Dates: October 1, 2023 - June 30, 2028
Award Amount: $600,000/yr
The UPREACH grant prioritizes Hispanic, Latine, and Chicano/a/x students by uniting PCC's resources with culturally relevant and identity-affirming programming to empower and accelerate completion for these groups and other minoritized populations.
The UPREACH Grant will:
- Unify PCC’s career, academic, and social advising infrastructure so students receive consistent and holistic supports. Establish triage procedures to connect students with appropriate services, improve communications to provide early/intrusive messaging.
- Interweave instruction and “career” in high-demand courses, foster Hispanic/Latine students’ vocational identity, and create robust calendar of career and financial wellness related events.
- Elevate Student Voice: Equipo students will serve as peer researchers to inform decision making both in the project and college-wide.
- Establish an HSI Strategic Initiatives Team to provide direction and leadership and launch a faculty-student Participatory Action Research community focused on issues of access, retention, success, and engagement.
- Work with providers to unify our current technologies and build a single campus-wide customer relationship management system (CRM) to provide a student-friendly, seamless solution.
- Work with students, faculty, staff to access and utilize the CRM to ensure Hispanic/Latine students benefits from this streamlined technology
UPREACH
Project Goals
- Academic Programs: Strengthen academic and career alignment through a unified approach that honors the role of faculty in students’ vocational identity development. Foster servingness among PCC faculty and encourage faculty-student connections to increase Hispanic/Latine students' sense of belonging.
- Institutional Management: Develop a unified approach to personalized care by bringing key academic, career, and social support services into a networked Success Team coaching model.
- Fiscal Stability: Increase student outcomes and close equity gaps to ensure alignment with state-mandated performance-based funding focused on student equity and student success.
Competitive Preference Priority 2: Increase postsecondary education access, affordability, completion, and post-enrollment success by setting Hispanic/Latine students up for success
Project Objectives
By September 30, 2028, PCC will increase
- Increase Hispanic/Latine student enrollment from 14,176 (2021-22 baseline) to 15,000
- Increase Hispanic/Latine student retention from 78.4% (2021-22 baseline) to 85%
- Increase Hispanic/Latine student overall course success rates from 59.5% (2021-22 baseline) to 65%
- Increase Hispanic/Latine student completion of transfer-level English in the first year from 47% (2021-22 baseline) to 55%
- Increase Hispanic/Latine student completion of transfer-level STEM math from 36% (2021-22 baseline) to 42%
- Increase Hispanic/Latine student completion of transfer-level non-STEM (SLAM) math from 45% (2021-22 baseline) to 52%
- Increase self-reported sense of belonging from 53% (spring 2022 baseline) to 63%
- Increase Hispanic/Latine student participation in work-based learning activities from 1,884 (2021-2022) to 3,500
- Increase Hispanic/Latine student consultations
Personnel
Project Director – Dr. Myriam Altounji
Activity Director - Dra. Desiree Zuniga
Equipo Leaders - Visit http://dos5.net/about/hsi/equipo.php