1. Pathways to Persistence: Student Success Takes a Community Berkeley City College Leadership Retreat August 13, 2013 tom@tbrownassociates.com tom@tbrownassociates.com Thomas Brown & Associates Leveraging Knowledge, Change, and Diversity

2. Colleges are in the dream and future business… Students come to college to create the futures they dream of for themselves.

3. Berkeley City College: discover and develop your best talents, attain your goals, and move on to a brilliant future. Welcome to Berkeley City College Dr. Deborah Budd, President

4. If you don’t know where you are going, you might end up somewhere else…. Lewis Carroll

5. Mission Answers the question: Why does Berkeley City College Exist? Berkeley City College’s mission is to promote student success, to provide our diverse community witheducational opportunities, and to transform lives.

6. Increasing student success is a continuing concern in higher education…

7. Only 28% of first-time, full-time, associate degree-seeking community college students graduate with a certificate or an associate degree within three years. The Heart of Student Success Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE), 2010

8. A Focus on Student Success

9. Vision Answers the question: What is the future we will create?

10. Our focus this year will be on student success in the core educational functions of basic skills, transfer, and CTE (Career Technical Education) BCC Strategic Goals & Institutional Outcomes 2013-14

11. Retention practices with greatest impact 1. First-year programs 2. Academic advising (including interventions for specific student populations) 3. Learning support Increasing Persistence Wes Habley, Jenny Bloom & Steve Robbins, 2012

12. BCC Moving Forward BCC Activities and Accomplishments 2012-13 Invited first year students to meet with counselors to develop SEPS Began to implement First-Year Experience Reached out to students with undecided majors Offered extended student support services to both day and evening students Teaching and Counseling faculty developed the Faculty Advisor Program EOPS served over 316 students with funding for only 100 Professional development for faculty on effective teaching techniques via the Teaching & Learning Center

13. What happens to students after they enroll frequently has a more powerful impact on whether they stay and achieve their goals or leave. Tinto 1987, 1993

14. Why do students leave college? Isolation

15. Why do students leave college? Incongruence

16. It takes a campus community to support student achievement and success….

17. Student retention is the critical issue facing community colleges today, particularly as budgets decline. Linda Serra Hagedorn Iowa State University, 2010

18. FINANCIAL COSTS OF ATTRITION at Berkeley City College Assumptions · FTE First-year students 820 · Annual Tuition and Fees$1100 · CA State Appropriation per FTE$4600 · First to second year attrition rate 43% · Second to third year attrition rate 25% Attrition Rate Lost Years Lost Students RemainingRevenue First to Second 43% 353 2>$4 million!! Year Second to Third 25% 117 1$666.900 Year Total Lost Revenue$4,666,900

19. A conservative estimate of loss-- Does not include lost revenue from: Fees, books, other expenditures Recruitment and re-recruitment costs (avg. = $900+/enrolled student at 2 year colleges) Negative effects of students’ leaving on future enrollments of family, friends, and others

20. ALL aspects of campus life can have an impact on persistence or attrition decisions and behaviors. Promoting student persistence requires an institution-wide commitment.

21. Pathways to Persistence: A Simulation Exercise