Lumina Foundation

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Lumina Foundation

• Achieving the Dream
• Community Colleges Count
• SFCC
• Data Team

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• If I include you, you will be my partner,
• If I exclude you, you will be my judge
• -Rosell
• From a Workshop presented at SFCC 12/10/04 by
  Mark Friedman of the Fiscal Policy Studies
  Institute

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WHO ARE WE STUDYING?

• Cohorts of New Students from
• Each Fall Beginning in 2002 (Our
  Benchmark Year)
• Containing All New Degree/Certificate-Seeking
  Students (Those Who Declare or Say they Intend
  to Seek)
• Both Full-Time and Part-Time
• Both Freshmen and Transfer

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Achieving the Dream Community Colleges Count

• Who to Include in the Cohort
• Include all degree/certificate-seeking
  undergraduate students (full-and part-time)
  entering your institution for the first time
  during the fall term. Students must be enrolled
  in courses creditable toward a degree, diploma,
  certificate, or other formal award. Include
  students enrolled in courses that are part of a
  vocational or occupational program, including
  those enrolled in off-campus centers and those
  enrolled in distance learning/home study
  programs. Be sure to include students taking
  remedial courses if the student is considered
  degree-seeking for the purpose of student
  financial aid determination.
• Instructions for Data Submissions JBL
  Associates

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How is the Cohort Different From the Whole
Student Body?
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How is the Cohort Different From the Whole
Student Body?
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Additional Information

• SFCC Grad Rate is under 10 compared to 25 for
  most CCs (but so is the average for the states
  CCs.)
• Only 6 students of the Lumina Cohort in Fall 2002
  were employed on campus their first semester
• Part-Time students in the Lumina Cohort have
  lower persistence rates.
• Males in general, and young Hispanic Males in
  particular have lower persistence rates

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Additional Information

• Students who did not complete the Fall term or
  who earned no credits differed significantly from
  those who did .
• 54 students of 324 fell into this category
• More likely to be male, under 25, Hispanic,
  attending part-time, in need of remediation.
• Less likely to be on financial aid
• Much more likely to have no high school grades on
  file at SFCC

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• If you do what you always do
• You will get what you always got
• - Kenneth W. Jenkins, Pres. Yonkers NAACP
• As quoted by Mark Friedman of the Fiscal Policy
  Studies Institute at a Workshop presented at SFCC
  12/10/04

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Additional Research Questions

• Does Fall 03 Cohort Follow the Same Patterns?
• Do we see trends in retention and graduation
  rates by gender and/or ethnicity/age/part-time/ful
  l-time status over past years?
• Do students who take their Math course after
  first semester succeed at higher rates?