What is Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative (IEPI)?
IEPI is a collaborative effort to help advance the institutional effectiveness of California Community Colleges (CCC). Most importantly, IEPI will enhance the system's ability to effectively serve students. Per SB 852 and SB 860, CCC must develop four framework indicators that serve four operational areas. IEPI is jointly administered by the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office and the Santa Clarita Community College District, which is contracted by the state to support colleges with the initiative through Partnership Resource Teams. Implementation grants are available to colleges interested in receiving assistance and professional development from the Partnership Resource Teams.

IEPI for California Community Colleges
IEPI for Butte College

Butte College's IEPI Framework Indicators help measure the outcomes of our Strategic Direction and demonstrate our ongoing commitment to students' success.

What are the IEPI Framework Indicators?
The framework of indicators designed to measure the ongoing condition of a community college's operational environment in the following areas:

Student performance and outcomes:
1.  Completion Rate (Overall, Prepared & Unprepared). (Percentage of degree, certificate and/or transfer-seeking students starting first time in 2008-09 tracked for six years through 2013-14 who completed a degree, certificate or transfer-related outcomes).
2.  Remedial Rate (Overall, Prepared & Unprepared). (Percentage of credit students tracked for six years through 2013-14 who started first time in 2008-09 below transfer level in English, mathematics, and/or ESL and completed a college-level course in the same discipline).
3. Career Technical Education Rate (Percentage of students tracked for six years through 2013-14 who started first time in 2008-09 and completed more than eight Units in courses classified as career technical education in a single discipline and completed a degree, certificate or transferred).
4. Successful Course Completion (Percentage of students who earn a grade of "C" or better or "credit" in 2013-14).
5. Completion of degrees (Number of associate degrees completed in 2013-14).
6. Completion of certificates (Number of Chancellor's Office-approved certificates completed in 2013-14).
7. Number of students who transfer to 4-year institutions (Number of students who transfer to a four-year institution, including CSU, UC, or private university in 2013-14).

Accreditation status:
8. Accreditation Status
9. Date of Next Visit

Fiscal viability & State and federal programmatic compliance:
10. Salary and Benefits (Salaries and benefits as a percentage of unrestricted general fund expenditures, excluding other outgoing expenditures).
11. Full-Time Equivalent Students (Annual number of full-time equivalent students).
12. Annual Operating Excess/(Deficiency) (Net increase or decrease in unrestricted general fund balance).
13. Fund Balance (Ending unrestricted general fund balance as a percentage of total expenditures).
14. Cash Balance (Unrestricted and restricted general fund cash balance, excluding investments).
15. Audit Findings (Modified opinion, material weaknesses, or significant deficiencies as identified in an annual independent audited financial statement).

IEPI Data Sources:
State Chancellor's Office Institutional Effectiveness Division
IEPI Workshop
IEPI Framework Indicators