Student Success

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Data Sharing with PCC

Project Status: Implementation

This discovery project aims to discover a sustainable mechanism to share data and applications between Portland Community College (PCC) and Portland State University (PSU) in an attempt to increase our transfer population and gain actionable insights. Through a unified gathering of stakeholders we aim to design a solid, feasible, maintainable and effective solution that meets broad PSU needs, hitting on recruitment, admission, co-admission, transfer transition, and continued PSU enrollment/degree progress -- and most importantly - an ability to strengthen the advising partnership so our academic advisors can work more closely on a given students situation and pathway.  Additionally, this project aligns with and supports all of  the HECC work related to the Major Transfer Maps and improved transfer pathway. We have been allocated a one-time grant fund of $200,000 to initiate this discovery project. 

Accomplished

  • Identified our project leads, project members, and sponsors. 
  • Develop a formal partnership between PCC and PSU that extends beyond Admissions.
  • Find a mechanism for sharing student data and applications between our institution.
  • Improve the accuracy of our enrollment modeling.
  • Identified our PCC partners.
  • Successfully completed our internal kickoff and first meeting with PCC partners. 

In Progress

  • Currently researching opportunities to hire consultant work to hire consultants who can move this project forward. 
  • Agreeing on the primary business objectives, types of data to be shared and how it will be used, and what the trusted data sources/systems of record for this data are.

Project Team

Sponsor: Ryan Bass, Chuck Knepfle, and Erica Wagner
Project Manager: Delaney Ybarra
Project Leads: Randi Harris, Eki Yandall
Team: Cindy Baccar, Jeff Conn, Greg Flores, Scott Robinson, Michael Smith, Steve Thorne, Mathew Uretsky, Linda Liu, Perla Pinedo, Karenna Wait, Rob Findtner, and 6 PCC Partners