SPCC Is Superior!
June 20, 2007
South Piedmont Community College has been rated superior on an annual report card issued by the North Carolina Community College System that grades each of the state’s 58 community colleges on 12 performance measures.
SPCC achieved the mark for the 2005-2006 school year by meeting or exceeding state standards on 10 of the measures. The college is one of 38 rated superior in the 2007 Critical Success Factors report. The superior rating means SPCC will qualify for additional funding from the state this year. The amount of performance-based funding cannot be determined until the General Assembly sets the state budget for the coming year.
Clients of SPCC’s business and industry training services reported a 100 percent satisfaction rate. Ninety-eight percent of employers reported satisfaction with graduates of SPCC. One hundred percent of SPCC graduates were employed within one year of graduation, and 96 percent of graduates and students who left prior to graduation reported they were satisfied with their experience at SPCC. Ninety-nine percent of graduates met their individual goals.
With a system standard of 75 percent, SPCC showed 87 percent of basic skills students making progress. With a passing rate of 90 percent on state licensure and certification exams, such as those for a real estate agent or licensed practical nurse, SPCC exceeded the state standard by 10 percent.
“It’s a credit to the faculty and staff at South Piedmont Community College that we have achieved a superior rating this year,” says SPCC President John McKay. “We are working very hard to build a strong community college in Anson and Union counties, and it is gratifying to see the quality validated by the performance standards.”
The state’s performance funding plan places special emphasis on six core factors in the performance measures:
Additional performance measures are:
SPCC met five of the six core requirements. The college scored slightly below the standard on the performance of college transfer students. The results are attributed to the low numbers of students moving directly from SPCC to senior institutions to continue their studies.
SPCC has an unmet standard on the success rate of students who take developmental or remedial coursework prior to taking college level courses. As one of eight pilot sites for the development of the state’s administrative computer system for community colleges, SPCC has lost access to tracking mechanisms used to provide the data to meet this requirement.
The Critical Success Factors report analyzes data collected from a variety of sources, including students and employer surveys, college and university enrollment records, state employment statistics, university transfer records and results from selected state licensing agencies.
Read the entire 2007 Critical Success Factors Report: http://www.nccommunitycolleges.edu/Publications/docs/Publications/csf2007.pdf
