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Colleges develop and submit an Action Plan at the end of the discovery and planning period that defines the first year of participation in the Achieving the Dream (ATD) network. The Action Plan does three key things:
1. Tells a story of what the college has done during its first year in ATD’s Network that it can share with colleagues.
2. Translates learning into an overarching vision and strategy for improving student and institutional outcomes.
3. Describes how the college will seek to improve policies, processes, and systems; maximize impact through the college-wide scaling of strategies; align and allocate resources to support implementation; and measure the impact of student success work.
Three strategy teams, made up of individuals from across the college's departments, focused on orientation, gateway courses, and online and accelerated terms respectively, recommended a suite of strategies to increase student success in the first year. The 7-week course schedule grew from the work of the Online and Accelerated Terms (OATs) Strategy Team.
PVCC's recommendation for 7-week courses follows.