September 30, 2015

September 30, 2015

Access Committee – Special meeting

Sept. 30, 2015

Pre-collegiate equity mentoring

  • Review of outcomes of student focus group yesterday
  • Decide on next steps for pre-collegiate equity mentoring program
    • Establish a program maximum of 15 hrs/wk

Equity Overview

  • First year and beginning of second: capacity building, planning, professional development
    • Equity originated/emphasized awareness of 80% rule for ISS, SSSP
    • Developing equity strategy model
      • replicating APR data but with equity disaggregation
      • developing a master DI list
      • Creating real institutional strength/capacity in data reporting
    • Professional development
      • Manuel Pastor
      • multiple conferences
      • Cognos
      • Develop equity library collection
      • Kimberly Papillon on Implicit Association Bias
      • Garden Pathways – community partner, conversations on Trauma Informed Approaches, and training in mentor model
      • ESP – group that is self-educating on pre-collegiate strategies and issues
    • Equity as think-tank for interventions, on DI students -> to SSSP if taking to scale
      • Exploration of role for TC childcare center
      • Commitment to cohort/concierge models
      • Avoiding jumping prematurely into “solutions” – temptation to (e.g.) hire a bunch of new counselors/advisors
      • Funding with direct impact on students
    • First year outcomes
      • Upgrade servers, licenses; Cognos trained reporters; specialized training in Framework Manager to understand data packages; development of Cognos club; SQL Servers for extension datamarts; SSIS ETL training; special training in APR/DI
      • Childcare – moving to voucher exploration – capacity and funding issues with direct child care
      • APR reporting – in progress; replication of successful course completion (based on Governance Council priority) – have Cognos club members speak to their ability to now extend and develop APR with equity disaggregations
      • DI reporting – version 1; anchored in successful course completion; version 2 a likely rewrite using new ability to create ‘minimarts’
  • Staffing
    • Classified position to manage administrative overhead of running mentor program and doing extensive ongoing professional development
    • Pre-collegiate coordinator – 11-month faculty position dedicated to coordinating pre-collegiate across campus – equity funded for first year or two, but keeping commitment/focus on implementing with Equity and scaling with SSSP/AB86/BSI/etc.
  • Data capacity
    • As outlined above – moving quickly to develop minimarts
    • Improvements to APR data model, data collection and distribution, automated email distribution of reports
    • Ongoing training and mutual support for Cognos Club
  • Equity Mentors
    • Group discussion on what led us here, where we are at currently, where we’re headed with this
  • Equity Plan v2
    • Much more detailed and prescriptive template from state
    • Exploring proportionality
    • Alignment with SSSP around enrollment management – focus on equity data as we develop our comprehensive data model to support comprehensive program review (really comprehensive program “plan”), integration of ideas and direction with Strategic Planning Committee
    • Agenda 9-30-2015