Ohlone College

Guided Pathways UpdatesMonday, February 25, 2019, College Council

What is GP all about?Source: https://www.thecrcconnection.com/news/2018/11/14/pathways-offers-students-a-quicker-path-for-transferring/

Spring 2019 Learning College Week

Spring 2019 Learning College Week

Spring 2019 Learning College Week

Archive, https://www.ohlone.edu/gparchiveDiscovery (our strengths)

• Diversity and collaboration

• Student-centered, we are passionate about student success, we create opportunities for our students

• We are experts, we are innovators, we encourage cross-collaboration

• We encourage healthy skepticism, individual exploration and critical thinking

LCW brief and Guiding Principles

Archive, https://www.ohlone.edu/gparchiveDream (using our strengths to help students succeed)

• Increase integration and collaboration between instruction and student services and make students aware of resources available at Ohlone

• Create more opportunities for students to connect to learning communities

• Institutional support for interdisciplinary collaboration, collaborative assignments, interdisciplinary topics and community building

• Build computer systems that interface with one another so they become a strength, not a barrier to effective teamwork

LCW brief and Guiding Principles

Archive, https://www.ohlone.edu/gparchiveDesign (Discover opportunities)

• Improve communication and processes across the institution

• Pathways include opportunities to explore courses across disciplines, tools to foster interdisciplinary collaboration

• Look at what has worked historically and try to revamp some of the best things we've done, review curriculum and design/recreate

• Student focus groups to incorporate student voices into our GP design, elicit student feedback throughout the semester, improved student involvement and build student centric programs

LCW brief and Guiding Principles

Archive, https://www.ohlone.edu/gparchiveConcerns

• Cost of living, housing, commute• Outreach• Campus-wide collaboration not strong enough• Silos• Too many changes at once• We talk a lot but we don’t get started

LCW brief and Guiding Principles

Guiding Principles

The purpose of the Guiding Principles is to provide direction as to how decisions within the Guided Pathways framework will be made. The Guiding Principles will be reviewed annually by the Guided Pathways taskforce committee.

Guiding Principles

Ohlone College’s goal is to put students first by:• Facilitating a supportive and inclusive campus culture that recognizes

diversity, encourages student expression and participation, and fosters a sense of belonging.

• Inviting student exploration across the curriculum to ensure effective citizenship.

• Offering clear, inclusive pathways designed to support students' interests, academic pursuits, and/or career goals, regardless of educational readiness or part-time/full-time status.

• Promoting the use of technology that is accessible, user-friendly, adaptable, and convenient.

• Supporting equity through robust, disaggregated, thoughtful, and contextualized data analysis to ensure student success.

Guiding Principles

Ohlone College’s goal is to put students first by:• Facilitating a supportive and inclusive campus culture that recognizes

diversity, encourages student expression and participation, and fosters a sense of belonging. 97.37%

• Inviting student exploration across the curriculum to ensure effective citizenship. 91.67%

• Offering clear, inclusive pathways designed to support students' interests, academic pursuits, and/or career goals, regardless of educational readiness or part-time/full-time status. 91.89%

• Promoting the use of technology that is accessible, user-friendly, adaptable, and convenient. 94.74%

• Supporting equity through robust, disaggregated, thoughtful, and contextualized data analysis to ensure student success. 94.29%

Guiding Principles

Decision-making process• Use a survey to get feedback from faculty (done) • Take the draft to the deans • ASOC and ICC meetings to get student feedback (March 1st,

ASOC, March 4th ICC) • Faculty Senate and College Counsel

Meta Majors

• Meta Majors are cluster groups of degrees & certificates that are considered similar from a student’s perspective.

• Help students make the big choices (exploration of careers and opportunities within a general field of study)

• Students do not have to declare a major immediately and they are less likely to take unnecessary units

• The degrees and certificates within a Meta-major share courses to help students to complete on time

Meta Majors

https://programmap.bakersfieldcollege.edu/academics

https://skylinecollege.edu/metamajors/

https://www.alamo.edu/enroll/plan/

https://www.alamo.edu/enroll/plan/

https://www.alamo.edu/enroll/plan/

https://academics.sierracollege.edu/explore-our-academic-programs

Why Meta Majors

https://www.ohlone.edu/academics?field_careers_tid=All

The taskforce committee will apply best practices in meta-major design, and work collaboratively with Ohlone College’s participatory governance groups and campus programs to explore and implement Meta Majors that align with student’s educational aspirations, interests, matriculation plans, skills and abilities.

Ohlone College’s goal is to put students first by:• Designing Meta Majors from the student perspective/perception that clarify career

options and transfer• Providing students with a set of clear program clusters to promote better

enrollment decisions• Facilitating clear communication with all stakeholders (students, faculty, staff and

administration) to ensure broad campus wide participation, vetting and input• Ensuring faculty’s involvement in the design of meta-major clusters and the

placement of majors/programs within Meta Majors

Meta Majors Guiding Principles (draft)

• Setting goals and ideal outcomes of Meta Major implementation

• Review the work that has already been done to identify possible clusters

• Review the scope of program offerings and determine the right level of program groupings

• Review labor market and GE course alignment

• Identify stakeholders and discuss how to foster campus-wide participation and leadership

• Review data relevant to crafting Meta Majors and conduct surveys and collect feedback

• Developed “clusters” of majors in consultation with faculty and student focus groups.

• Finish the Meta Major draft by the end of the semester

Meta Majors Workplan

https://www.ohlone.edu/sites/default/files/users/IReichert/what_are_meta-majors.pdf

Meta Majors Key Questions

• Growing the committee (more faculty and dedicated administration)

• Expand student involvement• Invite the community to be part of the process• Better advocacy

A few thoughts…

Discussion/Questions

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