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Achieving the Dream

For Prospective Colleges Fall 2010

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Achieving the Dream is a bold national effort to help community college students succeed

 ATD defines student success as earning degrees or certificates, or transferring to a four-year institution.  ATD focuses on student groups that have faced the most significant barriers to success, including low- income students and students of color.  ATD uses data to drive change within community colleges and in state and federal policy. ATD also seeks to augment knowledge about strategies that increase student success and to expand public support for raising post-secondary attainment levels.

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ATD has built a national network

Over 130 institutions, 24 states & District of Columbia More than 1.6 million students enrolled in ATD colleges

Achieving the Dream Network: From Coast to Coast

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Achieving the Dream Founding Partners

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Why Achieving the Dream?

 There is a critical national and state need to focus on strategies that support community colleges and foster student success  There is a national demand for elevated leadership regarding the current and future success of community colleges  Achieving the Dream and its partners have demonstrated a successful track record of providing results in these areas

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Achieving the Dream Values

 Student-centered  Equity and excellence  Culture of evidence, inquiry, accountability, and shared responsibility

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Achieving the Dream Program Areas

 Institutional change: Data facilitators and coaches work with colleges’ leadership and research departments to identify barriers to student success and ways to address them  Policy: State lead institutions work with stakeholders and policymakers to promote a state-wide student success agenda  Knowledge: ATD collects data from participating colleges and states, researches and evaluates change efforts, convenes learning events, and issues publications of findings

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Integrated Student Success Model

Student success

Institutional change

Transform community colleges into learning organizations dedicated to student success Change state and national policy consistent with student success agenda Create a learning community to capture and disseminate what is working to drive student success

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Achieving the Dream Institutional Change Principles

• 1. Committed leadership

CEO and leadership team actively support efforts to improve student learning and completion

• 2. Culture of evidence

Colleges routinely analyze student data to assess progress and outcomes

• 3. Broad engagement

Faculty, staff, students, and community stakeholders participate in efforts to improve student success

• 4. Systemic institutional

improvement Colleges orient all planning and activities around student success agenda

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Five-Step Process of Institutional Change

1. Commit to improving student

• utcomes

2. Indentify and prioritize problems 3. Engage stakeholders in developing strategies for addressing priority problems 4. Implement, evaluate, and improve strategies 5. Institutionalize effective policies and practices

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Achieving the Dream Student Success Indicators

1. Completion of remedial instruction 2. Completion of math and English “gatekeeper” courses 3. Successful course completion 4. Persistence 5. Completion of credentials

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Achieving the Dream Results

 Driven student success to top of community college change agenda  Identified strategies that lead to improved academic success for students  Helped community colleges scale pilot programs that have proven effective  Instilled a culture of evidence in community colleges despite variable institutional research capabilities  Achieved deliberate alignment of states’ strategies and policies to help underserved community college students succeed

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Valencia Community College has closed the achievement gap

 College Facts:

 Fall 2008 enrollment:

35,351

 42% of student body is

African-American or Hispanic

 Job placement rate for

A.S. graduates is 90% and their average annual salary is $36,372

ATD college since 2004

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Valencia Community College has closed the achievement gap

 Results Achieved with ATD:

 Closed achievement gap

between Hispanics and Caucasians in gateway math courses

 Narrowed achievement

gap for African Americans from 18% to 4%  Strategies Employed:

 Supplemental instruction  Student success course  Learning communities

ATD college since 2004

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El Paso Community College has demonstrated the power of developmental education

 College Facts:

 Fall 2006 enrollment:

25,304

 86% of the student body

is Hispanic

ATD college since 2004

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El Paso Community College has demonstrated the power of developmental education

 Results Achieved with ATD:

 Raised the percent of

incoming students who can bypass remedial English from 51% in 2005 to 66% in 2007  Strategies Employed:

 Early testing  Summer bridge

programs

 P-20 alignment

ATD college since 2004

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Patrick Henry Community College has increased student persistence

 College Facts:

 Enrollment average:

2,338

 Located in an

economically depressed area; serves a high number of low income students

 75% of entering degree-

seeking students require remediation

ATD college since 2004

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Patrick Henry Community College has increased student persistence

 Results Achieved with ATD:

 Reduced student attrition rate from 26% to 5%

 Strategies Employed:

 Innovated curriculum by introducing cooperative

learning courses

 Introduced case-management system of advising

focused on high risk students

 Enhanced tutoring to include supplemental instruction for

high risk math courses

ATD college since 2004

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Achieving the Dream is Increasing National Impact

 Transitioning from an initiative into a strong, sustainable national nonprofit organization  Serving ~20 new colleges per year over the next four years  Focusing resources in a set of 3-5 key states to achieve a multiplier effect and create proof points  Working with coalition to influence national policy  Using the network as a platform to test new innovations to

• vercome barriers to student success

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Achieving the Dream Resources

 www.achievingthedream.org  Field Guide  Principles and Practices for Student Success case studies  Equity Resource Center

For more information: info@achievingthedream.org

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