By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
One of the goals for Todd Mobray is to make public information about Barton Community College very transparent and easy to comprehend. Mobray serves as Barton’s Director of Institutional Effectiveness and keeps tabs on the college’s student success, student to teacher ratios, overall experience, financial wellbeing, grant dollars and many more key performance updates.
Mobray said the 2023 student to faculty ratio was one to 18 and the fulltime faculty to part-time faculty ratio is one to 2.7.
"This year on the student ratios, all I had to do on this graphic was change the number to 2023," said Mobray. "We had almost the same amount of students and faculty. The ratios were pretty much the same."
The overall satisfaction level on the fall 2023 student services survey increased form 87% to 88% from last year. Barton’s composite financial index remains in good position. The index paints a composite picture of the financial health of the college.
"We had the big jump in the COVID year when we got the HEERF (Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds) funding," said Mobray. "It went up but now we're evening back out. We're still way above the threshold for institutional financial health which is 3.0. We're at 5.68. The danger zone is when you get close to that 3.0, and we're way above that."
Grant dollars received by Barton went down from $2.2 million last year to $1.8 million in fiscal year 2023.
More information on the college’s taxpayer and student transparency data can be found in the story at bartonccc.edu.