Role and Responsibility for Student Success

The following Board policy addresses the Board's role and responsibility for student success. In addition, it establishes measures of accountability to monitor the college's efforts and the effectiveness of those efforts in achieving student success.

1. The Board of Trustees defines student success as the achievement of high quality, highly valued outcomes from the student’s total experience at PCC in terms of his/her goals and expectations.
2. The Board of Trustees shall not delegate or relinquish its responsibility for assuring that all possible means – goals, strategies, processes and resources – are directed toward achieving a high degree of student success.
3. Given that responsibility, the Board directs the president to identify key indicators of student success and to develop, for Board approval, quantifiable measures of the same. Such indicators shall include, but not be limited, to the following:

a. Graduation and transfer rates by entering cohorts.
b. Course retention rates and success.
c. Retention. Fall to Fall and Fall to Spring.
d. Average GPAs by department/program.
e. Student Learning Outcomes Assessment, e.g., CAAP/WorkKeys scores.
f. Employment rates by major or related area of study.
g. Rates and success of student transfers.
h. Student Satisfaction, e.g., Noel-Levitz Survey results.

4. Such indicators/measurements will be included in the college's Management Information System (MIS) and regularly reported to the Board as a means of determining the college's overall effectiveness in terms of student success.
5. Relevant benchmarks/standards will be adopted to aid the Board in determining the college's efforts, improvements and outcomes as they relate to student success.
6. The administration will provide the Board an annual composite analysis of the key indicators which will include findings, conclusions, recommendations for improvement and/or corrective actions where necessary.
7. The Board of Trustees will be responsible for providing appropriate support for the attainment of adoptive benchmarks, standards, recommendations for improvement and/or corrective actions as needed.

X This is a new policy.