HCC ranked top 10 in the nation for digital engagement

Apr 26, 2018

Houston Community College tied for sixth among community colleges with 10,000 or more students in the Center for Digital Education's annual 2017-18 Digital Community Colleges Survey. Now in its 13th year, the Digital Community Colleges Survey analyzes how community colleges use a range of technologies to improve services to students, faculty, staff and the community at large.

The survey revealed insights about community colleges’ technology priorities. Colleges surveyed indicated that mobility devices/app support is their top priority in the coming year, followed by cybersecurity tools and testing, website redesign/updates, upgrading classroom technologies, digital content and curriculum, and disaster recovery/business continuity.

The survey revealed that 34 percent of colleges have a strategy in place for the use of mobile devices; 35 percent have a full-time chief information security officer or similar full-time staff in charge of cybersecurity; 71 percent of the colleges’ websites have responsive web design; and 88 percent of colleges have off-site data storage redundancies in place.

All accredited U.S. community colleges are eligible to participate in the Digital Community Colleges Survey within three classifications based on enrollment size.