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Colleagues:

Thank you for participating in Lane’s second conference focused on our strategic directions. The Progression and Completion Conference on January 21, 2011, was an opportunity for all of us across the college to continue the conversation about student success, progression and completion and how we can improve on our current work to support this goal. We had 140 participants present in person at the CML of which approximately 50% were faculty, 30% managers and 20% classified staff. In addition to those attending in person, we had 400 participants through the live webcast and blog. Thanks to Dean Middleton and his team.

Dr. Cliff Adelman presented three big pieces of work: Toolbox Revisited, Moving into Town and Moving On, and The Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP). It was a lot of information to absorb in one day but we will continue to study Dr. Adelman’s research and it will inform our work over the next 2-3 years. You can find Dr. Adelman’s PowerPoints and other resources at http://2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/studentsuccess/conference1-20.html. This page also contains links to other initiatives and committees on campus that relate to student progression and completion.

As I said at the conference, I am asking that you engage with this work in several ways:
1. Bring the information to your department/division meeting and see if there is one concrete action that can be taken to improve our systems, practices to support student progression and completion.
2. Bring the information to your committee meetings (Assessment, Curriculum Committee, Title III, etc) and identify areas of improvement.
3. Continue our individual and collective learning by going back to the studies and forming study groups within your committee structures to continue to study the implications of Adelman’s research for our systems and practice. Adelman’s data essays and reports can be found on the student success website, under resources, at http://2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/studentsuccess/resources.html.

You may be aware that there is a group of about 50 individuals who are participating in a 12-hour immersion study series. The group has met twice and Session III is scheduled for next week on February 8th, Tuesday, from 2:00 to 3:50 p.m. The details of this study series can be found at http://2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/studentsuccess/immersion.html. I invite you to expand this group by joining us next week. The remaining dates scheduled for the study series are.

February 8th, 2-4 p.m. in CML 214
March 1st, 2-4 p.m. in CML 214
April 5th, 2-4 p.m. in CML 214
May 10th, 2-4 p.m. in CML 214

Please let Anna Kate Malliris (mallirisa@lanecc.edu or 541/463-5120) know if you are planning to attend one or all of these sessions so we can change rooms if necessary.

Thanks
Sonya