Moon Shot for Economic & Social Mobility at Delaware County Community College

Two- and four-year colleges and universities within each region agree to implement the following best practices to create an institutionally focused and equity-minded approach to student success:

1. Change Management
2. Equity-Mindedness
3. Campus Climate Assessment
4. Reduction of Registration Holds
5. Retention Grants
6. Aligned Mathematics
7. Expanded Meta-Majors and Majors
8. Remediation and Developmental Education Reform
9. Academic Maps
10. Streamlined Transfer Pathways
11. Access to a Second Chance
12. Proactive Advising Enabled by Technology
13. Coordinated Care Network
14. Confidence-Building and Belongingness
15. College Access Partnership with Community-Based Organizations

This regional approach creates local collaborations with government, community-based organizations, and employers will help boost college attainment. These regional collaborations between schools are also critical in order to establish common academic pathways that allow students to move between two- and four-year institutions and earn a degree more quickly and efficiently. Streamlining credit transfers between institutions and accelerating time to degree are significant aspects of the equity challenge.

EAB’s role and responsibilities include the provision of these benefits across Moon Shot for Equity regions:

• Leadership Institute: Change Management and Equity Skill-Building: EAB will facilitate a cohort-based Leadership Institute to develop equity-minded practitioners armed with exceptional change management skills to uphold the Moon Shot principles and drive and sustain change throughout the region.
• Best Practice Research: Regions will have access to evidence-based best practices and policies that already have been deployed at scale across institutions, while rapidly contributing their own groundbreaking discoveries.
• Student Success Management System Technology: EAB will deploy at scale a common student success technology. This will create a nearly seamless approach and infrastructure to collectively identify obstacles, collaboratively design interventions, rapidly compare results, and urgently deliver improvements.
• Implementation Expertise and Project Management: EAB will provide regions with a dedicated consulting team tasked with providing regions with a structured, measurable, and deadline-driven timeline to implement practices and policies. As new areas of opportunity are determined for each region, EAB will work with ecosystems to provide technical experts and support.
• Data Transparency, Metrics Alignment, and Assessment: EAB will facilitate the use of common metrics for measurement, comparison, and assessment of our progress and success for rapid adjustment and improvement.
• Convenings: EAB will organize and convene equity regions virtually across the year to efficiently share results, engage in thoughtful discussions, and facilitate structured work sessions.