A message from the president Welcome to Johnson County Community College! As you can see from the pages of this annual report, 2014-2015 was a busy year for JCCC. Thanks to a committed board of trustees and a remarkably energetic and professional faculty and staff, many wonderful accomplishments were recorded during the past year. Most importantly, the tremendous support that we receive from our community is what makes our college able to do great things. In the following pages, you will not see any ribbon cuttings for new buildings, but you will see examples of tremendous work by our students, faculty and staff. Our students continue to be recognized for excellence. The culinary team, the debate team and the Model UN team each had an outstanding year, earning trophies and medals across the country and the world. Our women’s basketball team won the national championship with a spectacular shot at the buzzer. Most importantly, our students succeeded in the classroom and at life every single day. We celebrate everyone’s accomplishment regardless of how big or small it may be. The privilege of contributing to the success of our students is what brings the faculty and staff back to JCCC year after year (see pages 12-16). As a college, our big news is the progress we’ve made with our key performance indicators (KPIs). JCCC uses data to measure students’ progress, which is a reflection of our efforts and success as faculty and staff. We thus hold ourselves accountable for achieving higher levels of student success every year and for understanding why if we don’t. I’m proud to report that we saw improvement across almost all of our KPIs, as full-time and part-time student graduation and transfer rates, fall-to-fall persistence, transfer performance and student satisfaction results increased. Be sure to see the charts on page 23. Also over the past year, more than a hundred of us across campus worked diligently on projects that supported JCCC’s new strategic plan, ranging from program process improvement to online learning to creating greater efficiencies to budgeting. Many Johnson County citizens participated in the community conversations that helped us develop our plan; you can see on pages 4-5 what we’ve accomplished this year. We thank you for your contributions. The support of the community also plays a major role in our students’ success. We’re grateful that many of you serve on our program advisory committees, attend our events or enroll in our classes. We do our best to serve you. The information on these pages shows you what we achieved during academic and fiscal year 2014-2015. Sincerely,
Joe Sopcich President
The president’s leadership team Dr. Judy Korb, executive vice president, instruction and operations Dr. Barbara Larson, executive vice president, administrative services and finance Andy Anderson, vice president of academic affairs/chief academic officer Dr. Randy Weber, vice president of student success and engagement Tom Pagano, vice president of information services/CIO Tanya Wilson, general counsel Julie Haas, associate vice president of college and community relations Karen Martley, associate vice president of continuing education and organizational development Chris Gray, executive director of marketing communications Terri Schlicht, executive assistant to the president and the board 1