Achieving the Dream Initiative FAQ

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Achieving the Dream Initiative FAQs

• Revision 6-23-11

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By which criteria were the cohort groups selected?

• In order to be selected into an AtD cohort group
  the student must       -- have designated the
  institution as his/her home campus for the first
  time (styp code is M, F, N, or T),      -- be
  enrolled (for the first time) at the home
  institution in at least one credit course at the
  time of the census,      -- be in a
  degree-seeking program (degree code is not
  'ND','000000', 'SC','SPE', 'SPND', and
  'UCERT'),      -- not be unclassified (major
  is not 'UNCL'), early admit
• (major is not SPEA/SPCC/SPEH/SPOT), or running
  start,      -- not MAN, WOA or HIL
  home-institution students CC students only.
•      -- have never attended classes at
  that institution in previous terms (e.g.,
  exclude previous early admit students and other
  students who took classes at the institution)

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By which criteria are the 15 additional
gatekeeper courses selected?

• Gatekeeper courses are those courses where one
  half of one percent of your fall headcount (
  total fall 04, fall 05, and fall 06
  headcount) registered for the course (as
  measured at the end of the semester -- includes
  all registrations),
• and, where the success rate (grades of A, B, C,
  pass, CR, or equivalent grade that allows a
  student to enroll in the next course in a
  sequence) is less than 70.
• Gatekeeper course criteria set by UHCC Chief
  Academic Officers and capped at HawCC at 15.  
• See next slide for breakdown

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The 15 courses with the highest enrollments were
selected as the additional" gatekeeper courses
for HawCC
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HawCC additional gatekeeper courses

• English 21 Developmental Reading
• English 22 Intro to Expository Writing
• History 151 World Civilization I
• Math 22 Pre-Algebra Mathematics
• History 152 World Civilization II
• English 20W College Writing Grammar
• Math 24X Elementary Algebra I
• Hawaiian Studies 124 Hawaiian Myths Legends
• Math 50 Technical Mathematics
• Math 26 Elementary Algebra
• Math 100 Survey of Mathematics
• Philosophy 110 Intro to Logic
• Math 1B Basic Mathematics B
• Math 1C Basic Mathematics C
• Math 1D Basic Mathematics D

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Why are the 15 gatekeeper courses additionalin
addition to what?
The AtD term records are grouped into a series of
course levels. The highest level is college
level Math and college level English. These
college level Math and English course(s) are
defined by AtD as, The gatekeeper Math/English
variable as defined by your institution. In
addition to these 2 college level courses we have
15 additional gatekeeper courses that we will
want to track, based upon the criteria set by our
Chief Academic Officers.
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What is the difference between our additional
gatekeeper courses and a remedial/developmental
course?
Additional Gatekeeper courses are those courses
that are both high enrolled and that have success
rates of less than 70. They are a combination
of our remedial/developmental courses and our
college level courses. Remedial/Developmental
courses are not college level courses
(degree/certificate applicable) and usually have
a course number less than 100. There may be
exceptions to this rule like Math 27, which is
treated as a college level course at Hawaii
Community College.