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Purpose
An environmental scan provides a broad-based look at the changing world around us, and how the changes currently underway will impact our students, staff, programs, and surrounding communities. This activity encompasses:
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Collection, analysis, and report of the demographic, social, economic and political trends and forthcoming shifts projected for the next five to ten years which may impact our district service area, the county, and the region.
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Development of an on-going, annual update based on a core list of indicators or other essential metrics that are historically the most significant to monitor in environmental scans.
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ICF Consulting of San Francisco, CA, was selected to perform the environmental scan. This work was performed from mid-June through September, 2005.
Full Environmental Scan (July 2006)
California's Community College Students (November 2006)
California's community college system is the largest postsecondary education system in the country-with more than 2.5 million mostly part-time students enrolled in more than 100 campuses. This issue of California Counts takes an in-depth look at this population. It finds an extremely diverse student body in terms of race/ethnicity, age, educational level, and academic goals in school. However, few students accomplish their goals, such as transferring to a four-year institution or earning an associate's degree. This is a major challenge for the system and the state because community colleges enroll over 70 percent of all public higher education students in California.
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