ipl-logo

Wildly Important Goals

624 Words3 Pages

Houston Community College has the ambitious goal of increasing the rate of students passing their courses with an A, B, or C grade by 2 percent by May 2017,

The goal is to start “meeting students where they are and doing things differently in the classroom to get them there,” explained HCC Vice Chancellor of Student Services Dr. Kimberly Beatty.

She announced the college’s new ‘Wildly Important Goal’ of student course success earlier this year. Since then, steps have been taken toward that goal.

There are many different ways to measure student’s academic success; from completion of a developmental course sequence, completion of 30 credit hours, to completion of a degree or certificate.

“My philosophy in choosing that wildly important …show more content…

Grade inflation. “I don’t want it to be interpreted that I’m suggesting that I want you to give A’s, B’s, and C’s to students and that’s going to increase by two percent.”

“What do we need to do to meet students where they are to get them from a D or F student, over into an A, B, C student because that’s how we measure it.”

“My philosophy about this is more holistic.”

The Wildly Important Goal or WIG model is from a book called “The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goal” by Chris McChesney and Sean …show more content…

Going forward, HCC will be “retooling” its student success agenda and auditing its intervention programs.

The new student experience projects are lead by the college presidents. Northwest College President Dr. Zachary Hodges is responsible for streamlining the admissions process; Coleman College President Dr. Phil Nicotera is in charge of early alert; Interim-Southwest President Dr. Madeline Burillo is responsible for career advising; Central College President Dr. William Harmon is responsible for new student orientation; Southeast President Dr. Irene Porcarello is in charge of program adjacency; and Northeast College President Dr. Margaret Ford Fisher is responsible for systemizing learning support.

HCC is also revamping its guided pathways in a collaboration with the University of Houston.

“It started with the idea of the pathways of a student being able to go through a community college and having a clear pathway into a four-year college,” says Dr.

Show More
Related
615 Words | 3 Pages

These days students seem to think that if they don’t have the highest grade they won’t be able to get the job of their choice. He also stated that a stats professor got flak for proposing a new system to recalculate the grade point averages. This proposal made it seem that students would dodge the harder classes to take easier

Read More
528 Words | 3 Pages

Would you be happy if you had received an A in your class? Do you feel that you truly learned enough to deserve that perfect A? Students who are in either high school or college are forgetting the true meaning of having knowledge and being able to learn. People think that how well they perform in the classroom will justify how well the teacher teaches their students but necessary that might not always be that way. In Brent Staples piece, “Why Colleges Shower their Students with A’s”, he argues that there must be an end to the grade Inflation and continues by examining for a possible solution by using language techniques to emphasize the main point.

Read More
499 Words | 2 Pages

By holding a three-day event, the committee members promoted the benefits of completing community college. We planned for this event for approximately two months and executed it in three days. The result was that more than 2,500 students pledged to complete college at the end of this event. Consequently, our membership rose by approximately 40%. All these accomplishments were significant achievements for our chapter as a whole and had a great impact on me.

Read More
426 Words | 2 Pages

In her article, “Two Years Are Better Than Four,” Liz Addison argues that community colleges are important because they offer the opportunity for self-discovery that so many today long for. It is commonly argued that colleges don’t have any worth because they expect students to have already gained knowledge and experience before attending. In Addison’s opinion, while this may be true for some four-year universities, community colleges don’t have such unrealistic expectations. When talking about four-year universities Addison says, “prove yourself worldly, insightful, cultured, mature, before you get to college. Yet, down at X.Y.C.C.

Read More
1092 Words | 5 Pages

The school is dedicated to student learning and academic and career success through instructional excellence and responsiveness to student, business and community needs. Their goal is to support students in the completion of an associate’s degree in preparation for transfer to institutions of higher education and in preparation for immediate employment. They support opportunities for life-long learning; career preparation, training, and advancement; and adult education including basic skills enhancement. 
 The goals of CCC's Reinvention is to drive greater degree attainment, job placement, and career advancement.

Read More
438 Words | 2 Pages

After listening to the wisdom of Husky, one can recognize that he offers valuable insights, but also provides some inaccurate information regarding academic affairs in community college. Beginning with the valuable information, he is correct when he states that the cost of community college, in both tuition and price-per-credit, is significantly lower than a four-year institution. He is also partly correct about the curriculum. For students enrolled with the intention of transferring to a four-year institution, general education courses in the liberal arts are offered that will transfer to their desired school. He explains that these liberal arts courses are generally smaller than those offered at larger schools, and provide for more interaction with the instructor – both claims are true.

Read More
1115 Words | 5 Pages

The Articles of Confederation did not provide the new nation with an effective government from 1781-1789. The Articles of Confederation was created by Benjamin Franklin and was approved by the Second Continental Congress in 1777. The purpose of the Articles of Confederation was to create a central government. The central government under the Articles consisted of the Confederation Congress, which was the only branch of government, and their job was to pass laws. Although it was a national government, it had little power over the people since it was created to be weaker than the state governments because people feared an overpowering national government.

Read More
720 Words | 3 Pages

On the contrary, in paragraphs succeeding, Addison’s tone begins to shift to hopeful and optimistic. By stating, “The philosophy of the community college…is one that unconditionally allows its students to begin. Just begin. Implicit in this belief is the understanding that anything and everything is possible,” Addison explains that in community college, students have the opportunity to accomplish anything. Furthermore, by implementing “begin,” Addison strengthens her statement that there are endless possibilities at a community college.

Read More
500 Words | 2 Pages

Each semester new students come into Blue Ridge Community College to expand their horizons. They take classes, so they will be able to graduate with an Associate’s Degree. One reason people attend Blue Ridge Community College is because they did not do well in high school and hope by attending a community college, they will have a smoother transition to a university, save money and the flexibility of class schedules. Before entering college classes, students take a placement test to determine if they are ready for college classes. Community colleges offer developmental classes in English and Math for students that did not do well on these subjects on the placement test.

Read More
541 Words | 3 Pages

Edmonds Community College and it’s employees operate many caring and unique academic and student support programs to help students to “be successful” in college courses, obtain gainful employment and transferring to universities, but in the past, Edmonds has been too busy doing the tasks involved in running programs to carefully assess and describe the powerful effectiveness of its programs. Every day, I come to work thinking of ways to improve how students gain access to information about attending college, complete a degree or certificate and secure employment or transfer to a university. I have earned two graduate degrees in School Counseling and Community Counseling. My entire professional career has been dedicated to improving the lives of people through education. In addition to my enthusiasm for working with students and the public, I am interested in collecting information and reporting on institutional processes to inform improvements in outcomes for students such as the accessibility of information, communication from college programs, fuller utilization of support programs by students and

Read More
1026 Words | 5 Pages

Revamping Community Colleges There are multiple choices to be made when going to community college. Numerous people miss out on the opportunities that community college has in store for them because colleges make it tough on students. In the article “Revamping Community College to Improve Graduation Rates” we can see how improving community college systems can dramatically change the number of students who become graduates. Revamping community college helps improve graduation rates by lowering the cost of community college, hindering the requirement of remedial classes, and helping community colleges gain a more structured environment for their students. One key reason students are not attending/graduating college is because of the cost that

Read More
180 Words | 1 Pages

The Early College High School (ECHS) model is an innovative concept that allows a predominantly low-income, first-generation minority student population obtain a high school diploma, an associate’s degree, and a baccalaureate degree in six years. The blending of instructional approaches of a traditional high school with those of a two-year college enables ECHS students to reduce the time it takes to earn a baccalaureate degree by two years. As a result, graduates of this model obtain a high school diploma and associate 's degree in four years. The associate degree credits (about 60 hours) are then transferred to a four-year university, where the ECHS student is automatically considered a junior in college, and is able to graduate with a baccalaureate

Read More
1260 Words | 6 Pages

Grade inflation is a reality throughout the United States. This means that students are being awarded with higher grades than they deserve or worked for. This phenomenon is affecting the quality of education throughout the country. Students insist on getting ‘’their money's worth’’ when it comes to receiving grades. Teachers don’t want to be nagged by students and administration for low grades.

Read More
717 Words | 3 Pages

He explains how students are able to get A 's with less effort. Universities such as Princeton, Wellesley, and Reed show how they have been able to keep grade inflation from going up. Stuart Rojstaczer 's wants people to be aware of what is happening and how it will be hard to fix it, but it is not impossible with his reasoning of

Read More
1495 Words | 6 Pages

Identifying services that predict student academic success and persistence among TRIO student is important for staff and higher education leaders at Johnston Community College. Jones and Watson (1990) noted that retention or persistence issues are critical to institutional planning and funding. Planning and funding have been greatly affected by the student retention rates. The findings from this study will also help to provide pertinent information on how to improve services that foster student success and leadership skills. This study is significant in that it will examine the factors that critically influence academic success and persistence of students enrolled in the TRIO program at Johnston Community College in Smithfield,

Read More

More about Wildly Important Goals

Related Topics

Open Document