New Jersey’s 19 Community Colleges Leading the Way on Student Success
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Encouraging students to succeed towards achieving THEIR GOALS OF DEGREE AND CERTIFICATE COMPLETION June 2015 Dear Friends: Since 2009, New Jersey’s community college trustees and presidents have worked to identify the best and boldest ideas to improve student success – especially associate degree and certificate completion. Designated the Big Ideas Project, over 150 campus leaders spent 18 months engaged in numerous work groups, each co-chaired by community college presidents. These work groups conducted research and made recommendations in key policy areas including: Transforming Developmental Education; Aligning Expectations Between K-12 and Community Colleges; Creating Student Success Data; Promoting Adjunct Faculty Development; Expanding Joint Purchasing Practices; and Using Core Student Learning Outcomes and Common Assessment Tools.
As a product of the Big Ideas Project, in Fall 2012 New Jersey’s 19 community colleges and its state association, the New Jersey Council of County Colleges, launched the New Jersey Center for Student Success with the purpose of serving as a statewide hub for collaboration to improve student success.
Since then, the Center has had numerous statewide successes, and our 19 community colleges have recommitted themselves to becoming “access to student success” institutions. What follows on these pages are highlights of both statewide and local accomplishments… accomplishments that only happen when trustees, presidents, faculty members, staff members, and students work together to achieve the specific goals set out in the Big Ideas Project, now known as the Strategic Goals for Student Success.
The staff at the New Jersey Council of County Colleges would like to thank all of our partners and supporters for their unprecedented support in making these accomplishments possible, and we look forward to working with you in the future. Sincerely,
Dr. Yesenia Madas Dr. Lawrence A. Nespoli
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College Readiness Now Prepares Students for College-level Work The Center engaged Dr. Monica Reid Kerrigan, assistant professor in the College of Education at Rowan University, to evaluate the success of the pilot program. From her findings, Dr. Kerrigan concluded that going forward, community colleges should offer three models of College Readiness Now: A five-week summer A short and intensive A semester-based bridge model with course (one week) computer- model that is meetings Monday through based instruction 5 incorporated into Thursday that is based model with students’ school WEEK instructor support; on a traditional college day; and developmental course. IFJOJUJBUJWFGPDVTFEPOTUVEFOUTXIPXFSFOPUZFUDPOTJEFSFE Dr. Kerrigan UPCFDPMMFHFSFBEZJO&OHMJTIBOENBUIFNBUJDT3BUIFSUIBO recommended that IBWJOHUIFTFTUVEFOUTCFHJOUIFJSQPTUTFDPOEBSZFEVDBUJPO T each model should offer XJUISFNFEJBMDPVSTFTJOUIFTVCKFDUT UIF$PMMFHF3FBEJOFTT/PX some type of college JOJUJBUJWFBMMPXFE/FX+FSTFZTDPNNVOJUZDPMMFHFTUPPGGFSQSP- experience and informa- HSBNTUPUIFTFTUVEFOUTXIJMFUIFZXFSFTUJMMFOSPMMFEJOIJHITDIPPM tion through workshops "GUFSUFTUJOHPWFS IJHITDIPPMKVOJPSTBOETFOJPST /FX+FSTFZ or a college success DPNNVOJUZDPMMFHFTFOSPMMFENPSFUIBOTUVEFOUTJOTQSJOHBOE course to help students TVNNFSQSPHSBNT BOEOFBSMZPGUIFFOSPMMFETUVEFOUTBDIJFWFE become more familiar DPMMFHFSFBEZTUBUVTJO&OHMJTIBOEPSNBUIFNBUJDT with college nomencla- ture and college culture. 5IFHSBOUJTGVOEFEUISPVHIUIF'FEFSBM$PMMFHF"DDFTT$IBMMFOHF Dr. Kerrigan also shared (SBOUQSPHSBN XIJDIBJNTUPGPTUFSQBSUOFSTIJQTBNPOHGFEFSBM some of what students TUBUF BOEMPDBMHPWFSONFOUTBOEQIJMBOUISPQJDPSHBOJ[BUJPOT said when she spoke 5IFTFQBSUOFSTIJQTBSFEFTJHOFEUPJODSFBTFUIFOVNCFSPGMPX with them: JODPNFTUVEFOUTXIPBSFQSFQBSFEUPFOUFSBOETVDDFFEJO QPTUTFDPOEBSZFEVDBUJPO “The program is helping kids who know they are struggling.” 8IJMFOFBSMZPGUIFFOSPMMFETUVEFOUTBDIJFWFEUIFDPMMFHFSFBEZ TUBUVTJO&OHMJTIPSNBUI UIFSFNBJOJOHTUVEFOUTHSFBUMZEFDSFBTFE UIFJSOFFEGPSSFNFEJBMFEVDBUJPOBOENBOZmOEUIFNTFMWFTOFFEJOH KVTUPOFSFNFEJBMDPVSTFUPCFDPOTJEFSFEDPMMFHFSFBEZ5IJTOPU POMZBMMPXTTUVEFOUTUPDPNQMFUFUIFJSEFHSFFTNPSFRVJDLMZ CVU “I used to be terrified of going to college, BMMPXTUIFJSGBNJMJFTUPTBWFIVOESFETPGEPMMBSTPOEFWFMPQNFOUBM but now I’m not.” College Readiness Now FEVDBUJPODPTUT *OBEEJUJPOUPCFJOHFOSPMMFEJOUIFQSPHSBNT TUVEFOUTXIPUPPLQBSU Prepares Students for College-level Work JOUIFJOJUJBUJWFXFSFBMTPHJWFOBOPQQPSUVOJUZUPJOUFSBDUXJUIDPMMFHF “The summer GBDVMUZGPSUIFmSTUUJNFBOEOBWJHBUFUIFDPMMFHFBENJTTJPOQSPDFTT program was a wake-up call. I need to be more 5IJTBTQFDUPGUIFJOJUJBUJWFTIBSFTHPBMTXJUIUIF/FX+FSTFZ$FOUFS responsible.” GPS4UVEFOU4VDDFTT#PUIUIF$PMMFHF3FBEJOFTT/PXJOJUJBUJWFBOE UIF/FX+FSTFZ$FOUFSGPS4UVEFOU4VDDFTTBJNUPDPOOFDUTUVEFOUT XJUIGBDVMUZNFNCFSTBOEBENJOJTUSBUPSTUPQSPNPUFEFHSFF “I can’t wait for DPNQMFUJPOBOEBJETUVEFOUTUISPVHIPVUUIFJSBDBEFNJDDBSFFST school to start to show my teachers and friends how much I learned.” Strategic Goals The following Strategic Goals for Student Success, formerly referred to as the New Jersey Big Ideas Project, were collectively identified and endorsed by the community college trustees and presidents. These are the strategic priorities for the NJ Center for Student Success. {
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USING CORE STUDENT LEARNING V OUTCOMES AND COMMON ASSESSMENT TOOLS IN THE TOP HIGHEST ENROLLMENT GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES s $EVELOP CORE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THE TOP 10 highest enrollment general education course. s $EVELOP AN INVENTORY OF INSTRUCTIONAL BEST PRACTICES s $EVELOP AN INVENTORY OF ASSESSMENT BEST PRACTICES s $EVELOP FACULTY TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT TOOLS Contributions Toward Student Success-focused Policy, Research, and Statewide Agenda Prior to receiving the Kresge Foundation grant, the Center for Student Success held a number of statewide events designed to engage community college trustees, presidents, administrators, faculty members, and staff members in a dynamic statewide policy discussion to move New Jersey’s community colleges from access institutions to access to student success institutions. With the Kresge Foundation Student Success Center Grant, the Center for Student Success has been able to expand its efforts to engage more constituents: Establishment of Middlesex County College in Edison (centrally located in our state) has provided a building with office space and a conference room to house a branch office for the Center for New Jersey Center for Student Success. The Center’s staff members split their time Student Success between the NJCCC office in Trenton and the branch office at Middlesex. The branch Branch Office office has proven to be very helpful as many of the Center’s statewide convening events have been – and will continue to be – held at Middlesex County College.
Orientation The New Jersey Center for Student Success Orientation and Stakeholder Meeting took place on December 15, 2014. Dr. Gretchen Schmidt, Jobs for the Future’s and Program Director, Postsecondary State Policy, engaged various stakeholders in a Stakeholder conversation about the Student Success Center Network. She also discussed her Meeting role with the New Jersey Center for Student Success.
Statewide The Center for Student Success has committed to going on a listening tour at each of our 19 community colleges. During these visits we asked about various student Listening success initiatives such as successful developmental education models, English as Tour a Second Language models, successful student services models, successful K-12 partnerships promoting college readiness, adjunct faculty development, and other student success best practices.
Guided Guided Pathways is a national movement that engages colleges and universities in redesigning the academic programs and support services they offer. Students are Pathways provided clear roadmaps and support through their academic program to improve the rate that they enter and complete a program. The Center held a live steam PRESENTATION ON 'UIDED 0ATHWAYS IN -ARCH BY $R $AVIS *ENKINS 3ENIOR 2ESEARCH !SSOCIATE #OMMUNITY #OLLEGE 2ESEARCH #ENTER AND $R 2OB *OHNSTONE #%/ National Center for Inquiry and Improvement. Over 200 colleagues participated across our 19 community colleges. In addition, the presentation was recorded and posted to THE #ENTERS 2ESOURCE #ENTER WWWNJSTUDENTSUCCESSCOM #OLLEGES WERE ENCOURAGED to examine their readiness for Guided Pathways at the conclusion of the presentation. As a follow-up, the Center hosted two office hours in April with Dr. Jenkins and Dr. Johnstone. In June 2015, the Center hosted a conference with Dr. Jenkins, Dr. Johnstone and Dr. Gretchen Schmidt from Jobs For the Future to discuss implementation. All 19 community colleges attended. Thirteen community colleges have joined the first cohort to engage in this work to reform their academic pathways beginning fall 2015. These colleges will receive technical assistance during their work on guided pathways.
National The Center for Student Success has become a national model of implementing statewide reform designed to improve student outcomes. The Center’s staff Presentations members have given national presentations about New Jersey’s statewide policies and programs at the Association for Community College Trustees, the American Association of Community Colleges, Jobs for the Future, Phi Theta Kappa, and the League for Innovation in the Community College. NJC4 Gets Students to Commit to Complete!
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Helen Albright Hon. Rochelle Hendricks Luis Montefusco Chair Secretary of Higher Education Director NJ Council of County Colleges State of New Jersey Institutional Planning & Assessment Atlantic Cape Community College Thomas Bailey Hon. David Hespe Director Commissioner Maureen Murphy Community College Research Center New Jersey Department of Education President Brookdale Community College Thomas Branin Phebe Lacay Student Director Elizabeth Nesius Atlantic Cape Community College Institutional Research & Policy Director County College of Morris Academic Foundations English John Donnadio Hudson County Community College Executive Director Carlos Morales NJ Association of Counties Student Lawrence Nespoli Middlesex County College President Aaron Fichtner NJ Council of County Colleges Deputy Commissioner Joann La Perla-Morales NJ Dept of Labor and Workforce President Paula Pando Development Middlesex County College Vice President North Hudson Education Center Jacqueline Galbiati James Lavender Hudson County Community College Vice President Superintendent NEW JERSEY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Academic & Student Affairs Kingsway Regional School District James Poinsett Cumberland County College Assistant Professor, Mathematics Russell M. Lazovick Brookdale Community College Gale Gibson Superintendent President Nutley Public Schools William Whitfield Essex County College Assistant Professor, Mathematics Bakari G. Lee Rowan College at Burlington County Sharon Goldstein Member, Executive Committee, Dean of Student Affairs NJ Council of County Colleges Melanie Willoughby Passaic County Community College Senior Vice President Jennifer Martin NJ Business & Industry Association Michael Gorman Associate Professor, English President Salem Community College Raymond Yannuzzi President State of New Jersey Salem Community College Camden County College New Jersey’s 19 Community Colleges 11. Atlantic Cape Community College 1010. County College of Morris 5100 Black Horse Pike $FOUFS(SPWF3PBE Mays Landing, NJ 08330-2699 3BOEPMQI /+ tXXXBUMBOUJDFEV tXXXDDNFEV
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