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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Membership for the 2016 National Community College Benchmark Project (NCCBP) is now open, the original and most comprehensive benchmarking tool for community colleges.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The NCCBP collects and reports data on more than 150 community college benchmarks in the areas of</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">On-time, three-year <span style="color:black">
and six-year Full-Time and Part-Time Student Completion and Transfer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.nccbp.org/benchmarks?utm_source=Listservs&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=NCCBP"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="452" height="237" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D11BC8.2B5BF130"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Developmental and College-level Course Retention/Success</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Student Satisfaction and Engagement</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Student Services Staff Ratios</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Student Market Penetration</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Distance Learning Metrics</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Workforce Education Effectiveness Measures and other measures of institutional effectiveness (see here for a complete list of
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.nccbp.org/benchmarks?utm_source=Listservs&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=NCCBP" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">benchmarks</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Participants receive reports of both their individual institutional and national aggregate data, as well as the opportunity to select peer colleges
and create benchmark comparisons on the project website and ongoing access to your institution's 201</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">6</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> data in future
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">years. Additionally, members are now able to create custom reports within the NCCBP which include percentile bar graphs, trend graphs, scatter plots and bubble charts. All charts can be customized with
the benchmarks, the data years and the peer institutions to be presented.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The NCCBP has worked with over
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.nccbp.org/peers?utm_source=Listservs&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=NCCBP" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">450 community colleges</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
since 2004 and has a 10</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">+
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">year track record of providing valuable benchmark data for the decision-making process.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If you are new to the NCCBP, we are happy to
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.nccbp.org/schedule-demo?utm_source=Listservs&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=NCCBP">schedule a demonstration</a>
</span>of the website and the reports. For <span style="color:black">additional information, including enrollment forms and procedures, go to the project website: </span></span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.nccbp.org/?utm_source=Listservs&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=NCCBP" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">NCCBP.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to respond to this message.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Michelle D. Taylor<br>
Senior Research Analyst<br>
National Higher Education Benchmarking Institute<br>
(913)469-8500 ext. 3831<br>
<a href="http://www.NCCBP.org">www.NCCBP.org</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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