[LIBRARYDIR] May 2022 Student Success Center Updates

Thu Jun 2 10:17:47 PDT 2022

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Student Success Center Update
May 2022

Guided Pathways Implementation Work Plan

All 34 community and technical colleges submitted their 2022-2023 guided pathways implementation work plans.  The Student Success Center hosted a virtual reader retreat to generate meaningful feedback in the form of commendations, recommendations and questions.  Feedback will be shared with colleges by June 1st.

The student success center will not require colleges to complete a work plan for 2023-2024 to receive their guided pathways allocation.  While the work plan can be an important tool for reflection and planning, we recognize the administrative burden of an annual stand-alone report.  Instead, we will build capacity for sharing evidence of guided pathways alignment across your organizational planning documents, such as the comprehensive local needs assessment, strategic planning, equity strategic planning, strategic enrollment plans, council and commission work plans, etc.  Moreover, we will embed meaningful planning, reflection, and connection opportunities for attendees of our peer and professional learning events.

Peer and Professional Learning

Planning for the 2022-2023 program year is underway as we develop our peer and professional learning agenda. Drawing from data provided in implementation work plans and other available sources, the student success center will provide a calendar of events for the year by July.  Some things you can expect:

•                 Primarily virtual opportunities structured to account for virtual overload and zoom fatigue

•                 Increased collaboration with councils and commissions to ensure opportunities for deepened understanding, engagement, and ownership of guided pathways work

•                 An assortment of event types that provide opportunities for engagement for the entire college community

Save the Dates:

•                 August 10-11                            Summer Cohort Retreat* (Online)

•                 September 7-8                         Antiracist Curriculum Initiative Convening* (Online)

•                 September 12-16                     Fall Student Success Colloquium (Online)

•                 November 2                              Fall Student Success Institute (Online)

•                 January 26-27, 2023                Winter Cohort Retreat (In Person)

•                 April 12, 2023                           Spring Student Success Institute*  (TBD)

• Select cohort of colleges or participants
Fall Student Success Colloquium

This online event provides an opportunity for colleges to showcase their innovation, creativity, and impact on student success.  This is a space for faculty and staff throughout the college system to share how they have approached change on their campus in pursuit of racial, social, and economic justice.  This event, reimagined from the Fall Faculty Institute, continues to provide new faculty with necessary resources to have a phenomenal fall, while expanding the invitation to staff and administrators to share in critical peer and professional learning as well. While some sessions will provide the opportunity for collaboration and learning across roles, other sessions will focus on the needs of specific groups across campus.

  *   To learn more and/or submit a proposal: https://forms.gle/kUMXJH9DNSsg6jGYA
  *   To register: https://www.sbctc.edu/calendar.aspx?trumbaEmbed=eventid%3D159910930%26seotitle%3D2022-Student-Success-Colloquium%26view%3Devent%26-childview%3D.

Guided Pathway Funding Allocation and Reporting

The allocation numbers for guided pathways from the Workforce Education Investment Account, HB 2158, have been released to the colleges.  There is an additional 4.1 million dollars to be spread across the colleges for the 2022-2023 program year.  The funding allocation model, approved by WACTC, is based on an enrollment mix that takes FTE and headcount into consideration.  These funds are budgeted as ongoing for the foreseeable future.  The table below provides guidance on investment guidelines for the funds.

HB 2158 Identified Areas

GUIDED PATHWAYS ESSENTIAL PRACTICES

INVESTMENT GUIDELINES

Student Support Services – Advising & Counseling

  *   Design an advising experience that provides equity-minded educational planning for every degree seeking student (structured to co-create education plan with every student)
  *    Design an intake, onboarding, and orientation experience which includes a mechanism for all students to learn about the full suite of opportunities and choose a meta-major by the end of the first quarter of enrollment.
  *   Design a financial aid experience including integration of strategic plans to address student food and housing insecurity.
  *   Design a placement experience that considers a range of instruments in lieu of placement tests including high school GPA, high school and other college transcript analysis, Guided Self-Placement, etc.
  *   Construct plan to integrate evidence-based intervention strategies with analysis of student credit accumulation on path

  *   Redesign of the advising system
  *   Redesign the intake/ orientation/ onboarding system
  *   Redesign a holistic financial support system
  *   Redesign the placement system
  *   Develop an integrated evidence-based intervention plan
  *   Engage students’ feedback in the redesign process

Faculty Engagement

  *   Engage faculty across disciplines in redesign efforts including meta major development, curricular design and integration of contemporary andragogy
  *   Involve faculty in data analysis of course, program and labor market outcomes
  *   Engage faculty in focus group facilitation related to the student experience

  *   Engage interdisciplinary faculty in planning time for data analysis, meta major and curricular redesign efforts
  *   Provide faculty professional development related to culturally relevant andragogy practices designed for equitable outcomes
  *   Facilitation of student focus groups

Meta Major Development/ Program Alignment/ Designing Degree Maps

  *   Design Meta Majors and related programs using labor market information and in collaboration with industry to identify regional employer needs
  *   Development of clear & transparent degree maps

Design degree appropriate math and English credit structured within 1 year of enrollment for EVERY student

  *   Develop a Meta-Major structure aligning programs and curriculum with program maps for every student
  *   Create effective communications materials for ease of use by students and community members, including mode of delivery

Structured Exploration

  *   Design an equity competent/ culturally relevant structured meta-major/ career exploration experience for ALL students
  *   Development of effective communication materials and strategies for/ with diverse student and community review and analysis

  *   Design or improve student structured exploration of pathways

Technology

Data analytics and student tracking

  *   Identify system-wide technology needs & potential solutions
  *   Construct a plan including integration support of relevant stakeholders to meet technology gaps

  *   Integrate technology solutions to collect and disseminate essential information (i.e.; degree maps, credit accumulation on pathway, early alert, to students, faculty and staff)

Research & Evaluation

  *   Construct a plan to review disaggregated student success data college wide on an ongoing and consistent basis
  *   Develop research capacity plan to analyze essential practices (i.e. degree maps, credit accumulation on pathway, etc.)
  *   Identify evidence based excellent practices to improve student completion rates and eliminate equity gaps

  *   Improve infrastructure (i.e. data systems, IR, IT and end user capacities, etc.) designed to effectively analyze and disseminate disaggregated data for identifying practice improvement opportunities
  *   Enhance research and evaluation capacities

Please review your college guided pathways budget and expend remaining funds by the end of June. Colleges will be required to submit annual reports on the impacts of guided pathways funding on postsecondary outcomes. A survey instrument, similar to what has been used in prior years, will be released by the middle of June and due September 9th.  This is another data point we will draw from in assessing guided pathways implementation and planning for technical assistance and professional development.

Coaching

The Student Success Center is excited to welcome nine new coaches into the fold to support colleges with guided pathways implementation.  The new coach orientation occurred on May 19th over zoom.  New coaches will receive additional training from Achieving the Dream and the National Equity Project before joining with senior coaches for additional training in August. All new coaches are paired with a senior coach to support the colleges.

Scale of Adoption Survey

The SOA survey is a tool developed by Community College Research Center (CCRC) to understand the adoption of guided pathways reforms by community colleges. The SOA survey is different from the previous SOA Assessment, which was designed as a self-assessment and planning tool for colleges.  The SOA survey is not designed to and will not be used to evaluate colleges. It is a research tool to help identify how the adoption of guided pathways reforms impacts student outcomes.

Beginning in June, CCRC will reach out to each college to schedule a 1-hour call between July 15 and August 1, 2022.  Colleges that participated in the pilot will not need to complete the survey again.

Emsi Burning-Glass Alumni Data

SBCTC has contracted with Emsi Burning-Glass to provide data to each of the colleges regarding student alumni outcomes.  This data provides information about the transfer pathways, industry sectors, and companies that graduates have entered upon exit from the colleges.  This data has been provided to institutional researchers through the Research Planning Commission.  Information regarding accessing and using the data was provided at a recent webinar and the Public Information Commission.  Access the webinar on the Student Success Center Website: https://www.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/programs-services/student-success-center/technical-assistance-projects.aspx.

Another presentation will be provided to the Career and Employment Services Council on June 1st.  If you would like to gain access to your college outcomes using the web portal, contact Maria Byler at maria.byler at emsibg.com<mailto:maria.byler at emsibg.com>.

Collaboration and Community

Your voice is essential to my understanding of this work and our shared pathway forward. I am available anytime you need information, have a question, or would like to provide input on how we are doing.  Please contact me, Monica Wilson, or any member of our team to connect.

Student Success Center Team

  *   Ashley Montenegro Ramirez, Administrative Assistant                  amontenegro at sbctc.edu<mailto:amontenegro at sbctc.edu>
  *   Brook Bane, Program Specialist                                                                  bbane at sbctc.edu<mailto:bbane at sbctc.edu>
  *   Claudine Richardson, Policy Associate                                                     crichardson at sbctc.edu<mailto:crichardson at sbctc.edu>
  *   Jennifer Whetham, Policy Associate                                                         jwetham at sbctc.edu<mailto:jwetham at sbctc.edu>
  *   Monica Wilson, Director                                                                                mwilson at sbctc.edu<mailto:mwilson at sbctc.edu>

Best,

Monica

[Compass]Monica Wilson (she|her|hers)<https://medium.com/gender-inclusivit/why-i-put-pronouns-on-my-email-signature-and-linkedin-profile-and-you-should-too-d3dc942c8743>

Director, Student Success Center & Strategic Initiatives
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

p 360-704-1022 | e: mwilson at sbctc.edu<mailto:mwilson at sbctc.edu> | website: www.sbctc.edu<http://www.sbctc.edu/>

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