League Reaffirmation - Johnson County Community College

“The National Community College
Benchmark Project has been
integrated into multiple research
and reporting efforts at Nashville
State. We have used it for
documenting/benchmarking in
our general education review
and in our student services
staffing plan, our college
“Participation in these national benchmarking efforts
affords colleges the opportunity to compare themselves
with peer institutions across a wide array of critical
variables necessary for both continuous quality
improvement and reliable demonstration of
institutional effectiveness.”
– Dr. Jeffrey Seybert,
director, Institutional Research
strategic plan, accreditation
documentation, in reports to
our foundation and employees,
and in our workforce training
business plan. In addition,
NCCBP data have been
integrated into Tennessee’s
Performance Funding program.
NCCBP allows identification of
strengths and weaknesses with
For the NCCBP, 178 public community colleges participated in
the 2007 data collection. When benchmark data have been
verified and updated, the following reports are provided to
subscribing institutions:
• a national aggregate report, customized for each institution,
showing benchmark data and the institution’s percentile rank.
• a subscriber directory, including information about the
subscribing institutions’ enrollments, service areas and
demographics.
• best practices institutions, identifying institutions that scored
above the 80 th percentile on benchmarks.
Peer comparisons are also available through the NCCBP Web
site: http://www.nccbp.org.
A second project, the Kansas Study of Community College
Instructional Costs and Productivity, developed with support of a
FIPSE grant, provides comparative data on instructional costs and
faculty productivity at the academic discipline level of analyses.
Data from these studies enable JCCC and other participating
two­year colleges to compare performance against similar
institutions on a national basis.
credible data. The innovative
efforts of JCCC give Nashville
State easy access to comparable
data and the ability to benchmark
with appropriate peers.”
– Ellen J. Weed,
vice president for academic
affairs, Nashville State
Technical Community College
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