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College of the Redwoods
Redwoods Community College District
College Performance Indicators
Student Progress and Achievement: Degree/Certificate/Transfer
Table 1.1:
Student Progress and
Achievement Rate
Percentage of first-time students who showed intent to complete and who achieved any of the
following outcomes within six years: Transferred to a four-year college; or earned an AA/AS;
or earned a Certificate (18 units or more); or achieved "Transfer Directed" status; or achieved
"Transfer Prepared" status. (See explanation in Appendix B.)
1998-1999
to 2003-2004
Student Progress
and Achievement Rate
Table 1.1a:
Percent of Students Who
Earned at Least 30 Units
51.1 %
51.4%
2000-2001
to 2005-2006
47.1 %
Percentage of first-time students who showed intent to complete and who earned at least 30
units while in the California Community College System. (See explanation in Appendix B.)
1998-1999
to 2003-2004
Percent of Students Who
Earned at Least 30 Units
Table 1.2:
Persistence Rate
1999-2000
to 2004-2005
1999-2000
to 2004-2005
70.0 %
71.6%
2000-2001
to 2005-2006
73.1 %
Percentage of first-time students with a minimum of six units earned in a Fall term and who
returned and enrolled in the subsequent Fall term anywhere in the system. (See explanation in
Appendix B.)
Persistence Rate
Fall 2002 to
Fall 2003
Fall 2003 to
Fall 2004
Fall 2004 to
Fall 2005
59.2 %
58.9%
59.4 %
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College Performance Indicators
Student Progress and Achievement: Vocational/Occupational/Workforce Development
Table 1.3:
Annual Successful Course
Completion Rate for
Credit Vocational Courses
See explanation in Appendix B.
Annual Successful Course
Completion Rate for
Vocational Courses
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
77.3 %
86.8%
81.7 %
Pre-Collegiate Improvement: Basic Skills and ESL
Table 1.4:
Annual Successful Course
Completion Rate for
Credit Basic Skills Courses
See explanation in Appendix B.
2003-2004
Annual Successful Course
Completion Rate for
Basic Skills Courses
Table 1.5:
Improvement Rates for ESL
and Credit Basic Skills Courses
2004-2005
68.5 %
62.8%
2001-2002 to
2003-2004
2002-2003 to
2004-2005
2005-2006
66.1 %
See explanation in Appendix B.
2003-2004 to
2005-2006
ESL Improvement Rate *
47.6%
%
94.1%
Basic Skills Improvement Rate
51.6%
52.2%
51.4%
* Based on inter-institutional differences in the coding of data from ESL programs and other anomalies in the existing ESL
data, the ESL Improvement Rates presented in this table lack reliability, and, therefore, rates are shown only for illustrative
purposes. Planned changes to data coding, among other strategies, should improve the quality of this indicator in future
ARCC reports.
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College Profile
Table 1.6:
Annual Unduplicated Headcount and
Full-Time Equivalent Students (FTES)
2003-2004
Annual Unduplicated Headcount
FTES*
2004-2005
2005-2006
10,329
10,068
9,026
5,529
4,987
4,921
Source: Chancellor's Office, Management Information Systems and 320 Report
*FTES data for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 are based on the FTES recalculation. FTES data for 2005-2006 are based on the
FTES annual data. The 2005-2006 recalculation data were not available at the time of this report.
Table 1.7:
Age of Students at Enrollment
2003-2004
2004-2005
4.5%
4.5%
4.6%
18 - 24
44.1%
43.0%
45.1%
25 - 49
39.9%
39.9%
39.0%
Over 49
11.3%
12.5%
11.2%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
Under 18
Unknown
2005-2006
Source: Chancellor's Office, Management Information Systems
Table 1.8:
Gender of Students
2003-2004
2004-2005
Female
55.7%
55.5%
56.7%
Male
43.4%
43.5%
42.2%
0.9%
1.1%
1.1%
Unknown
2005-2006
Source: Chancellor's Office, Management Information Systems
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College Profile
Table 1.9:
Ethnicity of Students
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
Asian
2.0%
1.9%
2.4%
Black/African American
1.5%
1.8%
1.6%
Filipino
0.3%
0.2%
0.2%
Hispanic
6.4%
6.5%
6.8%
Native American
5.7%
6.3%
6.2%
Other Non-White
1.0%
1.1%
1.1%
Pacific Islander
0.4%
0.5%
0.6%
White
71.1%
71.6%
71.0%
Unknown/Decline to State
11.5%
9.9%
10.0%
Source: Chancellor's Office, Management Information Systems
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College Peer Grouping
Table 1.10: Peer Grouping
Indicator
College's
Rate
Peer Group
Average
Peer Group
Low
Peer Group
High
Peer
Group
A
Student Progress and Achievement Rate
47.1
51.3
42.8
59.3
A6
B
Percent of Students Who Earned at Least
30 Units
73.1
69.3
55.6
78.6
B2
C
Persistence Rate
59.4
66.6
52.1
78.9
C2
D
Annual Successful Course Completion Rate
for Credit Vocational Courses
81.7
79.4
71.8
83.2
D5
E
Annual Successful Course Completion Rate
for Credit Basic Skills Courses
66.1
61.4
52.4
69.0
E1
F
Improvement Rate for Credit Basic Skills
Courses
51.4
48.0
28.1
55.0
F6
Note: Please refer to Appendix B for the specifications of these rates. The technical details of the peer grouping process are available in Appendix D.
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College Self-Assessment
College of the Redwoods (CR) is located on the northern coast of California and serves Del Norte County,
Humboldt County, western Trinity County, and coastal Mendocino County. Despite its geographical
challenges and the broad diversity of the communities it serves, College of the Redwoods has a long and
successful history of providing comprehensive postsecondary educational opportunities that include
university transfer programs, career and technical programs, workforce-development programs, and
programs to support lifelong learning in this remote region of northern California.
College of the Redwoods has experienced a significant decline in enrollment over the last five years, linked
in part to declining enrollments in local high schools. However, over this same time period, the percentage
of students earning at least 30 units has increased, and successful course-completion rates in career and
technical programs have also increased. The persistence rate and basic-skills-improvement rate have
remained relatively constant, while decreases have occurred in the student-progress-and-achievement rate
and in the basic-skills course-completion rate.
Compared to its ARCC-identified peer institutions, College of the Redwoods shows rates for student
progress/achievement and for student persistence that are below the average of the peer group; however,
the college is above the average of its ARCC-identified peer institutions on the rest of the indicators.
Indicators in the most recent year at College of the Redwoods are similar in comparison to those of the nine
far-northern California colleges that are our geographic peers (Butte, Feather River, Lassen, Mendocino,
Napa, Shasta, Solano, Siskiyous, and Yuba). CR's student progress and achievement rate is below the
average, the persistence rate is within one percent, and all other indicators are from four percent to 7.5
percent above the averages of our nine comparable far-north colleges.
To improve our ability to track and analyze the data needed to strengthen decision making across all areas
of the college, including the accountability reporting discussed above, the college applied for and received a
federal Title III grant in 2005. The funding from this grant is being used to create an institutional research
department that will enable a higher level of data-supported decision making throughout the college.
College of the Redwoods is committed to its mission of "maximizing the success of each student with the
expectation that each student will meet her or his educational goal, achieve appropriate learning outcomes in
his/her courses and programs, and develop an appreciation for life-long learning."
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