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Closer Than You Think!
Collaborating for Student Success
MNSCU Presenters
• Diane Dingfelder, Winona State University
  executive director of outreach and continuing education
  ddingfelder@winona.edu
• Carol Lacey, Metropolitan State University
  professor of interdisciplinary studies
  carol.lacey@metrostate.edu
• Paul Wasko, MNSCU Office of the Chancellor
  eStudent Services (CENTSS/eFolio) paul.wasko@so.mnscu.edu
Associate/Baccalaureate pathway
• The National Center for Public Policy and
  Higher Education identifies two/four transfer
  as the “single most important means for low-
  income and minority students to attain their
  baccalaureates”.
• Effective state policies are critical to make this
  happen
Graduate Minnesota: Lumina initiative
• Target audience: adult students (25+), primarily with 20 or
  fewer credits left to complete their degree, recruited to
  return to MNSCU and University of Minnesota campuses.
• Graduate Minnesota designed to connect former students
  with advisers who can help them find the best and fastest
  route to complete their associate or bachelor's degree.
• In the first two years of the program, a statewide media
  campaign featured radio spots, online advertising and
  newspaper ads.
• In addition, letters and emails were sent to more than
  35,000 individuals who recently attended a Minnesota
  state college or university and earned a significant number
  of credits but did not earn a degree.
Associate degrees: stepping stones
• Completing an associate’s degree is often an
  intermediate steppingstone to a baccalaureate
  degree.
• The National Center for Public Policy and
  Higher Education identifies two-four transfer
  as the “single most important means for low-
  income and minority students to attain their
  baccalaureates.”
Individualized degrees
• Individualized B.A. options build on what
  students have completed (including associate
  degrees, articulation agreements, etc. as well
  as experiential learning.)
• MNSCU procedures for individualized degrees
  require specific program plan (guided by
  faculty)
• Plans can be thematic, interdisciplinary or
  disciplinary
Examples of existing options
• Metropolitan State Individualized B.A. (CIS)
• University of Minnesota Inter-College Program
• St. Cloud State University Bachelor of Elective
  Studies
• Winona State University Professional Studies
  degree
Ramp up CPL (credit for prior learning)
• CPLA or PLA hallmarks of Graduate MN lead
  institutions (Inver Hills/other CCs-credit by
  exam, Metropolitan State-SDL/PLA/theory
  seminars)
• MNSCU Board of Trustees policy
• CPL survey of institutional practices/policies
• Subject Matter Experts (SME) expansion
  campuses and statewide
• Veterans/Military initiatives (Congressional
  award)
Graduate MN Accomplishments
 Enrolled/Earned Degrees      Collaborator with New Ventures
• 1833 (8.9%) of the 20,566   •   Dual or joint admissions
   contacted re-enrolled.     •   Smart Transfer
• These students completed    •   Reverse Transfer
   8,387 credits.             •   Veterans’ CPL/PLA
• 19% of the above                Initiatives
   completed degree.
• Veterans: 99 enrolled, 16
   earned degrees.
Catalyst for broader initiatives
• Streamline admission and transfer processes
• Improve retention and completion of both
  associate and baccalaureate degrees is
  particularly critical in a state such as
  Minnesota, which has the third highest
  transfer rate in the nation (1:5 students)
• Expansion of individualized baccalaureate
  degrees and adult-learner opportunities
An evolving initiative: Winona
• Recognized for exemplary traditional
  undergraduate, residential education on
  Winona campus
• 10.4% of undergraduate enrollment of 8,700 is
  age 25+
• Urban Rochester, MN branch campus, co-
  located with the community/technical
  college, serves as a hub for adult learners
Evolving initiative continued . . .
• Need to provide academic and career
  pathways for associate degree graduates from
  MnSCU community and technical colleges
• National/state initiatives addressing workforce
  needs and serving adult learners throughout
  their life and career stages
• Shrinking high school enrollments and
  declining population in our service region
Incentives for change
• Internal: “Next Chapter” grants -- small
  grants provided by administration to build
  upon HLC self-study report and to spark
  innovation
• External: Increasing competition from other
  higher education institutions to serve adult
  learners
• MNSCU Graduate Minnesota and other
  initiatives
Adult Learner Focused Institution
             (ALFI) Toolkit
• Institutional Self-Assessment Survey
• Adult Learner Inventory (ALI) by Noel-Levitz
  assesses adult learner priorities and
  satisfaction in 8 key areas:
  – Academic instruction and advising
  – Registration, financial aid, admissions
  – Campus climate, safety/security, services
AFLI Toolkit continued
• Used together, the ISAS and ALI compare
  faculty and administration perceptions with
  adult learner perceptions
• National benchmarking data to compare
  results with other adult learner institutions
• Noel-Levitz research
“Next Chapter” Emerging Efforts
• Repurpose/redesign the Professional Studies
  degree with more online courses and services
  for adult learners.
• Assess current PLA practices through formal
  report and consultation with CAEL.
• Improve online student services in response to
  CENTSS “audit”.
MNSCU 2012 Strategic Framework
• Dramatically increase retention, transfer and
  completion, and reduce time to completion.
• Continue implementation of the “Smart
  Transfer Plan” to significantly improve
  transferability of credit and eliminate barriers.
• Create clearer and easier pathways for degree
  laddering within MnSCU and with other
  institutions.
MNSCU 2012 Initiatives
• Implement a reverse transfer initiative to
  award students the degrees they have earned.
  Recognize (systemwide) completion of
  Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (gen eds)
• Improve process for granting credit for military
  training (PLA, etc.)
• Reconsider articulation agreements for certain
  associate degree programs.
MNSCU inter-institutional cooperation
• Universal application process
• Dual or joint admissions
• Improved inter-institutional advising
• Articulation agreements
• Pilot efforts establish quality nursing
  curriculum standards across the system
• Improved transfer procedures including
  reverse transfer
“2+2” to “2 within 4” advising
• Students pursuing associate degrees earn
  many lower division credits that approach the
  maximum that can apply toward a bachelor’s.
• Improved advising tools GPS
  Lifeplan, Uselect, eFolio) help students make
  more informed curricular choices
  (prerequisites for upper division work, upper
  division curricular options )
Smart Transfer
• Access to course outlines on institutional
  websites facilitates evaluating transfer credits.
• Evaluate and encode all courses into the
  degree audit reporting system (DARS) for
  display in uselect accurate transfer planning.
• Provide information on institutional and
  system-level appeal processes and transfer on
  institutional websites.
$500,000 new Lumina grant leverage
• Establish system-wide steering committee for
  centralized reverse transfer
• Enhance u.select to technology automatically
  import courses.
• Upgrade DARS (degree audit reporting system)
  to u.achieve to allow search for courses
  needed to complete a degree.
• Advise students identified as early transfers.
• Train advisors and transfer specialists.
Reverse Transfer
• MNSCU institutions are piloting development
  of transparent reverse transfer procedures
  while also pursuing their baccalaureate
  degrees.
• Developing a fully automated reverse transfer
  system has been shown (Texas, etc.) to
  increase reverse transfer and graduation rates
  dramatically.
Reverse Transfer Stages
• MNSCU: Focus first on early transfer students
  within MNSCU state universities (which receive
  73 percent of college transfers to public
  universities).
• UM: By spring, 2013, execute memorandum of
  understanding with University of Minnesota and
  state colleges in the Twin Cities.
• Privates: Then, build on existing articulation
  agreements among MNSCU and private
  Minnesota colleges.
Lessons learned/best practices
• Effective “You are closer than you think”
  message
• Centralized call center provided accurate
  information and referral to campus advisors.
• Financial incentives did not make significant
  impact on response/reenrollment.
• Graduate Minnesota website including Tools
  for the journey (with links to MNSCU/UM
  campuses)
Questions?
• What options or challenges regarding
  interdisciplinary degrees do your campuses
  experience?
• What cross institutional collaborations are in
  the works in your state?
• Sustainability: how do we keep these going?
  (changes in institutional practice and/or
  culture, working smarter and better)

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Collaborating for student_success

  • 1. Closer Than You Think! Collaborating for Student Success
  • 2. MNSCU Presenters • Diane Dingfelder, Winona State University executive director of outreach and continuing education ddingfelder@winona.edu • Carol Lacey, Metropolitan State University professor of interdisciplinary studies carol.lacey@metrostate.edu • Paul Wasko, MNSCU Office of the Chancellor eStudent Services (CENTSS/eFolio) paul.wasko@so.mnscu.edu
  • 3. Associate/Baccalaureate pathway • The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education identifies two/four transfer as the “single most important means for low- income and minority students to attain their baccalaureates”. • Effective state policies are critical to make this happen
  • 4. Graduate Minnesota: Lumina initiative • Target audience: adult students (25+), primarily with 20 or fewer credits left to complete their degree, recruited to return to MNSCU and University of Minnesota campuses. • Graduate Minnesota designed to connect former students with advisers who can help them find the best and fastest route to complete their associate or bachelor's degree. • In the first two years of the program, a statewide media campaign featured radio spots, online advertising and newspaper ads. • In addition, letters and emails were sent to more than 35,000 individuals who recently attended a Minnesota state college or university and earned a significant number of credits but did not earn a degree.
  • 5. Associate degrees: stepping stones • Completing an associate’s degree is often an intermediate steppingstone to a baccalaureate degree. • The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education identifies two-four transfer as the “single most important means for low- income and minority students to attain their baccalaureates.”
  • 6. Individualized degrees • Individualized B.A. options build on what students have completed (including associate degrees, articulation agreements, etc. as well as experiential learning.) • MNSCU procedures for individualized degrees require specific program plan (guided by faculty) • Plans can be thematic, interdisciplinary or disciplinary
  • 7. Examples of existing options • Metropolitan State Individualized B.A. (CIS) • University of Minnesota Inter-College Program • St. Cloud State University Bachelor of Elective Studies • Winona State University Professional Studies degree
  • 8. Ramp up CPL (credit for prior learning) • CPLA or PLA hallmarks of Graduate MN lead institutions (Inver Hills/other CCs-credit by exam, Metropolitan State-SDL/PLA/theory seminars) • MNSCU Board of Trustees policy • CPL survey of institutional practices/policies • Subject Matter Experts (SME) expansion campuses and statewide • Veterans/Military initiatives (Congressional award)
  • 9. Graduate MN Accomplishments Enrolled/Earned Degrees Collaborator with New Ventures • 1833 (8.9%) of the 20,566 • Dual or joint admissions contacted re-enrolled. • Smart Transfer • These students completed • Reverse Transfer 8,387 credits. • Veterans’ CPL/PLA • 19% of the above Initiatives completed degree. • Veterans: 99 enrolled, 16 earned degrees.
  • 10. Catalyst for broader initiatives • Streamline admission and transfer processes • Improve retention and completion of both associate and baccalaureate degrees is particularly critical in a state such as Minnesota, which has the third highest transfer rate in the nation (1:5 students) • Expansion of individualized baccalaureate degrees and adult-learner opportunities
  • 11. An evolving initiative: Winona • Recognized for exemplary traditional undergraduate, residential education on Winona campus • 10.4% of undergraduate enrollment of 8,700 is age 25+ • Urban Rochester, MN branch campus, co- located with the community/technical college, serves as a hub for adult learners
  • 12. Evolving initiative continued . . . • Need to provide academic and career pathways for associate degree graduates from MnSCU community and technical colleges • National/state initiatives addressing workforce needs and serving adult learners throughout their life and career stages • Shrinking high school enrollments and declining population in our service region
  • 13. Incentives for change • Internal: “Next Chapter” grants -- small grants provided by administration to build upon HLC self-study report and to spark innovation • External: Increasing competition from other higher education institutions to serve adult learners • MNSCU Graduate Minnesota and other initiatives
  • 14. Adult Learner Focused Institution (ALFI) Toolkit • Institutional Self-Assessment Survey • Adult Learner Inventory (ALI) by Noel-Levitz assesses adult learner priorities and satisfaction in 8 key areas: – Academic instruction and advising – Registration, financial aid, admissions – Campus climate, safety/security, services
  • 15. AFLI Toolkit continued • Used together, the ISAS and ALI compare faculty and administration perceptions with adult learner perceptions • National benchmarking data to compare results with other adult learner institutions • Noel-Levitz research
  • 16. “Next Chapter” Emerging Efforts • Repurpose/redesign the Professional Studies degree with more online courses and services for adult learners. • Assess current PLA practices through formal report and consultation with CAEL. • Improve online student services in response to CENTSS “audit”.
  • 17. MNSCU 2012 Strategic Framework • Dramatically increase retention, transfer and completion, and reduce time to completion. • Continue implementation of the “Smart Transfer Plan” to significantly improve transferability of credit and eliminate barriers. • Create clearer and easier pathways for degree laddering within MnSCU and with other institutions.
  • 18. MNSCU 2012 Initiatives • Implement a reverse transfer initiative to award students the degrees they have earned. Recognize (systemwide) completion of Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (gen eds) • Improve process for granting credit for military training (PLA, etc.) • Reconsider articulation agreements for certain associate degree programs.
  • 19. MNSCU inter-institutional cooperation • Universal application process • Dual or joint admissions • Improved inter-institutional advising • Articulation agreements • Pilot efforts establish quality nursing curriculum standards across the system • Improved transfer procedures including reverse transfer
  • 20. “2+2” to “2 within 4” advising • Students pursuing associate degrees earn many lower division credits that approach the maximum that can apply toward a bachelor’s. • Improved advising tools GPS Lifeplan, Uselect, eFolio) help students make more informed curricular choices (prerequisites for upper division work, upper division curricular options )
  • 21. Smart Transfer • Access to course outlines on institutional websites facilitates evaluating transfer credits. • Evaluate and encode all courses into the degree audit reporting system (DARS) for display in uselect accurate transfer planning. • Provide information on institutional and system-level appeal processes and transfer on institutional websites.
  • 22. $500,000 new Lumina grant leverage • Establish system-wide steering committee for centralized reverse transfer • Enhance u.select to technology automatically import courses. • Upgrade DARS (degree audit reporting system) to u.achieve to allow search for courses needed to complete a degree. • Advise students identified as early transfers. • Train advisors and transfer specialists.
  • 23. Reverse Transfer • MNSCU institutions are piloting development of transparent reverse transfer procedures while also pursuing their baccalaureate degrees. • Developing a fully automated reverse transfer system has been shown (Texas, etc.) to increase reverse transfer and graduation rates dramatically.
  • 24. Reverse Transfer Stages • MNSCU: Focus first on early transfer students within MNSCU state universities (which receive 73 percent of college transfers to public universities). • UM: By spring, 2013, execute memorandum of understanding with University of Minnesota and state colleges in the Twin Cities. • Privates: Then, build on existing articulation agreements among MNSCU and private Minnesota colleges.
  • 25. Lessons learned/best practices • Effective “You are closer than you think” message • Centralized call center provided accurate information and referral to campus advisors. • Financial incentives did not make significant impact on response/reenrollment. • Graduate Minnesota website including Tools for the journey (with links to MNSCU/UM campuses)
  • 26. Questions? • What options or challenges regarding interdisciplinary degrees do your campuses experience? • What cross institutional collaborations are in the works in your state? • Sustainability: how do we keep these going? (changes in institutional practice and/or culture, working smarter and better)