Success is what counts'

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UH Community Colleges Initiatives and Directions

• Success is what counts.

Vice President for Community Colleges John
Morton October 2007
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Access with Success
Simply put - Hawaii needs more people with the
right college degrees
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The Workforce Development Challenges Facing
Hawaii

• The shift in the type of jobs from low-skilled
  agriculture and manufacturing to higher-skilled
  services, including professional and technical.
• The aging of the workforce the baby boomers
  are getting ready to retire.
• The high cost of housing makes it increasingly
  difficult to continue to depend on imported
  workers.

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The Workforce Development Challenges Facing
Hawaii

• We need to fill approximately 28,000 jobs
  annually.
• There are only 14,000 high school graduates each
  year, and about 3,000 leave the state.
• We need to increase the percentage of the
  population who enter the workforce.

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An Individuals Level of Education is Directly
Related to Their Ability to Participate in the
Workforce
Hawaii Civilians Age 25-64 in the Workforce by
Education Attainment, 2005
Source U.S. Census Bureau, 2005 ACS PUMS File
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Lack of basic skills is a barrier to future
success
Source The National Center for Public Policy and
Higher Education
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However, The Worker Preparation Pipeline is Leaky

• Too many HS graduates unprepared for either work,
  or further education.
• 80 of recent HS graduates unprepared for Math
  100
• 62 of recent HS graduates unprepared for English
  100
• 54 of recent HS graduates unprepared for the
  reading required for college

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FIXING HAWAIIS LEAKY EDUCATION PIPELINE
For Every 100 Students in Grade 9
65 Graduate HS on Time
Source NCES Common Core Data, NCES IPEDS 2004
Residence and Migration Survey, NCEC IPEDS 2004
Fall Enrollment Survey and Graduation Rate Survey
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FIXING HAWAIIS LEAKY EDUCATION PIPELINE
33 Enter College
13 Graduate Within 150 (AA, AS 3 yrs BA, BS
6 yrs)
Source NCES Common Core Data, NCES IPEDS 2004
Residence and Migration Survey, NCEC IPEDS 2004
Fall Enrollment Survey and Graduation Rate Survey
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UH Community Colleges Entering Student Placement
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UHCC Enrollment
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High School to UHCCs Going Rate
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He answers...
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Support for Enrollment Growth
2007-2008 1,195,594 2008-2009 2,273,625 T
o cover additional costs related to enrollment
growth
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Strategic Planning GoalAccess American
Diploma Project

• Align high school standards with college and work
  expectations
• Require all high school students to take more
  challenging college and work-prep courses
• Administer tests that measure readiness for
  college and work to all high school students
  (e.g. Algebra II End of Course Exam)
• Collect data and hold high school and
  postsecondary institutions accountable for
  student success

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Strategic Planning GoalAccess (contd)

• Distance Education
• UH 2nd Decade Project
• Cross-campus Registration
• Degree Pathways
• Financial Aid

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Access to what - Workforce Development

• STEM initiatives
• Construction and other CTE academies
• Targeted shortage areas - nursing, teaching,
  computing/IT, optics
• Mid-management supervisors
• MELE and other innovation initiatives

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Access to what -Workforce Development

• Community colleges should be the recognized
  experts in understanding
• Job trends and demands
• Workforce supply
• CTE pedagogy and student success

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Achieving the Dream

• Achieving the Dream is a national initiative to
  help more community college students succeed
  (complete courses, earn certificates and earn
  degrees).
• The initiative in Hawaii is particularly
  concerned about student groups that have faced
  the most significant barriers to success,
  including Native Hawaiians, low-income, and other
  under-served students.

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National partner organizations

• American Association of Community Colleges
• Community College Leadership Program
• Community College Research Center
• Institute for Higher Education
• Jobs for the Future
• MDC (managing partner) MDRC and
• Public Agenda.

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Hawaiis Partners and Funders
The Kamehameha Schools The Office of Hawaiian
Affairs The University of Hawaii, Community
Colleges
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Achieving the Dream colleges
SOUTH CAROLINA Aiken Technical College,
Aiken Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College,
Orangeburg Technical College Of The Lowcountry,
Beaufort Trident Technical College,
Charleston TEXAS Paris Junior College,
Paris The Victoria College, Victoria University
Of Houston, Houston VIRGINIA Northern Virginia
Community College, Annandale
Springfield Technical Community College,
Springfield MICHIGAN Bay De Noc Community
College, Escanaba Henry Ford Community College,
Dearborn Jackson Community College,
Jackson Lake Michigan College, Benton
Harbor North Central Michigan College,
Petoskey Wayne County Community College,
Detroit OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City Community
College, Oklahoma City Rose State
College,Midwest City Tulsa Community College,
Tulsa
2007 (4th Round) ARKANSAS National Park
Community College, Hot Springs Ouachita
Technical College, Malvern Phillips
Community College, Helena Pulaski Technical
College, North Little Rock
HAWAII The University Of Hawaii
Community College System, statewide MASSACHUSETTS
Bunker Hill Community College, Boston Northern
Essex Community College, Lawrence Roxbury
Community College, Roxbury
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AtD Benefits

• AtD will provide additional data and analysis on
  information already gathered for on-going
  projects (e.g. Self Study, Strategic Planning,
  and Remedial/ Developmental White Paper)
• View student success over time aggregated by
  ethnicity/income/etc.

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Achieving the Dream

• As we proceed with AtD, well begin to look at
  key pieces of data in a variety of ways
• Overall student success
• Native Hawaiian student success
• Non Native Hawaiian student success
• An example as applied to gatekeeper courses
  follows

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Hawaii CC Gatekeeper Courses
Course Students Succeeding
of cum fall headcount (C or
higher) (approximate ) ENG
21 61 10 (700) ENG 22 55 8 HIST
151 61 8 MATH 22 63 5 HIST
152 65 4 ENG 20W 52 4 MATH
24X 56 4 HWST 124 67 3
Courses that enroll more than one half of one
percent of Fall 2004/05/06 headcount
(cumulative) and lt70 are successful. (Total
Gkpr courses 46)
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Hawaii CC Gatekeeper Courses
Course Students Succeeding
of cum fall headcount (C or
higher) ENG
20R 46 1.46 HWST 242 47 0.83 ESL
11 48 0.61 MATH 27 48 1.04 ECON
130 49 0.65 ESL 13 51 0.39 ENG
20W 52 3.66 ACC 201 53 1.07 ENG
22 55 8.04
Courses that enroll more than one half of one
percent of Fall 2004/05/06 headcount
(cumulative) and lt70 are successful. (Total
Gkpr courses 46)
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Hawaii CC English Gatekeepers
Courses that enroll more than one half of one
percent of Fall 2004/05/06 cumulative headcounts
and lt70 are successful.
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Hawaii CC Math Gatekeepers
Courses that enroll more than one half of one
percent of Fall 2004/05/06 cumulative headcount
and lt 70 are successful.
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Hawaii CC Other Gatekeepers
Courses that enroll more than one half of one
percent of Fall 2004/05/06 cumulative headcount
and lt70 are successful.
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Continuation If they dont come back they dont
complete

• In the top states, 62 of entering community
  college students return their second year. In
  the UH Community College System, 45 return.
• At Hawaii CC 39 overall return (53 of FT and
  29 of PT).

Source Measuring Up 2006 Completion and IPEDS
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Hawaii CC Graduation, Transfer, or Continuation
within 3 years
Source IPEDS Graduation Rate Survey for first
time, full time students who entered Fall 2002.
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Graduation rates vary by ethnicity
Source IPEDS Graduation Rate Survey for first
time, full time students who entered Fall 2002
and were graduated before Fall 2005.
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We can help more community college students
succeed

• Achieving the Dream supports colleges efforts to
  help students stick with their studies and attain
  their academic goals.
• Colleges work within a culture of evidence, a
  collective mindset in which critical decisions
  affecting students are informed by data and
  evaluated in light of whether student achievement
  increases.

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We can help more community college students
succeed

• Central to this work is being open and forthright
  about our colleges current performance and
  improving where we need to.

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The University of Hawaii Community Colleges are
committed to

• examining data on student achievement
• basing decisions on data
• confronting and addressing achievement gaps
• monitoring our progress closely and
• sharing our findings broadly.

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AtD A five-year initiative

• Goal is to increase number of students who
  successfully
• complete remedial/developmental courses
• complete gatekeeper courses
• complete all enrolled courses with C or higher
• re-enroll from one semester to the next and
• earn certificates and/or degrees.

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State Policies and Practices Matter

• Adopt policies and practices that promote student
  success
• Develop a robust student information and
  reporting capacity
• Establish benchmarks and goals for student
  success, and monitor progress
• Develop articulated programs of study between DOE
  and UHCCs
• Make better use of financial aid to promote
  low-income students success

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AtD Next Steps and Timeline

• Review student outcome data
• Consensus on gaps in achievement, gap causes and
  system and college priorities
• Analyze strategies to close the gap (February
  2008 national conference)
• Develop Implementation plan and
• Submit Implementation plan proposal by May 2008.

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UHCC AtD CORE TEAM

• John Morton, VPCC
• Rockne Freitas, HAW
• Suzette Robinson, MAU
• Lui Hokoana, WIN
• William Akama, LEE
• Kristine Korey-Smith, KAP
• Earl Nishiguchi, KAU
• Ken Kato, HON
• Noe Noe Wong-Wilson, HAW
• Jan Petersen, HON

• Kauka de Silva, KAP
• Ilei Beniamina, KAU
• Patsylee Dudoit, LEE
• Wini Chung, MAU
• Keliko Hoe, WIN
• Kamuela Chun, OVPCC
• flo wiger, OVPCC
• Cheryl Chappell-Long, OVPCC
• Mike Rota, OVPCC

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Strategic Planning GoalSupport
To improve Access, Success, and Workforce
development, well need support in

• Financing the University Study
• Repair Maintenance /Facilities
• Business Services
• Policies
• Data Reporting
• HI-PASS

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UHCC Next Steps

• UHCC Strategic Planning Council
• October 19, 2007
• Chancellors
• Faculty Senate Chairs
• Student Government Leaders