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Dona Ana Community College- GRASP
 
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Program Objectives & Summary l Analysis of Data l Results  l  What Participants Say | Publications | Dona Ana Community College

  
   

The purpose of this project is to explore a dissemination methodology for a program developed at New Mexico State University (NMSU). The program called GRASP (Gaining Retention and Achievement for Students Program), has been successfully disseminated across disciplines at NMSU. GRASP will be disseminated at Dona Ana Community College (DACC) beginning in the fall-2006 semester. GRASP is designed to increase retention and achievement of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) undergraduates using a semester long faculty development program.

GRASP is unique in that it can be institutionalized at a university or community college within three years. Research results from the GRASP program at NMSU show that once a cohort of faculty on a campus have participated in the program and demonstrate improved student retention and achievement, their departments and colleges are likely to absorb the low-cost for faculty to participate in GRASP. Since the program provides documentation for tenure and promotion, faculty are more likely to participate and use the program practices as part of their regular teaching practices.

Program Goals:
1. Dona Ana Community College will assume financial responsibility to sustain the GRASP program by the end of the CCLI program.
2. Successfully disseminate GRASP to 50 DACC faculty over three years.

Program Objectives:
1. Increase student retention and achievement in classes of GRASP faculty participants by 5%.
2. Recruit diverse STEM faculty who teach a diverse student population for participation in GRASP. Faculty diversity will includes gender, ethnic and discipline diversity, additionally we will recruit faculty at various stages in their careers.
3. Refine the GRASP program for dissemination to DACC faculty.

Program Results - Achievement - Spring 2006 - Spring 2008

  GRASP Participation   Non-GRASP Participation  
# students with A,B, or C
# students with D,F, or W
% of Students passed
# students with A,B, or C
# students with D, F, or W
% of Students passed
% Increase/ Decrease
Significance
Total Students
280
63
81.6%
241
86
73.7%
7.9%
p = .020 *
Female Students
160
31
83.8%
146
43
77.2%
6.5%
p = .080
Male Students
120
32
78.9%
94
44
68.1%
10.8%
p = .035 *
Minority Students
219
50
81.4%
182
74
71.1%
10.3%
p = .013 *
Non-Min Students
61
13
82.4%
58
13
81.7%
0.7%
p = .626

 

Contacts:
New Mexico State University - Judy McShannon, 505-646-6414
Dona Ana Community College - John Juarez, 505-527-7665

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-0536210

  
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date last modified: August 18, 2008