Tulsa Community College

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Tulsa Community College

• Achieving the Dream Status Report
• January 22, 2009

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TCC Core Value 1 Student Success
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AtD Process
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Overview of Process

• Data-informed decisions
• Examine quantitative data provided by
  Institutional Research
• Determine barriers focus groups
• Design interventions address barriers
• Assess impact formative summative
• Revise intervention based on assessments
• Continue cycle

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Working Teams

• Leadership
• Core
• Data
• Campus
• Research

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Focus Group Data, Fall 2008

• Most frequent barriers to persistence
• Adjusting to college
• Balancing school and life
• Textbook issues
• Tulsa Achieves
• Communication issues with instructors
• Choosing courses
• Students not academically prepared
• Student motivation

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AtD Working Process
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Persistence Intervention 1 TA Implementation
Issues

• Target population TA students
• Communication tools
• Two-part receipt
• QuickFacts card
• Intervention Implemented Fall 2008
• Survey TA students to determine effectiveness of
  communication tools
• Review survey data to determine pertinent changes
• Changes to communication tools implemented fall
  2008

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AtD Working Process TA
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Persistence Intervention 2 Orientation,
Strategies for Academic Success

• Fall 2008 Strategies for Academic Success
• Target population TA students
• 61 sections made for fall 2008 1120 students
  completed
• Dedicated website faculty resources website
• College-wide collaboration
• Common course objectives
• Common formative assessments
• Pre- and Post- assessment (LASSI Learning and
  Study Skills Inventory)
• Written self-reflection
• Focus groups with instructors
• College-wide training for faculty
• Spring 2009
• Analyze LASSI outcomes, self-reflection data, and
  grade distribution for fall 2008
• Use this data to adjust curriculum
• Continue cycle

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Persistence Intervention 2 Future Orientation
Program

• Expanded Orientation Campus teams directing a
  college-wide exploration
• Target population All students
• Involve entire college in design, planning, and
  implementation
• Solicit student input
• Require orientation
• Develop college-wide orientation components
• Address various entry/re-entry points of students
• Include range of delivery options

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Persistence Intervention 3 Advising

• Contingent upon Banner implementation
• Lead Counselor Advisors TA Taskforce
• Phase I Spring 2009
• Target Population All students
• Develop a college-wide protocol to correctly
  identify and notify students at risk for poor
  academic performance
• Phase II Fall 2009
• Target population TA Students
• Timely notification
• Block enrollment for Academic Notice or Probation
• Require advising
• Limit enrollment hours

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Persistence Intervention 4 African American
Males

• Target Population African American males
• Institutional cohort data, fall 2009

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Persistence Intervention 4 African American Male
Intervention

• 15 committee members/3 meetings to date
• Target population African American Males
• Information/data needs
• focus group training/focus group research
• raw institutional data
• nationwide research
• conference attendance
• Possibilities for reaching target population
• Work with current student government groups to
  provide support and resources
• Participate in student group leadership
  conferences/workshops that stimulate discussions
  and mentoring
• Consider a mentoring program that connects
  incoming students with staff, faculty, and Tulsa
  community leaders
• Intervention design pending information/data
  collection analysis

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Reading I and II

• AtD cycle for data-informed decisions
• Completed 36 focus groups in Reading I and II
• Will provide focus group results targeted April
  1, 2009
• Design interventions to address barriers
  targeted spring 2009
• Implement Reading I II interventions targeted
  fall 2009
• Assess impact of intervention
• Revise intervention
• Continue cycle

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Research Team

• 28 team members
• Research topics/teams
• Orientation
• Advising
• CCSSE
• Existing TCC initiatives
• Research Sources
• Peer institutions
• Oklahoma institutions
• AtD website
• National databases
• TCC Institutional Research

• Research Outcomes
• Use BB site as a repository for research and
  discussion
• Provide links for college wide review and access
• Provide summary reports for campus teams as
  requested
• Provide data from existing TCC initiatives that
  include orientation/advising components

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Communication

• Internal
• Dedicated BB AtD organization website
• Team rosters
• Central calendar
• Meeting records
• Discussion boards
• Wimba/wiki
• Exploration of creative communication venues
• Newsbytes

• External
• Tulsacc.edu Web site
• AtD Quick Link
• Team rosters
• TCC report card data
• Student focus group data
• Faculty staff focus group data
• Archives
• Community outreach planning

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AtD Touchstones
AtD