Community College 101: An Iowa Perspective

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Community College 101An Iowa Perspective

• Presentation at the Family Literacy RFP Workshop
• The Hotel at Gateway Center
• Ames, Iowa
• Frankie Santos Laanan
• Principal Investigator
• Iowa State University
• May 23, 2005

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Acknowledgements

• Guest Speakers
• Iowa Department of Education, Division of
  Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation
• Workshop Participants
• ISU Research Team

ISU-Iowa Department of Education Partnership
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Iowa State UniversityResearch Team

• Frankie Santos Laanan, Principal Investigator and
  Assistant Professor (laanan_at_iastate.edu)
• Soko Starobin, Postdoctoral Research Associate
  (starobin_at_iastate.edu)
• Elizabeth Cox, Research Associate
  (coxe_at_iastate.edu)
• Jonathan Compton, Research Associate
  (jcompton_at_iastate.edu)

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www.public.iastate.edu/laanan/doe/doe.html
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Iowa Community CollegesFiscal Year Unduplicated
Credit Enrollment

• Credit Enrollment has increased 18.09 from 2001
  to 2004.
• Growth appears to be slowing but still follows an
  upward trend.

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Iowa Community CollegesEnrollments in Arts
Sciences Programs and Career Technical
Education Programs

• Percentage of Enrollment
• Arts Science
• Fiscal Year 2001- 67.93
• Fiscal Year 2004- 64.56
• Career and Technical Education
• Fiscal Year 2001- 29.28
• Fiscal Year 2004- 31.90
• Both Arts Science and Career Technical
• Fiscal Year 2001- 2.79
• Fiscal Year 2004- 3.54

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Iowa Community CollegesCondition of Community
Colleges 2004 Highlights

• Non-Credit Enrollments
• Unduplicated non-credit student enrollment totals
  302,994, having decreased approximately 13 from
  FY01 to FY04.
• Part of this decrease is due to changes in
  reporting requirements that were implemented
  during FY04.
• Total contact hours decreased 25 from FY01 to
  FY04. Part of this decrease is also due to
  changes in reporting requirements implemented in
  FY04.

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Iowa Community CollegesCondition of Community
Colleges 2004 Highlights

• Non-Credit Enrollments
• The largest enrollment type in non-credit are in
  the Enhance Employability/Academic Success (EE)
  area.
• Enhance Employability is defined as the intent
  and content of courses which are designed for the
  specific purposes of upgrading the skills of
  persons presently employed and retraining persons
  for employment.
• Academic Success is defined as the advancement
  of a persons knowledge in traditional
  educational studies.

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Iowa Community CollegesCondition of Community
Colleges 2004 Highlights

• Adult Literacy Program
• 76 of the enrollees who indicated their program
  goal was to obtain employment achieved that
  objective.
• 88 of the enrollees who indicated their program
  goal was to retrain employment achieved that
  objective.
• 74 of the enrollees who indicated their program
  goal was to obtain a GED or adult secondary
  school diploma achieved that objective.
• 46 of the enrollees who indicated their program
  goal was to enter postsecondary education or
  training achieved that goal.

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Iowa Community CollegesCondition of Community
Colleges 2004 Highlights

• Adult Literacy Program
• The most significant educational benchmark gains
  were observed for the English-as-a Second
  Language instructional program.
• 90 educational gains benchmarks met or exceeded
  the negotiated benchmark levels.
• 90 of Iowas adult basic education learners are
  between the ages of 16-44 (17 between 16-18 32
  between 19-24 and 41 between 25-44)
• Adult literacy program enrollment by gender is
  47 male.
• Minority populations represented 45 of the total
  served in Iowas adult basic education program.

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Iowa Community CollegeMinority Enrollment
Fiscal Year 2001-2004

• Black enrollment is the largest minority group as
  well as the fastest growing.
• Hispanic enrollment has surpassed the Asian
  enrollment during the period shown.

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Iowa Community CollegesUnduplicated Non-Credit
EnrollmentFiscal Years 2001-2004

• Unduplicated Non-Credit Enrollments continue to
  decline.
• Note New Fiscal Year 2004 Reporting Requirements
  instituted the exclusion of ineligible programs
  such as conferences, special events, testing,
  and staff development

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Iowa Community CollegesDuplicated Non-Credit
EnrollmentFiscal Years 2001-2004

• Duplicated Non-Credit Enrollments continue to
  decline.
• Note New Fiscal Year 2004 Reporting Requirements
  instituted the exclusion of ineligible programs
  such as conferences, special events, testing,
  and staff development

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Iowa Community Colleges

• The mission of Iowas System of Community
  Colleges in the 21st Century is to provide a
  world-class educational and community services to
  meet the needs of the people of Iowa.
• Source Shaping the Future A Five-Year Plan
  for Iowas System of Community Colleges, 2001.

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Family Literacy Listserve

• famlit-iowa_at_iastate.edu
• To join the Family Literacy-Iowa Listserve,
• email Elizabeth Cox at coxe_at_iastate.edu

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For More Information

• Iowa Department of Education
• William Silag, Ph.D.
• Administrative Consultant
• Office 515.281.3615 Fax [phone]
• E-mail bill.silag_at_iowa.gov
• Sally Schroeder
• Consultant, Adult Education
• Office 515.281.3640 Fax [phone]
• E-mail sally.schroeder_at_iowa.gov
• Iowa State University
• Frankie Santos Laanan, Ph.D.
• Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor
• Office 515.294.7292 Fax [phone]
• E-mail laanan_at_iastate.edu

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