The Office of Institutional Effectiveness presents its Spring 2026 newsletter. Consistent with its determination to enhance clarity and improve efficiency, the Office of Assessment and Evaluation has changed the name of its AES assessment (Administrative and Educational Student Support Services) to Administrative Unit Assessment (AUA). This change aligns with the recent improvement in administrative unit support assessment through the deployment of Watermark Planning and Self-Study. It further strengthens efforts at the alignment between administrative unit goals/outcomes and the strategic priorities of the College. In this edition of the newsletter, you will find information on:
- The College’s IPEDS 3-year graduation rate and transfer out rate
- Access to the College Factbook with historical trend data
- The key operational areas of the Office of Assessment and Evaluation (OAE)
- Progress made on assessment of General Education
- Progress made on the implementation of the two assessment management systems
- Tuesday Treats
Highlights from the Office of Institutional Research (IR)
As part of its core operations, the Office of Institutional Research calculates and submits the College’s 3-year graduation rate to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Following the official winter data submission, IR is pleased to share the following institutional outcomes for 2025:
| 2025 Rate | 2024 Rate | % Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Year Graduation Rate | 23% | 24% | -1% |
| Transfer-Out Rate | 10% | 12% | -2% |
3-Year Graduation Rate: This is calculated using a cohort of first-time, full-time students who entered the College in a fall semester. Therefore, the 2025 graduation rate reflects the cohort that entered in Fall 2022.
Transfer-Out Rate: This identifies students who leave the institution without completing a credential and subsequently enroll at another institution. The transfer-out rate is calculated using the same cohort as the graduation rate.
Historical graduation and transfer-out rates are available in the College’s Factbook. The Factbook serves as a central resource for frequently requested data, including enrollment and demographic information by program.
The Factbook is updated annually each spring. As we prepare the update for this year, please reach out to the Office of Institutional Research with any questions or suggested additions at .
Highlights from the Office of Assessment and Evaluation
The Office of Assessment and Evaluation operates in four principal areas:
- Academic Program Review (APR),
- General Education assessment,
- Administrative Unit assessment, and
- support for Academic Assessment, e.g., CLO and PLO assessment.
Starting in October 2025, the Office of Assessment and Evaluation worked with six academic degree programs to date to complete the APR process, a five-year review cycle mandated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which looks at program data such as enrollment and retention as well as assessment practices and initiatives for engaging students and helping them succeed. Those programs are Liberal Arts: Honors, Liberal Arts—Social/Behavioral Science, Music Performance, Sound Recording and Music Technology, Health Care Studies, and Health Services Management. Four additional APRs will go forward in Spring 2026.
The office continues to work closely with the General Education Coordinator, Dr. Jennifer Tront, in Spring 2026, as we begin assessing Scientific Reasoning (SCRE) at scale and work on continuous improvement and/or planning for the other five essential skills of general education.
We have now met with 21 out of 29 unit leads to begin implementation of our new assessment management system, Planning & Self-Study. The 2025-2026 Administrative Unit Assessment (AUA) reports are due October 31, 2026. Administrative Unit assessment includes areas such as Academic Advising, Financial Aid, and Transfer and Articulation.
In academic assessment, which centers on the assessment of program learning outcomes (PLOs) and course learning outcomes (CLOs), we are continuing the implementation of our assessment management system called Insights by eLumen. The OAE is also working on creating a system for documenting and reporting CLO/PLO assessment results that will be useful for all three academic divisions. Fall 2025 linking statistics were very promising, with 90% of full-time faculty and 82% of all Liberal Studies faculty having linked course learning outcomes to assignments in Canvas. In addition, we conducted an Insights linking pilot with 24 faculty from the Business and Technology and Math Science, and Health Careers divisions, 96% of whom were able to link assignments in Canvas successfully. We are scaling up Insights implementation for these two divisions in Spring 2026.
Finally, the new event Tuesday Treats with the OAE kicked off this semester on January 13 and February 10, 2026. The OAE will host Tuesday Treats on two more dates this semester: March 17 and April 14. Please visit us in M1-19 with your assessment question or your assessment story and pick up a homemade tasty treat!
For questions on the newsletter, contact Sesime Adanu at: sadanu@ccp.edu .