Lee College, with its fourteenth annual Institutional Effectiveness Report Card (IERC), sustains its strong commitment to institutional effectiveness. This year's review, embodied in this document, includes indicators derived from the College's goals for 2006-2007. The measures shown are designed to reflect how well the College is accomplishing its goals, which in turn, support Lee College's mission.

The Institutional Effectiveness Committee (IEC), as part of its annual preparations for publishing this year's IERC, reviewed last year's indicators and made some additions, modifications, and deletions. These changes were generally made to add indicators that the committee believed were more relevant to the College goals and to take advantage of additional data that has become available since last year's report. All measures chosen reflect the consensus of the IEC. A comparison of the core indicators of effectiveness published by the American Association of Community Colleges on May 17, 1994 shows that this IERC provides all but two of the indicators recommended:

As with previous IERC’s, this document is organized by goal with institution-wide indicators shown for each goal. Every effort was made to use the most recent data available. The IEC developed the recommended working targets for the indicators after reviewing existing historical data, discussing what the desirable targets should be, and reaching group consensus. Newer indicators may have no working target yet established.

The IERC is designed to foster discussion among all the College's diverse elements with a view towards continuous improvement in the accomplishment of the College mission.

Charge: To evaluate the College's effectiveness in accomplishing the goals and mission, to select and use a variety of performance measures (institutional effectiveness indicators), and to publish an Institutional Effectiveness Report Card (IERC).

Membership: Four academic members (three teaching and one non teaching), four applied science and community education members (three teaching and one non teaching), one dean (chair), one any division non-teaching, and one administrator/administrative support, plus ex officio research technician, and immediate past chair, if available.

Method of Selection: The Academic Studies Division elects its representatives, the Applied Science and Community Education (ASCE) dean appoints ASCE members, the President appoints the chair and the administrator/administrative support member, and the appropriate dean appoints the any division non teaching member.

Process: The Committee meets in the Spring to validate indicators of effectiveness. These indicators are measures of the degree to which to College is meeting the College goals. Then, the Committtee publishes an Institutional Effectiveness Report Card (IERC) in the July-August timeframe. The Committee Chair normally briefs the President's Council on the results of the IERC in September of each year.