The Partnership Towards Enhanced Student Success

1. The Partnership Towards Enhanced Student Success Dr. Beverly L. Downing Interim, Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs Kentucky State University July 28, 2014

2. Presentation Outcomes • After engaging in this presentation, the participant will understand the complexity of defining student success. • After engaging in this presentation the participant will be able to better communicate the variables that support student success across all institutional providers. • After completion of this presentation, the participant will be better equipped to have conversations that lead to collaboration on student success with their colleagues across all service areas of the institution.

3. DEFINITIONS

4. PARTNERSHIPS The state or condition of being a partner; participation; association; joint interest.

5. ENHANCED To raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify.

6. Student Success

7. Which of the definitions best suits your understanding of what Student Success means?A. Doing the things you need to in order to get the grades you need to get the degree you want. B. The achievement of the student’s own, often developing, education goals.C. Both A & B.D. Neither A nor B.

8. Student Success Doing the things you need to in order to get the grades you need to get the degree you want.

9. Student Success The achievement of the student’s own, often developing, education goals. The American Federation of Teachers

10. THERE IN LIES THE PROBLEM!

11. How is Student Success Defined by…… Faculty Staff Students

12. What Faculty Want and Think Student Success to be…… • Come to class daily • Be on time • Have your textbook • Take notes • Pay attention • Don’t Challenge their Authority • Respect Others (them and classmates) • Do not Use Phones in Class • Do not leave class before it ends • ETC……

13. What Staff Want and Think Constitutes Student Success… • Depends Upon Your Role • Admissions • Registrar • ACE • Housing • Financial Aid • Public Safety • Etc.

14. ACTIVITY • What do you want and think student success is? List 5-7 Things • Divide by unit • Financial Affairs • Admission • Registrar • ACE • Housing • Etc. • Need: Flip Chart Paper and Markers

15. KSU CURRENT STUDENT SUCCESS PUZZLE ADMISSION ADVISMENT MATRICULATION GRADUATION

16. Why the Great Divide? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5aRMpH80Ms&list=PLjoGOKpG-nikjdUIjgztUaBhgP2-BXQmn

17. What Went Wrong Here?

18. Activity: Change • Closed Fist Activity • Sometimes it is easier only takes a little change to make you comfortable about doing something that benefits everyone.

19. Roles and Responsibilities for Achieving Student Success STAKEHOLDERS • INSTITUTION – Kentucky State University • FACULTY & STAFF • STUDENTS • GOVERNMENT • IN COME CASES - PARENTS

20. Achieving Student Success • Has to start with a clear and commonly agreed upon definition. • It is not necessary to “reinvent the wheel” • http://www.aft.org/pdfs/highered/studentsuccess0311.pdf • Collaboration should proceed with an understanding that frontline faculty members and staff should drive the processes • There a three (3) common elements of Student Success…

21. Achieving Student Success • Has to start with a clear and commonly agreed upon definition. • It is not necessary to “reinvent the wheel”. • Example Study: http://www.aft.org/pdfs/highered/studentsuccess0311.pdf • collaboration should proceed with an understanding that frontline faculty members and staff should drive the processes in the process is curriculum development, teaching, and assessment to ensure that education practices are effective and practical in the real-life classroom. • There a three (3) common elements of Student Success…

22. Elements of Student Success ■ Exposure to knowledge ■ Intellectual abilities ■ Applied skills

23. Elements of Student Success ■ Exposure to knowledge in a variety of areas; ■ The development of Intellectual abilities necessary for gathering information and processing it; and ■ Applied skills, both professional and technical.

25. Talking notes on Elements of Student Success These elements offer one acceptable framework (certainly not the only one) to focus professional thinking, collaboration and planning around curriculum, teaching and assessment. The most important thing is to have a deliberative and intentional perspective among individual faculty members and the faculty at-large on advance planning and collaboration—and also on the evidence from focus groups that students want and benefit from a high degree of clarity and interconnection in their coursework.

26. Exposure to Knowledge • Knowledge of the physical and natural world • Intercultural knowledge and competencies • Civic knowledge and engagement • Ethics reasoning

27. Notes • Physical World - • Natural World -

28. Notes: Exposure to knowledge • Accountability needs to flow naturally from clearly delineated responsibilities, including the responsibility faculty and staff have in the learning process. It takes the work of many stakeholders to produce a successful educational experience. Each stakeholder has unique responsibilities as well as a shared responsibility to work collaboratively with the other stakeholders.

29. Notes Continue All students should achieve an appropriate level of knowledge in a particular field of study and have a level of exposure to:

30. Intellectual Ability ■ Critical inquiry ■ Creative thinking ■ Problem solving ■ Independent learning ■ Data manipulation ■ Analysis and assessment of information ■ Synthesis

31. Notes: Intellectual Ability A broad set of intellectual abilities is crucial for all students, including the ability to integrate these skills and apply them in both academic and practical contexts. These abilities include:

32. Applied Skills ■ Written communications ■ Oral communications ■ Quantitative literacy ■ Information literacy ■ Teamwork skills

33. Notes: Applied Skills Students should gain the ability to apply the knowledge learned in a particular field of study and also have a broad set of skills that will serve them in both academic and professional settings. These skills include:

34. Activity • Now, let’s watch the video again, see if you can gather evidence that any of the framework recommended in this presentation, stakeholders recommended have been involved, and what if anything would make this a better conversation.

35. Why the Great Divide? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5aRMpH80Ms&list=PLjoGOKpG-nikjdUIjgztUaBhgP2-BXQmn

36. Based on the Presentation today respond to the following questions about the video • Based on the discussion between this faculty and staff member • Do you think that the institution has a framework that defines student success? • Does if appear that they activities they are discussing grounded in their assessment plans? • Does the discussion signal the engagement of all stakeholders? • Should the discussion include all stakeholders? • What would make this discussion better? (talk at your table & report out)

37. Notes: Conclusion As the old African Proverb says, “It takes a Village to raise a child” by the say token, It takes the work of many stakeholders to produce a successful educational experience. To that end, each stakeholder (village member) has unique responsibilities as well as the shared responsibility to work collaboratively with one another to ensure success of our students. KSU, faculty and staff members, government agencies and students themselves have a role in the producing a successful educational experience. Additionally, these roles and responsibilities, in turn, can serve as the basis of evaluating the institution’s success in meeting its goals at each level and in Student Success.