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OIESS Building a Culture of Student Success Using ATD Methodology George Gabriel, Ph.D. Molly Lynch, PhD Courtney Boland OIESS What is Achieving the Dream? ATD is an organization that works with colleges in advancing the Student Success

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Building a Culture of Student Success Using ATD Methodology

George Gabriel, Ph.D. Molly Lynch, PhD Courtney Boland

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What is Achieving the Dream?

ATD is an organization that works with colleges in advancing the Student Success Agenda by adopting many paths to improve student success outcomes

Colleges with many years in ATD are encouraged to use “Student Success” in lieu of “Achieving the Dream”

ATD = Student Success

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ATD Methodology Functions as an Umbrella

  • Moving the needle on Student Success will

require the ATD umbrella of support:

– Philosophy and methodology (why and how) – Leadership Support – Teaching and Learning – Support for Learners – Evidence-based decision making (data) – Policies and Practices – Network experience (learn from others)

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Leadership

Learning Teaching & Support Student Evidence

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Timeline of ATD at NOVA

2009 First Year Experience 2009 New Student Orientation 2008 Learning Communities 2010 Leader College 2013 GPS for Success Course Redesigns (ENG, MTH, SDV) 2014 Start Strong Initiative Six Policy Changes 2017 Working Student Success Network Grant Financial Stability Program 2007 Joined ATD
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Major ATD Initiatives at NOVA

Student Orientation Developmental Course Redesigns

GPS Six Policy Changes Financial Stability Program

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NOVA Must Transform to Succeed

TIME INNOVATION

START GROW MATURE REVAMP

(REDREAM)

DEFEAT DECLINE 2020

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Student Success at NOVA

NOVA's Mission Access College Readiness Enrollment Success Course Completion Retention Graduation Transfer Job Placement Licensing Exams

As identified by SACSCOC, the Institutional Effectiveness (IE) plan constitutes student success as improving the following metrics:

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Reaccreditation 2022

Student Achievement [Success] is a new, critical mandate by SACS SACS focuses on Student Success metrics in assessing quality of education and institutional effectiveness

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Critical Student Success Goals

  • Help students to persist in their program
  • f study
  • Complete an associate degree within

three years of enrollment

  • Transfer and earn a bachelor’s degree

within six years of enrollment

  • Be employed with family-sustaining

wages

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Success Metrics: Peer Comparisons

Source: IPEDS

*Montgomery, Maryland **Valencia, Florida ***Austin CC District, Texas

72% 25% 16% 78% 41% 42% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% Retention* Graduation** Transfer*** NOVA Peer
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Is NOVA’s Culture “Student Success” Focused?

1 5 10

Not Good OK Excellent

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Moving the Needle Moving the needle requires a strong Culture of Student Success:

–The ATD structure has been revamped –Senior leadership is part of the college- wide committee (Core Team) –ATD Campus Teams are strengthened by faculty and staff from ALL areas

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Culture

Culture is a value system of a society or an

  • rganization by which it functions.

NOVA’s culture should be Student Success focused in order to lead all of our students towards socio-economic mobility.

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How Do We Improve Our Metrics?

  • Student Success needs to be an

integral part of everything we do

  • Mainstream ATD across the

college

  • Move beyond just the ATD

campus teams working for student success

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Call for Change

Core Team along with the Campus Teams will create an action plan with targets for each of the 4 selected metrics:

–Retention –Graduation –Transfer –Employment

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Action Plan

  • Extensive, broad-based

campus participation is expected

  • Examine best practices of

successful peer institutions

  • 3 year Student Success action

plan will be implemented

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Are We Ready to Move the Needle?

YES!!!

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NOVA needs to administer the ICAT to pinpoint strengths and needs across seven capacity areas:

  • 1. Leadership and Vision
  • 2. Data and Technology
  • 3. Equity
  • 4. Teaching and Learning
  • 5. Engagement and Communication
  • 6. Strategy and Planning
  • 7. Policies and Practices
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  • 1. Building an Institutional Capacity
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  • 2. Administer the ICAT
  • Online, self-assessment of capacities

within NOVA

  • Helps to understand the areas essential to

cultivating a student focused culture

  • Administer by campus
  • Faculty, staff and administrators will

complete the survey

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  • 3. Reform from the Ground Up

Each campus will host a large group engagement activity with a cross- representation of participants to:

–discuss the results, –celebrate strengths, –prioritize areas for improvement –identify concrete steps to build capacity in areas needing improvement

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What is YOUR Role?

Lending a hand to our students becomes

  • ur culture
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Everything Starts with Students and Student Success

It also starts with each of us:

–Faculty –Staff –Administration

This is the society/organization we hope to be!

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Marching forward with new leadership for ALL Students!