Community College Inventory Focus on Student Persistence, Learning, and Attainment
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Responses from UHCC Strategic Planning Council Spring 2009 Responses ascending value within characteristics The Community College Inventory provides descriptions of eleven characteristics that are strongly focused on student success -that is student persistence, learning and attainment. Related to each characteristic is a set of indicators that more fully describe observable institutional practices. The inventory is intended not as a test and not as a checklist, but rather as a tool for prompting institutional review, reflection, discussion -and ultimately, action aimed at improvement.
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