Work begins on accountability framework
Over the next 18 months, three working groups will develop the Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for Community Colleges. They will focus on: student persistence and outcomes; workforce, economic and community development; and communications and college engagement.
The 37 people serving on the working groups represent a cross section of the nation’s community colleges with experienced leaders from rural, suburban and urban community colleges.
“Our goal is to make VFA a compilation of measures by community colleges forcommunity colleges,” Kent Phillippe, associate vice president of research and student success at the American Association of Community Colleges(AACC), said at the groups’ first meeting recently. Phillippe is directing the second phase of VFA for AACC.
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