EGSC is seeking to improve the rate at which students complete the English composition series and required math course within their first 30 hours of coursework. We understand that failure to complete these vital and foundational courses in the early portion of a student’s education journey can hinder the student by blocking courses that need the prerequisite and by limiting the number of choices a student has available to choose from during each successive registration period.
Evaluation Plan and measures:
Key performance indicators include studying the data and examining how many semesters, historically, it takes students to complete these foundational courses on each campus and in each demographic subcategory to see if any trends can be found.
KPIs:
- Percentage of new first time college students registering for Mathematics and Quantitative Skills (MATH course) and Communicating in Writing (ENGL 1101 and 1102) courses within the first year in both aggregated and disaggregated groups.
- Percentages of students registering for Mathematics and Quantitative Skills (MATH course) and Communicating in Writing (ENGL 1101 and 1102) within the first year, who completed all three courses successfully with a grade C or better.
Baseline Measure (for each KPI):
- Percentage of new first time college students registering for Mathematics and Quantitative Skills (MATH course) and Communicating in Writing (ENGL 1101 and 1102) courses within the first year in both aggregated and disaggregated groups.: see appendix
- Percentages of students registering for Mathematics and Quantitative Skills (MATH course) and Communicating in Writing (ENGL 1101 and 1102) within the first year, who completed all three courses successfully with a grade C or better: see appendix
Current/most recent data (for each KPI):
This effort is in the initial stage (February 2024) and no data has been collected or examined.
This effort is in the initial stages as we get our administrative restructuring and curriculum coordinator into place along with our new faculty-only advisement structure. (SUMMER/FALL 2024). Instead of hiring curriculum coordinators for each discipline, in our restructuring during Summer 2024, three separate Department Chairs were hired to cover Mathematics/Natural Science, Humanities, and Social Sciences. In addition, a curriculum coordinator was hired from the current English faculty to facilitate the coordination of the curriculum and requirements in ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102.
With regard to advisor education about our renewed push for completion of math/ENGL in 30-hours, we restructured the advisement process for FALL 2024 and advisee assignments go to faculty only, so we will now need to start this education push again.
The ENGL 1101/1102 curriculum coordinator is currently working on shared policies and procedures for these courses, such as an AI policy, agreement about types and numbers of essays, etc. These discussions and the work are in the initial stages.
The math department is currently discussing reinstituting Math Modeling and the learning support corequisite for that course so that business students are not all funneled directly in to MATH 1111 College Algebra. These discussions and the work are in the initial stages.
Time for meetings; collating the data to determine which areas of our population we should begin with; making sure that we have full buy-in and adequate education for our faculty advisors on campus; general course pass rates.
