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Southern Regional Education Board Cheryl Blanco, Vice President, Special Projects Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) [email protected] 404.879.5593 Increasing Student Success: What is the Trustees’ Role? South Carolina Commission on Higher Education Trustees’ Conference Columbia, SC ~ September 29, 2009
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Cheryl Blanco, Vice President, Special ProjectsSouthern Regional Education Board (SREB)[email protected] 404.879.5593
Increasing Student Success:
What is the Trustees’ Role?
South Carolina Commission on Higher Education Trustees’ ConferenceColumbia, SC ~ September 29, 2009
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What do we know about completion rates?
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National Graduation Rate for Bachelor’s Degree
Only 56% of students who entered a four-year institution in 2000 graduated six years later
Source: Education Trust, College Results Online.
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Bachelor’s Degree Graduation Rates in SREB States
SREB average is 52% SREB states range from 71% to 37% South Carolina’s average is 59% Most SREB states have increased this rate between 1% and 8%
Source: SREB, Fact Book on Higher Education, 2009, Table 40.
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South Carolina – Bachelor’s Degree Graduation Rates, 1997 and 2006
Source: Ed Trust, College Results Online Web site.
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Persistence Rates in SREB States
SREB persistence rate is 85% SREB states range from 91% to 76% Little change from 2001 – some states have dropped
Source: SREB, Fact Book on Higher Education, 2009, Table 40.
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What do we know about institutional success?
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A Focus on Four-Year College Completion
What are institutions doing to ‘beat the odds’?
What can we learn from their successes? How do, state, system, and institutional
policies impact completion?
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Criteria
Public baccalaureate degree granting 6-Year Graduation Rate: 45% or more
Pell Grant recipients: at least 25%
Median SAT: 1050 or less (ACT 22)
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Institutions
California: California State University-Long Beach
California State University-Stanislaus Illinois: Western Illinois University Kentucky: Murray State University
Western Kentucky University Mississippi: Delta State University Missouri: Northwest Missouri State University Nebraska: Wayne State CollegeNew Jersey: Montclair State University New York: CUNY-Queens College
CUNY-College of Staten Island North Carolina: Elizabeth City State University
North Carolina Central University Pennsylvania: Clarion University of Pennsylvania Texas: Sam Houston State University
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Attentive Leadership
Institution-wide priority It’s everyone’s responsibility Visible keystone initiative Collaboration - breaking down the silos Faculty engagement Institution-wide group on retention and
completion Departmental role
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Focus on Individual Student Needs – Academic and Personal
Clear sense of what’s expected and staying on course
Direct learning support
Learning communities and affinity groups
Orientation and first-year programs
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What can Trustees do?
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Why should Trustees care about completion?
Alum are greater assets than dropouts are
Persistence is more cost effective than recruitment
Enhance student success Enhance institutional success
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What can Trustees do?
Make higher graduation rates an institutional priority
Encourage and support retention policies and programs
Examine institutional data and peer data and ask questions – Who drops out? Why?
Explore use of institutional financial aid as a retention and graduation strategy
Keep informed on national and state policies
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Questions
What are the graduation rates at your institution? What are acceptable rates? Are there state or system policies in South Carolina to
help your institution reach acceptable rates? How do you make your institution accountable for its
graduation rate? Does your institution have the resources—human,
fiscal, and physical—to achieve higher graduation rates?
Where can institutional policy and practice make a difference? Developmental education? Financial aid?
