Who Are Our Students?

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Who Are Our Students?

• Inge Bond
• Presentation to College Council
• November 4, 2011

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Fast Facts - Fall 2011

• 11,013 students enrolled
• Average number of units of enrollment 8.2
• 32 attend WVC full time
• 22 of enrollments are in distance courses

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Student Age
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Student Ethnicity
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Student Gender
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What Do They Need?

• Financial Aid
• 4,000 students receive BOG waivers (2010-2011)
• Annual financial aid awarded 8,816,000

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What Do They Need? (contd)

• Developmental Education 6 of enrollments are
  in Basic Skills courses
• 1,400 students receive tutoring annually
• Support services
• 4 of students have a disability

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What Are They Studying?

• Most popular degrees, 2010-2011
• Interdisciplinary Studies (Liberal Arts)
• Humanities (English, Communication)
• Public Protective Services (Administration of
  Justice)
• Most popular certificates, 2010-2011
• Business Management
• Health Care Technologies
• Court Reporting

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How Are They Doing?

• Success of students completing the course with
  a grade of A, B, C, or CR
• Retention of students completing the course
  with a grade other than W

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Equity
Retention by Ethnicity Descending Retention by Ethnicity Descending
2010/2011 Academic Year 2010/2011 Academic Year
Ethnicity Retention Rate
Asian 85.0
Unknown 84.9
Filipino 84.5
White Non-Hispanic 83.7
American Indian/Alaskan Native 83.6
Hispanic 81.8
African-American 80.1
Multi-Ethnicity 78.0
Pacific Islander 76.5
   
College Average 83.3
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Equity, contd
Success by Ethnicity Descending Success by Ethnicity Descending
2010/2011 Academic Year 2010/2011 Academic Year
Ethnicity Success Rate
Asian 69.5
Unknown 66.8
White Non-Hispanic 65.3
Filipino 64.3
Hispanic 58.6
American Indian/Alaskan Native 58.2
Multi-Ethnicity 56.0
Pacific Islander 54.5
African-American 50.3
   
College Average 63.7
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Moving On Life After WVC

• In 2010-2011
• 540 earned Associate degrees
• 184 earned Certificates
• In 2009-2010
• 124 transferred to a UC
• 328 transferred to a CSU
• 46 of those with behavioral intent to transfer
  (a.k.a. transfer velocity) did so within 6 years

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Questions or Comments

• Thank you!