Funding for Community Colleges Noncredit Programs a local program perspective

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Funding for Community Colleges Noncredit
Programs a local program perspective

• School of
• Continuing Education
• North Orange County
• Community College District
• Cypress College
• Fullerton College

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Authorized Noncredit Instructional
CategoriesCalifornia Education CodeNOCCCD SCE
total 2002-03 enrollment 72,000Category

02-03 enrollment

• Adults with Disabilities 1,153
• Elementary Secondary Basic Skills 10,757
• English As A Second Language (ESL) 16,399
• Immigrants (Citizenship) 375
• Parenting 1,630
• Short-term Vocational not reported
• Older Adults 11,332
• Home Economics not reported
• Health Safety not reported

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NOCCCD SCE total 2002-03 enrollment 72,000

• Additional benefit, serving the community
• fee-based (self-supporting)
• Kids College 5,003
• On-line 634
• Other grant tuition offerings not reported

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English As A Second Language

• Levels taught
• Beginning Literacy
• to
• Intermediate High Advanced
• also
• Special needs classes Conversation,
  Pronunciation, Reading/Grammar, Writing, VESL
  Workskills, ESL Computers
• Curriculum assessment integrated with Cypress
  Fullerton Colleges

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English As A Second LanguageAbility to meet
local needs

• Enrollment strong at 3 SCE campuses but
  availability of classrooms limited
• partner with Elementary Schools community
  centers by placing ESL classes in community
• the community classroom is multi-level to
  maintain fundable class size not ideal learning
  environment
• No ESL Learning Labs at off-site class locations
  and
• no student support services

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English As A Second LanguageAbility to meet
local needs

• Assessment of language proficiency
• New Interchange, a language based assessment
  built for current curriculum
• CASAS, Life Skills assessment only
• Problems with CASAS oral and written assessments
• - lengthy test for the student
• - scoring is labor intensive, takes away time
  from student
• - testing large s of new students at peak
• registration periods
• (few agencies use CASAS ESL oral written
  samples)

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English As A Second Languagequality of services

• Reporting Student Outcomes-
• 02-03 CASAS Benchmarks
• of 2130 ESL enrolled, assessed, completing
• 69 made significant gains
• per Life Skills assessment
• 28 completed 2 levels of ESL

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English As A Second LanguageAbility to meet
local needs

• Recommendations
• Fund services provided directly to the student
  instruction, instructional support, and student
  support services
• 2. Fund accountability efforts institutional
  research
• Valid reliable assessment means we must ask the
  right questions to measure ESL gains, we need
  to measure language acquisition in line with
  curriculum being taught
• Need for greater ability to track and report
  student learning outcomes noncredit/adult
  education programs rarely have resources for
  institutional researchers

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Elementary Secondary Basic Skills
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Short-term VocationalNOCCCD School of Continuing
Education

• some offerings types of certificates awarded
• Auto Technology Completion
• Business Education Skills
• Computer Training Program
• Hospitality Careers Career
• Retail Meat Cutting
• Bartending
• Construction Inspection
• Cosmetology
• Early Childhood Education
• Electronics
• Medical
• Pharmacy Technician

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Short-term VocationalAbility to meet local needs
an example

• In Winter 2004 term, matriculation components
  (Orientation,
• Assessment, Counseling) were applied to new
  Pharmacy
• Technician Career Certificate program.
• 38 new students for Pharmacy Technician were
  assessed on math ability
• 47 (18) scored below 8th grade level math
• 53 (20) scored above 8th grade level math

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• Pharmacy Tech Orientation Assessment
• GRADE LEVEL RESULTS
• Post high school 3
• High school 17
• 8th grade 3
• 7th grade 4
• 6th grade 7
• 5th grade 1
• 3rd grade 1
• 2nd grade 2
• u PT faculty a curriculum review indicated that
  new students
• needed to be at High School level math to
  successfully complete
• the Pharmacy Math course 47 scored below 8th
  grade level
• u As of 2/04, students scoring below 7th grade
  level, have NOT enrolled in Pharmacy Tech
  program. Greater follow-up and support services
  needed

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Short-term VocationalAbility to meet local needs

• Other basic skills needs for vocational students
  include ESL and ABE
• Noncredit matriculation funding enables
  assessment of student preparedness for vocational
  courses programs
• Noncredit matriculation funding provides
  advisement on-going counselor support
• Limited staffing funding impedes delivery of
  this model to all SCE vocational programs

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Older Adultsability to meet local needs

• Major issues for California
• Eroding tax base rising medical costs
• An aging population
• Importance of Older Adults adult education
• Classes promote health well-being
• Serve low income seniors, some who cannot afford
  to retire and must re-train re-career thus
  learn new skills
• Classes necessary for self-maintenance economic
  self-sufficiency
• Re-direct seniors to positive involvement in
  communities a source of community social
  services volunteers
• Without these opportunities, working families may
  be diverted to care of aging parents, health
  social services systems would be impacted even
  more

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Providing student support servicesComparing
Noncredit Credit Matriculationor,Why treat
Noncredit students so differently than Credit
students?

• Noncredit
• Orientation
• Assessment
• Counseling

• Credit
• Admissions
• Orientation
• Assessment
• Counseling/Advisement
• Follow-up
• Coordination Training
• Research/Evaluation
• Pre- and co-requisites

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Types of counseling / student services
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Growth in demand for counseling
appointmentsimproved delivery of services
increasing demand
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Highlighted Student Outcomes

• Orientation, assessment, and counseling
  components help significantly increase of SCE
  high school subjects enrollments completers
  (14 increase, 2001-02)
• High school outreach efforts increase diploma
  awardees 44 of those returning to studies in
  2001-02 were awarded high school diploma

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Impact benefit of additional funding streams
(e.g. Noncredit Matriculation)

• Noncredit student support counseling services
• Implementation of career centers career
  services
• Student Records strengthening a department
• Graduation events Student Success recognition
• Shared governance building partnerships
• Student centers
• Matriculation of noncredit students to credit
  students

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Who are the adult education students?

• Flor de Maria Obregon
• 2003 High School Diploma recipient,
• 2003 Associate of Arts, Fullerton College
• Awarded Ella Mae Burke Scholarship

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Funding for Community Colleges Noncredit Programs
such a deal

• Adult education funding is cost-effective
  efficient infrastructure is in place
• Local partnerships between K-12 Community
  Colleges adult education meet needs of local
  communities
• Community College based adult education connects
  Californians to post-secondary education

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Funding for Community CollegesNoncredit Programs
how are we limited

• Minimal tutoring and academic support for all
  noncredit students (more learning labs are needed
  with more staffing longer hours of operation)
• Few full-time faculty to respond to community
  needs and develop needed curriculum programs
• Expansion of counseling and student services
  needed
• Student outreach efforts needed
• Adult education is not properly evaluated state
  MIS is not set up to collect data to evaluate
  programs. Funding for accountability
  institutional research efforts are very limited

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Funding Community CollegesNoncredit Programs
to meet needs demands of our communities we
need

• Continued growth in funding and the ability to
  meet needs of a growing and diverse population
• The ability to establish local priorities to
  serve the unique needs of each local community
• State MIS data collection that enables program
  evaluation documents student outcomes