Collaboration Between Community Colleges and Community Literacy Groups

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Collaboration Between Community Colleges and
Community Literacy Groups

• Impacting Student Success
• Luanne Bibbee, M.Ed., B.S. Ed.
• Lansing Community College, Livingston County
  Literacy Coalition
• MAACE Conference
• Grand Traverse Resort, Acme, MI
• April 26, 2012

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Simple stringor is it?
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Adult education needs abound.
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Another need,affecting 4.4 million adults

• Source CCRC

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60 of community college students need
developmental education. (DE)Source CCRC
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15 Million

• Number of students in U.S. higher education
• Source U.S. Dept of Education

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7.4 million

• Number of students in U.S. community colleges
• for college credit
• Over half of U.S. postsecondary students are in
  community colleges.
• Source AACC

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Average CC Student

• 28 years old
• Part-time student
• Working/family/life issues
• 1st generation college
• 33 minority students
• Source AACC

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Everyone is admitted.

• However, community colleges require Assessment
  Tests before registering for classes.

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Accuplacer and Compass CC Assessment
TestsCollege Credit

• Reading - Level 5
• Writing Level 6
• Math - Level 5

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Results

• 60 of community college students test at
  levels
• needing 1 or more developmental courses
• 30 of students drop out,
• if assigned to 3 developmental courses
• Only 25 of developmental students make it to
• the college credit gatekeeper course

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CC Developmental Reading Exit Points
Source Edgecomb, N. (2011). CCRC
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Costs of Developmental
Education

• Business and Employers
• Taxpayers
• Post Secondary
• Society
• Students

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Costs to Post Secondary

• Small classes, Ratio gt 151
• Administration
• Negative Retention
• Testing costs/ testing re-takes
• 1.9 to 2.3 B / yr. cost to CCs
• 500 M / yr. cost to four-year colleges
• 6K / student/ year
• Source Bailey, 2009 Green, 2000

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Costs to Employers/Businesses

• Writing - threshold skill for 2/3 of
  employees Survey Nat. Commission on
  Writing
• Billions in costs
• - Correcting mistakes
• - Needed technology to make up for lack of
  skills
• - Productivity losses
• Source Greene, 2000

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Cost to Taxpayers

• Obama 2009 AGI initiative 2 B
• Paying Twice
• Accountability demands
• Comparison costs
• - 25K / 1 year of prison
• - 30K -40K dependent family

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Cost to Society

• Family capital
• Costs of incarceration, unemployment,
  welfare
• Costs of lost taxes in lost wages
• Educated society needed to solve tomorrows
  problems
• True costs difficult to quantify
• Tragedy of wasted minds and spirits

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Costs to the Student

• Delayed school progress
• Accumulated debt
• Sacrifice of financial aid eligibility
• Discouragement
• Changes in Laws
• Financial Aid to HS level (9th grade) - 2010
• Pell grant changes 2012

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Options
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Traditional/Transitional Learning

• Developmental Courses
• CC Writing and Math labs
• CC tutoring
• Peer Tutoring

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Acceleration
Methods

• Compressed Courses
• Paired Courses
• Curricular Design
• Mainstreaming with support
• I-BEST Contextual Scenario
• Bridge programs

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Another Option
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Community Literacy Tutoring
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55 Local Literacy Organizations in MI

• Many offer adult tutoring at no cost.
• Some - not many - work with community colleges
  to tutor students

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28 Community Colleges in Michigan

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Research

• Survey to 55 community literacy organizations
  and 28 community colleges
• Four CCs partner with local literacy groups
• Washtenaw CC and Grand Rapids CC have substantial
  partnerships with literacy groups
• Interviews
• WCLC 40 yrs old/ 400 volunteer tutors/ 4,000
  learners, partnership w/WCC
• Amy Goodman, Director Every 1 in WCC budget is
  leveraged 4X, working with WCLC tutors.

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Pilot Program LCC/LCLC

• Students can utilize LCLC tutors for help
• - Assessment test score improvement
• - Developmental course tutoring

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LCLCLivingston County Literacy Coalition

• Founded 2009
• Clearinghouse for county literacy needs and
  resources
• Training adults to tutor adults at no cost to
  tutor, and no cost to the learner
• 37 tutors trained as of 4/2012

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LCCLivingston County Center

• 1,000 unduplicated student enrollment / yr.
• DE courses offered for Reading Level 3 and
  Reading Level 4
• 24 of students assess lt Level 5 Reading
  (2011 Jan-Sept)
• (371 students)
• 8.5 of students assess lt Level 3 Reading
  (2011 Jan Sept)
• (130 students)

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LCC Collaboration Advantages

• Reduced costs
• Increased retention
• Increased tuition with increased persistence

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Literacy OrganizationCollaboration Advantages

• Community resource
• Utilization of tutors
• Collaborative strengths
• Educated local populace

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Recommendations

• More measurable research data needed
• Continued expansion of collaborative efforts
  between local literacy coalitions and community
  colleges needed.

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Lesson 1Cut the string. Simple. Or is it?
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Lesson 2A cord of three strands is not easily
broken.

• Source Eccl. 4 12

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Community. Collaboration.
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• Luanne Bibbee, M.Ed., B.S.Ed.
• Livingston County Center
• Lansing Community College
• 517-545-3522 office
• bibbeel_at_lcc.edu
• Bibliography available upon request.