STATE OF THE COLLEGE Fall 2015 Road to Success Next Exit

William Serrata, Ph.D. President

Top Ten Community College! Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education - 2014

Highest number of Hispanic Full-Time Enrollment Highest number of Hispanic Associate Degrees Awarded Highest number of Hispanic Full-Time and Part- Time Faculty

Community College Week – Top 100 Community Colleges - 2014

Ranked 1st Hispanic Associate Degree Producers Ranked 1st Minority Associate Degree Producers Ranked 17th All Disciplines Nursing Program

Reaffirmed Through Fall 2020 CCSSE Improved Results

Benchmarks – Three Year Comparison 56.6 54.6 55.4 53.8 52.9 55.2 53.6 55.3 53 51.9 52.4 50.1 48.8 46.8 49.4

Active & Student Effort Academic Student-Faculty Support for Collaborative Challenge Interaction Learners Learning 2013 2014 2015

Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) Increase in Graduation Rates

Full-Time Graduation Rates 13.3% 2.6% 14.0% Difference 12.0% 10.7% 10.0% 8.0% 6.0% 4.0% 2.0% 0.0% 3-Year Fall 2010 Fall 2011

Source: THECB 2015 Almanac Decrease in Completion Measures

Fall 2010 Fall 2011

 Average time to  Average time to associate degree 4.6 associate degree 4.4 (years) (years)  Average SCH to  Average SCH to associate degree 96 associate degree 90

Source: THECB 2015 Almanac Increase in Military Enrollment

1,172 985 1,018 1,035 1,001 830 659 704 601 626 513 522 491 492 457

Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013 Fall 2014 1,944 2,166 2,213 2,290 2,493 Active Duty Dependent Veteran

Total Enrollment Source: Student Banner Files – 09/04/15 Non-Credit Enrollment

Unduplicated Student Count

6,500 6,397 6,000 6,212

5,500

5,000

4,500

4,000 Spring 2014 Spring 2015

2.98%

Source: EPCC Enrollment Management 08/14/15 DH 2015 NISOD Awardees Dr. Jenny Giron Lisa M. Elliott Gabriel Mendoza Vice President Associate Professor Associate Professor Information Technology Mass Communication Mathematics “President’s Award”

Dr. William Serrata President

Steve Smith Vice President Instruction & Workforce Education

Dr. Fariba Ansari Claudia Cochran Associate Professor Associate Professor Physics Psychology 2015 Adjunct Faculty Achievement Awards

Transmountain Rio Grande

Valle Verde Forensics Team Success!

Maintains first-place ranking for the fourth consecutive year! Participated in the March 2015 Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament at Ohio University

Competed against 80 universities and community colleges across the country AWARDS  Excellent Overall Community College Team Sweepstakes

 Excellent Individual Events Team Sweepstakes

 All eight students won EPCC Forensics Wins Again! individual category Phi Rho Pi Gold Sweepstakes Award awards National Championships Overall Silver Sweepstakes Award Cleveland, Ohio – April 11, 2015 Recent Grant Awards April 2014 To-Date

Building Up Our Community Through A Sustainable Workforce!

TWC Toro Company $353,349 TWC Workforce Solutions $280,358 TWC Adult Ed. and Literacy $222,159 TWC Del Sol Medical Center $156,479 TWC Apprenticeship $102,164 Prudential Insurance $40,000 Community Outreach

2,625 2,582

2,348 2,307 2,309 2,328 2,276 2,207

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 Excellence in Financial Reporting

Award recipients 19 consecutive years in a row!

EPCC Financial Operations Division continues to go beyond the minimum requirements of generally accepted accounting principles. Congratulations Pamela Payne! ACCT Western Regional Professional Board Staff Member Award Recipient

Association of Community College Trustees NCIA Chief Academic Officer 2015 Emerging Leader Award

VICE PRESIDENT Instruction and Workforce Education Dual Credit SACSCOC and Dual Credit

Substantive Change

Site Visit held – March 3-5, 2015 Twenty-three off-campus sites approved by SACSCOC between 2010 and 2013 to offer 50% or more of the College’s associate degree and certificates Team reviewed all aspects of the program and visited 12 area high schools EPCC received best possible outcome by the SACSCOC Committee… Dual Credit Enrollment

Academic Year – Annual Unduplicated Does not include Early College High Schools

3,818 3,689 3,603 3,696 3,395 2,938 2,437 2,548 2,091

1,413 1,162 920 496 93

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

3,874%

Source: Student Banner Files 07/16/15 Early College High Schools Eight Early College High Schools

Valle Verde Early College Northwest Early College Clint Early College Socorro High School High School Academy Early College Ysleta ISD Canutillo ISD Clint ISD Socorro ISD 1 3 5 7 Opened Opened Opened Opened 2006 2 2008 4 2010 6 2014 8 Opened Opened Opened Opened 2007 2008 2012 2015

Mission Early College Transmountain Early Cotton Valley Early College Burges Early College High High School College High School High School School Socorro ISD El Paso ISD Fabens ISD El Paso ISD Fort Hancock ISD Tornillo ISD RAMS Early College High School

School within a School Model Early College High School Enrollment

Burges Clint Cotton Valley Northwest Transmountain Valle Verde Mission 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 Transmounta Mission Valle Verde NorthwestCotton Valley ClintClint ISD Burges Mission Valle Verde Transmountainin Northwest Cotton Valley Burges ECHS ECHS ECHS ECHS ECHS EC Academy ECHS 2007 125 2008 235 130 2009 366 227 124 110 2010 472 304 235 194 2011 486 392 341 267 72 2012 496 396 398 322 138 2013 490 384 405 307 170 108 2014 472 416 400 302 225 199 * 2015 421 406 470 313 252 300 115

* AY 2015 is incomplete Source: IR Student Banner Files and ECHS Roster ECHS Dual Credit

1,999 1,773 1,542 1,584 1,385 1,092 808

367 125

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15

194% 120% 35% 27% 11% 3% 12% 13% 1,499% Source: Student Banner Files 07/16/15 ECHS Graduates 684 447 339 264 237 206 179 165 164 160 100 97 84 68 67 62 50 40 37 28 27 22 14 10

MECHS VVECHS TMECHS NECHS CVECHS CLINT * 3.23 3.24 3.39 3.15 3.15 3.47 Graduates 1st Generation Male Female 1,551 479 596 925 *Average GPA Source: Student Banner Files and ECHS Roster 08/17/15 ECHS Enrollment at UTEP ECHS Student Enrollment, by Academic Year (Fall + Spring + Summer Enrollment)

1000 979 *

900

800

700 656

600 509 500

400 335 300

200 146

100 65

0 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 * Includes spring and summer term projections using 2012-2013 and 2013- 2014 fall to spring and summer terms percent increase of 40%

Source: UTEP – Run Date 09/07/14 Source: UTEP Office of Undergraduate Studies, October 21, 2014 Abigail Muñiz

Math Professor Clint ISD Early College Academy

. Valle Verde ECHS Graduate . UTEP Graduate with a B. A. in Math . Guest speaker at the National Early College Conference (Dallas) Gabriela Franco

Science Professor at El Paso Community College

. Mission ECHS Graduate – December 2010 . UTEP Biological Sciences Graduate “I always knew I was getting into something amazing, but it was when I graduated with my Associates Degree from EPCC in December 2010, before even graduating high school in June 2011, that I really understood how genuinely privileged I was.” Early College High School Success! With Success Comes Greater Expectations

Develop Clearer Expectations and Goals EPCC CCSSE Challenge

59.8 Support for Learners 56.6

Student-Faculty 58.9 Interaction 49.4

56.6 Academic Challenge 53.6

58 Student Effort 55.2

Active & Collaborative 59.4 Learning 55.4

Top-Performing Colleges EPCC (Top 10%) Partnerships

National project focused on building capacity for community colleges to design and implement structured Application process academic and underway career pathways at Thirty institutions will be scale. selected to participate over three years Increase Enrollment Completion

Dual Credit Expansion

Increase Dual Credit enrollment - 4,400 students 2nd Annual Dual Credit Conference - October 24, 2015 EPCC remains committed to the integrity and rigor for the courses offered at the high school New Student Orientation and Front Door Operations

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New Student Orientation

Collaborate Engage Partner Commit to and Complete Communicate

Students challenged in the classroom… Education 1300 Course incorporated into EPCC’s core curriculum Expansion of Education 1300 through Dual Credit and Early College High School Requiring Education 1300 within the first two semesters Guiding Path to Success (GPS) mini-grant – Fall 2015 Early Alert Expansion

Retention strategy implemented with FTIC students – Spring 2015 Program expansion to all five campuses - Fall 2015

Integrated student support system that connects resources and enables effective and efficient communication between departments At-Risk Student Case Management approach implemented in which each FTIC is assigned an advisor. Drop Guard helps identify at-risk students. Dashboard Expansion

Dashboard Financial Aid

Student Services Dashboard Admissions

Dashboard Academic Year Enrollment Civitas Learning

Illume application is up and running Inspire for Advisors application is up and running  Training and pilot will start this semester Degree Map work is in progress; application should be completed by the end of this academic year College Updates and Developments Master Plan / Campus Next Steps

FB Campus design phase underway Anticipate opening fall 2018 Proposed programing includes:  Emergency Medical Services  Vocational Nursing  Physical Therapist Assistant  Radiology Technology  Information Technology Systems - Cybersecurity  General Education Courses New Mathways Project

EPCC one of nine in selected to develop and pilot the project Collaborative between the UT Austin Charles A. Dana Center and TACC Statewide approach to reform developmental education in mathematics by creating pathways to progress quickly into credit- level math courses QEP Tejano Passport

Encourage and document community engagement and volunteerism by students and faculty as part of QEP Students earn points (for passport and medallions) based on participation Gold or silver medallions are worn at graduation

Twitter: @EPCC_QEP facebook.com/LearningAboutTheCommunity

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Board Member Farewell Dr. John E. Uxer

With Much Appreciation… Your El Paso Community College family thanks you for your many years of dedicated service and commitment to our students, faculty and staff.

You remain a part of our College family and we wish you all the best! New Board Member Mr. John Uxer, Jr.

Sworn in August 2015 Appointed through April 2017 Masters’ degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Educational Administration Bachelor Degree in Mathematical Science Texas Teacher Certification in Secondary Education and Mathematics EPCC Board of Trustees Regular Instructional Day Faculty / Students / Classes IN SESSION The Best Place to Start STATE OF THE COLLEGE Fall 2015 College Completion Next Exit

William Serrata, Ph.D. President