1. Achieving the Dream Lone Star College System
Dr. Marsha Fralick

2. Ice Breaker
What are your goals for this workshop?
Think
Pair
Share

3. What is the dream that students have when they begin college?

4. The American Dream Get a degree Get a better job
Improve the quality of life
Increase self-respect
Be the best you can be

5. The Reality What Happens?
After 8 years, only 53% of those seeking degrees achieved their goals
40-50% of the students don’t even return the next semester
Source: Achieving the Dream website

6. Achieving the Dream is Difficult
Lack of basic skills in reading, writing and math
Poor study habits
Lack of clear goals for college and careers
Unfamiliar with available on-campus resources
College success courses help students achieve their goals.
From Community College Research Center CCRC Brief

7. Overview Helping students achieve the dream Program description
Research
What makes us different
Benefits for students and faculty

8. Cuyamaca College
El Cajon, CA

9. Personal Development 124, Lifelong Success
8000 students enrolled in college
2000 take PDC 124 each year
One of the top 15 revenue producing programs for the college
56 sections a year

10. Course Choices
Face to Face
22 sections
Blended
Online
12 sections

11. Bridge
High School
Community College
University

12. What should be included in a college success course? Think Pair share

13. College Success Motivation Time and Money Memory and Reading
Test Taking
Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking

14. Career Success Personality and Related Majors
Learning Style and Intelligence
Interests and Values
Career and Educational Planning

15. Lifelong Success Communication and Relationships
Critical and Creative Thinking
Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle
Appreciating Diversity
Positive Thinking
Life Stages

17. Program Results
Program Review 2000, 2005

18. The most significant finding is increased persistence.

19. Persistence Students who return the next semester
Approximately half of community college students nationwide do not persist after the first semester

20. All successful PDC students 89% All students 63% A 26% improvement!
College Persistence Semester to Semester 5 Year Average at Cuyamaca College
All successful PDC students 89%
All students 63%
A 26% improvement!

21. Student Confidence
The course helped 62% of students feel more confident about their academic skills

22. Student Satisfaction 88% of students rated the course as
very good or good.

23. Grade Improvement
72% of student agreed or strongly agreed that the course helped to improve grades

24. College Success: A Study of Positive and Negative Attrition
Community College Review

25. The Successful Student
Had a definite goal or college major
Earned a B+ or better in high school
Based on this research, choosing a major and career planning was included in our college success course.

26. Choosing a Major
The course helped 52% of students choose a major

27. How to Choose a Major Self Assessment Personality Interests Values
Learning Style
Career Research based on
Onet (BLS)

28. Personality Key theme throughout course Carl Jung and personality type
Online:

31. How can a knowledge of personality type help a student to become successful? Think Pair Share

32. Understanding Type Helps Increase Student Success
Helps all students understand their gifts and talents and matching careers
Help at risk students to develop strategies to achieve their goals
Research has shown that ENFP, ESFP, INFP, ISFP have higher dropout rates

33. The PEPS Learning Style Assessment
Measures preferences in 20 areas
Perceptual
Auditory
Visual
Kinesthetic
Tactile

35. Take a Look

36. Time for a Break?

37. Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE)
College reform based on research
Recommendations based on surveys of 700,000 students from 548 colleges in 48 states over the past 5 years

38. CCSSE Strategy #1: Set High Expectations and Clear Goals
The SSP program helps students set educational and career goals and provides the tools for reaching their goals
Emphasis
Career Planning
Educational Planning

39. CCSSE Strategy #2: Focus on the Front Door
Helping students succeed the first semester dramatically increases retention
Emphasis
Early monitoring and follow up
Early alerts

40. CCSSE Strategy #3: Elevate Developmental Education
In addition to reading, writing and math, students need to know how to study and learn
Emphasis on learning style
Becoming a lifelong learner

41. CCSE Strategy#4: Use Engaging Instructional Approaches
Active and collaborative learning increases persistence and retention
Emphasis
Technology appeals to the New Millennial student and is used to help students interact with the material
Classroom exercises focus on active and collaborative learning

42. CSSE Strategy #5: Make Engagement Inescapable
The SSP program facilitates engagement between faculty and students
It connects students to your student services:
Counseling and Advising
Financial Aid
Health Services

43. America’s Perfect Storm
Technological innovation and globalization have changed the world of work. Higher levels of education equal higher pay.
Large numbers of students lack literacy skills, especially disadvantaged minorities.
The population is becoming older and more diverse. Most new growth from immigrants with lower skills..

44. Many of our students are not prepared for the storm

45. To Achieve the Dream
Students need to understand career trends of the future and how they can prepare for them.
This is a major strength of the SSP program.

46. What else makes us different?

47. Key to Success: Make it Count
Transfers as general education for CSUC, Area E, Lifelong Understanding
Transfers to University of California
In Texas, in process for approval as an applied psychology course

48. Applied Psychology From theory to practice
Academically rigorous, yet practical
Broad scope
Careers
Lifelong Success

49. Technology
A Skill Needed for College Success and the Future World of Work

51. New Millennials Our current college students
Most were born with a computer in the home and were using them by age 5
Cyber generation
The connected generation
82% are online daily
Average 12 hours per week online

52. Where are you in the technology continuum?
Baby boomer
Generation X
New Millennials
How much technology did you use in college?

53. Rationale for Using Technology
Your students use it
It captures their attention
Education on demand
Any time or place
Increased access
New roles for faculty

54. Using Technology Online career and learning style assessment
Interactive E-text
Online portfolio

55. Technology for New Millennials
Individually tailored
Portable
Dynamic content
College of the future
Less bricks
More clicks

56. Customized
Each student’s account is personalized based on their personality type and learning style
SSP uses your logo and college information
We can make changes according to your preferences

57. Resources for Faculty Training notes Classroom exercises Syllabus
Training notes
Classroom exercises
Syllabus
Research
PowerPoint
Internet Links

58. Faculty Training Professional development for your faculty Using SSP
Techniques for engaging students in learning

59. Overcoming some objections
Some faculty prefer using a traditional printed text. College and Career Success is available in a printed format and includes an access code for DWYA and PEPS.
It does not have the interactive features and benefits available in the SSP.

61. Summary of Benefits

62. Summary of Benefits Personality type and learning style are key themes
Focus on careers for the future
Cutting edge technology that appeals to the New Millennial student
Database available for research on your institution

63. Summary of Benefits Emphasis on student engagement Retention tools
Early alerts and monitoring student progress
Customized for your school and students
Proven results

64. Questions?