How Investments in New

Models for Enhancing

Enrollment, Retention, and

Completion is Changing SUNY

CEANY 2018

Kim A Scalzo

Interim Executive Director, Academic Technologies and

Information Services, and Executive Director of Open

SUNY

Agenda

• EIPF and PIF: SUNY Investments to Drive Innovation

• New Models for Enhancing Enrollment, Retention, and Completion

• Building a Community of Practice

• Metrics and Demonstrating Impact

Expanded Investment and Performance Fund

• 2015-2016 Investments from NYS Budget and SUNY Funding

• 211 campus proposals for $464M

• Proposals based on Campus Performance Improvement Funds - https://www.suny.edu/excels/performanceplans/

• Funding allocated to individual campuses and some collaborative projects

Expanded Investment and Performance Fund

• $100M Total – Grants and Loans• NY-SUNY 2020 - $55M available• Investment Fund - $18M available• Empire Innovation Program - $9.5M available• Enabling Funding - $9.0M available• Educational Opportunity Program - $4.4M available• Open SUNY Loans - $4.1M available

• Projects by region at https://www.suny.edu/investment-fund/

Campus and System Strategic PrioritiesEESE Meetings and PIF Proposals

64 Campus Meetings in 2016-2017

AND

294 Campus One Page Proposals from 51

campuses in Spring 2017

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New and Innovative

Educational Strategies

Stronger Student Recruitment

and Success Infrastructures

Extended Commitment to

Diversity and Inclusive

Excellence

ACTIVITIES PRIORITIES

Campus Engagement Meetings (Summer 2017)

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• Academic Transformation Proposals

• Clean Energy Proposals August 2nd – Educational Strategies

• Applied Learning Proposals August 3rd – Applied Learning

• Customer Relationship Management Recruitment Proposals August 14th – Student

Recruitment

• Guided Pathways Proposals • Developmental English Proposals• Student Success Center Proposals

August 15th & 16th – Student Success

• Seed Funding of Best Practices • STEM Pathways • Statewide Educational Strategy

August 17th – Diversity and Inclusion

• High Needs Proposals September 6th – High Needs

Performance Improvement ProcessCommon Themes

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Common Challenges

Need to leverage best practices & work with limited resources

Desire for “spaces” for collaboration and professional development

Need to enhance competitiveness nationally & minimize “unhealthy” SUNY internal competition

Shared infrastructure to leverage economy of scale

2016-2017 Funding Allocated to CoPs to Drive Innovation

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Student Recruitment

Carey Hatch, Cheri Perrillo

SUNY Student Success Network

Kim Scalzo, Jennifer Miller

New Models for Enhancing Enrollment,

Retention and Completion

Kim Scalzo, Lisa Stephens

Core SIS Framework

Bill Grau, Kim Scalzo

Critical Workforce Needs and Curriculum Development

Annie Huang

Apprentice

Denise Zieske

Applied Learning

Deborah Moeckel, Merissa McKasty, Laura

Trottier

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Carlos Medina

Clean Energy – Carey Hatch and Annie Huang

$50M Total Funding

Expected Outcomes of Performance Improvement Fund

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Collaborate and leverage to address common challenges

Aim for scalable and system-wide impact

“Move the dial” and deliver tangible results

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Workplace Groups

• CoP level

• By project area

Alignment with SOTUS

Themes

The Process: Building Communities of Practice

Metrics/Reports

• Two reports per year

• Baseline, Year 1, Year 2

Convenings

• 2 Full CoP F2F per year

• Project level will vary

Integration with U-wide

Shared Services where

appropriate

New Models for Enhancing Enrollment, Retention and Completion CoP

$5.7M in Funding

25 Campuses

5 Project Areas

New Models for Enhancing Enrollment, Retention and Completion

• Faculty Curricular Innovation and Faculty Professional Development – Chris Price (chris.price@suny.edu)

• Scaling Online Learning – Chuck Spuches (cspuches@esf.edu) and Larry Dugan (ldugan3@monroecc.edu)

• Micro-Credentialing – Jill Pippin (jill.pippin@oswego.edu)

• Open Educational Resources – Mark McBride (mark.mcbride@suny.edu) and Alexis Clifton (Clifton@geneseo.edu)

• Innovative Instruction Technology Grants – Lisa Stephens (stephens@buffalo.edu)

Metrics – three levels

PIF Community of Practice Metrics – Used to assess the effectiveness of the Community of

Practice by examining the contributions made by the CoPs to the SUNY Institutions

Impact Metrics for each CoP – Used to assess the impact of the PIF CoP Investments on

SUNY campuses

Project Level Metrics – Specific to the project/cohort and used to track progress and/or

impact at the project or cohort level

Impact on SUNY – EIPF and PIF

• System-wide strategy driven by campus leaders and informed by

campus expertise

• Models for campuses to mentor/coach/facilitate their peers

• More discipline about:

• Allocating funding to support strategy

• Investment in scaling evidence-based practices to achieve

measurable impact

• Facilitating and supporting campus collaboration

• Assessment of impact and effectiveness

Impact on SUNY – New Models for Enhancing ERC

• Aligning Micro-credentialing work with SUNY policy

• Aligning Scaling Online work with Open SUNY

• Connecting project areas with each other

• Connecting faculty PD projects with each other

• Connecting IITG as a potential funding source for

expanding projects

Questions

Other SUNY Perspectives?

Does anything like this exist in CUNY?