Student Success B.C.E. (Before the Classroom Experience)

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Student Success B.C.E. (Before the Classroom
Experience)

• Beth Smith, Grossmont CollegeMichelle
  Grimes-Hillman, Mt. San Antonio CollegeJesse
  Ortiz, Woodland College
• Academic Senate Spring 2012 Plenary Session

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Goals for the Breakout

• Brief history of matriculation
• Discuss the new matriculation legislation The
  Student Success Act of 2012
• What will this new legislation mean for colleges?
• What are next steps for matriculation
  professionals?
• How can counseling and non-counseling faculty
  work together?

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1986 AB 3 Intent

• Written into law to ensure equal educational
  opportunity for all Californians.
• To furnish services to students that would
  enhance the students opportunities and access to
  courses and programs.

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1986-AB 3Matriculation Act Components(July 1990
implementing of Act adopted by BOG, process
began in February 1988)

• 1. Admission
• 2. Orientation
• 3. Assessment Testing
• 4.Counseling
• 5. Student Follow-up
• 6. Coordination and Training
• 7.Research and Evaluation

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2009-2010 Flexibility

• August 26, 2009 Memo from State Chancellors
  Office.
• Communicated that AB X4 2 provide categorical
  flexibility for some programs which included
  Matriculation
• In effect until 2013
• Fundamental services Orientation,
  Assessment, and Counseling

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A glance at Matriculation BudgetSelected Years
Source CCC Chancellors Office
Year Credit Non-Credit
2011 - 2012 39,427,001. 9,381,000.
2010 - 2011 39,452,000. 9,381,000.
2009 - 2010 39,802,368. 9,380,612.
2008 - 2009 81,515,364. 20,000,000.
2006 - 2007 75,234,850. 19,973,951.
2005 - 2006 51,180,000. 14,842,670.
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Student Success Act of 2012

• http//www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_14
  51-1500/sb_1456_bill_20120328_amended_sen_v98.pdf

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Whats Unchanged in the Act?

• Enacted only when there is funding (note no
  qualifying adjective, i.e. sufficient)
• Still requires orientation, assessment,
  counseling, matriculation plan
• Still requires colleges to measure effectiveness
  of matriculation

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Whats New in the Act?

• Reduced use of the word matriculation
• Links funding to number of students getting
  matriculation services (page 12, line19) use of
  the scorecard and common assessment (page 12,
  lines 29-30)
• Adds Program of Study (page 8, line 12)
• Insistence on college use of technology to
  deliver some services (page 9, line 8)

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• Student must determine educational goal upon
  enrollment (page 8, line 11)
• Board of Governors to establish a reasonable
  implementation period to reduce impact to
  students (page 8, lines 18-22)
• Students are required to maintain academic
  progress toward education goal (page 8, line15)
• Educational Planning Services is identified as
  a separate service for the college (page 8, line
  39)
• Required referrals to specialized services (page
  9, line 13)

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• Required advisement or counseling for students in
  basic skills courses or who have not declared an
  educational goal or on probation (page 9, lines
  25-29)
• Funding shall be targeted to fully implement
  matriculation (page 9, lines 32-37)
• Additional accountability metrics (page 11, line
  1)
• Evaluation of the Act (page 11, line 10 and 14)

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What is Required by Colleges?

• Evaluation of each students academic progress
  (page 9, line 25)
• Interventions for students who are at risk (on
  academic probation, receiving financial aid,
  etc.) (page 9, line 25)
• Priority registration (page 7, lines19-20)
• If you receive funds, then you must use common
  assessment (page 12)
• Development of a Student Success and Support
  Program Plan linked to student equity plan (page
  13)

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California Community CollegeRelevant Student
Success Plans Today

• 1969 Extended Opportunity Program
  Services-EOPS, SB 164 (Alquist)
• 1986 Matriculation Act, AB 3 (Seymour-Campbell
  Act)
• 1990 Intersegmental General Education Transfer
  Curriculum-IGETC (pilot 1985)
• 1991 Transfer Articulation TAG implemented,
  SB 121 (Hart)
• 1992 Student Equity Policy Title 5
• 2004 Accountability Report for Community
  Colleges- ARCC, AB 1417 (Pacheco)
• 2006 Basic Skills Initiative- BSI
• September 2010 Student Transfer Achievement
  Reform Act/Associate Degrees for Transfer, SB
  1440 (Padilla)
• September 2010 Student Success Task Force, SB
  1143 (Liu)
• February 2012 Seymour-Campbell Student Success
  Act of 2012, SB 1456 (Lowenthal)

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Now What?????
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Role of Counseling and Delivery of Counseling
Services

• Need counselors to take the lead in helping to
  determine the delivery of education planning
  services, interventions, training of
  paraprofessionals and faculty advisors
• Senates can facilitate the processes for
  training, policies for how student success
  efforts will be implemented, and involvement of
  the faculty