2019-20 Unit Plan
Supplemental Instruction

Mission Statement

Butte College�s Supplemental Instruction (SI) Program is designed to build peer-led academic support communities of higher-level thinkers and self-empowered learners. This self-selecting, course-specific, peer-led academic support program seeks to promote active, collaborative learning involving critical thinking and transferrable study skills.  Its efforts are aimed at improving the retention rate of students enrolled in the SI-linked courses and helping students pass these courses at a higher rate.

Program Description

Supplemental Instruction (SI) is an academic enrichment program that is offered in historically challenging courses (high rate of D, F, and withdrawals). SI is a core support service offered in the Center for Academic Success (CAS). SI is designed to supplement � not replace � class lectures. SI discussion and review sessions are facilitated by trained student SI Leaders who have already completed the course. SI sessions are interactive and collaborative. Students who attend sessions learn to integrate how to learn with what to learn. It's a chance for classmates to get together outside of class to compare notes, to discuss important concepts, and to develop strategies for studying the subject in a structured environment.

Student Learning/Administrative Unit Outcomes (Optional)

The SI program does not currently have the resources to obtain and reflect on SI SLO's. With the hope of more resources available for the SI program in the future, SLO's would be able to assessed and reflected upon.

Standards/Goals for Student Achievement (Instruction Departments) (Optional)

Standards/Goals for Student Achievement (All Other Departments) (Optional)

Supplemental Instruction data has consistantly shown students who attend SI have higher rates of success in SI supported classes than those who do not attend SI. SI helps the college obtain student achievement standards by increasing completion rates and helping students transfer.

Strategic Direction (Optional)

Program Review (Optional)

Spring 2015 was our last program review in CAS. Recommendations include:

CHC and GCC support: Due to lack of resources, the program hasn't been able to expand SI course offerings at off-site locations. With the addition of a support staff person, this would allow the coordinator time to travel between campus locations to work with both the faculty and SI Leader.

Online support: We piloted face-to-face tutoring for two online biology courses during the fall 2017 semester. We also provided online tutoring for these classes as well. Due to low usage for both modalities of providing support, we have discontinued providing this type of support for online courses. Net Tutor has proved to be a good resource for students.

Broader marketing: We'd like to provide more outreach to students on the dashboard who were not utilizing SI resources. Again, lack of resources has not allowed this to happen.

Department Goals


Grow the SI program (an additional LRS & more SI Leaders) to help meet the needs of students and provide SI support to more sections on campus (specific to AB705 faculty/department requests)
Continue to partner with participating faculty to improve the selection of quality leaders, delivery of program and increase attendance at weekly sessions.
Continue to work with department chairs and faculty to target courses for SI linkage according to need, enrollment and diversity of disciplines.
Provide an active, engaging environment for students in SI sessions that is relaxe, inclusive and conducive to greater understanding of and appreciation of course material.
Reinforce course material and instill leadership abilities and potential amoung the student SI Leaders.

Future Development Strategies

Strategy 1 - Special Programs Clerk to support SI Program

This includes hiring a full-time Special Programs Clerk (11 months) to provide support for the Supplemental Instruction Program.

Initiatives

Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Goal Achievement
Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
Enhancing a Culture of Equity and Inclusiveness

Supporting Rationale

With the state-wide implementation of AB705, there is a critical need for additional Supplemental Instruction (SI) at Butte College to support math. The math department has added 40+ Math 18 - Statistics courses to the fall 2019 schedule and the math dpeartment has requested SI support for all of these courses. There is a high need for support with the expansion of the SI program on campus.

A SI specific Special Programs Clerk would do the following:

Assist with the hiring and scheduling of SI Leaders for multiple sections of math
Perform variety of clerical requests
Provides program information as needed
Maintains timesheets for SI Leaders
Correspondence (verbal & written)
Assists SI Leaders with planning & execution of study sessions
Reschedules SI sessions as needed
Promotes SI
Maintains calendars
Assists CAS faculty & math faculty as needed
Creates marketing material & reports as needed
Maintains files
Assists with data

Supporting Rationale Alignment
Supports Previous Program Review Recommendations: Yes
Supports Changes from Student Learning Outcomes Assessment: No
Supports Meeting Standards and Goals for Student Achievement: Yes
Improving Student Achievement: Yes
Addressing Strategies Identified by the Department Learning Outcomes Reports: No
Addressing Outstanding Program Review Recommendations: No
Supporting the College's Strategic Direction and Priorities: Yes

Strategy 2 - Classroom/Study space for SI sessions

More classroom space is needed to hold SI sessions.

Initiatives

Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Goal Achievement
Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
Enhancing a Culture of Equity and Inclusiveness

Supporting Rationale

Due to the high demand of SI, study sessions for large lectures have higher attendance (15-35 students per session) so bigger classrooms are needed to hold SI sessions. Currently in CAS, there are only 3 classrooms large enough for bigger sessions and one of these is shared with EOPS/Power Center. This makes it challenging to schedule several study sessions during peak hours (10am-2pm). Additionally, many students like to attend SI sessions in the evening at the Chico Center. Space is limited at the CHC as well between 6-9pm. It is difficult to increase SI support to large lecture classes when there is no where to hold SI sessions for students. More classroom space needs to be made available in order to increase the amount of courses with SI support.

We currently are working with department admin. assistants to schedule sessions outside of CAS. With an increased number of SI Leaders and SI sessions a week, more classroom and study space will be needed to meet the demands of the program.

For the spring 2019 semester, we currently have 18 SI Leaders holding 85 SI sessions a week. Some sessions occur outside of CAS and at the Chico Center. When the SI program doubles, we will need more places to hold the increased number of study sessions a week.

Supporting Rationale Alignment
Supports Previous Program Review Recommendations: Yes
Supports Changes from Student Learning Outcomes Assessment: No
Supports Meeting Standards and Goals for Student Achievement: Yes
Improving Student Achievement: No
Addressing Strategies Identified by the Department Learning Outcomes Reports: No
Addressing Outstanding Program Review Recommendations: No
Supporting the College's Strategic Direction and Priorities: No

Strategy 3 - Additional LRS support for Supplemental Instruction (SI)

An additional LRS is required to grow the SI program, educate faculty and students of the services provided at all Butte College locations, and oversee the highly-utilized workshops, SI and other services provided by CAS.

Initiatives

Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Goal Achievement
Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
Enhancing a Culture of Equity and Inclusiveness

Supporting Rationale

WIth the implementation of AB705 at Butte College, the math department has requested SI support for all of their Math 18 courses. An additional LRS will be needed to help manage the SI program.

SI has been proven to be a key indicator of success with students. According to the "Here and Gone: 2016-2017 Enrollment Cluster Analysis" presentation by the Office of Planning, Reserach, and Organizational Development 9/14/17, enrollment in EDUC 310 is a significant predictor of student persistance across all clusters of the sample population. Students enrolled in EDUC 310 can access a variety of CAS services that support their success and completion, and persistance. At their core, CAS services help students develop academic confidence and the ability to identify and access availability of resources at Butte College and beyond. All the services and training of employees in CAS are built upon development of independant, transferrable skills in students and in the creation of a welcoming, productive academic environment to support students throughout their time at Butte College.

According to qualitative data collected in the "Completers and Leavers 2016" survey, use of CAS, along with SI, was one of the most-often reported strategies of successful completers. In additional completers' feedback, the report stated their input was "highly positive towards CAS."

Supporting Rationale Alignment
Supports Previous Program Review Recommendations: No
Supports Changes from Student Learning Outcomes Assessment: No
Supports Meeting Standards and Goals for Student Achievement: Yes
Improving Student Achievement: No
Addressing Strategies Identified by the Department Learning Outcomes Reports: No
Addressing Outstanding Program Review Recommendations: No
Supporting the College's Strategic Direction and Priorities: Yes

Strategy 4 - Hire SI Leaders

Additional SI Leaders will need to be hired, trainied and supervisied in order to meet the requests by faculty for increase in SI support.

Initiatives

Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
Enhancing a Culture of Equity and Inclusiveness

Supporting Rationale

The current budget for CAS doesn't include an increase in SI Leaders (student assist funds). In order to meet the demands of AB705, more SI Leaders will need to be hired.

Requested Non-Financial Resources

Additional large classroom space is necessary to fully support SI at the main campus and at the CHC. There is a need for evening space particularly as students highly utilize general CAS services as well as SI in the evening and these are conflicting needs for our CHC 230 space. The program could effectively use space at the Skyway Center, if available.

The Physical Science department has asked if the SI Program would like classroom space in the new building. We hope to be included on future planning discussions for the potential for SI space in a different building outside of the CAS space. This would allow for more large lecture classes to be supported.

Current Financial Resources

We have tried other funding sources and have been unsuccessful.

Augmentation Requests

Original Priority	Program, Unit, Area	Resource Type	Account Number	Object Code	One Time Augment	Ongoing Augment
Description	Supporting Rationale		Potential Alternative Funding Sources		Prioritization Criteria
1	Supplemental Instruction	Personnel			$0.00	$137,000.00
Learning Resource Specialist	WIth the implementation of AB705 at Butte College, the math department has requested SI support for all of their Math 18 courses. An additional LRS will be needed to help manage the SI program. SI has been proven to be a key indicator of success with students. According to the "Here and Gone: 2016-2017 Enrollment Cluster Analysis" presentation by the Office of Planning, Reserach, and Organizational Development 9/14/17, enrollment in EDUC 310 is a significant predictor of student persistance across all clusters of the sample population. Students enrolled in EDUC 310 can access a variety of CAS services that support their success and completion, and persistance. At their core, CAS services help students develop academic confidence and the ability to identify and access availability of resources at Butte College and beyond. All the services and training of employees in CAS are built upon development of independant, transferrable skills in students and in the creation of a welcoming, productive academic environment to support students throughout their time at Butte College. According to qualitative data collected in the "Completers and Leavers 2016" survey, use of CAS, along with SI, was one of the most-often reported strategies of successful completers. In additional completers' feedback, the report stated their input was "highly positive towards CAS."				Meeting Standards and Goals for Student Achievement Maintaining ongoing operations at current levels (excludes grants) Implementing AB 705 Meeting student achievement goals Fostering a Culture of Inclusiveness
2	Supplemental Instruction (SI) Program	Personnel	11.000.750.1.611000	52120	$0.00	$67,000.00
Special Programs Clerk	With the state-wide implementation of AB705, there is a critical need for additional Supplemental Instruction (SI) at Butte College to support math. The math department has added 40+ Math 18 - Statistics courses to the fall 2019 schedule and the math dpeartment has requested SI support for all of these courses. There is a high need for support with the expansion of the SI program on campus. A SI specific Special Programs Clerk would do the following: Assist with the hiring and scheduling of SI Leaders for multiple sections of math Perform variety of clerical requests Provides program information as needed Maintains timesheets for SI Leaders Correspondence (verbal & written) Assists SI Leaders with planning & execution of study sessions Reschedules SI sessions as needed Promotes SI Maintains calendars Assists CAS faculty & math faculty as needed Creates marketing material & reports as needed Maintains files Assists with data				Meeting Standards and Goals for Student Achievement Implementing AB 705 Meeting student achievement goals Fostering a Culture of Inclusiveness
3	Classroom space for SI sessions	Facilities			$0.00	$0.00
Due to the growth and increasing attendance of SI sessions, additional classroom space is needed on the main campus and outlying centers.	Due to the high demand of SI, study sessions for large lectures have higher attendance (15-35 students per session) so bigger classrooms are needed to hold SI sessions. Currently in CAS, there are only 3 classrooms large enough for bigger sessions and one of these is shared with EOPS/Power Center. This makes it challenging to schedule several study sessions during peak hours (10am-2pm). Additionally, many students like to attend SI sessions in the evening at the Chico Center. Space is limited at the CHC as well between 6-9pm. It is difficult to increase SI support to large lecture classes when there is no where to hold SI sessions for students. More classroom space needs to be made available in order to increase the amount of courses with SI support. We currently are working with department admin. assistants to schedule sessions outside of CAS. With an increased number of SI Leaders and SI sessions a week, more classroom and study space will be needed to meet the demands of the program. For the spring 2019 semester, we currently have 18 SI Leaders holding 85 SI sessions a week. Some sessions occur outside of CAS and at the Chico Center. When the SI program doubles, we will need more places to hold the increased number of study sessions a week.				Maintaining ongoing operations at current levels (excludes grants) Meeting Standards and Goals for Student Achievement Implementing AB 705
4	Supplemental Instruction	Personnel			$0.00	$150,000.00
Increase student assistant budget for SI Leaders	In order to expand the SI program, additional student assistant funds will be needed.				Implementing AB 705 Meeting student achievement goals Fostering a Culture of Inclusiveness Meeting Standards and Goals for Student Achievement
5	Supplemental Instruction	Equipment			$5,000.00	$0.00
New computers and a printer to support SI program expansion	With the implementation of AB705, three more computers and a printer will be needed for the SI office area for the new LRS, Special Programs Clerk and SI Leaders.				Implementing AB 705 Meeting Standards and Goals for Student Achievement