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Student Voices | 2017

Erin Davison and Jasmine Torres-Germack

edcc.edu/sem Erin Davison and Jasmine Torres-Germack

Contributors

Stephanie Rothfuss - Project Manager, Focus Groups Dan Hurley - Project Manager, Focus Groups & Analysis Larry Breslauer - Focus Groups Claudia Payne - Focus Groups & Analysis Karen Parker - Focus Groups Stacey Eliason - Focus Groups & Analysis Jasmine Torres-Germack - Focus Groups & Analysis Erin Davison - Analysis Joseph Roland - Analysis Jennifer Inslee - Focus Groups Sponsor Danielle Carnes - Overall Project Sponsor

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January 2017 February - June 2017 July - August 2017 Focus Group Facilitator Training December 2016 Project Development Student Focus Groups Transcript Coding & Analysis

Project Timeline

On a scale of 1-10, 10 being high, how much do you feel like you belong

• n this campus? How did you decide this number?

Think back to your first week at Edmond Community College. What were the most helpful and least helpful aspects of that week?

Initial Analysis: 5 Core Themes

Challenges

Communication

Advising Pathways for Success Community

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* Not in order of significance.

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Challenges

• Financial Aid
• Less Helpful Resources
• Transferring
• Parking/Parking Safety
• Outside Challenges

“The school is doing a lot right now to reach

• ut towards people who are involved with the

justice system and through the BFET program. And then there's another association that is connected with college that's reaching out towards a lot of homeless people and trying to help them get through school, which both programs are great. But at the same time there's so many other hindrances...almost everybody within both programs have stuff on their record. Now that they come here... a lot

• f them don't have a good work experiences

and don't have a lot of stuff... it makes it hard to get jobs out of school, and so they try to get jobs here that could work good with the schedules as well but then they're denied because they have records.”

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Communication

“I'm a cruise missile on a mission to find that person and the SSD. I know exactly who I need to talk to there, because you have to have a decoder ring basically to know how to get the answers that you need on campus sometimes. But once I find that I know who to talk to in the correction center if I want a resume or I knew how to get resources in the learning support center. I think it’s key to find that person in the department that you need information from.” “Actually, the information I'm looking or find on the website, is more clear than the other teacher or instructor. Because, people, they have different ideas or

• pinions. One told me go to this first. The other one, go to that first. I have to

figure out by myself and all of the information. Sometimes it's difficult.”

Advising

Pathways to Success

Engaged Learning Motivations Clear Program Pathway Helpful Resources

Community

Personal connections with instructors and staff made a big impact on students and helping them stay at Edmonds. Anytime they talked about helpful resources, they also usually named a specific person that helped them. Personal connection with a helpful staff member to create belonging had a co-occurrence of 24 times.

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EDCC’s Community Connection

Where do we go from here?

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