This is a joint presentation between Dr. Susan Wood, Ms. Lori Dwyer, Dr. Chris Pfautz, and Dr. Richard Sebastian for the 2013 VCCS Annual Meeting.

1. STATEWIDE STRATEGIES
FOR ADVANCING
STUDENT SUCCESS
THROUGH INNOVATION
2013 Annual Meeting

2. STATEWIDE INNOVATION, STUDENT
SUCCESS
Increasing
Persistence
and
Engagement
Planning
for
College &
Career
Enhancing
Affordability

3. 23
40
275,000
100,000

4. Innovation

6. Access
Increase the number of individuals who are
educated and trained by Virginia’s Community
Colleges by 50,000 to an annual total of 423,000,
with an emphasis on increasing the number from
underserved populations by at least 25,000
individuals.

7. Affordability
Maintain tuition and fees at less than half of the comparable
cost of attending Virginia’s public 4-year institutions, and
increase the annual number of students who receive
financial assistance and scholarships by 36,000.

8. Student Success
Increase the number of students graduating,
transferring or completing a workforce credential by
50%, including increasing the success of students
from underserved populations by 75%.

9. UNDERSERVED
POPULATIONS
Race/Ethnicity
Domicile
Pell Status
1st
Generation

10. ACHIEVE 2015 TAKE TWO
Recalibrated goals

11. 2/3 parttime
53% of all
Virginia
undergraduates
3/5 of instate undergraduate
enrollments
6%
increase in
Hispanic
students
60% of VCCS students are from
underserved populations

12. A STUDENT’S JOURNEY

13. AND FOR SOME STUDENTS…
And for some students

14. Student Assistance &
Intervention for
Learning Success

15. Background
Achieve 2015 – Student Success
3x the number of students graduating, transferring, or completing
a workforce credential, to 91,173; including tripling the success of
students from underserved populations to 39,393.
Department of Labor TAA-CCCT Grant
September 30, 2013
Pilot period began with all developmental education courses
Spring 2014
Expand to include student success (SDV) courses and gateway
courses

16. Roles & Privileges
Instructors
Raise flags, when appropriate.
Respond to student flags, as
necessary.
Potentially track attendance.
Student
Services
Staff
View and track SAILS activity.
Follow-up, as necessary.
• Add notes
• Clear flags
• Close the loop
Students
Receive email notifications when
flagged.
Contact appropriate support
office.

17. Flags & Kudos
Flags
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Attendance concern
Assignment concern
General concern
In danger of failing
Low participation
Low quiz/test scores
Never attended
Kudos
• Keep up the good
work
• Showing
improvement
• Outstanding
academic
performance

18. HOW IT ALL WORKS

19. HOW IT ALL WORKS

20. HOW IT ALL WORKS

22. The Virginia Education Wizard

23. Career & Course Planner

24. Set up

25. Career goals

26. Assessments

27. Transfer

28. Placement tests

29. Course planner

30. Experiences

31. Financial aid

32. Share

33. Career & course planner

34. Career & course planner

35. Career & course planner

37. EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

38. open educational resources, n.
Open educational resources (OER) are
teaching, learning, and research resources
that reside in the public domain or have
been released under an intellectual
property license that permits their free use
and repurposing by others.

40. Textbook Costs & Digital Learning
Resources Workgroup

42. Utilize the VCCS faculty peer group structure to articulate learning outcomes for
courses, beginning with prerequisite courses and courses with high enrollment currently
demonstrating low success rates and/or low persistence rates to subsequent courses
and award completion.
Ex. PSY 200

43. PSY 200
http://vccs.libguides.com/psy200

45. Spring 2013
•
•
•
•
•
•
$3000
Emphasis on adoption
High enrollment courses
Cohort-based
Lumen-supported
Stealth course-redesign

46. FALL 2013
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
BIO 101
BIO102
BUS 100
CHM 111
CST 100
ENG 111
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
ENG 112
HIS 101
ITE 115
MTH 163
PSY 201
SDV 100

47. FALL 2013
520 Students
20 sections
12 colleges
$52,000 in savings

48. FALL 2013
• “Z” Degree
• Associate degree in Business Admin
• $0 Textbook Costs

49. FALL 2013
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
ENG 111
ENG 112
ENG 125
MTH 151
PHY 201
PHY 202
7. HIS 121
8. HIS 122
9. ART 101
10. ART 102
11. HIS 262
12.SDV 100

50. ENG 111 & 112

51. INSTITUTIONAL
& FACULTY
CULTURE
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”
–Peter Drucker

52. IMPORTANCE
OF LIBRARIES

53. IMPACTS
TEACHING &
LEARNING

54. COLLEGES
ARE
Piloting
the SAILS
early alert
system
Sharing the
WIZARD
with
current and
prospective
students
Using
OER to
replace
textbooks

55. ADVANCING
STUDENT SUCCESS
THROUGH
INNOVATION

56. Questions?
Dr. Susan Wood
Vice Chancellor, Academic
Services
Ms. Lori Dwyer
Director of Educational Policy
Dr. Chris Pfautz
Director of Student Support
Technologies
Dr. Richard Sebastian
Director of Teaching and
Learning Technologies