[COPLAC-IR] Revised codebook and data collection

[hwen]

Hi, Mark:


We would like to have some clarification for the following items:


1.      1.  *Question 58 to 61*


The four questions require us to report using the following exclusion 
criteria:

Degree-seeking undergraduate students only. *Excludes international/ 
non-resident alien from the numerator and denominator*


In CDS, the above criteria should only apply to Question 58 and 59, but it 
does not apply to Question 60 and 62. Below is the CDS question F1 for 
information.   Can you clarify if we should report based on CDS or the 
criteria listed in the spreadsheet?


Percent who are from out of state (exclude international/nonresident aliens 
from the numerator and denominator)

Percent of men who join fraternities

Percent of women who join sororities

Percent who live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing

Percent who live off campus or commute

Percent of students age 25 and older

Average age of full-time students

Average age of all students (full- and part-time)


2.       Question 63 asks for FTE *undergraduate* students for student 
faculty ratio calculation sheet.


This is the first year that New College has its first master graduate 
program.  It is a small program.  The direction in CDS for reporting 
student to faculty ratio asks institutions to exclude *“faculty and 
students in stand-alone graduate or professional programs such as medicine, 
law, veterinary, dentistry, social work, business, or public health in 
which faculty teach virtually only graduate level students.”*

Our master graduate program is not a stand-alone graduate or profession al 
program specified in the CDS direction.  Faculty in the graduate program 
also teach undergraduate students and some graduate students take high 
level undergraduate courses, so we include the graduate students and 
faculty from the graduate program in the faculty student ratio reporting.  
We wonder if we misinterpret the CDS direction, as Question 63 asks us to 
report the student counts from student-faculty ratio calculation sheet, but 
the element name is  FTE *undergraduate* students .   Our number would 
include graduate students.  Can you help clarify this data element? 


Thank you for your help!  Have a great weekend!

Hui-Min



On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 10:55:44 AM UTC-4, McClendon, Mark wrote:
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> I missed rolling over a couple of time frames on the codebook.  Also, I am 
> sending this too the new google group and the old COPLAC-IR site to try and 
> get everyone.  Please join the new google group.   
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> Dear COPLAC Institutional Research Colleagues, 
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> Please submit all of the requested data that you will provide in a single 
> sitting, as the Google form in unable to allow you to log out and back in 
> to complete it.  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 
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> Please submit the COPLAC data profile data by May 1st.  Here is the link 
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> *COPLAC Data Profile Calendar 2016-17*
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> April 12th- IPEDS Spring Collection Closes 
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> May 1 - COPLAC Data Profile is due from institutions 
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> May 20th -  Send draft profile to institutions (will be sent earlier if 
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> May 27nd (or one week after the draft is sent out, whichever is earlier.) 
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> June 15- Final Draft sent to Bill Spellman 
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> June 22-24 - feedback on process and metrics​ at COPLAC Annual Conference
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