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Funding Formula Measures  All Degrees & Certificates  Awards per 100 FTE  Remedial & Developmental Success  Job Placement  Student Progression  Workforce Training  Research & Service  Dual Enrollment  Six Year Graduation Rate

All Degrees & Certificates  Full academic year (summer, fall, spring); annual number of bachelors, associates, certificates (24 or more credit hours), doctoral, law, masters, and educational specialist degrees awarded.  Applies to community colleges and public universities.  Funding Formula places a 40% premium on adult and low income students for this measure.  Funding Formula used 3-year average of through  Academic years on the CompleteCollegeTN site : to  Data disaggregated on the CompleteCollegeTN site by:  age group  gender  race/ethnicity  Pell eligible (at any time)  remedial and developmental status (at any time)  transfer/first-time students  discipline.

Awards per 100 FTE  Full academic year (summer, fall, spring); annual number of bachelors, associates, and certificates conferred, divided by year-round end-of-term 100 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) enrollment.  FTE enrollment is a year-round count, calculated as total student credit hours accumulated within the academic year divided by 30.  Applies to community colleges and public universities.  No premium for special populations.  Funding Formula used 3-yr avg of through  Academic years on the CompleteCollegeTN site : through  CCTN data disaggregated by:  gender  race/ethnicity  Pell eligible (at any time).

Remedial & Developmental Success  CompleteCollegeTN reports the annual number and percentage of entering first- time undergraduate students who enroll in remedial or developmental education courses in Math, English/reading, or both, and subsequently complete a college- level course.  Funding Formula uses the numbers only.  Applies to community colleges only.  No premium for special populations.  Funding Formula used 3-yr avg of fall 2005 through fall  Cohorts on CompleteCollegeTN: fall 2000 to fall  CCTN data disaggregated by:  gender  race/ethnicity  discipline  Pell eligible (at any time)  age group.

Job Placement  Annual number of placeable graduates from the spring, summer, and fall terms within a calendar year who obtain employment through June 30 of the following year.  Same definition used for Performance Funding/Quality Assurance.  Applies to community colleges only.  No premium for special populations.  Funding Formula used 3-yr avg of through  Academic years on CompleteCollegeTN: through  CCTN data disaggregated by:  None  SIS not utilized in calculating this measure. Data reported to THEC by TBR.

Student Progression  Measured by the number of students reaching predetermined cumulative credit hour benchmarks during an academic year.  In community colleges, students are counted if they reached 12, 24, or 36 credit hours during that academic year.  In public universities, students are counted if they reached 24, 48, or 72 credit hours during that academic year.  Funding Formula places a 40% premium on adult and low income students.  Funding Formula used 3-yr avg of through  Academic years on CompleteCollegeTN: through  CCTN data disaggregated by:  gender  race/ethnicity  discipline  Pell eligible (at any time)  age group  took remedial or developmental classes.

Workforce Training  Total number of contact hours for the academic year.  Contact hours are defined as a minimum of 50 minutes of learning activity for courses or activities that provide individuals with soft skills or technical skill-sets for the workplace but carry no institutional credit applicable toward a degree, diploma, or certificate.  Applies to community colleges only.  No premium for special populations.  Funding Formula used 3-yr avg of through  Academic years on CompleteCollegeTN : through  CCTN data disaggregated by:  None  SIS not utilized in calculating this measure. Data reported to THEC by TBR.

Research & Service  Funding for sponsored programs for the academic year.  Applies to public universities only.  Funding Formula used 3-yr avg of through  Academic years on CompleteCollegeTN : through  CCTN data disaggregated by:  None  SIS not utilized in calculating this measure. Data reported to THEC by system offices.

Dual Enrollment  Full academic year (summer, fall, spring); annual number of students participating in the Dual Enrollment program, not limited to the lottery scholarship Dual Enrollment Grant recipients.  Dual Enrollment allows high school students to be dually enrolled in a high school and a postsecondary institution and receive course credit at both institutions.  Applies to community colleges and public universities.  No premium for special populations.  Funding Formula used 3-yr avg of through  Academic years on CompleteCollegeTN : through  CCTN data disaggregated by:  gender  race/ethnicity  Pell eligible (at any time)  took remedial or developmental classes.

Six Year Graduation Rate  Fall cohort of first time, full-time freshmen and summer first-time freshmen who continued in fall, matched to graduates through sixth academic year.  Applies to public universities only.  Measure counts associate degrees eventually received by university freshmen.  No premium for special populations.  Funding Formula used 3-yr avg of fall 2002 to fall 2004 cohort rates.  Cohorts on CompleteCollegeTN: fall 2000 to fall  CCTN data disaggregated by:  gender  race/ethnicity  Pell eligible (at any time)  took remedial or developmental classes  age group.

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