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Wyoming Summit on Community CollegesSeptember 18, 2012Carol G. Puryear, Tennessee Board of Regents, Tennessee Technology Centers

+Who Are We?

Part of the Tennessee Board of Regents

TTCs- 27 Institutions serving approximately 30,000

+High Completion Rates

70-75% Average Statewide Completion Rate

75-80% Average Placement Rate

+A review of IPEDS data reveals that of 1,145 two-year, public postsecondary institutions in U.S., only 105 (about 9 percent) can report an average ―150 percent of time graduation rate above 50% for the last five years. All twenty-seven Technology Centers are included in that group; during those five years the Technology Centers averaged above 70% completion.

Complete College America-A Working Model for Student Success--- Tennessee Technology Centers

+Why such high completion rates?

Competency-based, Self-paced learning model

Highly involved Students

Services

Contextualized Foundation Skills

Program Structure

+Not Burger King

TTC students choose their program, their full time or part time status and the rest is done.

Focus is on completion

and placement

+Program Structure

Students register for a program not classesStudent CatalogAverage size catalog for TTC 50-75 pages

maximumPolicies and ProceduresCourse listingExit Points

+Program Structure (cont.)Students know the schedule prior to registration

Begin dateEnd date if full time or part timeApproximate costJobs availableInstructors

+SchedulingFull time students attend 30 hours a

week

Set time for technology foundations

Three even terms of 72 days-no summer break

Competency based

20-22 students max per class-one faculty

Lecture and Hands On

+AttentionTexas State Technical Colleges

Ivy Tech Community Colleges

National Public Radio

Chronicle of Higher Education

Community College Weekly

American Radio Works

New York Times

+ Bill and Melinda Gates “Helping Students Beat the Odds” presentation/panel

Visit by Bill and Melinda Gates to the TTC Nashville

Champions of Change at the White House

Complete College America-Nashville

CCA Content Expert- Denver

Utah

Washington Monthly panel discussion, “A Jobs Bill That Can Pass: Community College Reform.”

Pathways to Prosperity Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

+Tennessee Community CollegesParticipation in a LUMINA Grant

Developed the Tennessee Transfer Pathway

Increasing articulation agreements with the TTCs

"Fast Track" programs

Using Prior Learning Credits

Changing Developmental Classes

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Wyoming Summit on Community CollegesSeptember 18, 2012Carol G. Puryear, Tennessee Board of Regents, Tennessee Technology Centers