1. Leading Through
the
New Completion Agenda
Dr. Richard Carpenter
Chancellor
Jonathan Durfield
Associate Vice Chancellor, Government Affairs
Amy Welch
State Director, Completion by Design

2. Make No Mistake…
this is
a
Game Changer!

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4. One of four national host
sites for the White House
Regional Summit on
Community Colleges.
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5. Completion Definitions
Attainment rate: The percentage of a population that has obtained
a certificate or degree.
Completion rate: The percentage of individuals who complete a
certificate or degree (e.g., associate’s and bachelor’s).
Persistence: a student’s continuation behavior leading to a desired
goal.
Productivity: Awarding more higher education certificates and
degrees within the same resources, while maintaining quality.
Retention rate: the percentage of entering undergraduates who
enroll consecutively semester to semester at an institution of
higher education.
Sources: Common College Completion Metrics, National Governors Association Chair’s Initiative, 2011.
Adrienne Arnold, “Retention and Persistence in Postsecondary Education”, TGSLC, March 1999.

6. Why
Community Colleges?

7. Community Colleges Today
Community Colleges play a particularly critical role in
serving first-time postsecondary students
• Open-access admissions
• Relatively low tuition
• Nearly 1,200 schools across the country, accessible
to most young people in the United States
Today, 12.4 million total students

8. Community Colleges Today
• 43% of all U.S. undergraduate, first-time freshman are at
community colleges.
• Almost half of all Baccalaureate degree recipients first
attended a community college.
• 59% of new nurses (and majority of other new healthcare
workers) are educated at community colleges.
• Almost 80% of firefighters, law enforcement officers, and
EMTs are credentialed at community colleges.
• 95% of U.S. businesses who employ community college
graduates recommend community college workforce
training programs.
Source: AACC, “Serving Communities, Strengthening the Nation.”

9. Potential First
Time Student Successful
Completion
Source: Rob Johnstone. “An Applied Inquiry Framework for Student Completion”.
Presented at Texas Cadre Meeting, Sep. 27, 2011.

10. Books in stock at Attends Lecture Series Leverages Learning
Bookstore Center resources
Placement
Test Prep
Effective
Financial Aid
degree audit
Support
Effective
CONNECTION PROGRESS Clean petition
COMPLETION
ENTRY
Orientation process
Join club /
participate in
Completes SEP student Govt
Potential First Library Orientation Successful
Time Student Completion
Good impression
from campus visit Effective Talk to Univ.
Early Alert Rep /
User-friendly program Employer
application process
Powerful learning
experience in
classroom Connecting with
Get accurate faculty outside Faculty Letter of
perception from classroom Recommendation /
HS counselor Meet with college intro to network
outreach
Intrusive Source: Rob Johnstone. “An Applied Inquiry Framework for Student
professional Completion”. Presented at Texas Cadre Meeting, Sep. 27, 2011.
Counseling

11. Where are we as a nation?
And why does all of this matter?

14. Where are we?
Once first in the world, America now
ranks 10th in the percentage of
young adults with a college degree.
For the first time in our history, the
current generation of college-age
Americans will be less educated than
their parents’ generation…
Source: Complete College America - The Completion Shortfall

15. Percentage of Young-Adult
Degree Attainment
(Ages 25-34)
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16. Where are we?
• Today, more than 70% of high school students enroll
in an advanced education within 2 years
• 1/2 of bachelor’s candidates complete in 6 years
• Less than 1/3 associate’s candidates earn degree in 3
years
• Next decade = 2/3 of jobs will require post-secondary
education
 This requires 3 million more students to graduate
to fill these jobs
Source: Across the Great Divide, March 2011

17. Where are we?
Talent Gap
• American businesses currently demand 97 million
high-skilled jobs; only 45 million have the necessary
skills to do the work.
• Low-skill/low-wage = more than 100 million
candidates for 61 million positions.
• Over past 4 decades, all net job growth = positions
that require some post-secondary education.
Source: Across the Great Divide, March 2011

18. Governmental Solution:
Federal
THE AMERICAN GRADUATION INITIATIVE:
STRONGER AMERICAN SKILLS THROUGH COMMUNITY
COLLEGES
• Increase Pell Grant program – more than double award
• Investment in community colleges - $2B over four years
• Increased support for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)
• Expanded Income Based Repayment plans
“…by 2020, community colleges will produce an
additional 5 million graduates.”
- President Barack Obama

19. Governmental Solution:
Federal
U.S. Department of Labor
$500 million
awarded to 32 community college grantees
Trade Adjustment Assistance
Community College and Career
Training Program (TAACCT) will
strengthen college capacity to build
and expand innovative programs to
provide more workers with the
skills and credentials they need to
succeed in today’s economy.

20. Governmental Solution:
National
National Governors Association (NGA)
Collecting and reporting data is a necessary first step
for states as they seek to improve completion rates
and efficiency in higher education.
NGA College Completion Metrics – account for part-time and
transfer students and can be disaggregated to give states’ data
toward institutional inadequacies, areas for improvement, and
best practices to draw upon.
Source: 2010-2011 National Governors Association Chair’s Initiative

21. Governmental Solution:
National
“…dramatically increasing the nation’s college
completion rate through state policy change.”
Key Policy Areas
• Performance funding
• Time-to-degree Completion
• Remediation Innovation
• Restructure Challenge
$10 million to 10 states
Source: www.completecollege.org

22. Governmental Solution:
State Policies
Reduce Time-to-Degree – Connecticut, Texas, North Carolina, Florida,
Tennessee
Performance Based Funding – Texas, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana,
Florida, Washington
Regional Career Pathways – Arkansas, Montana, Virginia,
Washington, Oregon
Transfer Articulation Agreements – Tennessee, Florida, California,
Arizona
Outreach to “Near Completers” – Kentucky
Integration of State Data Systems – North Carolina, Florida,
Washington
Sources: Jones, Dennis. National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. - for NGA – “Framing a College Attainment Agenda”.
“College Productivity – Four Steps to Finishing First”. Lumina Foundation

23. Governmental Solution:
State Funding
Source: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

24. Institutional Solution:
Lone Star College
Quality Enhancement Plan
(QEP) focused on enhancing
the learning environment and
success rates of first-time-in-
college (FTIC) students.

25. Appendix 3: PS Geography Served/Grant Investment Profile
Of 1,128 total community colleges, PS has direct investments in 182 (16%) across 33 states. These institutions enroll more than 2M students (27%), 472,000 of whom are low-income.1 PS
targets its investments in the community colleges with high numbers of low-income students, with a particular focus on 9 states of interest that have the largest numbers of both low-
income young adults and community colleges, and a supportive policy environment. To date, we have reached 95 of our key target institutions in our 9 focus states, enrolling 338,854 low-
income students.
Alaska
Hawaii
Complete College America Alliance of States
Adult Basic Education/GED to Credential States (tentative)
AtD Developmental Education Initiative States
Postsecondary Success States of Interest
Total PS Grant Awards 2008-2011: $134.9M
College-Ready Focus State # of $$ in
Completion by Design Colleges (tentative) States States
< $1M 26 $5.9
AtD Developmental Education Initiative Colleges
$1 – 5M 16 $30.6
CLIP/Partners for Postsecondary Success (PPS)Sites
$5 - 10M 3 $17.4
1 Data from IPEDS 2008-09. Enrollment figure is total enrollment (not FTE). Pell recipients used as proxy for low-income students; not all Pell-eligible students apply for aid. > $10M 5 $81.0
2007-2008 analysis of national NPSAS data (Kantrowitz) estimated 28% of PELL-eligible students did not apply for aid. Map does include 128 community colleges in
whom we have indirect investments – those that receive services and/or capacity building through a BMGF-funded higher education network, district or system (e.g.,
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Achieving the Dream). These 128 CCs enroll an additional 1.5M students, approximately 375,000 of whom are low-income. © 2010 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | 25

26. Philanthropic Solution:
Lumina Foundation
The Big Goal: To increase the
proportion of Americans with high-
quality degrees and credentials to
60 percent by the year 2025.
$5.4million – 2011-Q2 grants Achieve, Inc. - $1.2million
$15.4million – 2011-Q1 grants
$43.4million – 2010 grants
Achieving the Dream - $67+ million
$14.8million – Adult degree attainment projects
Source: Lumina Foundation for Education. www.luminafoundation.org

27. Philanthropic Solution
in Texas
20
Completion
Initiatives!

28. Philanthropic Solution:
Gates Foundation
COMPLETION BY DESIGN

31. Pathway Analysis: A New
Way of Looking at Data
Five-Year Highest Outcomes:
Concentrators Compared with Non-Concentrators and Non-Attempters
100%
Still enrolled at college in Year 5
90% with 30+ college credits
Bachelor's (other inst.)
80%
70% Transferred to 4-Year
institution with no award
60% Certificate or associate (other
inst.)
50%
Transferred to 4-Year
40% institution with an award
Bachelor's degree (starting
30%
inst.)
20% Associate degree
10%
Certificate ≥ 1 yr.
0%
All Students in Liberal Arts and CTE Concentrators Non-Concentrators Non-Attempters Certificate < 1 yr.
FTIC Cohort Sciences
Concentrators

32. Building Capacities
State System Capacity: Characteristics of the state policy
Completion Pathway: The integrated set of environment that enable diffusion of the pathway
policies, practices, programs and processes •State-level champions: Policymakers, higher
intentionally designed to maximize student education, business and community leaders committed to
completion across the loss-momentum completion
framework. • Expertise in Completion-Practices: Community
College leaders and policymakers knowledgeable about
Design Principles practices to support completion
•State policy aligns to completion: State policies
1. Anchored in clearly-defined learning
incentivizes adoption of completion pathway design
competencies (to allow for principles
quality, flexibility, and acceleration )
2. Prioritizes accelerating academic
catch-up
3. Differentiates/customizes instruction High-Performing College Capacity: The
and support to optimize each student’s capacities/skills essential to designing and maintaining
credential attainment the completion pathway
4. Leverages technology to significantly
improve learning, student services, and •Learning-focused leadership: Leadership at all levels
manage costs (trustees, administrators, faculty, student services)
makes student learning and completion top priority
5. Promotes enrollment in structured and
•Data Analysis Capacity: Expertise in sophisticated
coherent programs of study analysis of student outcome and financial data to inform
6. Provides timely data to inform decision practice improvement and resource allocation
making (for students, faculty and •Technology Capacity---uses technology to increase
administrators) efficiency of service delivery and support sophisticated
7. Integrates seamlessly with K- data analysis
12, transfer partners and employers •Culture of Improvement and Innovation: Staff at all
levels (trustees, administration, faculty, student services)
engaged in continuous innovation to improve experience
for most students

34. The Way Forward
• Credentials Count - instill employer-valued
degrees
• Business and Community College partnerships
 Create “Earn & Learn” collaborations
• Guarantee transfer agreements
• Create incentives for completion - not just
enrollment
• Measure success (and failure)
Source: Across the Great Divide, March 2011

35. The Way Forward:
Scale
Institution by
Institution
• Interventions • Policy
• Adoption
Student by State by
Student State

36. Thank You
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