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Goal Attainment in College Students Listed in the program as: Goal Attainment in College Students from Underprivileged Backgrounds Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash Sarah Taylor, MSW, PhD, Nidhi Khosla, MPH, PhD, & the Pioneers for Hope Learning Framework Team at California State University, East Bay International Consortium for Social Development, 21st Biennial International Conference Yogyakarta, Indonesia * July 16-19, 2019

Presenters & Co-Authors Sarah Taylor, MSW, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Work Nidhi Khosla, PhD, MPH, PGDRM, Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Ryan Gamba, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Lael Adediji, EdD, Program Coordinator, Renaissance Scholars Shelby Bergeron, Undergraduate Research Assistant Joel Bovey, MSW Candidate, Graduate Student Research Assistant Alina Engelman, DrPH, MPH Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Darice Ingram, MPA Candidate, Program Coordinator, Pioneers for HOPE Ali Jones-Bey, MA, Program Coordinator, Pioneers for HOPE Learning Framework Tsz Kwan Lan, MSW Candidate, Graduate Student Research Assistant Alicia Lindfors, Research Assistant Maureen Scharberg, PhD, Dean of Academic Programs and Services Edward S. Inch, PhD, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Overview of Today’s Talk ● Our university ● Connection with ICSD themes & Sustainable Development Goals ● Project overview ● Collaborative, participatory, team-based approach ● Goal attainment scaling ● Brief findings Photo by Garvin Tso, CSUEB Photographer ● Discussion 3

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Mission: Cal State East Bay welcomes and supports a diverse student body with academically rich, culturally relevant learning experiences which prepare students to apply their education to meaningful lifework, and to Image from the CSUEB Campus Photo Gallery: http://www.csueastbay.edu/universitycommunications/campus-photo-gallery.html be socially responsible contributors to society. Motto: Per Aspera Ad Astra Through its educational programs and Through Adversity to the Stars activities, the university strives to meet the educational needs and to contribute to the Cal State East Bay is among the top 10 vitality of the East Bay, the state, the nation, campuses in the country for social and global communities. mobility : http://socialmobilityindex.org/

From: https://www.csueastbay.edu/about/facts.html 68% of students receive financial aid. 41% received Pell Grants in 2017-2018.* Over 60% of students are the first in their families to go to college.

CSU East Bay Call to Action Graduation rates for CSUEB 2 are approximately: ● 48% of incoming first-year students graduate in 6 years ● 75% of transfer students graduate in 4 years A 2016 survey of CSUEB students 1 ( n =770) found: ● About half reported experiencing food insecurity ● Close to 1 in 5 had experienced an episode of homelessness in the past year Sources: 1. http://asd.calstate.edu/dashboard/graduation-success.html 2. Internal campus report prepared by the CSU Basic Needs Initiative (https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/student-success/basic-needs-initiative/Pages/default.aspx) 7

Connection with ICSD Themes & UN SDGs ● Developed countries such as the US have significant degree of relative poverty and income disparities ● College education correlates with higher economic opportunity, breaking the cycle of poverty, addressing historical injustices, and supporting sustainable prosperity. From: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs

Project Overview Goal: To identify strategies that support underserved and under ‐ resourced students to make academic progress and complete their degrees. In Year One, the focus was on needs assessment to answer the following questions: ● What are the needs of our students? ● How to enhance our support for students? ● How can we raise awareness and educate the campus community? In Year Two, we are implementing a pilot intervention based on what we learned. Photo by Haut Risque on Unsplash 9

Interdisciplinary, Collaborative, Team-Based Approach Team includes faculty, ● administrators, staff, and students from about 10 different departments/units on campus. Weekly team meetings ● Ongoing, hands-on collaboration ● using web-based software designed for teams: Google docs, Zotero, and Dedoose Engagement with other on- and ● off-campus partners 10

Strategy Sessions & Hackathon Recap ● Open to the campus community ● Four sessions: Nov 2017 & June 2018 ● 24 people attended the strategy sessions, 37 people attended the hackathon; a mix of students, faculty, staff, and administrators. ● Strategy Sessions: brainstormed about how we define student success as well as the barriers and facilitators of it. ● Hackathons: shared preliminary findings and brainstormed about Year 2 interventions 11

Methods Overview ● Exploratory, participatory, longitudinal, mixed methods study ● Purposive recruitment ● Data collection from January-July 2018 ● Four waves of open-ended, semi-structured interviews and surveys (n=53 at Wave 1; n=48 at Wave 4) 12

Goal Attainment Scaling * “Let’s take a few minutes to talk about your academic goals this year - things you hope to do by June. We are going to think about your goals on a continuum , from an outcome that would be fantastic, to one that would not be desirable for you. Thinking about your academic goals, tell me what would be a wonderful achievement for you by June - something that is possible, but would be a reach? Next tell me about what you think you could achieve that is still good, but less of a reach. Finally, tell me about what it would look like if you did not achieve your academic goal -- that is, an outcome you would not be happy with.” *Kiresuk, T. (Ed.), Smith, A. (Ed.), Cardillo, J. (Ed.). (1994). Goal Attainment Scaling. New York: Psychology Press.

Goal Setting Interview Example Interviewer: OK so thinking of that. What do you think for academically would be at the top of the mountain? Student: The top is for me to have--graduate with my Bachelors Degree. That's, I mean, by June, that's I want. Now. I realize that if I don't, if I just made it to like the [middle], because the WST [Writing Skills Test] is hanging over me. So if I don't pass that, then the WST is going to be in my way. Now I could I could walk possibly but not get it, my degree. That would be a good achievement. But I'd still have to do the WST...So I'd still have that. I completed my courses but I didn't do that. So that would be hanging over head. So that's undesirable to me. And then an undesirable outcome is that I don't complete my courses. That I am not able to navigate myself through this and I just give in to all the negative voices that I grew up with.

Goal Examples Reach: Get accepted into grad school Reach : Figure out & enroll in classes Acceptable outcome: Get BA in Spring Acceptable outcome: Pass my classes Undesirable outcome: Not an option Undesirable outcome: Not to be able to enroll in classes Reach: Grades of B or higher Reach: Get straight As Acceptable outcome: C or higher Acceptable outcome: Bs Undesirable outcome: Ds or Fs Undesirable outcome: Cs or below

Findings Highlights Attainment Number % 1 (undesirable outcome) 5 10.4 2 (progress toward mid-range goal) 2 4.2 3 (mid-range goal attained) 15 31.3 4 (progress toward the reach goal) 5 10.4 5 (reach goal attained) 19 39.6 Missing/could not extract 2 4.2 TOTAL 48 100

Lessons Learned ● A radically open approach to team building with flexible opportunities for participation successfully engaged a diverse group of stakeholders ● We learned a great deal about our students - their strengths, adaptive Photo by Will H McMahan on Unsplash coping, and intersecting challenges ● Goal attainment scaling was an easy to use, valuable tool for learning about and measuring students’ goals and interests

Contact Information Sarah Taylor: sarah.taylor@csueastbay.edu Nidhi Khosla: nidhi.khosla@csueastbay.edu To download a copy of these slides, go to: http://www.csueastbay.edu/learningframework/updates.html