Institutional Performance

The Office of Institutional Effectiveness (IE) at Lake Tahoe Community College coordinates the process of identifying relevant measures of program and institutional performance, establishing baseline data, defining short and long-term goals, and reporting outcomes. This overall approach to maintaining accountability ensures that the College meets regional accreditation standards as well as state and federal regulations. Additionally, this promotes a culture of inquiry and thoughtful dialogue regarding the College's progress toward fulfilling its mission and vision.

Student Right-to-Know Disclosure

As a consumer, you have the right to know about your chances of college success. "Student Right to Know" (SRTK) refers to a federally mandated public disclosure of a college's Completion Rate and Transfer Rate. The intent of SRTK is to provide the consumer with a statistic of comparable effectiveness that they can use to determine their college choice.

Visit the Student Right to Know website for further information as well as specific college data.

 

The Scorecard is designed to provide end-users with a convenient place to view a snapshot of historical data, progress, and target goals. Target goals are determined by LTCC. Like the 2021 Scorecard presented to the Board of Trustees (Board) on May 25th, 2021, the 2022 version focuses on local goals and those identified in this year's Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) 2020-21 Annual Report. To assist with understanding the LTCC Scorecard, a Scorecard Data Definitions document is provided (Attachment #2).

Scorecard data reveals that course success rates have remained consistent and learning progress metrics have increased. However, student enrollment and completion rates have experienced declines likely related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Caldor Fire. In response to these changes, LTCC has returned to offer face-to-face programming, launched an institution-wide effort to recruit and recapture students and improve enrollment processes, secured a number of grants focused on student access and success, and reinvested in the guided pathways framework to support students through to graduation. These combined efforts are expected to result in improved enrollment and success rates in the current year and beyond.   

Included in the LTCC Scorecard:

  • Local Goals
    • Registration rates of applicants
    • Student enrollment (including enrollment from recent graduating classes of South Tahoe High School)
    • Course success
    • Learning progress (transfer-level math and English completion, persistence, and graduation and transfer counts)
  • ACCJC
    • Student achievement (Completions and Transfers)
Scorecard:

The Scorecard was developed in 2012 and is the current accountability framework for the California Community Colleges (CCC). The purpose of the Scorecard is to provide stakeholders with clear and concise information about student progress and success. The core of the framework is a series of college-level metrics. Several of the measures were carried over from the previous reporting system, the Accountability Reporting for the Community Colleges (ARCC), triggered by Assembly Bill 1417 in 2004. The ARCC framework represented a number of priorities, including using measures that reflect the breadth and scope of college missions and providing a standardized view of each college’s performance. These original principals have been carried over to the current accountability framework, the Scorecard. The Scorecard may not be updated in the future.

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The Career & Technical Education Employment Outcomes Survey (CTEOS) is a statewide survey administered annually for the Chancellor's Office, to assess the employment outcomes of students who have participated in career technical education (CTE) coursework at California Community Colleges. For more information visit our homepage at cteos.org.

IPEDS is the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. It is a system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). IPEDS gathers information from every college, university, and technical and vocational institution that participates in the federal student financial aid programs. The Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, requires that institutions that participate in federal student aid programs report data on enrollments, program completions, graduation rates, faculty and staff, finances, institutional prices, and student financial aid. These data are made available to students and parents through the College Navigator college search Web site and to researchers and others through the IPEDS Data Center. To learn more about IPEDS Survey components, visit the IPEDS Survey Component website.

The California Community College Chancellor's Office has put together dashboards to communicate student success and student outcomes of the selected college or statewide.