Office of Institutional Research, Ekstrom 308
Naugatuck Valley Community College
750 Chase Parkway
Waterbury, CT 06708
Fax: (203) 575-8051

Ingrid McGowan, Director of Institutional Research (203 575-8139)

Naugatuck Valley Community College Fact Book

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General Information


Enrollment Information on Credit Students


Enrollment Information on Non-Credit Students


Graduate Survey Results

Each year, the Connecticut Community College System surveys its graduates. At NVCC, the Office of Institutional Research conducts the survey and reports the results. Two survey instruments are used (see first two links below). The Graduate Survey asks graduates to describe their education and occupation before, during, and after their stay at NVCC. The Satisfaction Survey asks graduates to indicate their satisfaction with the school's performance in a variety of areas, and asks them about their initial goal and their success in achieving that goal. The trend charts below show how graduates' responses have changed from 1999 through 2007.


Facts and Figures: Where do they come from?

All colleges in the Connecticut Community College System use a system called Banner for tracking information on students, staff, courses, and finances.  Information is constantly entered and updated.  At the start of each fall term, though, the data is “frozen.”  The freeze, or census, date is set by the college.  On that day, a full set of Banner data is extracted.  This snap shot of data is used to satisfy state and federal reporting requirements, to provide a point of comparison for year-over-year and term-to-term studies, and to supply much of the information in the Fact Book.  Banner data is also frozen at the start of all other terms and again at the end of each term.  For state and federal reporting purposes, though, the fall census data extract is used most often.

Non-credit student data presented in the Fact Book is derived from a full year’s worth of data, because non-credit enrollment information is not frozen.


A Note About Percentages

Data displayed in the Fact Book was prepared using Microsoft Excel, which automatically rounds each figure up or down to the decimal point shown.  When Excel sums the percentages, it is adding the true (unrounded) figures.  Occasionally, decimals rounded by Excel will appear to add up to more than the expected total.  Most of the tables in the Fact Book can easily be copied and pasted into Microsoft Excel, should you wish to use a different rounding system.

 
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