[C4he] Opportunity - Community College Benchmarking Projects

[Valerie Martin Conley]

I thought some of our community college colleagues might be interested 
in information regrading two on-going benchmarking projects and the 
accompanying annual conference: 

*2009 Enrollment Open for Two National Community College Benchmarking 
Projects*
Enrollment is now officially open for two national community college 
benchmarking projects: The Kansas Study of Community College 
Instructional Costs and Productivity (www.kansasstudy.org) and the 
National Community College Benchmark Project (NCCBP: www.nccbp.org).

The Kansas Study collects and reports data on instructional workload 
(percent credit hours taught by full- and part-time faculty) and the 
direct costs of instruction, by discipline.

The NCCBP collects and reports data on a variety of student outcomes, 
retention, developmental education, minority participation, market 
penetration, contract training, student/faculty ratio, faculty load, 
human resources, and professional development variables, at the 
institutional level.

Participants in both projects 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 
websites.

For additional information, including enrollment forms and procedures, 
go to the respective project websites identified above.  Questions may 
be directed to Jeff Seybert, Director, Institutional Research, Johnson 
County Community College (jseybert at jccc.edu).

*Benchmarking in Community Colleges--the 2009 Annual Conference: Call 
for Papers*
"The National Benchmarking and Best Practices Conference" will be held 
at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, June 23-25, 
2009.  Conference organizers invite proposals for 45 minute 
presentations on any topic related to benchmarking in higher education 
including peer selection; data collection instruments, methodologies, & 
processes; data sharing/benchmarking consortia; best practices in 
benchmarking and use of comparative data; national data 
collection/sharing initiatives, and similar issues.  Proposals should 
include the paper title, author and affiliation, and a 50-75 word 
abstract.  Please send proposals and direct questions to Jeff Seybert, 
Director, National Higher Education Benchmarking Institute, Johnson 
County Community College, jseybert at jccc.edu or (913)469-8500, ext. 3442.

-- 
Valerie Martin Conley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Higher Education and
   Director, Center for Higher Education
Department of Counseling and Higher Education
Ohio University            
105D McCracken Hall             
Athens, OH 45701
tel:740-593-9426/fax:740-593-0477
conleyv at ohio.edu
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~conleyv/