Goal 2: DCCCD students will obtain quality continuing education to enrich their lives personally, socially, and culturally and to upgrade occupational and job skills.

 Continuing education programs include those for professional development, occupational training or retraining, recreational and personal interest. Coordinating Board reimbursed courses are related to career development and/or job skills and are referred to in this report as workforce training. Non-reimbursed courses are creative and performing arts, leisure skills, and youth programs and are referred to as personal interest.

The following District-wide measures are reported:

-- continuing education contact hour trends,

-- distribution of headcount by ethnicity, and

-- percent of continuing education students who are repeat customers

Findings

• Workforce training courses generated most of the continuing education contact hours (83%).
• Contact hours from personal interest courses decreased 10% while workforce training contact hours increased 62% from 1993-94 to 1997-98.
• Of the 1997-98 continuing education students, 48% were Anglo, 13% African-American, 22% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 2% Non-resident alien, 1% American Indian and 6% did not have ethnicity on record.
• More than a quarter of the 67,654 students enrolled in a continuing education course in 1997-98, had enrolled in one or more continuing education course in the prior three years.

For the fourth year in a row, continuing education enrollments increased due to the growth in workforce training related courses. In fact, the DCCCD generated more workforce training contact hours than any of the other "Top Ten" community colleges and districts in Texas. In addition, such contact hours represented a greater percent of the total District contact hours (7% fall 1996) than the average of the Top Ten (3% fall 1996).

 

Total Contact Hr % Change	BHC	BJP	CVC	EFC	ECC	MVC	NLC	RLC
93/94 - 97/98	12.7%	153.3%	29.2%	13.3%	50.9%	31.8%	38.5%	53.0%
96/97 - 97/98	1.3%	126.1%	-2.8%	2.4%	-2.2%	15.1%	7.0%	6.7%

 
Data Source: CBM-00C reports, 1998 Annual Data Profiles, IE Critical Success Factor: Achievement, http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/divisions/ctc/ie/ctcadp
Contact hour data may vary slightly from earlier indicator reports due to correction of errors found in previous data.
Data are reported on a quarter rather than semester based accounting period. For example, 1997-98 reflects 3rd quarter 1997 through 2nd quarter 1998.
Prepared by District Office of Research, February 1999

1998-99 Board Indicator Reports