Academy for College Excellence (ACE)
Academy for College Excellence (ACE) brings students who are unprepared for college and the workforce into community college, and gives them the opportunity to reevaluate their educational experience, using a unique combination of methods, some of which are based on corporate executive training models not usually found in academic programs. Started at Cabrillo College at its Watsonville campus serving over 90% Latino students, the ACE Program currently has seven programs at community colleges across the nation.
Institution:
Cabrillo College
Academic Level:
Associate
Issue Area:
Academic Program
Issue Area:
Transfer
Year:
2011
Designation:
Examples of Excelencia
Designation:
Finalist
Key Personnel:
Navarro, Diego James
Address:
6500 Soquel Drive
City:
Aptos
State:
CA
Zip:
95003 Website:
Goal/Mission:
ACE is a semester-long program that aims to bring underprepared and Latino students up to college level performance quickly. It offers students an opportunity to bypass some of the lengthy remedial process, which helps to develop their identity as successful college students. The ACE program addresses self-efficacy and affective issues that hold students back and helps students adopt more effective classroom behavior. The cohort-based ACE model incorporated integrated coursework, community based social justice primary research, experiential pedagogy, peer student support, strength-based learning, and teamwork.
Outcome:
During the two years after the ACE bridge semester, ACE's high-risk Latino students at Cabrillo College were more likely to enroll the semester following the bridge semester, more likely to accrue college credits, and more likely than a comparison group to complete associate degree-level and transfer-level English. These accelerated English students were 30% more likely to persist for the next two semesters, 97% more likely to pass transfer level English, and earned about 21 more college credits than the comparison group.
Notes:
This program was also honored in 2007 as an Example of Excelencia Honorable Mention.
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