Partnering for Student Success: Cradle to Career
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Partnering for Student Success: Cradle to Career
November 4, 2010Portland State University
Nancy L. ZimpherChancellor, The State University of New York
The College Board
55% by 2025: A Big Hairy Audacious Goal*
By 2025, 55% of Americans between the ages of 25-34 will hold a post-secondary degree.
*From Built to Last, Collins and Porras, 2004 2
What stands in our way?
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Nationally, for every 100 ninth grade students…
68 students graduate from high school four years later…
40 students immediately enter college…
27 students are stillenrolled in their second year…
and 18 students graduate with either an associate’s degree within three years or a bachelor’s degree within six years.
Source: National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2004
The Leaking Student Pipeline
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The Leaking Teacher Pipeline
National cost of teacher turnover: $7.3 billion Teacher attrition has grown by 50% over the past decade National rate of attrition: 17% Urban school attrition rate: 20% Chicago: teacher dropout costs $86 million each year Low school performance and high poverty rate correlated with high teacher turnover rate in Chicago and Milwaukee
5Source: The High Cost of Teacher Turnover, NCTAF, 2007
No Unified System of Education
Early Childhood
P-12 Higher Education
Community-Based
Organizations
Business and Industry
Government
Foundations
Non-ProfitsSocial Services
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A Divisive Public Debate
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So how do we move the dial?
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Nationally Visible Reform Efforts
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But Are They Systemic?
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Completion at Every StageIn order to reach the goal of 55 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds obtaining an associate degree or higher by the year 2025, the commission has put forth a 10-part recommendation that is aimed at strengthening the educational pipeline at every stage throughout a student’s trajectory from preschool to college completion.
The College Completion Agenda 2010 Progress Report
A Way Forward: Taking Community-based,
Cradle-to-Career Partnerships to Scale
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Every Student Graduates, No Exceptions
Successful Students. Productive Citizens. Thriving Cities.
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EVERY student in the region will:
Be Prepared for school through early childhood education
Be Supported inside and outside school Succeed academically Enroll in some form of college Graduate and enters a career
MISSION:Empowering every child in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky to succeed from birth through some form of college and into a meaningful career.
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Student’s Roadmap to Success: Critical Benchmarks and Transition Years
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Establishing a Network of Cradle to Career Partnerships
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Implementation and Development Sites Establishing Urban Universities as Anchors
for Transformational Birth through Career Partnerships
Arizona State University Mesa, Arizona
California State University – East BayHayward, California
University of Houston
Houston, Texas
Indiana University/
Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond,
Virginia University of New MexicoAlbuquerque, New Mexico
Portland State UniversityPortland, Oregon
California State University – Fresno Fresno, California
Strive –University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio
University of Memphis Memphis, Tennessee
Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana
Implementation Site (EPIN)
DevelopmentSite (EPDN)
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5 Attributes of Successful Systemic Partnerships:
A Theory of Action
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Successful Students • Productive Citizens • Thriving Cities
Successful Students • Productive Citizens • Thriving Region
“Envision our region—the dynamic and diverse counties and communities of the greater San Francisco East Bay Area—as characterized by successful students, productive citizens and thriving cities”
Support the children and youth in greater Houston cradle to career
What’s the Big Idea?
Vision
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Early Childhood K-12 Teacher Unions
Who’s at the table?
Convening PowerColleges and Universities Community-based Organizations Corporate and Business
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How can we build capacity?
An Organizational Action Plan
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Evidence-based Interventions
How will we measure success?
Strive Six Sigma:Define exactly what we want to do. Measure what improvements need to occur to achieve
our goal.Analyze factors that determine outcomes. Improve current strategy and/or fill gaps with new or
existing resources.Continue to improve on the action plans.
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How to show continuous improvement?
Accountability
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What if the nation’s largest public university
system took this model
to scale?
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SUNY’s Strategic Plan
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The Power of SUNY:SUNY will be a key engine of revitalization
for New York State’s economy and enhance the quality of life for the state’s citizens
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Six Big Ideas
SUNY and the Vibrant Community
SUNY and the Entrepreneurial Century
SUNY and the Seamless Education Pipeline
SUNY and an Energy-Smart New York
SUNY and a Healthier New York
SUNY and the World
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SUNY andThe SeamlessEducation Pipeline
SUNY Urban-Rural SUNY Urban-Rural Teacher CorpsTeacher Corps
Cradle-to-Career Cradle-to-Career SuccessSuccess
SUNY WorksSUNY Works
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A Distributed Network of 64 Campuses
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Cradle-to-Career Success
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Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation and Partnerships for Improved Student Learning
A Unified Vision
SUNY Urban-Rural Teacher Corps
A Unified Profession
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A Call to Action
Washington DC Press Club - November 16, 201031
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects
one directly, affects all indirectly.”
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Partnering for Student Success: Cradle to Career
November 4, 2010Portland State University
Nancy L. ZimpherChancellor, The State University of New York