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: Oct. 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, campus correspondent; Stephanie Hall, student correspondent; Tatiana Shehadeh, special contributor; Nick Young, photography and layout
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Quick Facts
Collin has conducted periodic community surveys since 1996 to assess awareness and approval of the college among the county’s adult residents. Longitudinal data from these surveys is condensed in the following tables. The surveys measure levels of awareness ranging from completely unaware of Collin to respondents who had taken classes at one of Collin’s campuses. The approval items were measured on a five-point scale ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree. Overall, there has been an increase in the awareness of Collin among the adult residents of the county. Likewise, the community’s approval of Collin continues to increase over time.
While looking at the data, it should be kept in mind that, unlike the other surveys, the 2001 survey was integrated into a broader survey administered in preparation for a bond election. Hence the sample of the survey was derived from registered voters rather than the county’s general adult population, thus introducing some unintended positive bias into the results that year.
Awareness of Collin by Year
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1996 |
1999 |
2001 |
2005 |
| Level 0: Completely Unaware of Collin |
10% |
3.5% |
.5% |
3.2% |
| Level 1: Recognition of Collin Name |
13.1% |
13.6% |
2.8% |
2% |
| Level 2: Collin Spontaneously Came to Mind |
2.2% |
3.7% |
2% |
.2% |
| Level 3: Familiar with a Collin Campus |
38% |
40.3% |
45.8% |
53.5% |
| Level 4: Respondent or Family Member Attended Collin |
36.8% |
38.9% |
48.8% |
41.2% |
| Total |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
Approval of Collin by Year
(Strongly Agree and Agree Responses Combined)
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1996 |
1999 |
2001 |
2005 |
| Collin Offers Programs that Meet Needs of Community in the Area |
63.5% |
67.2% |
78.7% |
75% |
| Collin Makes a Valuable Contribution to Economic Development of Collin County |
59.7% |
67.2% |
79.2% |
74% |
| Collin's Tax Dollars are Well Spent |
73.6% |
72.2% |
78.8% |
74.6% |
| Collin Provides High Quality Education* |
-- |
-- |
77.4% |
71.2% |
| Would Recommend Collin to Any Friend or Family Member* |
-- |
-- |
79.5% |
74.9% |
| Collin has a Positive Image in the Community* |
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83.7% | *New items were added in 2001 and 2005. The areas without statistics represent the years the items were not part of the survey.
[Source: Longitudinal Comparison of Community Survey Responses, Collin County Community College District, 1996, 1999, 2001 and 2005].
For questions or comments, call Nasreen Ahmad at 972.377.1610.
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