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we have initiated a comprehensive review of our existing four-year college and
university partnerships. All articulation agreements between Suffolk and its partners
that are more than five years old are being considered. New articulations include
agreements with Stony Brook University (Nursing, Social work); St. Joseph’s College
(Nursing, education, Criminal Justice, Human Services); SUNY old westbury
(education); Molloy (Social work); Hofstra (engineering); vaughn College
(engineering, Business); and more than 25 programs at LiU.
we are part of an educational ecosystem and the strength of our partnerships at
P-12 and four-year institutions is a measure of our success in keeping students in the
educational pipeline.
Developmental education
in past annual reports, i have shared our success with the Hampton Bays initiative, a
high school early intervention pilot program that yielded a marked reduction in the
number of remedial students entering the College from
Hampton Bays High School. four years ago, Hampton
Bays was our first early intervention partner and, i’m proud
to say that next year we will be taking the information that
was learned through the pilot program and applying it to a
new effort. in collaboration with one of our educational
partners, McGraw-Hill, we will work with approximately
15 Suffolk County high schools to conduct a mathematics early intervention study.
is study will involve nearly 1,000 Long island high school seniors and will
examine the impact of Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces (ALeKS), a
web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system. in exchange for
their participation, McGraw-Hill has agreed to offer the high schools free site licenses
to access ALeKS. is effort will help the high schools identify students who might
be at risk for developmental placement, providing the high school with sufficient
time to remediate the student before they reach college. over the past year, the
Hampton Bays initiative has garnered media coverage and been featured at the Long
island regional Advisory Council on Higher education (LirACHe). we continue
to follow-up with representatives from school districts interested in learning more
about implementing the program at their location.
A number of initiatives have been implemented in an effort to reduce the total
number of students who require developmental education when they arrive at Suffolk
County Community College. Quantway Mathematics is an accelerated program
designed to move students through developmental mathematics sequences. Developed
in part by the Carnegie foundation, it is an initiative of our faculty and of SUNY.
Twelve community colleges throughout New York State are part of the Quantway
Math Group. is fall, Suffolk County Community College will have the largest
number of students and greatest number of sections of Quantway Mathematics of any
SUNY institution, when we will offer 19 sections. we have been given a $20,000
grant from SUNY to help launch the program. e primary goal is to make this
course available to more students and to develop quality faculty and tutor training.
Grant funds were allocated to develop a video explaining the impact of this particular
math course on a student’s mathematical understanding. e video has been posted
to YouTube and the Carnegie foundation has posted it on their website. in addition,
SUNY has asked to use it as other community colleges around the state begin their
own Quantway programs. our Board was very encouraged by the program’s results
and has suggested that we develop a national presentation to highlight our work so
others can benefit from the innovations taking place here.
2015-2016 Review of Accomplishments
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