Postsecondary Innovation Lessons Learned Jason Palmer Deputy Director, Postsecondary Success Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Twitter: @educationpalmer
GATES FOUNDATION
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Four program areas: • Global Development • Global Health • U.S. Education • Policy & Advocacy
THE PROBLEM AND THE OPPORTUNITY
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Source: The Pell Institute (University of Pennsylvania)
Our vision is a U.S. postsecondary education system that propels social mobility and economic development. We invest in partners to transform higher education so that more students, especially low-income, minority and first-generation students, graduate with affordable, high-quality certificates or degrees.
U.S. EDUCATION
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• More than $4 billion invested over 15 years
• More than 300 postsecondary institutional partners • Ranging from Harvard, MIT and Carnegie Mellon • To Morgan State University (HBCU), Sinclair Community College (OH),
Austin Community College (TX) and Miami Dade (FL)
• Almost 100 non-institutional partners and grantees
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THE PROCESS OF “INNOVATION DISCOVERY”
1. Define the problem or loss point
2. Find positive deviants with data
3. Define the innovation (taxonomy)
4. Fund research, white papers, product development, communities of practice, playbooks and scaling efforts
PROMISING INNOVATIONS DISCOVERED
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Adaptive Learning
Advising Redesign
CBE
Certifications
Credit Transfer
DevEd Redesign
Digital Courseware
Emergency Financial Aid
FAFSA Simplification
Fifteen To Finish
Institutional Transformation
Investing In Equity
Marketable Credentials
Non-Cognitive Factors
OBF
Pathways
Predictive Analytics
Programs Of Study
Strategic Finance
Undermatching
Work Study
IMPROVING EQUITY – UNDERMATCHING
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Source: Hoxby Turner Research (American Honors Graphic)
The vast majority of low-income students apply to community colleges or non-selective public institutions within 50 miles of where they live (and very few earn a degree, even if they were great students in high school)
Some qualified low-income students apply to selective institutions like UVA, where they enroll and earn degrees at same pace as high-income students with equivalent test scores and grades
Unfortunately, the majority of low-income students do not apply to selective institutions where they could succeed (usually because they don’t know about financial aid options)
IMPROVING EQUITY – UNDERMATCHING EXEMPLARS
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Source: IHEP (via Washington Monthly)
U.S. News Rank
Institution Pell % Predicted Pell % Difference
39 UC Irvine 44% 34% +10%
37 UC Santa Barbara 38% 29% +9%
23 UCLA 32% 24% +8%
20 UC Berkeley 34% 30% +4%
30 UNC Chapel Hill 20% 22% (-2%)
Best practices: Extensive outreach & incentives for low-income students Aggressive transfer policies and CC recruitment Maximize special programs: College Advising Corps, Posse, Questbridge, Blue Ridge Scholars
COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS
• Founded in 2005 at UVA by CEO Nicole Hurd (then Assistant Dean and Director at the University’s Center for Undergraduate Excellence) - Nicole received a Governor’s Volunteerism and Community Service Award for
National Service from Governor Kaine in 2007
• Today, CAC is the only provider of college access support that leverages partnerships with colleges and universities to - Engage entire high school communities - including families - to promote
“college going culture” in addition to 1:1 advising - Deploy “near-peer” advisers – recent college grads, over half from low
income backgrounds and/or first generation college attendees themselves, who can mentor students drawing on a combination of CAC’s best-in-class college access knowledge base and their own relatable personal stories
- Provide a full range of college supports: college process knowledge, college visits, application support, and financial aid assistance
• CAC also provides a post-college paid national service (Americorps) opportunity for over 500 advisers each year
IMPROVING EQUITY – TRANSFER
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Source: CCRC (Community College Research Center at Columbia University)
UCLA in 2013/14: - 17,061 transfer applications
- Admitted 4,897 (28.7%)
- Enrolled 2,879 (16.9%)
- Approx 23% of new admits / year
University of Washington - 33% of all new students are transfers
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IPASS (ADVISING REDESIGN)
IPASS2 • $8.2M • 2015-2018 • 26 colleges
IPASS1 • $3M • 2013-2015 • 19 colleges
Research •IPASS and redesigned advising can improve retention by 10% and graduation rates by 5%
CONFIDENTIAL
IPASS (ADVISING REDESIGN) – BEST PRACTICES
Make advising a strategic priority
Redesign advising to focus on completion & institutional transformation
Select and implement a comprehensive IPASS technology solution
Institute 15 To Finish (defaults)
Professional Advisors (First Year)
1 : 250 Ratio (or better for populations that need additional support)
Strongly encourage major selection during First Year (3rd Semester latest)
PROGRAMS OF STUDY & CERTIFICATES
966K certificates awarded in 2013 (+100% over 15 years)
U.S. institutions awarded 1.84M bachelors degrees in 2013
Certificate holders in computers and information earn $70,400 per year, more than 50% of all bachelors degrees
Women with computer, business or electronics certificates earn more than 50% of all bachelors degrees
PROGRAMS OF STUDY – COMPUTER SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, STEM
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COMPUTER SCIENCE RELATED DEGREES (U.S.)
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COMPUTER SCIENCE ENROLLMENT GROWTH
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COMPUTER SCIENCE PATHWAYS
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“Traditional” Post-Traditional New Models ABET accredited
colleges and universities (traditional cost & length)
Accredited programs (fragmented market, quality
variety, hybrid attributes)
Truly alternate models (non-accredited, focused on
lower price or placement)
DIGITAL & ADAPTIVE LEARNING
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$20M DIGITAL COURSEWARE CHALLENGE
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Collaborates with partner institutions to build, implement, and support Candela
Open Courses
Sequence-driven adaptive learning platform that can be integrated into
existing learning management systems
Uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to sequence and personalize learning in
order to maximize learning retention
Adaptive eLearning platform that allows educators to create interactive and adaptive learning experiences while
preserving academic control
Intelligent courseware empowering educators and students by enabling dynamic, flexible, and responsive
instruction
Offers students free peer-reviewed courseware that meets
scope and sequence requirements for most courses
(based on open textbooks)
Adaptive learning programs that leverage the Open EdX platform and a decade of lessons learned
from Carnegie Mellon OLI
Carnegie Mellon Acrobatiq
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Vision for Next Generation Courseware: Putting Faculty in control
SmartSparrow @ ASU (Sciences for non-majors)
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INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION – ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
“ASU has been on a mission to expand access by finding and admitting qualified students from all across the country. President Crow sees ASU as the model of a public research university that measures itself by inclusivity, not exclusivity.”
Over the past 25 years, ASU has: Increased its admissions rate Grown from 32K 80K undergrads Grown from 3% 34% Pell Dramatically grown transfer students
Adopted IPASS in 2007; Retention and graduation rates have grown
Digital learning has grown from 0 10,000 online students (incl. Starbucks)
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