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Campus Update &

End of Quarter Celebration

Degree Pathways - “Choose Your Pathway at Highline College”

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Welcome and Thank You

We are all doing Degree Pathways work!
Centered on equity and being student ready
Connected to core themes, equity first, & enrollment management
Vision for this work

Accomplishments
What next

Gabrielle will welcome campus and introduce Dr. Penn and Lardner

Speakers- Dr. Penn and Dr. Lardner

Length: 7 minutes

Goal: Thank everyone and acknowledge all of the hard work that is being done, and to end the quarter on a celebratory note.

Message: Focus on the high level elements. Degree Pathways is here and this is what has been done, what began this quarter and what will happen by Spring

Talking points:

This work is collegewide- we are all doing Degree Pathways work. It is all of our responsibility and we all have something to contribute.

Help staff/ faculty see why they should care about the Degree Pathways work
How Academic Affairs and Student Services are collaborating

And specifically how they are working together

How this work is centered on equity and part of the equity plan

Connect to Equity Strategic Plan

How this work directly ties into our Core Themes and enrollment management

Explain how all of the current work being done is interconnected

Share vision: What it looked like before, what it looks like today (with what has been accomplished) and what it will look like when fully implemented.

We are in year 3 of the implementation timeline
We have accomplished a lot this quarter

Thank you
Core Team members will share updates of what has been accomplished

Facilitate Activity: Mentimeter activity

Question: What are you excited about regarding implementing Degree Pathways?

Note: Mentimeter is a web based word cloud activity

https://www.mentimeter.com/features/word-cloud

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Mentimeter Activity

Question:

What feels good about implementing Degree Pathways?

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2021-2022 Priorities

DP: Equity-focused across campus

Equity-First Strategic Planning
Science-based redesign of courses focused on equity
OER (Open Educational Resources)
Effective Teaching Course
Seed funding for new positions (Director of Equity-Educational Financial Planning; Credential Evaluator; Data Analyst)
Research stipends for students
Marketing & Community Outreach (Pathway videos, HC GP advertising)
ASC tutoring
ATD coach

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Get Started at Highline!

Entry Advising

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Showcasing Pathways

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New Digs!!

Building 6, Top Floor

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What’s Next?

Entry Advising website�
Hiring 2 new employees�
Visuals and animated video for student onboarding!

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Explore your Pathway!

Pathway Advising

Pathway Advising Outcomes:

Explore Pathways (Pathway Advising Days, in-class Advising, College 101)
Q1 and Q2 courses
Confirm POS
Faculty Advisor transition

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New Student Orientation (NSO)

New Logo created (Explore Highline!)
Faculty Pathway Leads will help support the design of the interactive Pathway exploration videos/workshop included in Spring 2022 orientations

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Highline Pathway Choice Form

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Highline Pathway Milestone

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New Signage in Advising

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Welcome to Pathway Advising!

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Career and Transfer Services

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On the Path!

Program Maps

Over 150 maps have been developed that

Include designated course sequences, critical courses, and quarterly action items.
Identify program or field-specific quantitative skills requirements.
Include required courses for major ready transfer to specific schools.
Been through rigorous review process by multiple stakeholders.
35% of the final maps available in Google Drive presently, more added daily.

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On the Path!

College 101 Pilot Launched

Formulate and practice communication strategies to build connections with other students, faculty, and staff.
Construct an actionable plan for involvement in campus resources and communities.
Articulate funding options for college that align with student’s needs.
Describe strategies to manage resources in personal finance plan.
Devise a plan to effectively manage academic workload based on an evaluation of a variety of learning and time management strategies.
Construct a degree plan based on program options and evaluation of pathway/career goal assessments.
Examine facets of identity development and articulate personal strengths for positive self concept in college.

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On the Path!

College 101 Pilot Classes

Students participating in Pilot classes have said:

“So much information that I am going to use for my upcoming College success.”�
“I examined facets of my identity and articulated personal strengths for college success.”�
“Some of the activity's I enjoyed are the ‘learning journal’ because you can reflect on how to do better for the next time class meets and making a PSA about time management.”

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On the Path!

Exploratory Sequence

COL 101

Navigation Skills

ENGL& 101 or CMST& 101

Contextualized for Career Exploration

Distribution

Explore Humanities or Social Science

Structured Exploratory Experiences: “Default structured exploratory experiences will be included in the first two quarters of each program/degree map to enable each student to narrow, confirm, or change their program/degree choice.

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Exploring Your Field & Program of Study!

Faculty Advising

Equity Competent Educational Planning

(Faculty Advising)

All faculty have at least 5 advisees
Faculty Advising Weeks was a success for students, faculty and staff

Thank you all for your hard work!

By Spring quarter, plan that all faculty will have at least 15 advisees* (currently in negotiation)
More development and focus on the Exploratory pathway is coming soon

Good afternoon everyone. I am here to share the update on how Degree Pathways is supporting students in exploring their field and program of study. We are doing that through what the state calls Equity Competent Educational Planning, which is mandatory, accessible, and highly engaging advising for all students, which we call faculty advising.

And we are proud to share that this Fall quarter, we made major strides towards mandatory advising by getting all faculty to at least 5 assigned advisees. We also had a successful first-ever Faculty Advising Weeks that saw collaboration between faculty and staff to support students. Thank you all for your hard work.

Looking ahead, by Spring quarter, we are planning that all faculty will have at least 15 advisees* (this is currently in negotiation). Also, this Winter will see more development and focus on the Exploratory pathway in an effort to provide more structured language and support to faculty, staff and undecided, exploring students.

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Exploring Your Field & Program of Study!

Faculty Advising

Faculty Advising Professional Development

The Learning and Teaching Center (LTC)

1st Ever Peer Mentorship/Buddy Program!
Workshops on ‘Career and Exploratory Advising’ and ‘Advisor Speed Dating’
Pre-nursing Advising training/Canvas
Coming in Winter:

Winter Institute In-Class Advising Retreat
In-class Advising Community of Practice
Workshops on ‘Group Advising: Advising in Community’, and ‘Advising & Metacognition: the Link with Student Learning’

Have questions? We want them! E-mail ltc@highline.edu or use Microsoft Teams advising chats

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Exploring Your Field & Program of Study!

Faculty Advising

Champions for Advising, Persistence and Engagement

(CAPE) Team

Faculty Pathway Leads & Representatives
Interim Faculty Advising Program Manager
Faculty in Residence for Advising at Learning and Teaching Center
Interim Associate Dean for Student Learning and Success
Interim Associate Dean for Guided Pathways
Dean for Academic Transfer Pathways and Partnerships
Pathway Advising and Entry Advising Partners

This team is working hard to support and develop policies that support faculty advising needs.

For example, the team is working on one of the more recent policies that is helping to provide language to let students know that most faculty will not be advising over the break, so the team will share more information on what that looks like soon. It is worth noting that faculty can still advise over the break if they choose to, but communicating to students to that this will vary and support will be offered through collaboration with the Advising Center will be important as well.

Likewise, advising assignments may still flow in over break, as students continue to make requests for advisors or change their program of study. But again, faculty who are on break will not have to advise at those times because Winter break will be in full swing.

If you have questions or comments you would like to share with the team, please email facultyadvising@highline.edu.

Shawna

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Exploring Your Field & Program of Study!

Faculty Advising

Advising Council: https://sites.google.com/highline.edu/advisingcouncil/

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Research

Providing the baselines & measuring our success

Examining outcomes (e.g. are more students enrolling in gateway courses early?)
Support of teams (e.g. for program maps - what do graduates tend to take?)
Student and employee voices (last year and beyond)

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Technology

Renewals:

Survey Monkey & Signal Vine

Research:

Career Exploration Tools

Implementations:

Aviso, Student Success Software

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Aviso - Student Success Software

Aviso Enterprise: Connect, Engage, Student and Predict

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How to Stay Informed

DP Communication Team

Internal and external focus

Communication Plan

What to expect

Messaging to Students

5 minutes - Gabrielle

DP Comms Team working on both internal and external communication

Acknowledge team members: Liz Word, Shawna Freeman, May Lukens, Shannon Waits, Fawzi Belal, Tony Johnson, Gabrielle Bachmeier
Marketing and outreach part of team - working to strengthen the connection and collaboration b/w outreach and entry advising
Working to ensure all areas working on DP work are collaborating regarding their messaging and communication to students

want to have a cohesive message, look and feel for all of our DP communications and marketing to students and the public

Developed a comm plan for rest of the academic year

internal and external audiences and messaging vehicles

What to expect

Working on updating internal DP webpages for faculty and staff

be easier to navigate and find current information.
where we will store all content and information
will include a blog that provides regular updates
email will go out to campus once it has been updated

will hold quarterly campus wide forums to provide updates
Will provide training and resources to support implementation as needed

Student comms plan

collaborate with ThunderWord to get information out to students
Utilize college SM to reinforce messages
college Pathways website
Degree pathway maps in progress
video for each pathway
coordinate with outreach to align messaging and communication to prospective students about DP

Ideas and feedback always welcome

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Thank You!

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Q & A