2. PCC’s FYE Program
Started in 2011
Math Jam Orientation
Full course load (English, Math, Freshman Seminar, GE)
One Book, One College (Last Year: The Pact
This Year: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)
Student Conference
First Year Counselors & Coaches
Student homework and tutoring lab
3. Our Story of Hope
What we did to change
the culture on our
campus
4. The Slump
Administration that stifled creativity and professional
development
Faculty arrogance about a need for professional
development
5. Seeds of Change
Change in Administration
Internal Grant Program
Title V Grant
Leadership Retreat
6. About the 5537 – 6 years later
Developmental Education Non-Developmental Education
N = 3,408 N = 2,129
12% earned an AA/AS 10% earned an AA/AS degree
degree
4% earned a certificate
5% earned a certificate
41% transferred
25% transferred
55% no discoverable
69% no discoverable milestone
milestone
7. Scholarship + Relationship
Find Your Team
Build the Relationship
Inquiry Mindset
Mutual Respect
Divide the work
Leverage our expertise
8. Pilot Imperfectly:
Create the Dream
2 hour weekly meetings
Researched & wrote curriculum, grants
Considered texts
9. Pilot Imperfectly:
Live the Nightmare
“FYE Seminar”
300 students
3 back-to-back classes
Every Friday
Professional Learning Workshops
10. Initial Student Data
FYE students had a significantly higher persistence rate to
the second year.
Student Population Persistence from
Fall 2011 – Fall
2012
FYE Students Cohort 1 82.2%
(n = 287)
Control Group 69.7%
(n = 574)
11. Scale Up
900 FY Students + 150 F1 Visa Students
Freshman Seminar Created (College 1)
3 units
Transferrable to UC/CSU
Info Literacy, Critical Reading Skills, College Success
Behaviors
Interdisciplinary faculty
29 sections of College 1
12. Student Data
FYE students had higher engagement with faculty and
peers.
3.65 2.85
3.6 2.80
3.55
2.75
3.5
College 1
2.70 College 1
3.45
The
3.4 2.65 Control
The Control
3.35 Group Group
2.60
3.3
2.55
3.25
Discuss Academic Program w/
Have Friends in School to Share with Facculty
13. We built it…
And they came!
32 instructors from all 12 divisions on campus
One week professional learning institute
Extensive shared reading
One Book, One College as course text
Additional non-fiction text (Mindset by Carol Dweck)
Text sets
14. Faculty Data
120.0%
100.0%
80.0%
32.0% 68.8%
60.0% 34.6% 68.8% Quite A bit
30.8% 68.8% 43.8%
40.0% 36.0% Some
30.8%
34.6% Influence
20.0% 25.0% 30.8% 31.3% 25.0%
12.5% 11.5% Very Little
0.0%
Q4 - pre Q4 - post Q9 - pre Q9 -post Q13 - pre Q13 - post Q14 - pre Q14 - post
Question # 4 How much can you do to motivate students who show low interest
in schoolwork?
Question # 9 How much can you do to help your students value learning?
Question # 13 How much can you do to improve the understanding of a student
who is failing?
Question #14 How much can you use a variety of assessment strategies?
15. Faculty Responses
I loved the fact that most activities were modeled so we
could understand the process and how to integrate them
which was the practical application component. And the
variety of activities and resources presented gave lots of
creative ideas for building our course.
I feel like there's lots of support within our group and all of
the PCC support services. The main thing is to keep the
connection between our colleagues so we don't feel
isolated and can share our successes and challenges.
This is the story of how we went from a heavily-siloed campus with no culture of professional learning and no sense of ownership or understanding toward first year students, to a campus in which 32 faculty from across the disciplines volunteered to spend the only free week between spring and summer semesters to attend an intensive professional learning institute in order to teach our new first year experience course. Our first year experience program is still in its infancy, but we have made a tremendous amount of progress in a short amount of time and we wanted to share what we did, what we learned, and the principles that are guiding us.