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California Guided Pathways: Achieving Equity in College Completion

“Guided pathways” is a growing movement both in California and across the country that seeks dramatic increases in community college completion. Adoption of a guided pathways framework will require fundamentally altering students’ college experiences. Required systems changes may include: restructuring the colleges’ outreach and intake processes; redesigning the overall structure of the degrees and certificates offered; accelerating student entry into college as they acquire the English and math skills needed to succeed; helping students select a broad field of interest; clarifying program course sequencing; and, integrating proactive student supports. As community colleges begin this redesign process and show results in increasing certificate and degree attainment and transfer, including closing of the achievement gap by demographic group, the opportunity is ripe to learn how colleges have created the infrastructure, culture, and processes that support institutional transformation. This session will include synthesis of the research on barriers to student completion. We will also present promising models of college redesign and guided pathways experiences from administrator and faculty leaders from across the state involved in redesign work, including successes, challenges, and lessons learned. Session participants will engage in small group discussions and team activities focused on how to (1) best utilize existing opportunities and structures at each college, and (2) leverage redesign tools supportive of guided pathways inquiry and design that prove useful in helping colleges deepen their understanding through student voices and institutional data.

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IEPI: Helping to Take Your Institution to the Next Level

Hear from colleagues about how Partnership Resource Teams (PRTs) have helped institutions develop innovative plans aimed at improving student success; help your college get a jump-start on planning for the Year-Four Framework of Indicators; and hear about the latest IEPI professional development topics, such as assessment, data disaggregation, strategic enrollment management, and integrated planning. Finally, learn how new resources available through IEPI’s online clearinghouse, the Professional Learning Network (PLN), are helping colleges identify and apply promising practices.

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IEPI’s Strategic Enrollment Management Applied Solution Kit
IEPI is collaboratively developing a set of resources called Applied Solution Kits (ASKs), which showcase promising practices promoting institutional effectiveness. This session will focus on Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM). A holistic concept and process, SEM enables colleges to fulfill their missions while working within their fiscal environments. Student success is central to SEM. The SEM ASK benefits anyone involved in enrollment management and includes resources, tools, and models on such topics as: integrated marketing, outreach and transition, curriculum and scheduling, engagement and retention, enrollment data and evaluation, and FTES and funding. Session participants will learn about the SEM ASK; the work that has been completed to develop it, including a system-wide survey, literature review, and advisory committee; and engage with the ASK’s published resources.

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Integrated Planning Applied Solution Kit:

In partnership with The RP Group, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, CCC Tech Connect, the Success Center for California Community Colleges, and experts from within the California Community Colleges system, IEPI is developing a valuable series of tools and resources called Applied Solution Kits (ASKs). ASKs showcase promising practices that promote effective college and district operations. This workshop will focus on the Integrated Planning (IP) ASK and its tools and resources that encourage CCCs to continue developing planning strategies that align local, state, and national initiatives and promote continuous improvement. Learn about key characteristics of effective IP and hear from one faculty member whose college used the tools. Come experience a new tool and provide feedback on it.

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From Gaps to Greatness: Using Data Disaggregation to Improve Institutional Effectiveness

The Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative (IEPI) and the RP Group formed the Data Disaggregation Applied Solution Kit (ASK) research team in 2016 to promote promising practices that address pressing needs of California Community Colleges: equity planning, program review, SSSP, guided pathways, and more. Related case studies, tools, and other resources are hosted on the ASK area of the Professional Learning Network (PLN) website. Learn how colleges have successfully reduced or closed achievement gaps among ethnic groups and between online and on-ground classes. We will also describe how to uncover hidden equity gaps using multivariate disaggregation. Participants will develop their own data stories and learn to use data disaggregation resources to increase institutional effectiveness and student success