Partnering for Student Success: Cradle to Career

November 4, 2010Portland State University

Nancy L. ZimpherChancellor, The State University of New York

The College Board

55% by 2025: A Big Hairy Audacious Goal*

By 2025, 55% of Americans between the ages of 25-34 will hold a post-secondary degree.

*From Built to Last, Collins and Porras, 2004 2

What stands in our way?

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Nationally, for every 100 ninth grade students…

68 students graduate from high school four years later…

40 students immediately enter college…

27 students are stillenrolled in their second year…

and 18 students graduate with either an associate’s degree within three years or a bachelor’s degree within six years.

Source: National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2004

The Leaking Student Pipeline

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The Leaking Teacher Pipeline

National cost of teacher turnover: $7.3 billion Teacher attrition has grown by 50% over the past decade National rate of attrition: 17% Urban school attrition rate: 20% Chicago: teacher dropout costs $86 million each year Low school performance and high poverty rate correlated with high teacher turnover rate in Chicago and Milwaukee

5Source: The High Cost of Teacher Turnover, NCTAF, 2007

No Unified System of Education

Early Childhood

P-12 Higher Education

Community-Based

Organizations

Business and Industry

Government

Foundations

Non-ProfitsSocial Services

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A Divisive Public Debate

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So how do we move the dial?

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Nationally Visible Reform Efforts

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But Are They Systemic?

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Completion at Every StageIn order to reach the goal of 55 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds obtaining an associate degree or higher by the year 2025, the commission has put forth a 10-part recommendation that is aimed at strengthening the educational pipeline at every stage throughout a student’s trajectory from preschool to college completion.

The College Completion Agenda 2010 Progress Report

A Way Forward: Taking Community-based,

Cradle-to-Career Partnerships to Scale

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Every Student Graduates, No Exceptions

Successful Students. Productive Citizens. Thriving Cities.

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EVERY student in the region will:

Be Prepared for school through early childhood education

Be Supported inside and outside school Succeed academically Enroll in some form of college Graduate and enters a career

MISSION:Empowering every child in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky to succeed from birth through some form of college and into a meaningful career.

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Student’s Roadmap to Success: Critical Benchmarks and Transition Years

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Establishing a Network of Cradle to Career Partnerships

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Implementation and Development Sites Establishing Urban Universities as Anchors

for Transformational Birth through Career Partnerships

Arizona State University Mesa, Arizona

California State University – East BayHayward, California

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

Indiana University/

Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond,

Virginia University of New MexicoAlbuquerque, New Mexico

Portland State UniversityPortland, Oregon

California State University – Fresno Fresno, California

Strive –University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio

University of Memphis Memphis, Tennessee

Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana

Implementation Site (EPIN)

DevelopmentSite (EPDN)

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5 Attributes of Successful Systemic Partnerships:

A Theory of Action

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Successful Students • Productive Citizens • Thriving Cities

Successful Students • Productive Citizens • Thriving Region

“Envision our region—the dynamic and diverse counties and communities of the greater San Francisco East Bay Area—as characterized by successful students, productive citizens and thriving cities”

Support the children and youth in greater Houston cradle to career

What’s the Big Idea?

Vision

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Early Childhood K-12 Teacher Unions

Who’s at the table?

Convening PowerColleges and Universities Community-based Organizations Corporate and Business

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How can we build capacity?

An Organizational Action Plan

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Evidence-based Interventions

How will we measure success?

Strive Six Sigma:Define exactly what we want to do. Measure what improvements need to occur to achieve

our goal.Analyze factors that determine outcomes. Improve current strategy and/or fill gaps with new or

existing resources.Continue to improve on the action plans.

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How to show continuous improvement?

Accountability

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What if the nation’s largest public university

system took this model

to scale?

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SUNY’s Strategic Plan

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The Power of SUNY:SUNY will be a key engine of revitalization

for New York State’s economy and enhance the quality of life for the state’s citizens

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Six Big Ideas

SUNY and the Vibrant Community

SUNY and the Entrepreneurial Century

SUNY and the Seamless Education Pipeline

SUNY and an Energy-Smart New York

SUNY and a Healthier New York

SUNY and the World

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SUNY andThe SeamlessEducation Pipeline

SUNY Urban-Rural SUNY Urban-Rural Teacher CorpsTeacher Corps

Cradle-to-Career Cradle-to-Career SuccessSuccess

SUNY WorksSUNY Works

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A Distributed Network of 64 Campuses

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Cradle-to-Career Success

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Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation and Partnerships for Improved Student Learning

A Unified Vision

SUNY Urban-Rural Teacher Corps

A Unified Profession

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A Call to Action

Washington DC Press Club - November 16, 201031

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects

one directly, affects all indirectly.”

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Partnering for Student Success: Cradle to Career

November 4, 2010Portland State University

Nancy L. ZimpherChancellor, The State University of New York