Worksheet opening activity: Begin ASAP Whats your aspirational goal for STEM reform at your institution and at scale? Its educational outcomes (name 5) andor Most important reformed practices, facilities, cultural change? (name 5)
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Worksheet – opening activity: Begin ASAP What’s your aspirational goal for STEM reform at your institution and at scale?
Its educational outcomes (name 5) and/or
Most important reformed practices, facilities, cultural change? (name 5+)
What’s standing in the way of that vision? The most immovable barriers?
Other barriers that could be lowered if enough people got together and pushed? ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com 1<br>
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Improving Institutional Outcomes: Quality, Equitable Access, and Affordability: A Co-Requisite for Transforming STEM Education
Stephen C. Ehrmann, Ph.D., Independent scholar and consultant
ASCN Transforming Institutions conference, June 12, 2023 My 52nd wedding anniversary<br>
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Outline First 20 minutes: quick explanation of one case history, develop concepts useful for an institution interested in 3fold gains
You’ll apply some of those concepts to identify your institution’s current assets for pursuing 3fold gains. (30 minutes)
Open discussion – questions, suggestions
Plus a post-workshop activity ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com 3<br>
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My research over the last seven years ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com Is it possible for a university to improve its quality of learning, equitable access, and affordability – simultaneously? (to make “3fold gains”)
How can an institution today make 3fold gains? What strengths need it have.
How have some institutions developed these capabilities over the years? 4<br>
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Six Case Histories ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com 5<br>
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Georgia State Case History In 2003, 20,000 students on this Atlanta campus (24,000 now).
Only 32% of White students, and only 26% of African American students, entering GSU in 1997 graduated from GSU within six years.
Only 50% of African American students made it to sophomore year.
Pell-eligible students also succeeded at far lower rates than non-Pell. ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com Slide 6<br>
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Initiatives’ cumulative impact on graduation rates ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com Slide 7 Growth of GSU “constellation”
Each initiative was planned to be sustainable at scale.
Each initiative continued through at least 2019.<br>
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Beating Heart of GSU’s Pursuit of 3fold Gains (1) ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com Learning-centered changes in educational strategies, such as First Year Learning Community (HIP), ePortfolios (HIP), … (quality)
These same practices also:
Improve retention, graduation rates, and speed to graduation (equitable access)
Thereby improving affordability for students, others…
… and earning budget increases for the university: +$3M/yr from each percentage point gain in graduation rates. (affordability) 8 Questions? Objections?<br>
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Beating Heart of GSU’s Approach (2): ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com Educational strategies necessary but not sufficient
Also needed:
Clean up and centralize data (Organizational Foundation)
Coordinate the work through a student success office with high level reports to two VPs (Org Fdn)
Build a national reputation for student success, influencing hiring, grants, etc. (Wider World)
Key: Many of these realignments make STEM reform more feasible (and other learning-centered initiatives, too) 9<br>
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Three Domains of Georgia State’s “constellation” ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com 10 Working assumption: the three domains are of equal importance for sustainable institutional pursuit of 3fold gains (transformation).<br>
Compelling institutional goals
Quality of learning (effective, essential learning outcomes), including STEM reform outcomes.
Equitable Access (inc STEM)
Stakeholder affordability, esp. students (ditto) Constellation of means for achieving these goals aligned across three domains
Educational Strategies (institutional patterns of T&L, including STEM reform)
Organizational foundations (e.g., institution’s culture, services, infrastructure)
Interactions of the institution with its wider world (e.g., recruiting new students, QEP) 13 ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com A new way to improve quality, access, and affordability.<br>
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Workshop Activity: Your Institution’s Current Assets for 3fold Gains ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com 14 If you finish early, list barriers to 3fold gains or STEM reform within these three domains<br>
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In a Nutshell Some institutions have found (similar) ways to improve their quality of learning, equitable access, and affordability.
They can use their achievements and aspirations to gain a distinctive edge
Accomplishing these goals requires:
Paying equal attention to educational strategies, organizational foundations, and wider world interactions
Dividing attention in order to create coalitions around low-hanging fruit – specific constellation elements that would be easiest and most rewarding to change soon. ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com 15<br>
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Resources To buy book at 30% off from Stylus, use code STY30.
https://bit.ly/3fold-Stylus (ask your library to add it to their collection)
Resource handout. https://bit.ly/3foldresource
Articles, for example, on using tech to help institution pursue 3fold gains
more info about the book
videos
definitions
updated info from Georgia State
Research summary: why it’s urgent for colleges and universities to pursue 3fold gains: https://bit.ly/3foldevidence
Stay in touch. ehrmannsteve@gmail.com;
http://3foldgains.net coming soon ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com 16<br>
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Reactions? Questions? Discussion? It takes a village . . .
—Possibly an African proverb
All for one, one for all
— Alexander Dumas’
Things take time . . .
— Poem in Piet Hein’s Grooks
Know what to leave out.
—Dan Jenkins, sportswriter ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com 17 These slides and the handout are available on the conference website.<br>
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The End ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com 18<br>
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EXTRA SLIDES ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com 19<br>
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The old way to improve an institution’s:
Quality of learning
Equitable Access
Stakeholder affordability, esp. students Mostly uncoordinated, small-scale, and short term… Mostly uncoordinated, small-scale, and short-term initiatives, each with a different quality goal, all clamoring for attention and support Financial aid. Mostly uncoordinated budget cuts. Don’t spend (much) more than your budget. Initiatives typically have local def’n of goals (e.g., quality of my syllabus) ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com<br>
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Paradigms Influence Practices. Institutions are Beginning to shift allegiance from the Instruction Paradigm and toward the Learning Paradigm. ASCN 2023 - ehrmannsteve@gmail.com 21 The paradigm shift is discussed in depth in Chapter 6 of the book<br>
