Understanding the
Role That Community
Colleges Play
Andre J. Richburg
Atlantic Cape Community College
ACT Enrollment Planners Conference
July 14, 2016
Overview
O Atlantic Cape Community College
O The Need For Early Intervention
O Developmental Needs By the Numbers
O State of New Jersey’s Community Colleges
O Career and College Readiness
O Programming and Student Success
O Questions and Answers
Atlantic Cape Community College
• Three campuses
• Mays Landing
• Atlantic City
• Cape May County
• Serves two southernmost counties of New
Jersey
• Approximately 7,000 students
• 45 career and transfer programs
• Nationally Recognized Programs
• Academy of Culinary Arts
• Casino Career Institute
Atlantic Cape Developmental
Math and English
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Math
2009—62%
2010—69%
2011—69%
2012—70%
2013—68%
2014—68%
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English
2009—75%
2010—65%
2011—49%
2012—43%
2013—54%
2014—56%
Developmental Challenges
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Developmental Challenges
New Jersey Community Colleges
O 21 Counties, 19 Community
Colleges
O Smallest—1,000; Largest 16,000+
O Enrollment Decline
O Exports
O NJ STARS
Three Year Graduation Rates
NOTHING
Atlantic Cape Math Boot Camp
O Piloted, Summer 2014
O Non-credit, 16 hours, 4 days,
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January/June/July
Students identified through Jump Start by
admissions, testing and Continuing
Education
College Readiness Grant
All three campuses
FREE!!!
Math Boot Camp
Experience and Results
Student Experience and
Assessment
Math Boot Camp Results
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First day Diagnostic Test
O 127 participants
O
MyFoundationsLab
O 40% met criteria (87
O
MATH073 boot camp
completion places the student
in MATH074
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MATH074 boot camp
completion places the student
in college level math
first level, 159
second level)
O Pass rate = 90%
O 60% < 16 hours
O 94.75% & 87%
Career Development
O Department of Education, Title 1
O $250,000 Grant
O 1 year
O Underachieving students
O High school & community college link
O Career and occupation exposure
O Wildwood High School
O Blueprint
Wildwood Career
Readiness Programming
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Saturday Workshops
Career and College
Readiness Orientation
Meyers-Briggs
Personality
Assessment
Occupation Search
Portfolio and Resume
Development
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Career Boot Camp
Day 1-Intro to academic
success activities
Day 2-Complete portfolio
and resume
w/information from Sigi3
Day 3-Interactive
workshop: Education
Pays
Day 4-Optimizaton of
study habits
Day 5-Long term
planning
Student Success Initiatives
O Achieving the Dream (AtD) & Guided Pathways
O English Accelerated Learning Program (ALP)
O Fall 2014
O 84% success rate in English 101
O Accelerated Math
O “Fast track” developmental math completion
O Early Alert
O Academic and Student Affairs collaboration
O 50% success with intervention
Andre J. Richburg, MS Ed
Dean, Enrollment Mgt. & College Relations
Atlantic Cape Community College
NJACAC, Immediate Past President
[email protected]
609-343-5086