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Background
Coastal Bend Community College (CBC) is a federally designated Hispanic-serving institution with four campuses in the nine rural counties in South Texas. The primary campus located in Beeville, TX. CBC’s enrollment is 58 percent Hispanic, 36 percent White and 5 percent Black.
CBC strives to engage its 3,657 students in the learning process to create substantive changes that make individual learners more knowledgeable, self-determined, strategic and empathetic. Its challenges are significant given that many students are first-generation college-goers, and most enter with inadequate academic preparation and weak study skills.
Achieving the Dream Goals
CBC has two Achieving the Dream priorities: improving its students’ performance in math courses and enhancing the college’s institutional research. It intends to
- Improve passage rates in the gatekeeper Algebra course and on the state-mandated math exam.
- Increase the number of students ready to take College Algebra.
- Ensure that more than 50 percent of the students pass College Algebra.
- Close the gap in the completion rate between students of color and Whites.
- Create a culture of evidence for sound decision-making throughout the college.
CBC will emphasize collaborative learning in math by revising its curriculum to utilize paired classes, supplemental instruction, and computer-assisted labs. Improvements in math advising and tutor training are planned. Students will also receive more instruction in study skills and time management.
To become a data-driven institution, CBC will train faculty and staff to use quantitative data, and the college will seek focus group input and other qualitative data to evaluate its policies and practices.
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