The Voluntary Framework of Accountability for community colleges, by community colleges

A VFA Overview Presentation How the VFA was developed High-level review of the VFA’s measures/cohorts VFA membership / web site Leveraging the VFA Q&A Post slides online Questions? Feedback.

The Voluntary Framework of Accountability is the first national system of accountability specifically for community colleges by community colleges.

Measures Overview Student Progress and Outcomes Developmental Progress Education Measures Two-Year Progress and Outcomes Measures Six-Year Outcomes Measures Career and Technical Education (CTE) Adult Basic Education (ABE)

Cohorts Overview VFA will report outcomes for two cohort years: Six-Year Cohort: students who entered the institution six years ago Two-Year Cohort: students who entered the institution two years ago Each of these cohort years are broken into three cohort types: Main VFA Cohort Credential-Seeking Cohort First Time In College Cohort Cohorts are disaggregated ABE and CTE are separate cohorts

VFA Year One Schedule October 2013: Y1 Sign-up Opens Nov to Oct. 31, 2014: Y1 VFA Membership –Nov. 18, 2013: Data entry opens –Feb. 28, 2014:Primary sign-up period closes –Mar. 14, 2014Deadline for data submission –Mar.15 to June 2, 2014:Data review, use, publishing –July 1, 2014: Data entry system closes

Community college leadership discuss the importance of the VFA and how it can be leveraged by our colleges.

Additional Resources  Outreach Tools  VFA logos, letterhead, and press release template  VFA Video  VFA Snapshot : brief overview of the initiative and list of measures  VFA FAQs  VFA: How Colleges are Using the VFA  VFA Brochure  Data Resources  VFA Metrics Manual  VFA Bulk Upload Data File  VFA User Community

Why VFA?; Why Join?  VFA Membership  Strength in numbers and ability to advocate for better practice, policy, and data The more colleges that join, the greater our voice will be.  VFA Measures  Reflective of mission: better; more appropriate; more useful  Used for responding to internal and external stakeholders  Potential to streamline reporting requirements  VFA Data Tool  Defined methodology and process for IR professionals to follow  User-friendly, web-based data tool to collect, store, and visualize data  Auto-generating data dashboards to view and share outcomes  Ability to upload or enter data; and package or print data dashboards  Benchmarking tool / dashboard to compare your college outcomes to similar colleges  IR User Community to provide support services and build IR capacity  Build ways to report, visualize, USE data

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