Month: September 2010

Bottom line boost among data’s benefits

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To Karen Stout, president of Montgomery County Community College (MCCC) in Pennsylvania, better data leads to greater institutional effectiveness. It has also helped add more than $10 million to her college’s bottom line.

Although MCCC already participates in two national data collection mechanisms in addition to the U.S. Education Department’sIntegrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Stout welcomes the more-detailed internal look at her college and the peer-to-peer comparative data she expects the Volunteer Framework of Accountability to deliver.
“For me, as a college president, it (statistical information) is a leadership tool. It makes it possible for me to go beyond the anecdotal,” Stout said.
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VFA expected to help one-person college research department

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Daniel Bain, president of Independence Community College (ICC) in Kansas, anticipates that the Voluntary Framework of Accountability  that is currently being developed will help his one-person institutional research (IR) department rather than burden it.

 IR at ICC is actually one of the many duties of the director of institutional effectiveness and retention. The director would repurpose information the college already collects for the Kansas Board of Regents and the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP), which is part of the college’s accreditation process.
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