The Accountability Reporting Community College Report for 2008 was presented at a faculty meeting.

The ARCC is a report that uses data submitted annually on performance data from community colleges.

Cerritos College is low on all performance indicators compared to schools in the Los Angeles area, as well as schools statewide.

Performance indicators follow the college’s rates of student progress and achievement.

The funding for community colleges is usually based on the amount of new enrollment each year for each school.

Therefore, if there is no increase in enrollment for a school, the school will not receive as much funding.

Cerritos College’s achievement rate for the last six years is 42.2 percent.

The percentage of students that earned 30 units was 67.6 percent in the last six years.

A persistence rate is the rate of people who come back the next semester, after completing a semester.

The persistance rate for Cerritos College was 70.1 percent in the last six years.