At the end of my recent post on a report on California community colleges, I noted that I didn’t like its suggestion that giving CCs more flexibility to hire non-full-time faculty would help student success and retention. Well, thankfully, I just found a report at Inside Higher Ed (via NCTE Newsletter) that shows a correlation [...]
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I came across this report on California Community Colleges which concludes that while California is successful in removing barriers so that students can enter college, it is failing when it comes to helping students complete college (whether a degree or a certificate). “Of the 60 percent [of students] who are seeking a degree or [...]
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Got a copy of YVCC’s “Campus Update” magazine today, and I want to note its stats on YVCC students.
Division breakdown: The “Report to the Community” indicates that of the total headcount of 10,626 students, 34% are in transfer students, 44% are workforce education students, and 23% are ABE, ESL, or Continuing Education students.
I didn’t realize that [...]
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Isn’t this the best way to gather data! I was posting some V-Day signs on the doors of Anthon 102 for Dodie today and found a couple of hand-outs left behind in the room.
“More than 75 percent of the students taking pre-college courses have been out of high school for 4 or more years.” Older [...]
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I found this statistic today (as I was cleaning off my desk at the writing center) in a document we got during convocation. The topic of seatbelts drew my attention just because it drives me crazy when people don’t wear them (especially when people actually argue that there’s no need to “because when it’s your [...]
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