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Yes We Must Coalitionwww.yeswemustcoalition.org
Presentation to College/Career Affinity GroupJanuary 15, 2013
Gary Bonvillian, PresidentThomas [email protected]
Nancy Moody, PresidentTusculum [email protected]
Gloria Nemerowicz, PresidentYes We Must [email protected]
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Who We Are
• Established 2011 to collaborate to improve student access and success and to advocate for our students and our sector of higher education
• 32 small, private, non-profit, 2- and 4-year colleges/universities; urban and rural across the country
• Fewer than 5,000 undergrads, 50% or more Pell eligible per institution
• Average Pell enrollment 65%
• Total undergraduates 33,000
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Who We Are (Cont.)
• Associate and Bachelor degrees
• 2 HBCUs, 5 HSIs, 6 women’s, 20 religiously affiliated
• Non-traditional-aged students majority
• Usually more than half enter as transfers
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Values
• Different roots and histories. Joined by focus on underrepresented students largely in own regions
• Strong value-based missions focused on students
• Commitment to a campus-wide culture of support for success and belief in possibility of success
• All campus members take responsibility for supporting teaching and learning
• Focus on the student
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Common Practices• Intrusive, relational, holistic advising/intervention
• Attention to new student transition/seminars and learning communities with success strategies and skills embedded
• “Remediation” seen as developmental; most give full or institutional credit
• Financial literacy education
• Experiential, on-line and community-connected learning options
• Creativity with structure: blocks; preset cohort classes; year round; parallel am, pm, night and weekend schedules
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Common Challenges• Collecting and analyzing data to inform actions
• Staying connected to graduates
• Developing metrics that reflect the reality of our students
• Expense of retention tracking tools
• Expense of Financial Literacy tools
• Helping students finance their education w/o high debt
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Empowering Students at Tusculum College
• Pre-College TRIO Programs Upward Bound Talent Search
• Preparation for College – Grades 9-12 Application Deadlines ACT/SAT Tests Major/Career Planning Financing Post-Secondary Education Deciding on a Post-Secondary Institution Questions to Ask During Campus Visits
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Empowering Students: Success
• College TRIO Programs Student Support Services (1997) ARCHES (2010)
• Campus Programs Activities to support persistence and graduation• Living Learning Communities• Grant Aid• Cultural Awareness Programs• Academic Advising & Tutoring Services• Conditional Admissions• Materials Loan program• Staff Focusing Totally on Retention
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Preparation for Success:Bridging Bridges
•U. S. Department of Education Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant• Northeast Tennessee College and Career Ready
Consortium (NETCO)
•Niswonger Foundation Professionalism for Leadership Grant
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Empowering Students at Thomas University
• Pre-college Program
• 2 + 2 articulation agreements with community colleges
• Academic policies: grade renewal and grade forgiveness
• Early Alert process/intervention strategies
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Engaging Students: Breaking Down Barriers to Success
• Proactive Integrated Advising
• TRIO Secondary and Post-secondary programs at a private university
• Developmental Studies program linked with college classes
• Performance Enhancement Center for student athletes
• Unique Academic Policies that support Stop Out students
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Engaging Students (Cont.)• Distance students at TU are equally engaged in
courses, support services…
• OWL-Older Wiser Learner student organization
• Honor Societies Exclusively For Special Populations –recognize and acknowledge the academic achievement of non-traditional and student veterans
• Alpha Sigma Lambda-honor society for non-trad students
• SALUTE-honor society for Veterans
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Transforming Students: Changing Lives from Admission to Graduation
• Student Transformations—ample evidence of student transformations, both qualitative and quantitative
• UniqueTU Score Card of successes with non-traditional students, stop-out and transfer students
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