What is the VFA?

           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:

1.       measures of student progress and outcomes;

2.       measures of workforce, economic, and community development; and

3.       an approach for assessing student learning outcomes.

These three parts are outlined in the:

• VFA Metrics Overview.

AACC has made the VFA metrics available to all colleges and will provide an online data display tool in 2013. For details on the metrics see the:

• VFA Metrics Manual.