SAC Student Success Measures

San Antonio College identifies, evaluates, and publishes multiple measures of student success aligned to the College’s Mission through its strategic planning process. As a mission-driven institution, all things begin and end with the college mission. As part of the college’s commitment to continuous improvement, the Strategic Quality Enhancement Committee (SQEC) whose sole purpose is to advance the College Strategic Plan, reviewed and revised the Mission Statement.

The Mission Statement approved by the Board of Trustees is as follows:

To empower our community for success by meeting the postsecondary learning needs of all San Antonio College Students through equitable educational practices for diverse populations in a globally networked society. To help students achieve their full potential by preparing them to graduate, transfer, or enter the workforce with effective critical thinking skills, communication proficiency, leadership ability, personal and civic responsibility, empirical and quantitative understanding, performance proficiency, and the ability to work effectively in teams.

Each fall and spring semesters, since 2014, the entire college has participated in a day-long event recognized as SAC Scores as part of SAC’s commitment to continuous improvement. Throughout SAC Scores day, departments participate in analysis and evaluation of Strategic Planning, Student Learning Assessment, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

As part of the strategic planning assessment, participants review individual, program, division, and college-level data as appropriate. The college-level progress, on its SAC Strategic Plan, is ultimately documented on the SAC Student Success Measures Scorecard.

During the Spring of 2022, a group of internal and external stakeholders (students, faculty, staff, administrators, community leaders, educational partners, district partners, and university partners) participated in a SWOT analysis, which resulted in establishing the college’s Strategic Priorities: 1. Student Success, 2. Principle-Centered Leadership, 3. Performance Excellence, 4. Equity, and 5. Community. After College Council approval of the strategic plan with the mission, vision, values, priorities, and goals the SAC 2022-2025 Strategic Plan was published. Strategic plan goals, measures, benchmarks, targets, and outcomes are documented on the SAC Strategic Plan Scorecard.

The focus of Priority 1. Student Success is achieved through the following three goals:

Goal 1 – Achieve higher rates of enrollment, persistence, course completion rate, engagement, FTIC graduation rate, and total number of awards (certificates and degrees) across all student groups.

Goal 2 – Achieve and sustain excellent student and college support services, delivery of world-class programs, and high-quality instruction to create a best place to learn environment.

Goal 3 – Continue to develop, assess, and improve data-informed pathways to support student academic success and career planning, and to advance equity.

In addition to student success measures which are specific to a three-year strategic plan, the following measures in Table: Student Achievement Measures, are indicators SAC monitors.

Table: Student Achievement Measures

*This is the closing data for the 2019-2022 student success measures and the benchmark data for the 2022-2025 student success measures.

**This is the closing data for the 2022-2025 student success measures and the benchmark data for the 2025-2028 student success measures.

Access the SAC Strategic Planning Scorecard

• 2023-2025 SAC Strategic Planning Scorecard