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Our Mission

The Santa Ana College Research Department pursues the collaborative exploration, analysis, dissemination, and cultivation of understanding of current data regarding our student community. The primary directive of the department is to further the campus' understanding of equity issues, and furthermore to enable the campus to make data driven decisions that significantly impact student achievement and attainment.

​Dashboards

• Enrollment Management/Program Review​
  
• This dashboard includes information fr​om 2018-19 to 2023-24 on the following metrics:
  
• ​Enrollment
  
• FTES
• Faculty load
  
• Fill rates
• Trends for FTES, modality, ​efficiency, and workload
  
• Average class size
  
• Term to term comparison
  
• Degrees and Certificates (Updated through 2023-24!)
  
• Course Succe​ss ​and Retention - Includes demographics (ethnicity, gender, and age) by program as well as disproportionate impact for course success.​​
• Noncredit Completion and Retention​
• ​​VBUS-340
• Noncredit ESL Tracking
• Noncredit High School Tracking​
• Dual Enrollment Dashboard
• FTE​S
• Faculty Prioritization: Credit
• Faculty Prioritization: Noncredit​​
• Fill ​Rates​
• Headcount (Coming Soon)
• SEP Tool (Student Educational Plan)
• Distance Education Dashboard​
• RSCCD Employee Dashboard​​​

Noncredit Dashboards

• ​​​Noncredit Completi​on and Retention​​​​​​​​

Student Equity and Disproportionate Impact Dashboards

• SEAP Dashboard with data provid​ed by the state Chancellor's Office​
  

• SEAP Dashboard using local data that excludes academies​
  

2019-2020 SAC Fact Sheet Now Available

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​SANTA ANA COLLEGE R​​ESEARCH OFFICE DASHBOARD WORKSHOPS - Coming soon!

Future dashboard workshop dates will be posted soon.

Location:  A-112 (Cesar Chavez, room near the student seating area)

The Santa Ana College Research Office regularly hosts dashboard workshops to assist Santa Ana College faculty, staff, and administrator​s in understanding how to utilize the Santa Ana College dashboards to understand Santa Ana College data. 

Please attend a future workshop to:

• Discuss your equity / student outcomes / data issues
  

• Receive the latest research reports
  

• Learn how to use our Dashboards

• Meet the Research staff
  

• Engage with colleagues ​​