Lost in Transition: How Faculty From Across the Disciplines Can Learn to “Own” First Year...

How Faculty From Across the Disciplines Can Learn to “Own”

First Year Student SuccessBy:

Cecile Davis-Anderson, Nika Hogan, Shelagh Rose, Carrie StarbirdPasadena City College

Lost in Transition:

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 PactThis Year: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)

Student Conference

First Year Counselors & Coaches

Student homework and tutoring lab

Our Story of Hope

What we did to change the culture on our

campus

The Slump

Administration that stifled creativity and professional development

Faculty arrogance about a need for professional development

Seeds of Change

Change in Administration

Internal Grant Program

Title V Grant

Leadership Retreat

About the 5537 – 6 years later

Developmental Education

N = 3,408

12% earned an AA/AS degree

5% earned a certificate

25% transferred

69% no discoverable milestone

Non-Developmental Education

N = 2,129

10% earned an AA/AS degree

4% earned a certificate

41% transferred

55% no discoverable milestone

Scholarship + Relationship

Find Your Team

Build the Relationship

Inquiry Mindset

Mutual Respect

Divide the work

Leverage our expertise

Pilot Imperfectly: Create the Dream

2 hour weekly meetings

Researched & wrote curriculum, grants

Considered texts

Pilot Imperfectly: Live the Nightmare

“FYE Seminar” 300 students 3 back-to-back classes Every Friday

Professional Learning Workshops

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(n = 287)

82.2%

Control Group(n = 574)

69.7%

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

Student Data

FYE students had higher engagement with faculty and peers.

Have Friends in School to Share with3.25

3.3

3.35

3.4

3.45

3.5

3.55

3.6

3.65

College 1

The Control Group

Discuss Academic Program w/ Facculty2.55

2.60

2.65

2.70

2.75

2.80

2.85

College 1

The Control Group

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

Faculty Data

Q4 - pre Q4 - post Q9 - pre Q9 -post Q13 - pre Q13 - post Q14 - pre Q14 - post0.0%

20.0%

40.0%

60.0%

80.0%

100.0%

120.0%

34.6%25.0% 30.8%

12.5%

36.0%

31.3%11.5% 25.0%

34.6% 68.8%

30.8% 68.8%

32.0% 68.8%

30.8%

43.8% Quite A bit

Some In-fluence

Very Little

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?

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.

Student Data: Reading & Metacognition

Student Data: Reading & Metacognition

The Spread

Program Redesign Math QL ModMath English: StAcc

Student Club

Future SI Peer Mentoring

Disenfranchised faculty

Curious managers

Willing staff

Q & ACecile Davis-Anderson (cmanderson@pasadena.edu)

Nika Hogan (nihogan@pasadena.edu)Shelagh Rose (serose@pasadena.edu)

Carrie Starbird (castarbird@pasadena.edu)