San Antonio College's "Strategies for Success" (Strategies) program is an intensive counseling/classroom intervention designed to assist students in academic difficulty. The program includes eight weeks of classroom instruction in personal responsibility, learning styles, study skills, life skills, critical thinking skills, motivation and concentration, goal setting, research skills, career exploration, and managing personal issues.
Institution:
San Antonio College
Academic Level:
Community College
Issue Area:
Retention
Year:
2006
Designation:
Examples of Excelencia
Designation:
Finalist
Key Personnel:
Wallis, Dehlia
Address:
San Antonio College
Address 2:
1300 San Pedro Ave
Address 3:
Moody Learning Center
City:
San Antonio
State:
TX
Zip:
78212-4299 Website:
Goal/Mission:
Each semester at SAC, approximately 3,000 students are placed on some type of scholastic probation, and may lose their financial aid or be asked to withdraw if they are unable to raise their grade point average (GPA). The goal of Strategies for Success is to reverse this trend.
Outcome:
By the end of Fall 2005, Strategies for Success participants had grown to 632 students a semester, and the program had served a 2001-2005 total of 4,974 students, 65% of whom, or 3233, were Hispanic. Hispanic Strategies completers showed an increase of .404 in their average GPA, from 1.441 to 1.845, from Fall 2001 through Fall 2005. The semester-to-semester retention for this high-risk group from 2001 to 2005 was over 60%, compared to the 45% semester-to-semester retention rate for all scholastic withdrawal students before Strategies was initiated. Completers of Strategies for Success have shown substantial improvement in all areas assessed by the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) every semester of the program.
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