Part One: Background for the Curriculum
Adjunct Faculty Development Program History:
Curriculum's have a history. This particular curriculum was designed to address the deficiencies in the Colleges' student completion rate in enrolled courses of study. The current completion rate for is approximately 46%.
The data used for evaluation is part of a national effort to increase community college graduation rates by concentrating on "student engagement" factors.
To help community colleges see how they are doing relative to their peers, the CCSSE (Community College Survey of Student Engagement) was created. Data from the project began during the 2009 school year. The Ivy Tech system joined in 2011. The data used for this analysis is only for one year, 2011. The CCSSE is housed in Texas and is a product of the cooperation of several different philotropic agencies."CCSSE was established in 2001 as a project of the Community College Leadership Program at The University of Texas at Austin. Major grants from the Houston Endowment, the Lumina Foundation for Education, the MetLife Foundation, and The Pew Charitable Trusts have supported the work." (CCSSE, 2011) The focus of the accreditation group is on student engagement.
"From the beginning, though, there was a recognized need for a student engagement survey specifically designed for community and technical colleges. Thus, CCSSE was launched in 2001, with the intention of producing new information about community college quality and performance that would provide value to institutions in their efforts to improve student learning and retention, while also providing policymakers and the public with more appropriate ways to view the quality of undergraduate education." (CCSSE, 2011)