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Florida State College at Jacksonville identifies, evaluates, and publishes goals and outcomes for student achievement, appropriate to the College’s mission, the nature of the students it serves, and the kinds of programs offered. The College uses multiple measures to document student success.

Adopted by the College’s Cabinet, the College has identified five measures to document student success:

  1. IPEDS graduation rate
  2. Fall-to-fall persistence rate
  3. Institutionally calculated graduation rates
  4. Completion of ENC1101 and/or gateway mathematics course within first year
  5. Career certificate completers.

Mission, Strategic Priorities, and Performance Measures

The College's mission is to provide high value, relevant, life-long education that enhances the intellectual, social, cultural, and economic development of our diverse community. An extension of the College’s mission, the 2020-21 strategic plan, remains focused on the ultimate goal of increasing student success.

To support this goal, the College has identified three strategic priorities:

  1. Increase enrollment,
  2. Increase retention and success, and
  3. Improve processes.

Each of the College’s measures of student achievement align directly to one or more components of the institution’s mission and strategic priorities.

As an Achieving the Dream (ATD) institution, the College also recognizes the importance of early momentum metrics. Early momentum metrics include measures related to persistence rates, completion rates, and early completion of gateway English and mathematics courses.

The Table Below illustrates each student achievement measure’s alignment to the College mission, strategic priorities, and ATD early momentum metrics.

Student Achievement Measure Alignment to Mission, Strategic Priorities, and ATD Early Momentum Metrics

Achievement Measure

Alignment to Mission

Alignment to Strategic Priority

ATD Early Momentum Metric

IPEDS Graduation Rate

Intellectual, social, and cultural development

Priority 2

No

Fall-to-Fall Persistence Rate

Intellectual, social, and cultural development

Priority 1 and 2

Yes

Institutionally Calculated Graduation Rates

Intellectual, social, and cultural development

Priority 2

Yes

Completion of ENC1101 and Gateway Mathematics Course within First Year

Intellectual, social, and cultural development

Priority 2

Yes

Program Offerings and Student Goals

The College has set goals for student achievement that are reflective of the programs offered and the nature of the students it serves. As an open-access institution serving the diverse educational needs of the residents of Duval and Nassau counties, the College offers programs that are primarily intended to immediately prepare graduates to enter the workforce or continue their education. Per the 2021-2022 Catalog, the College offers 13 Baccalaureate degrees, one Associate in Arts degree, 51 Associate in Science degrees, one Associate in Applied Science degree, 64 Technical Certificates, one Advanced Technical Certificate, and 27 Career Certificates (PSAV/Clock Hour Programs). The College also offers six Non-Degree Seeking programs and one Certificate of Professional Preparation.

The College supports the educational needs of a diverse student body. Per the College's 2019-20 Fact Book, 43,789 students were enrolled in at least one course in 2019-20. Almost 60% of those students were female and 40% male. The median student age was 25 years and the mean (average) was 28 years with almost 78% of FSCJ students attending college part-time. For 2019-20, the college’s enrollments by race/ethnicity included 27.7% of students reporting as Black or African American, 43.8% as White, 13.8% as Hispanic or Latinx, 3.6% as two or more races, 5.2% as other minority, and 5.9% as unreported/unknown. These key pieces of student demographic data inform the College’s student achievement measures, thresholds of acceptability, and achievement goals.

The identified measures of student achievement support the College's focus of preparing students to enter the workforce or to continue their education. Although the metrics the College uses in measuring student achievement are institutional level metrics encompassing all locations and modalities, the College is committed to the success of all of its students. The College acknowledges that these measures do not encompass all aspects of student achievement. It is for this reason that a definition of student success was developed as an acknowledgement of all aspects of student success.

IPEDS Graduation Rate

The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) provides basic data needed to describe and analyze trends in postsecondary education. IPEDS collects data on the number of students who complete a postsecondary education program. The achievement goal for the IPEDS graduation rate is 40%, and the threshold of acceptability for this measure is 30%.

Five-Years of FSCJ IPEDS Graduation Rates Disaggregated by Ethnicity and Gender

IPEDS Year

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Overall Graduation Rate

35%

37%

35%

38%

40%

American Indian/Alaska Native

20%

33%

42%

9%

NA

Asian

43%

50%

54%

54%

40%

African American

25%

27%

20%

28%

27%

Latinx

32%

34%

40%

39%

36%

Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander

NA

33%

45%

39%

40%

White

39%

40%

41%

42%

40%

Two or More Races

NA

37%

38%

35%

40%

Unknown

40%

41%

41%

43%

44%

Male

32%

32%

34%

32%

33%

Female

38%

40%

36%

43%

39%

Fall-to-Fall Persistence Rate

To align FSCJ’s accreditation and Achieving the Dream (ATD) work, the College has identified its fall-to-fall persistence rate (formerly retention rate) as an additional measure of student success. To calculate persistence, a cohort of students must be defined. For persistence purposes, the College has defined the cohort as students enrolled in credit or clock-hour bearing courses in the fall term and registered and paid in a credit or clock-hour bearing course in the following fall. Removed from the cohort were completers within the first term up to and including the persistence term, transient students, and non-degree seeking students. The threshold of acceptability has been identified as a fall-to-fall persistence rate of 45%.

Five-Years of Fall-to-Fall Persistence Rates Disaggregated by Ethnicity and Gender

 

F15 to F16

F16 to F17

F17 to F18

F18 to F19

F19 to F20

Overall Persistence Rate

50%

48%

50%

55%

54%

Female

52%

49%

52%

56%

57%

Male

47%

46%

48%

53%

51%

African American

46%

43%

45%

48%

48%

Asian

58%

56%

61%

60%

63%

Latinx

49%

49%

55%

56%

55%

Multiracial

48%

45%

48%

53%

52%

White

52%

49%

52%

58%

57%

 

Institutionally Calculated Graduation Rates

To align FSCJ’s accreditation and Achieving the Dream (ATD) work, the College has identified its institutional calculated graduation rates as students earning a certificate or degree within the four years (200% of time to completion) of initial enrollment. To calculate this metric, a cohort of students must be defined. For purposes of this student achievement measure, the College has defined the cohort as students new to FSCJ (first-time in college, first-time in college after dual enrollment, and first-time transfer to FSCJ). The threshold of acceptability has been identified as an institutionally calculated graduation rate of 34.7%.

Five-Years of Institutionally Calculated Graduation Rates Disaggregated by Ethnicity and Gender

 

F12 Cohort

F13 Cohort

F14 Cohort

F15 Cohort

F16 Cohort

Overall Graduation Rate for 200% time to completion

36.5%

36.0%

37.8%

36.3%

35.2%

Female

43.1%

37.9%

40.7%

39.8%

37.9%

Male

34.1%

33.8%

34.3%

32.4%

31.8%

African American

26.5%

25.9%

27.1%

29.0%

28.6%

Asian

50.0%

50.6%

48.5%

46.7%

56.1%

Latinx

34.9%

36.9%

36.6%

34.9%

26.4%

Multiracial

33.1%

34.4%

34.3%

36.2%

30.0%

White

40.5%

39.3%

36.4%

39.0%

45.4%

 

Completion of ENC1101 and Gateway Mathematics Course within First Year

To align FSCJ’s accreditation and Achieving the Dream (ATD) work, the College has identified its completion of ENC1101 and/or gateway mathematics courses within the first year. To calculate this metric, a cohort of students must be defined. For purposes of this student achievement measure, the College has defined the cohort as students new to FSCJ (first-time in college, first-time in college after dual enrollment, and first-time transfer to FSCJ). The threshold of acceptability has been identified as 23% completion of a gateway mathematics course within the first year and 31% completion of ENC1101 within the first year.

Five-Years of Completion of ENC1101 and/or Gateway Mathematics Courses within First Year

Gateway Area

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

Mathematics*

32%

32%

26%

24%

25%

English**

42%

40%

35%

35%

32%

*Gateway mathematics courses include MAC1105, MGF1106, MGF1107, & STA2023

**Gateway English courses include ENC1101 & ENC1101C 

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