Aligning Learning and Academic Success (ALAS)

Project ALAS is a partnership among CSU Channel Islands, Oxnard College, Ventura College, and Santa Barbara City College. ALAS constitutes an expansion of CSUCI’s ongoing efforts to build a regional approach to providing meaningful access to higher education for an underserved Latinx population. The Project’s initiatives focus on “pipeline” initiatives: access, retention and transfer using high impact practices (HIP). This regional network focuses on improving the transfer process from 2-year to 4-year institutions. This network initiated an annual Transfer Success Summit and cross-institutional faculty fellows program. Areas of focus include aligning high impact teaching and learning practices, policies and systems to “one degree”.

ALAS partners have several activities that are highlighted so far: the long-lasting relationships across campuses; writing equity conference, groups of cross-discipline faculty from partner institutions working together to improve student success and student transfer and the growing attention paid to counseling and advising. These strategies and others help to build a framework for partners to focus on transfer success.