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Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2020
In the United States, approximately 65 percent of all jobs in 2020 will require some level of postsecondary education, and the demand will reach 68 percent in Iowa. This report seeks to inform public discourse on higher education by providing key performance indicators relevant to the goal of improving educational attainment for a healthy economy…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Educational Indicators
Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2017
In the United States, approximately 65 percent of all jobs in 2020 will require some level of postsecondary education, and the demand will reach 68 percent in Iowa. This report seeks to inform public discourse on higher education by providing key performance indicators relevant to the goal of improving educational attainment in Iowa. Performance…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Educational Indicators
Morrison, Michael C. – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2008
There are many strategic benefits that can be derived from a partnership program between a community college and regional high schools to offer early college credit to qualified students. Institutional research at North Iowa Area Community College (NIACC) finds that these "acceleration programs" are improving student outcomes in a number…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Community Colleges, Educational Attainment, College Credits
Phelan, Daniel J. – 1990
The study examined selected demographic and educational characteristics of transfer students attending Mason City, Iowa's North Iowa Area Community College (NIACC) and the relative effect of college attendance on student academic achievement, student satisfaction with the college experience, and the college's fulfillment of general education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Credits, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Ebbers, Larry H.; And Others – 1992
The Leadership Institute for a New Century (LINC) began in 1989 as a consortium formed by Iowa State University, the Iowa Association of Community College Trustees, and the Iowa Association of Community College Presidents. The mission of LINC was to increase the diversity of upper-level administrators at community colleges through developing and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Annual Reports, College Credits, College Faculty