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Monroe Community College Presentation Comments
Christie Landry
Jun, 2020
Great work in identifying disparities in student success and modifying your action plans to focus on improving student outcomes.
You mentioned a high-stakes 'rock' exam; would it satisfy the learning outcomes to have students generate research projects or presentations indicating their knowledge about these topics?
You mentioned a high-stakes 'rock' exam; would it satisfy the learning outcomes to have students generate research projects or presentations indicating their knowledge about these topics?
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Heather Macdonald
Jun, 2020
Great that you have so many majors - and I'm interested about what you wrote about re transfer - that some stay local and some transfer to schools in Arizona and Colorado? That seems unusual - do you think that's a result of the field trips you lead? Do you have some schools that provide especially good transfer pathways?
Agree with Christie above - re shifting the focus of your action plan to focus on improving student success rates. .
Agree with Christie above - re shifting the focus of your action plan to focus on improving student success rates. .
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Eric Baer
Jun, 2020
Wow. What courage to face that data ead on, and you did a beautiful job of "owning" it.
I wonder if you can get any socio-economic or age data that would be helpful. For instance, could that help guide you to some strategies (like using OERs) that might be helpful. THis info is often available.
I wonder if you can get any socio-economic or age data that would be helpful. For instance, could that help guide you to some strategies (like using OERs) that might be helpful. THis info is often available.
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Jacqueline Richard
Jun, 2020
First, I LOVE that you have a National Parks course! That is literally my dream course to teach!
More importantly, I appreciate that you are taking a hard look at repackaging your course content to make it more directly meaningful to student's lives. I think that is a hard look to take at ourselves and a big task to undertake, but an incredibly important one.
One question I have, simply because we are in a similar situation with dual enrollment students (and our primary education is very poor in Louisiana), do you have any success rate data for those students? I'm wondering if the large disparity between African American success rates and White success rates goes back farther into the primary system, and if some sort of remedial intervention could be useful? We are starting to employ our teachers and tutors to High School seniors to help them buff up Math and Sciences, because that is generally where our state is failing.
More importantly, I appreciate that you are taking a hard look at repackaging your course content to make it more directly meaningful to student's lives. I think that is a hard look to take at ourselves and a big task to undertake, but an incredibly important one.
One question I have, simply because we are in a similar situation with dual enrollment students (and our primary education is very poor in Louisiana), do you have any success rate data for those students? I'm wondering if the large disparity between African American success rates and White success rates goes back farther into the primary system, and if some sort of remedial intervention could be useful? We are starting to employ our teachers and tutors to High School seniors to help them buff up Math and Sciences, because that is generally where our state is failing.
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Holly Kilvitis
Jun, 2020
I really thought your presentation was clear, very informative and super easy to follow! I also really liked the names of some of your Intro Geology courses and the fact that you included transgender data for your school.
As far as the low success rate of black students in your program, does your failure rate include "W" grades? It would be interesting to try and see whether the low success rate of black students is due to high "W" rates, or actually receiving a failing grade, as this information may help to implement different strategies for improving their success in these courses.
Graet job!
As far as the low success rate of black students in your program, does your failure rate include "W" grades? It would be interesting to try and see whether the low success rate of black students is due to high "W" rates, or actually receiving a failing grade, as this information may help to implement different strategies for improving their success in these courses.
Graet job!
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Robert Evans
Jun, 2020
Thank you for sharing a detailed account of demographics for your college. Moreover, I am very impressed that your college not only accounts for male and female students but also transgender students as well. Great presentation overall!
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Dan Ferandez
Jun, 2020
It looks like you have a nice number of Geology & associated courses at your college. Did I read right that you had dual nrollment students (colege/ high school)? If so do you have success rates for that group? Thanks -
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Anthony Santorelli
Jun, 2020
I love the different strategies that you have for the two issues of low enrollment and major equity gaps among African Americans in GEO101. They are all easy to implement and very clearly defined. I think that some ways in which you can build a sense of belonging is through perhaps establishing a student club for geosciences in which students can plan events to promote geology and enjoy it with each other. For the surveying you mentioned with why students enrolled in the course and how they were able to succeed, maybe short videos of those students sharing this can be posted on social media or on a course or department web page to attract other students. I feel that students delivering the message to other students can be very powerful!
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Katherine Keough
Jun, 2020
I really liked how you identified 'pressure points', or areas in the course where you see the most attrition, in order to address assessment tools. It makes me want to look at my own course to do the same!
We've had a lot of success with our Earth Science club - do you have one or something similar? It sounds like incorporating some of those 'urban geology' topics might be of interest to your target demographic and encourage a more diverse enrollment.
We've had a lot of success with our Earth Science club - do you have one or something similar? It sounds like incorporating some of those 'urban geology' topics might be of interest to your target demographic and encourage a more diverse enrollment.
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Seth Miller
Jun, 2020
I like your idea of putting geology in context with your specific location and students' lives. I think that will really help with interest and excitement in the course.
Have you thought about incorporating assignments or activities related to geologists who are underrepresented minorities? I start each class with a slide highlighting a scientist from an underrepresented demographic, and some of us also incorporate assignments where students choose one of those scientists and write a research paper about their lives and accomplishments. We've had great feedback about those assignments, and highlighting underrepresented scientists pays dividends for both the white students and the non-white students.
Have you thought about incorporating assignments or activities related to geologists who are underrepresented minorities? I start each class with a slide highlighting a scientist from an underrepresented demographic, and some of us also incorporate assignments where students choose one of those scientists and write a research paper about their lives and accomplishments. We've had great feedback about those assignments, and highlighting underrepresented scientists pays dividends for both the white students and the non-white students.
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Jessica Barone
Jun, 2020
We likely could satisfy learning outcomes with projects or presentations. Honestly, we, especially me, struggle with moving away from traditional Physical Geology assessment methods, especially in labs.
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Jessica Barone
Jun, 2020
Our dual enrollment course in geology is Dangerous Earth (Natural Disasters). We have not separated out that data, it is included within the data for Dangerous Earth, since technically those students are MCC students (just taking the course by a qualified high school teacher within high school). There may be a way to separate out those students.
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Jessica Barone
Jun, 2020
I would say that almost all, if not all, of the students we've had who head to a transfer school out west have taken our Field Studies in Geology course. This course has focused on different locations including the Yellowstone region, the Colorado Plateau, the Colorado Rockies, northern California, and the Grand Canyon. Amanda and I co-teach the Yellowstone and Colorado Plateau courses.
We've had students go to New Mexico Tech, Arizona State U, University of Arizona … off the top of my head :)
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Jessica Barone
Jun, 2020
While we were discussing our Geo majors with Eric and Heather, which was not an original focus of our project or data collection, we mentioned how we have many female majors and have had many transgender majors, relative to our overall number of majors, over the last handful of years that the degree has existed. It sounds like, based on feedback from a few folks, that including transgender data is not common, yet.
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