Designing for Success Strategic Planning Phase I: 2018-2019 Karrin E. Wilks, Interim President
BMCC's highest priority is to improve student success, not incrementally but dramatically .
Why Does This Matter? • our mission to prepare students • our collective belief in the for degree completion, successful transformative power of education transfer, career achievement, • our leading role as a community lifelong learning, and civic college in advancing opportunity, participation. inclusion and economic mobility • our moral imperative to advance equity and social justice “Community colleges are the Ellis Island of the 21 st Century.” Bob Templin, Past President of NOVA
Why Does This Matter? • our students want credentials • primary goal of new students: – 16% want to earn an associate degree – 62% want to earn an associate degree and then transfer – 90% of new students plan to graduate from BMCC
Upward Mobility • 70% of BMCC students come from families earning $30,000 a year or less • BMCC graduates earn $38,419 one year after graduation and $44,630 after three years • Nearly 90% of students graduating in 2007-2008 worked in New York State within 10 years BMCC has ranked #3 in economic mobility for 2 years in a row, 2014 and 2015, with the “Highest Student-Mobility Rates.”
Every program, every service, every policy, every college is perfectly designed to achieve the exact outcome it currently produces.
Key Student Success Outcome: Completion of College-level English and Math in the First Year First Year Fall % Completing College‐Level Math and English in First Year Passed English Passed Math Both Subjects Gateway Gateway 2014 24.0% 62.3% 27.7% 2015 26.9% 62.6% 30.2% 2016 27.6% 64.5% 30.5%
Key Student Success Outcome: Three-year Graduation Rates First Fall Full-time Part-time Total 2012 18.5% 7.2% 16.4% 2013 19.2% 8.0% 17.3% 2014 20.3% 6.6% 17.3% RETENTION RATES ARE GOING DOWN.
Key Student Success Outcome: BMCC Three-year Graduation Rates Disaggregated Fall 2012 Fall 2013 Fall 2014 Asian 24.3% 21.9% 23.8% Men 20.6% 16.4% 20.0% Women 28.0% 26.2% 26.1% Black 15.0% 16.2% 13.5% Men 13.1% 13.8% 11.7% Women 16.5% 18.1% 15.0% Hispanic 14.7% 16.9% 17.8% Men 13.5% 12.4% 12.7% Women 15.8% 20.6% 22.4% White 18.4% 16.0% 18.5% Men 16.1% 13.6% 15.7% Women 20.5% 18.2% 21.1%
Key Student Success Outcome: Four-year Baccalaureate Graduation Rate for BMCC Transfers Graduation Year Full-time @ CUNY Part-time @ CUNY Total AY 2009-2010 70.8% 49.8% 63.3% AY 2010-2011 67.3% 48.2% 61.0% AY 2011-2012 67.3% 47.5% 61.2% AY 2012-2013 65.3% 47.5% 59.8%
Designing for Equity, Designing for Care The HOPE Lab national survey: 43,000 students at 66 institutions in 20 states and the District of Columbia Results (impact on community college students): • Food insecurity: between 42% and 56% • Housing insecurity: 46% and 51% • Homelessness: between 12% and 14%
Designing for Success Guiding Principles (Draft) 1. All students can learn anything under 4. All BMCC employees have a the right conditions. It is our responsibility for making students feel responsibility to create the conditions welcome, respected, and cared for inside and outside the classroom in through every interaction. which all students can learn. 5. Targeted, intentional, and embedded 2. The culture communicates that support will accelerate student success. students can succeed and take 6. Continuously evaluating policies and responsibility for a positive future. processes—and redesign as needed— 3. Learning inside and outside the is fundamental to dramatically classroom has value and relevancy for improving outcomes. students.
The Role of Guided Pathways 2.0 in Strategic Planning • proven models, national network, dedicated time • evidence of significant improvement in outcomes • commitment to systemically transform the student experience from their first contact with BMCC to graduation to further education and career development • commitment to designing for success at scale
Designing for Success: Guided Pathways 2017-2018 • development of degree maps • expansion of supplemental and math pathways for all majors instruction • redesigning developmental • expansion of Finish Line education: expanding co- campaign and tuition waiver requisite courses program • expansion of early alert (now to • targeted professional be called Starfish: Connect to development, particularly for Success) adjuncts
BMCC Designing for Success Strategic Planning Phase I: Integration • Strategic Plan 2015-2020: • Strategic Enrollment Management Reaching Greater Levels Plan • American Association of • CUNY Momentum Initiative Community Colleges (AACC) • Improving Developmental Guided Pathways 2.0 Education (Strong Start to Finish • Career Success (CUNY funding) and NYC funding) • Equity and Inclusion Task Force
Designing for Success: Strategic Planning Phase I: 2020-2025 Strategic Plan BMCC’s highest • teaching and learning priority is to improve • degree completion and transfer student success, • equity not incrementally but • labor market outcomes dramatically. • institutional excellence
Designing for Success: Strategic Planning Phase I • Design Team: over 70 faculty and • Open Forums staff (and growing) • Equity and Inclusion Listening Tour • Five Working Groups integrating • Website ongoing planning initiatives • Student Feedback • Design Team Steering Committee: • Nov. 7–8: Guided Pathways coach Chairs of Working Groups and visit designated VP’s Advancing equity and social justice is at the heart of Designing for Success, ensuring pathways to economic and social mobility as central to our mission and the essential work of community colleges.
Designing Career Maps Co-Chairs: Sunil Gupta, Mahapata Palit & Lesley Rennis Career maps provide a comprehensive set of career exploration, preparation and development activities inside and outside the classroom, embedded in majors and aligned with degree maps, to strengthen students’ career assets. These activities are designed by faculty in partnership with Career Services, Internships and Experiential Learning, Workforce Development, Advisement, and Alumni Relations. BMCC has funding from CUNY for this work.
Implementing Career Communities Co-Chairs: Janet Esquirol, Eda Henao & Michael Hutmaker Career Communities arrange all of BMCC’s majors into eight labor market areas. Career Communities provide a means of organizing recruitment, orientation, advisement, extra-curricular activities, and website redesign, including real-time labor market data to provide better information to and engagement with students about career pathways. The working group will convene faculty and staff to draft strategies for implementing Career Communities. Related work will take place through the Liberal Arts Advisory Group. BMCC has funding from CUNY for this work.
Redesigning Onboarding Co-Chairs: Joel Barker, Deanne Southwell & Kristin Waters Redesigning onboarding examines and improves the student experience from recruitment to admissions to enrollment. Currently it takes students up to 22 steps to navigate across several offices and often taking 4-6 weeks to complete the process from initial interest to enrollment. Many students drop out before they ever start because of this complexity. Representatives from Testing, Registrar, Admissions, Advisement, IT, Student Affairs, and Academic Affairs will draft a process redesign, working with the Admissions Committee of the Academic Senate.
Designing 1st Year Success Co-Chairs: Joseph Ginese, Carei Thomas & Janice Walters There is abundant evidence that the nature of the first-year experience is directly related to retention and student success. BMCC’s fall to spring and fall to fall retention rates have been falling over the past several years. We know that students who participate in cohort programs and those who complete college-level math and English in their first year are more likely to succeed. We know that life circumstances can get in the way of success. We know that there are performance gaps by race, ethnicity and gender. Faculty and staff will work to improve the first-year experience.
Designing Pedagogy and Research for Student Success Co-Chairs: Jim Berg, Cheryl Comeau-Kirschener & Yevgeniy Milman Pedagogy matters. Improving teaching and learning is at the heart of improving success. We cannot possibly improve student success without pervasive, highly visible pedagogical leadership across departments. Additionally, many BMCC faculty conduct research that directly and deeply informs our efforts to improve student success. Faculty will work in partnership with Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, and Advisement to identify, catalogue, and design strategies to enhance pedagogy and research for student success. BMCC has funding from CUNY for this work.
BMCC Equity and Inclusion Task Force BMCC will be known as a leading community college for advancing equity and inclusion, and modeling equity-mindedness. 2018-2019 Working Groups • Listening Tour, chaired by Peter Hoontis • Professional Development for Faculty and Staff, chaired by Kelly Rodgers • Program Collaboration for Advancing Equity, chaired by Ashtian Holmes
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