2009 Performance Accountability Report Vol. 2 - Maryland Higher ...

In addition to surveys of all graduates that are conducted one year after graduation, there are also
regular surveys of the graduates from specialized programs like nursing, occupational therapy
assistant, respiratory therapy, and radiography. Information about the employment status and the
graduates’ evaluation of their programs are obtained in these surveys and are major criteria in the
accreditation of these programs.
Licensure pass rates for CCBC career programs are regularly monitored by each program and by
the specialized accrediting bodies for these programs. For many of these exams, over 90 percent
of the graduates pass on their first attempt. When fewer than 80 percent pass on their first
attempt the CCBC program coordinator and dean follow up to ensure that the program’s
outcomes become better aligned with certification standards. In Indicator 23 the pass rate trends
for 12 programs are provided. These programs continue to demonstrate strong pass rates and
several experienced an increase in pass rates over the last year. Several of the programs
experience some volatility in their pass rates because of the small numbers of graduates who take
the licensure exam in a particular year.
Enrollments in courses designed specifically for workforce development (Indicator 24), and in
professional development courses leading to licensure (Indicator 25) have been high and
relatively stable over the four year trend period. The ratio of unduplicated students to course
registrations (and the ratio of these to FTE) in these areas indicates that CCBC is successfully
recruiting students, and that more of these students are taking multiple courses, but that these
courses are generating fewer FTE as the demand for shorter, more intense courses continues to
grow.
The number of business organizations where CCBC provided training and services under
contract has been in the 200 to 250 range over most of the reporting period. However, this
number decreased to 157 in FY2008 (Indicator 26). The number of training courses delivered
under contract to particular organizations has varied over the last ten years and we expect this
variation to continue as the local economy adjusts.
Responses to surveys of organizations that contract with CCBC for employee training have
provided important monitoring information indicating that this training is meeting their needs.
For the past several years over 95 percent of these contracts have resulted in evaluations of
satisfactory or very satisfactory. These surveys are designed so that they also provide valuable
information regarding additional training opportunities that CCBC can provide to these
organizations.
As large companies and agencies have pulled back from contracts in courses that CCBC
designed exclusively for their workers, there has been some movement of these employees to
open-enrolled courses at CCBC. The number of negotiations in contract and open-enrollment
workforce development training courses has ranged from 40,338 to 46,522 during the period
(Indicator 27).
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