Bunker Hill Community College to Pilot New National Accountability Standards

BOSTON, Jan. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bunker Hill Community College is one of the 37 institutions nationally that will pilot new standards to define success for the nation's 1,200 community colleges.  The Voluntary Framework for Accountability (VFA) for the first time establishes a national system designed to provide accurate data, operational transparency and benchmarks of student progress and completion at community colleges, which serve half of the nation's 12 million undergraduates.  

The College is the only Massachusetts community college selected for the pilot program.  

The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), in collaboration with the Association of Community College Trustees and the College Board, is developing the VFA, with funding from Lumina Foundation for Education and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Starting in mid-January 2011, the VFA pilot colleges will test a series of metrics that community college professionals developed over the last several months.  The project fills what community college advocates have seen as a void in measures appropriate to the unique two-year college mission.  A full-scale roll-out could begin in 2012, according to the AACC.  

Bunker Hill Community College is the largest community college in Massachusetts. The College enrolls more than 12, 000 students on two campuses and at four satellite locations. BHCC is one of the most diverse institutions of higher education in Massachusetts. Six in ten students are people of color and more than half of BHCC's students are women. The College also enrolls more than 700 international students who come from more than 90 countries and speak 75 different languages.

SOURCE Bunker Hill Community College

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