Making Transfer Connections Introduction

1. ePortfolio & Student Success Across CUNY Lehman College, Queens College, Bronx, Queensborough & LaGuardia Community Colleges Making Connections National Resource Center @ LaGuardia Welcome toMaking Transfer Connections

2. Today’s Agenda Bridging the Gaps: Transfer in 21st Century Higher Education ePortfolio--a Multi-Faceted Learning Tool The Making Transfer Connections Program: A Multi-Campus Collaboration Break Creating a Pervasive Culture of Transfer: Cross Campus Exchange Reviewing & Strengthening Our Campus MTC Plans

3. Community Colleges Baccalaureate Colleges A Changing Educational Landscape Fall 2005 Undergraduate Enrollment by States Source: IPEDS, Enrollment Survey, 2005

4. New Patterns of College AttendanceTransfer Re-Shapes Higher Education Community Colleges Emerge as Major Element in Higher Education Mix Increasingly complex weave of enrollment through multiple institutions 59% of students attend at least 2 colleges 20% + attend 3 or more colleges Students from highly selective institutions & community colleges have the highest rates of “Swirl” Thurmond, Taylor, Foster & Williams, Swirling to a Degree, 2008

5. The Enrollment Swirl Vertical Transfer, Trial Enrollment, Horizontal Transfer, Supplemental Enrollment, Special Program Enrollment, Rebounding Enrollment, Concurrent Enrollment, Consolidated Enrollment, Serial Transfer, etc.

6. Running the Obstacle Course Nationwide, 63% of low income/first generation community college students seek at least a BA. Only 5% achieve in 6 yrs At LaGuardia, 80% of our students seek a BA. Only 10% achieve it w/in 6 years. Students who transfer to a 4 year college take longer to graduate than “native” students, increasing the risk of failure.

7. Examining the Literature Strategies for Success Key Step: Creating a culture of transfer, supporting a well-structured academic pathway to the BA Best practices include: active learning pedagogies that build student engagement, high levels of student-faculty connection, goal-oriented planning & advising, and clear articulation agreements Bridging the Gaps To Success: Promising Practices for Promoting Transfer, The Pell Institute. 2009

8. Making Transfer Connections LaGuardia, Bronx, and Queensborough CC will join a working partnership with Queens and Lehman College, aiming to use ePortfolio to create a pervasive culture of transfer. Use ePortfolio to improve preparation & advisement at the community colleges. Matched by a systematic & reciprocal effort by 4-year colleges to use ePortfolio to welcome transfer students & ensure success after admission

9. A Systematic & Reciprocal Effort Create a comprehensive academic pathway at both levels, using ePortfolio with: Faculty development & instruction to increase engagement, active learning and student-faculty connection that highlights transfer goals & skills Advisementfocused on transfer success Assessment to strengthen General Education, support improved articulation, instruction focused on transferable skills for success

10. Sharing & Building Our Strengths Each Campus Develops its own plan for using ePortfolio and addressing Enhancing Instruction via Faculty Development Advisement Assessment Regular Cross-Campus meetings designed to: Share best practices Understand each other’s key competencies Address shared concerns Build a CUNY presence

11. Transfer is More Than Admissions Our Shared Focus: Helping Students Succeed in Achieving Advanced Degrees 2- & 4-year Colleges Use ePortfolio, Helping Students to: -- Prepare for Adv. Academic Work -- Engage in Planning around Transfer Options & Requirements -- Make a Successful Transition – Adjust to a New Institution Proper Placement in New Programs Build on existing skills, achievements

13. Digital format adds versatility, portability, and visibility

15. Explosion of digital media

16. Multiple paths through education, career

18. A Global Reach EuroPortfolio http://www.epforum.eu/ Univ of Wolverhampton(UK) http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=16960 Queensland University of Technology (AU) http://www.studentportfolio.qut.edu.au/ City Univ. of Hong Kong http://www.cityu.edu.hk/edo/eportfolio

20. AAC&U’s Project VALUE http://www.aacu.org/value/index.cfm

21. World ePortfolio Summit, July 2011 http://www.aaeebl.org/

24. Generate evidence-based national developmental models of ePortfolio practice as tool for reflection, integrative learning

25. Research team led by Helen Chen (Stanford) and Randy Bass (Georgetown)http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/connections/

28. Student Learning Spaces: Cornerstone Integrative Learning Projects Making Connections: “The characteristic of artistic design is the intimacy of relations that hold the parts together.” John Dewey: Art and Experience

29. Integrative ePortfolios Career & Credential ePortfolios Assessment ePortfolios Learning ePortfolios Current ePortfolio Typologies

31. Reflection deepens learning

33. Strengthen outcomes assessment, connecting it with authentic classroom learningeResume:Students showcase academic achievements for career & transfer

34. ePortfolio as anIntegrative Social Pedagogy Student Academic Curriculum Across Semesters External Audiences Faculty & Staff Across Disciplines Lived Curriculum Student

36. Where Do Students Do ePortfolio? More than 175 faculty integrate ePortfolio into their classrooms Broad Range of Courses: ESL, New Student Seminar, History, Business, Mathematics, English, New Media, Nursing, Chemistry, Fine Arts, Human Communication, etc. Selected Courses attach an “ePortfolio Studio Hour:” One hour/week, in the Studio, with a special ePortfolio tutor

37. FIRST YEAR ACADEMY (1st semester) Students begin Basic ePortfolio in Introduction to the Major course ePORTFOLIOINTENSIVE COURSES selected by faculty and programs FUNDAMENTALS OF PROF’L ADVANCEMENT Students build Intermediate ePortfolio in required career development course CAPSTONE COURSES IN THE MAJOR Students Complete Graduation ePortfolio

38. LaGuardia ePortfolio video

39. Advancing Student Success Sustained documentation over multiple semesters shows broad range of benefits: Increased Student Satisfaction Greater Engagement in Learning Higher Course Pass Rates Improved Retention

40. Engagement & Critical Thinking

41. Engagement & Critical Thinking

42. From Engagement to Learning

43. Next Semester Retention Rates ePortfolio vs. Comparison Courses

44. Next Semester Retention Rates ePortfolio vs. Comparison Courses

45. Next Semester Retention Rates ePortfolio vs. Comparison Courses

47. Active learning for increased engagement and achievement

48. Greater faculty-student connection

49. Contextualized planning and advisementBest practice in transfer: active learning pedagogies that build student engagement, high levels of student-faculty connection, goal-oriented planning & advising

50. ePortfolio offers opportunities to make student learning more visible and portable Can we use ePortfolio to build connectivity and transparency, across higher education institutions? How can we better help our students succeed as they transfer, move and grow within and across our institutions?

51. Our Challenge Work together, in a sustained, systematic and reciprocal effort. Figure out, together, how to utilize the rich opportunities offered by ePortfolio to enhance student success as they transfer, move and grow within and across our institutions.

52. Thank You