Student Achievement
Student Achievement Objectives Linked with Strategic Plan 2020 – 2025
Criteria: Strategic Plan 2025 Goal 1 – Programming: Provide programming and services to maximize student enrollment, retention, and success.
Outcome: Jacksonville College seeks to increase enrollment.
Outcome Rationale: In maximizing student enrollment, Jacksonville College helps students in pursuing their educational goals and fully utilizing college resources.
Student Achievement Goals:
- JC will have a Threshold of Accountability of mainting the previous year enrollment (0% increase)
- JC will have an Achievement Goal of a 5% increase in enrollment
Goal Rationale: Jacksonville College’s goals for enrollment were based on analyzing previous years trends.
Student Achievement Goal Data: Enrollment Graphs.
Evaluation of Data: Jacksonville College has met the Threshold of Acceptability 4 out of 5 years, with measure missed by 3 students (fall) and 5 students (spring) in post-Covid terms. After the post-Covid initial drop, total enrollment has remained steady and even increased. The Achievement Goal for total enrollment was met from 2022 to 2023 and from 2023 to 2024.
Criteria: Strategic Plan 2025 Goal 1 – Programming: Provide programming and services to maximize student enrollment, retention, and success.
Outcome: Jacksonville College seeks to increase graduation rates of students.
Outcome Rationale: In earning an associate degree from Jacksonville College, students show that they have completed the first level of their higher education and are prepared to continue pursuing their educational goals.
The Key Student Completion Indicator (KSCI) for Jacksonville College is the traditional IPEDS overall graduation rate.
Student Achievement Goals:
- Jacksonville College will have a 3% increase in graduation rates as reported by IPEDS annually.
- Jacksonville College will have an increase in total degrees awarded annually.
- JC will have a Threshold of Accountability of 65 degrees awarded per year
- JC will have an Achievement Goal of 70 degrees awarded per year
Goal Rationale: Jacksonville College’s goals for graduation were established by analyzing the data trends for the College in these area. In analyzing IPEDS graduation rates between 2015 and 2020, a 3% increase was evident.
Student Achievement Goal Data: Degrees Awarded Graph.
Evaluation of Data: Jacksonville College has exceeded the 3% increase in graduation rates reported by IPEDS for the years of 2022 and 2024. The objective was not met in the years of 2020, 2021, and 2023. The Threshold of Acceptability with at least 65 degrees being awarded annually has been met 2 of the last 6 years. The Achievement Goal of 70 degrees awarded per year has been met once in 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic and leadership transitions can account for varied results over the last five years.
Criteria: Strategic Plan 2025 Goal 1 – Programming: Provide programming and services to maximize student enrollment, retention, and success.
Outcome: Jacksonville College seeks to increase the retention of its degree seeking students.
Outcome Rationale: Retention rates indicate Jacksonville College students are pursuing learning through this phase in their life.
Student Achievement Goal:
- JC will have a Threshold of Accountability of 45 % per year
- JC will have an Achievement Goal of 48% per year
- This includes a 3% increase of degree seeking students continue enrollment in Jacksonville College
Goal Rationale: Jacksonville College’s goal for continuing enrollment rate was established by analyzing the data trends for the College in this area.
Student Achievement Goal Data: Academic Retention Graphs and Persistence Data.
Evaluation of Data: For first-time freshman students, Threshold of Acceptability has been met 6 out of 8 of the past 8 academic years with the Achievement Goal being met 5 times. Overall average retention rates have met the Threshold of Acceptability for the past 5 years and the Achievement Goal for 3 of those.
Further Enrollment and Graduation Data
- Full Time and Part Time Enrollment
- Academic Persistence
- Jacksonville College IPEDS Graduation Rate
- Degrees Awarded Per Year by Jacksonville College
- Percentage of Graduates from JC’s Local Counties
- Subsequent Degrees/Certificates Earned
- Jacksonville College Enrollment History
- Student Achievement Measure
- Retention Rates
- Transfer Rate
- Gender Distribution History
- Gender Distribution Current Term
- Diversity History
- Diversity Current Term
General Education Learning Outcomes for Jacksonville College
Information Literacy Skills
Jacksonville College graduates should be able to apply principles of information literacy to engage in research, analyze evidence, and form conclusions/judgments to meet specific course requirements and develop skills for lifelong learning.
Communication Presentation Skills
Jacksonville College graduates should be able to formulate and organize ideas resulting in purposeful presentations, which increase knowledge, foster understanding, and affect the attitudes, values, and beliefs of themselves and others.
Critical Thinking, Mathematics, Reading and Writing Collegiate Level Competencies
Jacksonville College graduates will demonstrate collegiate level competencies that meet or exceed the national norms as evidenced by scored responses on a standardized assessment.