BOARD OF TRUSTEES' EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1997-98 Indicator Reporting Overview

The 1997-98 reporting cycle completed the third rotation of reporting on indicators related to the seven district-wide goals. This report highlights the findings relative to each goal previously detailed in the individual reports.

A student success model is also included which presents a broad overview of student progress. The model addresses the supplemental forms of educational success that occur in addition to degree completion and reveals that 98% of credit students experienced one or more successful educational outcomes.
 

Goal 1: Career and Transfer Preparation

• Of the credit students who did not return in fall, 89% were employed and/or seeking additional education at a Texas public higher education institution.
• The 11,171 former DCCCD students who enrolled in a Texas public university last fall represented a 12% increase over the prior year.
• The 2,597 degrees and certificates awarded in 1996-97 were up 11% from 1992-93.

Goal 2: Continuing Education

• The majority of continuing education contact hours, generated by workforce training courses, increased 40% over the last five years.
• Over 28% of the 66,408 continuing education students in 1996-97, had enrolled in at least one continuing education course in the prior three years.

Goal 3: Basic Skills

• Most (81%) ESL instruction was offered through continuing education, where enrollments increased 166% from 1992-93 to 1996-97.
• The 16,600 students enrolled in ESL instruction represented 7% of the non-English speaking Dallas county adult population.
• Fifty-six percent of developmental math, 70% of developmental writing and 56% of developmental reading students who retested, passed the corresponding TASP section.
• Students who completed a developmental course had higher success rates in a related college-level course than their classmates without the developmental course.

Goal 4: Distance Learning

• Enrollments in telecourses continued to account for the vast majority (86%) of distance learning enrollments, yet enrollments in on-line courses were increasing at a high rate.
• While distance learning courses represented only 3-5% of total course offerings, 25% of all graduates had successfully completed one or more distance learning courses.

Goal 5: Access

• The combined credit and non-credit student body was similar to the adult county population for Hispanic and African-American residents, lower than the Anglo population and higher than the Asian population.
• Using a success rate defined as retained students plus non-returning students who left in academic good standing, the fall to spring success rates were 89% for full-time and 86% for part-time students.

Goal 6: Economic Development

• A total of 246 businesses contracted $3,835,573 for customized training of 18,670 individuals last year. Of those businesses, 65% were repeat contract training customers.
• By the completion dates of six Skills Development Grants, 1,492 jobs will have been created and 303 jobs retained.

Goal 7: Citizenship

• Approximately 10,000 students district-wide, attended college diversity awareness programs in 1997-98.
• Almost 85% of students who attended these events and completed a survey indicated the event either improved or greatly improved their knowledge of the particular topic area.
• 98% of these students also indicated that "campus events such as this have enhanced my ability to interact in a multi-cultural society" either some or a great deal.

Prepared by District Office of Research, August 1998

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