Student Characteristics by Site Enrollment: Fall 2010

1. Student Characteristics by Site Enrollment: Fall 2010 Dr. William LeBlanc Office of Institutional Research &Planning, July 20, 2011

4. Community College of Rhode IslandSome Characteristics by Site • First Generation Students • High School Status • Race/Ethnicity • Age Group • Full/Part Time • Gender • Financial Aid Awarded • Pell Grants Awarded • Beneath the Surface: What Have We Learned? • How Can We Use This Information?

5. Community College of Rhode IslandFirst Generation Students by Site 60% if exclude unknown Missing/ unknown data issues ROW * First Generation college: A student neither of whose natural or adoptive parents received a baccalaureate degree Note: Unduplicated counts only by site ; “Average” percents are approximations for reference only

6. Community College of Rhode IslandHigh School Status by Site Nearly 90% if remove unknown Note: Unduplicated counts only by site ; “Average” percents are approximations for reference only

7. Community College of Rhode IslandRace/Ethnicity by Site 58% Minorities 54% Minorities Note: Unduplicated counts only by site ; “Average” percents are approximations for reference only

8. Community College of Rhode IslandAge Group by Site Adult Learner Planning Committee

9. Community College of Rhode IslandFull/Part Time by Site What about “Schedule”-- Day 61% Evening 36% Weekend 3%

10. Community College of Rhode IslandGender by Site Planning & Public Policy Agenda

11. Community College of Rhode Island Financial Aid Awarded by Site Note: Unduplicated counts only by site: “Average” percents are approximations for reference

12. Community College of Rhode Island Pell Grants Awarded by Site AP Photo/Charles Krupa Note: Unduplicated counts only by site: “Average” percents are approximations for reference

13. Community College of Rhode IslandBeneath the Surface: What Have We Learned? • 24% of our students are enrolled at multiple “sites” • DownCity: Highest-- % First Generation, % Pell awards, % under 18 years of age and % minority • Liston “site”: Highest % females on campus (DL slightly higher); highest % of students attending part time of 4 campuses • Only 28% of Liston students are full time • Three sites report minority % above 53%: Off-Campus 82%; DownCity 59% and Liston 54% • Westerly, Newport and Distance Learning have low % of minorities • 43% of students enrolled in Distance Learning are full time • About 64% awarded some financial aid at Liston and DownCity • Most are High School graduates; 10% or less GED’s (data & myths)

14. Community College of Rhode IslandHowCan We Use This Information to Improve How We Serve Our Students? • More questions from what we have learned?? • Additional Information?? Example: Student major by site; Students by city/town by gender & ethnicity & age group; Trends • Another example: Breakdown of course enrollments by site, by day, evening, weekend and “no schedule;” Many others • Planning &Public policy implications? (Note: www.RIdatahub.org) • It’s about building business intelligence (knowledge from data) to improve how we serve out students “Greatest problem is preconceived ideas; we must use visualization and highly contextualized information in order to address improvements…” --Professor Hans Rosling (TED or www.gapminder.org ) author of “The Joy of Statistics”