Institutional Effectiveness Report to the Board of Trustees
April 29, 2015
Executive Summary
Introduction
LATTC serves approximately 14,500 students each semester (79% part time and 21% full time). LATTC’s student population largely reflects resident demographics within its vicinity with 63.0% Hispanic/Latino, 23.0% Black, 6.7% White, 5.4% Asian, and 1.9% other. The College has a long history of preparing students for trade and technical careers, as such; in 2012-13 academic year the 95% of programs as well as certificate and degree completions are Career-Technical Education (CTE). In addition, above 80% of incoming students enrolled in a CTE course during their study at the college.
Access & Preparation
Challenges: Based on ARCC 2.0, the underprepared student population comprises 94% of LATTC incoming cohort, which is the highest percentage in the state.
Strengths: The College community had intensive dialogue, developed, and planned the implementation of a Comprehensive LATTC Pathway for Academic, Career, and Transfer Success (PACTS) Framework as part of its Strategic and Educational Master plans. PACTS addresses access and preparation through Tiers 1& 2 of the framework: Tier I is the foundational competencies for success in college and careers; Tier 2 is the academic and career readiness competencies.
Current Strategies:
· The college continues to implement new academic readiness strategies that include incorporating the assessment process into the college’s orientation, providing refresher opportunities at our Academic Connections Center where individualized assessments are provided to determine need-based services.
· In Fall of 2014, due to new state mandates, the college changed its assessment strategies. All new credit students are referred to take the Accuplacer test.
· The college continues to examine and pilot different effective instructional strategies including Statway, acceleration, refreshers, and flipping the classroom. Identify strategies to give students different opportunities to attain credit for competencies in Math and English.
· The college has embedded English, Math and counseling into its Pathways.
Teaching & Learning for Success
Challenges: Low persistence and completion rates; Lack of data on employment outcomes
Strengths: PACTS addresses teaching and learning for success through organizing programs and guiding students into academic and career pathways to promote student completions and success.
Current Strategies:
· Continue re-organization of the college into pathways (PACTS) to promote cohorts, guided choices, and embedded counseling, math and English faculty to increase completion rates. Six pathways have been launched.
· Continue to work on establishing and communicating a two-year scheduling cycle to allow students to plan their courses for their entire program of study. Ensure an annual FTEF allotment to allow for the scheduling of courses based on current students’ needs as determined by transcript mining.
· Establish a college-wide professional standard for use of instructional technology in and out of the classroom. The college plans to “Train-the-trainer” on effective technology-centered instruction. Promote early faculty communication & interaction with students prior to the first class meeting.
· Monitor the use of results from authentic assessments for continuous improvement with mandated dialogue at the course/discipline/department level.
Institutional Efficiency /Effectiveness
Challenges: Lack of centralized system for real time data to promote accountability and help guide the decision-making processes.
Strengths: The College has the vital knowledge base to promote a data-driven culture and integrated the use of data into campus-wide planning and decision-making processes.
Current Strategies:
· Develop enrollment management dashboards to identify, formalize and track student course-performance milestones (gateway, midway and capstone).
· Develop an electronic version of the PACTS plan to better monitor student retention and completion progress.
· Implement Program Review, Planning, SLO, and Accreditation administration systems to increase institutional effectiveness and efficiency.