Coastline Community College

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Coastline Community College (Coastline) is one of the three colleges in the Coast Community College District. The College has three learning centers located in Newport Beach, Westminster, and Garden Grove. As well, the College has a virtual campus, administrative, and student support offices located in Fountain Valley. Coastline continues to be fully committed to ensuring equity among all its students for access, course completion and success, completion of degrees and certificates, and the readiness of its students to transfer to a four-year institution.

Coastline has identified the following groups of students requiring intervention to ensure the students' success or access, course completion, ESL/Basic Skills completion, degree and/or certificate completion, and transfer to a four-year institution.

Many of the activities in this Student Equity Plan can be found in the book, Redesigning America's Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success by Bailey, Jaggers, and Jenkins (Harvard University Press). Each activity is also grounded in research from the Community College Research Center and the Complete College America Report. The research studies come to the same conclusions:

Remediation is a barrier that most underrepresented students never pass Structured pathways eliminates the maze of too many choices for community college students Students who finish college level Math and English have higher rates of graduation and transfer  Support services should be intrusive, not passive

The Executive Summary is broken into three sections: (1) the groups of students who are the priority for Coastline Community College Student Equity Plan; (2) the activities that will increase Access, Course Completion, ESL/Basic Skills Completion, Degree/Certificate Completion, and Transfer; and (3) the budget for Coastline Community College Student Equity Plan.

1 STUDENT GROUPS Hispanic Students

This group of students is the highest priority for Coastline. The Hispanic student population makes up 24.5% of Coastline's service area, yet only accounts for 11.2% of its enrolled student population. The Hispanic student is an important population for Coastline and there is no historical reason why Hispanic students at the College should not mirror the surrounding communities. This Student Equity Plan and many other Coastline resources have been combined to collaborate on Hispanic student outreach and recruitment. Many of the other underrepresented populations will also benefit from these efforts, but the main focus is to raise Coastline’s Hispanic student population to twenty-five percent (25%) to mirror the College’s surrounding communities.

In the last Student Equity Plan, the access and success of Hispanic students was also the highest priority. Last year's Student Equity funds were spent to begin a pilot program that focused on Hispanic access, retention, degree/certificate completion, and transfer readiness. The pilot STAR 2.0 Program housed at Coastline's Newport Beach Center has 90% Hispanic students enrolled in pilot structured pathways in Business Administration, Psychology, and Pre-Allied Health (pre-nursing, pre-diagnostic imaging, etc.). In fall 2016, the STAR 2.0 Program expands to the Garden Grove Center, where it will work with the Garden Grove Unified School District and the League of United Latin American Citizens to increase its outreach efforts to Hispanic students.

STAR 2.0 is a cohort program that fully guarantees students their complete course schedule in Business Administration, Psychology, and Pre-Allied Health. The program is focused on community-based learning, intrusive student engagement, and embedded tutoring. Community- Based Learning is many things, but includes student study group culture and helping the community (e.g., business students will be trained to become certified tax preparers and help their communities during tax season). Each cohort will learn how to apply their major discipline as they learn. Intrusive student engagement means the offices of students services will not wait for the student to come to them; instead, they will go to the student. Counseling intervention is the most visible. If a student is not attending classes, he/she will be contacted right away to meet with a counselor, to find the reason for the attendance issues. Embedded tutors are housed in the "Gateway" courses to help struggling students in class and they have the authority to make tutoring mandatory for the student. Beginning spring of 2016, STAR 2.0 students will have two opportunities to become more involved in their own program. First, there will be a STAR 2.0 Student Advisory Group that will advise the program's administrators on what is working and not working programmatically. Secondly, the STAR 2.0 students will have their own student club with a student government funded club budget. The Vice President of Students Services will also provide funding for STAR 2.0 student activities that foster community and learning. These activities are expected to increase course completion and success, degree/certificate completion, and transfer to a four-year institution.

Military Veteran Students

Coastline has a large military education program and continues to be one of the largest educators of the United States Military men and women on active duty. As well, Coastline proudly serves

2 Veteran students. Coastline has put U.S. Veterans as one of our highest priorities for Student Equity. Currently, the College has two Veterans Resource Centers (VRC) located at the Fountain Valley and Newport Beach sites. The VRCs offers Veteran services at both locations. The College has almost 200 student veterans enrolled this year but hopes to double that population by 2020, and increase college services to those who served our country. To accomplish this, the College has re-allocated its resources to offer more comprehensive services to its student Veterans. Access will be a focal point this year in increasing dedicated staffing (through Student Equity) in the VRC and the Counseling Department. Last year, one counselor was assigned to the Veteran Resource Center. This year, there will be three counselors assigned to the VRC's. All three have significant veteran counseling experience, with one counselor who is writing his doctoral dissertation on counseling and serving student veterans. The other two counselors have worked with our active military students in their past and present positions.

Coastline has partnered with several Veterans groups and the Federal Government to bring as many services to our Veteran students as possible, including housing assistance, employment services, mental health counseling and other services. Each VRC has a computer lab and is housed near the Student Success Centers. The increased academic counseling will allow Veteran students to be more connected with all the instructional and student support services that Coastline offers.

Incarcerated Student Program

Coastline continues to be one of the largest educators of incarcerated students in the California Community College system. Coastline realizes that the more education an incarcerated student earns, the lower the recidivism rate the student will experience. Coastline has six degree programs in its Incarcerated Student Program. Data shows that while the African American population within Coastline’s service area is only 0.9%, the College’s African American enrolled student population is 16.7%. A large segment of the College’s African American student population (1,212 students) are from out-of-college/district area, compared to only 56 students from within the College/District service area. Hispanic students have the same ratio, 11.2% within the College/District service area and 19.8% outside of the service area. In order to support students of color with educational initiatives, Coastline realizes it must increase its efforts to support incarcerated students’ course completion and degree/certificate completion. Because of these high priorities, the College has also focused on this forgotten population of students who will rejoin California’s society at some point in their lives. Coastline’s goal is to have these students rejoin their communities and families as educated and productive citizens.

The activities involved in this Student Equity Plan take into account the environment in which the educational activities are allowed within the California Prison System, especially the limitations and challenges that exist in providing quality education at-a-distance. Currently, only paper and pen are allowed as primary vehicles for at-a-distance instruction and student services interaction. Each student admissions package includes a privacy waiver so family members can process paperwork in a more timely manner. California Community Colleges are not set-up for paper interaction, so Coastline has had to create this type of process to be as efficient as possible. This Student Equity Plan is focused on establishing processes that are as efficient and effective as possible, adding personnel to the U.S. mail processing and Records Evaluators and Counselors to the transcript evaluations process. The program plans to add more videos to the libraries of

3 the prisons on study skills, test taking, and organizing ones education to help incarcerated students create better learning tools for themselves. Coastline also plans to upgrade the Student Orientation video to be more comprehensive and to answer as many questions as possible. The College already sends every student an admissions packet with several "Frequently Asked Questions" sections in the packet. The College will continue to work proactively and collaboratively with the Chancellor’s Office and the California Prison System to develop and implement more effective distance learning instructional and student support delivery methods.

Foster Youth Students

Foster Youth students are our most vulnerable population in higher education. This population is a high priority for Coastline. This initiative requires college-wide collaboration building a support structure for this population -- students who did not grow up in a community-based environment. The Student Success Committee worked to combine most programs at Coastline to create a structure for these students. Coastline is pleased to have been awarded the Cooperating Agencies Foster Youth Educational Support Program Funding. This grant will support the increase of the foster youth student population as well as support their success in terms of degree completion and/or transfer readiness. The Student Equity Plan, Student Success & Services Program, EOPS/CARE, Counseling Department, Basic Skill Initiative, Financial Aid Office, and the Student Services Division are also supporting the foster youth student program to ensure wrap-around services for these students.

The activities will be a combination of EOPS support services coupled with a STAR 2.0 Program that will give the foster youth student maximum support in and out of the classroom. The extra counseling from EOPS and the STAR 2.0 Program will keep the students connected as well as provide constant teaching of life skills. Students will be connected with the College Student Success Centers, as well as EOPS tutoring and promoting positive study behaviors and habits working with the tutors. Having a community environment for the foster youth student is expected to build trust and relationships that were missing from their youth.

African American Students

As noted above, the majority of students enrolled in the Incarcerated Student Program are African American. African American students who live within the college/district service area will be recruited to join the STAR 2.0 Program, and join the structured pathways programs at one of the two learning centers where the programs are housed. With the support of Title III funding, Coastline is establishing an Intra-Cultural Center (ICC) at the Garden Grove Center. The ICC will promote cultural awareness and competence as part of the student STAR 2.0 experience.

Asian American Students

Coastline is the recipient of the Federal Title III award (AANAPISI) for increasing the number of Asian American students in higher education and improving their time to degree completion. The Student Equity Plan will interface with this grant program to build a stronger overall structured pathways program for Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) students, including

4 transitioning them successfully in a reasonable amount of time from ESL to degree/transfer programs.

The Title III grant will fund the Asian American student recruitment and outreach functions. Students will be recruited into the STAR 2.0 program to enter one of the cohort programs. The overlapping funding of the STAR 2.0 programs will allow students from many different student groups to access different types of STAR 2.0 programs from ESL/Basic Skills to Business Administration to Online Learning programs.

As mentioned above, the Title III grant will allow Coastline to establish an Intra-Cultural Center and an additional student study and social area where students can get to know many different cultures and interact with other students from different cultural backgrounds.

Pacific Islander Students

This population makes up half a percent of the population within the Coastline’s service area and seven tenths of a percent outside of the college/district service area. This population will be recruited and included within the Asian American student recruitment and STAR 2.0 model to help this population of students have access and support during their academic career at Coastline.

Adult Learners

Coastline is building a specific program for this population of students. This program will allow working adults to maintain employment while completing their degree. No Student Equity Plan funds will be used for this program at this time. To create greater access to higher education, Coastline Community College believes that classes must be offered when students can take them. In order to create this environment, Coastline will pilot an Online Academy in fall 2016. This Academy will offer one structured pathway major in Psychology and offer a high degree of academic and student support services to better assist online students with required processes, e.g. financial aid, counseling, tutoring, admissions, student educational plans, and a social component to create an online student life program. Once the pilot has been completed and effective programs and services have been established, Coastline will scale the program to include other majors.

5 STUDENT EQUITY PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

Coastline has a collaborative planning process that is housed in the Student Success Committee. The Student Success Committee is comprised of faculty, management and staff from instruction and student services who work collaboratively to design, implement, evaluate and improve programs for Coastline students. Many Student Equity Program activities overlap with one or more of the other programs at the College. Below are the specific activities in the Student Equity Plan.

Multiple Measures Assessment

This activity stems from Coastline’s participation in the Chancellor's Office Multiple Measures Program, which takes students’ high school academic histories and places students based on their high school classes and grades. The Student Success and Services Program (SSSP) will fund these activities. Next year, all students who will have graduated from high school within two years or less before admissions will go through this analysis as an alternative placement method. The goal is to increase the placement of students in the math and English series.

Math and English Boot Camps

Predominantly funded by the Student Equity Plan, this activity is an 8 week summer program that will use software in combination with direct instruction and tutors to increase the students' placement in or near college-level Math and English. The difference from the Multiple Measures Program is that this activity can boost a student who just completed Elementary Algebra to College Algebra, skipping Intermediate Algebra in 8 weeks. The worst case scenario is that Intermediate Algebra becomes review instead of learning the material for the first time. This activity is open to all students as it is a proven program for Adult re-entry learners and new high school graduates. The goal is to boost the placement of students in the Math and English series to at-college or near college-level.

Embedded Tutoring

This program is jointly funded by the Student Equity Plan, the Basic Skills Initiative, and the Student Success Center. This is a proactive intervention that puts the tutor inside the classroom to work with students in partnership with the faculty. These tutors are partnered with faculty in the English and Math sequences up to college-level. The program will expand to other "Gateway" courses in the major.

Student Outreach and Recruitment

The student outreach and recruitment effort is funded through many different programs as program goals overlap. As noted previously, Coastline’s highest priority is to increase the Hispanic student population to mirror its surrounding communities. This program is just being developed to capture student data for follow-up. A student recruitment data base was created along with a "lead-card" system to capture student information online or by hand written lead card. High school visits and fairs capture the initial student information but the follow-up activities are narrowed down by major interest and student groups. This program also includes a

6 parent component comprised of parent workshops. Students and their parents are supported through the on-boarding process of admissions, financial aid, EOPS admissions, assessment, and counseling.

STAR 2.0 Program

As noted in previous sections, the STAR 2.0 Program is a structured pathways cohort program that houses many of the above activities. Students are required to sign an agreement indicating that they will follow the structured pathway of their choosing, attend the orientation, complete their Math and English courses first, attend STAR 2.0 events, go to tutoring, and attend classes. The STAR 2.0 Program guarantees students all of their classes in general education and major requirements. Students in the program go through the entire curriculum together as a cohort. STAR events include transfer workshops, career workshops, milestone celebrations, counseling appointments, Boot Camps (if needed), Multiple Measures assessment (if needed), and access to their high school academic history. Students in this program must enroll in a “Student College Success” class in their first semester. This class also acts as their anchor class as it is taught by a Counseling Faculty member assigned at a particular learning center/campus.

STAR 2.0 Online Academy

This version of the STAR 2.0 program is completely online. Similar to its sister programs, all classes are guaranteed for the student in either a full or part-time format. Coastline classes Education 107 and 108 (Introduction to Distance Learning & How to Succeed in Distance Learning) are required and cross-contextualized with the courses Student College Success and Introduction to Psychology to provide students with the necessary skill set to excel in online courses. This activity will work with the Community College Chancellor's Office Online Education Initiative program (OEI) to give students greater flexibility after the first semester. Coastline has arranged tutoring for students 24 hours a day using its own tutors and two vendors to create a support system for online students in all subjects.

Coastline is entering into agreements with many four-year universities to offer its students the most cost effective means to complete their four-year degree online and with programs that articulate with Coastline College programs.

7 PROPOSED BUDGET

Classification Activity Amount Academic Salaries To provide counseling to the $45,000 various activities Classified Salaries To provide staff support for: $277,000 a) Outreach & Recruitment b) Embedded tutoring c) Veterans Program Employee Benefits Required for positions $167,400 Supplies & Materials a) Outreach materials $33,000 b) math & English assessment codes for Boot Camps Operating Expenses & Services a) Outreach & Recruitment $30,000 b) STAR Planning c) Transportation d) Student Equity Conference Other STAR Student Events $5,000 Total $557,400

CONTACT INFORMATION

Ross Miyashiro, Vice President of Student Services Coastline Community College 11460 Warner Avenue Fountain Valley, CA 92708 Office: (714) 241-6160 Cell: (714) 349-1157