1999-2000 Indicator Report Findings

"At a Glance"

Goal 1: Career and Transfer Preparation

• Surveyed employers indicated the DCCCD is successfully preparing students for the workplace.
• Student academic performance after transfer to a 4-year university resembled that of students who began their higher education at a university.

Goal 2: Continuing Education

• Growth continued in workforce training courses.
• Forty percent of continuing education students were "repeat customers."

Goal 3: Basic Skills

• Students who completed remediation and enrolled in a related college-level course had higher success rates than non-remediated students.
• All DCCCD colleges exceeded the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board performance standards for developmental student graduation/transfer rates.
• Enrollments in English as a Second Language courses continued to increase and such courses had one of the highest completion rates of DCCCD courses.

Goal 4: Distance Learning

• Recent growth in distance education was attributed to increasing enrollments in courses delivered over the internet.
• Student success rates were higher in on-line courses than telecourses.

Goal 5: Access

• The student body mirrored Hispanic and African-American populations, was lower than Anglo and higher than Asian populations.
• Almost 9% of the adult county population were served through DCCCD credit and non-credit instruction during the year.

Goal 6: Economic Development

• Over 280 businesses contracted with the DCCCD to provide training to their employees.
• A total of $5,315,317 in revenue was generated from contracts and new grants.

Goal 7: Citizenship

• More than 1,200 students completed their service learning commitment resulting in a contribution of 23,158 volunteer hours to the community.
• Service learning students had higher fall to spring retention rates than non-service learning students.

Prepared by District Office of Research, August 2000

1999-2000 Board Indicator Reports