Mar 16, 2018
Enrollment declines are coming. Is your college or university prepared? #highereducation #highered #comm_college
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Enrollment declines are coming. Is your college or university prepared? #highereducation #highered #comm_college
How a two-year college bakes a four-year degree into its allied health program.
Mesa College is one of 12 California community colleges (including SMC) that will be offering four-year degrees in the next few years.
This article looks at the work behind the scenes as it prepared it’s program in Health Information Technology (HIT).
Some proposed privacy laws for students could unintentionally choke off the data’s original purpose: assessing and improving education.
“In response to such concerns, some pending legislation would scale back the authority of schools, districts and states to share student data with third parties, including researchers. Perhaps the most stringent of these proposals, sponsored by Senator David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, would effectively end the analysis of student data by outside social scientists. This legislation would have banned recent prominent research documenting the benefits of smaller classes, the value of excellent teachers and the varied performance of charter schools. “
SMC’s Student Survey on Sexual Assault & Harassment
To comply with White House recommendations, Santa Monica College conducted a campus-wide survey of students to gauge the prevalence of sexual assault on campus and assess students’ attitudes and awareness about this issue. The purpose of the survey was to help the college better understand the scope of the problem and to develop practices and programs to respond more effectively when a student is assaulted. A total of 1,766 surveys (paper-based and online) were completed by students between March 22nd and April 6th, 2015. Some key findings from the survey are:
Overall, students reported that they felt it was likely that the college would handle incidents of both sexual assault or harassment appropriately, however, students’ ratings of how the college would handle an incident report were significantly higher (i.e., positive, favorable) for sexual assault than for harassment.
Agreement was generally weak about students’ knowledge of reporting procedures. The weakest area of knowledge is the process of what happens when a student reports a claim.
About 60% of students reported they had received information or education about sexual assault before coming to SMC.
About 56% of students reported that they did not receive any written or verbal information about sexual assault from someone at SMC.
Students reported an average rating of awareness between “slightly aware” and “somewhat aware” of Psychological Services and other community resources for sexual assault.
Nearly 13% of students reported having experienced a form of sexual assault prior to coming to SMC; nearly 4% of students reported experiencing sexual assault while they were a student at SMC.
About half of students who reported having had an experience of unwanted sexual contact did not report where the incident occurred (52.1%), 42.7% reported that the incident occurred off-campus, and about 5.2% reported that the incident occurred on campus.
About 8% of students reported having witnessed sexual intimidation or harassment on campus.
You can read the complete report here.
It's #Zumba time at #MCCC's International Night! #montco #comm_college #montgomerycountycommunitycollege #dance #food #collegelife
A Friendly Reminder
A reminder for all, you are a semester closer to achieving your goals and fulfilling your dreams. You know how they say, “just look forward, and don’t look back.” Well I say, look back. Look back and see your footsteps; look back and be proud. Look back and give yourself a big pat on the back because when you look back, you'll see that you left behind all the people who told you, you can't, you won't, and you never will. Look back with a smug look and think, well I proved them wrong.
Around this time, a lot of students, myself included, need that push to get them going. Many want to give up but fail to see how far they've come; so far that they can't give up. For all you reading this and need a boost in motivation, just remember, I have my days too. It's okay to be tired of school, to want it to end when it barely started. It's okay! I mean, it's normal--at least I think it is. But I feel that we just need to mentally push ourselves; push ourselves to do better, to be better, and most importantly, never, and I mean never, give up.
One more semester, and you'll be closer to your goals then you were a year ago.
Good luck this semester! =)
Making 15 Units Full-Time Status
While federal financial aid standards require students to enroll in 12 units to be considered full time,students actually need to be enrolled in 15 units in order to complete 60 units in two academic years (excluding summer/winter sessions, of course).
The CCRC recently released a new paper on the movement towards redefining full time status as enrolling in 15 units a term. They note that research has shown that:
"High enrollment intensity...and high enrollment continuity...are strongly correlated with college success for students at both two- and four-year institutions...The more courses students take (and pass) and the sooner they do so, the more likely they are to graduate"
With that in mind, they provide an overview of strategies to promote enrollment in 15 credit per term. They fall under three broader categories:
Tying state or institutional financial aid to 15 credits per semester. Or alternatively 30 credits per year.
Public awareness campaigns that promote the importance of 15 credits. This includes the University of Hawaii's "15 to Finish" initiative.
Creating credit caps, such as limiting associate degrees to 60 units.
The authors do note that these policies do have a few unintended consequences, particularly for students working 30 or more hours a week. Additionally they may require colleges and universities to increase investments in existing support programs, or create new ones.
You can download the full paper here.
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"With this challenge in mind, the California Community Colleges Board of Governors has set an ambitious goal to help California meet its workforce needs: Community colleges will seek to increase the number of students earning certificates, degrees, or transferring to four-year institutions by 227,250 by the time the next 10 incoming freshman classes, including those arriving at our campuses this month, are finished."
- Community College Have Ambitious Goal to Boost State's Workforce
"A series of federal surveys of selective colleges found virtually no change from the 1990s to 2012 in enrollment of students who are less well off — less than 15 percent by some measures — even though there was a huge increase over that time in the number of such students going to college. Similar studies looking at a narrower range of top wealthy universities back those findings. With race-based affirmative action losing both judicial and public support, many have urged selective colleges to shift more focus to economic diversity."
-Generation Later, Poor Are Still Rare at Elite Colleges
(You can see our previous post on this topic, with research from the Brooking's Institute here)
"A study of first-year students at the Air Force Academy found that students who weren't assigned to 8 a.m. classes had higher grades across the board than students who took earlier classes.Research in Chicago Public Schools found that the later in the day students studied English and math, the higher they scored on standardized tests at the end of the year. After controlling for various characteristics, test scores went up in North Carolina's Wake County School District when middle school started an hour later."
- The Case for Letting High School Students Sleep In
ICYMI: We have a series of posts on Institutional Research's role in SMC's accreditation self-study. You can find the links here.