Partnerships with PostSecondary

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Partnerships with Post-Secondary

• CTAT Leadership
• July 21, 2008

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ACC Partnerships with School Districts

• Closing the Gaps
• Early College Start
• ACC Summer Programs for Students
• College Connection
• Mobile Go Center
• Early College High School
• P-16 College Readiness Initiative

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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Boards
Strategic PlanClosing the GapsOverview
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Closing the Gaps

• Closing the Gaps warns that if more Texans do not
  receive college degrees by 2030, the State could
  lose up to 40 billion in annual household
  income.
• The goal is to increase student enrollment in
  higher education by 630,000 by 2015.
• Most students will elect to start at a community
  college.
• Austin Community College District expects 15,000
  additional students by 2015.
• Source http//www.thecb.state.tx.us/Closingthe
  Gaps/ctgtargets_pdf.cfm?Goal1

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Why Do Community Colleges and School Districts
Need to Partner?

• Our constituencies overlap (parents, students,
  business communities)
• We have a common interest in raising educational
  achievement levels
• Closing the Gaps applies to all of us
• Economic development depends on educated trained
  workforce
• We have similar challenges
• Funding
• Accountability
• We are stronger when we work together

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Early College Start

• Dual Credit
• Concurrent Enrollment
• Tech Prep

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Early College Start

• Umbrella concept for ways students can obtain
  free/low-cost college credit while in high school
• Dual credit
• Co-enrollment
• Tech Prep/Credit-in-escrow
• Pre-enrollment services delivered at high school
  campus
• ACC outreach program

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How ECS WorksDual Credit/Co-enrollment

• Students
• Demonstrate college-readiness via state-approved
  tests
• Meet all academic skills and college course
  prerequisites
• Follow the college process for enrollment
  services brought to high school campuses
• Register for ACC courses

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How ECS WorksDual Credit/Co-enrollment

• ACC waives tuition and fees
• for in-district students
• classes taught on high school campuses
• 40 per-course fee for out-of-district
• Students transfer credit
• back to high school
• use at ACC toward degree/certificate
• forward to 4-year institution

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How ECS WorksCredit-in-Escrow

• Students
• Enroll for high school classes articulated to
  college courses
• Complete with a B or better
• Upon graduation, apply at ACC
• CATEMA system indicates to student that they have
  credit to claim
• ACC applies credit-in-escrow to students
  college transcript

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Benefits of ECS

• Makes college accessible and affordable
• Supports Closing the Gaps state goal
• Creates a college-going culture in high school
• Increases college-going rate
• Creates enrollments for college programs
• Creates familiarity with merits and value of
  community college

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Student Benefits

• Provides free/low-cost college experience
• Fulfills advanced measures for Texas
  Distinguished Achievement Plan
• Enhances seamless transition to college
• Satisfies high school graduation requirement and
  earns college credit (dual credit)

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Student Benefits

• Allows completion of college/core
  curriculum/general education transfer courses
• Allows CATEMA statewide registration of Tech
  Prep credits
• Provides access to courses not available in high
  school (e.g. Japanese, Russian, photography)
• Career and Technology Education Management
  application (system to enter, display, update,
  report data)

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ECS Student Success

• ECS students have better success indicators than
  traditional students
• Higher mean GPA
• Higher rate of retention

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School District Benefits

• Offers large range of college-level
  opportunities
• Offers increased menu options of ECS college
  credit and AP
• Offers college-level programs that students not
  considering AP can access
• Offers classes not available in high school
  curriculum

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School District Benefits

• Provides alternative to wasted senior year
  perception/criticism
• Reduces high school personnel units as more
  students take college classes
• Offers potential to satisfy 4x4 needs
• Is convenientACC will offer classes during
  school day on high school campus

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Advantages of ECS

• Students gain a true college experience
• college academic content,
• typical college semester format (rather than over
  an entire academic year)
• exposed to college professors who meet SACS
  standards
• Students establish a college transcript
• credit in-hand upon successfully completing the
  college course
• no additional testing needed

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Advantages of ECS

• Ease of transfer of college credit
• transfers seamlessly to public institutions in
  Texas
• transfers easily to Texas private institutions
  and out-of-state public and private institutions
• Maturing experience for students
• follow college enrollment process
• attend new student orientation
• learn the mechanics of going to college and
  college survival skills

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ACC SummerPrograms for Students
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Summer 2008 Pre-Collegiate Programs

• Summer Bridge Programs
• Writing
• Reading
• Mathematics

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Summer 2008 Pre-Collegiate Programs

• Career exploration
• Riverside and Eastview Campuses
• 4-7th graders
• Automotive Technology
• Science and Math
• Building and Carpentry
• Health Sciences
• Forensic Science
• Creative and Analytical Writing
• Robotics and Nano-Technologies
• Sports
• Peer Mediation

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Summer 2008 Pre-Collegiate Programs

• Youth Camps
• 100 Camps
• Ages 5 and above
• www.austincc.edu/camp
• Theater
• Ballroom Dancing
• Computer Game Development
• Web Design
• Medical Terminology
• Photoshop
• SAT Test Prep

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College Connection
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College Connection Program

• Many high school students find the college
  enrollment process intimidating.
• Austin Community College District provides
  hands-on, one-on-one support to assist every
  senior through each step of the college
  admissions process.

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College Connection Program

• Program is free to the school districts.
• During graduation ceremonies, high school
  graduating seniors receive acceptance letters to
  Austin Community College District.

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College Connection Growth

• Over 4 years
• 1 school district to 24 school districts
• 2 high schools to 55 high schools
• 400 students to 16,466 students

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Mobile Go Centers
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ACCs Two Mobile Go Centers

• MGC 1
• Length, 34 Feet
• Air-Conditioned
• 14 Computer Stations
• MGC 2
• Length, 42 Feet
• Air-Conditioned
• 16 Computer Stations
• Equipped with
• Printers
• Scanner
• Copier
• Satellite Internet

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ACCs Mobile Go Centers

• Virtual one-stop, college-information facility
• College catalog
• Schedule information
• College applications
• FAFSA
• Other
• Staffed by ACC personnel

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ACCs Mobile Go Centers

• Support College Connection program activities
• Enable ACC to reach individuals where they live,
  work, and/or attend school
• Festivals
• Sports Events
• Supermarkets
• Shopping Malls
• Schools
• Other
• www.austincc.edu/go

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Early College High School
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Early College High Schools/Middle Colleges

• Goal
• Blend high school and college
• small school concept
• secondary and postsecondary partners take joint
  responsibility for students
• Curriculum is carefully designed so that students
  can earn a high school diploma while earning
  college credit

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Early College High Schools/Middle Colleges

• Key Characteristics
• Engages students in college-level course work
• Ensures that students graduate with a high school
  diploma and an associate degree or 2 years of
  transferable college credit

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Early College High Schools/Middle Colleges

• Provides access to college, important to
  economically disadvantaged students
• Assumes that all students will complete a
  postsecondary credential
• Often targets students who are underrepresented
  in higher education

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Early College High Schools

• Academically rigorous classes
• College classes as early as Grade 10
• Grade 9 and 10 classes are taught by school
  district teachers
• Provides guidance and coaching from high school
  advisors through the first 2 years of college

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Middle Colleges

• Close links with Tech Prep programs
• Flexible schedule allows students to work
• High school diploma comes with college degree
• Provides alternative to traditional high school
  programs

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Early College High Schools/Middle Colleges

• Gates Foundation Support
• Requirements for dedicated space on college
  campus
• Dedicated faculty
• At-risk students, dropout recovery
• Funding mechanism, usually ADA (grant funding is
  for planning)
• Challenges for ACC

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ACCs Model Development

• How does ACCs model differ?
• Works with available college resources
• Focuses on completion of core curriculum
• Works within the tuition waiver allowed by ACC
  policy

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ACCs Model Development

• Academic year planning
• Can be started by any school in summer or fall
  with sufficient enrollment
• Timing and sequence of courses to make sense for
  rising juniors and seniors
• Hybrid faculty and facility use
• Transportation

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ACCs Model Development

• Flexibility
• Cohort approach
• Application process
• Parent involvement
• Multiple points of entry
• Juniors and/or seniors
• During school year only
• Students can earn up to a year of college credit

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ACCs Model Development

• Flexibility
• Adding summer courses allows students to complete
  the core curriculum the summer following
  graduation

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Working Models

• Lockhart High School
• Crockett College Academy
• Austin ISD

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P-16 Texas College Readiness Standards and Courses
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P-16 Standards and Courses

• College Readiness Standards
• Approved January 2008
• Approved standards can be viewed at
  http//www.thecb.state.tx.us/collegereadiness/TCRS
  .cfm
• Texas College Readiness Project
• Colleges submit reference course
  syllabi/materials
• Finalized May 2008

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