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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Georgia College currently collects and reports graduation rates by department and major (in our department chairs annual report, an internal document). Our students have the opportunity to declare a major upon entry, although a substantial number do not and there is significant movement between majors over time. Thus the concerns of other schools are also a factor for GC. We calculate 4, 5 and 6 year graduation rates by entry major for the IPEDS cohort AND 4, 5 and 6 year graduation rates by major at the start of the seventh term (nominal junior year) for the IPEDS cohort. While the second metric does give a more balanced assessment of the impact of the department on the graduation rate it is clearly not without problems. We are investigating possibly using some variation of the following metrics (proposed by Dr. Mike Crow, IR director at Savannah State university):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>1. include only students of junior or senior status declaring the major as the denominator. It is not as clean but it will miss all the students who go away or switch majors as a result of interacting mainly with the lower division core curriculum (thus, in many settings most of the generalized attrition)—who should not be counted as attrition against a particular major.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>2. calculate “graduate production rates” where the denominator is the<b> number of seniors </b>claiming the major AND enrolled in courses in the major in the year and the numerator is the number actually graduated from the major in the same academic year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>3. calculating “program efficiency rates” where the denominator is the<b> total number of students </b>claiming the major AND enrolled in courses in the major for a given academic year and the numerator is the total number of graduates from the major for the same academic year.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>GC would be interested in participating in a COPLAC based data collection system if a standardized metric could be established.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>B. Edward Hale, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Director<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Office of Institutional Research<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chief Data Officer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Georgia College & State University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Georgia's Public Liberal Arts University<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>478-445-3350 (voice)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>478-445-3221 (fax)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>478-445-6353 (direct)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ed.hale@gcsu.edu">ed.hale@gcsu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:#1F497D'>Anita Fraley <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Georgia College & State University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Institutional Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Campus Box 52<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Milledgeville, GA 31061<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>478-445-3350 Phone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>478-445-3221 Fax<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> lboyce@usao.edu [mailto:lboyce@usao.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> coplac-ir@lists.onenet.net; 'Anita Fraley'; 'Archer Gravely'; 'Babs Varano'; 'Beth Carter'; 'Bill Spellman'; 'Brian Lashley'; 'Cassandra Slaybaugh'; 'Cristi Carson'; 'Doug Rawlings'; 'Elizabeth Acker'; 'Elizabeth Clune'; 'Fort Lewis Institutional Research'; 'Ginger Otwell'; 'Hui-Min Wen'; 'Jason Canales'; Miller,James L; 'Julie Rao'; 'Laura Coghlan'; Laura Dorman; 'Martha Davis'; 'Mascetti, Kris'; 'Mathew Wilkerson'; 'Matt Stillman'; Nancy Asher; 'Nancy Helsper'; 'Orien McGlamery'; 'Pat Parson'; 'Sarah Maene'; 'Scott Bevins'; 'Tim Hanson'; 'Wrenette Tedder'<br><b>Subject:</b> Request from Bill Spellman...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#6600CC'>Dear COPLAC Colleagues:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#6600CC'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#6600CC'>One of our member institutions is studying rates of graduation by major and I have been asked if any other COPLAC campuses collect this data.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#6600CC'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#6600CC'>If your campus gathers this information and you would be willing to share, I would be very grateful. The more recent the data the better in terms of this study.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#6600CC'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#6600CC'>Thank you for your consideration. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#6600CC'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#6600CC'>Sincerely,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#6600CC'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#6600CC'>Bill </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#6600CC'>Bill Spellman<br>Director<br>Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges<br>One University Heights<br>Asheville, NC 28804<br>(828) 350-4590</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#6600CC'><a href="http://www.coplac.org/" target="_blank">www.coplac.org</a></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>