COMPLETION BY DESIGN Completion By Design Assistance Team. 1

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1 COMPLETION BY DESIGN 1

2 Completion By Design Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goal: Raise community college completion rates for low-income students under 26 4 colleges selected to lead initiative $40 M investment in 21 colleges/campuses over 5 years 3 phases Planning (12 months) Implementation (24 30 months) Scaling and Adoption (24 months) 2

3 The Challenge of Completion For Colleges: Financial Incentives aligned with access, not completion Under-resourced Innovations tend to be isolated Change is hard, even when the will is there For Students: Easy to enroll, easy to drop out Many enter without a clear plan, and need developmental education Lack of confidence, financial resources and family support 3

4 Q. How can a community college raise completion rates for large numbers of students while containing costs, maintaining open access and ensuring quality? 4

5 A. Develop strong completion pathways, defined as integrated policies, practices and programs designed to maximize students progress from start to finish. 5

6 Redesign Systems & Practices for Student Success Analyze and understand the common barriers and momentum points that students experience Implement and integrate proven and promising practices to provide students with the quickest, straightest path to a degree Create the conditions for change by empowering interdisciplinary, cross-campus delegations of faculty, staff and administrators Build infrastructure for continuous improvement 6

7 Loss & Momentum Framework CONNECTION Interest to Application ENTRY Enrollment to Completion of Gatekeeper Courses PROGRESS Entry into Course of Study to 75% Requirements Completed COMPLETION Complete Course of Study to Credential with Labor Market Value STUDENT DATA SYSTEM (From Day 1 to Completion) STUDENT ENGAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOCUSED ON COMPLETION 7

8 Managing Partners GUILFORD TECHNICAL COMM. COLLEGE MIAMI DADE COLLEGE LONE STAR COLLEGE SYSTEM SINCLAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE Total student enrollment, all four cadres: over 400,000 8

9 Cadre Colleges / Campuses & State Policy Leads FLORIDA NORTH CAROLINA OHIO TEXAS MIAMI DADE COLLEGE GUILFORD TECH. COMM. COLLEGE SINCLAIR COMM. COLLEGE LONE STAR COLLEGE SYSTEM Hialeah Campus Homestead Campus InterAmerican Campus Kendall Campus Medical Center Campus North Campus Central Piedmont Community College Davidson County Community College Martin Community College Wake Technical Community College Sinclair Courseview Campus Sinclair Dayton Campus Lorain County Community College Stark State College Alamo Colleges Dallas County Community College District El Paso Community College South Texas College Wolfson Campus STATE POLICY LEAD Florida College System / Department of Education STATE POLICY LEAD North Carolina Community College System STATE POLICY LEAD Ohio Association of Community Colleges STATE POLICY LEAD Communities Foundation of Texas & Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board 9

10 Completion By Design Assistance Team (CDAT) CDAT Core: Built for purpose backbone organization Provides and brokers a wide range of TA Professional staff of 8 Offices in Portland, Ore. and Seattle, Wash. Assistance & Support for Colleges: Data analysis and use Change management Leadership and faculty engagement Meeting design and facilitation Cost efficiency Policy development and strategy 10

11 National Assistance Partners 11

12 Intermediate Objectives Raise the number and percentage of students who enter a program of study, and shorten the period between when students first enroll and when they enter a program Increase completion rates for students who have entered a program of study, and shorten the period in which they achieve completion Ensure that academic programs prepare students for a 4-year college or university, and that career-technical programs help prepare students for entrance into and/or advancement in the labor market 12

13 QUESTIONS? 13