Keep Students in College with a Comprehensive Student Success Course
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Keep Students in College with a Comprehensive Student
Success Course
Dr. Marsha Fralick
Ice Breaker
What should I visit if I were to travel to your city?
Think Pair
Share
Overview
• Program description• Program results• Key elements
• Course Credit• Career planning• Learning style• Technology
What is the dream that students have when they begin college?
The American Dream
• Get a degree• Get a better job• Improve the quality of life• Increase self-respect • Be the best you can be
The Reality
• What Happens?• After 8 years, only 53% of those
seeking degrees achieved their goals.• 40-50% of the students don’t even
return the next semester.• 6 out of 10 transfer students give up
their plans or drop out in one semester. Sources: Achieving the Dream website,
PACE Research
How can we help college students be successful?
• Think• Pair• Share
Cuyamaca CollegeEl Cajon, CA
Personal Development 124, Lifelong Success
• 8000 students enrolled in college
• 1600 take PDC 124 each year
• One of the top 15 revenue producing programs for the college
• 56 sections a year
College Success
• Motivation• Time and Money• Memory and Reading• Test Taking• Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking
Career Success
• Personality and Related Majors• Learning Style and Intelligence• Interests and Values• Career and Educational Planning
Lifelong Success
• Communication and Relationships• Critical and Creative Thinking• Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle• Appreciating Diversity• Positive Thinking• Life Stages
Course Choices
• Face to Face• 22 sections
• Blended • 22 sections
• Online• 12 sections
College Success Course
• 3 units• Transfers to four year universities• One of the top 15 revenue
producing programs in the college
Key to Success: Make it Count
• Transfers as general education for CSUC, Area E, Lifelong Understanding
• Transfers to University of California
The Transfer Approval Process• Academic Rigor
• Broad ScopeCareersLifelong Success
• Articulate with Universities
Bridge
High School
Community College
University
Program Results
Program Review 2000, 2005
The most significant finding is increased persistence.
Persistence
• Students who return the next semester
• Approximately half of community college students nationwide do not persist after the first semester
College Persistence Semester to Semester5 Year Average at Cuyamaca College
• All successful PDC students 89%• All students 63%
A 26% improvement!
Keys to Success
• The program helps students to make a good choice of a major and career.
College Success: A Study of Positive and Negative
Attrition
Community College Review
The Successful Student
• Had a definite goal or college major
Based on this research, choosing a major and career planning was included in our college success course.
How did you choose your major?
Career?
How to Choose a Major
• Self Assessment• Personality• Interests• Values• Learning Style
• Career Research
• Carl Jung and personality type
Online:
Keys to Success• The program helps students to
understand their learning style and how to become a lifelong learner.
The PEPS Learning Style Assessment• Measures preferences in 20 areas
• Perceptual• Environmental• Emotional• Sociological• Physical
Keys to Success• Use technology to make education
engaging and inescapable.
New Millennials
• Our current college students• Most were born since 1990• Most were born with a computer in the
home and were using them by age 5 • Cyber generation• The connected generation • 82% are online daily• Average 12 hours per week online
Where are you in the technology continuum?
• Baby boomer 1946-1964• Generation X 1965-1977• New Millennials 1977-1995• How much technology did you use
in college?
Rationale for Using Technology• Your students use it• It captures their attention• Education on demand
Any time or place• Increased access• New roles for faculty
Using Technology
• Online career and learning style assessment
• E-text
• Online portfolio
Technology helps guide students through the critical first two weeks
• Make sure all students have started
• Monitor progress from the beginning
• Engaging material for the New Millennial Generation
Take a Look
Resources for Faculty
• Instructor Manual• Exercises and Handouts
• Syllabus• Research• PowerPoint• Internet Links
www.collegesuccess1.com
• Questions?
• Evaluation forms