June 9, 2006

A Mirror on 2-Year Colleges

By ELYSE ASHBURN

Internal offices that collect data about the institutions have begun to show results

Until the late 1990s, when Carroll Community College needed to submit statistics required by state and federal agencies, the job often fell to a political-science professor who did the work part time.

But eight years ago, the new president of the two-year college in Westminster, Md., decided it was time to build an institutional-research office. A vice president for planning, marketing, and

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