1. Core Outcomes: Completion of Degrees & Certificates AND Time & Units to Completion
Layheng Ting, Ph.D.
Institutional Research Analyst
October 20, 2017
Present Outline here: Each core outcome will include Metrics with Operational Definitions; Data; & Benchmark.

2. Degree & Certificate Completion
Core Outcome:
Degree & Certificate Completion

3. Operational Definitions
Certificate – Number of Chancellor’s Office approved certificates (requiring 30 to < 60 semester units) completed.
Degree – Number of Associate Degree completed
Graduate or Completer – Student who received one or more certificates or degrees in the specified year, with each student counted once.
Graduation Rate:  Percentage of full-time, first time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students in a particular year after removing any allowable exclusions (adjusted cohort), who completed their program within 150 percent of normal time to completion.
IPEDS: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

4. Number of Awards 97% Increase
Source: Chancellor’s Office, Data Mart, Accessed on 9/22/2017
97% Increase

5. Completer/Graduate 57% Increase
Source: Chancellor’s Office, Data on Demand, accessed on 9/22/2017
57% Increase
Goal in Vision for Success: Increase by at least 20 percent annually the number of students earning an associate degree, credential, certificate, or specific skill set.

6. Graduation Rates
Source: IPEDS, accessed on 9/13/17

7. Benchmark
Completer: Increase by at least 20 percent annually the number of students earning an associate degree, credential, certificate, or specific skill set (Vision for Success, CCCCO, 2017)
ACCJC - Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
IEPI=Institutional effectiveness Partnership Initiative

8. Average graduation rate
Benchmark (Cont.)
Peer Institutions
Graduation rate-
Fall 2013
Fall 2014
Fall 2015
Average graduation rate
East LA 28 30 34 31
Mt San Antonio 29 32
Desert 22 23 25
West Hills Coalinga 26
Southwestern 18 19
Riverside 27
Hartnell
West Hills Lemoore 24
LA Trade 21
Cerritos 15
Reedley
Oxnard
Porterville
Long Beach City
Chaffey
Merced
Imperial Valley 17
LA Harbor
Bakersfield 20
Rio Hondo
San Bernardino
LA Mission 12 16
Compton 11 13
1. % Unprepared Students
2. % Hispanic Students
3. % Students Received Financial Aid

9. Time & Units to Degree Completion
Core Outcome:
Time & Units to Degree Completion

10. Operational Definitions
Median Time to Degree:
The median number of years from the time of a student's first enrollment at Hartnell College taking a credit course until the time they receive an AA, AS, or ADT degree.
Median Units to Degree:
The median number of units completed from the time of a student's first enrollment at Hartnell College taking a credit course until the time they receive an AA, AS, or ADT degree.
Why only “time to Degree” NOT “Time to Certificate”?

11. Vision for Success: Students earning an associate degree complete approximately 87 total units on average, 27 more units than required for most degrees or transfer preparation.
Data Source: Hartnell College’s Database, accessed on 10/02/2017

12. Benchmark for Time to Degree
 Time to Degree: 3 years (Student Right to Know)
Peer Institutions
3 year average
West Hill Coalinga
3.3
2.9
2.7
3.0
West Hill Lemoore
3.1
Reedley
3.7
3.4
El Camino
Porterville
3.9
3.8
Rio Hondo
Imperial
4.2
4.0
Los Angeles Harbor
4.3
Chaffey
San Bernardino
Desert 
Oxnard
Merced
Hartnell
4.7
4.4
Southwestern
Cerritos
Mt. San Antonio
4.8
4.5
East Los Angeles
Long Beach
4.6
Los Angeles Mission
Riverside
Bakersfield
4.9
Los Angeles Trade-Tech
5.3
5.0
Why HC data is little different form IEPI data, because MIS First Enrollment Date starts only from 1992SU. HC database pulls students’ Start Date from 1983.
Source: Chancellor's Office, IEPI

13. Benchmark for Units to Degree
 Units to Degree: 60 units
Reduce the average number of excess credits accumulated by students who complete their degrees or certificates. Students earning an associate degree complete approximately 87 total units on average, 27 more units than required for most degrees or transfer preparation (Vision for Success, 2017)
Goal in Vision for Success: Reduce the average number of excess credits accumulated by students who complete their degrees or certificates. Students earning an associate degree complete approximately 87 total units on average, 27 more units than required for most degrees or transfer preparation.
Source: CCCCO Data Mart, Accessed on 10/6/2017