Barbara Illowsky, PhD

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• Barbara Illowsky, PhD
• Project Director
• http//www.cccbsi.org

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Whats it all about?

• Provide statewide research, training and support
  in basic skills to address
• professional development needs
• both credit and noncredit instruction
• adjunct and full-time faculty
• administrators and staff
• diversity and equity disparities
• Its all about the students!

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Basic Skills Areas

• Traditionally
• English writing
• Reading
• Mathematics
• English Second Language

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What about here?
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And here?
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Equity in Higher Education

• Involves three parts
• Equity in college preparation
• Access to college
• Success in reaching college goals
• Thomas Bailey and
• Vanessa Smith Morest

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Educational Attainment
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California Data Summary

• 70-85 of First Time Freshmen Require
  Developmental Education
• Less than 10 of students who start 3 or more
  levels below ever reach college-level
• Grades in sequenced courses study
• Most of these findings extremely consistent in
  last two decades

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Phase IOctober 2006 - February 2007

• Basic Skills as a Foundation
• for Success in the
• California Community Colleges
• AKA The Poppy Copy

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Phase IIFebruary - December 2007

• Training for all California Community Colleges
• Technical assistance to individual colleges on
  Self-Assessment Tool and Cost-Revenue Model

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Phase III January - December 2008
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Phase III Research and Data Collection

• Literature Review Addendum
• Equity Issues Strategies
• High School to College Transition
• Non-credit to Credit Transition
• Data base
• Survey of programs, strategies and projects
• Includes California and national data

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Professional Development

• Regional Meetings
• Six two-day events in June, 4 in September
• Integration of counseling student services into
  courses and programs
• Audience administrators, counselors, basic
  skills and CTE discipline dept. chairs,
  coordinators and faculty
• Summer Institute
• Four days in August
• Focus on pedagogy
• Audience adjunct faculty in basic skills courses
  and CTE

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Prof. Dev. (cont.)

• Workshops to Order
• Online and face-to-face
• Individual or department or college
• Site specific

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Student Equity

• College Student Equity Plans
• Evaluate all 109 2005 plans
• Common statewide trends
• Develop state resources for general needs
• Gather baseline data
• Discrepancies
• Technical assistance to individual colleges

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Communication

• Newsletter
• Web site
• Conference presentations

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• 33.1 million funding (includes 1.6 million for
  professional development)
• 100,000 minimum per college
• Based upon 2006-2007 P2 FTES (basic skills coded
  CB08) and the number of students under age 25 in
  those courses
• Courses can ONLY be coded as B.S. if they are
  NOT degree-applicable

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Why are we here?
Careers
3Rs
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Action Expenditure Plans

• Compliance forms from Chancellors Office
• Sent to CEOs and CIOs on 6/28/07
• Due May 1, 2008
• Public document

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Results - Academic Senate Vocational Institute

• CTE applications themed sections in existing
  courses mathematics, writing, reading, ESL
• Learning communities CTE course with
  mathematics, writing, reading, /or ESL
• Contextualized learning of basic skills in CTE
  courses

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Other desires

• MANDATORY assessment placement for all new CTE
  students
• CTE student Success Center with basic skills
  support
• 1-unit added to existing CTE courses special
  topics
• Distance learning/f-2-f basic skills modules
• Supplemental Instruction

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Get to work!

• Planned Action
• Effective Practice and Strategy
• Target Date for Completion
• Responsible Person(s)/Dept(s)

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Its all about the students!