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Measuring Student Success
Can we work together to improve our performance?
58 colleges think we can…
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Program Focus
• Facilitate institutional improvements and boost student
success through the sharing of best practices
• Help colleges identify institutional strengths and
opportunities
• Assist in the development of strategies and tools
• Utilize and help colleges better understand performance
measure data
• Ensure program is college-driven, ongoing, voluntary, and
open to all colleges
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Program Focus … continued
• Coordinate collaborative relationships
• To share in Each Other’s Success!
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Components
• Performance Partnership Summit
• Peer Mentoring
• Action Plans
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Summit
• One-day showcase of best practices and forums
associated with performance improvement related to
performance measures and other topics associated with
student success
• Inclusive of all colleges and held annually during the
summer
Mark Your Calendars
2015 Performance
Partnership Summit
Tuesday, July 28
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Embassy Suites, Cary
Peer Mentoring
• Collaborations to facilitate
institutional improvements and
increased success rates for our
students across the state
• Mentees choose a willing Mentor
• Mentors Share best
practices/strategies
• Campus visits or other interactions
• Collaboratively develop an action
plan for improvement
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Measure being discussed today
April 8, 2015
Measure H:
College Transfer Performance
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H. College Transfer Performance
Purpose
• To ensure the academic success of community college
students at a four‐year university or college
Description
• Among community college associate degree completers
and those who have completed 30 or more credit hours
who transfer to a four‐year university or college, the
percentage who earn a GPA of 2.00 or better after two
consecutive semesters within the academic year at the
transfer institution.
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Mentor College for Measure H:
College Transfer Performance
Cleveland CC
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Barbara Romich
Dean, Arts and Sciences
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[email protected]
How to find a potential Mentor for a
specific Performance Measure:
http://www.nccommunitycolleges.edu/performance-measures
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Notes from the Performance
Partnership Summit …
What are some common
themes and best practices?
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From the 2014
Performance Partnership Summit
• Strong faculty advisors and caring relationships between advisors and
students
• Emphasis on quality training is important for advisors
• Strong relationships with partnering schools
• Good practices for relating to students and trying to move students
forward
• Rigorous standards
• Faculty members are highly involved in advising
• Four quadrants are emphasized- teaching, learning, academic support,
and student services. This provides a holistic approach - From first year
to graduation
• Tracking students to other colleges
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From the 2014
Performance Partnership Summit
• High level of support for students who do not enter with the skills
necessary to be successful
• Focusing on critical reading
• Tutors were trained in critical reading strategies
• Use Completion by Design strategies
• Good advising to offer less "choices" to help students focus
• Learning communities for students taking developmental courses, using
the same instructors as they move through their courses
• Liaison from college to early college works to build relationships with
students and encourage retention
• Teachers use common template for syllabi, with common objectives
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High Performing Colleges 2008-2012
Measure H: College Transfer Performance
Asheville/Buncombe TCC
Beaufort CC
Blue Ridge CC
Coastal Carolina CC
Davidson CC
Durham TCC
Randolph CC
Southwestern CC
Surry CC
Wake TCC
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A Special Thanks to the Colleges who
assisted in the Measure H discussion on
March 4.
Davidson County Community College
Surry Community College
Wake Community College
Durham Technical Community College
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Using the UNC GA Dashboard to
assess transfer outcomes.
- Bill Schneider, AVP for Research and
Performance Management, NCCCS
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What follow-up questions
do you have for those who
have discussed their efforts?
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What strategies
are you considering
as you move forward?
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What challenges have
you faced at your college
in attempts to implement
new strategies?
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What comments and
feedback do you have on
today’s call?
What would you like to
discuss during the next
conference call for this
measure?
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If you’d like a copy of today’s PowerPoint,
please email a request to:
Dr. Deborah Grimes
Lenoir Community College
[email protected]
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Other Questions?
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Thank you
For all you do to enhance student success!
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Performance Partnership Advisory Team
• Wesley Beddard, AVP, Programs, NCCCS
• Doris Carver, VP of Continuing Education, Piedmont CC
• Nancye Gaj, CCR Director of Program & Professional Development, NCCCS
• Deborah Grimes, Vice President of Academic and Student Services, Lenoir CC
• Deryl Davis Fulmer, Vice President of Academic Affairs/CAO, Halifax CC
• Mark Kinlaw, President, Rockingham CC
• Patricia Phillips, Associate Dean, Foundational Studies, Davidson County CC
• Bill Schneider, AVP for Research and Performance Management, NCCCS
• Linda Scuiletti (Chair), AVP, Student Learning & Strategic Planning, Central Carolina CC
• Kim Sepich, AVP, Student Services, NCCCS
• Kristie Sullivan, Dean of Planning and Research, Sandhills CC
• Kenny Weatherington, Quality Assurance Specialist/Public Safety Training, NCCCS
• Bob Witchger, Director of Career & Technical Education, NCCCS
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