The Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) is the first comprehensive national accountability system created by community colleges, for community colleges.

Community college leaders – facilitated by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) – conceived, developed and pilot-tested the first set of VFA metrics, which gauge how well our institutions perform in serving a variety of students and purposes.

The VFA has three parts described in detail in the VFA brochure (link):
1. measures of student progress and outcomes;
2. measures of workforce, economic, and community development; and
3. an approach for assessing student learning outcomes.