Get the latest benchmarks for two-year colleges

Featuring key benchmarks for career center staff at community colleges, this report is based on 122 responses (out of 371—a 32.9 percent response rate) to NACE's 2008 Career Services Benchmark Survey for Two-Year Colleges.

The report includes information on services offered, number and salaries of staff members, operating budgets and funding sources, and graduating student activity for the class of 2006. Throughout the report, data are broken out by region and size of enrollment.

Table of Contents

About the Survey

Executive Summary

Services

• Services to Students and Alumni
  • Figure 1: Services offered by career services and other offices on campus
  • Figure 2: Services offered by career centers, by size of enrollment Services to Multiple Campuses
  • Figure 3: Percent of respondents providing services to other campuses in addition to the main campus, by region
  • Figure 4: Percent of respondents providing services to other campuses in addition to the main campus, by size of enrollment
• Services to the Community
  • Figure 5: Percent of respondents providing services to community members, by region
  • Figure 6: Percent of respondents providing services to community members, by size of enrollment
  • Figure 7: Percent of respondents providing services to community members being downsized, overall, by region, and by size of enrollment
• Measuring Results of Programs and Services
  • Figure 8: Percent of respondents that measure results of programs/services offered, overall and by size of enrollment
    

Operating Budget and Funding Sources

• Figure 9: Budget and funding sources, overall and by size of enrollment
  

Staffing

• Staff Salaries and Years of Experience
  • Figure 10: Career services staff by title, experience, and salary (overall)
  • Figure 11: Career services staff by title, experience, and salary (<=2500)
  • Figure 12: Career services staff by title, experience, and salary (2,501 – 5,000)
  • Figure 13: Career services staff by title, experience, and salary (5,001 – 10,000)
  • Figure 14: Career services staff by title, experience, and salary (>10,000)
• Number of Staff
  • Figure 15: Average number of full-time professional staff, overall and by size of enrollment
  • Figure 16: Average number of part-time professional staff, overall and by size of enrollment
  • Figure 17: Average number of full-time support staff, overall and by size of enrollment
  • Figure 18: Average number of part-time support staff, overall and by size of enrollment
  • Table 1: Number of staff in position (overall)
    

Technology

• Figure 19: Technology systems used, overall
• Figure 20: Technology recently added, or being considered
  

Graduating Student Activity: Class of 2008

• Figure 21: Graduating student activity, 2004 - 2006 graduates
• Figure 22: Graduating student activity for the class of 2006, overall and by size of enrollment
  

For Further Consideration

• On-Campus Interviewing Opportunities Increase: Trend or Fluke?
• Career Centers Are Responsive to Trends
• Changing Technology Among Two-Year Institutions
  

Survey Respondents

• Figure 23: Respondents by number of credit-enrolled students
• Figure 24: Respondents by number of non-credit-enrolled students
• Figure 25: Degrees/credentials offered
  

List of Respondents

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