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

Fri Aug 9 09:30:36 CDT 2013

It is my understanding that NSSE allows no more than two add-ons. This
includes NSSE modules and consortia. So the COPLAC questions would be
one of those add-ons and any NSSE modules would take up the remaining
slot.

Cathy

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Cathryn Turrentine, Ph.D.

Director of Institutional Research

Keene State College

Hale Building, 3rd Floor

229 Main St.

Keene, NH 03435-1506

603-358-2117

The Office of Institutional Research provides evidence that informs
decision making and helps to shape the campus conversation around
important issues.

From: coplac-ir-bounces at lists.onenet.net
[mailto:coplac-ir-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of Lashley, Brian
(Institutional Research)
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 9:01 AM
To: coplac-ir at lists.onenet.net
Subject: Re: [COPLAC-IR] FW: NSSE 2014 System Registration Now Open

I would be interested in seeing that module, but I don't think Eastern
wants to lose the additional COPLAC questions.  Plus I have orders to
add the Library module this year, so regular NSSE + 2 modules + COPLAC
starts to get out of control.

Brian

From: Turrentine, Cathryn [mailto:cturrentine at keene.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 8:23 AM
To: Lashley, Brian (Institutional Research); William Spellman; Coghlan,
Laura
Cc: coplac-ir at lists.onenet.net; Jessica Dunsmore
Subject: RE: [COPLAC-IR] FW: NSSE 2014 System Registration Now Open

I think there is a lot more to civic engagement than community service,
yes? Would there be any interest at all in all of us choosing to sign up
for the NSSE module on civic engagement, in lieu of the separate COPLAC
questions? We could still choose each other as a comparison group.

Cathy

*************************************

Cathryn Turrentine, Ph.D.

Director of Institutional Research

Keene State College

Hale Building, 3rd Floor

229 Main St.

Keene, NH 03435-1506

603-358-2117

The Office of Institutional Research provides evidence that informs
decision making and helps to shape the campus conversation around
important issues.

From: Lashley, Brian (Institutional Research)
[mailto:LashleyB at easternct.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 8:17 AM
To: 'William Spellman'; Coghlan, Laura
Cc: Turrentine, Cathryn; coplac-ir at lists.onenet.net; Jessica Dunsmore
Subject: RE: [COPLAC-IR] FW: NSSE 2014 System Registration Now Open

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

From: spellman at unca.edu [mailto:spellman at unca.edu] On Behalf Of William
Spellman
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 8:12 AM
To: Coghlan, Laura
Cc: Turrentine, Cathryn; Lashley, Brian (Institutional Research);
coplac-ir at lists.onenet.net; Jessica Dunsmore
Subject: Re: [COPLAC-IR] FW: NSSE 2014 System Registration Now Open

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
Director
Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
(828) 350-4590

www.coplac.org <http://www.coplac.org/> 

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On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Coghlan, Laura <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%20Engli
sh.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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From: coplac-ir-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto:
coplac-ir-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of Turrentine, Cathryn
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 8:40 AM

To: Lashley, Brian (Institutional Research); coplac-ir at lists.onenet.net
Cc: Treadwell, Melinda

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

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

*************************************

Cathryn Turrentine, Ph.D.

Director of Institutional Research

Keene State College

Hale Building, 3rd Floor

229 Main St.

Keene, NH 03435-1506

603-358-2117

The Office of Institutional Research provides evidence that informs
decision making and helps to shape the campus conversation around
important issues.

From: coplac-ir-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto:
coplac-ir-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of Lashley, Brian
(Institutional Research)
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 11:27 AM
To: coplac-ir at lists.onenet.net
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

860-465-5596

From: NSSE Consortia Coordinator [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%20Regist
ration>  or by calling 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%20Re
gistration> 

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