university has undertaken efforts to increase
  student satisfaction including the formation of
  learning communities, and increased student
  access to information about their academic
  progress through the Golden Eagle Territory (GET)
  website.

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DOMAIN 4 Ensuring Success in Student Learning

• Student Preparation
• The campus provides extensive opportunities and
  support for students to acquire and use
  information technology that enhances their
  learning experiences and provides them with
  capabilities for professional success (i.e.,
  technology infrastructure has been strengthened
  and upgradedi.e., ITS, ESS, IR, ITC).

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DOMAIN 4 Ensuring Success in Student Learning

• Student Participation in research,
• scholarly and creative activity
• Significant planned opportunities for
  student-faculty collaboration and mentoring in
  research, scholarly and creative arts activities
  are provided for undergraduate and graduate
  students through externally funded projects
  (i.e., CEACREST, NASA URC, MORE).

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DOMAIN 4 Ensuring Success in Student Learning

• Support for Students
• Students with deficiencies in academic
  preparation are involved in a myriad of programs
  (some beginning before they enroll at Cal State
  L.A.) designed to provide support leading to
  academic success (i.e., Summer Bridge, EOP, MESA,
  PALS).

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DOMAIN 4 Ensuring Success in Student Learning

• Student Learning Outcomes
• Advisement
• Retention
• Student Preparation
• Student Participation in research,
• scholarly and creative activity
• Support for Students

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DOMAIN 5 FACULTY/STAFF EXCELLENCE TO PROMOTE
STUDENT SUCCESS

• Demonstrating and valuing faculty quality as an
  important input to student success
• Demonstrating and valuing staff quality as an
  important input to student success.
• Affirming the co-curricular experience of
  students as contributing to student maturation
  and academic success.
• Recruiting and retaining high-quality and diverse
  faculty, staff, and administrators for the
  future.
• Identifying desired characteristics in the
  faculty, staff, and administrators of the future
• Identifying and addressing potential roadblocks
  to success in recruiting and retaining
  high-quality and diverse faculty, staff, and
  administrators for the future
• Supporting the teacher-scholar model for faculty
• Ensuring appropriate professional development for
  staff
• Supporting high performance by faculty, staff,
  and administrators.
• Recognizing multiple contributions from both
  faculty and staff, including for faculty roles in
  research and in service to the broader
  communities served by campuses.
• Ensuring service excellence in every area to
  support student achievement, satisfaction, and
  persistence.

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DOMAIN 6 NOW AND IN THE FUTURE CAMPUS/SYSTEM
IDENTITY

• Core Strengths and Essential Identity
• Cal State L.A. helps to transform underserved,
  underprepared students into exemplary scholars.
• Cal State L.A. has a large and vital graduate
  program.

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DOMAIN 6 NOW AND IN THE FUTURE CAMPUS/SYSTEM
IDENTITY

• 2. Identifying and revising policies that hinder
  articulation of core strengths and essential
  identity
• Policies are assessed through the Delivering
  Results study, the Quality Service Committee,
  WASC self- study, and the University Strategic
  Plan.
• The distinctive mission of Cal State L.A.to
  serve underprepared studentsis advanced in
  every college.

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• 3. Engaging key state and national policy-makers
  in dialogue about CSUs future

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• 4. Addressing affordability within the context of
  access, excellence, campus mission, and
  state/individual/family responsibility
• Programs and policies have historically foster
  access e.g., by allowing undeclared returnees,
  special-action admission, and second-chances
  to increase GPA.
• Cal State L.A. broadens access to higher
  education through early intervention in
  schools, communities and families e.g., the UPP
  and PIQE.

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DOMAIN 6 NOW AND IN THE FUTURE CAMPUS/SYSTEM
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• 5. Assuring that demand and capacity are in
  appropriate balance
• Cal State L.A. is strengthening enrollment
  management in several ways e.g., via
  Hobsons, branding/publications strategies, and
  international/ national/regional recruitment.
• Cal State L.A. is increasing its visibility
  among potential students and their families
  e.g., the Sally Ride Festival and the Science
  Olympiad.

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IDENTITY

• 6. Assuring appropriate balance among
  undergraduate, graduate, credential, and
  non-degree programs

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• 7. Addressing demands and opportunities arising
  from the arrival of the digital age, including
  on-line and distance learning
• Cal State L.A. has improved infrastructure to
  take advantage of technology e.g., Smart
  Classrooms and wireless access for students.
• The Cal State L.A. eLearning Programs and
  Support Center helps faculty integrate
  technology into teaching.

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