Strategic Conversations

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Strategic Conversations

• JCC will host two breakfasts each year with
  community leaders to discuss important and timely
  issues of importance.
• These Strategic Conversations will include
  issues that involve and affect our community.

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A Quick Look at JCC Today (Winter 2008) !

• This winter semester we have 6,233 students
  enrolled, up 5 over five years ago
• Billing contact hours broke another record, up
  18 from five years ago
• There is a 28 increase in the number of
  full-time students from five years ago

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More demographics

• There is a 13 increase in the number of students
  enrolled under the age of 22 from 5 years ago
• There is an 11 increase in the number of
  students of color from five years ago (nearly 10
  of our winter enrollment, 602 students)

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The Statistic that causes concern

• The largest growing area of the College is in our
  Foundation Studies area (i.e., pre-college level
  classes for many of our 18-19 year old students).
  This requires a large investment in resources in
  an already limited budget.

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Strategic Conversations -Barriers to Student
Success

• Achieving the Dream and Jackson Community College
  Making a Difference

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Achieving the Dream

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• Achieving the Dream Community Colleges Count is
  a multiyear national initiative to help more
  community college students succeed.
• The initiative is particularly concerned about
  student groups that traditionally have faced
  significant barriers to success, including
  students of color and low-income students.
• Achieving the Dream works on multiple fronts,
  including efforts at community colleges and in
  research, public engagement and public policy.
• It emphasizes the use of data to drive change.

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Access to Success

• Community colleges enroll almost half of all U.S.
  undergraduate students, and the American public
  appreciates their commitment to providing broad
  access. 
• But access alone isnt enough. Currently fewer
  than half of community college students meet
  their educational goals.
• Achieving the Dream is working to help more
  students earn certificates or degrees that open
  the door to better jobs, further education, and
  greater opportunity.

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Measures of Student Success

• Success in Developmental Courses
• Success in Gatekeeper Courses
• Success in All Other Courses
• Persistence Over Time
• Graduation Rates

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New Students Placing into Developmental Education

• 60 of all new students (fall 05) placed into at
  least one developmental course (reading, writing,
  and/or math)
• Of these, 54 placed into two developmental
  education courses
• students entering in Fall 2005 cohort

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What does our DE student population look like?

• Higher percentage of males, students of color and
  traditional-age students (under 25) place into
  reading and writing
• In math courses, we saw a higher percentage of
  females, students of color and traditional-age
  students.

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Success in Developmental Reading Courses
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Success in Developmental Writing Courses
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Success in Developmental Math Courses
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Success in Gatekeeper Courses
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Rules for Conversation

• Assign a Recorder
• Assign a Reporter
• Ten Minutes for Discussion
• Ten Minutes for Reporting Out - Report Out New
  Information Only

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Question One

• What are the barriers for student success in
• Developmental courses?
• Gatekeeper courses?

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Report OutQuestion One
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Persistence Rates
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Question Two

• What are the barriers to student persistence from
  one semester to the next?

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Report OutQuestion Two
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What Do We Know ?

• We need to raise awareness of this problem and
  have the courage to make changes. Doing the
  same isnt going to work.
• As a community, we must all care about the
  quality of education parents, teachers, business
  leaders and faculty

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Next Steps

• Information is gathered and brought back to the
  core team for Achieving the Team
• A preliminary draft of our grant will be shared
  with our national coaches at the end of this
  month
• Well keep you posted via e-mail of our progress,
  ahead of the general public.

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Thank you for your time and input!!!