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Was so exciting to share the @CalCommColleges update at today's @RPgroup Conference, with the incomparable @VLundyWagner, esp. to share the fantastic new research & data team. Good to see old friends & outstanding to see so many new faces too! #RPconf2021. A thread 1/21
For those who were there & want to relive the experience or those who missed it, the slides will be available in conference app but are also available here (for a limited time only - while my storage lasts - download 'em while they're hot): http://bit.ly/RPConfUpdate
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I also wanted to make some of the links shared available more widely. But first, resource emails.
For questions about:
LaunchBoard dashboards: LaunchBoard@cccco.edu
SCFF dashboard: apportionments@cccco.edu
General research: research@cccco.edu
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For questions about:
LaunchBoard dashboards: LaunchBoard@cccco.edu
SCFF dashboard: apportionments@cccco.edu
General research: research@cccco.edu
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For more information about the systemwide Data Science Tools and the LaunchBoard Webinar series:
The dashboards themselves: https://www.calpassplus.org/Launchboard/Home.aspx
The slides & recording of the kickoff webinar covering the Student Success Metrics Classic Dashboard: http://bit.ly/LBResources
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The dashboards themselves: https://www.calpassplus.org/Launchboard/Home.aspx
The slides & recording of the kickoff webinar covering the Student Success Metrics Classic Dashboard: http://bit.ly/LBResources
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Key changes to SSM were covered in the webinar, are available at the top and bottom of the dashboard, and are available here: http://bit.ly/SSMChanges2021 . They include:
1) Revised student universe to include inadvertently excluded students
2) Update of units per degree metric
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1) Revised student universe to include inadvertently excluded students
2) Update of units per degree metric
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3) New beta release of the SSM Cohort view for the all students journey (Webinar coming up 4/14 9-10:30, register here: https://bit.ly/SSMCohortView )
4) New metrics under development section with new expanded definition of completion of transfer-level English and math
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4) New metrics under development section with new expanded definition of completion of transfer-level English and math
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We also covered:
1) key challenges to headcount & success rate def'ns that interacted w/colleges' nimble pandemic adaptations that everyone should be alert to & that we will be working to clarify
2) New SL & SY data elements (MIS Webinar 4/13 10-11:30)
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1) key challenges to headcount & success rate def'ns that interacted w/colleges' nimble pandemic adaptations that everyone should be alert to & that we will be working to clarify
2) New SL & SY data elements (MIS Webinar 4/13 10-11:30)
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Finally, we covered some of the steep disproportional impacts that the pandemic has had on our students, particularly underrepresented students of color, male students, older students, and new and restarting students.
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These disproportionate impacts have rightfully galvanized our institutions into action. What our system, our colleges, our faculty, staff, and administrators, and especially our students have done under deeply challenging circumstances is nothing short of heroic.
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In the face of a once in a lifetime crisis, we have collectively brought a new level of attention to and compassion for our students, bringing grace and understanding back into higher education institutions and classrooms in ways that are simply amazing.
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I've been lucky to have had so many opportunities to be proud of what our system does for students but never more so than over the last year as so many poured their hearts into making what had been claimed year after year to be impossible not only possible but a reality.
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But just as importantly, in revealing what is possible, it also reveals the critical equity work that we have left undone for far too long.
Our students have been long experiencing pandemic-level disproportionate impacts in our classrooms and our institutions.
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Our students have been long experiencing pandemic-level disproportionate impacts in our classrooms and our institutions.
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The difference is that far too many of those past conversations have been student deficit centered - about what’s wrong with _students_, how do we help _students_ change, etc.
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In this case, because we had one single, easy to understand exogenous variable to explain what was happening and one that we could all directly, empathize with, we moved mountains, we moved heaven and earth, for students and very rightfully so.
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However, as many who've dived deeply into the disproportionate impacts in success rates and persistence and completion will tell you, these long-standing disproportionate impacts are just as structural and systemic and exogenous to students as the pandemic was.
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We just treated them as endogenous b/c of their variability. But having your bus route cancelled, your shift change, your car break down, your child care lost, your hours cut back, or picking up more responsibility because that happened to someone else are exogenous _too_.
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We frequently discuss how do we take the difficult and hard won lessons we’ve learned from the pandemic (e.g., virtual office hours and counseling, wider recruiting, ending paper-based record tracking, re-examining classroom assumptions, etc.) to recover with equity.
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I'd argue that our greatest opportunity – for all of us throughout the system & really throughout CA - is to bring that same attention, that same compassion, that same understanding into our classrooms & institutions, w/the same energy to act on behalf of our students.
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But it's an opportunity that we must actively seize and soon, else we quickly fall back into old, hard-worn individual and institutional ruts.
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And to return very specifically to the #RPConf2021 audience, the IRPE community has a critical role to play here in helping surface and institutionally frontpage the ongoing inequity in our outcomes and where they are coming from and help design & lead the change.
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That's the #RPConf2021 charge. Its call to action.
We all must be ready to pick up that call because it's our collective future as a system & a state that's calling & it needs every one of us.
The CO Research & Data team stand ready to help & jump on that call with you.
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We all must be ready to pick up that call because it's our collective future as a system & a state that's calling & it needs every one of us.
The CO Research & Data team stand ready to help & jump on that call with you.
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