From lboyce at usao.edu Thu Apr 11 10:00:05 2013 From: lboyce at usao.edu (Lynn Boyce) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:00:05 -0500 Subject: [COPLAC-IR] FW: IR letter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <000001ce36c5$407acd10$c1706730$@usao.edu> Dear COPLAC Institutional Research Officers: Registration for the 2013 COPLAC Annual Meeting (20-22 June at Shepherd University) is now open at http://www.shepherd.edu/coplac/ We hope that you will be able to join us for this important meeting. COPLAC Board Members (the 27 Presidents/Chancellors) agreed in January that IR and IE Officers will be key players in a new branding and communications effort, and that it would be helpful to bring a group of institutional research and institutional effectiveness officers together this summer at Shepherd. The preliminary agenda includes: . Discussion and refinement of the current COPLAC data profile. While some discussion of this document has taken place over the past few years via email, we believe that it would be good for the group to meet in person and agree specific changes moving forward. . Creation of a data-drive set of COPLAC "Quality Indicators" that can be used in future branding and communications efforts. As I mentioned in an earlier email, the COPLAC Board has launched a two-year effort to strengthen branding and communications. A new communications committee has been created, and this committee is drafting a set of COPLAC common "Quality Indicators". The Board believes that when consortium-wide "Quality Indicators" have been identified, they should be "outcomes oriented" and supported by appropriate qualitative and quantitative data. This is where IR and IE expertise will prove invaluable. The proposed "Quality Indicators" should be available by early May, but they will likely include information on graduation rates and debt load. Some of this data is available in the current data profile, but there was some interest shown in the potential for break outs to include (if possible) graduation rates for transfer students (and other non-true freshman). We will need your expertise to think through other potential data points (NSSE?) that support the "value added" features of a public liberal arts education. Thank you for your consideration. I realize that budgets are tight and travel funds limited, but it would be great to have a strong turn-out for the Annual Meeting at Shepherd. Would you let me know at your convenience if you plan to attend? Sincerely, Bill Bill Spellman Director Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges One University Heights Asheville, NC 28804 (828) 350-4590 www.coplac.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sarah.hardy at maine.edu Fri Apr 12 11:43:55 2013 From: sarah.hardy at maine.edu (Sarah Hardy) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:43:55 -0400 Subject: [COPLAC-IR] old data in COPLAC Annual Data Profile... Message-ID: Hi all, I think a discussion about may have occurred last year, so I'm sorry if this is rehashing old business -- Why is the COPLAC Data Profile asking for data that is older than what is currently available? In other words, why don't we use the same time frames as all the IPEDS surveys we just locked down and the 2012-2013 CDS? That would not be too onerous, but trying to dig up all this old stuff that was done by somebody else will be much more difficult. I would imagine the President's would like the data to be as current as possible. It does look like Section II is asking for data from CDS 2012-2013, but Section I is asking for data from CDS 2011-2012, which makes it really confusing. Sarah On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Lynn Boyce wrote: > Hello all,**** > > ** ** > > Good morning!**** > > ** ** > > Please find attached a blank copy of the annual data profile for your > institution. It would be greatly appreciated if you would send your > completed portion to me no later than May 17, 2013. That will give me a > couple of weeks to compile the report and submit to Bill Spellman by May 31 > st to send off to be printed for his Board. And if you would, please > replace the word ?blank? in the name of the file with your school?s name; > that would help greatly. **** > > ** ** > > If you have any questions, please let me know? **** > > ** ** > > Lynn**** > > ** ** > > J. Lynn Boyce**** > > Vice President for Information Services and Technology **** > > University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma**** > > http://www.usao.edu**** > > lboyce at usao.edu**** > > 1727 W. Alabama**** > > Chickasha, OK 73018**** > > 405.224.3140 (voice)**** > > 405.574.1220 (fax)**** > > ** ** > > Treasurer (2006 ? 2013)**** > > Oklahoma Association of Institutional Research (OKAIR)**** > > http://www.okairp.org**** > > ** ** > > *Information Services will never ask for your password. Never email > your password to anyone!* > > * * > > *The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma is the state's public > liberal arts college. Its mission is to provide the public with a > distinctive and accessible liberal arts and sciences education. In > combining an interdisciplinary core curriculum with superior instruction in > major fields of study, USAO aims to provide a thorough education that > prepares students for meaningful, purposeful lives.***** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > COPLAC-IR mailing list > COPLAC-IR at lists.onenet.net > http://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/coplac-ir > > -- Sarah Hardy, PhD Director of Institutional Research Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Maine Farmington 207-778-7124 Office: Brinkman 100 Link to Schedule: http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/~hardys/SHardyCalendar.html sarah.hardy at maine.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lboyce at usao.edu Thu Apr 18 13:18:31 2013 From: lboyce at usao.edu (Lynn Boyce) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:18:31 -0500 Subject: [COPLAC-IR] FW: Another Reminder to IR/IE Officers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <028101ce3c61$21d451a0$657cf4e0$@usao.edu> From: spellman at unca.edu [mailto:spellman at unca.edu] On Behalf Of William Spellman Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 12:15 PM To: Lynn Boyce Subject: Another Reminder to IR/IE Officers Dear COPLAC IR/IE Colleagues: Many thanks to those who have responded to the invitation to represent your campus at the 20-22 June COPLAC Annual Meeting, hosted by Shepherd University in West Virginia. We are about to begin detailed planning for the meeting, but we need to know if you will be able to attend. If you have not responded to my last email regarding attendance, could you take a moment to let me know if you will or will not be able to join us at Shepherd. Thank you for your consideration. 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