Advancing Access & Engaging Equity in Community Colleges - - PDF document
June 9, 2020 Advancing Access & Engaging Equity in Community Colleges Towards Racially Just Student Experiences and Outcomes Sponsors & Hosts The GradCenter: gradcenter.org Office of Graduate Studies, Western Illinois
June 9, 2020 1
Towards Racially Just Student Experiences and Outcomes
June 9, 2020 2
June 9, 2020 3
June 9, 2020 4
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
an initiative of
www.occrl.Illinois.edu
June 9, 2020 5
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
June 9, 2020 6
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
English 59% Reading 45% Math 39% Science 36% Met All 4 Benchmarks 26%
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
June 9, 2020 7
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
June 9, 2020 8
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
June 9, 2020 9
Maltreatment Reports Indicated Cases Foster Care
20 40 60 80 100 120 Research University Doctoral University Liberal Arts Community College White Black Hispanic Asian/PI Am Indian
June 9, 2020 10
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care In the field, community colleges are often at the margins
experiences of collegians. The voices and stories of people of color, women, persons with disabilities, the poor and so forth have traditionally been on the margins of published research; that which has been done has largely focused on the four-year context not two-year sector. While community colleges have long embraced enrichment, personal and professional development of diverse students, like their four-year counterparts, not all two-year colleges have been proactive or progressive in incorporating the concerns and issues facing today’s racially minoritized students. Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
Vertical transfer
When a student completes requisite lower division coursework for a major at the community college level and then transfers (either with or without an Associate of Arts or an Associate of Science degree) to a baccalaureate-granting institution to complete the major with upper division coursework with the goal of receiving a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science degree (Townsend, 2001).
Lateral transfer
When a student transfers between two baccalaureate-granting institutions or community colleges. For instance, they leave one baccalaureate-granting institution to attend another baccalaureate-granting institution with the aim of not losing any credits or classes as they transfer between the two institutions. This is more common and often better facilitated if the two institutions are in the same system (such as large systems including the City University of New York or the State University of New York system; the California State University or University of California system; or the University of Texas system) but can also occur across state boundaries (Taylor, 2016).
Reverse transfer
When a student either is enrolled at a baccalaureate-granting institution but returns or concurrently takes classes at a community
associate degree when transferring to the baccalaureate-granting institution and then by taking the requisite coursework for their major at the university level they can retroactively receive their two-year degree (Taylor, Bishop, Makela, Bragg, & Ruud, 2013).
June 9, 2020 11
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
Transfer: When a student transfers from one institution to another with the aim
take on many forms across many institutional types including vertical, reverse, lateral, and dual credit transfer. Transfer Receptive Culture: An institutional commitment by a university to support community college students to transfer successfully—that is, to navigate the community college, take the appropriate coursework, apply, enroll, and successfully earn a baccalaureate degree in a timely manner. A transfer receptive culture is grounded in critical race theory in education centering the experiences of race and racism in the vertical transfer process. Transfer Sending Culture: An organizational culture at the community college level that standardizes the transfer process so that students who aim to transfer vertically to a baccalaureate-granting institution will be able to do so in a timely and efficient manner. (Jain, Bernal, & Herrera, 2020)
June 9, 2020 12
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
Student Success
Student Affairs and Support Services Structural Processes Curriculum Pedagogy Campus Climate
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
June 9, 2020 13
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
During the 2013-2014 academic year 46% of students who completed a bachelor’s degree enrolled at a community college during some point in the past 10 years (The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 2015)
June 9, 2020 14
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care The equity lens includes exploring disaggregated data by student subpopulations Maltreatment Reports Foster Care Museus, Ledesma,and Parker (2015) define racial equity as a systemic assessmentof how racially equitable systems uplift and increase access and opportunity for historically minoritized people of color are equally ingrained into the academic and social practices, policies, and structures of an institution.
Source: Ray, 2019
June 9, 2020 15
an initiative of
www.occrl.Illinois.edu
Source: U.S. Department of Education, 2018
June 9, 2020 16
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Community Colleges 9 9 6 9 143 197 158 153 119 190 157 216 50 100 150 200 250
June 9, 2020 17
To what extent are you perpetuating and/or being complicit in the pervasiveness of racially inequitable outcomes? Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
June 9, 2020 18
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
June 9, 2020 19
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
Streamline transfer to enhance student mobility and reform problems with credit portability. Establish more partnerships with MSIs in broadening participation of URMs and bolstering transfer and completion. Two and four-year institutions must be responsive and aggressive in addressing the role
Responsibility for the transfer function should not lie solely with the community colleges, as often the blame for lack of success in the transfer process is placed
Need a centralized credits review and tracking method (i.e., interstate) to collect student level data regarding credits and which credentials and competencies align with credits accrued.
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
Access alone absent of other supports needed falls short of closing equity gaps, especially racialized inequities Equity means some students may need varied or additional supports for equality to be realized Community college open enrollment policies offer an accessible door to postsecondary study but fail to address structural impediments and alterations needed to keep students on pathways to a degree conferral
June 9, 2020 20
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
Disparities in higher education remain prevalent for communities of color, low-income populations and other marginalized/underserved populations despite great strides Revisit the roots of community colleges and reimagining community colleges as sites of equitable opportunity and outcomes
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
June 9, 2020 21
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
DC: Author. https://www.aacc.nche.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/AACC- 2020-Fact-Sheet-Final-1_web.jpg
Full-time enrollment and student success. Austin, TX: The University of Texas at Austin, College of Education, Department of Educational Administration, Program in Higher Education Leadership http://www.ccsse.org/docs/Even_One_Semester.pdf
beyond the access saga toward outcome equity. Harvard Educational Review, 77(4), 407-419.
cost of attendance in 2016-17; Degrees and other awards conferred, 2015-16; and 12-Month Enrollment, 2015-16: First Look (Provisional Data). NCES 2017-075rev. National Center for Education Statistics.
approach to transfer receptive cultures. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press.
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
community colleges: Contemporary strategies for bridging theory, research, and
adults by educational attainment. http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/02/11/the-rising-cost-of-not-going-to- college/sdt-higher-education-02-11-2014-0-07
Youngsik, H. (2018, July). Transfer and mobility: A national view of student movement in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011 cohort (Signature Report No. 15). Herndon, VA: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
conscious leadership for college and career pathways. Champaign, IL: Office of Community College Research and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.
June 9, 2020 22
Maltreatment Reports Foster Care Maltreatment Reports Foster Care
Subscribe to the OCCRL Network News and receive updates on all of OCCRL’s research, professional development, and other events. Sign up at http://occrl.illinois.edu/mailing
June 9, 2020 23
Office of Community College Research and Leadership University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education Champaign Office 51 Gerty Dr Champaign, IL 61820 Chicago Office Illini Center 200 S. Wacker Drive, 19th Floor MC-200 Chicago, IL 60606 www.occrl.illinois.edu
ezamanig@illinois.edu
@OCCRL
Illinois University
Program, Western Illinois University