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Objective: |
Develop a
four-year plan, with broad
engagement from the campus and
external communities and
commitment from top
leadership, for: 1) improving
student outcomes including
closing achievement gaps based
on evidence about barriers to
success and effective
practices and policies; 2)
institutionalizing a process
for continuously improving
student outcomes based on
evidence. |
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Objective |
Activities |
Who will Lead the Work? |
When? |
Issues to be Resolved
/Challenges Expected |
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1. Educate and get buy-in from
college community on Achieving
the Dream goals and values
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1. Initial campus meeting
with coaches
2. Faculty/staff meeting
3. Faculty in-services
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1. Dr. King and coaches
2. Coaches
3. Dr. King |
1. August 14, 2007
2. August 15, 2007
3. Oct. 5, 2007 and
Feb. 5, 2008 |
1. Get expanded core and data
teams oriented to Achieving
the Dream
2. Make clear to all faculty
and staff the progression from
Foundations of Excellence to
Achieving the Dream |
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2a. Analyze current
situation:
Collect, compile and analyze
data on student outcomes
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1. Getting baseline data from
the POISE system |
1. Data team |
1. No later that Sept. 15,
2007 |
1. Dealing with two
different data bases for
comparison data
2. Validity of self-reported
data
3. Some data will only be
cohort specific as it is not
gathered on all students |
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2b. Hold conversations to
reflect on the data. Define
problems. Choose problems for
more in-depth exploration |
1. Data team meetings
2. October 5 in-service
3. Data summit
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1. Dr. Fisher, Data team,
Assessment team |
1. Beginning August 2007
2. October 5, 2007
3. November 2007 |
1. Scheduling adequate work
time for teams |
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2c. Diagnose causes of
problems:
Drill down on student data
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1. Faculty/staff study of
Bridges out of Poverty
2. Refine and expand data |
1. Dr. Murray, Kim Kirby,
Phil DeVol
2. Dr. Fisher and Data team |
1. On-going fall and spring
2006-07.
2. Phil DeVol will visit Feb.
5, 2007 |
1. Engagement of faculty,
staff and board
2. Population size of some
data sub sets |
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2c. Campus voices: Engage
students, faculty, and staff
in diagnosing causes of
problems.
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1. Focus group training
2. Train the trainer sessions
3. Student surveys
4. Student focus groups
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1. Ken Gonzales
2. Tarsha Smith and Kim Kirby
3. Student Services
4. Trainers |
1. September 2007
2. Fall 2007
3. Fall 2007
4. Jan. and Feb. 2008 |
1. Learn skills to lead
student focus groups
2. Ask ‘why’ questions of our
students
3. Surveys will be on current
students as compared to
different students in baseline
data |
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2c. Community voices: Engage
community members in
diagnosing causes of problems.
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1. Focus group training
2. Train the trainer sessions
3. Community focus groups |
1. Ken Gonzales
2. Tarsha Smith and Kim
Kirby
3. Trainers |
1. September 2007
2. Fall 2007
3. Spring 2008 |
1. Learn to lead focus groups
2. Ask ‘why’ questions of
community |
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2c. Examine existing
institutional policies and
practices
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1. Review FoE current
practices |
1. Core Team |
1. After focus groups and
on-going |
l. Inconsistencies in
policies and procedures
2. Varying interpretations on
each of the three campuses |
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3. Set priorities, goals and
measurable outcomes.
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1. Core and data team
meetings
2. Coach’s visits |
1. Core team leaders
2. Coaches |
1. Spring 2008
2. Spring 2008 |
1. Set goals for 4 year work
2. Clarify and advise on goals
3. Establishing measurable
outcomes for non-quantifiable
activities |
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4. Develop strategies to
achieve goals/measurable
outcomes.
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1. Core team and division
meetings
2. Coach’s visits
3.Aattend strategies institute |
1. Team leaders and deans
2. Coaches
3. 4 team members |
1. Spring 2008
2. Fall 2007, spring 2008
3. February 2008 |
1. Managing data to set
priorities for strategies
2. Measuring non-quantifiable
activities |
