The Degree Partnership Program

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The Degree PartnershipProgram
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Purpose and Goals

• Joint admission / concurrent enrollment
• Improve student access, success and
  4-year degree completion
• Expand options for college-level services and
  curriculum.
• Improve academic program articulation.
• Gain efficiency and effectiveness

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• Getting The Word Out

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Promoting DPP

• LBCC expands reach
• The Trouble with Transfer
• So you are merging?
• LBCC leads with, OSU follows with
• Going to new communities OR Tribes, HI, NE
  Portland, abroad.

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DPP Admissions

• Blake Vawter
• Associate Director of Admissions
• Marketing and Communications
• OSU

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DPP Admissions Details

• 1st year students SAME AS TRADITIONAL OSU
  ADMISSIONS
• gt3.0 GPA 14 subjects (incl. 2yrs of foreign
  language) Insight Resume SAT/ACT score
• Transfer students PROVIDES EARLIER ACCESS
• gt2.25 GPA 24 credit hours college-level
  writing MATH PLACEMENT EXAM Insight Resume

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Speeding Up Service

• Web application only!
• Batch extract reports
• Compressed and password protected
• Banner view access by both schools
• EDI transcripts
• Two week turnaround on transcript updates

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Important Dates

• Summer 2008- May 23, 2008Fall 2008- August 29,
  2008 Winter 2008-December 12, 2008 Spring 2008-
  March 6, 2009
• Implemented to improve service to students on
  financial aid

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Degree Partnership Programs Financial Aid

• Rebecca Martinez
• Associate Director of Financial Aid and
  Scholarships,
• Oregon State University

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Financial Aid Issues

• Financial Aid Consortium Agreements purpose
• Required by USED to ensure compliance with
  regulations
• Must determine home school for financial aid
  purposes
• Definition of home school varies
• Once the aid paying school is determined (HOME
  school), each partner must set up their systems
  appropriately

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Enrollment Information Sharing

• Level of enrollment
• Student Status Confirmation Report (SSCR)
• Withdrawals/ R2T4/ Last Date of Attendance
• End of Term grades/credits (SAP)
• Monitoring for aid-eligible courses
• Institutional policies and deadlines for drops,
  adds, receiving Ws,
• ESTABLISH TIMELINES FOR SHARING

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Academic Calendars

• Challenges of degree partnership programs
• Academic calendars not in synch
• Start and end dates of terms
• Quarter hour calendar vs. semester calendar
• Registration dates
• Fee payment
• Financial aid disbursement

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Why do this?
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OLDE PROCESS

• Schools would manually look at credits and decide
  which school would disburse aid.

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• Sometime later, we decided to let the student
  decide (within parameters) which school would be
  the home school and disburse aid.
• Still a paper process and part of the paper
  Admissions process.

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Then we invented the wheel..We used TECHNOLOGY!!
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Initial Home School Process

• Send email to students explaining HOME school
  parameters
• Provide link to online questionnaire for home
  school declaration

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Online Questionnaire
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Methods of Data Sharing

• THEN
• Mail /fax data/ email
• Staff access to partner institution data base
• NOW
• OFAX electronic file for financial aid

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OFAX Oregon Financial Aid Exchange

• Multiple-enrollment data exchange
• for financial aid purposes
• Participating schools send in their data via a
  secure web site
• OFAX server processes file
• Return matching records sent in by other schools
  via password protected email attachment

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What do we want to do with the data once we have
it?

• Combine, as appropriate, with OSU data to process
  students financial aid with concurrent
  enrollment information of courses, credits and
  grades.

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OSUs OFAX Data Form
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To infinity and beyond

• Advances in technology
• Single billing
• Statewide agreement
• Quarters/Semesters
• Maintaining human element in a more globalized
  learning environment.

-Buzz Lightyear
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What can we do better?

• What role do you play in facilitating students
  successful entry into the DPP?
• What questions do you have about the process?
• What questions about the DPP are you often asked
  by families or colleagues?
• What might be done to improve recruitment,
  marketing, orientation, admissions, or financial
  aid delivery for DPP students?