A newsletter for the students, faculty and staff of the Collin County Community College District. Published monthly. For information or submissions, call 972.599.3142. Cougar News welcomes student and faculty submissions. Next deadline: Aug. 10 All submissions are due by 5 p.m. on the due date. Photos cannot be returned. Text should be emailed to mrobinson@ccccd.edu or sent on disk. Please submit copy that is proofed, edited and saved in Word format. Cougar News staff: Lisa Vasquez, director; Mark Robinson, editor; Marcy Cadena-Smith, contributor; Sydney Portilla-Diggs, student correspondent; Stephanie Hall, student correspondent; Garrison Reid, special contributor; Lisa Huang, special contributor; Nick Young, photography and layout.
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Quick Facts
Collin participated in the National Community College Benchmark Project (NCCBP) for the first time in 2005. The NCCBP, a community college consortium, collects comparative data in critical performance areas and provides subscriber institutions with reports that allow them to make benchmark comparisons with other community colleges. The table below presents selected items from the most recent benchmark report. The report provides Collin’s data, indicates how many institutions provided data for a given element, and provides a set of percentile ranges with which Collin’s data can be compared. The data are from fall 2003.
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Measure |
Collin |
No. of Reporting Institutions |
Collin's Percentile Rank |
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% Credit Hours Taught in Transfer Courses |
80% |
96 |
Above 90th |
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% Revenues from Tuition |
15% |
106 |
Below 10th |
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Next-term Persistence Rate |
68% |
104 |
50th |
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Fall-to-Fall Persistence Rate |
47% |
105 |
50th |
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Course Completion Rate |
79% |
108 |
Below 10th |
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% High School Graduates in Service Area Enrolling in Institution |
25% |
80 |
Between 50th-75th |
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Credit Student Market Penetration Rate |
4.5% |
100 |
Between 75th-90th |
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Non-Credit Student Market Penetration Rate |
2.6% |
100 |
Between 50th-75th |
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Credit Distance Learning Hours as % of Total Credit Hours |
7% |
90 |
Between 50th-75th |
[Source: National Community College Benchmark Project. Report of 2005, Aggregate Data]
For questions or comments, call Nasreen Ahmad at 972.377.1610.
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