5. LOW COMPLETION RATES =
A NATIONAL CONCERN
Lack of
education
Impacts:
• Families
• Communities
• U.S. Economy / Competition
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6. Community Colleges
Focus
on raising
student
completion
rates
…through new educational initiatives
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7. Completion By Design
• 5-year Community
College re-design
effort
• Funded by the Bill
& Melinda Gates
Foundation
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8. Completion By Design
A unique, comprehensive approach.
Improves systems:
Through use of data
With a holistic view
Across entire student
experience
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9. Completion By Design
CDAT
Partnership
National
Assistance Team
College Personnel
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10. CONNECTION ENTRY PROGRESS COMPLETION P
Enrollment to Entry into Course of Complete Course of A
T
Interest to Completion of Study to Study to
H
Application Gatekeeper 75% Requirements Credential with
Courses Completed Labor Market Value
4 PHASES of the STUDENT EXPERIENCE
M–O–M–E–N–T–U–M
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11. CONNECTION ENTRY PROGRESS COMPLETION P
Enrollment to Entry into Course of Complete Course of A
T
Interest to Completion of Study to Study to
H
Application Gatekeeper 75% Requirements Credential with
Courses Completed Labor Market Value
Don’t apply Poor prep 75% low-income Limited advising = L
Delayed entry Only 30% in students combine credit/debt not O
Under enrollment development ed work and school matched to degree S
Poor matching continue on Many work >20 Leave with credits S
Missed $Aid Fail to enroll/pass hrs/wk except math
Gatekeeper courses Schedule changes Transfer without
PT enrollment = credential
slower progress Credential doesn’t
Complex modern lead to a family-
lives = disruptions 11
supporting wage
12. CONNECTION ENTRY PROGRESS COMPLETION P
Enrollment to Entry into Course of Complete Course of A
T
Interest to Completion of Study to Study to
H
Application Gatekeeper 75% Requirements Credential with
Courses Completed Labor Market Value
Data – where, when and why students:
Succeed
Drop out
Languish
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13. CONNECTION ENTRY PROGRESS COMPLETION P
Enrollment to Entry into Course of Complete Course of A
T
Interest to Completion of Study to Study to
H
Application Gatekeeper 75% Requirements Credential with
Courses Completed Labor Market Value
Consistent standards Assessment and Incent attendance Mandatory advising
Leverage technology G
Going to college placement tools Transfer with
Credentials for high- A
supported by others Mandatory advising credentials incentives
I
Understanding of Attendance, life skills demand fields Remove barriers to
Emergency aid N
college, $ aid, etc. Declared study link graduation
Dual enrollment, AP career pathway Learn and Earn
credit, etc. Academic catch-up programs
Placement exams $ Aid support
Enroll from H.S. Course redesign
– STRATEGIES TO GAIN MOMENTUM –
STUDENT DATA SYSTEMS * STUDENT ENGAGEMENT * LEADERSHIP FOCUS ON COMPLETION
Don’t apply Poor prep 75% low-income Limited advising = L
Delayed entry Only 30% in students combine credit/debt not O
Under enrollment development ed work and school matched to degree S
Poor matching continue on Many work >20 Leave with credits S
Missed $Aid Fail to enroll/pass hrs/wk except math
Gatekeeper courses Schedule changes Transfer without
PT enrollment = credential
slower progress Credential doesn’t
Complex modern lead to a family-
lives = disruptions 13
supporting wage
14. Completion By Design
• Not a pilot
program
• Not focused on 1
aspect of change
• Not focused on 1
specific student
population
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15. Completion By Design
Other higher
education efforts
underway:
Enhancement
Alignment
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16. Completion By Design
Launched 2011 with 21 colleges across 4 states:
FLORIDA CADRE: NORTH CAROLINA OHIO CADRE: TEXAS CADRE:
Miami Dade CADRE: Sinclair Comm. Lone Star
College Guilford Technical College, College System
(7 campuses) Community 2 campuses (+ 4 colleges)
College (+ 2 colleges)
(+ 4 colleges)
MDC: Largest GTCC: 3rd largest SCC : Nationally Lone Star: Fastest-
institution of Higher Community College recognized for growing college
Education in the in North Carolina innovations in system in Texas
U.S. Development
Education
Policy work led by: Policy work led by: Policy work led by: Policy work led by:
Florida College NC Community Ohio Association of Educate Texas
System / College System Community Colleges
Department
of Education
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17. Completion By Design
Colleges selected for:
Pioneering vision
Capacity to embrace ambitious goals
Ability to serve as role models in their states
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18. Completion By Design
catalyst for deep,
systemic cultural change
in
Community Colleges
across the country
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19. Completion By Design
Please visit
www.
CompletionByDesign
.org
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20. helping Community Colleges transform
the student experience
from aspiration to accomplishment
COMPLETION
BY DESIGN
www.CompletionByDesign.org
OVERVIEW PRESENTATION
Produced for: CDAT
By: Clodine Mallinckrodt
Spring, 2012
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Welcome! This overview describes Completion by Design, a new effort in support of student success in community colleges.
In the United States, nearly half of all college students are enrolled in community colleges.
They aspire to earn a degree or credential that prepares them for further education or success in the workplace.
Yet, a range of obstacles confront these students – and, the colleges that work so hard to shepherd them.
Low completion rates are of national concern: Lack of education impacts families and communities, as well as the economic and competitive strength of our country.
In response, community colleges across the country have renewed focuson raising student completion rates.Many adopt educational initiatives that now exist to help improve student success.
Completion by Design is a 5-year community college re-design effort, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Most unique about this effort is its comprehensive approach. Completion by Design facilitates a data-driven, holistic evaluation and improvement of systems, across the entire lifecycle of the student experience.
CDAT - the Completion By Design Assistance Team – serves as the hub for the initiative. It coordinates the National Assistance Team, and both partner closely with college personnel.
Together, we analyze the student’s full experience of the college, as a path across 4 phases:Connection, Entry, Progress, and, Completion.
Research shows that in each phase, a host of issues can arise. The result? A loss of momentum.
We help the colleges examine their own data – to understand exactly when, where and why students succeed, drop out, or simply languish.
Then, the colleges strengthen and integrate strategies that help students more quickly find or solidify their direction, and stay on track. The result? A gain in momentum.
Completion by Design is not a pilot program. It is not focused on just one aspect of change, nor on one specific student population.
As a result, it aligns well with or enhances other higher education efforts already under way.
In 2011, Completion by Design launched with 21 colleges across 4 states.
These colleges were selected for their:Pioneering vision, capacity to embrace the ambitious goals of Completion by Design, and their ability to serve as role models in their states.
All this makes Completion by Design an innovative catalyst for deep, systemic cultural change in community colleges across the country.
To learn more, please visit the website and sign up for our email newsletter.
Thank you! For learning about Completion by Design, a national effort to help community colleges transform the student experience, from aspiration to accomplishment.