1. THE WORKFORCE TIPPING POINT:
NC COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM’S RESPONSE TO
COMPLETION RATES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Dr. R. Scott Ralls, President
NC Community College System

4. 10/17/2012 4

5. Initial Project: June 1, 2006 – April 30, 2009
• 200 Jobs
• Average Annual Salary: $55,000
• Capital Investment : $350 million
•Total Trainees: 204
Expansion Project: May 15, 2009 – March 31, 2011
• 143 Jobs
• Average Annual Salary: $60,000
• Capital Investment: $400 million
• Total Trainees: 152
**Due to the excellent results of the training project, Merck has asked if NC Community
College System (BioNetwork and Durham Tech) could serve as their primary training provider
NCCCS 07/15/10

7. Economic Impact of Associate's Degree Completers
By reducing the number of non-completers in North Carolina
(2008-2009 cohort) by half…
Annual Potential Salary Gains = $74,672,000
Annual Added Federal Tax = $11,200,000
Annual Added State Tax = $5,227,000
National Totals (2008-2009 cohort) – reducing the non-
completers by half…
Annual Potential Salary Gains = $1,414,273,000
Annual Added Federal Taxes = $209,750,000
Annual Added State Taxes = $59,237,000
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public
Policy Research, April 2012

8. Student Success Framework
SuccessNC
Improving Access Enhancing Quality Increasing Success
Connection Entry Progress Completion
Basic Skills Plus Minority Male Mentoring P-20 Student Longitudinal Data
Developmental
(Accelerating Opportunity) Education Initiative System
Career and College Code Green Super CIP
(Curriculum Improvement
Promise Project)
Financial Aid Data Initiative
Common Core Alignment Simplification
Career & Technical Education Integrated Teaching &
High School to College Learning Gateway
Articulation Completion by Design/ First
Year Experience
Comprehensive
Articulation Agreement
Math Pathways CIP Revision &
(Curriculum Improvement Reverse Transfer Credit
Project)
Performance Measures/Funding
Identify & Mitigate Barriers to Student Success
Completion by Design

9. Connection
Community College:
Life Science
Pre-Calculus Algebra
Chemistry I & II
Biology I & II
Social Sciences Community College:
Humanities Engineering Technology
English Courses Trigonometry &
Courses Calculus
Chemistry I
Pre-Calculus Algebra
Social Sciences
Humanities
English Courses
Courses

10. Entry
Old Developmental Math Model – Sequential, semester long courses
Lowest Level Dev. Intermediate Dev. Highest Level Dev.
Old Assessments Math Course
Math Course Math course
Dev. Curriculum
Math
Module
Math

11. Entry
Old Developmental Math Model – Sequential, semester long courses
Lowest Level Dev. Intermediate Dev. Highest Level Dev.
Old Assessments Math Course
Math Course Math course
New Developmental Math Model – Modular, Condensed courses
New More Accurate Assessments
Dev. Dev. Dev. Dev.
Math Math Math Math Curriculum
Module Module Module Module Math

12. Progress
Applied Curriculum
Model
Applied Academic Skills
Technical Core

13. Completion

14. Completion by Design