A National Community College Benchmarking Project

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A National Community College Benchmarking Project

• Jeffrey A. Seybert
• Director, Research, Evaluation and Instructional
  Development
• Johnson County Community College
• Ellen Weed
• Vice President for Academic Affairs
• Nashville State Technical Community College

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National Context

• Increasing mandates for accountability
• Increased State Reporting Requirements
• Alternative Regional Accreditation
• Processes
• No Regional/National Consortia Exist for
• Community Colleges

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JCCC Context

• The college needs benchmark data for a
• variety of new/recent initiatives
• New state reporting requirements
• The Statewide Kansas Public Higher Education
  Database
• Excellence Award Competitions
• The Kansas Award for Excellence
• The National Baldridge Award
• Alternative Accreditation Processes
• North Centrals AQIP

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The National Community College Benchmark Project

• Involves a wide array of student outcomes,
  access, workforce
• development, faculty/staff, human
• resources, and finance variables
• Collects, analyzes, and reports
• data at the institutional level

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Purposes

• To collect and report community college
  benchmark data on a national basis
• To provide data for comparisons and benchmarks
  of instructional, workforce-development, and
  other community college activities

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Implementation

• Winter 2003 Advisory committee identified
  data elements and defined benchmarks
• Summer 2003 Full-scale pilot study refined data
  collection and reporting processes
• Winter 2004 110 institutions provided data
• Fall 2004 Aggregate reports distributed Web
  site opened for peer comparisons
• Winter 2005 Second-year implementation

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How NCCBP Works

• Data collection
• Excel spreadsheets distributed electronically
• Data verification Missing data and logical
  errors
• Partial data OK no peer comparison for missing
  data
• Confidentiality assured
• Cost 1,000/year per institution
• Annual reports
• Aggregate data delivered electronically
• Access to NCCBP Web site for peer comparisons

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Data-collection Form

• FORM 4 Credit Students Who Enrolled Next Term
  and Next Fall
• Column 1 Enter unduplicated total credit students
  (including those who withdrew from all courses)
  at the end of the fall
• 2003 term. Do not I
  include high school students.
• Column 2 Enter total students from Column 1 who
  graduated or completed certificates before the
  next (spring 2004) term.
• Column 3 Enter total students from Column 1 who
  enrolled in the next (spring 2004) term.
• Column 4 Column 3 / (Column 1 - Column
  2)
• Column 5 Enter total students from Column 1 who
  graduated or completed certificates before next
  fall (fall 2004) term.
• Include graduates and
  completers in Column 2.
• Column 6 Enter total students from Column 1 who
  enrolled in the next fall (fall 2004)
  term.
• Column 7 Column 6 / (Column 1 - Column
  5)

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Aggregate Report

• Institution Data
• Reporting Institutions submitted the following
  institutional characteristics that will be
  available for peer comparisons

• IPEDS
• Institution Name
• State
• Regional Accrediting Agency
• Institutional Control
• Institution Type
• Campus Environment
• Academic Calendar
• Service Area Population
• Service Area Unemployment Rate
• Service Area Median Household Income
• Service Area Percent Monthly
• IPEDS Enrollment
• Percent Minority Credit Enrollment
• Unrestricted Operating Budget
• Operating Budget from State
• Faculty Unionized

• 155210
• Johnson County Community College
• KS
• NCA
• Public
• Single-campus
• Suburban
• Semester
• 465,058
• 4.3
• 61,455
• 11
• 18,432
• 13
• 106,081,982
• 16
• Yes

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Aggregate Report

• Table 2. Proportions of Credit Students That
  Enrolled the Next Term and Next Fall Term
• 10th
  Percentile Median 90th Percentile
• Next-term Persistence Rate
• Respondents (N94)
  58 68 75
• Reporting Institution
  63
• Fall-to-Fall Rate
• Respondents (N93) 39
  46 53
• Reporting Institution
  42

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Benchmark Categories

• Completion Transfer Rates
• Persistence Rates
• Transfer Student Performance
• Student Satisfaction
• Student Performance Measures
• Career Preparation
• Academic Success

• Access Participation
• Market Penetration
• Workforce Development
• Section Size, SF Ratio, Faculty Load
• Student Services Staff
• HR Statistics
• Instructional Professional Development Costs

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2005 Timeline

• March Data collection begins.
• May Data-collection instruments are due.
• June Data confirmation reports are
• distributed.
• July Data updates are due.
• September Aggregate reports are distributed.
  Web site is opened for peer
  comparisons.

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2004 Participants and Results

• 110 participants
• Range of locations characteristics

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2004 Participants
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College Characteristics

• Operating Budget
• Faculty Unionized
• Service Area Population
• Unemployment Rate
• Household Income
• Service Area Percent Minority

• Campus Environment
• Institution Type
• Institutional Control
• Academic Calendar
• Credit Enrollment
• Minority Students
• Percent State Revenue

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2004 Demographics
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2004 Demographics

• Percentile
• 10th 50th 90th
• Credit Enrollment 2,094
  6,545 19,954
• Minority Students 5 17
  42
• State Revenue 15 35
  61
• Service Area
• Population 127,244
  397,270 1,333,864
• Unemployment 3 6
  8
• Median Income 30,605 39,040
  59,899
• Minority 4
  17 48

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Campus Uses of NCCBP

• Campus Decision-Making
• Strategic Plan Initiatives
• SACS Applications
• Performance Funding Report
• Governing Board Report Card

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Campus Decisions

• Retention and Persistence
• Transfer Success
• Staffing

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Retention Persistence Standard
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Transfer Success
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Staffing
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Strategic Plan Applications

• Identify Strategic Areas
• Set Benchmarks

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Strategic Plan Student Objectives
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Strategic Plan Workforce Development Objectives
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NCCBP SACS Applications
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SACS Application Examples
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NCCBP SACS Applications

• Depends
• QEP Topic On
• Topic

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Performance Funding

• Adds National Benchmarks for
• Standards such as
• Retention and Persistence
• Student Success

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Student Success Standard
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TN Board of RegentsAnnual Report Card

• Can use National Benchmarks
• Example Student-Faculty Ratios
• Broaden Scope of Community
• College Indicator
• Example Market Penetration
• Use Appropriate Peer Groups
• Example Urban Institutions

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Questions