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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have questions about the following information, please contact Will Durden, Policy Associate, Basic Education for Adults-
<a href="mailto:wdurden@sbctc.edu">wdurden@sbctc.edu</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">_____________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Good afternoon colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I hope this Friday finds you looking forward to the weekend.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“<a href="https://www.sbctc.edu/resources/documents/colleges-staff/research/pre-college-research/beda-in-gp-research-report-20-1-final.pdf"><span style="color:#0563C1">Guiding students from basic education through college and beyond</span></a>,”
the latest research by the SBCTC research team on <a href="https://www.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/research/reports/pre-college-research.aspx">
<span style="color:#0563C1">Pre-college education</span></a>, provides a baseline study for the integration of basic education in Guided Pathways design. As the report notes, “<u>the ultimate concern here is with closing equity gaps among all Washingtonians</u>.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I encourage those invested in Guided Pathways work on campus to read the full report. There are a few specific findings from the report I’d like to highlight here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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“I-BEST academic transfer students had the highest four-year degree completion (25 percent) […] However, when looking at just the five colleges that were growing the ‘academic I-BEST’ pathway and the final cohort year (2013), we see that the completion rate
is even higher at 43 percent.”<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
“We found in the five colleges that were most invested in growing the path that their I-BEST students’ academic transfer degree completion is substantially higher than all other first-time-in-college (FTIC) students. Furthermore, the strength of this completion
is bolstered by a four-year college transfer rate on par with (actually slightly higher than) other FTIC students.”<o:p></o:p></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
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<u>We connect this higher degree attainment rate to a higher first year college math completion rate.<o:p></o:p></u></li></ul>
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“We believe that the academic transfer mission should be re-branded as a bachelor’s degree pathway and the BAS degree should be included in that path and discussed with academic transfer students.”<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
“We believe in many ways the findings in this report strengthen the call for mission integration for all students in Guided Pathways.”<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">As a reminder, SBCTC is actively working to provide resources for online team teaching in I-BEST. Stay tuned for further developments.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And as always, please reach out to me if I can help you consider and plan for how I-BEST fits in with your college’s pathway design. It’s a pleasure to partner with you in this work.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Will<o:p></o:p></p>
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