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  **HEA: TRIO Student        
  Support Services**         

  **FY 2007 Program          
  Performance Report**       

  Strategic Goal 5           

  Discretionary              

  HEA, Title IV, Part A-2,   
  Chapter 1, Section 402D    

  Document                   
  Year 2007 Appropriation:   
  \$271,853                  

  CFDA                       84.042A: TRIO Student Support Services
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  **Program      **Increase the percentage of low-income,
  Goal:**        first-generation college students who successfully
                 pursue postsecondary education opportunities.**

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  ***Objective 1 of 1:***   *Increase postsecondary persistence and completion rates
                            of low-income, first-generation individuals in the
                            academic pipeline.*

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  **Measure 1.1 of 5:**                                      
  The cost per successful                                    
  outcome: the cost per                                      
  Student Support                                            
  Services program                                           
  completer, transfer to                                     
  another institution, or                                    
  persister in the same                                      
  school.   (Desired                                         
  direction: decrease)                                       
    78                                                       

  **Year**                **Target**       **Actual\         **Status**
                                           (or date          
                                           expected)**       

  2003                                     1,528             Measure not in place

  2004                                     1,510             Measure not in place

  2005                                     1,531             Measure not in place

  2006                    999              Not Collected     Not Collected

  2007                    999              Not Collected     Not Collected
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**Source**. 

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, Student
Support Services Program Annual Performance Report. U.S. Department of
Education, Office of Chief Financial Officer, Grant Administration and
Payment System (GAPS).

**Frequency of Data Collection**. Annual

**Data Quality**. 

Actual allocations of the annual appropriation are used instead of the
overall appropriation.

**Explanation**. The cost per successful outcome is derived by dividing
the annual appropriation by the number of students completing,
transferring or persisting at the same institution during that specific
school year. This measure will be replaced by the new measure: the gap
between the cost per successful outcome and the cost per program
participant. The new measure recognizes that different populations of
students require different levels of resources.

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  **Measure 1.2 of 5:**                                      
  The percentage of TRIO                                     
  Student Support                                            
  Services participants                                      
  persisting at the same                                     
  institution.   (Desired                                    
  direction: increase)                                       
    1617                                                     

  **Year**                **Target**       **Actual\         **Status**
                                           (or date          
                                           expected)**       

  1999                                     67                Measure not in place

  2000                    67               67                Target Met

  2001                    67               70                Target Exceeded

  2002                    67               72                Target Exceeded

  2003                    68               72                Target Exceeded

  2004                    68.5             73.1              Target Exceeded

  2005                    69               74.1              Target Exceeded

  2006                    72               (December 2007)   Pending

  2007                    73               (December 2008)   Pending

  2008                    73               (December 2009)   Pending

  2009                    73.5             (December 2010)   Pending

  2010                    73.5             (December 2011)   Pending

  2011                    74               (December 2012)   Pending

  2012                    74               (December 2013)   Pending
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**Source**. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary
Education, Student Support Services Program Annual Performance Report.

**Frequency of Data Collection**. Annual

**Data Quality**. The annual performance reports are comprised of
self-reported data; a variety of data quality checks are used to assess
the completeness and reasonableness of the data submitted.

**Target Context**. Targets for FY 2006 and beyond were recalculated in
FY 2006, as the persistence rate has increased since the initial years
of data collection (1999 and 2000).

**Explanation**. Persistence is defined as the rate of first year
participants who continue to enroll at the grantee institution in the
following academic year. Data from the national study of the Student
Support Services Program provided the baseline data (1999 actual
performance).

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  **Measure 1.3 of 5:**                                       
  The percentage of                                           
  Student Support                                             
  Services participants                                       
  completing an                                               
  Associates degree at                                        
  original institution or                                     
  transferring to a                                           
  four-year institution                                       
  within three years.                                         
    (Desired direction:                                       
  increase)   1618                                            

  **Year**                **Target**       **Actual\          **Status**
                                           (or date           
                                           expected)**        

  2001                                     23.1               Measure not in place

  2002                                     26                 Measure not in place

  2003                                     27.7               Measure not in place

  2004                                     25.6               Measure not in place

  2005                                     24.5               Measure not in place

  2006                    27               (December 2007)    Pending

  2007                    27.5             (December 2008)    Pending

  2008                    27.5             (December 2009)    Pending

  2009                    28               (December 2010)    Pending

  2010                    28               (December 2011)    Pending

  2011                    28.5             (December 2012)    Pending

  2012                    28.5             (December 2013)    Pending
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**Source**. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary
Education, Student Support Services Program Annual Performance Report.

**Frequency of Data Collection**. Annual

**Data Quality**. The annual performance reports are comprised of
self-reported data; a variety of data quality checks are used to assess
the completeness and reasonableness of the data submitted.

**Target Context**. 

Targets were not established until 2006, the first year of this
measure.  Target values were established before actual actual values for
2004 and 2005 were available.

**Explanation**. 

Data reporting has recently been improved to report completion of
associate\'s and bachelor\'s degrees separately.

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  **Measure 1.4 of 5:**                                      
  The percentage of                                          
  Student Support                                            
  Services first-year                                        
  students completing a                                      
  Bachelor\'s degree at                                      
  original institution                                       
  within six-years.                                          
    (Desired direction:                                      
  increase)   1619                                           

  **Year**                **Target**       **Actual\         **Status**
                                           (or date          
                                           expected)**       

  1999                                     29                Measure not in place

  2001                    29               Undefined         Pending

  2002                    29               Undefined         Pending

  2003                    29.5             Undefined         Pending

  2004                    30               28.1              Made Progress From Prior Year

  2005                    30.5             29.4              Made Progress From Prior Year

  2006                    28               (December 2007)   Pending

  2007                    29               (December 2008)   Pending

  2008                    29               (December 2009)   Pending

  2009                    29.5             (December 2010)   Pending

  2010                    29.5             (December 2011)   Pending

  2011                    30               (December 2012)   Pending

  2012                    30               (December 2013)   Pending
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**Source**. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary
Education, Student Support Services Program Annual Performance Report.

**Frequency of Data Collection**. Annual

**Data Quality**. The annual performance reports are comprised of
self-reported data; a variety of data quality checks are used to assess
the completeness and reasonableness of the data submitted.

**Target Context**. Targets for FY 2006 and 2007 were set at levels
lower than previous years\' targets to reflect the actual values first
collected for FY 2004.

**Explanation**. 2004 is first year for which graduation data for
four-year schools were available from the annual performance reports.

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  **Measure 1.5 of 5:**                                       
  The gap between the                                         
  cost per successful                                         
  outcome and the cost                                        
  per program                                                 
  participant.   (Desired                                     
  direction: decrease)                                        
    1621                                                      

  **Year**                **Target**       **Actual\          **Status**
                                           (or date           
                                           expected)**        

  2003                                     263                Measure not in place

  2004                                     252                Measure not in place

  2005                                     245                Measure not in place

  2007                    239              (December 2008)    Pending

  2008                    239              (December 2009)    Pending

  2009                    239              (December 2010)    Pending
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**Source**. U. S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary
Education, Student Support Services Program Annual Performance Report.
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Chief Financial Officer, Grant
Administration and Payment System (GAPS).

**Data Quality**. Actual allocations of the annual appropriation are
used instead of the overall appropriation.

**Explanation**. The gap is the difference between the cost per
successful outcome, which is the annual appropriation divided by the
number of students persisting at the same institution during that
specific school year, and the cost per student served, which is the
annual appropriation divided by the number of students receiving
services during that specific school year. The 2007 target was
established to reduce the gap between the cost per successful outcome
and cost per student served by \$13 or 5 percent (viewed another way
there was a 20 percent difference between the 2004 efficiency measure
and cost per student served, which the 2007 target would reduce to 19
percent). As more trend data become available, additional data analysis
are completed, and feedback is received from the TRIO community, the
Department will work to ensure that efficiency measure data are
informative and useful, and to ensure that efficiency measure targets
are sufficiently ambitious yet reasonable. Data for FY 2006 will be
available in December 2007.