Whereas, The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) has historically provided a system-wide, collegially developed center for data collection and analysis, DataMart, which has been identified nationwide as one of the richest and largest higher education databases;
Whereas, Legislation such as AB 705 (Irwin, 2017), AB 1805 (Irwin, 2018), and the Student Centered Funding Formula increases the need to have accurate and meaningful data, such as time to completion, student data shared among multiple California community colleges, and connection to private and out-of-state transfer data, driving reliance on system-wide data and complex data analyses;
Whereas, The CCCCO Management Information System (MIS) and research areas are currently understaffed, forcing reliance upon external consultants who are unfamiliar with data context, data implications, curriculum, and unintended consequences that affect the allocation of funds and the data-image of the community college system; and
Whereas, Correcting MIS data elements through collaboration among system partners and expanding the CCCCO data submission and retrieval of information on nationwide transfer through the existing Clearinghouse subscription would provide more accurate and currently missing information regarding the completion data on the students in the California Community Colleges System;
Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges work with the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) to evaluate needs and encourage the CCCCO to fund and staff adequate system-wide research within the Digital Innovations and Infrastructures (DII) Division; and
Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) urge the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office to correct Management Information System (MIS) data elements based upon the work of the ASCCC and RP Group and include nationwide transfer data by updating the Clearinghouse subscription to provide individual colleges with nationwide transfer data.
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