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VFA Announces 40 Pilot Colleges
BY TABITHA WHISSEMORE
edefining success is crucial to the completion agenda.
That’s the goal of the Voluntary Framework of Account-
ability (VFA), a national model for community college
success launched last year by the American Association of
Community Colleges (AACC) and several partner organiza-
tions. Project organizers say the VFA will provide colleges
with more accurate data and operational transparency and will allow
participating institutions to benchmark the progress of their students
against peer institutions.
In an important development for
the effort, 40 pilot colleges were
recently chosen to test a series of
custom metrics developed by community college professionals. They are:
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Baltimore City Community College
(Baltimore)
Bevill State Community College
(Jasper, Ala.)
Bunker Hill Community College (Boston)
Burlington County College
(Pemberton, N.J.)
Central Community College
(Grand Island, Neb.)
College of Lake County (Grayslake, Ill.)
College of Western Idaho
(Nampa, Idaho)
Community College of Allegheny
County (Pittsburgh)
Dallas County Community College
District (Dallas)
DeKalb Technical College
(Clarkston, Ga.)
Flathead Valley Community College
(Kalispell, Mont.)
Fox Valley Technical College
(Appleton, Wis.)
Genesee Community College
(Batavia, N. Y.)
Greenville Technical College
(Greenville, S.C.)
Hudson County Community College
(Jersey City, N.J.)
Independence Community College
(Independence, Kan.)
Jackson Community College
(Jackson, Miss.)
Kentucky Community and Technical
College System (Versailles, Ky.)
Lane Community College
(Eugene, Ore.)
Louisiana Community and Technical
College System (Baton Rouge, La.)
Mid-Plains Community College
(North Platte, Neb.)
Milwaukee Area Technical College
(Milwaukee)
Montgomery College (Rockville, Md.)
Montgomery County Community
College (Blue Bell, Pa.)
Norwalk Community College
(Norwalk, Conn.),
Oklahoma City Community College
(Oklahoma City)
Parkland College (Champaign, Ill.)
Passaic County Community College
(Paterson, N.J.)
Pima County Community College
District (Tucson, Ariz.)
Pitt Community College
(Winterville, N.C.)
Raritan Valley Community College
(Somerville, N.J.)
Renton Technical College
(Renton, Wash.)
Rochester Community and Technical
College (Rochester, Minn.)
Salt Lake Community College
(Salt Lake City)
Tidewater Community College
(Norfolk, Va.)
Waubonsee Community College
(Sugar Grove, Ill.)
Wenatchee Valley College
(Wenatchee, Wash.)
Western Iowa Tech Community College
(Sioux City, Iowa)
Western Nebraska Community College
(Scottsbluff, Neb.)
Western Wyoming Community College
(Rock Springs, Wyo.)
The VFA was developed by AACC, in
collaboration with the Association of
Community College Trustees and the
College Board. Funding comes from
Lumina Foundation for Education and
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
For more on the VFA project, see www.
aacc.nche.edu/Resources/aaccprograms/
vfa/Pages/ default.aspx.
