Presentation by Cecile Davis-Anderson, Nika Hogan, Shelagh Rose, Carrie Starbird of Pasadena City College at the 2nd Annual LACCD AtD Retreat

1. Lost in Transition:

2. PCC’s FYE Program
 Started in 2011
 Math Jam Orientation
 Full course load (English, Math, Freshman Seminar, GE)
 One Book, One College (Last Year: The Pact
This Year: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)
 Student Conference
 First Year Counselors & Coaches
 Student homework and tutoring lab

3. Our Story of Hope
What we did to change
the culture on our
campus

4. The Slump
 Administration that stifled creativity and professional
development
 Faculty arrogance about a need for professional
development

5. Seeds of Change
 Change in Administration
 Internal Grant Program
 Title V Grant
 Leadership Retreat

6. About the 5537 – 6 years later
Developmental Education Non-Developmental Education
N = 3,408 N = 2,129
 12% earned an AA/AS  10% earned an AA/AS degree
degree
 4% earned a certificate
 5% earned a certificate
 41% transferred
 25% transferred
 55% no discoverable
 69% no discoverable milestone
milestone

7. Scholarship + Relationship
 Find Your Team
 Build the Relationship
 Inquiry Mindset
 Mutual Respect
 Divide the work
 Leverage our expertise

8. Pilot Imperfectly:
Create the Dream
 2 hour weekly meetings
 Researched & wrote curriculum, grants
 Considered texts

9. Pilot Imperfectly:
Live the Nightmare
 “FYE Seminar”
 300 students
 3 back-to-back classes
 Every Friday
 Professional Learning Workshops

10. Initial Student Data
 FYE students had a significantly higher persistence rate to
the second year.
Student Population Persistence from
Fall 2011 – Fall
2012
FYE Students Cohort 1 82.2%
(n = 287)
Control Group 69.7%
(n = 574)

11. Scale Up
 900 FY Students + 150 F1 Visa Students
 Freshman Seminar Created (College 1)
 3 units
 Transferrable to UC/CSU
 Info Literacy, Critical Reading Skills, College Success
Behaviors
 Interdisciplinary faculty
 29 sections of College 1

12. Student Data
 FYE students had higher engagement with faculty and
peers.
3.65 2.85
3.6 2.80
3.55
2.75
3.5
College 1
2.70 College 1
3.45
The
3.4 2.65 Control
The Control
3.35 Group Group
2.60
3.3
2.55
3.25
Discuss Academic Program w/
Have Friends in School to Share with Facculty

13. We built it…
 And they came!
 32 instructors from all 12 divisions on campus
 One week professional learning institute
 Extensive shared reading
 One Book, One College as course text
 Additional non-fiction text (Mindset by Carol Dweck)
 Text sets

14. Faculty Data
120.0%
100.0%
80.0%
32.0% 68.8%
60.0% 34.6% 68.8% Quite A bit
30.8% 68.8% 43.8%
40.0% 36.0% Some
30.8%
34.6% Influence
20.0% 25.0% 30.8% 31.3% 25.0%
12.5% 11.5% Very Little
0.0%
Q4 - pre Q4 - post Q9 - pre Q9 -post Q13 - pre Q13 - post Q14 - pre Q14 - post
 Question # 4 How much can you do to motivate students who show low interest
in schoolwork?
 Question # 9 How much can you do to help your students value learning?
 Question # 13 How much can you do to improve the understanding of a student
who is failing?
 Question #14 How much can you use a variety of assessment strategies?

15. Faculty Responses
 I loved the fact that most activities were modeled so we
could understand the process and how to integrate them
which was the practical application component. And the
variety of activities and resources presented gave lots of
creative ideas for building our course.
 I feel like there's lots of support within our group and all of
the PCC support services. The main thing is to keep the
connection between our colleagues so we don't feel
isolated and can share our successes and challenges.

16. Student Data:
Reading &Metacognition

17. Student Data:
Reading &Metacognition

18. The Spread
 Program Redesign  Disenfranchised faculty
 Math QL
 Curious managers
 ModMath
 English: StAcc  Willing staff
 Student Club
 Future
 SI
 Peer Mentoring

19. Q&A
Cecile Davis-Anderson (cmanderson@pasadena.edu)
Nika Hogan (nihogan@pasadena.edu)
Shelagh Rose (serose@pasadena.edu)
Carrie Starbird (castarbird@pasadena.edu)