What is VFA v VFA is a national

What is VFA? v VFA is a national accountability system to measure how 2 -year colleges serve their students. The VFA metrics encompass the community college mission and the diversity of the students’ goals. Why are Iowa community colleges joining the VFA? v As a proactive step to establish accountability measures for CCs in order to prevent the federal government from defining for CCs what data elements best show accountability v To effectively inform the development of initiatives to meet the needs of our students How can we benefit from participation in VFA? v Application of common logic and metrics will facilitate benchmarking between Iowa community colleges and community colleges nationally v The resulting dataset can be used by individual colleges to identify areas of concern for additional root cause analysis and track their progress

v How can we efficiently and effectively collect, report and use this data? Collaboration. Presidents Institutional Research VFA Steering Committee* VFA Subcommittees ** * Terry Murrell (WITCC), Jeremy Varner (DE), Marlene Sprouse (IHCC), Chris Duree (IVCC), Michael Ash (SCC), Jane Bradley (HCC), Erin Volk (WITCC) ** Core/Credit: Cort Iverson (KCC), Lor Miller (NICC), Lisa Breja (IVCC), Erin Volk (WITCC), Trudie Pearcy (DE), Monte Burroughs (DE), Vlad Bassis (DE), Geoff Jones (DE) Non-credit: Brenda Ireland (KCC), Wendy Knight (NICC) ABE: Jennifer Wilson (IVCC), Marcel Kielkucki (KCC)

VFA Credit Metrics C O H O R T S MAIN (all new to your CC) 2 -Year CREDENTIALSEEKING (by behavior) FIRST-TIME (IPEDS) P R O G R E S S MAIN (all new to your CC) & 6 -Year CREDENTIALSEEKING (by behavior) FIRST-TIME (IPEDS) O U T C O M E S 2 -Year Progress First-term credit hour success Credit threshold by end of Year 2 Fall to Spring retention 2 -year credit hour success 2 -Year Outcomes Completed of certificate, diploma, degree Transferred to 2 - or 4 -year institution Still enrolled Developmental Education Progress* Referred to developmental Math, English, Reading Among referred, completed of highest developmental course Among referred, completed college-level course Among referred, attempted any Among referred, completed all 2 -Year Progress* First-term credit hour success Credit threshold by end of Year 2 Fall to Spring retention 2 -year credit hour success 2 -Year Outcomes* Completed of certificate, diploma, degree Transferred to 2 - or 4 -year institution Still enrolled Developmental Education Progress Referred to developmental Math, English, Reading Among referred, completed of highest developmental course Among referred, completed college-level course Among referred, attempted any Among referred, completed all 6 -Year Outcomes Associate degree with transfer Associate degree without transfer Certificate/Diploma without transfer Transfer, no award Still enrolled Leaver, 30+ credits Leaver, <30 credits D I S A G G R E G A T I O N *Optional Gender Race/Ethnicity Age Pell Status College-readiness Full-time/Part-time

VFA CTE Metrics C O H O R T S CTE Completer/Leaver Cohort (single academic year) Credit Non-Credit P R O F I L E Enrollment Unduplicated headcount Duplicated seat-count Awards/Completions Formal awards Program completers Degree prior to enrollment Bachelor's or Associate degree O U T C O M E S Licensure exam passage rate State/industry recognized credentials Employed with a livable wage Median wage growth Transition to credit coursework D I S A G G R E G A T I O N None VFA ABE/GED Metrics Race/Ethnicity C O H O R T ABE/GED (single academic year) O U T C O M E S ABE/GED completion Enrolled in additional education Gained employment D I S A G G R E G A T I O N Age http: //vfa. aacc. nche. edu/Documents/VFAMetrics. Manual. pdf Gender

DE-CC-VFA Data Exchange 1 2 5 3 4 1. DE creates retrospective VFA cohorts using MIS data, sends to CCs for validation and flagging of additional elements 2. CCs return flagged MIS data to DE for application of common VFA logic 3. DE enters data into VFA system 4. CCs approve VFA data and publish 5. DE provides CCs access to “raw” data for CC-specific queries The need for DE CC data exchange will decline as VFA-specific fields are appended to the MIS reports

Proposed VFA Timeline October 2015 VFA Update at IACCAIR meeting Modification of FY 16 MIS Manual Monthly IACCAIR listserv updates from Sub-committee Share. Point site managed by DE

VFA FAQs MIS VFA • What are the “additional elements”? – IPEDS cohort (STU), Pell eligible (STU), Level of college readiness by subject (STU & CRS), term (CRS), successful completion (CRS) • How will transfer outcomes be determined? – The DE will determine transfer via the National Student Clearinghouse • How will the CCs retain data ownership? – Submit & Publish approach, formal MOU drafted by VFA Steering Committee • What is the impact of this effort on ICCCI or NCCBP? – Participation in these benchmarking projects is at the discretion of each College. VFA is currently the sole focus of the CC-DE collaboration

VFA fields for bi-directional data exchange Field Prototype values Comments Stu. VFACohort Stu. VFAEnrollment. Status DE will determined based on student’s Course file with FT being defined as attempted 12 or more during the student's first fall term using the MIS Fall file Stu. VFAAge DE will calculate based on student’s DOB relative to Aug 31 of the cohort year DE FY. Stu. VFADegree. Seeking. IPEDS FY(Fall)Stu. VFAPell. Awarded. Within 6 yrs (Eligible) This value for a student in the 2 yr cohort may change by the time this student is reported in the 6 yr cohort. FY. Stu. VFACollege. Ready_Math FY. Stu. VFACollege. Ready_English (writing) FY. Stu. VFACollege. Ready_Reading CC FY. Stu. VFACollege. Ready_English. Reading. Combo FY. Crse. VFACollege. Ready FY. Crse. VFADevelopmental. Discipline FY. Crse. VFATerm (outcome/not cohort) Crse. VFASuccessful. Completion. Flag - Note: same values for self paced courses

Please join us for a discussion with Kent Phillippe, Senior Research Associate for VFA/AACC at the Presidents’ Retreat on June 5 th at 11 am at Hawkeye Community College Email for RSVP to follow