1. Integrating Student Success Initiatives Across Your Campus
Innovations conference 2017

2. Presentation preview Introductions
Need for integration at Metropolitan Community College – Maple Woods
Samples of integrations
Exercise – template for designing integration on your campus
Exercise sharing – learning from each other

3. MCC-Maple Woods Overview
Metropolitan Community College
5 campuses located in the greater Kansas City area
100+ years old
18,312 students
Maple Woods
Located in the suburban area north of the city
4,681 students
Strong general education program with a transfer focus
Veterinary technology program

4. Presentation preview Introductions
Need for integration at Metropolitan Community College – Maple Woods
Samples of integrations
Exercise – template for designing integration on your campus
Exercise sharing – learning from each other

5. Need for integration at MCC – Maple Woods
Performance funding state – MCC is not hitting all of the targets
Increased attention on retention and completion
Detrimental effects of student debt on non-graduates
Isolated efforts to improve student success

6. MCC-Maple Woods Student Success Framework
Curriculum Planning
Campus Services & Support
Students
Student Success
Instruction AY
26 August 2016

7. Ultimate Goal Move our work out of silos Build trust and collaboration
Focusing discussions around the student experience
Implementing large scale projects related to student success
Implementing meta-majors and block schedules
Revising our academic advising model
Implementing early alert and target support services
Engaging faculty in discussions
of pedagogy
Trying to get at how our smaller examples have been building towards the larger things we are working on.

8. Presentation preview Introductions
Need for integration at Metropolitan Community College – Maple Woods
Samples of integrations
Exercise – template for designing integration on your campus
Exercise sharing – learning from each other

9. Framework Who? Key stakeholders Champions Why? Purpose Shared benefits
Low-hanging fruit
How?
Venue
Frequency
Duration
What?
Restructure committees
Build alliances

10. Leadership Communication – Example 1
Who:
Campus Deans & Associate Deans
Why:
Need to know what initiatives are going on so that we can leverage effort
How:
Increased communication – weekly meetings in Deans area for minutes
What:
Current state of affairs
Upcoming events and initiatives
Pre-discussion of Executive Cabinet items

11. Leadership Communication – Example 2
Who:
Campus Deans, Associate Deans & Division Chairs
Why:
Need to clarify policies and processes
Need to plan for upcoming events and initiatives
How:
Joint monthly Deans & Chairs meetings with additional guests as needed
What:
Announcements/Institutional awareness
Discussion and feedback of on-going and upcoming initiatives
Shared governance

12. Resource Sharing – Example 1
Who:
Faculty, Campus Life & Leadership Staff, Deans
Why:
Engage students in and outside the classroom
How:
Faculty and staff committee – proposed a common read
What:
Pooled resources from a grants in Student Development and Instruction to support the initiative

13. Resource Sharing – Example 2
Who:
Faculty, Campus Life & Leadership Staff, Division Chairs
Why:
Engage students in and outside the classroom
Campus Life & Leadership wanted to develop programming for Hispanic Heritage & Black History Month
How:
Engaged a group of interested faculty & staff
What:
Identified activities that were already happening in individual classes that were appropriate to invite more students to participate in – guest lectures, film screenings
Leveraged faculty connections to secure presenters at campus-wide events
Leveraged student activities funding to provide food at events

14. Process Improvement – Example 1
Who:
Campus Deans, Tutoring Center Staff, Faculty
Why:
Housed within Student Development and perceived need to be more closely aligned w/Faculty
How:
One-time change to the organizational staffing table
What:
Altered reporting structure to Instruction
Increased collaboration with faculty
Continue to attend Student Development meetings

15. Process Improvement – Example 2
Who:
Student Development Staff, Faculty, Deans
Why:
Need to restructured New Student Orientation to be more intentional and less repetitive
How:
Reviewed student feedback
Outlined the material students had been exposed to prior to Orientation
Included faculty in the process of revising content based on learning objectives
What:
Altered faculty sessions at Orientation

16. Presentation preview Introductions
Need for integration at Metropolitan Community College – Maple Woods
Samples of integrations
Exercise – template for designing integration on your campus
Exercise sharing – learning from each other

17. Framework Who? Key stakeholders Champions Why? Purpose Shared benefits
Low-hanging fruit
How?
Venue
Frequency
Duration
What?
Restructure committees
Build alliances

18. Integrating Student Success Initiatives Across Your Campus
Exercise sharing – learning from each other
– Dean of Instruction
– Dean of Student Development and Enrollment Management