1. Ahead of the curveball
Full Scale Implementation of Developmental Education Reform in Advance of Game-Changing Florida Legislation
AACC April 19, 2015

2. Introductions & Overview
Dr. Jim Henningsen, President, College of Central Florida
Dr. Rayanne Giddis, Dean, Academic Foundations & Learning Resources, CF
Dr. Jennifer Fryns, Associate Dean, Liberal Arts & Sciences, CF

3. College of central Florida
One of 28 Colleges in the Florida College System
Multi-campus college serving three counties
13,000 students
Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, Baccalaureate and Certificates
66% AA, 18% AS, 10% Certificates 6% BAS

4. Developmental Education reform at CF
Faculty and staff have been actively engaged in developmental education reform for the past decade. Why?

5. Our Students 65% Freshman Academically Underprepared
73% Critically Underprepared
37% Minority
42% Out of High School Over a Year

6. Reform 2006 Quality Enhancement Plan Focus 2008 Title III Grant
Tipping point came in 2010…
Florida Developmental Education Initiative Grant
National Center for Academic Transformation’s “Changing the Equation” Grant

7. Success by design Goals & Objectives: Streamline the curriculum
Maintain or increase high expectations
Create a developmental education program that could be completed in one term

8. Success by design Redesign Features:
Math – Modularized & Compressed Curriculum
English – Accelerated Curriculum
Reading – Accelerated Curriculum

9. Implementation What could go wrong? 2500 Students
Fully Implemented in Fall 2011
2500 Students
What could go wrong?

10. Almost EverythinG Student Frustration Software Issues Lack of Support
Faculty Confusion
Student Frustration
Software Issues
Lack of Support
Petitions, Facebook, Comment Cards, Oh My!

11. Results Math English Student Success up 39% Reading
85% Students Successful
Reading
Student Success up 10%
81% Students Successful
Math
Student Success up 2%
66% Students Successful
Mean Final Exam Score up 7.5% to 82.5%
Transformed Student Success in Developmental Education

12. Climate Change SB1720 - Major reform legislation passed in 2013 which:
Eliminated mandatory assessment and placement requirements for certain Florida public high school graduates
Re-defined developmental education - curriculum could only be offered in modular, co-requisite, accelerated or contextual formats
Established Meta Majors & Advising Requirements
New State Reporting Requirements
Implementation Plan Required for Chancellor Approval

13. Building on Success 2016 Quality Enhancement Plan Our Data
Topic Selection
Our Data

14. Our Students 13 10% 4% 42% 3% 20% Credit Hours Gateway English
Gateway Math 3%
20%

15. Scaling up student success
Advising
Curriculum Redesign
Emerging Research

16. 2016 Quality Enhancement Plan
New Initiatives
Academic Pathways
Early Support System
Enhanced First-Year Advising

17. Lessons learned “Baseball is 90% Physical and 15% Mental.”
~ Yogi Berra

18. Everything has to be on the table

19. Inform, Share, Repeat…

20. Explain Why - the rationale of changes

21. Patience – A culture of risk-taking and innovation Takes Time to Develop

22. Beware of the “N” of one

23. (And remember – there’s no crying in baseball!)
Work as a team
(And remember – there’s no crying in baseball!)