RSP 2010-Keynote Speaker, Linda Baer

Notes from Presentation, "Reimagining Higher Education for Student Success" by Linda Baer. Presented at the RSP Conference 2010, February 26.
(Power points slides can be found at: www.ctl.mnscu.edu)

What would things look like if you could have your class look like you wanted it?

"We are educating for careers that have not been created, using technology not yet invented to solve problems that haven't been discovered" Youtube video "SHIFT HAPPENS"-2009

Teach students to LOVE LEARNING

Redining the metrics of excellence for higher education

Transformation (see the heart of the enterprise--the aha moment)

Drivers of the call for transformative change:
*More at risk students
*achievement gap in performance
*flat persistence and graduation rates
*costs of remedial and devt ed
*Increasing demand for accountability

High growth of African American (to 24%), Asian (34%), Latino(28%) , Native American by 2020

Reading Scores, Math Scores--gaps between African American and Caucasian
Very significan gaps
Gaps between who particpates where across education system (open door policy brings in more)

Remediation continues to be an issue (why don't students come to us more prepared)

Growing the Investment in Serving Students
historically, higher ed was elitiest survival of the fittest

"Access without success is a REAL problem" As more and more people can in our doors we have to be more prepared, more innovation, more successful

Building Successful Action Analytics:
we need to learn from our learners
we need to elarn from our faculty
we need to learn from our business experts
we need to incest in what we know works

Detailed final projects reports for 2,291 Awards of Excellence (found linked through the CTL site)

Learning Communities

"YES YOU CAN BE SUCCESSUL!"--an important value to help students learn.

Pairing up the ESL course and general ed classes (even having two instructors in the same class)

KEEP ENERGIZING EACH OTHER!!!!

Status quo keeps us marching along when we need to {fly} :)

Share best practices--build collaborations and relationships (colleagues, campus/community, other educational systems, B & I, world)

We need new models--ones that allow us (us all) to be successful

President Obama by 2020 we will have highest percentage of graduates.

"Evidence gives you an argument for action. When you have it, you know what works and what doesn't. When you don't you have no path for improvement"

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

"If we don't do something what will happen"

d2l to better reflect outcomes

Longitudinal date system to track course patterns (what did the HS student take in HS and what in colllege, how successful were they?)

SIGNALS--project of Purdue University (red light, yellow light, green light "signals")
Customize, create a report, take action at milestones

Capella University--"First week determines everything" They can predict from the "first Friday evening" (predicts: grades, withdrawals, early drops)

www.decliningbydegree.org

Too expensive for us not to invest in the things that will help us (us all) be successful!