The North Carolina State board of Community Colleges established a system of accountability in 1999-2000 that includes 12 performance measures for each community college to track and report yearly. For the period 2005-2006, Stanly Community College was rated as a “superior” institution when it met five out of the six required performance-funding measures. The outcomes of these measures for the 2005–2006 academic year at SCC are as follows:
| Progress of Basic Skills Students | |||
| State Standard: | Seventy-five percent of students will demonstrate making progress through the basic skills program. | ||
| SCC Outcome: | Seventy-eight percent of basic skills students made progress at SCC. | ||
| Passing Rate for Licensure and Certification Examinations | |||
| State Standard: | There will be an 80 percent aggregate institutional passing rate with a minimum accepted performance on any single examination of 70 percent. | ||
| SCC Outcome: | BLET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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93 percent passing rate | |
| Cosmetology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 93 percent passing rate | ||
| EMT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 74 percent passing rate | ||
| Registered Nursing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 92 percent passing rate | ||
| Radiography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 88 percent passing rate | ||
| SCC Aggregate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 85 percent passing rate | ||
| Goal Completion of Program Completers: | |||
| State Standard: | Ninety-five percent of program completers will report meeting their goal(s) for attending a community college. | ||
| SCC Outcome: | Ninety-nine percent of SCC program graduates reported meeting their goals while attending the community college. | ||
| Employment Status of Graduates | |||
| State Standard: | There will be a 95 percent employment rate of graduates, adjusted for local unemployment conditions. | ||
| SCC Outcome: | There was a 100 percent employment rate of SCC graduates within one year of completion. | ||
| Performance of Students Who Transfer to the University System | |||
| State Standard: | Eighty-four percent of transfer students will attain a GPA of 2.0 or higher after completing one academic year at a four-year institution. | ||
| SCC Outcome: | Seventy-five point eight percent of students who transferred attained a GPA of 2.0 or higher after completing one academic year at a four-year institution. | ||
| Passing Rates of Students in Developmental Courses | |||
| State Standard: | Seventy percent of students who complete a developmental course will have a grade of “C” or better for that course. | ||
| SCC Outcome: | Ninety-two percent of SCC students who completed a developmental course had a grade of “C” or better for that course. | ||
| Success Rate of Developmental Students in Subsequent College-level Courses | |||
| State Standard: | There will be no statistically significant difference in the performance of developmental students compared to non-developmental students. | ||
| SCC Outcome: | Ninety-four percent of SCC students who completed a developmental course had a grade of “C” or better in subsequent college-level courses; ninety-six percent of the non-developmental course students performed at the same level. | ||
| The Level of Satisfaction of Students Who Complete Programs and Those Who Do Not Complete Programs | |||
| State Standard: | Ninety percent of completers and non-completers will state satisfaction with the quality of community college programs and services. | ||
| SCC Outcome: | Ninety-nine percent of non-completers and ninety-seven percent of completers stated satisfaction with the quality of programs and services at SCC. | ||
| Curriculum Student Retention and Graduation | |||
| State Standard: | Sixty percent of the fall cohort will either have graduated their program or still be enrolled at the community college the following fall. | ||
| SCC Outcome: | Seventy-one percent of the fall cohort at SCC either graduated or continued enrollment during the following fall. | ||
| Employer Satisfaction With Graduates | |||
| State Standard: | Ninety percent of employers surveyed will report satisfaction with the skills of their employees trained or educated at a community college. | ||
| SCC Outcome: | Ninety-two percent of employers surveyed reported satisfaction with the skills of SCC program completers. | ||
| Business and Industry Satisfaction With Services Provided | |||
| State Standard: | Ninety percent of business and industry surveyed will report satisfaction with the services provided by a community college. | ||
| SCC Outcome: | Ninety-eight percent of business and industry surveyed stated satisfaction with their SCC customized training. | ||
| Program Enrollment | |||
| State Standard: | There will be a three-year average minimum annual enrollment of ten students in all programs at a community college. | ||
| SCC Outcome: | SCC had no programs with a three-year average annual enrollment (2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006) of fewer than ten students. | ||