Mission College and our Community

Muslim Community Association

May 2012

• Open Access—practicing the ideal of education for all

• Offering flexibility in education • Part-time students• Evening, weekend and short-term courses, distance

education

• Educating Community Leaders• 80% of firefighters, law enforcement officers and EMTs

are credentialed at community colleges• 70% of nurses in California received their education from

community colleges• Transfer students from community colleges account for

48% of University of California’s bachelors degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math

Today’s Community College

• Largest system of higher education in the world

• 112 community colleges across the state

• Serve over two and a half million students each year (2,758,081 individual students in 2009-10)

• The most affordable option for higher education

Cost to Students: Undergraduate Fees, 2011-12

Today’s California community Colleges

Resident Fees

Nonresident Fees

CCC System $1,080 $6,409

CSU System $6,422 $17,582

UC System $13,218 $34,164

Today’s California community Colleges

• Important Entry Point for Higher Education• 54% of CSU Graduates and 28% of UC

Graduates in 2009-10 began their college years at a California Community College

• Transfers in 2009-10 from CA Community Colleges• To University of California 14,690• To California State University 37,651• To In-State Private Colleges/Universities 23,584• To Out of State Colleges/Universities 17,025

Per-Student Funding by Education System, 2009-10

(amounts include state Gender Fund, local property tax, student fee revenue, and federal stimulus funding, but not STRS or lottery funds.)

CCC system in Context

$ Per Student

K-12 System $7,957

CCC System $5,376

CSU System $11,614

UC System $20,641

• Founded in 1977

• Service area includes portions of Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties, with students from throughout Silicon Valley

• Offers more than 70 academic, vocational and fundamental skills programs

• Serves approximately 12,000 students each term

Today’s Mission College

Enrollment trends

• Close to 65% of students come from outside the official college service area

• Shift following the tech bubble swing in the early 2000s• Reduction in number of employed workers coming for

specific tech-related skills• Increasing number of traditional students coming direct

from High School

• Traditionally known as an “evening school,” students now attend daytime classes in greater numbers than evening • Students in daytime classes made up 46% of students in Fall

2000, 63% in Fall 2010

• Distance Learning has increased by 20% in two years

Enrollment Trends

• Student Headcount peaked in Spring of 2009

• Strong demand in last three years has been tempered by state mandated workload reductions

Student Focus

• Of all Full Time Equivalent Students (FTES) in Spring 2011:

• 13.6% came from Basic Skills (non-transferable)

• 80.7% came from areas Transferable to 4-year colleges and universities

• In addition, 29.5% of FTES generated would apply towards Vocational Education goals

About Our Students

• Nearly 10% of students are new, first-time students while over 60% are returning from the prior term

ENROLLMENT STATUS FALL 2010

Student Count Student Percentage

First-Time Student 1,094 9.52%

Continuing Student (from last term)

7,077 61.61%

Returning Student (from prior terms)

1,429 12.44%

Transfer (from other colleges)

839 7.30%

Other / Uncollected 1,048 9.12%

Student completion

Mission College Transfers to UC and CSU2009-2010

  TransfersUC System 36CSU System 188Combined Total 224

Largest Transfer Schools:San Jose State 106

Cal State East Bay 52

Mission College Student Awards2010-2011

  AwardsAssociate Degrees 574Certificates 18+ Units 85Certificates 6-18 Units 12Combined Total 671

Student characteristics

• 57% Female, 42% Male (Spring 2011)

• Diverse spread across age categories• 15% age 19 or younger, 14% age 50 or higher• 44% between the ages

of 20 and 29 Student AgeSpring 2010

Race & Ethnicity

• Richly diverse student body • 77% of students with reported race/ethnicity are

non-white Student EthnicitySpring 2010

Students & Our community

High School Success Rates

High School Success Rates, Santa Clara County 2009-10

  GraduatesGraduates with UC/CSU

Required Courses

4-Year Dropout

Rate

High School Graduates 16,833 8,229 48.9% 11.9%Source:  California Department of Education DataQuest

• Only half of high school graduates are ready for a four-year college

• The 4-Year Dropout Rate has improved to 11.9% from 16.1% in 2008-2009

Industry growth

Santa Clara County Industries with the Fastest Anticipated Growth, 2010 to 2019:

• Information, 19%• Other services, 17%• Education and health services, 16%• Financial activities, 16%• Agriculture, natural resources, and mining, 16%

• Overall growth, 10%

Source: Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc. 2011

Occupation growth

Santa Clara County Occupations with the Fastest Anticipated Growth, 2010 to 2019:

• Professional and related occupations, 15%• Management, business, and financial occupations, 13%• Service occupations, 13%• Sales and related occupations, 9%

Occupations with Anticipated Declines• Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations, -17%• Military occupations, -3%• Production occupations, -1%

Source: Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc. 2011

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