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| Research and Evaluation Information |
| Achieving
the Dream: Community Colleges Count http://www.achievingthedream.org/default.tp |
| Lumina Foundation for Education launched this major new initiative to address a national imperative: increasing success for the growing number of students for whom community colleges are the point of entry into higher education, particularly low-income students and students of color. Durham Tech is one of 27 colleges nationally to receive grant funding of up to $450,000 over 5 years. |
| Community
College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) http://www.ccsse.org/ |
| CCSSE provides information on student engagement, a key indicator of learning. The survey is a versatile, research-based tool that asks questions about institutional practices and student behaviors that are correlated highly with student learning and student retention. |
| Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE) http://www.ccsse.org/sense/ |
| The SENSE helps colleges discover why some intering students persist and succeed while others do not. It focuses on intake processes and early classroom experiences to see what is working and what needs improvement. |
| NCCCS
Publications http://www.ncccs.cc.nc.us/Publications/index.html |
| The NC Community College System publishes a variety of information for the community college system that may also contain information on individual colleges. A Matter of Facts (the NCCCS Fact Book) and Critical Success Factors Report (performance data) are good resources for individual colleges. |
| SACS
Commission on Colleges http://www.sacscoc.org/ |
| The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is the recognized regional accrediting body in the eleven U.S. Southern states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia) and in Latin America for those institutions of higher education that award associate, baccalaureate, master's or doctoral degrees. |
| UNC
System Reports on Performance of Transfer Students http://www.northcarolina.edu/ira/ir/analytics/tsp.htm |
| Detailed statistical information concerning the success of students transferring from an institution of higher learning to any of the 16 institutions of the University of North Carolina (UNC). |
| University
of North Carolina Publications http://www.northcarolina.edu/ira/ir/index.htm |
| Information on NC community colleges is included in several Office of the President publications, including the Statistical Abstract of Higher Education in North Carolina and the Facilities Inventory and Utilization Study. |
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