[COPLAC-IR] FW: NSSE 2014 System Registration Now Open

Thu Aug 8 07:16:55 CDT 2013

I think my colleagues here at Eastern would like to have that data on civic engagement.  And frankly I would too.

I will take another step and suggest that the item replace one on the current list, in order to keep it short.  I would suggest we replace the item asking for high school AP credits; hopefully you have that data in your university database.

Your thoughts?

Brian R. Lashley, Ph.D.
Assistant Director of IR
Eastern Connecticut State U
Willimantic, CT  06226
lashleyb at easternct.edu
860-465-5596

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Dear Colleagues:

I would like to second Laura's suggestion that we have a COPLAC question on the topic of community service/volunteer work.

The COPLAC Board is preparing to partner with AAC&U in an effort to inventory levels of civic engagement on our campuses (as part of the LEAP Initiative) and it would be good to have as many sources of information on this topic as possible.

Thank you,

Bill

Bill Spellman
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Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges
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On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Coghlan, Laura <coghlanl at evergreen.edu<mailto:coghlanl at evergreen.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,

Evergreen is participating this year as well.

The new NSSE survey is available at http://nsse.iub.edu/pdf/survey_instruments/2013/NSSE%202013%20US%20English.pdf

I don't see any obvious redundancies between our 10 COPLAC consortium questions and the very changed new NSSE survey.  I do want to encourage us to stick with the shortest list possible of additional questions, because some institutions might already opt to lengthen their surveys with one of the new optional topic modules.  Response rate are already a challenge, and I'm in favor of keeping our list (and the survey) as short as possible.

The ones we've most often used in the past are:
A2  primary source of academic advising
A4  have you experienced a sense of community
A9/A10  do you plan to transfer before graduation?/If so, what is primary reason?

One question, we could consider adding (or better yet, replacing for one of the existing set) would be whether students have participated in community service/volunteer work during their time at our colleges.  This was previously a NSSE item that we used very regularly among other metrics for our service learning initiatives and Campus Compact assessments; this item is no longer asked by NSSE in the new iteration of the survey.  Is that a metric that others have relied on in the past?

Laura Coghlan
Director of Institutional Research and Assessment
The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
(360) 867-6676<tel:%28360%29%20867-6676>

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Keene State will participate this year.

I've been wondering about the consortium questions. Someone asked about them at the conference in June, but we didn't have time to address that while we were all together. Can anyone tell me how you use the results of those questions at your own institution? I've only been at KSC for 2 years, so I don't know the history of the questions.

Cathy

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Subject: [COPLAC-IR] FW: NSSE 2014 System Registration Now Open

Hi everyone,

Is anyone coordinating the COPLAC NSSE consortium?  I hope everyone, or almost everyone, will participate.  Eastern is in, no question.

Brian R. Lashley, Ph.D.
Assistant Director of IR
Eastern Connecticut State U
Willimantic, CT  06226
lashleyb at easternct.edu<mailto:lashleyb at easternct.edu>
860-465-5596<tel:860-465-5596>

From: NSSE Consortia Coordinator [mailto:consorti at indiana.edu<mailto:consorti at indiana.edu>]
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 9:55 AM
To: Lashley, Brian (Institutional Research)
Subject: NSSE 2014 System Registration Now Open

Dear Brian:

We are pleased to announce that NSSE system registration is open for the spring 2014 administration. You are currently listed as the System Coordinator for: Connecticut State Universities. If your system plans to participate in NSSE 2014, please register the system by September 15, 2013 using the following link:

https://surveytest.indiana.edu/nsse/registration/consortium/2014/

During registration, you will designate eligible institutions within your system. When the institutions you designate register for NSSE, they will be eligible to join your system for the NSSE administration. As a reminder, systems may append additional questions to the end of the survey for a fee. Also, because system reports<http://nsse.iub.edu/pdf/NSSEville%20System%20Report.pdf> identify individual institution results, system coordinators must obtain data sharing agreements from member institutions. I will be in touch this fall to assist with this process.

For additional information about system participation see our Web site<http://nsse.iub.edu/html/systems.cfm>. Remaining questions can be addressed by sending an email to consorti at indiana.edu<mailto:consorti at indiana.edu?subject=RE:%20NSSE%202013%20System%20Registration> or by calling 812-856-5824<tel:812-856-5824>.

I look forward to working with you on another successful NSSE administration.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Brooks

NSSE Project Services & Consortium Manager

consorti at indiana.edu<mailto:consorti at indiana.edu?subject=RE:%20NSSE%202013%20Consortium%20Registration>

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