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President's Annual Report 2015 – 2016 BCC President’s Report 2015-2016 1 BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF EXCELLENCE PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2015-2016 Celebrating YEARS 1957-2017 Bronx Community College of e City University of New York 2 BCC President’s Report 2015-2016 BCC President’s Report 2015-2016 3 Mission Bronx Community College serves students of diverse backgrounds, preparations and aspirations by providing them with an education that is both broad in scope and rigorous in its standards. We offer students access to academic preparation BRONX that provides them with the foundation and tools for success in their educational and/or professional plans and instills in them the value of informed and engaged citizenship and service to COMMUNITY their communities. COLLEGE Vision of The City University of New York Bronx Community College will effectively invest in each student’s success by engaging with them in an integrative and BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF EXCELLENCE supportive environment that facilitates the development and achievement of their educational and career goals. Graduates will be prepared to understand, thrive in and contribute to a PRESIDENT’S REPORT 21st century global community marked by diversity, change and expanded opportunities for lifelong learning and growth. 2015-2016 4 BCC President’s Report 2015-2016 BCC President’s Report 2015-2016 5 A Message from President Thomas A. Isekenegbe I had the good fortune of coming to BCC’s historic campus in August 2015, at the launch of a five-year Strategic Plan, “Building a Community of Excellence.” The plan is the College’s road map toward that destination. This report describes the progress of the journey. BCC Provost Dr. Claudia V. Schrader, our Senior Vice That kind of focus on the success of each student is President for Academic and Student Success, called the hallmark of the Accelerated Study in Associate 2015-16 the “Year of the Student.” The community of Programs (ASAP) initiative, which is currently being excellence that we seek to expand upon is essential expanded at BCC. Math Start also demonstrates that to cultivating a culture and environment that help the spirit of ASAP is not limited to those students students thrive and move forward in a timely manner enrolled in the program, but pervades the entire toward achieving their academic goals. Of course, we campus to the benefit of all BCC “Broncos.” seek to make every year the Year of the Student. But But while this report highlights some of the new sometimes we need to remind each other how well we initiatives designed to meet the educational needs of are achieving that goal. To that end, we have created the new century, we always know we are building on a Gold Standard Committee, comprised of faculty, staff what was set in motion by our predecessors — people and students from throughout the College. Central to like Roscoe C. Brown Jr., our former President and the Committee’s mission is monitoring the College’s World War II hero, who remained a beloved member institutional effectiveness and the implementation of of the BCC family until his passing in the summer the Strategic Plan. of 2016. We are devoted to our students even before they New buildings, new programs, new infrastructure, new officially become our students. Math Start, for instance, services — these are all important. But now as always, is an intensive eight-week summer program to increase our greatest resource is the talent and passionate students’ math proficiency before they start credit- commitment of those who study and work here, who bearing classes. The results have been startling. In 2015, not only learn or instruct, but also inspire. This story 92% of Math Start students exited the program fully is their story, and as you learn about some of the math proficient and ready to take math courses. people who make this a community, I expect you Thomas A. Isekenegbe President, Bronx Community College will be inspired as well. 6 BCC President’s Report 2015-2016 BCC President’s Report 2015-2016 7 How Do You Spell Success? ASAP! The 2016/17 academic year marked the beginning of 18 academic year, ASAP is expected to reach 3,500 Expanding a major expansion of Accelerated Study in Associate students and then almost 5,000 in 2018-19 — around Programs at Bronx Community College. ASAP is half of the student body. a CUNY-wide initiative of comprehensive student Assistant Dean Francisco Legasa is overseeing support that provides everything from intensive the expansion. “My hope is that we can maintain Opportunities tutoring and advisement to free textbooks and similar outcomes to what we had before,” he says. MetroCards in order to increase the rate of timely “With the expansion, we don’t want to lose that graduation. At BCC, the results have been stunning personalized attention to students, that close — at a time when graduation rates at the College connection between the adviser and the student have hovered in the teens, BCC’s ASAP students that is the heart of the program. Also, we hope to for Student have been earning diplomas at rates in the mid to give faculty a rewarding experience when they teach upper fifties. an ASAP student. They’ll see that the students Before the expansion, BCC’s ASAP served 700 are committed and serious about their education students. That number rose to nearly 2,000 by the and that they can show the talent and potential Success start of the Spring 2017 semester. During the 2017- that they have.” It could be a new program that we know is effective, child care center doors open on Saturdays or simply words of encouragement from a faculty or staff member telling students “Yes, you can.” We’re expanding these kinds of incentives and positive reinforcements that can inspire BCC scholars to persist in achieving their academic and career goals. It is not enough for us to provide just access or an opportunity for advancement. We have to take responsibility for equipping our students with the tools for seizing that opportunity and be held accountable when they do not.” — CUNY Chancellor James B. Milliken 8 BCC President’s Report 2015-2016 BCC President’s Report 2015-2016 9 The Student and the Adviser Critical to the success of BCC’s Accelerated Study in Associate Programs is the special bond between ASAP advisers and their students. “I try my best to know the student holistically,” says Cyd Williams, who has been with the program since it began on the BCC campus in 2007, ”know them academically and know them personally. Know what their challenges are, what they think they may not be able to overcome, what they think they may be able to do that may not be realistic in terms of putting classes together.” Liberal Arts major Krystyn Caldwell, who plans to go to a Williams also provides the psychological support Krystyn four-year college and study nursing, agrees. “I wanted to take needs because her mentor has been in the same position. Chemistry and Biology next semester because I want to get “I had four children,” Williams says. “I scheduled the time to out — I’m almost out. But Cyd asked me, ‘Do you really think cook and the time that I spent here, and then I went home to you can do all that?’ And I say, ‘I probably can if I study and I check on my children‘s homework. I told Krystyn, ‘Yeah, you just cram everything.’ And she says, ‘Krystyn, you can’t cram. can do it; stop making excuses. If I did it with four, you can do You have to learn it -- learn it and really pass these classes.’” it with one’.” As a single mom, Krystyn also faces challenges juggling the Adds Williams, “It is very important that the students I serve demands of parenting. Williams has helped her work through know that I genuinely care about their success. Advisement is that as well. “I have a daughter and I have to get my daughter a life-changing process that assists them in finding their true at a certain time,” Krystyn explains. “You can get blocks of selves.” classes so you can take them all in the morning or all in the afternoon or the evening — whatever works for you. Miss Cyd helped me do that, and everything worked out great. “ 10 BCC President’s Report 2015-2016 BCC President’s Report 2015-2016 11 By 2019, approximately 50% of BCC students will receive the benefits of the ASAP program: • 2-3 year graduation rates • tuition waivers • textbook vouchers • MetroCards • structured academic pathways • high-touch advisement Most recently, 62% • career development of BCC ASAP students • tutoring resources graduated in three years. Projected BCC ASAP Growth 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16 These three Broncos are smiling for the same good reason — they were all 2016 recipients of a BCC Kaplan Scholarship, which provides financial support and skills training to help community college students make the leap to a four-year school 729 1,972 3,472 4,958 and a bachelor’s degree. Today, Alberto Alberto (left) is at Brown University, Brittany Arboleda (right) attends Stanford University and Welbeck Adjetey Sowah (center) is a student at All BCC students will benefit from the college redesign Occidental College. “Before the Kaplan Scholarship, I would never have considered applying to all these top schools,” says Brittany. “It opened my horizons and made me think, ‘Hey, you can that accompanies the ASAP enrichment and expansion. do it. It’s not a far-off dream. It’s not for somebody else. It’s for you as well’”.
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