Resources For Colleges

2008 Strategy Institute
Atlanta, Georgia
February 5-8, 2008
Session Handouts

Plenary Sessions l  Spotlight Sessions  |  Pre-Institute Workshops  l Concurrent Workshops - Wednesday   |  Concurrent Workshops - Thursday   |  Focus Groups 

**We will continue to add presentations as we receive them. **

Plenary Sessions:

• Keynote Address: Connecting Equity and Achievement with Global Competitiveness  (Moore)

• President's Perspectives: The Foundation for Transformation  (McClenney, Belcher, Law, Levison & Thornton)

• Beyond Buy-In: Engaging Faculty in Student Success Problem-Solving and Action (Friedman, Pastore, & Phelps)

Spotlight Sessions:

• Engines of Completion (Adelman) 
• Lessons of Equity and Excellence (Cavazos) 
• Getting Some Traction on the Higher Ed Side of the Ledger (Haycock)
• Starting Right: Making SENSE of the Entering Student Experience (McClenney & Arnsparger)

PreInstitute Workshops

• Through the Lens of Inequity: Strategies for Improving Equity and Excellence (Cavazos, Poindexter, McClenney, Baccus, Dodson, Fowler, Christian & Martin)
• Evaluation Workshop (Brock & Zachry)
• It Takes a Community to Help All Students Succeed: Lessons about Community Engagement from Achieving the Dream Colleges (Birnback & Chavez)

Concurrent Workshops - Wednesday

• Getting Your Data Team Up and Running (Myers)
• Comprehensive Student Advising: An Integrated College-Wide Approach to Facilitating Hispanic Students (Serrata, Canales, & Hernandez)
• LinC and Learn: A Strategic Plan for Learning Communities (Phelps & Brown)
• Multicultural Approaches to Designing Student Success and Developmental Mathematics Courses (Freeman & Duncan)
• The "First Year Experience": A Foundation for Achieving the Dream  (Barefoot & Gardner)
• DROP (math scores continue to decline) STOP (to assess our needs) and ROLL (out new initiatives)  (Rehfuss, Graziano, & Lontz)

• • MAT 010: Fundamentals of Arithmetic  

  • MAT 010: Fundamentals of Arithmetic (Supplemental Instruction)  

  • MAT 011B: Beginning Algebra  

• Tutoring Programs to Meet the Needs of a Diverse Student Population (Candia & Flatley)

• Where Dreams Begin: Linking Orientation and Success Classes (Murphy & Picking)

• The Seeds of Grassroots: Maintaining Momentum through Leadership Transitions (Wagnitz & Flores-Ezeonu)

• What’s Race Got to Do with It? (Cheng, Griffin-Desta, & Stark)

• Using eSTATS to Support Your Institutional Research / Interventions to Improve Student Outcomes Online Tool (For Round Four Institutions) (Phillippe & Solórzano)

• Doing More with Less: Big College Initiatives with Small College Resources (Brown & Ament)

• Learning Communities at Kingsborough Community College: Research and Practice (Visher, Singer, Suss, & Graziano-King)

• Designing Effective Evaluations for Your Intervention Strategies: A Way to Improve Your Student Outcomes (Rincones, Rodriguez-Campo, & Manning)

• KnowHow2Go – A Student Access Program  (Conner, Keller, Corrigan, & Pizano)

• A Culture of Evidence: Starting from Scratch (Baker Smith & Rowe)

• Learning Community 2008: It is not the Vocabulary, it's the Translation (Hardiman)

• An 'Engaging' Action Story: Using CCSSE Engagement Benchmarks as Predictors of Student Success (Patten, Pastore & Parmer)

• The Student Journey: A Roadmap to Success  (Miller, Thomson & Spielvogel)

  • Questions: Student Success – The Journey Continues  

  • The Tri-C Student Journey  

  • Student Success is Everyone's Business  

• Round Three Houston Colleges: Early Experiences of Four-Year Colleges and Community Colleges with Multiple Campuses (Gooden & Martin)

• What Does It Cost to Achieve the Dream and How Can These Efforts Be Integrated in Strategic Planning? (Seith, Coogen & Morest)

• Using Data to Act: Durham Tech’s Journey toward Achieving the Dream (Kelly-Kleese & Jaynes)

• Making Our Dreams a Reality Through Faculty Engagement in CLIPS (Communities of Learning, Inquiry, and Practice) (Bresso & Parsons)

• Tools and Strategies for Improving Student Momentum (Bailey, Jenkins, & Bloomer)

• A Community College Field of Dreams: If You Build It, Will They Come? (Laughlin & Huffman)

• Touching an Elephant: An Approach to College Reading (Thomson)

• We Have A Plan! (Marchessault & Freeman)

• Supplemental Instruction: Experiences and Results in Both Pre-Achieving the Dream and Achieving the Dream Initiatives  (Scism, Griffith, Whitaker, Ward, Crawford, & Jones)

• Save the Male: Roadmap to Success for Retaining Minority Males in Higher Education (Wortham)

• What Works, What Doesn't: Don't Re-Invent the Wheel (Baker Smith, Hawkins, McCutchen, & Bishop)

• The Power of BIG IDEAS at Valencia Community College (Shugart, Walter, & Romano)

• Intertwining Achieving the Dream with Institutional Strategic Planning (Nagy)

  • THE CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS: Measures of Institutional Effectiveness  

• Mathematics and Science Recitations, Not Just Another Lecture  (Seman & Barber)

• What’s Race Got to Do with It? (Cheng, Griffin-Desta, & Stark)

• Using eSTATS to Support Your Institutional Research / Interventions to Improve Student Outcomes Online Tool (Advanced) (Phillippe & Solórzano)

• Using "COPS" to Enhance Faculty Buy-In for the Achieving the Dream Initiative (Hammons, Watts, & King)

• Balanced Scorecards and Strategy Maps for Achieving the Dream Institutions  (Lyddon & McComb)

  • Education Model Perspectives  

  • Sample Community College - Balanced Scorecard  

  • Strategy Map Example 

  • Strategy Map SpreadSheet  

• Designing Effective Evaluations for Your Intervention Strategies: A Way to Improve Your Student Outcomes (Rincones, Rodriguez-Campo, & Manning)

• Improving Success of At-Risk Students: A Collaboration Between Advising and Developmental Education (Bandyopadhyay, Clapper, Ament, & Brown)

• Learning Community 2008: It's Not the Vocabulary, It's the Translation (Hardiman)

• Driving Student Success through a Culture of Evidence (Canales, Serrata & Cole)

• Fast Track to Student Success on the Information Highway  (Mesa, Bolton-Brownlee, & Hood)

• The Road Show: Bringing the Writing Center to the Students (Tsacalis, Hooper, Bernal, & Saxon)

• Developing a Plan for Learning Communities (Snaden)

• Achieving the Dream Can Be a Springboard to Organizational Change (Carter & Snyder)

• Turning Banner Data into Insight (Salisbury)

• The Agony and the Ecstasy – Implementing a Strategy (Moe)
  

Concurrent Workshops - Thursday 

• The Norwalk Community College Student Success Center: "Where Dreams Become Diplomas"  (Riley-Hodge & Derisi) 
• From Access to Success: A Transformational Journey   (Mintz & Joseph-Silverstein)
• Time as a Factor in Student Success   (Whipple & Bennett)
• Culture of Evidence: Maintaining the Researcher's Dream   (Cole & Cruz)

• Evaluating Success: Possibilities and Methods for Assessing Progress in Achieving the Dream  (Zachry, Brock, Seith, & Martin)

  • Focus Groups  

  • Qualitative Research Matrix  

• Where's the Beef? A Smooth College Transition That Really Works  (Tena, Rhodes, Brown, & Aguire)

• Using eSTATS to Support Your Institutional Research / Interventions to Improve Student Outcomes Online Tool (For Round Four Institutions) (Phillippe & Solórzano)

• The Enduring Legacies Project: Transferable Lessons for Successfully Serving Placebound Students (Smith & Reisman)

• Mentoring: Successes and Challenges at Housatonic Community College (Salzburg & Burbank)

• Silo Busting for Student Success: Ensuring Integration between Instruction and Student Services (Reed, Serrata, & Mejia)

• Datatel User's Work Group (Cline, Swanson, & Hill)

• From Data to Meaningful Information: A Strategy to Improve the Use of Assessment Data in Institutional Decision Making  (Ewen & Brown)

• SAAB: Tackling the Black, Brown Male Crisis (Bledsoe, Briggs, Drummond, & Pigatt)

• Working with Labor Unions to Create Change on Your Campus (Carter, Parker, Nunley, & Bonanno)

• Beyond the Campus -- Engaging the Community for Student Success (Birnback & Chavez)

• Focus Groups: Data We Could Have Missed and How It Took Us Down a Different Path (Mullin, Russo, & Snyder)

• Developmental Faculty Using Blackboard to Foster Student Success (Singleton & Hobbs)

• Educating Your Board About Achieving the Dream (Flickinger, Romero, & Scott)

• Partnership for Achieving Student Success (PASS) Academy at Cuyahoga Community College  (Miles)

  • Data abstract 

• Challenges of Self-Funding Achieving the Dream (Lincoln)

• Leveraging Resources: Getting More To Do More (Villadsen, Ender, & Stout)

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

• Making Progress on Student Success: What Can a Structural Inequity Perspective Teach Us?  (Dodson, Baccus, Arrington, & Freeman)

• Using Reading Apprenticeship to Help Students Become More Engaged and Effective Readers of Academic Texts (Braunger, Waff, & Schade)

• Vision for Excellence: Linking Critical Behavior of Faculty to Student Success (Williamson, Lindemann, Watkins, & Tate)

• Maintain to Retain: The Men of Color Imperative (Primus, Brewington, & Duncan)

• Working with the Media: What Reporters and Editors Want to Know  (Jaschik, Kent, Hart, & Flickinger)

  • Working with the Media Brochure  

• Easing the Transitioning from High School to College: A Bridges Program – Housatonic Community College (Tecun & Griffin)

• Gathering Student Feedback to Improve Instruction (Pastore)

• Emergency Financial Aid: Lessons Learned (Geckeler & DeJesus)

• Using eSTATS to Support Your Institutional Research / Interventions to Improve Student Outcomes Online Tool (Advanced) (Phillippe & Solorzano)

• Communication and Collaboration across the Community College (Campman, Law, & Jefferson)

• Student Wellness Learning Community: Infusing EI Into the Classroom  (Hammett, Henderson, & Bass)

• From Pilot to Institutionalization: Using Data to Determine Next Steps  (Spielvogel & Thomson)

• From Pilot to Institutionalization: Using Data to Determine Next Steps  (Spielvogel & Thomson)

• Transforming Leadership at Broward Community College through a Culture of Evidence (Macia, Millender, Seeman, Asencio, Barbatis, Apa, Lopez, & Joyce)

• Stopping the Cycle of Math Failure for Students  (Anderson & Gliniecki)

  • Stopping the Cycle of Math Failure Through Open Entry/Open Exit Courses Handouts 

• The California Basic Skills Initiative: A Project Overview and a Live Demonstration of the Cost-Benefit Model (Johnstone & Fong)

• Pursuing a Student Success Agenda at Multi-Unit Community Colleges (McClenney)

• Successful Progression Through Sequences of Mathematics Developmental Education Courses (Bailey, Tolbert Bynum, & Jenkins)

• Focus Groups as a Tool to Increase Student Success (Gonzales, Denardo, & Phillips)

• Content Literacy in the Community College: Lessons Learned in Kentucky (Awbrey, Muto, Herald, & Waggoner)

• Achievement Outcomes of Strategies for Succeeding in College – A Retention Model for Students in the First Year (Mendiola-Perez, Barrera, Rodriguez, & Apolinar)

• For Each According to His Ability, to Each According to His Need  (Bliese & Allgyer)

  • A Sample of Peer-Led Team Learning Examples and Other Activities for Developmental Algebra I  

• Understanding Student Services’ Influence on Student Success: Past, Present, and Future Ideas (Torres, Fortune & Elbert)

• Planning for Student Procrastination: Implementing Strategies for Enrollment and Student Success (Serrata, McKay & Hernandez)

• How FAST Can Students Achieve Their Dreams? (Blackman, Vaglienti & Walker)

• Overcoming Inequity on the Road to Excellence (Martin & Christian)

• Using Reading Apprenticeship to Help Students Become More Engaged and Effective Readers of Academic Texts (Braunger, Waff, & Schade)
  

Focus Groups

• Center for Working Families (Gewitz & Hall)

• Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) (Kezar & Frank)

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