North Hall on the Pottstown campus.
POTTSTOWN PA – Montgomery County Community College is one of 40 community colleges chosen to test a new, national system that allows colleges to better measure learners’ progress, compare themselves to other institutions, and operate more efficiently and openly, it announced Tuesday (Jan. 11, 2011) in a press release.
New measurement standards are needed, advocates say, because traditional comparison tools used for four-year schools are inadequate for two-year ones, at which a majority of students attend part-time instead of full-time.
The system, called a Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA), is being developed by the American Association for Community Colleges, the Association of Community College Trustees, and the College Board, using money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Lumina Foundation for Education.
The project has been worked on and heavily promoted by MCCC President Dr. Karen Stout. Its testing at the college’s Blue Bell and Pottstown campuses is expected to begin later this month (January 2011). Once tests are completed and the system is more fully developed, the VFA could be distributed to more than 1,200 post-secondary schools nationwide beginning in 2012.
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