Resources For Colleges

2007 Strategy Institute
Albuquerque, New Mexico
January 21-24, 2007

Session Handouts

Plenary Sessions l  Focus Sessions  |  Concurrent Clinics (for Round 1 & 2 Institutions)  l Concurrent Workshops  |  Evaluation Workshops  |  Worshops for Round 3 Institutions

Plenary Sessions:

• Keynote - Visions of Success: Indigenous Theory of Educational Persistence (PrettyPaint)
  
  
• Beginning with the End in Mind: Institutionalizing Achieving the Dream - What Will It Require?  (McClenney, Shugart, Rhodes, Gonzales & McPhail)
  • Top Ten Reasons for Progress in Achieving the Dream  (McClenney)
    
    
• How We Think about Success: A Conversation with Students from Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute  (Hamley, Brown, Chino, Largo, Lee, Yawea & Ramoth) No Handouts

Focus Sessions:

• To Tell the Truth: How Far Do We Honestly Think We Can Push the Envelope? (Adelman) Read blog >>
  
  
  
• Building a Culture of Evidence for Institutional Success: A Report on Achieving the Dream's Progress at Round One Sites (Brock & Jenkins) 
  
  
• Strengths-Based Approaches to Learning and Retention  (Chávez)
  
  
• Culturally Mediated Instruction: Theory and Practice (McPhail & Coleman)
  
  
• Using CCSSE Data to Build Understanding and Support for Student Success  (McClenney, Claunch, Brown & Cook)
  • Demographics of Zane State College (Brown)
    
    
• Aligning Achieving the Dream and Accreditation: Leveraging Resources (Laughlin, Law, Brockman, Lindeman, Fletcher, Abrams & Gordon)
  • North Central State College (2005-2006) Common Agenda, Unified Theme
  • North Central State College (Values, Vision, Mission)
  • North Central State College (Quality Improvement Project Proposal)
  • Academic Quality Improvement Program
    
    
    
    

Concurrent Clinics for Round One and Two Institutions

• Using eSTATS to Support Your Institutional Research (Phillippe & Solórzano)
  • Achieving the Dream eSTATS Training Manual
    
    
• Learning Communities: Early Implementation and Reflection  (Laughlin, Huffman, Chapin, Schneider, Tafari, Ritter, Hunter, Snaden & Marlow)
  • Learning Communities: Improving the Success of Low Income and Minority Students   (Laughlin, Huffman)
  • Achieving the Dream Learning Communities at the University of New Mexico, Gallup Branch  (Snaden, Van Dyk)
    
    
• Case Management/Success Coaching: A High Touch - High Tech Approach to Facilitating Student Success (Wright, Sloan, Bharath, Malter, Pat Senior, Macia, Serrata, Canales, Hernandez & Cole)
  • Broward Community College  (Wright, Sloan, Bharath, Pat Senior, Macia)
    • Assesment Of BCC's Success Coaching Initiative: Spring 2006
  • South Texas College   (Serrata, Canales, Hernandez & Cole)
    • NACADA Website
    • Padilla Articles
      • Padilla, 1996
      • Padilla, 2001
        
        
• Enhancing Institutional Effectiveness through Participation in Achieving the Dream (Summers, Byrd, Hodges, Williams & Staples)
  
  
• Student Success Courses and Support (Fortune, Housel, Straus, Sloan, Patrick, Gill, McDermott, Carley, Freeman, Grinstead, Petway)
  • Houston Community College, Student Success Course   
    
    
• Supplemental Instruction as a Strategy for Success in Math Courses (Glover, Phelps, Cantu, Best & Elizalde)
  
  
• Addressing the College Readiness Issue from the Bottom Up (Rhodes, Gilbert, Brown, Tena-Perez & Camacho)
  
  
• The Millennial Generation: Implications for Teaching and Learning at Achieving the Dream Institutions  (Manning)
  
  
  
• Civic Engagement: A Pathway to Student Success in Higher Education and Community (Garcia & Robinson) blo
  • A Practical Guide for Integrating Civic Responsability into the Curriculum  
    
    

Evaluation Workshops

• Designing Evaluations to Assess Developmental Math Interventions ( Voorhees, Bailey & Gooden)
  
  
• Designing Evaluations to Assess Student Services, Including Advising and Student Support (Rincones-Gomez, Visher & Gardenhire-Crooks)
  
  
• Designing Evaluations to Assess Developmental Education Interventions Using Learning Communities (Bashford, Richburg-Hayes & Bailey)
  
  
• Designing Evaluations to Assess First Year Experiences Including Student Success Courses (Wathington, Brock & Ellwein)
  
  

Concurrent Workshops (open to all participants)

• Balance Scorecards for Achieving the Dream Institutions  (Lyddon) 
  
  
• Faculty and Student Engagement Panel (Chavez-Brumell, Birnback, Mintz, Ingram & Michal)
  • Student and Faculty Engagement Strategies for Student Success

  • Faculty and Student Engagement at El Paso Community College (Michal)
  • Faculty and Student Engagement at Durham Technical Community College (Ingram)
    
    
• Using eSTATS to Support Your Institutional Research (For Round 3 Institutions) (Phillippe & Solórzano)
  • Achieving the Dream eSTATS Training Manual
    
    
• Community Engagement Panel (Friedman, Fabianke, Fisher & Drain)
  • Community Engagement: Mountain Empire Community College, Big Stone Gap, VA
    
    
• Supplemental Instruction as a Strategy for Success in Math Courses (Glover, Phelps, Cantu, Best & Elizalde)
  
  
• Learning Communities: First Steps (Laughlin, Huffman, Chapin, Scheneider, Tafari, Ritter & Hunter)
  
  
• Talking Straight About Structural Inequity (Jefferson, Law, McCormack, Moir, McPhail, Baccus, Dodson & Gordon)
  • Structural Inequity Sample Retreat Agenda at North Central State College in Ohio (Moir)
    
    
• Case Management/Success Coaching: A High Touch - High Tech Approach to Facilitating Student Success   (Sloan, Bharath, Malter, Pat Senior, Macia, Serrata, Canales, Hernandez & Cole)
  • Assesment Of BCC's Success Coaching Initiative: Spring 2006
  • NACADA Website
  • Padilla Articles
    • Padilla, 1996
    • Padilla, 2001
      
• Analyzing and Presenting Data to Your College  (Phillips, McConochie & Coogan)
  
  
• Addressing the College Readiness Issue from the Bottom Up (Rhodes, Gilbert, Brown, Tena-Perez & Camacho)
  
  
• Lessons from Experience: What I'd Do Differently Knowing What I Know Now About Institutional Transformation (Villadsen, Wright, Martinez & Romero)
  
  
• Designing Effective Student Focus Groups  (Gonzalez, Serrata, Canales, Benally & Martinez-Maestas)
  • Focus group consent form 
  • Focus group protocol 
  • Padilla Articles
    • Padilla, 1996 
    • Padilla, 2001 
      
      
• Using Service Learning to Increase Student Learning Engagement, and Retention   (Robinson & Grams)
  • Constructing a Service-Learning Syllabus
  • Handout:
    • San Antonio College Service-Learning Projects: A Sampling of Projects for Fall 2006 and Spring 2007
  • Research Briefs
    • "Transcending Disciplines, Reinforcing Curricula: Why Faculty Teach with Service Learning"
    • "Service Learning in Community Colleges: 2003 National Survey Results"
      
      
• Student Success Courses: First Steps   (Fortune, Housel, Sloan & Patrick)
  • Houston Community College, Student Success Course  
    
    
• Team Leader Roundtable (Lincoln & McClenney)
  
  
• Summer Math Jam: Preparing Students for Success   (Klein)
  
  
• Institutional Policies and Their Effect on Student Success (Byrd, Clary, Fields, Singleton, Hobbs, Standahl & Cianetti)
  • Conducting a Business Process Analysis Presentation 
  • Conducting a Business Process Analysis - Patrick Henry Community College
    
    
• A Dialogue with Achieving the Dream Institutions: Student Learning Styles, Modalities, and Strategies (Albertson & Thompson)
  
  
• Putting Qualitative and Quantitative Data to Work
  • Achieving the Dream Data for Decisions (Lillibridge, Worley)
    
    
• Exploring Minority Male Academic Preparedness: An Ethnographic Inquiry in Developmental Education in the Achieving the Dream Demonstration  (Gardenhire-Crooks)
  
  
• Assets for All: Personal, Social, and Financial (Brule, Hall & Porter)
  
  
• Using the Public Engagement "Success Is What Counts" Toolkit (Birnback & Meeks)
  
  
• Communication Clinic: How to Tell Your Institutional Story (Sussman, Soholt, Brousseau & Powell)
  
  

Concurrent Workshops for Round Three Institutions

• The "First-Year Experience": A Foundation for Achieving the Dream (Barefoot & Gardner)
  
  
• Increasing the Retention and Graduation Rates of Minority Males....It Takes A Village! (Thompson & Burrell)
  
  
• Thinking Differently About Developmental Math (Rousey, Long, Fisher, Reynolds)
  • Fast-Track Developmental Math, Mountain Empire Community College  (Fisher, Reynolds)
  • Thinking Differently About Developmental Math  (Rousey, Long)
    
    
• Learning Community 202: It Is Not the Form, but the Praxis  (Hardiman)
  
  
• Paying for Persistence (Hayes, MacGregor, Carrillo & Lucero)
  
  
• Determing Which Courses Are Real Gatekeeper Courses  (Luna)
  
  
• Evaluating the Houston Endowment Inc. Demonstration: A Conversation with the Principal Researcher  (Gooden)
  
  
• Faculty Action Research Projects that Support Achieving the Dream (Evans, Joyner & McCutchen)

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