Leading Through the

New Completion AgendaDr. Richard CarpenterChancellor

Jonathan DurfieldAssociate Vice Chancellor, Government Affairs

Amy WelchState Director, Completion by Design

this isa

Game Changer!

Make No Mistake…

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One of four national host sites for the White House

Regional Summit on Community Colleges.

Completion Definitions

Completion rate: The percentage of individuals who complete a certificate or degree (e.g., associate’s and bachelor’s).

Sources: Common College Completion Metrics, National Governors Association Chair’s Initiative, 2011.Adrienne Arnold, “Retention and Persistence in Postsecondary Education”, TGSLC, March 1999.

Attainment rate: The percentage of a population that has obtained a certificate or degree.

Productivity: Awarding more higher education certificates and degrees within the same resources, while maintaining quality.

Persistence: a student’s continuation behavior leading to a desired goal.

Retention rate: the percentage of entering undergraduates who enroll consecutively semester to semester at an institution of higher education.

Why Community Colleges?

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

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.

Community Colleges Today

Source: AACC, “Serving Communities, Strengthening the Nation.”

Potential First Time Student Successful

Completion

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

Completes SEP

Books in stock at Bookstore

Library Orientation

Effective degree audit

Effective Early Alert program

Faculty Letter of Recommendation /

intro to network

Effective Orientation

Good impression from campus visit

Talk to Univ. Rep /

Employer

IntrusiveCounseling

Meet with college outreach professional

Attends Lecture Series

Join club / participate in student Govt

Connecting with faculty outside

classroom

Clean petition process

User-friendly application process

Leverages Learning Center resources

Powerful learning experience in classroom

Financial Aid Support

Successful Completion

Get accurate perception from HS counselor

Placement Test Prep

PROGRESSENTRY COMPLETION

Potential First Time Student

CONNECTION

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

Where are we as a nation?

And why does all of this matter?

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

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Percentage of Young-Adult Degree Attainment(Ages 25-34)

Where are we?

Source: Across the Great Divide, March 2011

• 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

Where are we?

Source: Across the Great Divide, March 2011

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.

Governmental Solution:Federal

“…by 2020, community colleges will produce an additional 5 million graduates.”

- President Barack Obama

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

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.

Governmental Solution:Federal

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.

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.

Source: 2010-2011 National Governors Association Chair’s Initiative

Governmental Solution:National

“…dramatically increasing the nation’s college completion rate through state policy change.”

Key Policy Areas• Performance funding• Time-to-degree• Remediation• Restructure

Source: www.completecollege.org

CompletionInnovationChallenge

$10 million to 10 states

Governmental Solution:National

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

Performance Based Funding – Texas, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Washington

Governmental Solution:State Policies

Reduce Time-to-Degree – Connecticut, Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee

Source: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Governmental Solution:State Funding

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.

© 2010 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | 2525

Appendix 3: PS Geography Served/Grant Investment Profile

Total PS Grant Awards 2008-2011: $134.9M# of

States$$ in

States

< $1M 26 $5.9

$1 – 5M 16 $30.6

$5 - 10M 3 $17.4

> $10M 5 $81.0

Complete College America Alliance of States

Completion by Design Colleges (tentative)

AtD Developmental Education Initiative Colleges

CLIP/Partners for Postsecondary Success (PPS)Sites

Adult Basic Education/GED to Credential States (tentative)

AtD Developmental Education Initiative States

Postsecondary Success States of Interest

College-Ready Focus State

Hawaii

Alaska

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.

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. 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., Achieving the Dream). These 128 CCs enroll an additional 1.5M students, approximately 375,000 of whom are low-income.

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The Big Goal: To increase the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials to 60 percent by the year 2025.

Source: Lumina Foundation for Education. www.luminafoundation.org

Achieving the Dream - $67+ million

$5.4million – 2011-Q2 grants

$15.4million – 2011-Q1 grants

$14.8million – Adult degree attainment projects

Achieve, Inc. - $1.2million

$43.4million – 2010 grants

Philanthropic Solution:Lumina Foundation

in Texas20

Completion Initiatives!

Philanthropic Solution

COMPLETION BY DESIGN

Philanthropic Solution:Gates Foundation

All Students in FTIC Cohort

Liberal Arts and Sciences Concen-

trators

CTE Concentrators Non-Concentra-tors

Non-Attempters0%

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Five-Year Highest Outcomes: Concentrators Compared with Non-Concentrators and Non-Attempters

Still enrolled at college in Year 5 with 30+ college credits

Bachelor's (other inst.)

Transferred to 4-Year institution with no award

Certificate or associate (other inst.)

Transferred to 4-Year institution with an award

Bachelor's degree (starting inst.)

Associate degree

Certificate ≥ 1 yr.

Certificate < 1 yr.

Pathway Analysis: A New Way of Looking at Data

State System Capacity: Characteristics of the state policy environment that enable diffusion of the pathway • State-level champions: Policymakers, higher

education, business and community leaders committed to completion

• Expertise in Completion-Practices: Community College leaders and policymakers knowledgeable about practices to support completion

• State policy aligns to completion: State policies incentivizes adoption of completion pathway design principles

Completion Pathway: The integrated set of policies, practices, programs and processes intentionally designed to maximize student completion across the loss-momentum framework.

Design Principles1. Anchored in clearly-defined learning

competencies (to allow for quality, flexibility, and acceleration )

2. Prioritizes accelerating academic catch-up

3. Differentiates/customizes instruction and support to optimize each student’s credential attainment

4. Leverages technology to significantly improve learning, student services, and manage costs

5. Promotes enrollment in structured and coherent programs of study

6. Provides timely data to inform decision making (for students, faculty and administrators)

7. Integrates seamlessly with K-12, transfer partners and employers

High-Performing College Capacity: The capacities/skills essential to designing and maintaining the completion pathway

• Learning-focused leadership: Leadership at all levels (trustees, administrators, faculty, student services) makes student learning and completion top priority

• Data Analysis Capacity: Expertise in sophisticated analysis of student outcome and financial data to inform practice improvement and resource allocation

• Technology Capacity---uses technology to increase efficiency of service delivery and support sophisticated data analysis

• Culture of Improvement and Innovation: Staff at all levels (trustees, administration, faculty, student services) engaged in continuous innovation to improve experience for most students

State System

High Performing

College

Completion Pathway

Building Capacities

THE WAY FORWARD

The Way Forward

Source: Across the Great Divide, March 2011

• 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)

• Interventions

Student by Student

• Adoption

Institution by Institution

• Policy

State by State

COMPLETION…

The Way Forward:Scale

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