Student Success: Threats, Opportunities and the Ongoing Transformation of Everything

Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer

Board of Regents

Agenda• Student Challenges and Success

• Other Challenges

• What are We doing to Respond?

• Questions, Comments, a Conversation

3,300 mile Private CloudVirtual Library Software Store

Enterprise Security and ePrivacy

Distance Education Learning Management

Enterprise Financials Enterprise BI

Library OperationsStudent Information

Collaboration

2013 20 Best Ideas to Steal: INGRESS

2013 GTA Innovation Award: The Point

2013 ED-Tech Cover Article: PeachNet

2013 Information Week Top 500: #9• Highest Ranked Educational Company• Highest Ranked Georgia-based Company

2013 ComputerWorld Chief of the Year2012 GTA Innovation Award: INGRESS

2014 ComputerWorld Premier 100

2014 InformationWeek Elite 100

2012 CIO Magazine Spotlight: PeachNet2012 Evanta Break Away Leader Award

GEORGIA STUDENT CHALLENGES AND SUCCESS

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Baccalaureate Degree Attainment by Age 24 by Family Income Quartile

Source: New York Times, “The Reproduction of Privilege,” March 12, 2012

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CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS

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CHALLENGES: FRAGILE FINANCES ON THE RISE

Average Unmet Need2005 2012 2013

Seniors $ 5,222 $ 6,792 $ 8,303 Undergraduates $ 4,224 $ 5,785 $ 6,793

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(Fall 2008, Undergraduate Students)

Georgia State has been awarded a $600,000 NSF grant to pilot a program which fills unmet need for science majors and tracks the resulting impact on academic performance.

Percent of Students with a 3.0 GPA or Above by Financial Need

Impact Of Unmet Financial Need On Academic Performance

THE CHALLENGE IN FRONT OF US

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Impact of the Loss of HOPE at GSU (2008)

Students who lose HOPE support graduate at only half the rate of those who never had HOPE support in the first place.

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Six-Year Graduation Rate

THE CHALLENGE IN FRONT OF US

Source: OECD Education at a Glance (2008); U.S. Census Bureau; American College Survey

Percent of Adults Age 25 to 34 Holding an Associate’s Degree or Higher

http://www.oecd.org

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

OTHER CHALLENGES

PREMISE 1: GROWING THREAT

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Carver as we can read all his email anyway.

Emerging Threats(on a scale of 1 to 10)

10 United States, United Kingdom, Russia

11 China

3 Iran

Can You Defend Against 100,000 Professionally

Trained Hackers?

Consider Mandiant Report on AG1• Believed to be People Liberation Army Unit 61398.

• State sponsored, state funded, state secret.

• Since 2006, they have compromised 141 companies spanning 20 major industries.

• Maintained access for an average of 356 days. Longest measured access was 1,764 days.

First Rule of the InternetAgreement does not scale

Effect of the WWW on the Normal Curve of Behavior?

It is the best of times, for morons and geniuses alike.

Quick RecapWe live in a world of growing threats where a battle for the truth rages conducted by morons and geniuses alike, operating from safe havens created by a flattening of the norms of human behavior which threaten the very existence of mankind…. [run-on but

very depressing sentence continues]

OPPORTUNITIES

Emerging OpportunitiesWell, we have the geniuses….

Student Success

AccessExperienc

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Residential

Experience Selective

Experience

USG must provide multiple pathways and educational experiences to

meet the needs of our students and the state.

Student Success

AccessExperienc

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Residential

Experience Selective

Experience

These pathways and educational experiences influence and improve other experiences.

Student Success

AccessExperienc

e

Residential

Experience Selective

Experience

I need a low cost, flexible higher educational

experience that fits the rest of my lifestyle.

Student Success

AccessExperienc

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Residential

Experience Selective

Experience

I need an educational experience utilizing the latest

technologies and graduate with no debt.

Student Success

AccessExperienc

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Residential

Experience Selective

Experience

I need a selective higher educational experience at one of the best institutions in the

world.

Student Success

Delivery System

Affordable Resources

Faculty Engagement

Student Support

Network

Assessment

Analytics

Mobile

ID Management

Financial Model

Delivery Systems• Not the learning management system of 5 years ago• D2L, Coursera, Udacity• USG D2L– 250,000 daily users– 50 million hits a day– 99.9% system availability– 50 add-ons active– Mobile access

Traditional Classes, Flipped Classes, MOOCs, Online

Classes, Distance Education Classes,

K-12 classes

http://techworldbd.com/smart-technologies-smart-education/

Affordable Resources• We are at a point of

transformation in the publishing industry.

• Many students cannot afford textbooks.

• Does the value in hundreds of different USG versions of English 101 outweigh the cost?

• We need to start collaborating on purchasing textbooks.

• We need to accelerating faculty creation of USG textbooks.

• Ecore is a great place to start.

• Governor Deal is investing in this transformation.

Image from http://www.thelabsimexperience.com/2011/04/trends-in-ed-tech-mobile-devices-in.html

Networks• For faculty to innovate with technology, the

technology must always work in the classroom.• PeachNet has been transformational in USG as a

enabling component. • The Georgia Department of Education is likely to join

PeachNet this upcoming year. • This creates new opportunities to educate and

inspire students.

Analytics• Tremendous work is being done to move from:– descriptive analytics (this is what happened) to – predictive analytics (this is what will happen)

• Supports intrusive advising

• Tremendous success being realized at Georgia State University, Columbus State, and other institutions.

Security

Business Intel

Real-Time

LocationSocial

Privacy

Global

Consumerization

Cloud

6.8 billion people….

5.1 own cell phones….

4.1 own toothbrushes….

Questions, Comments, A Conversation?

Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.Vice Chancellor and CIO

Board of Regents