CCO Excellence in Placement Awards Honor CVHEC members

The Campaign for College Opportunity has honored seven Central Valley Higher Education Consortium member institutions with its 2022 Excellence in Placement Awards in several categories.

“These colleges have championed student success by implementing equitable course placement practices that give community college students the opportunity to take college-level courses with the support,” the CCO announced recently.

The Campaign for College Opportunity is focused on a single mission: working to ensure all Californians have an equal opportunity to attend and succeed in college in order to build a vibrant workforce, economy and democracy.

CVHEC member honorees in the Campaign for College Opportunity statewide awards are:

Campuswide Transfer-Level English Enrollment for successfully supporting 100 percent of their students to enroll directly into transfer level English coursework:

• Clovis Community College
• Columbia College
• West Hills-Coalinga College

• Campuswide Transfer-Level Math Enrollment for successfully supporting 100percent of their students to enroll directly into transfer level Math coursework.

• Porterville College

Equity Distinction: Latinx Transfer-Level English Enrollment for successfully supporting with distinction 100 percent of their Latinx students to enroll directly into transfer level English coursework.

• Clovis Community College
• West Hills-Coalinga Community College
• Columbia College

Equity Distinction: Black Transfer-Level English Enrollment for successfully supporting with distinction 100 percent of their Black students to enroll directly into transfer level English coursework.

• Clovis Community College
• College of the Sequoias
• Reedley College
• Bakersfield College
• Cerro Coso College

Equity Distinction: Latinx Transfer-Level Math Enrollment for supporting with distinction Latinx student enrollment in transfer-level math, ensuring 100 percent of their Latinx students enroll directly into transfer-level Math coursework.

• Porterville College

Equity Distinction: Latinx Transfer-Level Math Throughput for successfully supporting with distinction at least 60 percent of their Latinx students who enrolled in a transfer-level Math course to successfully complete it within 1 year of their initial enrollment.

• West Hills-Coalinga

Equity Distinction: Black Transfer-Level Math Enrollment for successfully supporting with distinction 100 percent of their Black students to enroll directly into transfer- level Math coursework.

• College of the Sequoias

Equity Distinction: Black Transfer-Level Math Throughput for successfully supporting with distinction at least 60 percent of their Black students who enrolled in a transfer-level Math course to successfully complete it within 1 year of their initial enrollment.

• College of the Sequoias
• Cerro Coso College

See the full list of  CCO honorees.