Creating a Sustainable and Collaborative Orientation

District-Wide Student Services Task ForcePresented by:

Vice Presidents & Deans of Student ServicesApril 20, 2012

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Mission Statement: Creating a Community of Success

Student EngagementAcademic Skills and College

Readiness

Education & Career

Goals

Instruction

Learning Community

Course Alignment

Support Faculty, Staff, Students and

External Community

Support Services, extra-curricular

activities, clubs & organizations

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Retention Factors• Retention is multi-variant and single

causal factors are difficult to ascertain.• Persistence depends on the extent to

which an individual has been integrated into the academic and non-academic components of the campus environment (student engagement).

• Students do not come to college with a cognitive map of functioning and prospering. 3

Promising Practices in Student Success

Planning for success: Assessment & Placement Orientation Goal setting & planningInitiating success: Accelerated Developmental Education First Year Experience Student Success Course Learning community

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Promising Practices in Student Success

Sustaining successClass AttendanceEarly alert & InterventionExperiential LearningTutoringSupplemental Instruction

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Elements of Successful Orientation (Learning Assistance Programs)

Demystify the college experience

Decode the environment

Diagnose individual readiness

Develop academic preparedness

Demystify

Decode

Diagnose

Develop

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Orientation ObjectivesIntroduce the college community to new

students from both an academic and personal perspective

Provide information and assistance to new students so that they may succeed academically and develop personally

Ensure that students feel adequately prepared to face the challenges of their first year

Allow students to meet each other and develop new relationships 7

Orientation ObjectivesProvide peer counselors who can share their

own experiences as a source of support and information

Expose students to the wide range of issues facing them as PCCD students, including factors affecting their personal health & safety

Introduce the variety of students services that are available on campus, so that students feel able to navigate the college on their own as they transition into their second year

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Re-framing Orientation – Learning Assistance

Orientation is an on-going process that is designed to providing students the right information at the right time. It is not a static event but an evolving and holistic process of educational development.

Orientation requires the intelligent leveraging of resources both human and fiscal.

Orientation is collaborative learning process – student/faculty; staff/faculty and, staff/student.

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Orientation as a ContinuumCore Elements

Orientation, Assessment and CounselingStudent Success Courses & FYE

Career Courses and Learning Communities

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Orientation ManifestoOrientation and matriculation must be mandatory

Collaboration between instruction and student services is essential

Elimination of obstacles that deter students from being successful

Be prescriptive: Intervene early and often (engage)

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Student Support ManifestoSustained: Lasting throughout a student’s college career

Intrusive: Mandatory & structured so students must participate at regular intervals

Integrated: Multiple forms of support are offered and silos broken down

Personalized: Students receive the type of support they need from someone who knows them well

Proposal: Two Part Orientation

1. Intensive: One to two day Orientation (occurring prior to the beginning of the semester and prior to counseling and enrollment into classes).

2. Continuous: One or two semester – First Year Experience

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Intensive One to Two Day Orientation Model:

• Presentations – General overview, interactive, student panels, mock classes

• Specialized program orientations• Campus Tours• Centralized Advising, Course Scheduling and

Enrollment.• Financial Aid Support Workshops• SLO Assessment• Success Checklist

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Team Presentations• EOPS/CARE• Financial Aid • DSPS • Counseling • Tutoring• Teaching Faculty (CTE and other cohort programs)• English • Math• Library • Learning Communities • Career Center• Health Center• Student Panel/Clubs and Organizations/Leadership• Veterans

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Process Flow

Orientation Assessment Counseling

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New Orientation Model: Continuous

Year Long:• College Success

Course• First Year

Experience Program (cohort)

• Contextualized and/or Accelerated Instruction

• Career Development Course

• Learning Community

• End-of-year Orientation

• Student Educational Plan

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First Semester

Orientation Assessment Advisement/Course Selection

College Success 101A

First Year or Re-entry Course SEP

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Second Semester

Advisement/Course Selection Career Development Learning

Community

College Success 101B

Orientation SEP

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Program Elements

Mandatory for all new students New students could not enroll prior to

intensive orientationNew students could not enroll lateProgram begins 2013New students have priority enrollment

for the second semester

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Online Orientation*• Welcome• Success Tips• Every section has a test• Final test at end of orientation• 45 minutes• Results will be submitted and included

in matriculation process• SEP

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SLO for Online Orientation

Student Learning Outcomes

Assessment Methods

When will you collect this information?

1) Students will be able to identify the matriculation process at Merritt College

Student will complete online orientation quiz

After the completion of online orientation quiz, (possible cut score)

1) Students will have information to Merritt College services that will support their educational and personal goals, e.g. libraries, information technology, academic, counseling and student services departments

Student will complete online orientation quiz

After the completion of online orientation quiz, online certificate

1) Students will have an appointment or have signed up for their Math /English assessment (as a measure of current skill levels in reading, writing, and mathematics)

Student will complete online orientation quiz

After the completion of online quiz, link to assessment appointment page OR printout of assessment schedule

Implementation TimelineStakeholder consultation and campus

planning teams to develop detailed plans - now

Peralta teams communicate with feeder high schools, and other local community agencies/organizations beginning in fall of 2012 to describe the program.

Begin Spring 2013 as a pilotFull implementation – Fall 2013

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Issues to Address• Definition of new and/or matriculating

students• On-line orientation implementation• Involve students in planning and develop

student peer advising component.• Clarifying the scope of "First Year

Experience“, and Learning Communities within the framework of Orientation.

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Shared GovernanceStakeholders that need to be involved in planning:• District and college matriculation committees• District and college academic senates• VP/Deans of Instruction and Student Services• IT (mandatory holds, etc.)• Admissions & Records• College Counseling and Teaching faculty and

classified staff• Assessment staff• District and college marketing staff

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Questions?

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