Student Success Committee
Goals, Objectives, and Activities
2016-2017
Goals:
1. Develop and implement new approaches, and scale and institutionalize successful approaches, for improving students' success in basic skills across the college curriculum, including supporting and scaling learning cohorts and first year programs. (SMP Goals: 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 3c, 3d)
2. Provide ongoing professional learning opportunities to new and continuing faculty that focus on student-centered learning and the resources and tools needed to facilitate student access, retention, and success. (SMP Goals: 5c, 5d)
3. Expand learning opportunities that promote student engagement and that develop personal and civic responsibility. (SMP Goal: 8)
4. Develop programs and services that support diverse groups of students in order to promote student equity in completion of certificates, degrees, and transfer patterns. (SMP Goals: 1a, 1b, 1e)
Activities:
1. Support, promote, and oversee Achieving the Dream strategy teams:
- Assessment Preparation
- Professional development around equity and diversity
- Reading Apprenticeship
- Go Days
- Gatekeeper FIG
- Marketing Completion
2. Support, promote, and oversee professional learning opportunities around student success:
- Facilitate participation in 3CSN Habits of Mind Community of Practice
- Plan and implement 2016 Annual Student Success Conference
3. Support, promote, and oversee the activities outlined in the Equity Plan
4. Support the development of student mentor/mentee programs
- Brahma Internships
- Student Mentor/Mentee
5. Support, promote, and oversee the development of a cohesive first year experience program, including:
- Outreach efforts in local high schools
- Scaling successful learning communities: ASAP, Summer Bridge, Statway
- Extended orientation activities
6. Continue to support and promote the Student Success Workshops and the Student Success Professional Learning Series.
7. Support and promote the development and implementation of the Town Hall project.
8. Support and promote the development and implementation of General Education Pathways project