ILEA Equity Plan | Elgin Community College (ECC)

To assess the first pilot group of MAP students from Spring 2019, a comparison group was
created with students who fell just outside the credit boundaries. These two groups were
similar in gender, race/ethnicity, age, and academic success. Retention rates and advising
appointments were higher among the MAP group than the comparison group.
Table 11. Map Pilot Retention Results
MAP
Group
Comparison
Group
Spring 2019 students enrolled in Fall 2019 80% 67%
Latinx students 84% 71%
Black/African American 70% 38%
As Table 11 displays, the MAP students enrolled in Fall 2019 at a rate of 80% compared to 67%
for the comparison group. This retention rate increase can be seen within minority student
groups as well. Latinx students enrolled 13 percentage points higher and Black/African-
American students saw a 32 percentage point increase.
As part of the ILEA Equity Plan, mandatory advising will be continued. The strategy is
connected to other institutional efforts and supports ECC’s strategies in our 2018-2022
Strategic Plan. See Table 9 for specific strategies that are aligned.
The Success Indicators used to demonstrate this strategy is having an impact are:
• Student completion of course and programs
• Student progression through their pathway
• Transfer to subsequent educational
• Student engagement and satisfaction with college programs and services
• Student mastery of learning outcomes
• Enrollment of identified target populations
• Degree of fit between students’ goals, skills, and experiences and college programs and
services
• Readiness of incoming students
• Preparedness of graduates for transfer and/or employment
ILEA EQUITY PLAN STRATEGY 2: OER – OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Open Educational Resources (“OER”) are high quality educational content/materials that are
free to students. OER is a growing movement in higher education. It is broadly defined as “the
open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication
technologies, for consultation, use, and adaptation by a community of users for noncommercial
purposes” (UNESCO, 2002, p. 24). At ECC, OER will “encompass free, online learning content,
software tools, and accumulated digital curricula that are not restricted by copyright license
and available to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute” (Hilton, Fischer, Wiley, &
Williams, 2016). By removing the cost of these materials access to higher education will
improve, costs will be reduced, student performance will be improved and more students will
complete in less time and with less debt.
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ILEA Equity Plan
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