Student Success Forum |
|
ATD Student Success Forum 2008 |
|
|
|
For the second year in a row, more than 100 people attended the 2008 Achieving the Dream Student Success Forum held on Friday, October 10, 2008. Attendees, representing the secondary and higher education sectors, participated in this dialogue to enhance community college student success.
To open the Forum, Kate Shaw, Deputy Secretary for Postseconday and Higher Education, Pennsylvania Department of Education, presented "College Readiness, Access & Success: An Update on Statewide Activities."
Keynote speaker, Dr. Nancy Shulock, Director of the Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, Sacramento State University, presented "Designing Policies to Increase Student Success."
The afternoon continued with two panel discussions regarding Developmental Education and College Success, as well as Roundtable Discussions.
|
|
|
Roundtable Discussions 2008 |
|
|
|
During the 2nd Annual 2008 Achieving the Dream Student Success Forum, participants engaged in roundtable discussions focused on priority areas to enhance student success. Small groups of community college educators, administrators, and stakeholders shared strategies and promising practices that can infl uence education policy. Through the exploration of college and workforce readiness, student success strategies, and data collection issues, it became evident that a commitment to investing in student success is essential! The following are the Roundtable Discussion Summaries from the individual groups.
Click the link to view the complete list of discussion summaries.
 summary
|
|
|
ATD Student Success Forum 2007 |
|
|
|
More than 100 people attended the inaugural Achieving the Dream Student Success Forum held on Friday, October 12, 2007. Attendees, representing the secondary and higher education sectors, participated in this dialogue to enhance community college student success.
Keynote speaker Dr. Irwin Kirsch, senior research director of the Educational Testing Service (ETS), presented America's Perfect Storm and Three Forces Changing Our Nation's Future.
Dominique Raymond, special assistant to Pennsylvania's secretary of education, shared highlights from the final report of the Governor’s Commission on College and Career Success, titled "Making Pennsylvania Competitive: Educating our Next Generation for the 21st Century Economy."
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Roundtable Discussions 2007 |
|
|
|
Forum participants engaged in roundtable discussions, which focused on the priority areas identified within the work plans of Pennsylvania's Achieving the Dream colleges. Small groups shared strategies and promising practices, as well as identifying common definitions, policies and procedures to enhance student success.
Section one outlines the common strategies, promising practices and questions that emerged in each priority-area roundtable. Section two outlines the partnership and alignment themes that emerged from the various discussion topics. Communication, collaboration, engagement, alignment and the development of partnerships contribute to college and career readiness and student success. This document is available in PDF format for easy printing.
STRATEGIES, PROMISING PRACTICES AND QUESTIONS
Placement Tests and Cut-off Scores
- staff community college testing centers with an advisor or counselor
- offer a refresher course before administering the placement tests
Summer Programs
- various summer programs exist or were suggested, such as pre-college, summer college, summer bridge and summer “Math Jam” (an intensive course on basic math)
- Should summer programs be designed for high school students or developmental education students?
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Featured Member College
|
Community College of Allegheny County
With an annual enrollment of about 80,000 credit and noncredit students, the Community College of Allegheny College (CCAC) is the largest provider of educational services in western Pennsylvania. To meet the workforce needs of the region and the educational goals of its citizens, CCAC offers more than 170 academic programs and a host of professional development, public safety, community services and community education courses for lifelong learning.
Click here to learn more.
|
|
|
Pennsylvania community colleges responded to record joblessness with tuition waivers for local unemployed workers. 3,100 Pennsylvanians have received workforce training or vocational education since the Spring 2009 semester under this program.
|
|
|
