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News and Updates
This email highlights the working groups that are
being led by your colleagues from around the system, as well as
some of the partnerships that are supporting us to achieve CSCU’s
Guided Pathways goals:
- Helping
more students complete courses and, ultimately, complete
credentials that lead to jobs with value in the labor market
- Advancing
equity in our colleges and in our state so all students have
the education, skills, and resources necessary for economic
advancement
Working
Groups
For more than a
year, the College Consolidation Implementation Committee (CCIC)
and the two primary groups it oversees, the Guided Pathways Task
Force (GPTF) and Students First Academic and Student Affairs
Consolidation Committee (SF ASA CC) have been meeting and
developing working groups which focus on specific aspects of
Guided Pathways and consolidation work under Students First.
This chart details the organization and reporting lines of these
working groups.
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Here’s one example of how these groups work together. Recently,
the Choice Architecture working group, which comprises faculty,
staff, and administrators from the colleges, developed an Areas
of Study policy. View Policy (pdf)
After seeking, receiving, and incorporating feedback from the
colleges, including a survey to students, the Choice Architecture
working group unanimously approved the policy. Following the reporting
lines in the chart above, the policy next went to the Guided
Pathways Task Force (GPTF). The faculty, staff, and
administrators on the GPTF also unanimously approved the policy,
moving it forward to the College Consolidation Implementation
Committee (CCIC). The CCIC includes presidents, CEOs,
administrators, a member of the Student Advisory Committee,
members of the Faculty Advisory Committee, and system
administration. The CCIC unanimously approved the policy as well
and determined that the policy should be reviewed by the Academic
and Student Affairs committee of the Board of Regents, who
approved the policy earlier this month. The Board of Regents was
the final group to review the policy, and they approved it
earlier today.
To learn more about these working groups, including the charges
which detail each group’s primary focus, visit http://www.ct.edu/sf.
National Partners
Our primary
partner in the implementation of Guided Pathways in CSCU is Jobs
for the Future (JFF). The CSCU Student Success Center is one of
sixteen Student Success Centers in states throughout the country.
This Student Success Center Network, led by JFF, is focused on
large-scale student success reforms like Guided Pathways. The
network serves institutions that together enroll 62% of the
community college students in the U.S.
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Through our partnership with JFF, we have access to expert
guidance and support from the national service providers and
research organizations shown in the above image.
For example, the Charles A. Dana Center at UT Austin is
partnering with our Alignment and Completion of Math and English
(ACME) team. Achieving the Dream, who we highlighted last month,
is supporting our Holistic Student Supports Redesign (HSSR)
group. And Next Chapter Communications helped us to develop a
plan to get this information out to you, including this series of
emails.
Nationwide, there are many organizations and higher education
institutions that are helping to develop proven practices for
student success. The work of the CSCU Student Success Center and
the many working groups described earlier in this email is to
contextualize these practices to fit the needs of our students,
our colleges, and our state.
All of this is going
on? Who’s doing this?
More than 400
of your colleagues from all CSCU campuses are engaged in this
work.
The membership of the Guided Pathways Task Force and all of its
working groups are listed here:
http://www.ct.edu/gp#groups
The membership of the Students First Academic and Student Affairs
Consolidation Committee and all of its working groups are listed
here:
http://www.ct.edu/consolidation#groups
As the memberships of additional groups are established, they
will be added to these pages.
Get Involved
Given the
volume of work in front of us, we are regularly building teams to
engage in this effort. In building these teams, we aim to include
faculty, staff, and administrators with diverse perspectives and
skills. If you are interested in joining one of these teams,
contact successcenter@ct.edu.
In
Our Next Issue:
In CSCU Student
Success Update #6, which we’ll email in April, we’ll look at some
of the work being done related to onboarding students, including
the introduction of our Website and Streamlined Application
(WASA) group, as well as the proposal to eliminate the
application fee.
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