TitleVEmpoweringFacultyandStudentstoChangethroughTechnology andLearning Communities' - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Title: TitleVEmpoweringFacultyandStudentstoChangethroughTechnology andLearning Communities'


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Title V Empowering Faculty and Students to Change 
through Technology and Learning Communities.

• UNM-Valencia
• Najib Manea
• Rosa Auletta

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Agenda/Topics to Be Covered

• Introduction
• Whos Who
• Cooperating to Improve Rural Hispanic Student
  Success through Technology
• Student Success through Teaching and Learning
• Challenges
• Summary

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Introduction

• Title V has given UNM Valencia the opportunity to
  make progress toward student success and
  retention.
• Our two Title V grants Cooperating to Improve
  Rural Hispanic Student Success through
  Technology and Student Success through Teaching
  and Learning
• We cooperate to achieve the same outcomes of
  empowering the campus by improving student
  success, retention and graduation rates.
• We will highlight successes and the challenges we
  continue to experience.

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Whos Who

• Cooperating to Improve Rural Hispanic Student
  Success through Technology
• P.I. Najib Manea
• UNM Valencia-UNM Los Alamos
• Fourth year
• Student Success through Teaching and Learning
• P.I. Rosa Auletta
• UNM Valencia
• Second year

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Cooperating to Improve Rural Hispanic Student
Success through Technology

• Introduction
• Goals
• Cohort specifications
• Retention Results
• Achivements
• What Teaching Learning Centers are offering?
• Upcoming Projects
• Challenges

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Introduction

• Joint Venture between UNM-Valencia and UNM-Los
  Alamos campuses (Cooperative to improve Rural
  Hispanic Students Success through Technology).
• Improve student retention through technology
• Teaching and Learning Centers
• VMIS/LAMIS attendance
• Early Alerts

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Program Goals

• Improving teaching and learning through faculty
  technology training,
• Improving student advisement through electronic
  advising,
• Improving assessment through institutional
  research.
• Cooperative with Los Alamos

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Title V Cohort Specifications

• Baseline year (2003-2004) academic year.
• Tracked for three years after the baseline year
• Each year a new cohort will be identified,
  (2005-2006), (2006-2007), (2007-2008).
• Cohorts consist of first time, full time, degree
  seeking, low income Hispanics who are receiving
  Pell grants.
• Track and report retention percentages for the
  cohorts over the baseline year (2003 2004).
• We must track and report three year completion
  transfer rates for the cohorts over the baseline
  (2003 2004).

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Retention Results
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Achievements

• Establishing Teaching Learning Centers in both
  campuses
• Provided technical and pedagogical support to 223
  faculty (UNM-V 173, UNM-LA 50) trained 172
  faculty (UNM-V 102, UNM-LA 70).
• 92 of full-time faculty was trained. 75 of
  part-time faculty was trained.
• Both Campuses have upgraded their technology
  infrastructures to assist in the increased use of
  instructional technology.
• Both campuses classroom are now fully equipped
  with Audio/Video equipments.
• Two Wireless networks (Valencia, Los Alamos).

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What the TLC Offers

• Assistance with course materials
• Training
• Software
• Audio/video services
• Equipment Checkout
• Laptop computers
• Portable projectors
• Portable Visual Presenter
• Clickers
• Digital Cameras
• Video Cameras
• WebCT Vista assistance

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Upcoming Projects

• Classroom Capture Technology (MediaSite,
  Tegrity,.)

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Electronic Advising

• Both campuses catalogs are now 100 encoded, but
  we are in the process of updating DARS encodings
  to keep it up-to-date.
• The DARS system already integrated with UNM-Main
  Campus banner system under the name e-Progress.
• Academic Advisors are using DARS with students
  they advise.
• Title V Academic Advisors from both Los Alamos
  and Valencia meet occasionally to share ideas and
  strategies regarding student retention.

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Measures

• To increase the retention rate of Hispanic and
  low-income students by developing new teaching
  strategies, improving advisement through
  electronic degree audit, and improving
  assessment.
• To increase the percentage of Hispanic and
  low-income students who transfer to four-year
  colleges.
• To increase the percentage of Hispanic and
  low-income students who complete associate's
  degrees.
• To increase student success through faculty
  training in classroom technology.

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Institutional Researchers

• Institutional researchers positions have been
  established in both campuses.
• Cohort groups have been identified and tracking
  is in place for Valencia and Los Alamos campuses.
  
• Advisors are working with students to encourage
  retention, completion and transfer to four year
  campuses.

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Endowment

• The targeted endowment is 180,000.
• Total endowment funds for this grant to date are
  143,883.47. UNM-Los Alamos has a total of
  67,536.00. Both totals include some matched
  dollars from the Federal Government.
• The endowment money will be used to establish
  scholarships for students

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Challenges

• Faculty training
• Generation gap
• Full Timers (Afraid of using technology)
• Adjunct Faculty (busy)
• IT infrastructure
• Furniture
• Maintaining equipments (keeping them up-to-date).
• Training full and part-time faculty how to use MS
  2007.
• Switching to Windows Vista
• New versions of software
• Keeping DARS up-to-date(new programs--gtupdate
  encoding--gttrain the advisers)

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Highway to SuccessLearning Communities
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Program Goals

• Increase the success rate in developmental
  courses to 75
• Hire developmental faculty and staff and create
  Learning Communities
• Retain 20 more students over the five years of
  the grant

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Program Activity

• Improve diagnostic assessment
• Advise all developmental students
• Enroll all students taking two or more
  developmental courses into learning communities
• Design a developmental curriculum geared to
  low-income Hispanic students

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Intake Questionnaire Details

• Administered in all Learning Community Math and
  English sections.
• 157 out of 196 registered students completed the
  intake questionnaire online during class.
• Responses completed September 2007.

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Demographics

• Age of Respondent

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Demographics

• Gender

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Demographics

• Ethnicity
• Respondents allowed more than one response

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Demographics

• Primary Language

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Employment Data

• Are you currently employed?

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Employment Data

• Average hours worked weekly
• Only asked of those who stated being employed

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Learning Communities at Valencia

• The typical Learning Communities student is
• 19 years old (median age)
• Female
• Hispanic/Latino
• Those who work, work an average of 30 hours per
  week.

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Motivation

• What motivated you to go to school now?
• Open ended text response.
• Main motivations for attending school include
  family, friends, career goals, and money.

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Motivation

• If I didn't go to college right after high
  school, I knew that I would never want to go
  back. So might as well get it over with right
  away.
• More job opportunities upon graduation, ability
  to do something that I love.
• My son, I want to be able to give him what he
  wants. And I want to be able to support my
  family.
• My main motivation was my parents. Being a
  registered nurse is not only my goal but my
  parents dream to see me succeed in what i want to
  do.

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Learning History

• Did you have trouble learning when you were in
  school?

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Access to Technology March 2008

• Five part question asked if students have access
  to the following at home
• Computer
• High Speed Internet
• E-mail
• Study Space
• Printer

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Learning Environment

• What is your familys attitude towards you
  attending college now?

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Learning Environment Obstacles/Barriers to
Learning
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Student Suggestions

• Open ended response question.
• We want to make sure you stay in school and
  graduate. How else can we help you?

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Student Suggestions

• I would like someone to make sure that I am
  doing well in my classes and if there is anything
  I am missing in my classes. I would like my
  professors to send me anything that I might be
  missing.
• Teaching me time management and working with me
  during my last months of pregnancy.
• If somebody comes up to me and says hell yeah
  your still in college!!! awesome!!!
• I think that this program and the school is
  doing a great job at keeping me in school right
  now.

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• Just teach me anything you can.
• hold my hand through every step of the way
• tutors...english is a pain in my backside
• I really need alot of sport.
• doing homework and having time in class would be
  better than taking it home and having home
  work....

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• continue being nice and understanding
• Help me prepare for next semester.
• Just by being sure that I am doing all that I
  can do. By following up on what I am doing to
  make sure Im on track.
• give free food.

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Whats new?

• Mandatory New Student Orientation
• Register students into Learning Communities
• Advisor meets with every student at least twice
  per semester
• Three full-time instructors plus adjuncts as
  needed
• New academics classes to support Math 100 (ACAM),
  
• English 099 and 100 (AENG)
• DAR testing in lower level writing classes
• Tutors in the classrooms, one on one, and leading
  Supplemental Instruction
• Technology in the classroom and training for
  faculty
• Professional development for faculty, staff and
  administrators

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Retention Rates for Learning Community vs.
Non-Learning Community Students
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Pass Rates for Fall 2007
Overall Learning Community Pass Rate 65 vs.
Non LC Pass Rate 58
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Pass Rates for Fall 2007 (Continue)
Pass Rate for Math students with and without
academics class (ACAM)
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Challenges

• Student motivation
• Life skills
• Employment schedules
• Career counseling

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Summary