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Leadership Team

The ATD Leadership team originally consisted of the six administrators and faculty who saw the need for Achieving the Dream at our institution and worked to make DACC an Achieving the Dream school. After the Data team was created, the Leadership team expanded to include three more administrators and faculty for a current total of nine members. This team meets to discuss the overarching goals of our student success agenda at DACC, how our interventions are progressing and what can be done to improve any part of an intervention that may not be working.

Data Team

Purpose: Act as a data resource to move the college forward in meeting our student success agenda. This includes:

Define Key Performance Indicators (to establish common goals for college/all teams).
Provide data perspectives that will help data users re-frame policies and procedures as needed.
Gather/Provide consistent data pulls for interventions.
Develop a calendar of data reports (for the college to utilize) to reduce redundancy of data requests.
As the Data Team reviews the data, pertinent information will be funneled to the ATD Leadership team and/or individual teams when appropriate.

Data Team Minutes

2019

November 8, 2019
October 3, 2019
September 5, 2019
May 7, 2019
April 2, 2019
February 5, 2019

2018

November 27, 2018
February 8, 2018

2017

December 13, 2017
November 8, 2017
May 5, 2017
March 3, 2017

2016

October 18, 2016
August 18, 2016
May 10, 2016
March 8, 2016

2015

December 3, 2015
September 18, 2015
August 15, 2015
July 24, 2015
April 30, 2015
March 26, 2015
January 9, 2015

2014

December 11, 2014
November 13, 2014

Equity and Inclusion Sub Team

Mission: The DACC Achieving the Dream Equity and Inclusion Team shall create a systematic approach to providing an equitable and inclusive environment for all students. The Team shall be a leveraging team for other groups to help interventions in terms of how to close achievement gaps and shall provide expertise to create professional development and training to move forward to a more equitable and inclusive environment at the College.

Equity and Inclusion Sub Team

2019

December 4, 2019
March 6, 2019
February 13, 2019
January 10, 2019

2018

September 5, 2018
February 28, 2018
January 10, 2018

2017

October 5, 2017
June 14, 2017
May 10, 2017
April 12, 2017
March 8, 2017
January 11, 2017

2016

December 13, 2016
November 15, 2016
October 18, 2016
September 20, 2016
February 17, 2016

2015

December 3, 2015
November 18, 2015
October 21, 2015
September 16, 2015
August 19, 2015
May 12, 2015
April 15, 2015
March 18, 2015
February 18, 2015
January, 21, 2015

2014

November 24, 2014
October 27, 2014
September 29, 2014
August 12, 2014

Student Experience Team

The ATD Student Experience Team is charged with improving the series of interactions between students and the College. The student experience starts when prospective students first make a connection to DACC and it continues through to the student's exit. Throughout this complex journey, students interact with college personnel (faculty, staff, advisors, etc.), college structures and systems (i.e., placement testing, registration, financial aid), and college policies (i.e., transfer-in credit policy, residency). Each of these interactions makes an impact on whether students will continue on in their studies toward successful completion or whether they will drop out along the way. The Student Experience Team reviews student persistence, retention, and graduation data to determine areas in need of improvement. Process mapping is one tool used to help the team determine value added versus non-value added steps. Recent and current projects include the Mentoring Program and Front-Line Services' training. All staff are encouraged to join the SET!

Student Experience Team Minutes

2020

January 23, 2020

2019

November 21, 2019
September 12, 2019
July 18, 2019
June 20, 2019

2018

September 2018
August 2018

2016

September 2016
August 2016
May 2016
March 2016

2015

December 2015
October 2015
September 2015
August 2015
July 2015
May 2015
April 2015
March 2015
February 2015

2014

November 2014

Teaching and Learning Sub Team

The Teaching and Learning focus area is comprised of administrators and faculty on campus who are committed to finding ways to engage students within the classroom environment. The focus of this group is to provide evidence based professional development. The Teaching and Learning team designs two Teaching Excellence Academy per year with offer the faculty a venue to learn evidence based best practices and to share their successful learning strategies and new teaching techniques with one another in an effort to expose different academic areas on campus to a variety of best practices.

Teaching and Learning Sub Team Minutes