Faculty from the California Acceleration Project complete the thought “Acceleration means to me…” Footage from the January 2012 gathering of the Community of Practice in Acceleration.
Acceleration News: May 2012
Just Released: The Newsletter of the California Acceleration Project In this issue: > New colleges joining CAP’s Community of Practice in Acceleration > How colleges from last year’s Community of Practice are scaling up and going public > Spotlight on Citrus College’s curricular transformation: integrating reading and writing and reducing the total number of developmental [...]
UC Articulation Issue Resolved for Los Medanos’ Path2Stats
Path Cleared for Accelerated Pre-Statistics Courses April 12 2012 – The University of California Office of the President has informed Los Medanos College that it will not revoke transfer articulation of the college’s statistics course, reversing an earlier action it had taken against the college. The move by UC opens the way for other community [...]
Spotlight on Curricular Transformation
Shortening the Pipeline, Integrating Reading and Writing. Article by Katie Hern. Before: With 3 levels of developmental reading and 3 levels of developmental writing, a Citrus College student who blew the placement test could spend a year and a half and take a total of 18 remedial units before he even got to college English. [...]
CAP faculty member wins Teacher of the Year Award
Jeanne Costello, leader of the Fullerton College English team in this year’s CAP Community of Practice, has been awarded her college’s “Teacher of the Year” award. In the teaching philosophy statement submitted for the award, Costello captures much of what accelerated developmental education is about — from a relational approach to working with students, to [...]
Katie Hern Addresses National Association of Latino Elected Officials
“Increasing Community College Students’ Completion: Toward an Action Agenda for Legislators, Policy Makers, and System Leaders” This 40-minute video captures Katie Hern’s speech at the NALEO California Statewide Policy Institute on Higher Education Success and Completion, March 9, 2012. In it, she demonstrates that long remedial sequences in English and Math are responsible for weeding [...]
Dissertation at SF State Studies Successful Pre-Stats Course
As part of her doctoral studies in Educational Leadership, Pamela Mery conducted an in-depth, mixed methods study of one college piloting an open-access accelerated pre-Statistics course in California (the program’s pseudonym: StatMode). “Overall, 86% of the StatMode cohort successfully completed the two-course sequence, earning a C or higher in transfer-level statistics. This sequence completion rate [...]
New York Times article: Colleges Misassign Many to Remedial Classes
February 28, 2012 This New York Times article focuses on recent studies by the Community College Research Center showing that placement tests often misassign capable students to into remedial courses, a high-stakes decision that has significant impact on their educational progress. Read more…
