From cturrentine at keene.edu Mon Apr 6 12:42:04 2015 From: cturrentine at keene.edu (Turrentine, Cathy) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 17:42:04 +0000 Subject: [COPLAC-IR] National Voting Study Message-ID: Friends and Colleagues ? Last spring I encouraged you to sign up for the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, which is a grant-funded project out of Tufts University. Many of you did sign up, and I thank you. The reports we recently received were for the 2012 election. I have just spoken with Nancy Thomas, Tufts? Director of the Center for Democracy and Higher Education. She said they will be running the next batch of data analyses about May 1, with reports to us probably in June. These will show the percentage of our students who registered to vote and who voted (in person or absentee) in the 2014 elections. Nancy said she would be interested in working with COPLAC to create a specialized analysis showing COPLAC averages, to which we could all compare our own data. This will work best if all of us, or almost all of us, participate in the study. Right now 16 COPLAC institutions are participants. If your institution is not a participant, please consider joining. It?s simple and free. This is not a survey. It doesn?t require you to generate or report any data. You can read about the study here: http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/about-nslve/ And you can find the simple sign-up procedure here: http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/join-nslve/ If you are not already a participant in this study, you will need to complete the sign-up process ?several days ahead of May 1? in order to get in on the May 1 data run,? according to Nancy. 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Thanks again for all of your help in making the COPLAC Data Profile as great as it can be! ~Elizabeth Elizabeth A. Clune-Kneuer, M.Ed. Associate Director of Institutional Research St. Mary's College of Maryland 18952 E. Fisher Rd. Glendening Hall 241 St. Mary's City, MD 20686 (240)895-4274 (240)895-4472 (fax) email: eaclune at smcm.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Clune-Kneuer, Elizabeth Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:33 AM Subject: Re: COPLAC Data Profile 14-15 To: COPLAC IR List Hi COPLAC IR Staff, I have an update on the COPLAC Data Profile codebook and form. In metric 63 (FTE Student), it should have said FTE Students, not FTE Undergrad Students. I have confirmed with IPEDS that this is all students (except professional program) not just undergraduate students. I have corrected this in the form and the codebook. I have reattached the code book. Thanks to Laura Dorman from UIS for catching this. This is also your friendly reminder that the COPLAC Data Profile is due to me via the Google Form submission by April 10th. Please help me be able to complete this in a timely manner by submitting this on time. Thanks so much! If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know. I will be out of the office next week, but will be back Tuesday (4/7). Have a great weekend. Elizabeth Elizabeth A. Clune-Kneuer, M.Ed. Associate Director of Institutional Research St. Mary's College of Maryland 18952 E. Fisher Rd. Glendening Hall 241 St. Mary's City, MD 20686 (240)895-4274 (240)895-4472 (fax) email: eaclune at smcm.edu On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Clune-Kneuer, Elizabeth wrote: > Hi COPLAC IR Staff! > > This is just a friendly reminder regarding the COPLAC Data Profile > schedule. All of the documents are attached to this email for reference. > If you have any questions that you need assistance with, please feel free > to let me know and I will help as best I can. > > Have a great day. > > Elizabeth > > Elizabeth A. Clune-Kneuer, M.Ed. > Associate Director of Institutional Research > St. Mary's College of Maryland > 18952 E. Fisher Rd. > Glendening Hall 241 > St. Mary's City, MD 20686 > (240)895-4274 > (240)895-4472 (fax) > email: eaclune at smcm.edu > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Clune-Kneuer, Elizabeth > Date: Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:10 AM > Subject: COPLAC Data Profile 14-15 > To: COPLAC IR List > > > Dear COPLAC IR Staff, > > Thank you so much for your patience as we worked through last year?s new > profile and processes. We never would have been able to make this > successful without your help! I have updated the processes based upon > questions and feedback that I received to try to make this as easy as > possible for all of us involved. To help facilitate this process to be as > seamless as possible, I hope that this email will help to outline the > project calendar and other general housekeeping items to help the Data > Profile be as easy as possible. > > COPLAC Data Profile Calendar 2014-15 > > Prior to November 15th - Send Google Form and Excel Codebook to > institutions from Elizabeth > > April 8th - IPEDS Spring Collection Closes (unrelated to COPLAC Data > Profile, but significant impact on institutional calendar) > > April 10th - COPLAC Data Profile is due to Elizabeth from institutions > via Google Form submission > > May 18th - Elizabeth send draft profile to institutions (will be sent > earlier if possible) > > May 22nd (or one week after the draft is sent out, whichever is earlier.) > - Institutions review draft and provide updates or confirmation of valid > data. > > June 1 - Final Draft sent to Bill Spellman > > TBD after final draft is distributed - feedback on process and metrics? > > I have revised the calendar from last year to help institutions complete > the IPEDS Finance report (and the rest of the IPEDS Spring Collections) but > have moved it back as far as I can to leave time for me to process > everything else within the Profile into the publication handouts. Please > submit the Profile within this timetable as I have condensed the time for > me to transform it. There is not a lot of wiggle room in the timetable so > I would appreciate if everyone was timely within this process (or had early > submissions if possible). > > > I have also attached an Excel spreadsheet with the updated metrics, > definitions, and sources. I have noted in green anything that has changed > (updated) within existing metrics to provide additional clarity. I have > indicated new metrics in blue. There are some additional new metrics, but > they are primarily additional information that is already reported to IPEDS > as well as a more recent 4 year graduation rate. > > In order for institutions to submit the data using the Google form, it > will all need to be submitted in one sitting. It will not allow you to go > back in multiple times. It is essentially set up like a survey. As a > result of that, I encourage you to fill out the information in the Excel > spreadsheet then enter the information into the Google form. I have placed > a new column that will enable you to either work off of paper copies or > print the codebook to enter it into the Google form. > > Here is the link to the Google submission form: > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tVo7IZZ-QOSrpoIOwzMVWLC1b_-diLt4NXnVcvqjD7k/viewform > > Additionally, there are a few housekeeping items that will help me greatly > to process the data. > > - > > If you have values that are not applicable, please leave the metric > blank. Please do not place either a ?n/a? or 0 in something that is not a > real zero (0) value. > - > > Please do not place dollar signs, percent symbols or commas into the > figures and only insert the numbers. > > > Additionally, I created a COPLAC IR Staff group on LinkedIn as a space to > bounce ideas or questions around. This also will enable us to have an > archive of thoughts/questions and to connect to each other. If you go to > LinkedIn and search ?COPLAC IR Staff? and request to join, I can approve > you to be a part of the group. > > As always, if you have any questions, feel free to let me know and we will > work through this as best we can. > > Thanks for all of your help! > > ~Elizabeth > > Elizabeth A. Clune-Kneuer, M.Ed. > Associate Director of Institutional Research > St. Mary's College of Maryland > 18952 E. Fisher Rd. > Glendening Hall 241 > St. Mary's City, MD 20686 > (240)895-4274 > (240)895-4472 (fax) > email: eaclune at smcm.edu > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: COPLAC Data Codebook 2014-15 collection;03-27-14.xlsx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet Size: 21410 bytes Desc: not available URL: From spellman at coplac.org Mon Apr 13 09:03:15 2015 From: spellman at coplac.org (William Spellman) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:03:15 -0400 Subject: [COPLAC-IR] National Voting Study In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear COPLAC Colleagues: I would like to second Cathy Turrentine's recommendation that our member campuses participate in the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement. It is kind of Nancy Thomas at Tufts to offer a special analysis of the results showing COPLAC averages. Eighteen of our 29 member campuses will be sending a communications officer to Asheville this coming June 11-13 to help develop a unified communications plan for COPLAC. The results of the Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement could be useful to our branding efforts going forward. Thank you for considering this opportunity. Sincerely, Bill Bill Spellman Director Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges One University Heights Asheville, NC 28804 (828) 350-4590 www.coplac.org On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Turrentine, Cathy wrote: > Friends and Colleagues ? > > > > Last spring I encouraged you to sign up for the National Study of > Learning, Voting, and Engagement, which is a grant-funded project out of > Tufts University. Many of you did sign up, and I thank you. The reports we > recently received were for the 2012 election. I have just spoken with Nancy > Thomas, Tufts? Director of the Center for Democracy and Higher Education. > She said they will be running the next batch of data analyses about May 1, > with reports to us probably in June. These will show the percentage of our > students who registered to vote and who voted (in person or absentee) in > the 2014 elections. > > > > Nancy said she would be interested in working with COPLAC to create a > specialized analysis showing COPLAC averages, to which we could all compare > our own data. This will work best if all of us, or almost all of us, > participate in the study. > > > > Right now 16 COPLAC institutions are participants. If your institution is > not a participant, please consider joining. It?s simple and free. This is > not a survey. It doesn?t require you to generate or report any data. You > can read about the study here: http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/about-nslve/ > > And you can find the simple sign-up procedure here: > http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/join-nslve/ > > > > If you are not already a participant in this study, you will need to > complete the sign-up process ?several days ahead of May 1? in order to get > in on the May 1 data run,? according to Nancy. > > > > Cathy > > > > ************************************************** > > Cathryn Turrentine, Ph.D. > > Director of Institutional Research and Assessment > > Keene State College > > Hale Building, 3rd Floor > > 229 Main St. > > Keene, NH 03435-1506 > > 603-358-2117 > > > > *The Office of Institutional Research and Assessment provides evidence to > support student success, institutional effectiveness, and diversity and > helps to shape the campus conversation around important issues. * > > > > [image: cid:image001.png at 01CC10BB.D050B260] > > _______________________________________________ > COPLAC-IR mailing list > COPLAC-IR at lists.onenet.net > http://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/coplac-ir > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I can transfer the Google Folder as well as any documents that I have. If you could please let me (and Bill Spellman) know if this is something that you would be interested in asap, that would be great. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Have a great day! Elizabeth Elizabeth A. Clune-Kneuer, M.Ed. Associate Director of Institutional Research St. Mary's College of Maryland 18952 E. Fisher Rd. Glendening Hall 241 St. Mary's City, MD 20686 (240)895-4274 (240)895-4472 (fax) email: eaclune at smcm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eaclune at smcm.edu Tue Apr 14 07:38:33 2015 From: eaclune at smcm.edu (Clune-Kneuer, Elizabeth) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:38:33 -0400 Subject: [COPLAC-IR] Fwd: The faculty compensation report is here! In-Reply-To: <201504130605.t3D65NSv000139@mailams.aaup.org> References: <201504130605.t3D65NSv000139@mailams.aaup.org> Message-ID: Hi everyone, Here are the tables for AAUP that have just been distributed. Hope this helps! ~Elizabeth Elizabeth A. Clune-Kneuer, M.Ed. Associate Director of Institutional Research St. Mary's College of Maryland 18952 E. Fisher Rd. Glendening Hall 241 St. Mary's City, MD 20686 (240)895-4274 (240)895-4472 (fax) email: eaclune at smcm.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Barnshaw, AAUP Date: Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 1:58 AM Subject: The faculty compensation report is here! To: eaclune at smcm.edu [image: AAUP Logo] [image: Academe Cover] Dear AAUP Member: Today, the AAUP is releasing the results of our annual faculty compensation survey and report on the economic status of the profession (http://www.aaup.org/reports-publications/2014-15salarysurvey). The survey includes information on full-time faculty salary and benefits at two- and four-year colleges and universities, with 1,136 participating institutions. It includes data on more than 375,000 full-time faculty, making it the largest independent faculty compensation survey in the United States. And it is the only survey of its kind to include extensive information on benefits as well as salary. The survey found that this year marks the first consequential improvement (1.4 percent) in inflation-adjusted year-over-year salary for full-time faculty since the Great Recession. This year?s report also explores four common myths about higher education: - *Myth: Faculty are to blame for rising tuition*. *Reality: The decline of state appropriations and the erosion of endowments have caused tuition to rise?not faculty salaries.* - *Myth: Faculty are ?ridiculously overpaid? compared to professionals working in ?the real world.?* *Reality: Even for the highest-ranking professors, salaries have failed to keep up with those of similar professions outside of academia.* *And the vast majority of faculty?especially the half that are hired on a per-course basis?earn far less.* - *Myth: Responding to ?disruptive innovations? such as online and for-profit education requires replacing tenure-track faculty with part-time adjuncts*. *Reality:* *Strategic hiring and support for full-time faculty can improve quality and enhance an institution?s distinctiveness and competitiveness. * - *Myth: Faculty benefit costs are out of control.* *Reality: Costs for faculty benefits are not significantly increasing*. The survey results and report are published each year in the March?April issue of *Academe*, along with appendices that contain data for individual institutions. Through a publishing agreement with *Inside Higher Ed*, the data will also be available in an easily searchable database, available on the web at no cost. Perhaps most important, this report empowers you to take action. By disseminating the information contained in the report and, wherever possible, participating in budgetary and financial matters at your institution, you can help improve the economic status of the profession. Sincerely, John Barnshaw, AAUP Senior Higher Education Researcher jbarnshaw at aaup.org P.S.--Individuals and institutions seeking peer comparison reports and complete Faculty Compensation Survey datasets can receive those services by contacting the AAUP Research Office directly at 202.737.5900 x3640 or via aaupfcs at aaup.org . The mission of the AAUP is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education; to help the higher education community organize to make our goals a reality; and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. Visit the AAUP website and Facebook . Follow us on Twitter . To unsubscribe from AAUP e-mails, please click on the link:Unsubscribe Here -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Miller_R at fortlewis.edu Mon Apr 13 09:28:35 2015 From: Miller_R at fortlewis.edu (Miller, Richard A) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:28:35 +0000 Subject: [COPLAC-IR] National Voting Study In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: FLC participated. It took almost no time ? and yielded some interesting information. [FLC logo] Richard A. Miller Executive Director 1000 Rim Drive Berndt Hall 240 Durango, CO 81301 +1.970.247.7426 From: coplac-ir-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto:coplac-ir-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of William Spellman Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 8:03 AM To: Turrentine, Cathy Cc: COPLAC IR List Subject: Re: [COPLAC-IR] National Voting Study Dear COPLAC Colleagues: I would like to second Cathy Turrentine's recommendation that our member campuses participate in the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement. It is kind of Nancy Thomas at Tufts to offer a special analysis of the results showing COPLAC averages. Eighteen of our 29 member campuses will be sending a communications officer to Asheville this coming June 11-13 to help develop a unified communications plan for COPLAC. The results of the Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement could be useful to our branding efforts going forward. Thank you for considering this opportunity. Sincerely, 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/images/COPLACbanner.jpg] On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Turrentine, Cathy > wrote: Friends and Colleagues ? Last spring I encouraged you to sign up for the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, which is a grant-funded project out of Tufts University. Many of you did sign up, and I thank you. The reports we recently received were for the 2012 election. I have just spoken with Nancy Thomas, Tufts? Director of the Center for Democracy and Higher Education. She said they will be running the next batch of data analyses about May 1, with reports to us probably in June. These will show the percentage of our students who registered to vote and who voted (in person or absentee) in the 2014 elections. Nancy said she would be interested in working with COPLAC to create a specialized analysis showing COPLAC averages, to which we could all compare our own data. This will work best if all of us, or almost all of us, participate in the study. Right now 16 COPLAC institutions are participants. If your institution is not a participant, please consider joining. It?s simple and free. This is not a survey. It doesn?t require you to generate or report any data. You can read about the study here: http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/about-nslve/ And you can find the simple sign-up procedure here: http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/join-nslve/ If you are not already a participant in this study, you will need to complete the sign-up process ?several days ahead of May 1? in order to get in on the May 1 data run,? according to Nancy. 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